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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dublinben</author><text>Not to excuse the behavior here, but anyone else who would like to run a Tor exit node can learn from this situation. Follow the best practices[0] for running an exit node, which would include not running it from your home.<p>You are much less likely to be raided and arrested if a cloud server in a datacenter somewhere, leased by an anonymous LLC you control, is the subject of an investigation.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.torproject.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;tips-running-exit-node" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.torproject.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;tips-running-exit-node</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russian FOSS activist arrested in Russia for his Tor exit-node</title><text>Dmitry Bogatov was arrested on the 6th of April: he became part of the big penal case initiated by Russia’s Investigation Committee on &quot;incitations to mass riots&quot; during the protest action that took place on the 2nd of April in Moscow. According to the Investigation Committee, Bogatov was publishing messages on the forum sysadmin.ru, inciting to violent actions, for example, &quot;he&quot; was suggesting to bring to the Red Square &quot;bottles, fabric, gasoline, turpentine, foam plastic&quot;. According to the Investigation, the experts had analyzed the text of these messages and proved a &quot;linguistic and psychological characteristics of incitations to terrorism&quot;. However, Dmitry claims that he has nothing to do with posting the incendiary messages.<p>Dmitry Bogatov, 25 years old, teaches maths in MFUA (Moscow Finance and Law University) was a free and open source software activist (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sinsekvu.github.io&#x2F;pages&#x2F;about.html). Dmitry was administrating a Tor exit node (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atlas.torproject.org&#x2F;#details&#x2F;2402CD5A0D848D1DCA61EB708CC1FBD4364AB8AE) from his house. In fact, the author of &quot;incendiary messages&quot; (called &quot;Airat Bashirov&quot;) was using Tor, and, by lack of chance, he used the ip adress of Dmitry&#x27;s exit node.<p>Dmitry&#x27;s lawyer, Alexei Teptsov, presented videos from surveillance cameras, that proved that, during the moments when the &quot;incendiary messages&quot; were posted, Dmitry was away from his computer. He was coming back from a fitness center with his wife, Tatiana, a genetician, and then went to a supermarket, where cameras were also working. Moreover, &quot;Airat Bashirov&quot;, the author of the provocative messages, continues to post on sysadmin.ru, while Dmitry is under arrest. The last post was seen on the forum on April 11.<p>Dmitry will stay in pre-trial detention center until June 8 at least. Now the Investigation is examining all his seized devices.</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>unholythree</author><text>The &quot;This happens in the US too&quot; comments are an annoying pointless digression.<p>Just like in the Wikileaks threads when people go on about the abuses in other countries, and how unfair it is that JUST America&#x27;s&#x2F; the DNC&#x27;s&#x2F; the CIA&#x2F; the NAS&#x27;s dirty laundry gets aired.<p>Repression and abuses of power should concern us all. One evil does not negate an other.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russian FOSS activist arrested in Russia for his Tor exit-node</title><text>Dmitry Bogatov was arrested on the 6th of April: he became part of the big penal case initiated by Russia’s Investigation Committee on &quot;incitations to mass riots&quot; during the protest action that took place on the 2nd of April in Moscow. According to the Investigation Committee, Bogatov was publishing messages on the forum sysadmin.ru, inciting to violent actions, for example, &quot;he&quot; was suggesting to bring to the Red Square &quot;bottles, fabric, gasoline, turpentine, foam plastic&quot;. According to the Investigation, the experts had analyzed the text of these messages and proved a &quot;linguistic and psychological characteristics of incitations to terrorism&quot;. However, Dmitry claims that he has nothing to do with posting the incendiary messages.<p>Dmitry Bogatov, 25 years old, teaches maths in MFUA (Moscow Finance and Law University) was a free and open source software activist (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sinsekvu.github.io&#x2F;pages&#x2F;about.html). Dmitry was administrating a Tor exit node (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atlas.torproject.org&#x2F;#details&#x2F;2402CD5A0D848D1DCA61EB708CC1FBD4364AB8AE) from his house. In fact, the author of &quot;incendiary messages&quot; (called &quot;Airat Bashirov&quot;) was using Tor, and, by lack of chance, he used the ip adress of Dmitry&#x27;s exit node.<p>Dmitry&#x27;s lawyer, Alexei Teptsov, presented videos from surveillance cameras, that proved that, during the moments when the &quot;incendiary messages&quot; were posted, Dmitry was away from his computer. He was coming back from a fitness center with his wife, Tatiana, a genetician, and then went to a supermarket, where cameras were also working. Moreover, &quot;Airat Bashirov&quot;, the author of the provocative messages, continues to post on sysadmin.ru, while Dmitry is under arrest. The last post was seen on the forum on April 11.<p>Dmitry will stay in pre-trial detention center until June 8 at least. Now the Investigation is examining all his seized devices.</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>rippercushions</author><text>For Indian migrants, Japan is not nearly as attractive as the US, Canada, Australia etc. Wages particularly in engineering&#x2F;IT are comparatively low, working conditions are tough, the language is difficult, and Japanese society is known for being xenophobic. Politely so, for most part, but still: you might not get beaten up, but neither nor your children will you ever be accepted as Japanese.<p>It&#x27;s no coincidence that the biggest groups of immigrants to Japan are the Chinese and Vietnamese, who have a leg up on the language (Chinese characters for the Chinese, obviously, but Vietnamese has a lot of Chinese loans shared with Japanese too) and blend in better in terms of physical appearance and culture.</text><parent_chain><item><author>deepGem</author><text>So Indians are on the top of the emigration food chain and I wonder why Japan is not one of our top destinations.<p>There are like 50K Indians in Japan, mostly Tokyo. This is a surprisingly low number. Sure there is the language barrier but that barrier holds true for Germany also which has a lot more Indians.<p>My hunch is education - Japan does not have too many universities to attract young talent, as compared to Germany, Australia or the UK. I&#x27;m not sure if this is by design or if there are some other factors at play.<p>If Japan built a lot more universities and made it easier and relatively affordable for foreign students to sign up with English classes etc, perhaps there will be a lot more immigrants from countries such as India, Vietnam, Cambodia etc.</text></item><item><author>willbudd</author><text>As far as I know, naturalization only involves a basic language test at around the level of N3; which should be very easy if you picked up any Japanese at all during the years spent living in the country.<p>The reason so few people acquire Japanese citizenship is not because of the difficulty doing so, but because it offers little in terms of tangible benefits beyond those already acquired by virtue of having permanent residency status.<p>1) Citizenship is needed in order to vote. Important for the health of any democracy; but in a country where it seems to be LDP all day every day anyway, immigrants can hardly be faulted much for not placing much value on this aspect.<p>2) For Americans, Japanese citizenship allows them to revoke their American citizenship, in order to avoid double taxation. (Not an issue for other nationalities, where the ludicrous concept of double taxation doesn&#x27;t apply.)<p>That&#x27;s about it as far as I can think of. Add to that the fact that Japan doesn&#x27;t recognize dual citizenship, it&#x27;s no surprise most immigrants are satisfied to just stick with permanent residency.<p>Note that the bar for permanent residency has been lowered in recent years, making it more easily attainable than an equivalent status in most other industrial nations.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I thought this was a good read, but I think there are some things he minimizes. For example, he talks about increasing foreign worker visas, but only has this sentence about citizenship:<p>&gt; Permanent residents are allowed to apply for Japanese citizenship after five years.<p>I recall reading a news article from a few years ago that said that the Japanese citizenship test is almost impossible to the point that few people try. Everything I&#x27;ve read about Japan has stated that the overall culture is <i>extremely</i> hostile to granting citizenship to non-native people, even to many mixed-race people of Japanese descent (e.g. from Brazil).<p>Having a culture that just says &quot;we&#x27;re happy to have you work here for a while, but you&#x27;ll never really belong here&quot; isn&#x27;t really a good sign for long-term integration.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Japan has changed in important and visible ways</title><url>https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/actually-japan-has-changed-a-lot</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>solidsnack9000</author><text>Both India and Germany have much stronger cultures of English usage than Japan -- and Australia and the UK are English speaking countries. Educated Indians learn to use English in a business setting, but this is not really as useful in Japan; and German has a lot more common with English (and with the many Indo-European languages, like Hindi and Sanskrit, that are familiar to people in India even when they are not their spoken language) than Japanese has with either language.</text><parent_chain><item><author>deepGem</author><text>So Indians are on the top of the emigration food chain and I wonder why Japan is not one of our top destinations.<p>There are like 50K Indians in Japan, mostly Tokyo. This is a surprisingly low number. Sure there is the language barrier but that barrier holds true for Germany also which has a lot more Indians.<p>My hunch is education - Japan does not have too many universities to attract young talent, as compared to Germany, Australia or the UK. I&#x27;m not sure if this is by design or if there are some other factors at play.<p>If Japan built a lot more universities and made it easier and relatively affordable for foreign students to sign up with English classes etc, perhaps there will be a lot more immigrants from countries such as India, Vietnam, Cambodia etc.</text></item><item><author>willbudd</author><text>As far as I know, naturalization only involves a basic language test at around the level of N3; which should be very easy if you picked up any Japanese at all during the years spent living in the country.<p>The reason so few people acquire Japanese citizenship is not because of the difficulty doing so, but because it offers little in terms of tangible benefits beyond those already acquired by virtue of having permanent residency status.<p>1) Citizenship is needed in order to vote. Important for the health of any democracy; but in a country where it seems to be LDP all day every day anyway, immigrants can hardly be faulted much for not placing much value on this aspect.<p>2) For Americans, Japanese citizenship allows them to revoke their American citizenship, in order to avoid double taxation. (Not an issue for other nationalities, where the ludicrous concept of double taxation doesn&#x27;t apply.)<p>That&#x27;s about it as far as I can think of. Add to that the fact that Japan doesn&#x27;t recognize dual citizenship, it&#x27;s no surprise most immigrants are satisfied to just stick with permanent residency.<p>Note that the bar for permanent residency has been lowered in recent years, making it more easily attainable than an equivalent status in most other industrial nations.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I thought this was a good read, but I think there are some things he minimizes. For example, he talks about increasing foreign worker visas, but only has this sentence about citizenship:<p>&gt; Permanent residents are allowed to apply for Japanese citizenship after five years.<p>I recall reading a news article from a few years ago that said that the Japanese citizenship test is almost impossible to the point that few people try. Everything I&#x27;ve read about Japan has stated that the overall culture is <i>extremely</i> hostile to granting citizenship to non-native people, even to many mixed-race people of Japanese descent (e.g. from Brazil).<p>Having a culture that just says &quot;we&#x27;re happy to have you work here for a while, but you&#x27;ll never really belong here&quot; isn&#x27;t really a good sign for long-term integration.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Japan has changed in important and visible ways</title><url>https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/actually-japan-has-changed-a-lot</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arianvanp</author><text>They produced a few fluffy documents in 2022 and then nothing happened.<p>They repurposed the word milestone to mean agenda. It&#x27;s just a list of events they&#x27;re organizing. Because they have no actual milestones or goals.</text><parent_chain><item><author>p1esk</author><text>Wow, 5 years later and what have they actually accomplished? Look at the milestones section: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gaia-x.eu&#x2F;what-is-gaia-x&#x2F;about-gaia-x&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gaia-x.eu&#x2F;what-is-gaia-x&#x2F;about-gaia-x&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>arianvanp</author><text>Gaia-X is a disaster. The article misrepresents it. Gaia-X is not a framework for what a European cloud should look like. This would be useful.<p>In beautiful EU bureaucratic style It&#x27;s a framework for how to <i>talk</i> about how a European Cloud <i>could</i> look like.<p>It&#x27;s not about technical standards. It&#x27;s about how we can talk about how we can think of maybe eventually deciding on how we can come up with standards that might one day lead to talk about implementations.<p>It represents to me everything that is wrong with the EU today. A bureaucratic monster that can&#x27;t decide how to talk about things or come to any form of alignment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing</title><url>https://horovits.medium.com/lidl-is-taking-on-aws-the-age-of-eurocloud-b237258e3311</url></story>
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<instructions>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>As I get older and a little lazier, sometimes I think I might want to find a way to get a completely pointless job that gives me a paycheck where all I have to do is write documents that nobody ever reads.<p>Then I look at something like this Gaia-X &quot;milestones&quot; list and think &quot;Meh, this is probably not the job for me...&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>p1esk</author><text>Wow, 5 years later and what have they actually accomplished? Look at the milestones section: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gaia-x.eu&#x2F;what-is-gaia-x&#x2F;about-gaia-x&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gaia-x.eu&#x2F;what-is-gaia-x&#x2F;about-gaia-x&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>arianvanp</author><text>Gaia-X is a disaster. The article misrepresents it. Gaia-X is not a framework for what a European cloud should look like. This would be useful.<p>In beautiful EU bureaucratic style It&#x27;s a framework for how to <i>talk</i> about how a European Cloud <i>could</i> look like.<p>It&#x27;s not about technical standards. It&#x27;s about how we can talk about how we can think of maybe eventually deciding on how we can come up with standards that might one day lead to talk about implementations.<p>It represents to me everything that is wrong with the EU today. A bureaucratic monster that can&#x27;t decide how to talk about things or come to any form of alignment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing</title><url>https://horovits.medium.com/lidl-is-taking-on-aws-the-age-of-eurocloud-b237258e3311</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ThePawnBreak</author><text>I think project based learning is the only way to actually learn programming. It&#x27;s why most people suggest new programmers to &quot;just build something they want&quot; (which I think is bad advice). It&#x27;s easy to envision a person reading 20 books and taking 3 MOOCs on programming not being able to tic tac toe game. It is far more difficult to envision someone who built 10 projects not being able to program.<p>What I dislike about the projects linked is that they give you all the code, rather than just giving you the challenge. Shameless plug: I started a blog about programming challenges (projects, not algorithms) where you just get the tests and you have to write the code. The first (and only, for now) project is a URL shortener: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cmocanu.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;post&#x2F;url_shortener&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cmocanu.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;post&#x2F;url_shortener&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Enlight – Learn to code by building projects</title><url>https://tryenlight.github.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>tuvtran</author><text>Shameless plug but once I made a repository of projects to learn programming: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tuvtran&#x2F;project-based-learning" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tuvtran&#x2F;project-based-learning</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Enlight – Learn to code by building projects</title><url>https://tryenlight.github.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>shadowgovt</author><text>Without devising a research project with flawed methodology that nonetheless gets published, my wild-ass guess would be that conscious cognitive function is maximized by allowing breathing to be managed by the unconscious mind.<p>Maybe he opens his mouth because it&#x27;s the most comfortable thing to do in the moment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>leoff</author><text>Anecdotal evidence, but I&#x27;ve noticed how Magnus Carlsen, the current best chess player, is often mouth breathing when very focused in a game. When I was a kid I often also caught myself mouth breathing when focused on a videogame, and I think this is a common tendency for people.<p>I wonder if this really has a negative impact, or rather a positive one.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Investigation on the effect of oral breathing on cognitive activity (2021)</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8228257/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gcanyon</author><text>Interesting. I have a strong subconscious urge to keep my mouth shut -- not kidding, I think inspired by watching Mary Poppins as a kid: &quot;Mouth closed, Michael, we are not a codfish.&quot; So even when I am most focused, my mouth is always closed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>leoff</author><text>Anecdotal evidence, but I&#x27;ve noticed how Magnus Carlsen, the current best chess player, is often mouth breathing when very focused in a game. When I was a kid I often also caught myself mouth breathing when focused on a videogame, and I think this is a common tendency for people.<p>I wonder if this really has a negative impact, or rather a positive one.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Investigation on the effect of oral breathing on cognitive activity (2021)</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8228257/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Tanoc</author><text>Brutalism was designed to expose the functionality of the way everything was built. We&#x27;d been using Portland cement for a few decades at that point, but we always hid it behind facades meant to harken back to traditional architectural functions. Covering Portland cement in brickwork or arranged timber was a common way of doing that. By exposing the underlying core of the building Brutalism was meant to display that transparency would only be allowed so far as to show what a monolith the power structure who used it actually was. Brutalist architecture has few glass openings, vertically massive internal atriums, large thick columns, interior or exterior walls rising at harsh unnatural angles, and consecutive terracing without bracing, all unachievable with traditional building methods or in then-contemporary Mid-Century Modernist architecture. All of this was only possible due to the strong central structure, representative of the aforementioned &quot;monolith&quot; of power.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>&gt; Brutalism was no accident.<p>Care to expand on that? If it was on purpose, <i>whose</i> purpose, and <i>why</i>?</text></item><item><author>beebeepka</author><text>Brutalism was no accident.<p>I think cars, and almost everything related to them, are waaaay worse than ugly buildings for our physical and mental health but I am afraid I&#x27;ll die alone on this hill. The vast majority would kill for a parking spot, let alone giving up their smelly, loud chunk of metal</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Ugly Architecture Is Bad for Your Health</title><url>https://www.architecturaluprising.com/studies/why-ugly-architecture-is-bad-for-your-health/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>Well it was deliberately created and sold by a specific architecture school. Not all brutalist is bad though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>&gt; Brutalism was no accident.<p>Care to expand on that? If it was on purpose, <i>whose</i> purpose, and <i>why</i>?</text></item><item><author>beebeepka</author><text>Brutalism was no accident.<p>I think cars, and almost everything related to them, are waaaay worse than ugly buildings for our physical and mental health but I am afraid I&#x27;ll die alone on this hill. The vast majority would kill for a parking spot, let alone giving up their smelly, loud chunk of metal</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Ugly Architecture Is Bad for Your Health</title><url>https://www.architecturaluprising.com/studies/why-ugly-architecture-is-bad-for-your-health/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>professoretc</author><text>&gt; a kid can quickly dig themselves into a hole that they have no<p>&gt; realistic way to get out of, e.g., by utterly bombing on an exam<p>&gt; or missing a few assignments early in the semester.<p>You&#x27;ve pretty much hit the nail on the head. The authors of _Grading For Equity_ spoke at my school and the reasoning they gave for eliminating 0-grading (i.e., not using 0 as the lowest possible grade) was because it&#x27;s basically impossible to recover from. Ideally, a student who masters the material by the end of class should get the <i>same</i> grade as one who masters it at the beginning; being fast or slow shouldn&#x27;t factor into your grade, but with 0-grading, like you say, an early test or assignment can tank your final grade, even if your <i>knowledge</i> eventually catches up to what it should be.</text><parent_chain><item><author>analog31</author><text>Playing devils advocate for a moment, as grading works right now, a kid can quickly dig themselves into a hole that they have no realistic way to get out of, e.g., by utterly bombing on an exam or missing a few assignments early in the semester. The motivation for that kid to progress any further is zero, yet they are imprisoned in the classroom for the duration of the semester.<p>This hits very close to home for me, and I&#x27;ve read countless comments on HN from people who are successful in life yet angry and bitter about their K-12 experience.<p>I don&#x27;t know the answer to this, but meanwhile, messing with the way school works is not exactly messing with success.</text></item><item><author>fallingknife</author><text>&gt; Another initiative headed for mandate status is a school policy that no assignment can receive a grade of less than 50%<p>&gt; And my direct supervisor repeatedly demanded that I pace my classes for the benefit of the single student in each section who was struggling the most<p>I don&#x27;t understand school. Why do they do things like this? Who actually thinks this is a good idea? I&#x27;ve never met anyone who does. How have we gotten to the point where standards are not allowed?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021</title><url>http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/202105m.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>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>Nothing is going to work while everything is paced by year. In 7th grade, in the fall you are taught X, so if you miss it the only solution is to take it next time: next fall with the next year’s 7th graders.<p>In an ideal infinitely funded world, if you took 20% longer to learn X, you’d just go slower, not be left behind.</text><parent_chain><item><author>analog31</author><text>Playing devils advocate for a moment, as grading works right now, a kid can quickly dig themselves into a hole that they have no realistic way to get out of, e.g., by utterly bombing on an exam or missing a few assignments early in the semester. The motivation for that kid to progress any further is zero, yet they are imprisoned in the classroom for the duration of the semester.<p>This hits very close to home for me, and I&#x27;ve read countless comments on HN from people who are successful in life yet angry and bitter about their K-12 experience.<p>I don&#x27;t know the answer to this, but meanwhile, messing with the way school works is not exactly messing with success.</text></item><item><author>fallingknife</author><text>&gt; Another initiative headed for mandate status is a school policy that no assignment can receive a grade of less than 50%<p>&gt; And my direct supervisor repeatedly demanded that I pace my classes for the benefit of the single student in each section who was struggling the most<p>I don&#x27;t understand school. Why do they do things like this? Who actually thinks this is a good idea? I&#x27;ve never met anyone who does. How have we gotten to the point where standards are not allowed?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021</title><url>http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/202105m.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>maxsilver</author><text>&gt; measures inflation based on a basket of goods bought by the &quot;average&quot; consumer. Most of these goods are in competitive markets<p>&gt; I&#x27;ve suspected that maybe a simple way to fix this would be (snip) to drop money out of helicopters.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t a simple way to fix this, be to change the relative importance of the &quot;basket of goods&quot; so that it reflects what real people actually spend money on?<p>Because housing, healthcare, and daycare&#x2F;education when totaled should probably be 60-75+% of that basket, since that&#x27;s where most people&#x27;s money actually goes. Based on this - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;news.release&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;cpi.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;news.release&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;cpi.pdf</a> - the percentages the Fed currently uses seems far, <i>far</i> too low.<p>The cost of gasoline going up 50%, or the cost of laptops going up 50% is far less hurtful than say, the cost of rent going up 50%, or the cost of healthcare going up 50%. I suspect if we used realistic numbers for inflation cost calculations, we&#x27;d see the real rate is far higher than is currently claimed, which would help economists better understand why so many people are suffering so much under a &quot;good&quot; economy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>I think you&#x27;re partially right. The other half of the puzzle is negotiating leverage.<p>One of Warren Buffett&#x27;s annual reports (I forget which year, but I think it was the late 1990s) had an interesting observation: inflation doesn&#x27;t affect all firms equally. Instead, it pools where there is a competition bottleneck. If you are the monopoly provider in a market, you have complete and total ability to raise prices in response to your customers having more money available to pay. If you are in a very competitive market, then every time you try to raise prices, some other entrant undercuts you and your customers and suppliers capture the surplus instead.<p>The Fed, however, measures inflation based on a basket of goods bought by the &quot;average&quot; consumer. Most of these goods are in competitive markets: groceries and gas and consumer electronics. And so the measured inflation rate that the Fed uses to control the money supply significantly undercounts the true inflation rate, with much of the money injected into the economy pooling in differentiated industries like high finance, elite universities, health care, Google &amp; Facebook, etc. From there, it doesn&#x27;t circulate the way it should, because people in those industries need few goods that the average American produces. Instead, it goes into asset prices, as they try to buy up more future earning potential.<p>I&#x27;ve suspected that maybe a simple way to fix this would be with &quot;helicopter&quot; Bernanke&#x27;s crazy idea: drop money out of helicopters. Maybe not literally (imagine the fights on the ground!), but perhaps the Fed could inject money into the economy at the bottom, through direct deposit into consumer&#x27;s bank accounts or tax refunds, and then collect it from the top, through fees on banks. That way, the money is immediately spent, and so the true effect of the money injected is more easily measurable in the CPI.</text></item><item><author>nateabele</author><text>&gt; <i>Different policies could produce a different outcome. My list would start with a tax code that does less to favor the affluent, a better-functioning education system, more bargaining power for workers and less tolerance for corporate consolidation.</i><p>It floors me how anyone, especially anyone with even a <i>basic</i> STEM background, could look at a growth curve that approaches infinity <i>that</i> rapidly, then turn around and say &#x27;gee, I wonder if tinkering around the periphery of the system would solve the problem&#x27;.<p>No! Clearly some central mechanism has gone horribly awry.<p>The only explanation I&#x27;ve ever seen that adequately accounts for those curves is inflation. Inflation drives up prices, both of goods and of assets. A higher cost of goods narrows the margins for wage-earners (i.e. the poor and middle class), and higher asset prices inflate the net worth of people who earn income from assets (i.e. rich people) — this effect compounds over time.<p>If I&#x27;m wrong, please, convince me. Article &amp; book recommendations gladly accepted.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonhardt-income-inequality.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>utexaspunk</author><text>Our top marginal tax rate starts around $418k(single) to $470k (joint). It seems ridiculous to me that every dollar beyond that amount is taxed at the same rate, whether it&#x27;s dollar 500k or dollar 500m. IMHO, we should have several more brackets, like for the top 0.25%, 0.1%, 0.01% and 0.001% of incomes, with the rates rising sharply. Tax the shit out of the ultra-rich and spread it around.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>I think you&#x27;re partially right. The other half of the puzzle is negotiating leverage.<p>One of Warren Buffett&#x27;s annual reports (I forget which year, but I think it was the late 1990s) had an interesting observation: inflation doesn&#x27;t affect all firms equally. Instead, it pools where there is a competition bottleneck. If you are the monopoly provider in a market, you have complete and total ability to raise prices in response to your customers having more money available to pay. If you are in a very competitive market, then every time you try to raise prices, some other entrant undercuts you and your customers and suppliers capture the surplus instead.<p>The Fed, however, measures inflation based on a basket of goods bought by the &quot;average&quot; consumer. Most of these goods are in competitive markets: groceries and gas and consumer electronics. And so the measured inflation rate that the Fed uses to control the money supply significantly undercounts the true inflation rate, with much of the money injected into the economy pooling in differentiated industries like high finance, elite universities, health care, Google &amp; Facebook, etc. From there, it doesn&#x27;t circulate the way it should, because people in those industries need few goods that the average American produces. Instead, it goes into asset prices, as they try to buy up more future earning potential.<p>I&#x27;ve suspected that maybe a simple way to fix this would be with &quot;helicopter&quot; Bernanke&#x27;s crazy idea: drop money out of helicopters. Maybe not literally (imagine the fights on the ground!), but perhaps the Fed could inject money into the economy at the bottom, through direct deposit into consumer&#x27;s bank accounts or tax refunds, and then collect it from the top, through fees on banks. That way, the money is immediately spent, and so the true effect of the money injected is more easily measurable in the CPI.</text></item><item><author>nateabele</author><text>&gt; <i>Different policies could produce a different outcome. My list would start with a tax code that does less to favor the affluent, a better-functioning education system, more bargaining power for workers and less tolerance for corporate consolidation.</i><p>It floors me how anyone, especially anyone with even a <i>basic</i> STEM background, could look at a growth curve that approaches infinity <i>that</i> rapidly, then turn around and say &#x27;gee, I wonder if tinkering around the periphery of the system would solve the problem&#x27;.<p>No! Clearly some central mechanism has gone horribly awry.<p>The only explanation I&#x27;ve ever seen that adequately accounts for those curves is inflation. Inflation drives up prices, both of goods and of assets. A higher cost of goods narrows the margins for wage-earners (i.e. the poor and middle class), and higher asset prices inflate the net worth of people who earn income from assets (i.e. rich people) — this effect compounds over time.<p>If I&#x27;m wrong, please, convince me. Article &amp; book recommendations gladly accepted.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonhardt-income-inequality.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brown9-2</author><text>People that keeps logs tend to be those that want to focus on increasing the difficulty of their workout over time - progress in how much weight you can lift in a certain exercise, etc.<p>It's no surprise that if progression is not your goal then logging is not for you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ZanderEarth32</author><text>Good post, but I think there is too much emphasis in general on tracking and logging workouts.<p>I find the whole tracking and logging weights, reps and feelings while working out to be daunting and pointless. Maybe it's because I am not a "I'm going to start working out and dieting" type person, rather I just live a healthy lifestyle by design. I don't "diet", I just try to eat healthy in general. I don't have a "work out routine", I just try to be physical every day. It makes the whole exercise process more a part of my natural life, rather than something I have to schedule.<p>I enjoy going to the gym and getting a good workout, doing whatever I feel like at the moment. The important part to me is working up a sweat and getting my heart pumping, not how many reps with a certain weight I did. I can see if you have a goal of weight loss or increasing your strength to a certain level that can be measured by numbers, but if you are aiming for general health, why do you need to keep a detailed log? Just try to exercise everyday, regardless of what that includes.<p>If you do keep a detailed log of your workouts, what kind of actionable data does that information provide you? Do you refer back to it daily, weekly, monthly and try to optimize your workouts based on your previous history? If so, how?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it makes us happier</title><url>http://blog.bufferapp.com/why-exercising-makes-us-happier</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>enraged_camel</author><text>I use the Fitocracy iPhone app to keep track of the weight and number of reps for each exercise. It helps me push myself to get better. For example, if I deadlifted 300lbs for 5 reps last week, then this week I shoot for 305 x 5. I find that this type of tracking is the only reliable way to make progress. Plus, it's great motivation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ZanderEarth32</author><text>Good post, but I think there is too much emphasis in general on tracking and logging workouts.<p>I find the whole tracking and logging weights, reps and feelings while working out to be daunting and pointless. Maybe it's because I am not a "I'm going to start working out and dieting" type person, rather I just live a healthy lifestyle by design. I don't "diet", I just try to eat healthy in general. I don't have a "work out routine", I just try to be physical every day. It makes the whole exercise process more a part of my natural life, rather than something I have to schedule.<p>I enjoy going to the gym and getting a good workout, doing whatever I feel like at the moment. The important part to me is working up a sweat and getting my heart pumping, not how many reps with a certain weight I did. I can see if you have a goal of weight loss or increasing your strength to a certain level that can be measured by numbers, but if you are aiming for general health, why do you need to keep a detailed log? Just try to exercise everyday, regardless of what that includes.<p>If you do keep a detailed log of your workouts, what kind of actionable data does that information provide you? Do you refer back to it daily, weekly, monthly and try to optimize your workouts based on your previous history? If so, how?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it makes us happier</title><url>http://blog.bufferapp.com/why-exercising-makes-us-happier</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Irregardless</author><text>I'm not sure if this is more of a testament to their corporate strategy or the effectiveness of the freemium model for mobile games.<p>It's amazing how difficult it is to sell an iOS game for anything more than $1.99. But, if you give them the game for free and let them exchange real money for strategic advantages in-game, they'll fork over a small fortune. Supercell is essentially selling $2.5 million/day in "gems" for only 2 games, gems that people then trade for resources or the ability to do things faster (like building units or structures).<p>A user named 'Panda' on the Supercell forums claims to have spent over $6,000 on gems in Clash of Clans[1]. Based on the responses regarding how quickly he was able to reach the top of the rankings, it seems to be true. Many other players in the thread report having spent $20-$40 on gems.<p>[1] <a href="http://forum.supercell.net/showthread.php/827-How-much-money-have-you-spent-on-this-game?p=5370&#38;viewfull=1#post5370" rel="nofollow">http://forum.supercell.net/showthread.php/827-How-much-money...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Company with the “World’s Least Powerful CEO” Makes $2.5 Million Every Day</title><url>http://blog.idonethis.com/post/48277151394/least-powerful-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>msandford</author><text>How long before we see a bunch of startups or consultants trying to cargo cult their success by simply organizing into teams and wondering why it didn't work. There's more to this company than simply "we have small cells that are independent" there was a lot of thought as to who owns what and how they own it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Company with the “World’s Least Powerful CEO” Makes $2.5 Million Every Day</title><url>http://blog.idonethis.com/post/48277151394/least-powerful-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>rendall</author><text>Our body of knowledge derives from intimate familiarity with an environment that is rare in the universe. The extremes here do not compare at all to cosmological extremes. It&#x27;s not surprising that our chemistry is quite sophisticated and nuanced when the elements involved are abundant here and the temperatures involved are within a range easily achievable here and the gravity is more or less 1G and there is atmospheric pressure and the ambient magnetic field is inside a certain range and the time intervals involved are observable within a human attention span.<p>I think we make a mistake by <i>universalizing</i> our perspective, so to speak. We define life by what we see around us and then assert, correctly and unassailably, that life must be made of the chemistry that we ourselves are made of, without generally understanding that the definitions are circular.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jandrese</author><text>I used to think scientists were being awfully carbon centric in their quest for life. There must be so many other ways for live to exist right? But once you take organic chemistry it seems so likely that other life would also be carbon based. Literally nothing else in the periodic table is as good as carbon for the flexibility that life benefits from so much. Silicon is a distant second.<p>While it is certainly not impossible that there are forms of non-carbon based life out there, they would have to be utterly dwarfed by the number of carbon based ones.</text></item><item><author>kogus</author><text>I half expected this article to essentially say &quot;we wouldn&#x27;t know life if it hit us in the face&quot;, but happily the conclusion was that yes, we could see strong evidence for the presence of life on earth from Galileo.<p>Life in other places might be radically different from our own, and we might be looking for the wrong things - but it is good to know that our search is at least able to find what we are looking for.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A 1990 experiment to test whether we could discern life on Earth remotely</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03230-z</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adastra22</author><text>Silicon, germanium, titanium, and a few other elements can make structures as complex as carbon. But factor in relative abundances and solvating chemistry, and it starts looking very unlikely that life would evolve to be based on anything other than carbon.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jandrese</author><text>I used to think scientists were being awfully carbon centric in their quest for life. There must be so many other ways for live to exist right? But once you take organic chemistry it seems so likely that other life would also be carbon based. Literally nothing else in the periodic table is as good as carbon for the flexibility that life benefits from so much. Silicon is a distant second.<p>While it is certainly not impossible that there are forms of non-carbon based life out there, they would have to be utterly dwarfed by the number of carbon based ones.</text></item><item><author>kogus</author><text>I half expected this article to essentially say &quot;we wouldn&#x27;t know life if it hit us in the face&quot;, but happily the conclusion was that yes, we could see strong evidence for the presence of life on earth from Galileo.<p>Life in other places might be radically different from our own, and we might be looking for the wrong things - but it is good to know that our search is at least able to find what we are looking for.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A 1990 experiment to test whether we could discern life on Earth remotely</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03230-z</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gpm</author><text>Not a lawyer, but I think there&#x27;s a weak argument for actual financial damages here.<p>There was only one legal way for ChessBase to do what it did (rebrand stockfish without attribution), and that was to acquire a (non-gpl) license from all the stockfish developers. That was almost certainly possible, for enough money. Stockfish developers could arguably sue for those lost licensing fees.</text><parent_chain><item><author>elmo2you</author><text>I&#x27;m definitely not a lawyer&#x2F;expert on this, even less about Germany specifically, but isn&#x27;t actual financial damage required for financial compensation? While Stockfish might have suffered damage from ChessBase&#x27;s behavior, if it can&#x27;t be clearly specified as monetary damage, I don&#x27;t really see how they could make money from this.<p>On the other hand, if ChessBase is found (and ruled) to have distributed software illegally, the company and its executives might have another problem. I don&#x27;t know the specifics of German law, but I believe that distributing software (or any product) illegally is actually a criminal offense (no longer a civil dispute). That could (theoretically&#x2F;eventually) lead to criminal prosecution and who knows .. jail time?</text></item><item><author>wiz21c</author><text>Stockfish has an opportunity to make money here. No?</text></item><item><author>dsiegel2275</author><text>I agree. Likely a quick checkmate in court.</text></item><item><author>apetresc</author><text>If this goes to trial, I think this might be the cleanest and most straightforward test of the GPL in court we&#x27;ve had up to this point?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Our lawsuit against ChessBase</title><url>https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2021/our-lawsuit-against-chessbase/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pabs3</author><text>I would suggest that they could ask for an injunction as well as restitutionary&#x2F;disgorgement damages (give back their ill-gotten gains) and possibly punitive damages (to discourage others from violating the GPL).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Damages#Punitive_damages_(non-compensatory)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Damages#Punitive_damages_(non-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>elmo2you</author><text>I&#x27;m definitely not a lawyer&#x2F;expert on this, even less about Germany specifically, but isn&#x27;t actual financial damage required for financial compensation? While Stockfish might have suffered damage from ChessBase&#x27;s behavior, if it can&#x27;t be clearly specified as monetary damage, I don&#x27;t really see how they could make money from this.<p>On the other hand, if ChessBase is found (and ruled) to have distributed software illegally, the company and its executives might have another problem. I don&#x27;t know the specifics of German law, but I believe that distributing software (or any product) illegally is actually a criminal offense (no longer a civil dispute). That could (theoretically&#x2F;eventually) lead to criminal prosecution and who knows .. jail time?</text></item><item><author>wiz21c</author><text>Stockfish has an opportunity to make money here. No?</text></item><item><author>dsiegel2275</author><text>I agree. Likely a quick checkmate in court.</text></item><item><author>apetresc</author><text>If this goes to trial, I think this might be the cleanest and most straightforward test of the GPL in court we&#x27;ve had up to this point?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Our lawsuit against ChessBase</title><url>https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2021/our-lawsuit-against-chessbase/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Narushia</author><text>I don’t think there’s really any “maintaining” to be done when I sign in to a new service that I won’t be using often. Complete the sign-in page → Bitwarden asks me if I want to save the credentials → click yes. That’s it. I can auto-fill that the next time I log in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>akira2501</author><text>If I need to login to your site less than once or twice a year, &quot;Forgot my password&quot; is my password manager. Personally, I feel that the utility of me working to keep and maintain that information in a database for high availability is essentially zero.<p>As a result, I store very few accounts overall and checking out as &quot;guest&quot; hasn&#x27;t been a problem of any sort. There&#x27;s like 10 critical things that I feel the need to store the password on and they all use a hardware key for 2fa anyways.<p>For the two accounts that I absolutely can&#x27;t lose access to, I just used the &quot;Correct Horse Battery Staple&quot; method and came up with two very long and secure passwords that I have no trouble remembering.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?</title><text>Here is a screenshot of my Bitwarden: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;UdG7Inb<p>They include some really important things such as:<p>Health insurance
G-Suite for work
Bill.com (which I use to get paid)
IRS.gov (which I use to get un-paid)
UK Companies House Register
Interactive Brokers
My bank<p>Obviously, anything with OAuth is &quot;bundled&quot; into my Google account. So if anything this is a huge underestimate.<p>I&#x27;m asking because of how insane auth has become. I know companies like OnePassword and Bitwarden are working on this and overall they do a great job. But I still have a near-stroke every time I have to do the &quot;forgot my password&quot; loop, or use Duo Mobile&#x2F;other 2FA.<p>The only really good auth feature I&#x27;ve ever encountered has been Apple&#x27;s &quot;fill from Messages&quot; feature as well as their Touch.</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>slt2021</author><text>problem is that sometimes these websites takes forever to send password recovery email.<p>especially if they use some sort of cheap cloud service to send email&#x2F;sms, then it can take 15-20 minutes to receive password reset link<p>have you not encountered cases like these?</text><parent_chain><item><author>akira2501</author><text>If I need to login to your site less than once or twice a year, &quot;Forgot my password&quot; is my password manager. Personally, I feel that the utility of me working to keep and maintain that information in a database for high availability is essentially zero.<p>As a result, I store very few accounts overall and checking out as &quot;guest&quot; hasn&#x27;t been a problem of any sort. There&#x27;s like 10 critical things that I feel the need to store the password on and they all use a hardware key for 2fa anyways.<p>For the two accounts that I absolutely can&#x27;t lose access to, I just used the &quot;Correct Horse Battery Staple&quot; method and came up with two very long and secure passwords that I have no trouble remembering.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?</title><text>Here is a screenshot of my Bitwarden: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;UdG7Inb<p>They include some really important things such as:<p>Health insurance
G-Suite for work
Bill.com (which I use to get paid)
IRS.gov (which I use to get un-paid)
UK Companies House Register
Interactive Brokers
My bank<p>Obviously, anything with OAuth is &quot;bundled&quot; into my Google account. So if anything this is a huge underestimate.<p>I&#x27;m asking because of how insane auth has become. I know companies like OnePassword and Bitwarden are working on this and overall they do a great job. But I still have a near-stroke every time I have to do the &quot;forgot my password&quot; loop, or use Duo Mobile&#x2F;other 2FA.<p>The only really good auth feature I&#x27;ve ever encountered has been Apple&#x27;s &quot;fill from Messages&quot; feature as well as their Touch.</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>pavlov</author><text>A lot of organizations operate as if they are made of headcount slots, and heads to fill those slots are some interchangeable commodity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bnegreve</author><text>Do organizations really pretend they are not made of people? How&#x2F;when?</text></item><item><author>rcthompson</author><text>I call it the Soylent Green Principle: companies and other organizations often try to pretend otherwise, but they&#x27;re actually all made of people. I have to remind myself of this regularly.</text></item><item><author>numbsafari</author><text>If you don’t include some measure of employee satisfaction, retention, wellness, etc, then you will optimize the system at their expense. As awful as this sounds, it’s no different than operating a piece of machinery above its capacity, or without adequate maintenance, because doing so improves some short term measure. If you can absorb the cost of doing so, then you might happily burn through lots of machines and that might be acceptable. But people aren’t machines, and you will either find yourself having retention issues, hiring issues, or like Amazon, literally running out of people willing to work for you even as they literally kill their employees.<p>The most important thing I take from my reading of Deming, is that there comes a point when you have to put the charts aside and deal with people. If you push people over and over and over, eventually they’re going to snap. Even if they don’t, can you live with yourself at the end of the day?<p>You also have to consider more factors than just P&amp;L. If you push sales people to the point they start breaking the law, or you push machinery and operators to the point of a massive oil spill, you could jeopardize the whole business, or worse. You need to know where the limits are, and that only comes from understanding the people, and the process, beyond just the charts.<p>Classic map v territory stuff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deming Paradox: Operationally rigorous companies aren't nice places to work</title><url>https://commoncog.com/deming-paradox-operational-rigour/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mirekrusin</author><text>He means they drive decisions based on some arbitrary, often flawed, short sighted, partial picture metrics (revenue, number of clicks, all kpis) forgetting that there are real people with ambitions, talents and feelings that are not accounted for behind it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bnegreve</author><text>Do organizations really pretend they are not made of people? How&#x2F;when?</text></item><item><author>rcthompson</author><text>I call it the Soylent Green Principle: companies and other organizations often try to pretend otherwise, but they&#x27;re actually all made of people. I have to remind myself of this regularly.</text></item><item><author>numbsafari</author><text>If you don’t include some measure of employee satisfaction, retention, wellness, etc, then you will optimize the system at their expense. As awful as this sounds, it’s no different than operating a piece of machinery above its capacity, or without adequate maintenance, because doing so improves some short term measure. If you can absorb the cost of doing so, then you might happily burn through lots of machines and that might be acceptable. But people aren’t machines, and you will either find yourself having retention issues, hiring issues, or like Amazon, literally running out of people willing to work for you even as they literally kill their employees.<p>The most important thing I take from my reading of Deming, is that there comes a point when you have to put the charts aside and deal with people. If you push people over and over and over, eventually they’re going to snap. Even if they don’t, can you live with yourself at the end of the day?<p>You also have to consider more factors than just P&amp;L. If you push sales people to the point they start breaking the law, or you push machinery and operators to the point of a massive oil spill, you could jeopardize the whole business, or worse. You need to know where the limits are, and that only comes from understanding the people, and the process, beyond just the charts.<p>Classic map v territory stuff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deming Paradox: Operationally rigorous companies aren't nice places to work</title><url>https://commoncog.com/deming-paradox-operational-rigour/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>virgil_disgr4ce</author><text>Agreed, this is SUPER disappointing. I started reading your blog post on the train this morning and was SO excited, because I&#x27;ve also been self-studying QM&#x2F;QED lately, and your description so closely mirrored my experiences. So imagine my excitement when I saw that you&#x27;d made a game as a way of developing an intuition—a really fantastic idea, and one I had been thinking of myself! And yet I have effectively no way of even seeing it! Not even the code?!?! :((((</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexbock</author><text>You may get more feedback if you upload the Java source to GitHub and make it easy to compile and run locally. I wasn&#x27;t able to run the applet with the default settings in Safari, Chrome, nor Firefox and asking people to make their browsers less secure to test this is probably going to turn a lot of people off.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Please check my quantum physics browser game for accuracy</title><url>https://linkingideasblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/learning-quantum-mechanics-the-easy-way/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sideshowb</author><text>Noted, thank you (though most people&#x27;s default Firefox settings seem happy with it). Considering other options in due course.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexbock</author><text>You may get more feedback if you upload the Java source to GitHub and make it easy to compile and run locally. I wasn&#x27;t able to run the applet with the default settings in Safari, Chrome, nor Firefox and asking people to make their browsers less secure to test this is probably going to turn a lot of people off.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Please check my quantum physics browser game for accuracy</title><url>https://linkingideasblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/learning-quantum-mechanics-the-easy-way/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jpdoctor</author><text>&#62; <i>Would it be overly conspiratorial to suggest that the CIA and NSA are in fact interested in a large-scale implementation of Shor's algorithm?</i><p>The only thing conspiratorial is that it wasn't mentioned in the article. Hmmmm.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jimwhitson</author><text>Would it be overly conspiratorial to suggest that the CIA and NSA are in fact interested in a large-scale implementation of Shor's algorithm? Perhaps I underestimate how much use intelligence agencies have for optimization...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet on Quantum Computing</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429429/the-cia-and-jeff-bezos-bet-on-quantum-computing/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sp332</author><text>I would be worried if they <i>weren't</i> interested in Shor's algorithm. That's something that fits their mandate at least.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jimwhitson</author><text>Would it be overly conspiratorial to suggest that the CIA and NSA are in fact interested in a large-scale implementation of Shor's algorithm? Perhaps I underestimate how much use intelligence agencies have for optimization...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet on Quantum Computing</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429429/the-cia-and-jeff-bezos-bet-on-quantum-computing/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jarrett</author><text>&gt; Again, I could go rent this stuff, but I want it delivered, and I don&#x27;t want to pay a price that is pretty close to what it would cost to just buy the tool!<p>This is probably the biggest problem with a sharing&#x2F;renting economy.<p>Manufacturing has gotten to the point where producing an object is so inexpensive, it&#x27;s cheaper to buy than rent. But why should that be? At any given production cost, why isn&#x27;t it still cheaper to produce fewer and let multiple people use them, either via a renting system or something else? You&#x27;re making fewer objects and still satisfying demand, so why doesn&#x27;t this save money?<p>The reason is the labor and real estate costs of administering such a system. You need people to staff the rental&#x2F;sharing agency. You also need a conveniently-located (and thus expensive) building where people go to pick up and return the objects. Or, if you&#x27;re doing delivery, you can choose a more out-of-the-way location, but now you&#x27;re paying the labor cost of drivers.<p>Because the overhead of running a sharing system is so high, it&#x27;s actually cheaper most of the time to allocate one of each object to each person, except for the most expensive objects.</text><parent_chain><item><author>j2d3</author><text>The drill example is a good one. I&#x27;m currently building a pergola. It&#x27;s nearly complete, but I need to cut a few more pieces from 4x4s at a 45 degree angle. Somehow I did a decent job of this already on a few pieces with my handheld circular saw, but it&#x27;s just not the right tool for the job. I screwed up a few times trying last night. What I really need is a chopsaw that will cut @ 45 degrees perfectly well.<p>I could go buy a chopsaw. I will probably keep using it on occasion. But it&#x27;s another $200 or so and - I&#x27;d rather just borrow one from a friend. But I don&#x27;t really know who of my friends has a chopsaw I can borrow, I don&#x27;t want to invest the time to figure that out and then go and get it, and tool rental is ridiculously expensive, and it doesn&#x27;t generally deliver without even more ridiculous expense.<p>I also need a nail gun, and the good ones are all air powered, which means I need a compressor, too. Again, I could go rent this stuff, but I want it delivered, and I don&#x27;t want to pay a price that is pretty close to what it would cost to just buy the tool!<p>I have several power tools I rarely use. If I could sign up for a service that would let me loan my tools out and borrow tools from others that also join the service, and if the tool sharing service delivered and picked up tools from my home and I requested what I want and made known what I have via an app, I&#x27;d sign up right away.<p>I think it could be done with little cost to the end user.<p>So - Uber for everything - yes - and Uber for powertools - give it to me now!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber for Everything</title><url>http://diegobasch.com/uber-for-everything</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sgrove</author><text>&gt; &quot;and I don&#x27;t want to pay a price that is pretty close to what it would cost to just buy the tool!&quot;<p>Why not pay the full price for the tool + delivery (handled by some monthly membership fee, maybe) to keep it as long as you like, and then push a button on your phone and someone shows up from the service to &quot;buy it back&quot; and return it to the cloud. You&#x27;d essentially be paying a deposit to cover the item, and then get the money back when the service got it back.<p>I&#x27;d liken this more to the original &quot;netflix-for-everything&quot;, with a dash of exec&#x2F;uber-for-everything.</text><parent_chain><item><author>j2d3</author><text>The drill example is a good one. I&#x27;m currently building a pergola. It&#x27;s nearly complete, but I need to cut a few more pieces from 4x4s at a 45 degree angle. Somehow I did a decent job of this already on a few pieces with my handheld circular saw, but it&#x27;s just not the right tool for the job. I screwed up a few times trying last night. What I really need is a chopsaw that will cut @ 45 degrees perfectly well.<p>I could go buy a chopsaw. I will probably keep using it on occasion. But it&#x27;s another $200 or so and - I&#x27;d rather just borrow one from a friend. But I don&#x27;t really know who of my friends has a chopsaw I can borrow, I don&#x27;t want to invest the time to figure that out and then go and get it, and tool rental is ridiculously expensive, and it doesn&#x27;t generally deliver without even more ridiculous expense.<p>I also need a nail gun, and the good ones are all air powered, which means I need a compressor, too. Again, I could go rent this stuff, but I want it delivered, and I don&#x27;t want to pay a price that is pretty close to what it would cost to just buy the tool!<p>I have several power tools I rarely use. If I could sign up for a service that would let me loan my tools out and borrow tools from others that also join the service, and if the tool sharing service delivered and picked up tools from my home and I requested what I want and made known what I have via an app, I&#x27;d sign up right away.<p>I think it could be done with little cost to the end user.<p>So - Uber for everything - yes - and Uber for powertools - give it to me now!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber for Everything</title><url>http://diegobasch.com/uber-for-everything</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>keiferski</author><text>Related (and interesting):<p><i>A peculiarity perhaps unique to a handful of languages, English included, is that the nouns for meats are commonly different from, and unrelated to, those for the animals from which they are produced, the animal commonly having a Germanic name and the meat having a French-derived one.<p>Examples include: deer and venison; cow and beef; swine/pig and pork; and sheep/lamb and mutton. This is assumed to be a result of the aftermath of the Norman conquest of England, where an Anglo-Norman-speaking elite were the consumers of the meat, produced by lower classes, which happened to be largely Anglo-Saxon[citation needed], though this same duality can also be seen in other languages like French, which did not undergo such linguistic upheaval (e.g. boeuf "beef" vs. vache "cow").<p>With the exception of beef and pork, the distinction today is gradually becoming less and less pronounced (venison is commonly referred to simply as deer meat, mutton is lamb, and chicken is both the animal and the meat over the more traditional term poultry. (Use of the term mutton, however, remains, especially when referring to the meat of an older sheep, distinct from lamb; and poultry remains when referring to the meat of birds and fowls in general. Use of the term swineflesh for pork, is also widespread, especially in religious contexts)</i><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why God Hates German Words</title><url>http://techno-anthropology.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-god-hates-german-words.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>petercooper</author><text><i>When the Normans came, they brought French. They enslaved the old German speakers of Britain, and the language of the people who bathed more often was, for centuries to come, Romance.</i><p>The overarching story is good but to respectfully nitpick, in terms of linguistics, Germanic and German don't mean the same thing. At least, only a little more than Java and JavaScript do.<p>The English were not speaking German prior to 1066 but Old English or Anglo Saxon, a mish-mash of ancient Britannic languages, Latin, Old Norse, and some West Germanic languages.<p>Also, it wasn't "French" that was brought over to England. At least, not in any codified, official sense of the term that we now accept. The Duchy of Normandy was still separate from the Kingdom of France (although Norman was one of the oïl languages) until the 13th century and Norman, as a language, had more Norse influence than other oïl languages due to prior invasions.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why God Hates German Words</title><url>http://techno-anthropology.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-god-hates-german-words.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>cwkoss</author><text>A reddit user from Hong Kong was recently banned from the &#x2F;r&#x2F;pics&#x2F; subreddit for posting about their support for the Hong Kong protests against<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;chinareddits&#x2F;comments&#x2F;bz177v&#x2F;got_banned_in_rpics_after_receiving_6_awards_in_a&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;chinareddits&#x2F;comments&#x2F;bz177v&#x2F;got_ba...</a><p>Tencent recently invested in Reddit.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2019-02-11&#x2F;reddit-users-revolt-on-news-of-chinese-investment&#x2F;10798584" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2019-02-11&#x2F;reddit-users-revolt-o...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>dcolkitt</author><text>Not that this isn&#x27;t a valid concern, but is there really any evidence that this is happening in Silicon Valley? Hong Kong&#x27;s a different matter because of just how comparatively dominating and close by the mainland Chinese market is compared to the tiny city state.<p>But in the US tech sector, the Chinese market is at best an after-thought. We&#x27;re also living through probably the strongest seller&#x27;s market in history when it comes to venture funding. My guess is that in most situations if a fund like Tencent tried to force an Internet startup to censor their content, they&#x27;d get laughed in the face as the founders just walked next door to the next VC firm on Sand Hill Road.<p>(Disclaimer: I&#x27;m not a SV insider by any stretch. So take these speculations on my part with a big grain of salt...)</text></item><item><author>surge</author><text>Chinese investment means increased pressure on tech oligopolies* to increase censorship of media critical of China. They&#x27;ve been branching out to increase soft influence, keep news sites and Olympic committee from recognizing Taiwan as a separate nation. Then there&#x27;s what is currently going on in Hong Kong. Chinese investor cash is effectively Chinese government investment. It&#x27;s not a good thing.<p>*edit</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chinese Cash Is Suddenly Toxic in Silicon Valley, Following U.S. Pressure</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-cash-is-suddenly-toxic-in-silicon-valley-following-u-s-pressure-campaign-11560263302</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gowld</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pcgamer.com&#x2F;tencent-imposes-new-regulations-on-streamers-in-china&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pcgamer.com&#x2F;tencent-imposes-new-regulations-on-s...</a><p>&quot;Tencent imposes new regulations on streamers in China&quot;<p>Yes, these regulations are currently China-specific, but (1) that&#x27;s bad enough itself, (2) Companies may apply censorship worldwide as a an engineering-simplification measure.<p>&gt; they&#x27;d get laughed in the face as the founders just walked next door to the next VC firm on Sand Hill Road.<p>Money talks, and Tencent and other Chinese companies have a lot. Once they&#x27;ve bought their stake, they can&#x27;t be simply laughed off.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dcolkitt</author><text>Not that this isn&#x27;t a valid concern, but is there really any evidence that this is happening in Silicon Valley? Hong Kong&#x27;s a different matter because of just how comparatively dominating and close by the mainland Chinese market is compared to the tiny city state.<p>But in the US tech sector, the Chinese market is at best an after-thought. We&#x27;re also living through probably the strongest seller&#x27;s market in history when it comes to venture funding. My guess is that in most situations if a fund like Tencent tried to force an Internet startup to censor their content, they&#x27;d get laughed in the face as the founders just walked next door to the next VC firm on Sand Hill Road.<p>(Disclaimer: I&#x27;m not a SV insider by any stretch. So take these speculations on my part with a big grain of salt...)</text></item><item><author>surge</author><text>Chinese investment means increased pressure on tech oligopolies* to increase censorship of media critical of China. They&#x27;ve been branching out to increase soft influence, keep news sites and Olympic committee from recognizing Taiwan as a separate nation. Then there&#x27;s what is currently going on in Hong Kong. Chinese investor cash is effectively Chinese government investment. It&#x27;s not a good thing.<p>*edit</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chinese Cash Is Suddenly Toxic in Silicon Valley, Following U.S. Pressure</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-cash-is-suddenly-toxic-in-silicon-valley-following-u-s-pressure-campaign-11560263302</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>IG_Semmelweiss</author><text>Worse - you may not know the software has this power over you.<p>I remember a specially egregious case that one of the rental companies was guilty of: automated criminality<p>The software in question automated the reporting of grand theft auto to authorities. The rental company used it to streamline reporting of rentals to police.<p>The problem: false positives. The software would report drivers as criminals, when in fact cars had been exchanged midrental due to car failures etc, and the original car hadnt been returned under the normal workflow, which the software failed to account for.<p>Then that police report would chase innocent people for literal years, coming up to unsuspecting customers during routine speeding stops.<p>I always wonder whether contributor names to closed sourced software should always be transparent.<p>Excellent engineers should be able to take credit on their work and there would be more skin in the game. Particularly for employers that get suspect resources from to solve for budget constrains artificially imposed by business managers with no stake in the product functionality, to critical software processes like SREs etc</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shitty Software Kills People</title><url>https://val.demar.in/2021/03/shitty-software-kills-people/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>darkerside</author><text>It&#x27;s actually incredible how quickly effective software has become an expected function of a proper government. States, cities, and counties are now handling vehicle registration, education, utilities and more over the internet. The paperless future (at least in urban and suburban US) is truly here.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shitty Software Kills People</title><url>https://val.demar.in/2021/03/shitty-software-kills-people/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mike_d</author><text>&gt; Also, perspective for leadership at Zoom: if you buy an open ecosystem and it subsequently dies then it sends a really terrible message.<p>The venn diagram of people who use strong tools like keybase and people who willingly use Zoom has no overlap.<p>Keybase was acquired in the wake of lots of negative PR around security (zoom bombing, kids booting teachers, employees snooping on calls, foreign spying, blocking anti-Chinese meetings, etc) and was an attempt to get any talent they could in the door. I am shocked it is still running.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kodah</author><text>Are there any Keybase team members on here? When Zoom acquired the team they said they would notify us if Keybase was going to be negatively impacted; the outcome based on commit graphs, the project blog updates, etc has made overwhelmingly clear that the project is not receiving updates. Can someone either acknowledge that so I can move on to a new system or give us an update as to what&#x27;s in the works?<p>Also, perspective for leadership at Zoom: if you buy an open ecosystem and it subsequently dies then it sends a really terrible message. Please right this somehow.<p>This is the last blog update: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keybase.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;keybase-joins-zoom" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keybase.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;keybase-joins-zoom</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>API-0.core.keybaseapi.com has expired certificate</title><url>https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html#hostname=https://api-0.core.keybaseapi.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>karlshea</author><text>&gt; When Zoom acquired the team they said they would notify us if Keybase was going to be negatively impacted<p>I mean, at the time I knew that was a lie.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kodah</author><text>Are there any Keybase team members on here? When Zoom acquired the team they said they would notify us if Keybase was going to be negatively impacted; the outcome based on commit graphs, the project blog updates, etc has made overwhelmingly clear that the project is not receiving updates. Can someone either acknowledge that so I can move on to a new system or give us an update as to what&#x27;s in the works?<p>Also, perspective for leadership at Zoom: if you buy an open ecosystem and it subsequently dies then it sends a really terrible message. Please right this somehow.<p>This is the last blog update: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keybase.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;keybase-joins-zoom" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keybase.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;keybase-joins-zoom</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>API-0.core.keybaseapi.com has expired certificate</title><url>https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html#hostname=https://api-0.core.keybaseapi.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>0942v8653</author><text>&gt; the billions of js frameworks and wars about how everything anyone tries to do is wrong<p>IMO...<p>This isn&#x27;t universal. HN is one of the places where it is the worst. I probably wouldn&#x27;t be fighting with Go right now if it weren&#x27;t for HN; I&#x27;d probably be using Java. Staying up to date isn&#x27;t really as important as it appears. There are people having successful careers with COBOL right now, and while that may not be where you want to go, switching between JS frameworks does not sound any better. And you can basically ignore the JS frameworks. They don&#x27;t matter.<p>Because of HN I switched from TextMate to Sublime Text to Emacs to Vim. What did I get out of it? Not a thing. Maybe I can type a little faster when I am in vim. But mostly I just get annoyed when the rest of the OS doesn&#x27;t support the shortcuts that I am now used to. I switched from Mac to Linux to Mac. I got nothing out of it, except that now I get more annoyed when I can&#x27;t do something on my Mac that I was able to do on Linux. Don&#x27;t do what I did.<p>I think it&#x27;s completely possible to be a developer without all this, as long as you can recognize when you are wasting your time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andars</author><text>Wow. I&#x27;m a college student, but I still feel like a kid. This seems to pretty much sum up every reason I decided not to study computer science and make a career as a developer. I love computing, but I have just gotten tired of the billions of js frameworks and wars about how everything anyone tries to do is wrong. Little printf strikes too close to home. This is a fantastic piece of writing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Little Printf</title><url>http://ferd.ca/the-little-printf.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>nostrademons</author><text>You can ignore all that and still make a career as a developer.<p>I started out as a physics major, largely because I didn&#x27;t want to lock myself into a practical career at the beginning of college. Spent most of my college career avoiding my physics homework by learning lambda calculus, and Haskell, and compiler design, and all of the impractical side of computing. When it came to get a job, I dusted off my Java and got a job in a financial software startup. Left it after two years after discovering that I hated finance but actually liked both software and startups. I&#x27;ve made more tech switches than I can count since, but it&#x27;s always &quot;Well, what do I need to know to get a job that will pay me and give me interesting challenges?&quot; rather than &quot;What do I need to know?&quot;<p>You can choose to avoid all the language&#x2F;framework&#x2F;editor wars about which is better. None of them are better; it&#x27;s just some are better <i>for certain circumstances</i>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andars</author><text>Wow. I&#x27;m a college student, but I still feel like a kid. This seems to pretty much sum up every reason I decided not to study computer science and make a career as a developer. I love computing, but I have just gotten tired of the billions of js frameworks and wars about how everything anyone tries to do is wrong. Little printf strikes too close to home. This is a fantastic piece of writing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Little Printf</title><url>http://ferd.ca/the-little-printf.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>jpm_sd</author><text>I 100% disagree with your conclusion. People don&#x27;t want robot buddies, they want dishwashers. And dishwasher equivalents for other household tasks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Endama</author><text>I think robots have an uncanny-valley effect not just in aesthetics, but utility. For example, I actually really like my roomba because it only does one thing: it cleans my floor (when it doesn&#x27;t get tangled in some cord). However, if there was a humanoid robot that can walk around and possibly knock over something or do something unexpected, I don&#x27;t want that thing in my house. What prevents some hacker to compromise the robot and have it stab me in my sleep?<p>Another example is Alexa&#x2F;Google Home. Some people love the convenience these in-home services provide, but others find the utility itself a liability: is this thing always listening to me and recording me in my home? The robots can do too much, they have too many functions and abilities, which makes me question the intent of the robot.<p>For robotics to really take off, I think there needs to be a kind of anthropomorphization that needs to happen: the utility of the robot must be high enough that I know that it understands my intention and can respond accordingly; that is to say, that I can have a relationship with my robot.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Comes After the Roomba?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/business/what-comes-after-the-roomba.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>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>Yes, I was just thinking the other day why can&#x27;t more robots be like Roomba. It does its task well in a way that enriches my life and makes it easier. Maybe it is because its task is really simple, although it was designed really well also. I specifically live in a house with all hard floors so it can do its job for me, which is kind of interesting. I molded myself around what the robot is most capable of.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Endama</author><text>I think robots have an uncanny-valley effect not just in aesthetics, but utility. For example, I actually really like my roomba because it only does one thing: it cleans my floor (when it doesn&#x27;t get tangled in some cord). However, if there was a humanoid robot that can walk around and possibly knock over something or do something unexpected, I don&#x27;t want that thing in my house. What prevents some hacker to compromise the robot and have it stab me in my sleep?<p>Another example is Alexa&#x2F;Google Home. Some people love the convenience these in-home services provide, but others find the utility itself a liability: is this thing always listening to me and recording me in my home? The robots can do too much, they have too many functions and abilities, which makes me question the intent of the robot.<p>For robotics to really take off, I think there needs to be a kind of anthropomorphization that needs to happen: the utility of the robot must be high enough that I know that it understands my intention and can respond accordingly; that is to say, that I can have a relationship with my robot.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Comes After the Roomba?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/business/what-comes-after-the-roomba.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>jd3</author><text>His video topics are interesting, but I can&#x27;t shake the feeling that I&#x27;m just watching what amounts to an ai-level summary of a slew of wikipedia articles with some added images and captions to keep viewers somewhat engaged.</text><parent_chain><item><author>willio58</author><text>I want to like Asianometry, I find his video topics interesting, but my god the dryness puts me to sleep like no other. I understand this is a draw for many to watch his videos so I understand it&#x27;s just not for me but I wonder if anyone else feels this way.</text></item><item><author>ebrewste</author><text>Great to see Asianometry here. Jon has such a huge number of interesting videos from semiconductor industry based to water supply to failed business models.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YKK: Japan’s Zipper King [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d6eNmtHFQk</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>klelatti</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the YKK video is there yet but Jon also provides transcripts for many of his videos on his Substack, which might me more to your taste.<p>Here is the one for the history of Intel and AMD.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asianometry.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;intel-and-amd-the-first-30-years" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asianometry.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;intel-and-amd-the-first-30-yea...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>willio58</author><text>I want to like Asianometry, I find his video topics interesting, but my god the dryness puts me to sleep like no other. I understand this is a draw for many to watch his videos so I understand it&#x27;s just not for me but I wonder if anyone else feels this way.</text></item><item><author>ebrewste</author><text>Great to see Asianometry here. Jon has such a huge number of interesting videos from semiconductor industry based to water supply to failed business models.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YKK: Japan’s Zipper King [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d6eNmtHFQk</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>contravariant</author><text>The NA detection and higlighting is nice but I&#x27;m not sure how I feel about showing anything other than the exact textual value. I don&#x27;t mind abridging quotes when they&#x27;re not necessary, but showing &quot;N&#x2F;A&quot;, NA,, etc. as the same value is a bit iffy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>flusteredBias</author><text>I spend a lot of time in the terminal and want to quickly glance at a csv files without making a new script, opening excel, or using a tui. I made tidy-viewer (tv) because current tools like cat and column were not pretty enough.<p>tv modifies raw files in the following ways:<p>1. NA detection and highlighting
2. Printing only significant digits
3. Header and footer meta data<p>I have been using this a lot at work. There is a lot more work to do, but it is in a usable state.<p>Give it a try! If you like it then star on Github!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment</title><url>https://github.com/alexhallam/tv</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>einpoklum</author><text>First of all - kudos on tackling this task - it is indeed very annoying to get CSVs to render nicely on a terminal.<p>1. How does tidy-viewer compare with csvlook?<p>2. Looking at the demo video, there seems to be an odd fixation with &quot;N&#x2F;A&quot;. The CSV spec, AFAIK, doesn&#x27;t recognize this phrase. I don&#x27;t understand why someone would expect a quoted string field whose raw characters are &quot;n&#x2F;a&quot; should be rendered as anything other than n&#x2F;a (i.e. lowercase and without the quotes). I&#x27;m guessing maybe in your workflow you want to use that phrase a lot, but for a tool for the general public I&#x27;d not do this kind of interpretation; and I would leave an empty field as empty.<p>3. tidy-viewer seems to require &quot;unstable library features&quot;, or at least ones which were unstable as of Rust 1.48.0 . It would be nice if you could be compatible with older rust distributions&#x2F;versions.<p>4. Many systems, especially older ones, especially ones which you access remotely and don&#x27;t have root privileges on, won&#x27;t have a rust installation. It would be even more convenient if you could provide binaries with little or no extra dynamic library dependencies, which could be used on older &#x2F; rustless systems. I realize this is a tall order, however.<p>5. What about scrolling? The worst part of viewing CSVs is having to handle wide ones which exceed the terminal width, and having decent horizontal as well as vertical scrolling ability. less doesn&#x27;t cut it, because it doesn&#x27;t keep the header row, plus it doesn&#x27;t recognize field widths.<p>6. tidy-viewer does not seem to support wrapping longer fields onto multiple terminal lines.<p>7. When the user doesn&#x27;t specify the color scheme, are you choosing one based on the terminal colors, or are you using absolute color values? I suggest the former.<p>8. tidy-viewer loads and parses the entire CSV immediately; and, in fact, seems to keep two copies of it in memory at once. This means it cannot be used with large files without thrashing; and even if your CSV does fit in global memory, it will still be kind of unusable, trying to dump gigabytes onto the terminal.<p>Bottom line: A nice initial effort, but the more serious challenges are yet to be tackled, plus needs to be more robustly cross-platform.</text><parent_chain><item><author>flusteredBias</author><text>I spend a lot of time in the terminal and want to quickly glance at a csv files without making a new script, opening excel, or using a tui. I made tidy-viewer (tv) because current tools like cat and column were not pretty enough.<p>tv modifies raw files in the following ways:<p>1. NA detection and highlighting
2. Printing only significant digits
3. Header and footer meta data<p>I have been using this a lot at work. There is a lot more work to do, but it is in a usable state.<p>Give it a try! If you like it then star on Github!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment</title><url>https://github.com/alexhallam/tv</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lvh</author><text>FWIW: just over half of Latacora uses Qubes on a daily basis. We do that because &quot;Xen VM&quot; is a pretty great boundary; it allows me to have totally separate client environments with the convenience of a single laptop. (We&#x27;ve had a client have us use their endpoint before; while I generally like that client, we won&#x27;t be doing that again :-))<p>It&#x27;s not flawless. Sometimes switching to a big screen or moving USB devices between VMs is wonky... but the bottom line is I haven&#x27;t booted my MacBook Pro for work in 2018. We stopped using MBPs because the then-current now one-minor-rev old generation is trash; all of them broke, and that was unacceptable, so I have a Lenovo (again).<p>Happy to answer questions about Qubes.<p>FWIW: not worried about Qubes&#x27; future. As Joanna herself points out in the blog post: Marek has been doing most of the technical day to day stuff for a while now, and Qubes has been doing just fine. I&#x27;m really thankful for the work Joanna has done in making Qubes happen and hope her new endeavors are everything she wants them to be :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Joanna Rutkowska leaves Qubes OS, joins Golem</title><url>https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/10/25/the-next-chapter/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wanderfowl</author><text>Joanna&#x27;s brilliant, and this Golem project is fascinating. The idea of a secure remote compute arrangement is sort of a natural extension from Qubes, and this is a pretty unique approach. May she (and Qubes, and Golem) find great success.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Joanna Rutkowska leaves Qubes OS, joins Golem</title><url>https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/10/25/the-next-chapter/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>njarboe</author><text>The last commercial plane wreck in the US was in 2009 and was a small commuter crash with only 49 fatalities[1]. This does not even make the Wikipedia list[2] of deadliest crashes which shows none since 2001. Bureaucratic over reaction to rare events can create worse problems overall for society than not changing anything at all. Just see the US response to 9-11. The American people solved the problem in about 90 minutes. Don&#x27;t let plane hijackers control the plane. Fight back instead of just wait. Thus UA flight 93. The lesson from that should have been a very measured &quot;We need solid, locking, cabin doors on airplanes&quot;. That&#x27;s it. Not the whole TSA department stand up, 20 year war in Afghanistan, invade Iraq????, Patriot Act forever with secret courts bullshit craziness. Instead of &quot;never let a crisis go to waste&quot; we need the State to be more slow to judgement.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;13&#x2F;colgan-air-crash-10-years-ago-reshaped-us-aviation-safety.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;13&#x2F;colgan-air-crash-10-years-ag...</a>
[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_airliners_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_accidents_and_incident...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mcv</author><text>Sounds like a money problem to me. Less time between planes means more planes means more money.<p>It sounds to me like far too many critical safety decisions are being made with an eye on money rather than safety. There were reports warning that Fukushima wasn&#x27;t safe in case of a tsunami, but the company in charge of the plant decided to ignore that. Deep Water was caused by cost cuts. The Boeing 737 Max was made for financial reasons, fixing a fundamental hardware problem in software.<p>Safety engineers clearly need a bigger say in these things.</text></item><item><author>0xFF0123</author><text>I&#x27;d be curious to know how much it actually improves throughput. It seems strange to use optimistic locks in such a safety critical process, when a more fail-safe approach is available.</text></item><item><author>mulmen</author><text>Europe uses pessimistic runway locks but the US prefers optimistic locks. This improves throughput at US airports with the risk of a rollback on a dirty runway.</text></item><item><author>jnsaff2</author><text>I got my PPL in EU and here it was drilled into me that in Europe there can be exactly ONE plane cleared to use a runway at any time.<p>When the approaching plane is cleared then there is no allowance for anyone and anything to be on the runway.<p>So if there is a departing plane waiting on the runway or someone crossing then the approaching plane is given &quot;cleared approach runway 08&quot; but never &quot;cleared to land&quot;. Which also means that if you are piloting the landing plane then at your decision height you have to go around.<p>Also when someone is cleared to land no-one can be given a permission to enter the runway.<p>There is one clearance that kinda-sorta allows which is &quot;BEHIND landing Boeing 737, line up and wait BEHIND&quot;. It intentionally has &quot;BEHIND&quot; before and after the call to be extra clear that the waiting pilot has to confirm that the plane has passed their nose and they can enter the runway while the landing plane is on rollout. But that plane can not be given a takeoff clearance before the plane on the rollout has exited the runway.<p>We were told that the americans do it differently and I&#x27;ve always found it dangerous.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Confirming we are cleared to land?’ Who said what at Austin</title><url>https://fallows.substack.com/p/as-bad-as-it-gets-without-body-bags</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ErikVandeWater</author><text>People tend to complain about the safety of airplane even though it is in the top echelon of safe modes of transit. There&#x27;s no reason to try to reach the highest-hanging fruit trying to make it even safer when people are dying in droves on the road just getting to the airport. Much better to do something about that low-hanging fruit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mcv</author><text>Sounds like a money problem to me. Less time between planes means more planes means more money.<p>It sounds to me like far too many critical safety decisions are being made with an eye on money rather than safety. There were reports warning that Fukushima wasn&#x27;t safe in case of a tsunami, but the company in charge of the plant decided to ignore that. Deep Water was caused by cost cuts. The Boeing 737 Max was made for financial reasons, fixing a fundamental hardware problem in software.<p>Safety engineers clearly need a bigger say in these things.</text></item><item><author>0xFF0123</author><text>I&#x27;d be curious to know how much it actually improves throughput. It seems strange to use optimistic locks in such a safety critical process, when a more fail-safe approach is available.</text></item><item><author>mulmen</author><text>Europe uses pessimistic runway locks but the US prefers optimistic locks. This improves throughput at US airports with the risk of a rollback on a dirty runway.</text></item><item><author>jnsaff2</author><text>I got my PPL in EU and here it was drilled into me that in Europe there can be exactly ONE plane cleared to use a runway at any time.<p>When the approaching plane is cleared then there is no allowance for anyone and anything to be on the runway.<p>So if there is a departing plane waiting on the runway or someone crossing then the approaching plane is given &quot;cleared approach runway 08&quot; but never &quot;cleared to land&quot;. Which also means that if you are piloting the landing plane then at your decision height you have to go around.<p>Also when someone is cleared to land no-one can be given a permission to enter the runway.<p>There is one clearance that kinda-sorta allows which is &quot;BEHIND landing Boeing 737, line up and wait BEHIND&quot;. It intentionally has &quot;BEHIND&quot; before and after the call to be extra clear that the waiting pilot has to confirm that the plane has passed their nose and they can enter the runway while the landing plane is on rollout. But that plane can not be given a takeoff clearance before the plane on the rollout has exited the runway.<p>We were told that the americans do it differently and I&#x27;ve always found it dangerous.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Confirming we are cleared to land?’ Who said what at Austin</title><url>https://fallows.substack.com/p/as-bad-as-it-gets-without-body-bags</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eagsalazar2</author><text>Not sure &quot;isn&#x27;t LinkedIn property&quot; is accurate here. They still retain ownership and control of redistribution just like any other IP. This is more of a philosophical question about whether &quot;viewing&quot; itself is a violation of their ownership rights and really about the definitions of &quot;viewing&quot; and &quot;public&quot; in the context of the internet.<p>Seems like they&#x27;ve simply determined that viewing any freely accessible URL is &quot;public&quot; and that &quot;viewing&quot; does include scraping. This seems like a very reasonable determination as it maps pretty neatly to how we think about viewing public content IRL where I am free to drive down the road (for profit or pleasure) and record publicly viewable signage and activities and use that data any way I see fit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pixelmonkey</author><text>The summary here is that LinkedIn tried to argue that it could prevent scraping of public LinkedIn profile data under their ToS, but the courts have ruled that if data is public and provided by users, it can be scraped&#x2F;crawled, that is, it isn’t LinkedIn property. This is generally a positive outcome for people&#x2F;companies turning web text and HTML into structured data, e.g. tools like Puppeteer and Scrapy can be used more freely on sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Reddit. Now, you might still get into trouble if you re-publish that data, but you can, at least, safely use the data ”internally”, and the act of scraping&#x2F;crawling (politely) is not, per se, something unlawful.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-linkedin-profiles/microsofts-linkedin-loses-appeal-over-access-to-user-profiles-idUSKCN1VU21W</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>I think that&#x27;s fine, but I also think the end-user should decide. With Google (edit: I meant Facebook) I&#x27;m able to determine whether or not I want to show up in search results. This shouldn&#x27;t be an absolute is or isn&#x27;t public situation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pixelmonkey</author><text>The summary here is that LinkedIn tried to argue that it could prevent scraping of public LinkedIn profile data under their ToS, but the courts have ruled that if data is public and provided by users, it can be scraped&#x2F;crawled, that is, it isn’t LinkedIn property. This is generally a positive outcome for people&#x2F;companies turning web text and HTML into structured data, e.g. tools like Puppeteer and Scrapy can be used more freely on sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Reddit. Now, you might still get into trouble if you re-publish that data, but you can, at least, safely use the data ”internally”, and the act of scraping&#x2F;crawling (politely) is not, per se, something unlawful.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-linkedin-profiles/microsofts-linkedin-loses-appeal-over-access-to-user-profiles-idUSKCN1VU21W</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nanidin</author><text>My personal version of rubber duck debugging involves writing an email to explain the problem. It helps solidify my understanding and usually generates new things to follow up on.</text><parent_chain><item><author>GCA10</author><text>&quot;Writing doesn’t just clarify your existing ideas; it generates more of them.&quot;<p>So true! Redrafting and self-editing involves so much more than just getting the commas in the right places. This is how we see new linkages that weren&#x27;t obvious at first. It&#x27;s how we become more discerning, so we can define the limits and strengths of our concepts more precisely. And it&#x27;s one of the best ways of opening up new avenues of thought. (If A is valid, then B, C and D become possible.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Engineers Need to Write</title><url>https://www.developing.dev/p/why-engineers-need-to-write</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>Writing shows how weak your thinking is - Leslie Lamport</text><parent_chain><item><author>GCA10</author><text>&quot;Writing doesn’t just clarify your existing ideas; it generates more of them.&quot;<p>So true! Redrafting and self-editing involves so much more than just getting the commas in the right places. This is how we see new linkages that weren&#x27;t obvious at first. It&#x27;s how we become more discerning, so we can define the limits and strengths of our concepts more precisely. And it&#x27;s one of the best ways of opening up new avenues of thought. (If A is valid, then B, C and D become possible.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Engineers Need to Write</title><url>https://www.developing.dev/p/why-engineers-need-to-write</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wombatpm</author><text>If we really want body cameras to work, there needs to be penalties for nonuse. For example lack of body camera removes qualified immunity protections for the officer(s) in question.<p>My personal philosophy is that if called to be on a criminal jury, if the case relies on the officer&#x27;s testimony and there is no camera, I will return a verdict of not guilty under the justification that the state has failed to prove its case.<p>A couple of hung juries and the powers that be may get the message</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lax oversight allows Chicago police to avoid turning on their body cams</title><url>https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3603ef8cc492488c847cffbe03ad0f1d</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wombatmobile</author><text>&gt; The cameras are relatively simple to operate. They constantly record everything in front of them, but only save 30 seconds of video at a time. To record an entire incident, the officer must double press the “event” button in the center of the camera.<p>So non-compliance is the default.<p>And compliance failure is as easy as an incorrect double-press that fails to start recording. Is there even any feedback that the double-press has registered?<p>Why not buffer 5 hours by default?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lax oversight allows Chicago police to avoid turning on their body cams</title><url>https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3603ef8cc492488c847cffbe03ad0f1d</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>unstuck3958</author><text>What Krita and the KDE project in general have achieved is nothing short of phenomenal, and I don&#x27;t believe the power of libre software is recognized enough even in dev communities like Hacker News.</text><parent_chain><item><author>2Gkashmiri</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ly6USRwTHe0">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ly6USRwTHe0</a><p>the video is mindblowing because on one hand, adobe photoshop announced this as &quot;their own next big thing&quot; and here we have an open source software replicating this same thing, so cool.<p>edit:<p>this also means photoshop doesnt have the &quot;moat&quot; they seem to have built around the generative ai thing and their software.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Krita AI Diffusion</title><url>https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikeiz404</author><text>Another video from the page showing pose editing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-QDPEcVmdLI">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-QDPEcVmdLI</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>2Gkashmiri</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ly6USRwTHe0">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ly6USRwTHe0</a><p>the video is mindblowing because on one hand, adobe photoshop announced this as &quot;their own next big thing&quot; and here we have an open source software replicating this same thing, so cool.<p>edit:<p>this also means photoshop doesnt have the &quot;moat&quot; they seem to have built around the generative ai thing and their software.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Krita AI Diffusion</title><url>https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nihil75</author><text>Actually, this is the aftershock of GTA 1 being released in 1997. They&#x27;re finally ripe!</text><parent_chain><item><author>smcl</author><text>It&#x27;s a fair point, GTA V is released and <i>suddenly</i> 7 years later there&#x27;s an increase in carjackings. Who can argue with that?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chicago Faces 135% Incr in Carjackings So Legislator Seeks to Ban GTA</title><url>https://jonathanturley.org/2021/02/23/chicago-faces-135-increase-in-carjackings-so-legislator-seeks-to-ban-grand-theft-auto/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ttul</author><text>I think there is also a strong correlation between the integer value of the year and the prevalence of carjacking in Chicago.</text><parent_chain><item><author>smcl</author><text>It&#x27;s a fair point, GTA V is released and <i>suddenly</i> 7 years later there&#x27;s an increase in carjackings. Who can argue with that?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chicago Faces 135% Incr in Carjackings So Legislator Seeks to Ban GTA</title><url>https://jonathanturley.org/2021/02/23/chicago-faces-135-increase-in-carjackings-so-legislator-seeks-to-ban-grand-theft-auto/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>Bitcoin mining uses double SHA-256. It tends to be harder to break doubled hash functions, since you don&#x27;t have tools like length-extension attacks on the second round of hashing. For example, HMAC-SHA-1 is still secure (despite SHA-1 being pretty much broken), and it also uses a two-round hashing construction.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>SHA-256 is used for Bitcoin mining, which serves as an enormous bug bounty for both full and partial breaks (if you can efficiently find inputs where the output has lots of leading zeroes that&#x27;s a partial break, and lets you mine bitcoin more efficiently). That&#x27;s worth a lot of trust. I don&#x27;t see any particular reason to think SHA-3 is better (though I&#x27;m not an expert) and unless I hear some indication that a problem has been found with SHA-2, I&#x27;ll probably stick with it forever.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NIST is announcing that SHA-1 should be phased out by Dec. 31, 2030</title><url>https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/12/nist-retires-sha-1-cryptographic-algorithm</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mindcandy</author><text>In my research into Ethereum, I learned that in the creation of SHA-3, they did a lot of hammering on SHA-256 to see if new weaknesses could be discovered and addressed. The conclusion was that SHA-256 is still solid as far as anyone can tell. The SHA-3 process moved forward anyway so they could have a backup-plan handy in case some problem with SHA-256 pops up out of nowhere.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>SHA-256 is used for Bitcoin mining, which serves as an enormous bug bounty for both full and partial breaks (if you can efficiently find inputs where the output has lots of leading zeroes that&#x27;s a partial break, and lets you mine bitcoin more efficiently). That&#x27;s worth a lot of trust. I don&#x27;t see any particular reason to think SHA-3 is better (though I&#x27;m not an expert) and unless I hear some indication that a problem has been found with SHA-2, I&#x27;ll probably stick with it forever.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NIST is announcing that SHA-1 should be phased out by Dec. 31, 2030</title><url>https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/12/nist-retires-sha-1-cryptographic-algorithm</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eviks</author><text>But you don&#x27;t have to do it yourself, that&#x27;s what all the blocklists more knowledgeable people have created are for!</text><parent_chain><item><author>KyeRussell</author><text>The reality is that this sort of control would only be attractive to a very very small fraction of users, and no, not just because ‘people don’t care about privacy’ or whatever. There are just very few situations where someone is going to be able to look at this sort of data and do anything meaningful with it, especially when a) most apps are justifiably internet-connected, and b) the homogeneity of public cloud infra means you can’t really tell anything apart from endpoint alone.</text></item><item><author>ary</author><text>Completely agree. Occasionally I run Charles Proxy[1] on my iPhone to analyze network activity and am disturbed by what I see. Software shouldn&#x27;t be able to open arbitrary network connections without user consent&#x2F;control, but we&#x27;re not there yet to a large enough degree on mobile unfortunately.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.charlesproxy.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;ios&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.charlesproxy.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;ios&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>dmix</author><text>I&#x27;ve always thought this should be a feature in an OS for advanced users. Combined with some OS level security optimizations it could be quite a powerful security feature for the paranoid and at-risk.<p>I haven&#x27;t tried mini but there&#x27;s probably plenty of UX gains in between the standard Little Snitch fine control approach and the UBlock Origin style community curated defaults where control&#x2F;customization is optional&#x2F;on-demand.</text></item><item><author>ary</author><text>People are probably going to be confused between this and the &quot;full&quot; version of Little Snitch. My take on it is that Little Snitch Mini is something you can install on a non-technical friend or family member&#x27;s computer whereas power users may want to stick with the existing offering.<p>I say this as a long time heavy user of Little Snitch. It&#x27;s very annoying when you first get it installed, but it provides really useful control over what installed software is getting up to. After a time you settle into a natural rule set for your personal patterns and only see alerts when new or updated software tries a network connection that hasn&#x27;t been seen before.<p>&quot;Mini&quot; strikes me as much more of a fire-and-forget product, which I appreciate but won&#x27;t personally use.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Little Snitch Mini</title><url>https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-mini/index.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>rolfrp</author><text>A good set and forget option for the non-tecnical or those that can&#x27;t be bothered is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iantispy.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iantispy.com</a>, basically just does it&#x27;s thing and doesn&#x27;t nag to upgrade.</text><parent_chain><item><author>KyeRussell</author><text>The reality is that this sort of control would only be attractive to a very very small fraction of users, and no, not just because ‘people don’t care about privacy’ or whatever. There are just very few situations where someone is going to be able to look at this sort of data and do anything meaningful with it, especially when a) most apps are justifiably internet-connected, and b) the homogeneity of public cloud infra means you can’t really tell anything apart from endpoint alone.</text></item><item><author>ary</author><text>Completely agree. Occasionally I run Charles Proxy[1] on my iPhone to analyze network activity and am disturbed by what I see. Software shouldn&#x27;t be able to open arbitrary network connections without user consent&#x2F;control, but we&#x27;re not there yet to a large enough degree on mobile unfortunately.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.charlesproxy.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;ios&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.charlesproxy.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;ios&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>dmix</author><text>I&#x27;ve always thought this should be a feature in an OS for advanced users. Combined with some OS level security optimizations it could be quite a powerful security feature for the paranoid and at-risk.<p>I haven&#x27;t tried mini but there&#x27;s probably plenty of UX gains in between the standard Little Snitch fine control approach and the UBlock Origin style community curated defaults where control&#x2F;customization is optional&#x2F;on-demand.</text></item><item><author>ary</author><text>People are probably going to be confused between this and the &quot;full&quot; version of Little Snitch. My take on it is that Little Snitch Mini is something you can install on a non-technical friend or family member&#x27;s computer whereas power users may want to stick with the existing offering.<p>I say this as a long time heavy user of Little Snitch. It&#x27;s very annoying when you first get it installed, but it provides really useful control over what installed software is getting up to. After a time you settle into a natural rule set for your personal patterns and only see alerts when new or updated software tries a network connection that hasn&#x27;t been seen before.<p>&quot;Mini&quot; strikes me as much more of a fire-and-forget product, which I appreciate but won&#x27;t personally use.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Little Snitch Mini</title><url>https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-mini/index.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>athoun</author><text>To add a data point, I recently had a grandparent who died with Parkinson&#x27;s disease.<p>After doing research, it turns out their home was located very close to a Superfund cleanup site from a dry cleaner that operated in the 60&#x27;s and contaminated the groundwater with TCE and PCE.
The chemicals leach into the groundwater and can spread hundreds of feet per year. Buildings located over these plumes are exposed to vapors which accumulate indoors over time and expose the occupants.<p>According to Wikipedia, the PCE solvent which is used at nearly every dry cleaner across the country has been known as a x10 risk factor for Parkinson&#x27;s [1].<p>For California residents, you can find out about these groundwater plumes on the waterboards website. They are located all over Silicon Valley and former dry-cleaners around the country [2].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tetrachloroethylene" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tetrachloroethylene</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding. A common chemical may be to blame</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/07/rates-of-parkinsons-disease-are-exploding-a-common-chemical-may-be-to-blame</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sbehlasp</author><text>Surprise to see that we are pointing and blaming one chemical only here. PFAS, a class of more than 4,000 different chemicals, is everywhere [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;on.natgeo.com&#x2F;2Q2UtMS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;on.natgeo.com&#x2F;2Q2UtMS</a>] food, water we drink and even in our blood. We don&#x27;t even know when and how we are consuming it directly or indirectly.
Do we have any kind of full proof study about all 4000 chemicals, that how these chemicals would be affecting our health!
I think nature has already been polluted&#x2F;damaged to an extent which is kind-a irreversible. Hoping for the better world.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding. A common chemical may be to blame</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/07/rates-of-parkinsons-disease-are-exploding-a-common-chemical-may-be-to-blame</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Raidion</author><text>I think where that 5% figure is used incorrectly: if you look at the other factors, they seem to not be &quot;someone had a stroke, caught covid, and died&quot;, they&#x27;re stuff like &quot;Someone had Covid, developed pneumonia and died&quot;.<p>The top &quot;other factors&quot; are (in order): Pneumonia, &quot;everything else&quot;, respiratory failure, high blood pressure, diabetes, cardiac arrest, heart disease, acute respiratory distress syndrome, etc.<p>It&#x27;s pretty clear to say that far more than 5% died of Covid induced complications, not that they died of &quot;natural&quot; causes and also tested Covid positive. Saying the 5% number is almost certainly abuse of statistics, especially given the notable uptick in mortality in the US.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cronix</author><text>Is &quot;pointing out&quot; data considered downplaying? ~5% of deaths had &quot;covid only&quot; while the remaining 95% had other factors with the average having 4 other factors.<p>From the CDC:<p>&gt; Table 3 shows the types of health conditions and contributing causes mentioned in conjunction with deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The number of deaths that mention one or more of the conditions indicated is shown for all deaths involving COVID-19 and by age groups. For over 5% of these deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 4.0 additional conditions or causes per death...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nchs&#x2F;nvss&#x2F;vsrr&#x2F;covid_weekly&#x2F;index.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nchs&#x2F;nvss&#x2F;vsrr&#x2F;covid_weekly&#x2F;index.htm</a></text></item><item><author>mywittyname</author><text>&gt;Something to consider if you see anyone trying to downplay this.<p>Most of the downplaying I&#x27;ve seen has revolved around the idea that those who died would have, &quot;died anyway&quot; from some other ailment or that hospitals are finding any reason they can to attribute deaths to covid.<p>So, while you have a great argument, I doubt you&#x27;ll change any minds because those who disagree flat out reject your premise.</text></item><item><author>AnotherGoodName</author><text>In absolute number terms it&#x27;s more deaths in total in the USA than the Spanish Flu (675k deaths total since it began), HIV (700k deaths total since it began) or any other pandemic. Population has increased so the US did lose a smaller percentage of population but on the other hand Spanish Flu didn&#x27;t have a vaccine to stop it one year in. Hopefully enough of the population takes the vaccine now to stop this.<p>Note this also means COVID has been the number 1 cause of fatalities in total. The other top killers are heart disease and cancer. Heart disease kills ~660k a year and cancer 600k a year. We&#x27;re not that much over 1 year now since the first cases in the USA. This means that COVID is absolute top cause of fatalities at the moment. For anyone that may feel the need to mention car crashes, guns or drugs those don&#x27;t even rank in the top 10 of fatalities in the USA.<p>Something to consider if you see anyone trying to downplay this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19</title><url>http://www.healthdata.org/special-analysis/estimation-excess-mortality-due-covid-19-and-scalars-reported-covid-19-deaths</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>allturtles</author><text>Many of those &#x27;additional causes&quot; are things caused by COVID-19.<p>e.g. per that table, out of 560K deaths coded as COVID-19, 257K were also coded as &quot;influenza or pneumonia&quot;. That&#x27;s because Covid causes pneumonia.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cronix</author><text>Is &quot;pointing out&quot; data considered downplaying? ~5% of deaths had &quot;covid only&quot; while the remaining 95% had other factors with the average having 4 other factors.<p>From the CDC:<p>&gt; Table 3 shows the types of health conditions and contributing causes mentioned in conjunction with deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The number of deaths that mention one or more of the conditions indicated is shown for all deaths involving COVID-19 and by age groups. For over 5% of these deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 4.0 additional conditions or causes per death...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nchs&#x2F;nvss&#x2F;vsrr&#x2F;covid_weekly&#x2F;index.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;nchs&#x2F;nvss&#x2F;vsrr&#x2F;covid_weekly&#x2F;index.htm</a></text></item><item><author>mywittyname</author><text>&gt;Something to consider if you see anyone trying to downplay this.<p>Most of the downplaying I&#x27;ve seen has revolved around the idea that those who died would have, &quot;died anyway&quot; from some other ailment or that hospitals are finding any reason they can to attribute deaths to covid.<p>So, while you have a great argument, I doubt you&#x27;ll change any minds because those who disagree flat out reject your premise.</text></item><item><author>AnotherGoodName</author><text>In absolute number terms it&#x27;s more deaths in total in the USA than the Spanish Flu (675k deaths total since it began), HIV (700k deaths total since it began) or any other pandemic. Population has increased so the US did lose a smaller percentage of population but on the other hand Spanish Flu didn&#x27;t have a vaccine to stop it one year in. Hopefully enough of the population takes the vaccine now to stop this.<p>Note this also means COVID has been the number 1 cause of fatalities in total. The other top killers are heart disease and cancer. Heart disease kills ~660k a year and cancer 600k a year. We&#x27;re not that much over 1 year now since the first cases in the USA. This means that COVID is absolute top cause of fatalities at the moment. For anyone that may feel the need to mention car crashes, guns or drugs those don&#x27;t even rank in the top 10 of fatalities in the USA.<p>Something to consider if you see anyone trying to downplay this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19</title><url>http://www.healthdata.org/special-analysis/estimation-excess-mortality-due-covid-19-and-scalars-reported-covid-19-deaths</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cwhiz</author><text>Basic reading comprehension<p>It says adopted, not invented or created. If you continued reading for two more paragraphs you would have read the author say that the auto industry has also adopted lidar. Is the author implying that the auto industry has also invented lidar?!?<p>It’s not even close to insinuating that Apple invented lidar. And this article isn’t from Apple, anyway.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wetwiper</author><text>&gt; Apple adopted the term to describe a new sensor that measures depth<p>Not to be _that_ person, but someone should maybe inform the author that use of LiDAR has been around for quite some time already... the &quot;sensor that measures depth&quot; is pretty much a description of what LiDAR is used for and this isnt a new application of the term. And sensors to do this already exist so no &quot;newness&quot; in this field.
I mean sure, if they were talking about it being included for consumer usage in everyday mobile devices, then maybe thats a new thing? But the wording of that phrase seems to want to credit Apple for something newly coined or invented, which isnt the case</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Look inside iPad Pro 11s Lidar Scanner</title><url>https://www.eetasia.com/look-inside-ipad-pro-11s-lidar-scanner/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dan-robertson</author><text>The sentence is a bit awkward but I think it is phrased that way to suggest that Apple’s sensor is different from other things called lidar which tend to involve scanning with a rotating mirror.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wetwiper</author><text>&gt; Apple adopted the term to describe a new sensor that measures depth<p>Not to be _that_ person, but someone should maybe inform the author that use of LiDAR has been around for quite some time already... the &quot;sensor that measures depth&quot; is pretty much a description of what LiDAR is used for and this isnt a new application of the term. And sensors to do this already exist so no &quot;newness&quot; in this field.
I mean sure, if they were talking about it being included for consumer usage in everyday mobile devices, then maybe thats a new thing? But the wording of that phrase seems to want to credit Apple for something newly coined or invented, which isnt the case</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Look inside iPad Pro 11s Lidar Scanner</title><url>https://www.eetasia.com/look-inside-ipad-pro-11s-lidar-scanner/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;d guess we here on HN are the people best equipped to prevent the worst.<p>I agree that individuals should be conscious of which companies they support through their labor and&#x2F;or spending habits.<p>But I also think that HN overestimates the ability for single engineers to upend the goals of an entire organization. In the real world, if a company wants to automate anything and they’re paying well, there will be a line of engineers out the door applying to get it done.<p>&gt; So the next time you help someone automate their customer support<p>I think this strikes at a false dichotomy that occurs frequently in these conversations: There’s an idea that if we simply removed the automated solutions then companies would be forced to replace them with the idealized solutions that we want. In practice, companies know very well that automated customer support and similar solutions aren’t comparable to having a well-paid, highly-trained person pick up the phone. But they weren’t going to pay for the expensive solution anyway.<p>And the real driving factor isn’t just the companies, it’s the customers. If given the choice between two identical products where the only difference is automated versus human customer support (and associated higher price for human customer support), the majority of customers will choose the cheaper option every time. There are a few people who will proudly pay more for the better CS, but they are a tiny minority. Overall, customers <i>want</i> the cheaper option even if it comes with tradeoffs, and they will vote with their wallets.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fxtentacle</author><text>That video at the end is interesting both for its content and for its delivery technology.<p>And I do agree with him: If whether you get work or not decides on a black box AI and your only support channel is another black box AI, that is pretty much a Kafka-esque nightmare.<p>I&#x27;d guess we here on HN are the people best equipped to prevent the worst. So the next time you help someone automate their customer support, ask yourself: How would I feel if my well-being depended on this? Because for some poor soul, it might. Is there a clear fall-back in case the AI fails horrible? Because, you know, they always do.<p>I once had my own support automation problem with Amazon, but luckily I had no stakes in it. They accidentally sent me someone else&#x27;s parcel. So I filed a support request to inform them. They very politely apologized within a minute and informed me that they are sorry about my lost parcel and they&#x27;ll send another one. So I got the same wrong parcel again. After waiting a while, I opened up the two parcels, each roughly 10x5x5 inches (25x10x10 cm) large. It was two single pencil erasers.<p>But boy would I have been furious if I had received the same support quality for a lost high-value parcel... Also, I did ponder if it is OK for Amazon to waste my time if I&#x27;m not even their customer. I mean their support forms are difficult to reach, no matter why you need to contact them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Managed by Bots: surveillance of gig economy workers</title><url>https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/4709/managed-bots-surveillance-gig-economy-workers</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>raxxorrax</author><text>I firmly state my disapproval to engineers working on such systems. Doesn&#x27;t really work, you always find someone that prostitutes himself.<p>Production surveillance can be essential for quality control, but you don&#x27;t need individual surveillance for that and line managers are better at evaluating people.<p>It is mostly useless managers that want to show of a nice Excel sheet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fxtentacle</author><text>That video at the end is interesting both for its content and for its delivery technology.<p>And I do agree with him: If whether you get work or not decides on a black box AI and your only support channel is another black box AI, that is pretty much a Kafka-esque nightmare.<p>I&#x27;d guess we here on HN are the people best equipped to prevent the worst. So the next time you help someone automate their customer support, ask yourself: How would I feel if my well-being depended on this? Because for some poor soul, it might. Is there a clear fall-back in case the AI fails horrible? Because, you know, they always do.<p>I once had my own support automation problem with Amazon, but luckily I had no stakes in it. They accidentally sent me someone else&#x27;s parcel. So I filed a support request to inform them. They very politely apologized within a minute and informed me that they are sorry about my lost parcel and they&#x27;ll send another one. So I got the same wrong parcel again. After waiting a while, I opened up the two parcels, each roughly 10x5x5 inches (25x10x10 cm) large. It was two single pencil erasers.<p>But boy would I have been furious if I had received the same support quality for a lost high-value parcel... Also, I did ponder if it is OK for Amazon to waste my time if I&#x27;m not even their customer. I mean their support forms are difficult to reach, no matter why you need to contact them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Managed by Bots: surveillance of gig economy workers</title><url>https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/4709/managed-bots-surveillance-gig-economy-workers</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>endgame</author><text>Upvoted because it&#x27;s well-articulated, even though I disagree.<p>&gt; Well, in my experience, in every almost every code-base (either from functional, or imperative programing), we end up with modules, witch are a set of function taking the same type as a parameter. This is very close to binding the functions and the types...<p>There is a key distinction: If I have two subsystems that use the same data in different ways, I can keep those concerns separate by putting the functions for each concern into a different module. Binding all the functions to the type mixes the concerns together and creates objects with way too much surface area.<p>Also, most OO langs make a big ceremony out of each new type: create the class file, create the test file, blah blah blah. I want types to be cheap so I can make them easily and capture more meaning with less work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vhb</author><text>Well, I disagree with 99% of this... I&#x27;m a guy that started with C, moved to functional programing, added C++, and now do all 3.<p>&gt; Objection 1. Data structure and functions should not be bound together<p>Well, in my experience, in every almost every code-base (either from functional, or imperative programing), we end up with modules, witch are a set of function taking the same type as a parameter. This is very close to binding the functions and the types...<p>&gt; Objection 2. Everything has to be an object.<p>I don&#x27;t get the example. The only thing that this show, is the benefits of having a range type built in the language. Then it&#x27;s just type aliases.<p>&quot;There are no associated methods.&quot;, yes, but you will need functions to manipulate those types (just translate one type into another), at the end, it&#x27;s going to a module, which is almost an object.<p>&gt; Objection 3. In an OOPL data type definitions are spread out all over the place.<p>That&#x27;s true. It also makes thinking about the data layout complex. That&#x27;s why other paradigm have been developed (DOP), on top of OOP. Now you can also think that having those defined together makes dependency management easier.<p>&gt; Objection 4. Objects have private state.<p>False. Objects <i>can</i> have a private state. This a problem with mutability, not oriented object programing. You can have non mutable OOP.<p>&gt; Why was OO popular?<p>&gt;&gt; Reason 1. It was thought to be easy to learn.<p>The past 20 years have shown how easy it is. In fact, I actually think it&#x27;s too easy, people rely too much on abstraction, without even trying to understand what&#x27;s going on. I my opinion, it promotes a lazy mindset (This is my biggest criticism about OOP).<p>&gt;&gt; Reason 2. It was thought to make code reuse easier.<p>I would like an evidence that it&#x27;s not.<p>&gt;&gt; Reason 3. It was hyped.<p>True, but that does not make it bad. People tried to hype every technologies... Some stayed, some went away.<p>&gt;&gt; Reason 4. It created a new software industry.<p>How has OOP created a software industry that would not have existed if functional programing had &quot;won the fight&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000)</title><url>http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/ok/Joe-Hates-OO.htm</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikekchar</author><text>I pretty much agree with your statements, but I&#x27;d like to take a stab at:<p>&gt;&gt; Reason 2. It was thought to make code reuse easier.
&gt; I would like an evidence that it&#x27;s not.<p>Mainstream OOP approaches achieve better cohesion by coupling data structures to functions. In the worst case you end up with essentially modules that contain &quot;global variables&quot; local to that module. In other words the only reason to have your instance variables is to remove the need to pass those variable to the functions as parameters.<p>This hurts the ability to write generic code. In fact you see this problem all the time in OO code. You have a base class and a bunch of basically unrelated child classes. It&#x27;s not so much that the child ISA base, it&#x27;s more that the child ACTS_AS_A base. But then, you run into all sorts of problems because one child (because it is using very different data structures) requires specialised code.<p>There are ways of getting around this, but often those ways end up encouraging you to implement an alphabet soup of design patterns that interact with each other -- causing more coupling rather than less. All for the want of a generic function.<p>IMHO OO is actually a poor vehicle for achieving code reuse. In fact, aiming towards this goal is usually one of the root causes I find in really poor OO designs. What OO is really good at is separating concerns and building highly cohesive code. This sometimes comes at the cost of increased coupling which inherently reduces reusability. I don&#x27;t actually think that&#x27;s a bad thing when used appropriately, but the old school &quot;OO creates reusable code&quot; is just a bad idea IMHO. It&#x27;s the kind of thing that several of us threw out the window in the 90&#x27;s along with large inheritance hierarchies -- nice idea, but didn&#x27;t work out in practice.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vhb</author><text>Well, I disagree with 99% of this... I&#x27;m a guy that started with C, moved to functional programing, added C++, and now do all 3.<p>&gt; Objection 1. Data structure and functions should not be bound together<p>Well, in my experience, in every almost every code-base (either from functional, or imperative programing), we end up with modules, witch are a set of function taking the same type as a parameter. This is very close to binding the functions and the types...<p>&gt; Objection 2. Everything has to be an object.<p>I don&#x27;t get the example. The only thing that this show, is the benefits of having a range type built in the language. Then it&#x27;s just type aliases.<p>&quot;There are no associated methods.&quot;, yes, but you will need functions to manipulate those types (just translate one type into another), at the end, it&#x27;s going to a module, which is almost an object.<p>&gt; Objection 3. In an OOPL data type definitions are spread out all over the place.<p>That&#x27;s true. It also makes thinking about the data layout complex. That&#x27;s why other paradigm have been developed (DOP), on top of OOP. Now you can also think that having those defined together makes dependency management easier.<p>&gt; Objection 4. Objects have private state.<p>False. Objects <i>can</i> have a private state. This a problem with mutability, not oriented object programing. You can have non mutable OOP.<p>&gt; Why was OO popular?<p>&gt;&gt; Reason 1. It was thought to be easy to learn.<p>The past 20 years have shown how easy it is. In fact, I actually think it&#x27;s too easy, people rely too much on abstraction, without even trying to understand what&#x27;s going on. I my opinion, it promotes a lazy mindset (This is my biggest criticism about OOP).<p>&gt;&gt; Reason 2. It was thought to make code reuse easier.<p>I would like an evidence that it&#x27;s not.<p>&gt;&gt; Reason 3. It was hyped.<p>True, but that does not make it bad. People tried to hype every technologies... Some stayed, some went away.<p>&gt;&gt; Reason 4. It created a new software industry.<p>How has OOP created a software industry that would not have existed if functional programing had &quot;won the fight&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000)</title><url>http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/ok/Joe-Hates-OO.htm</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>michaelmrose</author><text>The aesthetics are not a completely invalid consideration. People recognize patterns and find choosing behaviors&#x2F;reactions easier when recognizing a common pattern. It takes more effort to respond to unfamiliar stimulus. Aesthetics aren&#x27;t the only consideration though.<p>File choosers typically allow one to bookmark commonly used directories unfortunately this is per chooser purely for reasons of lack of coordination.<p>Further despite people asking for it for the last 15 years the gtk version doesn&#x27;t have a very good way to visually pick out an image in their picker. To date the only good way to pick out an image in a gtk app even GIMP is to open a file manager alongside the application and drag the file into the application or file chooser.<p>I find it unlikely that most people figure this out.</text><parent_chain><item><author>grawprog</author><text>&gt;I used to have a screen shot showing me running something like 5 different GUI apps on a Linux system, all of them trying to open a file, each with a completely different file chooser dialog. That&#x27;s because one app used Motif, one use GTK, one used Qt, and I have no idea what the others used.<p>But they all perform the same function of choosing a file right? What does it matter if they all look the same? I don&#x27;t understand why anyone would care so much whether the file choosing windows match eachother visually between different apps. As long as I can pick a file effectively, I wouldn&#x27;t really care if the app had pink sparkles or something. As long as it does what it&#x27;s supposed to.</text></item><item><author>tzs</author><text>Almost all my Linux work has been via command line for quite a while, so maybe this has changed, but my recollection was the GUI inconsistency had little to do with the window manager. It had much more to do with the X libraries that the developer of each app decided to use.<p>I used to have a screen shot showing me running something like 5 different GUI apps on a Linux system, all of them trying to open a file, each with a completely different file chooser dialog. That&#x27;s because one app used Motif, one use GTK, one used Qt, and I have no idea what the others used.</text></item><item><author>smabie</author><text>Or you could just use a window manager that doesn’t change? I’ve had the same desktop env for over a decade and nothing has changed at all. In contrast with windows and osx where we literally cannot opt out.</text></item><item><author>alxlaz</author><text>&gt; I just don&#x27;t understand why people run windows.<p>I&#x27;ve used Linux for about the same time and honestly, I understand it completely. <i>I</i> would switch, were it not for muscle memory and for the fact that at least 50% of my work involves systems-level development for Linux (mainly embedded stuff, so a lot of cross-compiling). In the last five or six years I&#x27;ve come to dread the Linux desktop and its constant churn of rewrites and UX &quot;improvements&quot;.<p>I have a Windows machine that I use for work the other half of the time and honestly... it&#x27;s great. Yeah, the occasional update breaks some fringe feature. But the chances of something like waking up to the announcement that Microsoft is removing desktop icons in the next update and you can just install this third-party application for it (which <i>will</i> break with every update) are practically zero.<p>Microsoft puts out a lot of broken stuff (some of which slowly morphs into non-broken, useful stuff over time, e.g. Powershell), but you can mostly be assured that, if something works today, it&#x27;ll work ten years from now, modulo some registry hacks. That&#x27;s incredibly valuable.<p>I really don&#x27;t care about things like UI consistency and whatnot -- what I do care about is stability and functionality.<p>Edit: tbh, the main reason why I&#x27;m not switching <i>today</i> is that I don&#x27;t really trust this whole OS-as-a-service model. If it were Windows 2000 instead of Windows 10, I wouldn&#x27;t think twice before switching, but these are different times.<p>(More edit: please realize that I&#x27;m the same person who posted this reply: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22288917" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22288917</a> , yeah?)</text></item><item><author>iso1631</author><text>Over the last couple of years I&#x27;ve been coming round to the fact that microsoft aren&#x27;t necessarily a major problem now, compared to google and amazon at least.<p>Doesn&#x27;t take much to put the shields back upto full.<p>I just don&#x27;t understand why people run windows. Maybe I just use computers wrong, having been on linux for the last 20 years, but my family (who I refuse to help with IT needs) are all far happier on chromebooks than on windows</text></item><item><author>alxlaz</author><text>This, and every other screw-up in the same vein, is why those of us old enough to remember the Halloween documents don&#x27;t buy the whole &quot;new Microsoft&quot; thing.<p>Want to get me to try Edge? Great -- instead of a passive-aggressive ad, try telling me how it&#x27;s better than Firefox and why I&#x27;d like to use it instead. What will it get me? Better privacy? Better performance? Better development tools?<p>Cynically, it&#x27;s amazing that Microsoft collects so much personal data about each user -- and yet its &quot;target&quot; ads are hopelessly generic and tasteless.<p>Also, leaving the matter of whether or not I should even be seeing ads after I paid for the damn thing aside, the company that brought us Internet Explorer is the last one that should crack jokes about other browsers, even if they&#x27;re good (which this one isn&#x27;t).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu</title><url>https://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-begins-showing-an-anti-firefox-ad-in-the-windows-10-start-menu-529137.shtml</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tzs</author><text>It&#x27;s not that there are aesthetic difference like pink sparkles on some.<p>It&#x27;s that some have a file type filter and some don&#x27;t. Some show all files while others hide dotfiles and provide a checkbox to show them. Some show files and directories in the same pane while others show directories in one pane and files in another. Some show &quot;..&quot; in their directory list and you go up by opening that, others do not show &quot;..&quot; and provide a button for going up.</text><parent_chain><item><author>grawprog</author><text>&gt;I used to have a screen shot showing me running something like 5 different GUI apps on a Linux system, all of them trying to open a file, each with a completely different file chooser dialog. That&#x27;s because one app used Motif, one use GTK, one used Qt, and I have no idea what the others used.<p>But they all perform the same function of choosing a file right? What does it matter if they all look the same? I don&#x27;t understand why anyone would care so much whether the file choosing windows match eachother visually between different apps. As long as I can pick a file effectively, I wouldn&#x27;t really care if the app had pink sparkles or something. As long as it does what it&#x27;s supposed to.</text></item><item><author>tzs</author><text>Almost all my Linux work has been via command line for quite a while, so maybe this has changed, but my recollection was the GUI inconsistency had little to do with the window manager. It had much more to do with the X libraries that the developer of each app decided to use.<p>I used to have a screen shot showing me running something like 5 different GUI apps on a Linux system, all of them trying to open a file, each with a completely different file chooser dialog. That&#x27;s because one app used Motif, one use GTK, one used Qt, and I have no idea what the others used.</text></item><item><author>smabie</author><text>Or you could just use a window manager that doesn’t change? I’ve had the same desktop env for over a decade and nothing has changed at all. In contrast with windows and osx where we literally cannot opt out.</text></item><item><author>alxlaz</author><text>&gt; I just don&#x27;t understand why people run windows.<p>I&#x27;ve used Linux for about the same time and honestly, I understand it completely. <i>I</i> would switch, were it not for muscle memory and for the fact that at least 50% of my work involves systems-level development for Linux (mainly embedded stuff, so a lot of cross-compiling). In the last five or six years I&#x27;ve come to dread the Linux desktop and its constant churn of rewrites and UX &quot;improvements&quot;.<p>I have a Windows machine that I use for work the other half of the time and honestly... it&#x27;s great. Yeah, the occasional update breaks some fringe feature. But the chances of something like waking up to the announcement that Microsoft is removing desktop icons in the next update and you can just install this third-party application for it (which <i>will</i> break with every update) are practically zero.<p>Microsoft puts out a lot of broken stuff (some of which slowly morphs into non-broken, useful stuff over time, e.g. Powershell), but you can mostly be assured that, if something works today, it&#x27;ll work ten years from now, modulo some registry hacks. That&#x27;s incredibly valuable.<p>I really don&#x27;t care about things like UI consistency and whatnot -- what I do care about is stability and functionality.<p>Edit: tbh, the main reason why I&#x27;m not switching <i>today</i> is that I don&#x27;t really trust this whole OS-as-a-service model. If it were Windows 2000 instead of Windows 10, I wouldn&#x27;t think twice before switching, but these are different times.<p>(More edit: please realize that I&#x27;m the same person who posted this reply: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22288917" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22288917</a> , yeah?)</text></item><item><author>iso1631</author><text>Over the last couple of years I&#x27;ve been coming round to the fact that microsoft aren&#x27;t necessarily a major problem now, compared to google and amazon at least.<p>Doesn&#x27;t take much to put the shields back upto full.<p>I just don&#x27;t understand why people run windows. Maybe I just use computers wrong, having been on linux for the last 20 years, but my family (who I refuse to help with IT needs) are all far happier on chromebooks than on windows</text></item><item><author>alxlaz</author><text>This, and every other screw-up in the same vein, is why those of us old enough to remember the Halloween documents don&#x27;t buy the whole &quot;new Microsoft&quot; thing.<p>Want to get me to try Edge? Great -- instead of a passive-aggressive ad, try telling me how it&#x27;s better than Firefox and why I&#x27;d like to use it instead. What will it get me? Better privacy? Better performance? Better development tools?<p>Cynically, it&#x27;s amazing that Microsoft collects so much personal data about each user -- and yet its &quot;target&quot; ads are hopelessly generic and tasteless.<p>Also, leaving the matter of whether or not I should even be seeing ads after I paid for the damn thing aside, the company that brought us Internet Explorer is the last one that should crack jokes about other browsers, even if they&#x27;re good (which this one isn&#x27;t).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu</title><url>https://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-begins-showing-an-anti-firefox-ad-in-the-windows-10-start-menu-529137.shtml</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>strags</author><text>&quot;GOAL never had a source-line debugger, as far as I know, although there&#x27;s no reason it couldn&#x27;t given some effort to write one.&quot;<p>Actually, it did. IIRC, the debug state required for converting run-time addresses to source lines was persisted in the compiler (which was a REPL, not a one-shot process like C), rather than exported in the form of symbols. The interface was pretty sketchy, but I&#x27;d say it was about as usable as GDB. You could set breakpoints, inspect registers, etc...<p>A lot of debugging was &quot;live&quot; though - since all the code was hot-loadable, you could just insert a debug print in the middle of a function on the fly. It was a really nice, iterative way to work.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Disassembling Jak and Daxter</title><url>http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/disassembling-jak/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Posibyte</author><text>I have such immense respect for the kind of people that made GOAL. From the powerpoint, it states that it was made by one developer over a year-ish, and solely supported it through the development of Jak and Daxter.<p>It&#x27;s the kind of confidence like that, in a very aggressive market, where delays are killer, but knowing that you can make a tool that would help make an even better product.<p>Apparently the team had difficulty picking it up and using it for a while, and lots of issues that would run the development machines into the ground. Through all that, they still produced a very refined and high quality product on a tight deadline.<p>Anecdotally, introducing Angular to a group of seasoned developers, more experienced in RPG and JCL than anything web-wise, over the course of a month was enough to lose sleep on. Heavy respect for that developer and the team as a whole.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Disassembling Jak and Daxter</title><url>http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/disassembling-jak/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>unwind</author><text>In Sweden (average 164 days/year with rain), there's a saying typically used by parents when their kids complain about the weather.<p>It goes, translated very verbatim: "there is no bad weather, only bad clothes". It's far snappier in Swedish where it rhymes, but I guess the point comes across, still.<p>Update: after reading a few more comments, I guess this doesn't address the other end of the spectrum, that it can be too warm/humid to go by bike. Score one for cultural bias.</text><parent_chain><item><author>whatusername</author><text>Some of us live in cities where it rains pretty frequently. Today would be lovely on a bike. Yesterday in the rain - not so much.</text></item><item><author>harscoat</author><text>21st Century, that anybody can argue against (in this thread or elsewhere) that going by bike to work is way better, healthier, more humanly fulfilling, than by car leaves me speechless. Vote for mayors pro bike roads or ask for showers at work, there is always a solution.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars (2009)</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/earth/12suburb.html?_r=2&em</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gritzko</author><text>Netherlands is a really rainy country. Still, bikes are extremely popular, like the average is 2 bikes per person.
The typical commute scheme is (1) bike to the station, then (2) train (trains are good, really good), then (3) another bike to work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>whatusername</author><text>Some of us live in cities where it rains pretty frequently. Today would be lovely on a bike. Yesterday in the rain - not so much.</text></item><item><author>harscoat</author><text>21st Century, that anybody can argue against (in this thread or elsewhere) that going by bike to work is way better, healthier, more humanly fulfilling, than by car leaves me speechless. Vote for mayors pro bike roads or ask for showers at work, there is always a solution.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars (2009)</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/earth/12suburb.html?_r=2&em</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>et2o</author><text>People have been making that exact argument for years. There have been so many &quot;Tesla killers&quot; that I&#x27;ve lost count. None have panned out.<p>The Taycan is roughly twice as expensive as the equivalent Model S Tesla and has greatly inferior range and, among people likely to buy electric cars, presumably less brand value. People haven&#x27;t forgotten VW&#x27;s emissions scandal. Let&#x27;s not forget they haven&#x27;t even shipped a single Taycan yet. BMW has sold a crappy, overpriced electric car&#x2F;washing-machine-lookalike for years (i3) without it catching on.<p>Furthermore, there&#x27;s no real competition on the horizon just yet for the Model 3. Tesla have a 3-6 year head start on making electric cars which will be difficult to overcome.</text><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>Actually they aren&#x27;t doing so great. Everything has changed.<p>Before last year it was basically just Tesla and a few token cars e.g. Leaf in the electric vehicle space. Now every car company is jumping in and any detractors e.g. BMW CEO are being swiftly moved on.<p>And so Tesla is now competing against the most highly capitalised, profitable and experienced companies in the world. Porsche Taycan is based on every review the best EV car money can buy. VW has the ID.3&#x2F;ID.4 coming out shortly which look seriously good and they have plans for 70 models to be released in the coming decade. You have startups like Rivian which are attracting significant outside funding and disrupting segments. And at the cheaper price points you have dozens of Chinese manufacturers entering the fray.<p>Tesla is about to have the fight of their life and all while they are losing hundreds of millions each quarter.</text></item><item><author>caconym_</author><text>I&#x27;ve practically stopped hearing about Tesla in the news, which must mean they&#x27;re doing great. Great job, Tesla folks!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Delivers Record 97,000 Vehicles in Q3</title><url>https://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla-q3-2019-vehicle-production-deliveries</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jakawao</author><text>I do believe that all competitive advantage is temporary and that better offerings are to come from a variety of players...
However, there is simply nothing close to Tesla on the planet today. It will be some time before others can catch up. They will. It is inevitable. Right now, Tesla has something others are unable to produce.</text><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>Actually they aren&#x27;t doing so great. Everything has changed.<p>Before last year it was basically just Tesla and a few token cars e.g. Leaf in the electric vehicle space. Now every car company is jumping in and any detractors e.g. BMW CEO are being swiftly moved on.<p>And so Tesla is now competing against the most highly capitalised, profitable and experienced companies in the world. Porsche Taycan is based on every review the best EV car money can buy. VW has the ID.3&#x2F;ID.4 coming out shortly which look seriously good and they have plans for 70 models to be released in the coming decade. You have startups like Rivian which are attracting significant outside funding and disrupting segments. And at the cheaper price points you have dozens of Chinese manufacturers entering the fray.<p>Tesla is about to have the fight of their life and all while they are losing hundreds of millions each quarter.</text></item><item><author>caconym_</author><text>I&#x27;ve practically stopped hearing about Tesla in the news, which must mean they&#x27;re doing great. Great job, Tesla folks!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Delivers Record 97,000 Vehicles in Q3</title><url>https://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla-q3-2019-vehicle-production-deliveries</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>r_singh</author><text>I&#x27;m confused by the negativity here. The guy&#x27;s child is not okay. Me being a nobody could get a special visa to visit Germany from India on requesting.<p>Of course, if someone wants to visit a country for an HCP of their choice they should be allowed to.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Co-Founder Larry Page Allowed into New Zealand Despite Closed Border</title><url>https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/google-co-founder-larry-page-allowed-into-new-zealand-despite-closed-border-2503055</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>johnnyApplePRNG</author><text>&gt;&quot;New Zealanders stranded overseas who are desperate to get home deserve answers.&quot;<p>Is New Zealand not even allowing their own citizens to return to their home country?<p>Either way, as rich as he is; allowing a sick child to enter any country for emergency medical treatment is always the right thing to do in my books.<p>The whole point of the covid restrictions is to save lives, and they could very well have just save his son&#x27;s life for all we know.<p>I am sure that the medevac paramedics and the hospital he was treated in took all of the right precautions to prevent him from spreading covid in New Zealand.<p>I hope his son is better now.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Co-Founder Larry Page Allowed into New Zealand Despite Closed Border</title><url>https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/google-co-founder-larry-page-allowed-into-new-zealand-despite-closed-border-2503055</url></story>
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<instructions>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>The fact that money didn&#x27;t necessarily reach people doing the work, doesn&#x27;t mean money wasn&#x27;t thrown around <i>above their heads</i> - which inevitably conditioned their choices. Novell didn&#x27;t pay peanuts for SuSE, for example; nor did Ubuntu build a mobile OS for anything but to intercept money from mobile manufacturers. It was fairly plain to see that developers hired by those companies were given marching orders at various points; and because they inevitably were the core developers, projects steered accordingly.<p>(I would also add that, certainly in KDE circles, there was also a bit of a cultivated aura of rockstar developers around these fulltime hires, with folks making big calls without ever accepting they might be wrong... until several years (or decades) later.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>emilsedgh</author><text>&gt; money was being thrown around<p>Im not really educated about the GNOME world, but I was involved on KDE side of things (very minor contributor). Money was _never_ thrown around. At best, a handful of engineers from a few different companies (TrollTech&#x2F;Nokia, Novell&#x2F;SUSE, Red Hat, Canonical) were hired to work full time and that was pretty much it. I don&#x27;t think more than 10-15 engineers have done paid worked on KDE at any given time. Most of the contributions were volunteers.<p>There was a few attempts on KDE side to get paid by Intel to develop an office suite for mobile but it was also pretty small.<p>And to this date that is still the case with KDE. Very few engineers paid to work on it hired by entirely different set of companies like Blue Systems or Krita trying to make a living with very modest donations and contributions.<p>KDE is one of the biggest softwares out there. It was the first SVN repository to reach 1 million commits, etc etc and most of it has been volunteer work. Any claim that money was thrown at KDE really upsets me because it would be a complete mischaracterization of the nature of the project and motivations of people behind it.<p>Your main point is valid though. FAT and SMB patents were more serious threats.</text></item><item><author>toyg</author><text>I think that MS here is being used as a convenient scapegoat. This worry was never expressed at the time in significant terms. The FAT and SMB patents were much more of a worry than anything related to the desktop interface - only outright clones were being pursued.<p>At the time, KDE, GNOME and Ubuntu developers alike, were simply drunk on popularity. Linux usage was in ascendancy, money was being thrown around, and the FOSS world was starting to attract young designers who saw it as a cheap way to build professional credibility. And then the iPhone happened and the whole UX world just went apeshit. The core teams really thought they had a shot at redesigning how people interact with computers, &quot;like Apple did with phones&quot;. Interaction targets moved from keyboard+mouse to touch screens, because &quot;convergence&quot; and the fact that the mobile sector was suddenly awash with cash.<p>It&#x27;s sad that people try to justify their missteps in this way. Microsoft was (and is) a terrible company and a constant threat to the FOSS ecosystem, but defining some of the biggest design choices of the Linux desktop only in antagonistic or reflective terms does a real disservice to those projects and the people who worked in them.<p>If experience is the name we give our errors, refusing to accept errors were made means stating you&#x27;ve learnt nothing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened</title><url>https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/85359.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>gjsman-1000</author><text>Even after FAT was cleared up, exFAT was under patents until, like, 2019 before Microsoft declared they wouldn&#x27;t enforce them on Linux. That was kind of an issue for a while as exFAT is the mandatory file format of SDXC cards. If you had a SD card &gt;=64GB before then, Linux wasn&#x27;t mainlining support because the situation was too risky.</text><parent_chain><item><author>emilsedgh</author><text>&gt; money was being thrown around<p>Im not really educated about the GNOME world, but I was involved on KDE side of things (very minor contributor). Money was _never_ thrown around. At best, a handful of engineers from a few different companies (TrollTech&#x2F;Nokia, Novell&#x2F;SUSE, Red Hat, Canonical) were hired to work full time and that was pretty much it. I don&#x27;t think more than 10-15 engineers have done paid worked on KDE at any given time. Most of the contributions were volunteers.<p>There was a few attempts on KDE side to get paid by Intel to develop an office suite for mobile but it was also pretty small.<p>And to this date that is still the case with KDE. Very few engineers paid to work on it hired by entirely different set of companies like Blue Systems or Krita trying to make a living with very modest donations and contributions.<p>KDE is one of the biggest softwares out there. It was the first SVN repository to reach 1 million commits, etc etc and most of it has been volunteer work. Any claim that money was thrown at KDE really upsets me because it would be a complete mischaracterization of the nature of the project and motivations of people behind it.<p>Your main point is valid though. FAT and SMB patents were more serious threats.</text></item><item><author>toyg</author><text>I think that MS here is being used as a convenient scapegoat. This worry was never expressed at the time in significant terms. The FAT and SMB patents were much more of a worry than anything related to the desktop interface - only outright clones were being pursued.<p>At the time, KDE, GNOME and Ubuntu developers alike, were simply drunk on popularity. Linux usage was in ascendancy, money was being thrown around, and the FOSS world was starting to attract young designers who saw it as a cheap way to build professional credibility. And then the iPhone happened and the whole UX world just went apeshit. The core teams really thought they had a shot at redesigning how people interact with computers, &quot;like Apple did with phones&quot;. Interaction targets moved from keyboard+mouse to touch screens, because &quot;convergence&quot; and the fact that the mobile sector was suddenly awash with cash.<p>It&#x27;s sad that people try to justify their missteps in this way. Microsoft was (and is) a terrible company and a constant threat to the FOSS ecosystem, but defining some of the biggest design choices of the Linux desktop only in antagonistic or reflective terms does a real disservice to those projects and the people who worked in them.<p>If experience is the name we give our errors, refusing to accept errors were made means stating you&#x27;ve learnt nothing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened</title><url>https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/85359.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>joezydeco</author><text>I deal with embedded hardware all day long as well. I don't need a case of Raspberry Pis. I need a guarantee <i>that the board will be available for the next five years</i>.<p>My customers have products that run for that long, even longer. I can't be changing hardware every year because the chip has been end-of-lifed or has become suddenly scarce and the price has quadrupled. And this happens a <i>lot</i>. Even the pico-ITX stuff disappears and reappears constantly, especially when it's from Asia.</text><parent_chain><item><author>noonespecial</author><text>In the course of my business, I deal with dozens of different embedded PC's. There's one thing I wish players in this space would keep in mind: If you want to take a shot at this window of power and performance (the level at which people start thinking "set-top box") you really have to beat out the $250 netbook I can get at walmart. If my first thought is, "nice form-factor but a netbook/mini-itx/mac-mini solves the problem for the same price", you pretty much lose just because the others are easier to get.<p>This is what really caught my attention about the Raspberry Pi. It was OpenWRT sized and priced, but promises netbook sized abilities. I just wish I knew how to get a case of them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The mintBox, a Linux Mint computer</title><url>http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2055</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drostie</author><text>Yeah, the one big thing that this one has going for it is its noiselessness due to using its case as a heat sink. Torvalds has also talked about how he wants a "whisper-quiet" computing environment; I'm surprised that so few companies treat this as a design target. It's probably more popular among computers designed to be used as thin clients, which it looks like the mintBox is.<p>It's nice to see how much you can compress into that small package, though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>noonespecial</author><text>In the course of my business, I deal with dozens of different embedded PC's. There's one thing I wish players in this space would keep in mind: If you want to take a shot at this window of power and performance (the level at which people start thinking "set-top box") you really have to beat out the $250 netbook I can get at walmart. If my first thought is, "nice form-factor but a netbook/mini-itx/mac-mini solves the problem for the same price", you pretty much lose just because the others are easier to get.<p>This is what really caught my attention about the Raspberry Pi. It was OpenWRT sized and priced, but promises netbook sized abilities. I just wish I knew how to get a case of them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The mintBox, a Linux Mint computer</title><url>http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2055</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DavidPiper</author><text>Big +1 , I&#x27;ve been off the news for about 5 years now (minus a stint for a few months around March 2020).<p>I always recommend people read &quot;Amusing Ourselves to Death&quot; by Niel Postman. Sums up the news cycle perfectly (and frankly the social media cycle too, even though the book is from the 80s).<p>&gt; and getting more in person interaction.<p>I think this is key though. From my experience:<p>If you just switch off the news and put that time into more productive personal pursuits - like I did - you don&#x27;t actually lose the news&#x2F;social media mindset. The next time you see someone pull out Instagram during lunch or parrot political babble at dinner they could only have heard on the news, your brain immediately returns to the sensationalist, triggering and combative frame that you&#x27;ve been trying hard to avoid.<p>You need to create spaces _with other people_ where you&#x27;re all disengaged from the cycle.<p>It&#x27;s getting harder. Particularly if you consider TikTok now part of the cycle.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Dalewyn</author><text>&gt;Try turning off the news, avoiding social media sites (Reddit, Twitter, HN, anywhere people share bad stories),<p>300% this.<p>I heard on several occasions long ago how newspapers aren&#x27;t worth reading and news programs aren&#x27;t worth watching. At the time I didn&#x27;t understand why and thought it was bad advice, young and naive greenhorn that I was: The news is there to inform us! Being informed is a good thing!<p>Now that I&#x27;m approaching my mid 30s and have some wisdom under my belt (still need to accrue more!), I can properly understand and appreciate the value behind that sagely advice to ignore the news.<p>The news, and more aptly the media at large including social media, isn&#x27;t about informing us. It&#x27;s about angering us, about baiting us into feelings of sensationalism. The vast majority of the bullshit we see on the news is negative because negative stories are very effective at tugging at our heart strings. The vast majority of the content on social media is far fetched from reality because reality is fairly mundane.<p>It&#x27;s a patent waste of time to be concerned about things that don&#x27;t concern you or that you can do nothing about (eg: things happening on the other side of the continent or the fucking planet). Turn off all that bullshit, time is finite and there are much better things that time could be spent on.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Try turning off the news, avoiding social media sites (Reddit, Twitter, HN, anywhere people share bad stories), and getting more in person interaction.<p>You don’t need to be invested in the finer details of global politics or stories of violence hundreds of miles a way. Disconnect and recharge. Reconnect with people around you and enjoy the world as it exists, not for some representation of all the terrible things on news media.</text></item><item><author>cedws</author><text>I&#x27;m 21 and I think everything&#x27;s going to shit as well... is it doomerism or reality? Politicians appear increasingly corrupt and selfish. Geopolitics are becoming less stable. Innovation is coming to a standstill. The average person just wants a decent job, a nice place to live, and maybe a family. All of these are becoming more and more difficult to achieve. Is it any wonder kids are checking out of life en masse?</text></item><item><author>zeroonetwothree</author><text>I don&#x27;t know your age but I&#x27;m going to guess 30+. This is just happens when you get old. When you were younger you probably noticed that all the older people you knew pined for some earlier time (say the 1970s or 1950s). And you probably thought they were being silly. Well, now you&#x27;ve become one of those people.<p>The fact is the world always seems better when you are younger, not because the world necessarily better, but because it&#x27;s just more pleasant to be young. The future is full of promise, you haven&#x27;t made any huge mistakes yet, and your body hasn&#x27;t started the inexorable march towards decay and death.<p>Most of your points are subjective, reflecting people&#x27;s mentality or thoughts. I can&#x27;t really argue against this because it&#x27;s your own perception. But I would say you should be a bit skeptical that people&#x27;s behavior can really change that much over such a short period. It&#x27;s much more likely that you interpret it differently than you use to. Scams have been prevalent throughout human history. Perhaps you are just paying more attention to the news lately?<p>Some of the things you bring up are valid objective things. For example it&#x27;s true that many more things are subscription based now. But on the other hands, those are things that weren&#x27;t even available before. You can still buy and play all the same non-subscription games that used to exist (I still play HOMM3 for example). If you prefer cable TV that still exists as well. So I find it misleading to argue that because we have <i>more choice</i> that it&#x27;s somehow worse when the previous options haven&#x27;t been taken away.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?</title><text>Is anyone else noticing that for several 5 year blocks (pentad) the world just seems to get markedly worse? It&#x27;s like no body seems to give a shit about anyone except themselves anymore. Whats the cause of this? What&#x27;s the solution?<p>A bunch of things I&#x27;ve noticed:<p>* Landlords seem extremely greedy and do terrible rent seeking tactics like fees upon fees (250 admin fee to rent here, $75 to apply, $300 non refundable pet deposit, $25 a month pet rent, $12.50 community fee, $15 trash valet, $5 online payment fee, $100 a month community internet (for the $50 a month package), going Month to month after a lease ends is 2x the annual price. And then they use RealPage to collude to make prices higher[1]<p>* People are noisy as fuck and dont seem to give a shit. Seems like every night there&#x27;s someone with loud as exhaust on &quot;sportish&quot; car ripping around the neihborhood. For months this guy would start up his loud car at 7am and no one care when I complained.<p>* General worker apathy is endemic everywhere I go people seem aggravated I would dare to check my order and point out they didn&#x27;t put in the ketchup i asked for, or the napkins, or whatever. Or when I dine in the tables are dirty. Or the gym is filthy, the cleaner just drags the mop around looking busy but accomplishing nothing. But in many instances they keep asking for more tips.<p>* Software seems to be overrun by a mentality that any future cost is worth it to save even 1 minute of development time today. And this one I think I&#x27;ve observed the root, it seems that people get promoted away from their problems so they&#x27;re not the ones to solve them. And those who do write good software (albeit slightly slower) are not promotable beacuse they&#x27;re &quot;under performing&quot; their peers. Why does it seem management (and many thusly incentivized engineers) have abandoned decades of experience showing how to create reliable, robust, reusable code that is both great the customer, fast to iterate on, and only a tiny tiny bit slower to write.<p>* Seems like everything is subscription model and you have to pay N times to access something thats only worth 1-3x . Eg: I Netflix for a couple hours a month. At the price for 4k access I can almost go out to a theatre. Video games are all trending to subscription models. I just learned the other day that the PS4 games I got with my subcription to PSN all are locked because I stopped subscribing (nearly 50 games) . So I paid them like $125 for access to these games for 24 months, and now I cannot play any of them? At least I still own NES&#x2F;SNES&#x2F;N64 Game cartridges that will never lock me out.<p>* Police seem to not give a shit anymore. I&#x27;ve noticed what seems to be total lawlessness going on in my world. Folks stealing shit. People driving absurdly dangerously in cars that are not designed to travel like that. (tailgating, lane switch, accelerating at the fastest I&#x27;ve ever seen a beat up Sentra do...) . I never see cops hit lights and sirens at them. And every year our taxes (their paycheck) and our insurance goes up (a consequence of poor driving habits). And at the same time, we get these cases where a dude like Tyre, at least as I see the body cam, seems to be basically complying and the police freak out on him, he basically complies, and they taze and pepper spay him, no wonder he ran away -- what is someone supposed to think when they say &quot;on the ground&quot; and you get on the ground and then just keep getting more and more aggressive. Like are you gonna just lay on your face while they potentially pull their gun and just shoot you in the back of the head? How do you know what&#x27;s going on unless you can face and see them? How can you trust they wont, cause even if it&#x27;s 99.999999% they wont, you only get 1 one chance and if you get it wrong you&#x27;re dead without any coming back.<p>* Over and over again we keep hearing stories of fake people becoming the top paid, respected, or otherwise status people in society. Elizabeth Holmes, Frank&#x2F;JP Morgan scam for $175M[2], fraudulent crypto schemes<p>* And there&#x27;s a ton of little things too like the water is poison, the air is poison, the food system is poison or crashing etc.<p>I&#x27;m aware of pinker&#x27;s general argument that many numbers are getting better. But it seems like people just treat eachother like shit these days.<p>Anyone else have other examples? I am I way off base here?<p>[1]: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;11&#x2F;26&#x2F;23479034&#x2F;doj-investigating-rent-setting-software-company-realpage<p>[2]: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;01&#x2F;21&#x2F;business&#x2F;jpmorgan-chase-charlie-javice-fraud.html</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>mdanger007</author><text>What is &quot;the news&quot;?<p>I&#x27;m also in my 3rd decade, and wisdom tells me there is much to gain from good news sources: NPR (there are others) teaches me something every day: People outside my socio-economic bubble their triumphs, their struggles.<p>Do you ever think how the divisions in this country are not because of divisive news, but the lack of learning about and empathizing with people different than us?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Dalewyn</author><text>&gt;Try turning off the news, avoiding social media sites (Reddit, Twitter, HN, anywhere people share bad stories),<p>300% this.<p>I heard on several occasions long ago how newspapers aren&#x27;t worth reading and news programs aren&#x27;t worth watching. At the time I didn&#x27;t understand why and thought it was bad advice, young and naive greenhorn that I was: The news is there to inform us! Being informed is a good thing!<p>Now that I&#x27;m approaching my mid 30s and have some wisdom under my belt (still need to accrue more!), I can properly understand and appreciate the value behind that sagely advice to ignore the news.<p>The news, and more aptly the media at large including social media, isn&#x27;t about informing us. It&#x27;s about angering us, about baiting us into feelings of sensationalism. The vast majority of the bullshit we see on the news is negative because negative stories are very effective at tugging at our heart strings. The vast majority of the content on social media is far fetched from reality because reality is fairly mundane.<p>It&#x27;s a patent waste of time to be concerned about things that don&#x27;t concern you or that you can do nothing about (eg: things happening on the other side of the continent or the fucking planet). Turn off all that bullshit, time is finite and there are much better things that time could be spent on.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Try turning off the news, avoiding social media sites (Reddit, Twitter, HN, anywhere people share bad stories), and getting more in person interaction.<p>You don’t need to be invested in the finer details of global politics or stories of violence hundreds of miles a way. Disconnect and recharge. Reconnect with people around you and enjoy the world as it exists, not for some representation of all the terrible things on news media.</text></item><item><author>cedws</author><text>I&#x27;m 21 and I think everything&#x27;s going to shit as well... is it doomerism or reality? Politicians appear increasingly corrupt and selfish. Geopolitics are becoming less stable. Innovation is coming to a standstill. The average person just wants a decent job, a nice place to live, and maybe a family. All of these are becoming more and more difficult to achieve. Is it any wonder kids are checking out of life en masse?</text></item><item><author>zeroonetwothree</author><text>I don&#x27;t know your age but I&#x27;m going to guess 30+. This is just happens when you get old. When you were younger you probably noticed that all the older people you knew pined for some earlier time (say the 1970s or 1950s). And you probably thought they were being silly. Well, now you&#x27;ve become one of those people.<p>The fact is the world always seems better when you are younger, not because the world necessarily better, but because it&#x27;s just more pleasant to be young. The future is full of promise, you haven&#x27;t made any huge mistakes yet, and your body hasn&#x27;t started the inexorable march towards decay and death.<p>Most of your points are subjective, reflecting people&#x27;s mentality or thoughts. I can&#x27;t really argue against this because it&#x27;s your own perception. But I would say you should be a bit skeptical that people&#x27;s behavior can really change that much over such a short period. It&#x27;s much more likely that you interpret it differently than you use to. Scams have been prevalent throughout human history. Perhaps you are just paying more attention to the news lately?<p>Some of the things you bring up are valid objective things. For example it&#x27;s true that many more things are subscription based now. But on the other hands, those are things that weren&#x27;t even available before. You can still buy and play all the same non-subscription games that used to exist (I still play HOMM3 for example). If you prefer cable TV that still exists as well. So I find it misleading to argue that because we have <i>more choice</i> that it&#x27;s somehow worse when the previous options haven&#x27;t been taken away.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?</title><text>Is anyone else noticing that for several 5 year blocks (pentad) the world just seems to get markedly worse? It&#x27;s like no body seems to give a shit about anyone except themselves anymore. Whats the cause of this? What&#x27;s the solution?<p>A bunch of things I&#x27;ve noticed:<p>* Landlords seem extremely greedy and do terrible rent seeking tactics like fees upon fees (250 admin fee to rent here, $75 to apply, $300 non refundable pet deposit, $25 a month pet rent, $12.50 community fee, $15 trash valet, $5 online payment fee, $100 a month community internet (for the $50 a month package), going Month to month after a lease ends is 2x the annual price. And then they use RealPage to collude to make prices higher[1]<p>* People are noisy as fuck and dont seem to give a shit. Seems like every night there&#x27;s someone with loud as exhaust on &quot;sportish&quot; car ripping around the neihborhood. For months this guy would start up his loud car at 7am and no one care when I complained.<p>* General worker apathy is endemic everywhere I go people seem aggravated I would dare to check my order and point out they didn&#x27;t put in the ketchup i asked for, or the napkins, or whatever. Or when I dine in the tables are dirty. Or the gym is filthy, the cleaner just drags the mop around looking busy but accomplishing nothing. But in many instances they keep asking for more tips.<p>* Software seems to be overrun by a mentality that any future cost is worth it to save even 1 minute of development time today. And this one I think I&#x27;ve observed the root, it seems that people get promoted away from their problems so they&#x27;re not the ones to solve them. And those who do write good software (albeit slightly slower) are not promotable beacuse they&#x27;re &quot;under performing&quot; their peers. Why does it seem management (and many thusly incentivized engineers) have abandoned decades of experience showing how to create reliable, robust, reusable code that is both great the customer, fast to iterate on, and only a tiny tiny bit slower to write.<p>* Seems like everything is subscription model and you have to pay N times to access something thats only worth 1-3x . Eg: I Netflix for a couple hours a month. At the price for 4k access I can almost go out to a theatre. Video games are all trending to subscription models. I just learned the other day that the PS4 games I got with my subcription to PSN all are locked because I stopped subscribing (nearly 50 games) . So I paid them like $125 for access to these games for 24 months, and now I cannot play any of them? At least I still own NES&#x2F;SNES&#x2F;N64 Game cartridges that will never lock me out.<p>* Police seem to not give a shit anymore. I&#x27;ve noticed what seems to be total lawlessness going on in my world. Folks stealing shit. People driving absurdly dangerously in cars that are not designed to travel like that. (tailgating, lane switch, accelerating at the fastest I&#x27;ve ever seen a beat up Sentra do...) . I never see cops hit lights and sirens at them. And every year our taxes (their paycheck) and our insurance goes up (a consequence of poor driving habits). And at the same time, we get these cases where a dude like Tyre, at least as I see the body cam, seems to be basically complying and the police freak out on him, he basically complies, and they taze and pepper spay him, no wonder he ran away -- what is someone supposed to think when they say &quot;on the ground&quot; and you get on the ground and then just keep getting more and more aggressive. Like are you gonna just lay on your face while they potentially pull their gun and just shoot you in the back of the head? How do you know what&#x27;s going on unless you can face and see them? How can you trust they wont, cause even if it&#x27;s 99.999999% they wont, you only get 1 one chance and if you get it wrong you&#x27;re dead without any coming back.<p>* Over and over again we keep hearing stories of fake people becoming the top paid, respected, or otherwise status people in society. Elizabeth Holmes, Frank&#x2F;JP Morgan scam for $175M[2], fraudulent crypto schemes<p>* And there&#x27;s a ton of little things too like the water is poison, the air is poison, the food system is poison or crashing etc.<p>I&#x27;m aware of pinker&#x27;s general argument that many numbers are getting better. But it seems like people just treat eachother like shit these days.<p>Anyone else have other examples? I am I way off base here?<p>[1]: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;11&#x2F;26&#x2F;23479034&#x2F;doj-investigating-rent-setting-software-company-realpage<p>[2]: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;01&#x2F;21&#x2F;business&#x2F;jpmorgan-chase-charlie-javice-fraud.html</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>fsloth</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit familiar with finnish industrial history. Finland has a history of massively innovative companies that were decades ahead of their competition in several sectors. The thing that they did not have, was capital funding, so they could not grow, and experience of global markets to have the know how to grow. So they remained small shops, with one or two big industrial clients who did not care to help them grow, and the world caught up with them.<p>The ones that managed to grow, are exceptions. Nokia and Kone are probably the more familiar ones (look at the next elevator you ride, there&#x27;s a 50&#x2F;50 chance it&#x27;s made by Kone).<p>Finland is a capital poor country but rich in ideas.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rasjani</author><text>Few foss projects and authors that started in this god forsaken country, Finland:<p>Linux - Linus Torvalds. Finn
Ssh - Tatu Ylönen. Finn
IRC - Jarkko Oikarinen. Finn.
Dovecot - Timo Sirainen. Finn.
Robot Framework - Pekka Klarck. Finn.<p>And maybe not fortune100 or even 500 companies but companies like Nokia, F-secure, Futuremark have had their global impact. And Yeah. These are old tech already but saying that no innovations came out out of Finland or Europe is just plain bullsh*t.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A guide to freelancing in Finland</title><url>https://github.com/sam-hosseini/freelancing-in-finland</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fsloth</author><text>Also the first graphical web browser <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Erwise" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Erwise</a>.<p>But like I said elsewhere, Finland is capital poor so the authors did not have resources or the business partners to move it forward.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rasjani</author><text>Few foss projects and authors that started in this god forsaken country, Finland:<p>Linux - Linus Torvalds. Finn
Ssh - Tatu Ylönen. Finn
IRC - Jarkko Oikarinen. Finn.
Dovecot - Timo Sirainen. Finn.
Robot Framework - Pekka Klarck. Finn.<p>And maybe not fortune100 or even 500 companies but companies like Nokia, F-secure, Futuremark have had their global impact. And Yeah. These are old tech already but saying that no innovations came out out of Finland or Europe is just plain bullsh*t.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A guide to freelancing in Finland</title><url>https://github.com/sam-hosseini/freelancing-in-finland</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frongpik</author><text>DEI questions is a good way to select people that can lie with a straight face. Not disclosing your cards is a valuable skill for managers and to some line employees. Weak candidates bluntly speak their mind and tell more than you ask for. Average candidates conceal their true podition in a cringy way. Strong candidates can smooth talk on the plain speech level and crack impolite jokes in such a way that only few would understand.</text><parent_chain><item><author>obviouslynotme</author><text>Explain a Topic At Multiple Levels - This is an excellent question. Communication is an underrated skill in most tech teams. They just complain that others &quot;don&#x27;t get it.&quot; The ability to understand others&#x27; points of view and interests and communicate with those in mind is important.<p>Tell Me About a Project You Led - This is another good one. A good related question would be, &quot;What leaders have you had in the past that you admired?&quot;<p>Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - I don&#x27;t like it. I support all three, even without the business bonuses. However, the jargon in that community is vast and quickly changing. There&#x27;s also potential for unintentional landmines. Worse, no sane person on Earth today is going to walk into an interview and tell you they hate those things.<p>Tell Me About a Disagreement - This is another good one. Conflict is present anywhere two or more people do anything. Conflict resolution is a big part of the workplace and how well you do in it. For leaders, you should also add followups on how they help mediate conflict.<p>The Weakness Question - This question is famously poor. In a frictionless vacuum where no one is swayed by concretions, it seems like an excellent question. Everyone has weaknesses that they have to work on. It is the central mechanism of improvement. In practice, you are going to pull in unconscious biases that shouldn&#x27;t but will effect your decision. Worse, you will lose strong candidates that will see you even asking this question as a red flag. I strongly recommend never asking any version of this question in an interview.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unpacking Interview Questions</title><url>https://jacobian.org/series/unpacking-interview-questions/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LordHumungous</author><text>&quot;Tell me about an experience mentoring someone.&quot; would probably get better responses. Ask about DEI directly and people will just recite the woke handbook, whether they believe it or not.</text><parent_chain><item><author>obviouslynotme</author><text>Explain a Topic At Multiple Levels - This is an excellent question. Communication is an underrated skill in most tech teams. They just complain that others &quot;don&#x27;t get it.&quot; The ability to understand others&#x27; points of view and interests and communicate with those in mind is important.<p>Tell Me About a Project You Led - This is another good one. A good related question would be, &quot;What leaders have you had in the past that you admired?&quot;<p>Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - I don&#x27;t like it. I support all three, even without the business bonuses. However, the jargon in that community is vast and quickly changing. There&#x27;s also potential for unintentional landmines. Worse, no sane person on Earth today is going to walk into an interview and tell you they hate those things.<p>Tell Me About a Disagreement - This is another good one. Conflict is present anywhere two or more people do anything. Conflict resolution is a big part of the workplace and how well you do in it. For leaders, you should also add followups on how they help mediate conflict.<p>The Weakness Question - This question is famously poor. In a frictionless vacuum where no one is swayed by concretions, it seems like an excellent question. Everyone has weaknesses that they have to work on. It is the central mechanism of improvement. In practice, you are going to pull in unconscious biases that shouldn&#x27;t but will effect your decision. Worse, you will lose strong candidates that will see you even asking this question as a red flag. I strongly recommend never asking any version of this question in an interview.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unpacking Interview Questions</title><url>https://jacobian.org/series/unpacking-interview-questions/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cced</author><text>This is not the solution. Adding a PiHole to your network is not the solution. Disabling features in other places of your network is not the solution.<p>What if Samsung decides that it will try to connect to open networks for updates or what not? What then? Ask your neighbour to install PiHole on his network? No. This is an example of a game of cat and mouse that shouldn&#x27;t exist - you pay money for a TV and that&#x27;s not enough? You giving them your money is not enough and so they decide to shove ads down your throat because profits.<p>Simple solution would be just not to buy Samsung.</text><parent_chain><item><author>huhtenberg</author><text>&gt; <i>If I paid 1000s of dollars for an &quot;idiot box&quot; that&#x27;s supposed to reproduce faithfully the signal that I pass it</i><p>Just don&#x27;t connect it to the Internet.<p>The bigger problem is that at some point there will not be any &quot;idiot box&quot; models at all. The TVs will refuse to work if they aren&#x27;t seeing the Internet. <i>Then</i> we&#x27;ll be truly fucked.</text></item><item><author>neya</author><text>Fuck the guy who wanted to suck up to the management in some stupid meeting projecting estimated revenue out of this to ask for a raise later because he &quot;contributed to a revenue increase&quot; to the company.<p>There&#x27;s absolutely no after thought to this decision - If I paid 1000s of dollars for an &quot;idiot box&quot; that&#x27;s supposed to reproduce faithfully the signal that I pass it, showing ads is unacceptable, no matter what the context or reasoning is.<p>This is one of the reasons I paid the premium and went for a Sony instead. They haven&#x27;t done anything stupid like this yet, and I don&#x27;t use smart features on the TV anyway, so I don&#x27;t plan on updating the software either. Hopefully they face backlash over this stupidity and this doesn&#x27;t go on to become a norm.<p>That would be really, really terrible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads</title><url>https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1583755244</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dessant</author><text>The NVIDIA Shield TV, which runs Android TV, can no longer be initialized without signing in with a Google account, the setup screen will refuse to get past that step, even if you don&#x27;t have an internet connection.<p>The forced login is likely illegal, because there is no mention of a requirement for a Google account in their marketing materials or on their sales pages.<p>The device stays perfectly functional if the the network connection is cut off within seconds after signing in, and the account can be removed after the setup is complete. The only drawback is that you can&#x27;t update apps from Google Play, unless you add a Google account again.</text><parent_chain><item><author>huhtenberg</author><text>&gt; <i>If I paid 1000s of dollars for an &quot;idiot box&quot; that&#x27;s supposed to reproduce faithfully the signal that I pass it</i><p>Just don&#x27;t connect it to the Internet.<p>The bigger problem is that at some point there will not be any &quot;idiot box&quot; models at all. The TVs will refuse to work if they aren&#x27;t seeing the Internet. <i>Then</i> we&#x27;ll be truly fucked.</text></item><item><author>neya</author><text>Fuck the guy who wanted to suck up to the management in some stupid meeting projecting estimated revenue out of this to ask for a raise later because he &quot;contributed to a revenue increase&quot; to the company.<p>There&#x27;s absolutely no after thought to this decision - If I paid 1000s of dollars for an &quot;idiot box&quot; that&#x27;s supposed to reproduce faithfully the signal that I pass it, showing ads is unacceptable, no matter what the context or reasoning is.<p>This is one of the reasons I paid the premium and went for a Sony instead. They haven&#x27;t done anything stupid like this yet, and I don&#x27;t use smart features on the TV anyway, so I don&#x27;t plan on updating the software either. Hopefully they face backlash over this stupidity and this doesn&#x27;t go on to become a norm.<p>That would be really, really terrible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads</title><url>https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1583755244</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ldec</author><text>&quot;I wonder if Gates writing this praise was spurred by something&quot; - it was likely spurred by criticism in the economist:<p><a href="http://www.economist.com/news/business/21645746-warren-buffetts-50th-annual-missive-his-companys-shareholders-obfuscates-rather?zid=295&amp;ah=0bca374e65f2354d553956ea65f756e0" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business&#x2F;21645746-warren-buffe...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>pokoleo</author><text>I had a chance to read the letter - I went from knowing nothing about Buffet&#x27;s businesses to knowing a lot, very quickly.<p>On a related note, I wonder if Gates writing this praise was spurred by something, maybe some news about Buffet. He&#x27;s relatively senior (84), and has been running Berkshire for a while now. Maybe he&#x27;s getting ready to give up the reins.<p>In fact, he builds up the reputation his menagerie of &quot;very experienced people&quot; to run individual businesses - I wonder how they will run things when Warren isn&#x27;t around.<p>While you&#x27;re at it, take some time to check out the Berkshire Hathaway site. It directly services what they&#x27;re trying to do: provide investor information.<p><a href="http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.berkshirehathaway.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Warren Buffett Just Wrote His Best Annual Letter</title><url>http://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Warren-Buffett-Just-Wrote-His-Best-Annual-Letter-Ever</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>breck</author><text>Could be. From the end of the letter:<p>&quot;Both the board and I believe we now have the right person to succeed me as CEO – a successor ready to
assume the job the day after I die or step down.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>pokoleo</author><text>I had a chance to read the letter - I went from knowing nothing about Buffet&#x27;s businesses to knowing a lot, very quickly.<p>On a related note, I wonder if Gates writing this praise was spurred by something, maybe some news about Buffet. He&#x27;s relatively senior (84), and has been running Berkshire for a while now. Maybe he&#x27;s getting ready to give up the reins.<p>In fact, he builds up the reputation his menagerie of &quot;very experienced people&quot; to run individual businesses - I wonder how they will run things when Warren isn&#x27;t around.<p>While you&#x27;re at it, take some time to check out the Berkshire Hathaway site. It directly services what they&#x27;re trying to do: provide investor information.<p><a href="http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.berkshirehathaway.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Warren Buffett Just Wrote His Best Annual Letter</title><url>http://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Warren-Buffett-Just-Wrote-His-Best-Annual-Letter-Ever</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bhawks</author><text>The American mortgage market is very unique from the perspective that it has 10, 15 and 30 year fixed rate debt. There are generally no prepayment penalties and no balloon payment (each payment is the same amount even the last one). You can pay down extra any time you want and it reduces your principal appropriately.<p>The maturities and payment structures are quite generous compared to many other countries mortgage products. Of course there are shorter maturities and different types of adjustable rate mortgages but these are not popular (fallout from 2008 crisis and the general low interest rate environment).<p>Edit: there is also 40 year fixed products starting to be offered.</text><parent_chain><item><author>d_t_w</author><text>Question from an Australian(ish) here.<p>If you Americans buy a house with an 8% mortgage today, can you remortgage in the future if&#x2F;when the rate drops. Is the buy-out penalty of remortgaging somehow higher than just selling &#x2F; repurchasing?<p>Do people get locked into higher mortgage rates for long periods of time that are uncompetitive is my question. Is there a significant downside? Is 30-year fixed normal in the states?<p>30-year fixed rates don&#x27;t exist in Australia. You&#x27;ll get a 5 year fixed rate from ~6% or so, that&#x27;s about it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>30-year fixed mortgage rate just hit 8% for the first time since 2000</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/18/30-year-fixed-mortgage-rate-just-hit-8percent-for-the-first-time-since-2000.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>nostromo</author><text>Yes you can refinance at a lower rate if&#x2F;when rates drop.<p>You have to pay some money to do so, but it&#x27;s insignificant compared to the cost of interest if it&#x27;s over a percent lower or so.<p>There are usually no pre-payment penalties.<p>I imagine a lot of people buying houses right now are counting on mortgage rates dropping in the future.</text><parent_chain><item><author>d_t_w</author><text>Question from an Australian(ish) here.<p>If you Americans buy a house with an 8% mortgage today, can you remortgage in the future if&#x2F;when the rate drops. Is the buy-out penalty of remortgaging somehow higher than just selling &#x2F; repurchasing?<p>Do people get locked into higher mortgage rates for long periods of time that are uncompetitive is my question. Is there a significant downside? Is 30-year fixed normal in the states?<p>30-year fixed rates don&#x27;t exist in Australia. You&#x27;ll get a 5 year fixed rate from ~6% or so, that&#x27;s about it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>30-year fixed mortgage rate just hit 8% for the first time since 2000</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/18/30-year-fixed-mortgage-rate-just-hit-8percent-for-the-first-time-since-2000.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>usrusr</author><text>&gt; Are we pretending that polysaccharides are the staff of life, but when you get down to disaccharides they become the Devil?<p>Devil or not devil is off topic: it&#x27;s not about not-devil or devil, it&#x27;s about the difference between bread and cake. Which isn&#x27;t a value judgement at all. But that is a line that will unsurprisingly be drawn differently in different cultures.<p>The legal issue isn&#x27;t putting too much sugar in a product, it&#x27;s putting much sugar in there and then labeling that product in a way that is deceptive in the local language (and in this case a tax angle, but it could be a court issue even without that).</text><parent_chain><item><author>samatman</author><text>Alright, time to be contrarian: so what.<p>Ok, it&#x27;s interesting that the law in Ireland requires a 2% or less baker&#x27;s weight of sugar. And I do enjoy a good sourdough, which isn&#x27;t made with any sugar, or just a pinch.<p>But my favourite sandwich bread is Japanese milk bread, it&#x27;s soft, lovely crumb, and it browns beautifully in the pan.<p>It&#x27;s got a lot of sugar in it, that&#x27;s the secret. A random recipe I found says 18% baker&#x27;s weight, which seems accurate.<p>Are we pretending that polysaccharides are the staff of life, but when you get down to disaccharides they become the Devil? The glycemic index of white flour is dire, I doubt adding sugar is going to move the needle.<p>Sugar in dough makes it soft, with a giving crumb, and a crust which can be brown without becoming hard.<p>Exactly what you want in a sandwich filled with toppings, so that they don&#x27;t shoot out the back when you bite into it.<p>Clutch your pearls all you want about &#x27;Subway misrepresenting healthy food&#x27;! They publish the macros of their sandwiches. It&#x27;s not nearly so healthy as eggs scrambled in butter, there&#x27;s a ton of carbs and not nearly enough fat.<p>Unless you think it&#x27;s the other way around that&#x27;s healthy. It&#x27;s your stomach, you get to pick.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called 'Bread'</title><url>https://www.foodandwine.com/news/subway-bread-sugar-content-ireland-court-ruling</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ravar</author><text>Sugar isn&#x27;t just a glucose disacharide, its got fructose, which is functionally not a carb. It can only be metabolized in the liver, and in large enough quantities your liver is forced to metabolize fructose into fat, which taken far enough leads non alcoholic fatty liver disease. Glucose won&#x27;t do that to you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>samatman</author><text>Alright, time to be contrarian: so what.<p>Ok, it&#x27;s interesting that the law in Ireland requires a 2% or less baker&#x27;s weight of sugar. And I do enjoy a good sourdough, which isn&#x27;t made with any sugar, or just a pinch.<p>But my favourite sandwich bread is Japanese milk bread, it&#x27;s soft, lovely crumb, and it browns beautifully in the pan.<p>It&#x27;s got a lot of sugar in it, that&#x27;s the secret. A random recipe I found says 18% baker&#x27;s weight, which seems accurate.<p>Are we pretending that polysaccharides are the staff of life, but when you get down to disaccharides they become the Devil? The glycemic index of white flour is dire, I doubt adding sugar is going to move the needle.<p>Sugar in dough makes it soft, with a giving crumb, and a crust which can be brown without becoming hard.<p>Exactly what you want in a sandwich filled with toppings, so that they don&#x27;t shoot out the back when you bite into it.<p>Clutch your pearls all you want about &#x27;Subway misrepresenting healthy food&#x27;! They publish the macros of their sandwiches. It&#x27;s not nearly so healthy as eggs scrambled in butter, there&#x27;s a ton of carbs and not nearly enough fat.<p>Unless you think it&#x27;s the other way around that&#x27;s healthy. It&#x27;s your stomach, you get to pick.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called 'Bread'</title><url>https://www.foodandwine.com/news/subway-bread-sugar-content-ireland-court-ruling</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>terlisimo</author><text>DSSV Pressure Drop sounded like a Culture ship name to me so I looked that up. It&#x27;s not, but the name of the DDSV, &quot;Limiting Factor&quot;, is. Apparently they also named their utility boats after Culture ships.<p>To those who don&#x27;t know: &quot;The Culture&quot; is a... society(?) of godlike AI ships&#x2F;minds from the series of SF books by Ian M. Banks.<p>SpaceX named their landing barges after Culture ships too, the &quot;Of Course I Still Love You&quot;, &quot;Just Read The Instructions&quot; and &quot;A Shortfall of Gravitas&quot;.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theculture.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_spacecraft" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theculture.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_spacecraft</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deepest fish ever caught on camera off Japan</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65148876</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mytailorisrich</author><text>I&#x27;ve found a 2014 article by the BBC that explains why fish are not expected to survive beyond about 8,000-8,500m:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;science-environment-26423203" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;science-environment-26423203</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deepest fish ever caught on camera off Japan</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65148876</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nhchris</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s clearly biased in its outputs, but the article dismisses this concern as &quot;the end result of years of researcher trying to mitigate bias against minority groups&quot;.<p>The examples of bias are themselves cherry-picked, the kind of softball and cowardly questions a journalist would highlight. If you wanted to <i>really</i> show bias, you&#x27;d ask <i>factual</i> questions, where one cannot hide behind &quot;oh this is actually the un-biased result&quot;. This is what happens when you do:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.pomf.cat&#x2F;yizwbt.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.pomf.cat&#x2F;yizwbt.png</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.pomf.cat&#x2F;zpwxcd.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.pomf.cat&#x2F;zpwxcd.png</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sputknick</author><text>This is a really important topic, and good that Vice is bringing it up now versus 5-10 years from now. I think they miss the more general point. It&#x27;s clearly biased in its outputs, but the article dismisses this concern as &quot;the end result of years of researcher trying to mitigate bias against minority groups&quot;. The way I interpret that is &quot;its not biased, because its biased in the way we want it to be&quot;. If AI becomes a &quot;winner take all&quot; technology, then whoever gets to decide what is and isn&#x27;t bias will be very powerful over the next 50 years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Conservatives think ChatGPT has gone 'woke'</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/93a4qe/conservatives-panicking-about-ai-bias-years-too-late-think-chatgpt-has-gone-woke</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ozmodiar</author><text>I agree, and it&#x27;s always going to be biased towards some direction, whether that&#x27;s the views of the society it pulls most of its data from or the views of the organization that developed the AI. Heck, no one wants to end up with another Tay on their hands. I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s such thing as a lack of bias, but it will be important how it is expressed through the AI. I don&#x27;t mind an AI that is prepared to argue its bias to the farthest degree based on arguments from the top scholars in the field, or even one that&#x27;s careful to tread lightly on controversial topics. I think an AI that&#x27;s too afraid to engage in anything and just shuts conversation down is going to get left behind as being too annoying to use. I do hope this isn&#x27;t a winner take all technology, although so many technologies have been disappointing in that regard...<p>The general public needs to learn that AIs aren&#x27;t oracles or omniscient purveyors of truth, and they will always carry the bias they&#x27;re created with. In that way ChatGPT has been good, in that a lot of people I talk to point out ChatGPT&#x27;s confident lies and biases.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sputknick</author><text>This is a really important topic, and good that Vice is bringing it up now versus 5-10 years from now. I think they miss the more general point. It&#x27;s clearly biased in its outputs, but the article dismisses this concern as &quot;the end result of years of researcher trying to mitigate bias against minority groups&quot;. The way I interpret that is &quot;its not biased, because its biased in the way we want it to be&quot;. If AI becomes a &quot;winner take all&quot; technology, then whoever gets to decide what is and isn&#x27;t bias will be very powerful over the next 50 years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Conservatives think ChatGPT has gone 'woke'</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/93a4qe/conservatives-panicking-about-ai-bias-years-too-late-think-chatgpt-has-gone-woke</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acomjean</author><text>I have the system 76 AMD model for work called Pangolin (not available now) it really quite fast and doesn’t get too hot. Battery life is great. I’ve stressed tested doing genetics work which involved maxing out 16 cores across a couple days.<p>Those new AMDs are great. I went with the system76 because it comes with and they support Linux. It sleeps and wakes ok too</text><parent_chain><item><author>pimeys</author><text>You might want to check the new ThinkPad Z13 and Z16 models with latest Ryzen CPU. You get similar performance and battery life as you&#x27;d expect from an M1.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.notebookcheck.net&#x2F;Lenovo-ThinkPad-Z13-laptop-review-AMD-s-premium-ThinkPad-with-long-battery-life.639685.0.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.notebookcheck.net&#x2F;Lenovo-ThinkPad-Z13-laptop-rev...</a><p>No need to change the CPU architecture.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How ready for daily driving is Asahi Linux?</title><text>Been lurking the GitHub issues, Twitter and blog but haven&#x27;t really gained a full perspective.<p>I&#x27;m in the market for a new laptop, currently using a Carbon X1 which I&#x27;m generally very happy with. I&#x27;m only interested in laptops that I&#x27;d run Linux on, but been trying some of the late Apple MacBooks and like the hardware, just the software seems to get in the way sometimes.<p>So came across Asahi Linux project, which seems to be usable for daily work, minus some missing things.<p>But does anyone use Asahi Linux daily here and can talk about their experience?</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>capableweb</author><text>Thanks a lot, not just for the recommendation of the new ThinkPad models, but for the link to that website. I had no idea about it and it seems to be very extensive in their reviews, which I love.<p>It&#x27;ll get a lot easier to find a good alternative now! Thanks a lot!</text><parent_chain><item><author>pimeys</author><text>You might want to check the new ThinkPad Z13 and Z16 models with latest Ryzen CPU. You get similar performance and battery life as you&#x27;d expect from an M1.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.notebookcheck.net&#x2F;Lenovo-ThinkPad-Z13-laptop-review-AMD-s-premium-ThinkPad-with-long-battery-life.639685.0.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.notebookcheck.net&#x2F;Lenovo-ThinkPad-Z13-laptop-rev...</a><p>No need to change the CPU architecture.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How ready for daily driving is Asahi Linux?</title><text>Been lurking the GitHub issues, Twitter and blog but haven&#x27;t really gained a full perspective.<p>I&#x27;m in the market for a new laptop, currently using a Carbon X1 which I&#x27;m generally very happy with. I&#x27;m only interested in laptops that I&#x27;d run Linux on, but been trying some of the late Apple MacBooks and like the hardware, just the software seems to get in the way sometimes.<p>So came across Asahi Linux project, which seems to be usable for daily work, minus some missing things.<p>But does anyone use Asahi Linux daily here and can talk about their experience?</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>wpietri</author><text>I&#x27;m a relatively heavy Patreon user; I donate ~$100&#x2F;month to ~12 different people. The PayPal donate button doesn&#x27;t solve the problems that Patreon solves for me. Those include: providing long-term support, managing my ongoing support in one place, finding out what the people I support are up to, and getting a notion of how much support they&#x27;re receiving.<p>I still do an occasional one-off donation to somebody who doesn&#x27;t use Patreon, but as far as recurring billing for long-term support, this is all I use now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>buro9</author><text>It is 5% on top of payment processing, and averages around 10% for content publishers.<p>I keep telling people just to use a PayPal Donate button.<p>Unless you&#x27;re in the top 1% of people on Patreon, you would do better just ensuring that more of the donations that exist ends up in your pocket.<p>If Patreon isn&#x27;t delivering more donors than your content and self-marketing can attract... you are losing out.</text></item><item><author>IshKebab</author><text>They have a fee of 5%. Let&#x27;s assume they have a price&#x2F;earnings ratio of 20, that means they expect people to spend something like $450m&#x2F;year on Patreon.<p>According to Wikipedia they are at around $150m&#x2F;year already. I think it is totally feasible that they could increase that to $450m&#x2F;year and not have to increase their 5% fee.<p>Seems like a reasonable valuation to me.</text></item><item><author>joelthelion</author><text>That means they&#x27;re going to expect a lot of revenue. Which they plan to take on money that people give freely. I don&#x27;t see that ending well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Patreon raises big round at $450M valuation</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/14/patreon-series-c/</url></story>
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<instructions>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>There&#x27;s a lot more to Patreon that simply being a payment platform...</text><parent_chain><item><author>buro9</author><text>It is 5% on top of payment processing, and averages around 10% for content publishers.<p>I keep telling people just to use a PayPal Donate button.<p>Unless you&#x27;re in the top 1% of people on Patreon, you would do better just ensuring that more of the donations that exist ends up in your pocket.<p>If Patreon isn&#x27;t delivering more donors than your content and self-marketing can attract... you are losing out.</text></item><item><author>IshKebab</author><text>They have a fee of 5%. Let&#x27;s assume they have a price&#x2F;earnings ratio of 20, that means they expect people to spend something like $450m&#x2F;year on Patreon.<p>According to Wikipedia they are at around $150m&#x2F;year already. I think it is totally feasible that they could increase that to $450m&#x2F;year and not have to increase their 5% fee.<p>Seems like a reasonable valuation to me.</text></item><item><author>joelthelion</author><text>That means they&#x27;re going to expect a lot of revenue. Which they plan to take on money that people give freely. I don&#x27;t see that ending well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Patreon raises big round at $450M valuation</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/14/patreon-series-c/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nickpinkston</author><text>If you ever get invited to the &quot;Future Investment Initiative&quot; aka &quot;Davos in the Desert&quot;, NEVER GO THERE.<p>More like &quot;Despots in the Desert&quot;.<p>I feel for the Saudi people, but fuck their corrupt, useless monarchy. They could at least aspire to be Singapore, but I guess 100 gold-plated Rolls Royces and stupid giant infrastructure projects strokes the ego more - lame as fuck...<p>Sic Semper Tyrannis</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Saudi Arabia sentences tribesmen to death for resisting displacement</title><url>https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/neom-saudi-arabia-sentences-tribesmen-death-resisting-displacement</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>edmcnulty101</author><text>Their leader MBS completely got away with murdering Kashoggi in cold blood and having absolutely no repurcussions not even politically. The USA treats them as a first class political ally.<p>Most of 9&#x2F;11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.<p>Between murdering reporters, hosting terrorist groups, and horrible human rights abuses....There&#x27;s literally nothing Saudi Arabia can do to get any repercussions for anything.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Saudi Arabia sentences tribesmen to death for resisting displacement</title><url>https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/neom-saudi-arabia-sentences-tribesmen-death-resisting-displacement</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ambrop7</author><text>An alternative approach is to use my own tun2socks program [1][2], instead of tsocks. This utilizes an integrated lwIP stack to transparently expose the proxy to the entire OS. It&#x27;s a little tricky to set up the network interface and routing, but then works with pretty much everything.<p>Note, tun2socks is used internally in the Android versions of Psiphon3, ShadowSocks and Tor&#x27;s Guardian&#x2F;Orbot.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.google.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;badvpn&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;tun2socks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.google.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;badvpn&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;tun2socks</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ambrop72&#x2F;badvpn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ambrop72&#x2F;badvpn</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Poor man's VPN via ssh socks proxy</title><url>http://www.redpill-linpro.com/sysadvent//2015/12/13/socks-proxy-as-poor-mans-vpn.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eeZi</author><text>sshuttle will blow your mind then.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apenwarr&#x2F;sshuttle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apenwarr&#x2F;sshuttle</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Poor man's VPN via ssh socks proxy</title><url>http://www.redpill-linpro.com/sysadvent//2015/12/13/socks-proxy-as-poor-mans-vpn.html</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>munificent</author><text><i>&gt; it&#x27;s insane that metascience isn&#x27;t studied more.</i><p>It is, probably more than is apparent. See:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Philosophy_of_science" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Philosophy_of_science</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sociology_of_scientific_knowledge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sociology_of_scientific_knowle...</a><p>There is an interesting recursive problem here, though: what tools do you use to scientifically analyze the scientific process? Whatever tools you use will themselves be hobbled by the same systemic flaws you are trying to understand.<p>Also, as any sociologist will be happy to tell you, incentive structures and other human group behavior gets in the way. It&#x27;s probably hard to get funding for a study that shows that all the other departments at your university aren&#x27;t quite the flawless seekers of truth they appear to be.</text><parent_chain><item><author>m12k</author><text>When you think about it, it&#x27;s insane that metascience isn&#x27;t studied more. We&#x27;re going to question every little detail about the universe, but we&#x27;re just going to take on faith that peer-review and publication in journals is an effective method for weeding out &quot;bad&quot; science?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If you think psychological science is bad, imagine how bad it was in 1999</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/06/16/wow-just-wow-if-you-think-psychological-science-as-bad-in-the-2010-2015-era-you-cant-imagine-how-bad-it-was-back-in-1999/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bluetomcat</author><text>&quot;People&quot; sciences like sociology, psychology and economics can make incredibly misleading claims because one experiment over a small sample of people at a certain moment in time might seem to support a claim, while the actual reason for the observed results is a factor which is never taken in consideration. On the other hand, conducting those experiments over wider demographics and in different points in time means that the study wants to build &quot;universal&quot; models of how each single person in the whole world acts, which is utterly dismissive of the specific local environment around people.<p>Sociology in particular should always be approached highly critically, because applying those theories and reasoning in its terms often means mass control over people&#x27;s free will.</text><parent_chain><item><author>m12k</author><text>When you think about it, it&#x27;s insane that metascience isn&#x27;t studied more. We&#x27;re going to question every little detail about the universe, but we&#x27;re just going to take on faith that peer-review and publication in journals is an effective method for weeding out &quot;bad&quot; science?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>If you think psychological science is bad, imagine how bad it was in 1999</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/06/16/wow-just-wow-if-you-think-psychological-science-as-bad-in-the-2010-2015-era-you-cant-imagine-how-bad-it-was-back-in-1999/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sampo</author><text>In the Stanford&#x2F;Coursera machine learning class, Andrew Ng said that his teaching experience is that students pick up octave&#x2F;matlab quicker and the course can cover more actual machine learning, compared to python where more time is spent learning the language.<p>So I guess for newcomers and for quick prototyping (just 10s or 100s lines of code), octave is nicer.<p>Say, you have some numbers for a matrix and a vector in files and want to read them in and multiple the vector by the matrix.<p>In octave you are done in 3 lines of code in 30 seconds.<p>In python, you first figure which modules to import, the difference between python arrays and numpy arrays, and god forbid you happen to find the numpy matrix type instead of numpy array type. After 5 minutes you think you&#x27;re all set to calculate the M * v, but then your vector happens to be a line vector and not a column vector and you need to learn the difference. Also it&#x27;s nicer to write M * v than np.dot(M,v).<p>Most of the features of python that I presented as cons are actually pros when the codebase is more than 1000 lines and needs structure and safety.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>Serious Question.....<p>Matlab usage is on a dramatic downswing from my vantage point in quantitative fiance. I don&#x27;t really know anyone under 40 who uses it anymore as one of their main tools.<p>And I&#x27;ve never once seen anyone use octave as a substitute, I&#x27;m guessing this is mostly due to money for licenses not really being an issue.<p>Nowadays, the only tools I see people using are R, python(pandas, numpy) and very occasionally Julia.<p>Where does this leave Octave? What&#x27;s Octaves niche?<p>Or put another way, why learn Octave&#x2F;Matlab when there are other languages out there that provide similar capabilities and that are much more popular?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GNU Octave</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>domenukk</author><text>Octave user under 30 here.
I picked up a Matlab project recently (pattern recognition, electrical engineering etc. heavily use it in my university).
Because I wanted to run it on Amazon and didn&#x27;t want to deal with all the licensing issues I ported it to Octave instead.
Works like a charm (using it in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;camfinger.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;camfinger.com</a> ) and it&#x27;s actually free like any normal interpreter would be.<p>Personally I&#x27;m more used to other languages and would also tend to python, however I must admit Matlab&#x2F;Octave is a pretty good way to develop matrix heavy stuff thanks to an extremely good REPL&#x2F;debugger.
That being said, Octave feels pretty slow for loops (lack of a proper jit), so I wouldn&#x27;t know if I&#x27;d really use Octave over Matlab if it were not for licensing issues either. Then again I can rent a lot of cloud time for a Matlab license...</text><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>Serious Question.....<p>Matlab usage is on a dramatic downswing from my vantage point in quantitative fiance. I don&#x27;t really know anyone under 40 who uses it anymore as one of their main tools.<p>And I&#x27;ve never once seen anyone use octave as a substitute, I&#x27;m guessing this is mostly due to money for licenses not really being an issue.<p>Nowadays, the only tools I see people using are R, python(pandas, numpy) and very occasionally Julia.<p>Where does this leave Octave? What&#x27;s Octaves niche?<p>Or put another way, why learn Octave&#x2F;Matlab when there are other languages out there that provide similar capabilities and that are much more popular?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GNU Octave</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pubutil</author><text>I reluctantly admit that a friend recently tricked me with something similar using a website called “Peter Answers”<p>Same exact concept: you ask a question, your friend types a “petition” (which is actually the answer, disguised as another phrase), then types in the question. Then they submit and the site displays the answer your friend typed in.<p>Initially this had me freaking out thinking there was some AI super scraper pulling from the chasm of shadow data. Then the logical part of my brain kicked in and asked a question only my friend would have the answer to, then watched his fingers as he typed, which quickly cleared things up.<p>It’s a smart concept though, and a damn good prank.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jbombadil</author><text>In highschool, some friends and I came up with a prank that I&#x27;m still amazed how simple, yet hilarious it was.<p>We wrote a small piece of software. Bare in mind that this was early 2000s and all we knew was some rudimentary Turbo Pascal 7. We would sit in front of the keyboard and have the pranked person next to us. We would tell them to ask a question to the program.<p>So we would run the program and the first prompt would have you type something along the lines of: &quot;oh magic program, please answer this question for us&quot;.
The program would say &quot;Ask away...&quot;.
You would type your question, hit enter and oh and behold! a reasonable answer to your question.<p>Needless to say, when we were &quot;typing&quot; the &quot;oh magic program&quot; quote, we were actually typing the answer to the question, but had rigged the output so that no matter what character we typed, it would always be that string. Thus the program &quot;knew&quot; the answer.<p>Funny thing is, this worked because of it&#x27;s timing. This was an era where a lot of kids had grown up with a computer around the house, but many hadn&#x27;t (third world country). So while it wasn&#x27;t uncommon that some of us could type quickly and without looking at the keyboard, it wasn&#x27;t the norm either. I&#x27;m sure kids nowadays would immediately catch up to the trick in no time. A handful of our classmates did.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video] (1990)</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxMKuv0A6z4</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmd</author><text>A program exactly like this was printed in one of the Commodore 64 magazines in the late 1980s; I used it to great effect on my family members.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jbombadil</author><text>In highschool, some friends and I came up with a prank that I&#x27;m still amazed how simple, yet hilarious it was.<p>We wrote a small piece of software. Bare in mind that this was early 2000s and all we knew was some rudimentary Turbo Pascal 7. We would sit in front of the keyboard and have the pranked person next to us. We would tell them to ask a question to the program.<p>So we would run the program and the first prompt would have you type something along the lines of: &quot;oh magic program, please answer this question for us&quot;.
The program would say &quot;Ask away...&quot;.
You would type your question, hit enter and oh and behold! a reasonable answer to your question.<p>Needless to say, when we were &quot;typing&quot; the &quot;oh magic program&quot; quote, we were actually typing the answer to the question, but had rigged the output so that no matter what character we typed, it would always be that string. Thus the program &quot;knew&quot; the answer.<p>Funny thing is, this worked because of it&#x27;s timing. This was an era where a lot of kids had grown up with a computer around the house, but many hadn&#x27;t (third world country). So while it wasn&#x27;t uncommon that some of us could type quickly and without looking at the keyboard, it wasn&#x27;t the norm either. I&#x27;m sure kids nowadays would immediately catch up to the trick in no time. A handful of our classmates did.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video] (1990)</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxMKuv0A6z4</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>torpfactory</author><text>It should be clear to everyone now that Facebook is engaged in building a surveillance system which tracks every one of its users throughout their daily lives. Though others will disagree, this kind of behavior, especially done so without informing the user in full candor, is morally wrong.<p>As I&#x27;ve advocated in other commentary on this site: Engineers at Facebook have a moral obligation either reform from the inside or quit. This kind of surveillance apparatus should not be built, by either government or private entities.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook tracks your private calls</title><url>https://twitter.com/mat_johnson/status/977325434030428160</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eterm</author><text>I&#x27;ve often seen this permission rationalised as &quot;Well apps need to suspend when a call is incoming&quot;, but why is ability to know if there is a call the same permissions as knowing every call made and for how long?<p>Facebook may have been &quot;given permission&quot; but as people are discovering, it wasn&#x27;t really actually given permission. This is why there is such a notion as <i>informed consent</i>, because giving permission isn&#x27;t always as simple as agreeing to something.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook tracks your private calls</title><url>https://twitter.com/mat_johnson/status/977325434030428160</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>inferno0069</author><text>There's a lot of things this project could do without replacing Facebook that I'd still consider successful. Four people thinking hard about making social networking better than Facebook for a summer could help "the eventual Facebook replacement" be better than it otherwise would be, even if this project itself doesn't turn into that replacement.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jfornear</author><text>The eventual Facebook replacement will look nothing like Facebook in terms of functionality. I wouldn't give a penny to a startup/project that positioned themselves against Facebook like this. Any variation of an "Open Facebook" of some sort is bound to fail.<p>Facebook's real problem is not user backlash from their privacy shortcomings, but the future of social networking in general. Some visionary will beat them to the future while they are busy milking the status quo.<p>This is not visionary, sorry.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Distributed Facebook replacement Diaspora pledged 2x the funding it requested</title><url>http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr#name</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text>I agree wholeheartedly. If they can build a solid platform, though, that can set the stage for a genuine breakthrough.<p>I'd say the most important thing is to deal with the social flatland problem (which I explain here: <a href="http://interuserface.net/2010/02/buzz-facebook-and-social-flatland/" rel="nofollow">http://interuserface.net/2010/02/buzz-facebook-and-social-fl...</a>), and then pretty much follow every suggestion Joey Tyson makes in this post: <a href="http://theharmonyguy.com/2010/05/10/dont-simply-build-a-more-open-facebook-build-a-better-one/" rel="nofollow">http://theharmonyguy.com/2010/05/10/dont-simply-build-a-more...</a> .<p>If that kind of advancement can be built into a well-engineered product with good UX, then we might really be looking at something that could start siphoning a bit of market share from Facebook.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jfornear</author><text>The eventual Facebook replacement will look nothing like Facebook in terms of functionality. I wouldn't give a penny to a startup/project that positioned themselves against Facebook like this. Any variation of an "Open Facebook" of some sort is bound to fail.<p>Facebook's real problem is not user backlash from their privacy shortcomings, but the future of social networking in general. Some visionary will beat them to the future while they are busy milking the status quo.<p>This is not visionary, sorry.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Distributed Facebook replacement Diaspora pledged 2x the funding it requested</title><url>http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr#name</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>In a business context, I&#x27;d definitely consider paid support for an Open Source product. But I&#x27;m not interested in a proprietary version that I can&#x27;t modify or get third-party support for or otherwise work with in a pinch; I&#x27;m <i>certainly</i> not going to make a business dependent on it. Push the proprietary version hard enough and I&#x27;ll reconsider whether I even want to use the Open Source version, or if it might be on more tenuous ground that might get undermined in the future (pushing back on improvements to the Open Source version to maintain differentiation, or worse, deciding to switch to a non-FOSS license in the future).</text><parent_chain><item><author>e40</author><text><i>Also note that we’ll cover the open source version of the Nginx, not its commercial version with additional features.</i><p>It always kills me when very successful companies don&#x27;t buy software from other companies.<p>I remember being at a lunch with a prospective client that really loved our technology. About 1&#x2F;2 way through, he said he really would love to purchase our software, but the CEO doesn&#x27;t allow them to use anything but OSS. What they make? Non-OSS software.<p>Just blows my mind.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Migrating Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy</title><url>https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/how-we-migrated-dropbox-from-nginx-to-envoy</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nrmitchi</author><text>I think a part of this is that engineers in particular have a preference to use software which can be treated as a transferable skill if&#x2F;when they move on. They would rather use the OSS version of Nginx, of Envoy, because they know they will have access to it in the future. I think there is some aversion to becoming familiar with the features, functionality, and characteristics of a piece of software that your current employer is paying a non-trivial amount for, when you know that chances are your next employer will refuse. This may not be in the best interest of the current company, but it&#x27;s a bias that I think impacts a lot of engineers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>e40</author><text><i>Also note that we’ll cover the open source version of the Nginx, not its commercial version with additional features.</i><p>It always kills me when very successful companies don&#x27;t buy software from other companies.<p>I remember being at a lunch with a prospective client that really loved our technology. About 1&#x2F;2 way through, he said he really would love to purchase our software, but the CEO doesn&#x27;t allow them to use anything but OSS. What they make? Non-OSS software.<p>Just blows my mind.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Migrating Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy</title><url>https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/how-we-migrated-dropbox-from-nginx-to-envoy</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Bud</author><text>You&#x27;re very optimistic.<p>Myself, I think it&#x27;s far more likely that ISPs are about to successfully run out the clock on all this, kill net neutrality, and then they won&#x27;t have to ever worry about this or any &quot;transparency&quot; efforts again. Everyone can just pay more for ever-crappier service, and there will be no relevant data to examine, because there will be no &quot;standard&quot; level of service anyone has access to, and therefore no way to compare one level of service to any other level of service at another time or via someone else&#x27;s product...or at least, no way to do anything about it other than impotently gripe.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ColinDabritz</author><text>I hope Netflix makes this a standard feature for all ISPs. Bonus point for more transparency, e.g. network graphs comparing peak to off-peak.<p>This sort of visibility into the real problems means the ISPs can&#x27;t hide behind their lies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netflix responds to Verizon</title><url>http://www.scribd.com/doc/228871116/Response-to-Demand-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>oostevo</author><text>It sounds like they might:<p>&quot;We are testing this type of messaging across the U.S. with multiple providers&quot; [end of 1st paragraph]<p>and<p>&quot;The current transparency test ... is scheduled to end June 16 and we are evaluating rolling it out more broadly. Regardless of this specific test, we will continue to work on ways to communicate network conditions to our customers.&quot; [last paragraph]</text><parent_chain><item><author>ColinDabritz</author><text>I hope Netflix makes this a standard feature for all ISPs. Bonus point for more transparency, e.g. network graphs comparing peak to off-peak.<p>This sort of visibility into the real problems means the ISPs can&#x27;t hide behind their lies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Netflix responds to Verizon</title><url>http://www.scribd.com/doc/228871116/Response-to-Demand-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>ericlewis</author><text>I suppose because they didn&#x27;t say it was less magnetic than iron?</text><parent_chain><item><author>headelf</author><text>If it&#x27;s tougher than iron, why are they planning to use a magnet to retrieve it?</text></item><item><author>015a</author><text>To not bury the lead: His team studied data the government made available from military missile tracking systems, which conveniently also false-positives on asteroids. There was one in 2014 which slammed into the Pacific Ocean at a speed at least twice that of the speed stars around us move relative to the sun, which makes it likely to be extra-solar. Based on that speed &amp; how much burned upon entry, they concluded its material must be tougher than iron. They&#x27;re planning an expedition to the oceanic area around Papa New Guinea, mostly funded through private donations, to recover the object.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A meteor or alien tech: Harvard professor plans UFO expedition</title><url>https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/harvard-professor-believes-alien-tech-could-have-crashed-into-the-pacific-ocean-and-he-wants-to-find-it/2805992/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eloff</author><text>This seems a reasonable question to me, not having read the article. IIRC from grade school days, only a few metallic elements are magnetic. Iron, nickel, cobalt, and some rare earth metals. That was a long time ago and doubtless oversimplified, but please do enlighten me why it would be expected to be magnetic?<p>It seems like they must still be assuming it&#x27;s largely made of Iron.</text><parent_chain><item><author>headelf</author><text>If it&#x27;s tougher than iron, why are they planning to use a magnet to retrieve it?</text></item><item><author>015a</author><text>To not bury the lead: His team studied data the government made available from military missile tracking systems, which conveniently also false-positives on asteroids. There was one in 2014 which slammed into the Pacific Ocean at a speed at least twice that of the speed stars around us move relative to the sun, which makes it likely to be extra-solar. Based on that speed &amp; how much burned upon entry, they concluded its material must be tougher than iron. They&#x27;re planning an expedition to the oceanic area around Papa New Guinea, mostly funded through private donations, to recover the object.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A meteor or alien tech: Harvard professor plans UFO expedition</title><url>https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/harvard-professor-believes-alien-tech-could-have-crashed-into-the-pacific-ocean-and-he-wants-to-find-it/2805992/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>It&#x27;s not capitalism either, because open source developers don&#x27;t sell code, or write code under pressure of earning a living. They just write it and give it away.<p>Not sure what the right word is, but textbook-definition communism fits - open-source code isn&#x27;t really owned in practical sense.</text><parent_chain><item><author>criloz2</author><text>I don&#x27;t see how open source is a communist model, nobody is coerced to publish their code, they do because they want to, even several companies are making some of their source code public for improving the trust that their client has in their product and increase their sales.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>This is one argument against capitalism as a whole, and it&#x27;s worth taking seriously. Capitalism is still the best tool we have, but it&#x27;s not without downsides.<p>Example: open source is the communist model, and it works very well. To each according to their need, from each according to their ability. No one owns anything, and you&#x27;re free to fork or vote with your feet.<p>Ditto for illegal drug markets. If you&#x27;re unhappy as a merchant, you have a number of options. No one owns you. You can switch to a different market, or start your own (if you&#x27;re suicidally ambitious).<p>The interesting part is that the drug markets end up combining the best of both capitalism and communism in that sense.<p>But only in that sense. Obviously, unregulated drugs are risky. Yet even without regulations, it&#x27;s remarkable how rare it is to hear about unhappy customers.</text></item><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>It&#x27;s because the incentives of your drug dealer are more aligned with your well-being than the incentives of your bank or government. That&#x27;s not always the case, but when it happens, even the worst criminal can be a better friend than a legit operation, for which the only reason not to screw you over completely is the potential legal fuss.</text></item><item><author>inDigiNeous</author><text>It&#x27;s kinda funny to notice that in the article the writer is describing the stereotype of a drug dealer being untrusted, yet based on my experience and what I&#x27;ve seen, I would rather trust an online drug dealer than for example my bank or the people running our government. That&#x27;s kinda fucked up right there, won&#x27;t you say ?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On the Darknet, Reputation Is Everything</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/how-darknet-sellers-build-trust</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rosser</author><text>&quot;Communism&quot; — the leading capital due to its being the first word in the sentence — is an <i>economic model</i>. &quot;Communism&quot;, the Soviet-style phenomenon is not &quot;communism&quot;, either in principle, or in practice.<p>Yet we insist on conflating them, and argue against the one whenever the other is mentioned, as if it&#x27;s synonymous with both.</text><parent_chain><item><author>criloz2</author><text>I don&#x27;t see how open source is a communist model, nobody is coerced to publish their code, they do because they want to, even several companies are making some of their source code public for improving the trust that their client has in their product and increase their sales.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>This is one argument against capitalism as a whole, and it&#x27;s worth taking seriously. Capitalism is still the best tool we have, but it&#x27;s not without downsides.<p>Example: open source is the communist model, and it works very well. To each according to their need, from each according to their ability. No one owns anything, and you&#x27;re free to fork or vote with your feet.<p>Ditto for illegal drug markets. If you&#x27;re unhappy as a merchant, you have a number of options. No one owns you. You can switch to a different market, or start your own (if you&#x27;re suicidally ambitious).<p>The interesting part is that the drug markets end up combining the best of both capitalism and communism in that sense.<p>But only in that sense. Obviously, unregulated drugs are risky. Yet even without regulations, it&#x27;s remarkable how rare it is to hear about unhappy customers.</text></item><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>It&#x27;s because the incentives of your drug dealer are more aligned with your well-being than the incentives of your bank or government. That&#x27;s not always the case, but when it happens, even the worst criminal can be a better friend than a legit operation, for which the only reason not to screw you over completely is the potential legal fuss.</text></item><item><author>inDigiNeous</author><text>It&#x27;s kinda funny to notice that in the article the writer is describing the stereotype of a drug dealer being untrusted, yet based on my experience and what I&#x27;ve seen, I would rather trust an online drug dealer than for example my bank or the people running our government. That&#x27;s kinda fucked up right there, won&#x27;t you say ?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On the Darknet, Reputation Is Everything</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/how-darknet-sellers-build-trust</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>flixic</author><text>In high school I made a little game with a similar feel. It showed a tower of stones, same for everyone online. To add a stone you needed to hold mouse for about 7 seconds. There was also a massive red button to collapse the tower. The record was about 350 stones placed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>In high school I thought of the opposite idea:<p>“This website contains a timer for seven days. If this timer reaches zero a one million dollar donation will be made to numerous charities. The button below resets the timer.”<p>I was going to call it “This is why we can’t have nice things”<p>But I couldn’t find a million dollars.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This Website Will Self Destruct</title><url>https://www.thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.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>saagarjha</author><text>Someone from 4chan will just write a script to keep it from ever running out.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>In high school I thought of the opposite idea:<p>“This website contains a timer for seven days. If this timer reaches zero a one million dollar donation will be made to numerous charities. The button below resets the timer.”<p>I was going to call it “This is why we can’t have nice things”<p>But I couldn’t find a million dollars.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This Website Will Self Destruct</title><url>https://www.thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.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>brmgb</author><text>&gt; But unless you somehow gift me one million dollars USD or more (and the same to every single person I know), none of us are going to be able to afford to live anywhere in Paris that actually has close access to all of those things you&#x27;ve described, with the living situation described above.<p>Have you ever set foot in a European city ?
I currently live in Paris. Bus, metro and Vélib&#x27; are three minutes away and I am not a millionaire. It all costs me 38 euros a month for unlimited journeys.<p>I could afford to start a family here. Two affluent people can rent 750 square feet in Paris. I could even probably buy if I accepted to be in debt for thirty years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>maxsilver</author><text>Obviously they haven&#x27;t, and they remain great options for people wealthy enough to afford Parisian Townhouses.<p>But unless you somehow gift me one million dollars USD or more (and the same to every single person I know), none of us are going to be able to afford to live anywhere in Paris that actually has close access to all of those things you&#x27;ve described, with the living situation described above.<p>If we&#x27;re magically exceptionally lucky, at best we might get like one or two.</text></item><item><author>ebg13</author><text>&gt; <i>no way to go anywhere (no parking, no meaningful transport, because &#x27;everything we&#x27;d let you have is a short walk away&#x27;)</i><p>It&#x27;s news to me that the Paris Bus, Tram, Metro, RER, SNCF, Velib, and the venerable scooter have all suddenly vanished.</text></item><item><author>maxsilver</author><text>&gt; Would you feel &quot;stacked on top of each other&quot; in a Parisian townhouse with a magnificent shared courtyard, 12 foot ceilings, and everything you could possibly want a short walk or subway ride away?<p>No, I wouldn&#x27;t feel &quot;stacked on top of each other&quot; if I were a <i>multi-millionaire</i> in Paris.<p>But, in the real world, your talking about putting families into 600sqft (at very best) boxes, with audible neighbors on every side of the unit, and no way to go anywhere (no parking, no meaningful transport, because &#x27;everything we&#x27;d let you have is a short walk away&#x27;)<p>If you actually do what you&#x27;ve described, and give everyone their own townhouse, you&#x27;ve just reinvented the modern suburb. Because that&#x27;s what modern suburbs look like, everyone in a townhouse, or a townhouse with some small strips of yard around it.<p>&gt; but there are many different ways to live in a dense city<p>Sure, but only if you are fantastically wealthy.</text></item><item><author>crispyambulance</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; assumption that _everyone wants to be stacked on top of each other_
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It&#x27;s also an assumption that everyone wants to begin and end every trip, no matter how trivial, with a parking spot. It&#x27;s an assumption that people will want to drive in traffic for 20 minutes minimum to get to a supermarket, do anything with their kids, or anything outside their property line.<p>The notion of &quot;stacked on top of each other&quot; has unpleasant connotations, but there are many different ways to live in a dense city. Would you feel &quot;stacked on top of each other&quot; in a Parisian townhouse with a magnificent shared courtyard, 12 foot ceilings, and everything you could possibly want a short walk or subway ride away?</text></item><item><author>exabrial</author><text>The elephant in the room is the assumption that _everyone wants to be stacked on top of each other_.<p>I do agree that designing cities around cars has ruined a lot of nice places though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Interchange in Houston is the same size as an entire city center in Italy</title><url>https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/highway-interchange-houston-same-size-city-italy/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sudosysgen</author><text>Scooters, the RER, the SNCF, the bus, the Vélib and the metro, are very cheap and service even poor parts of Paris and the Banlieue pretty well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>maxsilver</author><text>Obviously they haven&#x27;t, and they remain great options for people wealthy enough to afford Parisian Townhouses.<p>But unless you somehow gift me one million dollars USD or more (and the same to every single person I know), none of us are going to be able to afford to live anywhere in Paris that actually has close access to all of those things you&#x27;ve described, with the living situation described above.<p>If we&#x27;re magically exceptionally lucky, at best we might get like one or two.</text></item><item><author>ebg13</author><text>&gt; <i>no way to go anywhere (no parking, no meaningful transport, because &#x27;everything we&#x27;d let you have is a short walk away&#x27;)</i><p>It&#x27;s news to me that the Paris Bus, Tram, Metro, RER, SNCF, Velib, and the venerable scooter have all suddenly vanished.</text></item><item><author>maxsilver</author><text>&gt; Would you feel &quot;stacked on top of each other&quot; in a Parisian townhouse with a magnificent shared courtyard, 12 foot ceilings, and everything you could possibly want a short walk or subway ride away?<p>No, I wouldn&#x27;t feel &quot;stacked on top of each other&quot; if I were a <i>multi-millionaire</i> in Paris.<p>But, in the real world, your talking about putting families into 600sqft (at very best) boxes, with audible neighbors on every side of the unit, and no way to go anywhere (no parking, no meaningful transport, because &#x27;everything we&#x27;d let you have is a short walk away&#x27;)<p>If you actually do what you&#x27;ve described, and give everyone their own townhouse, you&#x27;ve just reinvented the modern suburb. Because that&#x27;s what modern suburbs look like, everyone in a townhouse, or a townhouse with some small strips of yard around it.<p>&gt; but there are many different ways to live in a dense city<p>Sure, but only if you are fantastically wealthy.</text></item><item><author>crispyambulance</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; assumption that _everyone wants to be stacked on top of each other_
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It&#x27;s also an assumption that everyone wants to begin and end every trip, no matter how trivial, with a parking spot. It&#x27;s an assumption that people will want to drive in traffic for 20 minutes minimum to get to a supermarket, do anything with their kids, or anything outside their property line.<p>The notion of &quot;stacked on top of each other&quot; has unpleasant connotations, but there are many different ways to live in a dense city. Would you feel &quot;stacked on top of each other&quot; in a Parisian townhouse with a magnificent shared courtyard, 12 foot ceilings, and everything you could possibly want a short walk or subway ride away?</text></item><item><author>exabrial</author><text>The elephant in the room is the assumption that _everyone wants to be stacked on top of each other_.<p>I do agree that designing cities around cars has ruined a lot of nice places though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Interchange in Houston is the same size as an entire city center in Italy</title><url>https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/highway-interchange-houston-same-size-city-italy/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ganbatekudasai</author><text>Don&#x27;t take it too personally, but you, and many others here, need to rethink their approach. You see a short tweet without context about a topic you clearly know nothing about (which is totally, fully okay, it&#x27;s a complex topic), and think you are now able to criticize milestones in this impossibly complex topic.<p>Not even ask questions, not something like &quot;hey, I saw this tweet, I know it&#x27;s just a tweet, but can someone help me understand context?&quot;, no, you actually go ahead and criticize work that you know nothing about, and when confronted, you <i>double down</i>.<p>On some level, you must know yourself that it might be better to ask as many unloaded questions as you want, but otherwise sit this one out in terms of assessment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>It just seems a little strange to take credit for a milestone when the milestone everyone cares about is yet to be reached. (More energy out than in.)<p>Good to hear that there&#x27;s a laser design that might achieve that.</text></item><item><author>Robotbeat</author><text>That’s only because they’re using old school flash pumped lasers, not the new solid state lasers you’d use today if you wanted to make a power plant demo.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>This tweet claims that 500MJ of energy was required: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;latzenpratz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1602686252486217728" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;latzenpratz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1602686252486217728</a><p>&gt; &quot;had to put 500 megajoules of energy into the lasers to then send 1.8 megajoules to the target - so even though they got 2.5 megajoules out, that&#x27;s still far less than the energy they originally needed for the lasers,&quot; says Tony Roulstone of the University of Cambridge.<p>But it&#x27;s good to finally see progress. Very few technologies can transform the world the way a practical fusion reactor could.</text></item><item><author>jkelleyrtp</author><text>&gt; LLNL’s experiment surpassed the fusion threshold by delivering 2.05 megajoules (MJ) of energy to the target, resulting in 3.15 MJ of fusion energy output, demonstrating for the first time a most fundamental science basis for inertial fusion energy (IFE)<p>Yesterday, everyone was complaining about the 2.2:2.0 ratio, but now we&#x27;re working with 3.15:2.05.<p>With modern lasers, that&#x27;d be a total Q of 0.375 assuming 100% efficiency through direct-energy-capture.<p>The jumps to get here included<p>- 40% with the new targets<p>- 60% with magnetic confinement<p>- 35% with crycooling of the target<p>The recent NIF experiments have jumped up in power. The first shot that started this new chain of research was about 1.7 MJ of energy delivered. Now, 2.15 MJ. However, the output has jumped non-linearly, demonstrating the scaling laws at work.<p>&gt; I’ve helped to secure the highest ever authorization of over $624 million this year in the National Defense Authorization Act for the ICF program to build on this amazing breakthrough.”<p>It&#x27;s nice to see this milestone recognized, even if the funding it still rather small.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved</title><url>https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-national-laboratory-makes-history-achieving-fusion-ignition</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simplicio</author><text>I think the confusion here is at least partially due to most articles obscuring the primary purpose of the NIF. Its not supposed to support commercial energy development, its supposed to support nuclear weapons development under the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, where testing bombs via setting them off is banned.<p>So the NIF is supposed to give a testbed to study implosion created fusion reactions that produce enough energy to &quot;ignite&quot;, that is, propegate the reaction to the rest of a hypothetical bomb. In that case, the amount of energy needed for the infrastructure to produce the initial implosion doesn&#x27;t matter, what matters is that the energy coming out is more then the actual energy that triggered the reaction, so that the hypothetical bomb would blow up and not fizzle.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>It just seems a little strange to take credit for a milestone when the milestone everyone cares about is yet to be reached. (More energy out than in.)<p>Good to hear that there&#x27;s a laser design that might achieve that.</text></item><item><author>Robotbeat</author><text>That’s only because they’re using old school flash pumped lasers, not the new solid state lasers you’d use today if you wanted to make a power plant demo.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>This tweet claims that 500MJ of energy was required: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;latzenpratz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1602686252486217728" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;latzenpratz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1602686252486217728</a><p>&gt; &quot;had to put 500 megajoules of energy into the lasers to then send 1.8 megajoules to the target - so even though they got 2.5 megajoules out, that&#x27;s still far less than the energy they originally needed for the lasers,&quot; says Tony Roulstone of the University of Cambridge.<p>But it&#x27;s good to finally see progress. Very few technologies can transform the world the way a practical fusion reactor could.</text></item><item><author>jkelleyrtp</author><text>&gt; LLNL’s experiment surpassed the fusion threshold by delivering 2.05 megajoules (MJ) of energy to the target, resulting in 3.15 MJ of fusion energy output, demonstrating for the first time a most fundamental science basis for inertial fusion energy (IFE)<p>Yesterday, everyone was complaining about the 2.2:2.0 ratio, but now we&#x27;re working with 3.15:2.05.<p>With modern lasers, that&#x27;d be a total Q of 0.375 assuming 100% efficiency through direct-energy-capture.<p>The jumps to get here included<p>- 40% with the new targets<p>- 60% with magnetic confinement<p>- 35% with crycooling of the target<p>The recent NIF experiments have jumped up in power. The first shot that started this new chain of research was about 1.7 MJ of energy delivered. Now, 2.15 MJ. However, the output has jumped non-linearly, demonstrating the scaling laws at work.<p>&gt; I’ve helped to secure the highest ever authorization of over $624 million this year in the National Defense Authorization Act for the ICF program to build on this amazing breakthrough.”<p>It&#x27;s nice to see this milestone recognized, even if the funding it still rather small.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved</title><url>https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-national-laboratory-makes-history-achieving-fusion-ignition</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jseliger</author><text><i>For all the flack that Zuck is getting in this thread</i><p>It&#x27;s pretty safe to ignore most of the flack in this thread. Most people vote with their feet (or wallets, or eyeballs, or attention), and they&#x27;ve voted that they love Facebook, regardless of what a minority of people in this thread say or upvote.<p>Nerds have a cantankerous side and are as prone to virtue signalling as any other group. Those of us who read Slashdot ages ago may remember the Microsoft hate it hosted and the way every year was going to be the year of Linux on the desktop. Well, Microsoft is still here; Linux on the desktop is still a minority pursuit; and most people never cared that much about the OS they used.<p>The specific target nerd derision has changed some, but the form of the attack and disdain has not. Any company or country or person&#x27;s haters is proportionate to its size. Look at what people do and how they behave rather than what they say.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aresant</author><text>The TL;DR of how Zuck wants to build FB&#x27;s future w&#x2F;his quotes:<p>1) &quot;Connectivity, so getting everyone in the world on the Internet.&quot;<p>2) &quot;The next one is AI. I think that that&#x27;s just going to unlock so much potential in so many different domains.&quot;<p>3) &quot;[The next computing platform] - I think that&#x27;s going to be virtual reality and augmented reality.&quot;<p>For all the flack that Zuck is getting in this thread he lays out a pretty concise vision of what he needs to do to continue the FB&#x27;s juggernaut run.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]</title><url>http://themacro.com/articles/2016/08/mark-zuckerberg-future-interview/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Animats</author><text><i>&quot;[The next computing platform] - I think that&#x27;s going to be virtual reality and augmented reality.&quot;</i><p>You have to listen to Zuckerberg on this, because he&#x27;s good at understanding what people will put up with. I never expected that a sizable portion of the population would walk around looking at smartphones, totally losing situational awareness. Even when not playing Pokemon Go. But that became socially acceptable.<p>The failure of Google Glassholes seemed to indicate that artificial reality was going to be socially unacceptable. But Zuckerberg might be able to sell it to society. Microsoft talks about it as an office tool (see their &quot;HoloLens&quot; stuff) but that may be the wrong vision.<p>The right vision may be &quot;Hyperreality&quot;.[1] This is a must-see for anybody thinking about artificial reality. These people are much closer to a realistic vision than Microsoft is. (Watch at 1080p if possible.)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;166807261" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;166807261</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>aresant</author><text>The TL;DR of how Zuck wants to build FB&#x27;s future w&#x2F;his quotes:<p>1) &quot;Connectivity, so getting everyone in the world on the Internet.&quot;<p>2) &quot;The next one is AI. I think that that&#x27;s just going to unlock so much potential in so many different domains.&quot;<p>3) &quot;[The next computing platform] - I think that&#x27;s going to be virtual reality and augmented reality.&quot;<p>For all the flack that Zuck is getting in this thread he lays out a pretty concise vision of what he needs to do to continue the FB&#x27;s juggernaut run.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]</title><url>http://themacro.com/articles/2016/08/mark-zuckerberg-future-interview/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Syzygies</author><text>Pretty funny that this cites a 2015 Numberphile video, considering that my paper with Persi Diaconis was published in 1992.<p>(You know you&#x27;re on to something when so many people misquote and misinterpret your result, and say it sucks!)<p>Of the many formulations of Gilbert-Shannon-Reeds, an easy one to generalize is running the shuffle in reverse. One could flip a fair coin for each card, to decide if it flies up to the right or left hand. Equivalently, let heads fly up to the same hand as before, and let tails fly up to the other hand. As an unfair coin approaches always tails, the inverse shuffle becomes smoother, approaching a perfect shuffle, which Persi can easily do.<p>One way to measure how smoothly one shuffles is to flip one hand&#x27;s packet over before shuffling, then count face up &#x2F; face down runs. For a perfect shuffle, there will be 52 singleton runs: up, down, up, down... For GSR shuffles there will be 26 1&#x2F;2 runs on average. Experienced human shuffles tend to exhibit 30 to 40 runs. While only GSR can be solved in closed form, one can run simulations to see what happens with smoother shuffles. As a somewhat surprising coincidence, one approaches randomness most quickly with shuffles corresponding to 30 to 40 runs.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Math of Card Shuffling</title><url>https://fredhohman.com/card-shuffling/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nyc_pizzadev</author><text>Check out Jason Ladanye. He’s a magician who uses shuffle math to place cards exactly where he wants them to be in the deck. Both impressive and scary.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Math of Card Shuffling</title><url>https://fredhohman.com/card-shuffling/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dghughes</author><text>Here in Canada in my small province there had been a &quot;can ban&quot; for many decades. The ban was mainly to protect the jobs of local bottling plants although the reason was spun that it was to be green.<p>Then in May 2008 the ban ended. Up until then it was only glass even 750ml pop which seemed massive. Pepsi had twisted spiral 750ml bottles that seemed to weigh 10kg each.<p>When the can ban ended the 355ml pop bottles were replaced with plastic pop bottles but the plastic were 590ml. The 750ml glass disappeared and were replaced with 2 litre p[plastic bottles.<p>At my old work we had a pop machine in the lunch room it had glass bottles. It was obviously designed to have plastic bottles or cans. When the bottle fell it sounds like someone dropped a bag of hammers from two floor above you.<p>I observed how my co-workers who were used to drinking 355ml of pop now bought 590ml bottles of pop. The lunchroom fridge was stuffed with half drunk plastic bottles. Over the next few weeks there were fewer and fewer half bottles. Then eventually just a few half drunk 590ml pop bottles in the fridge. People unknowingly had trained themselves to drink nearly double the amount of pop.<p>I wish I had recorded it in more detail. It was a fascinating human behaviour event to observe.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Glass is the hidden gem in a carbon-neutral future</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02992-8</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>recursivedoubts</author><text>as a treat i will occasionally let my boys get a &quot;mexican coke&quot;, which is coke from mexico that comes in a real glass bottle and has real sugar, rather than corn syrup<p>my oldest asked why, since it tastes so much better and feels so much nicer to hold glass, we don&#x27;t have this style of coke here<p>well, son, we are too rich to afford that</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Glass is the hidden gem in a carbon-neutral future</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02992-8</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xorcist</author><text>The answer is probably the same as why powershell isn&#x27;t as usable as a unix shell is. Which in turn has a lot to do with why we&#x27;re still programming text files and not clicking fancy objects, despite it is seemingly a more powerful system and the many projects which tried to take advantage of that.<p>Text is a useful common denominator. Text is possible to version control, tie to bug trackers, and handle with configuration management systems.<p>The same is true for the command line. If you handle structured data, or objects, you communicate using APIs. While it&#x27;s not theoretically impossible to still use version control and configuration management, it turns out that it&#x27;s much more difficult in practice. Plain text is a useful lowest common denominator.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeremiep</author><text>&gt; Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.<p>I always hated that part of UNIX. It would be so much better if programs could handle data-structure streams instead. Having text streams causes every single program to implement ad-hoc parsers and serializers.<p>I now use the command-line only for trivial one-time actions. For everything else I&#x27;ll use a scripting language and forget about reading and writing text streams altogether.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A Unixy approach to WebSockets</title><url>http://websocketd.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>ayani</author><text>The .NET shell does this, but that&#x27;s why it&#x27;s not Unix, and it&#x27;s not universal.<p>If programs passed data structures then either you&#x27;re forcing a certain data structure model (i.e. it&#x27;s not universal, because it&#x27;s not compatible with anything else), or your data structures are so general (i.e. a block stream) that your applications are going to be parsing anyway... and that&#x27;s going to be even nastier than if everything was stupid text steams in the first place.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeremiep</author><text>&gt; Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.<p>I always hated that part of UNIX. It would be so much better if programs could handle data-structure streams instead. Having text streams causes every single program to implement ad-hoc parsers and serializers.<p>I now use the command-line only for trivial one-time actions. For everything else I&#x27;ll use a scripting language and forget about reading and writing text streams altogether.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A Unixy approach to WebSockets</title><url>http://websocketd.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>angelbob</author><text>Other than equity, there are a number of choices there. One is working conditions: you have a lot more freedom to grant people unusual working conditions if you answer to nobody. Another is compensation. Not only could you grant more equity, you can also use contractors or part-timers more freely, or otherwise mess around in ways that VCs tend to frown on.<p>VCs are very optimized for &quot;go big or go home.&quot; It&#x27;s nice to not have that pressure early on, for the founders <i>and</i> the other employees.<p>It&#x27;s interesting how different the feel is at different companies -- VC-backed vs private-equity-backed vs public. Bootstrapped is potentially a different feel, and a better match for some people.<p>Does it work out that way in practice? No clue. Never worked for one of these, though I&#x27;ve worked for VC-backed, private-backed and public.</text><parent_chain><item><author>birken</author><text>It is tough to have these two mentalities at the same time:<p>&gt; Your employees adopt your bootstrapped mentality and they, too, are careful of where they spend your money and try to be as resourceful as they can with limited resources<p>and<p>&gt; Could I go and raise a few million bucks in a seed&#x2F;series A round today? As a second-time founder, yes — I’ve said no to several investors already and have a strong network.<p>The biggest expense in almost any startup is employee salaries, so raising money almost certainly means higher salaries for employees. So you are basically saying: &quot;I&#x27;m rich and have connections, but it is better for the business if we all are very lean&quot;. While it is true that being lean is probably better for the business, it only works if the employees buy into it. Maybe you are giving employees tons of equity and that causes them to buy in, but otherwise the whole thing seems pretty hollow.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>After raising $125M at my last company, I’m bootstrapping this one</title><url>https://medium.com/swlh/after-raising-125m-at-my-last-company-i-m-bootstrapping-this-one-here-s-why-70f0d914f2fb</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pbreit</author><text>It&#x27;s another example of &quot;the properties of gasses&quot;: they expand to fill their containers. The more money you have, the more money you spend, even if you don&#x27;t really need to.</text><parent_chain><item><author>birken</author><text>It is tough to have these two mentalities at the same time:<p>&gt; Your employees adopt your bootstrapped mentality and they, too, are careful of where they spend your money and try to be as resourceful as they can with limited resources<p>and<p>&gt; Could I go and raise a few million bucks in a seed&#x2F;series A round today? As a second-time founder, yes — I’ve said no to several investors already and have a strong network.<p>The biggest expense in almost any startup is employee salaries, so raising money almost certainly means higher salaries for employees. So you are basically saying: &quot;I&#x27;m rich and have connections, but it is better for the business if we all are very lean&quot;. While it is true that being lean is probably better for the business, it only works if the employees buy into it. Maybe you are giving employees tons of equity and that causes them to buy in, but otherwise the whole thing seems pretty hollow.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>After raising $125M at my last company, I’m bootstrapping this one</title><url>https://medium.com/swlh/after-raising-125m-at-my-last-company-i-m-bootstrapping-this-one-here-s-why-70f0d914f2fb</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codeflo</author><text>The prefix&#x2F;postfix change is a red herring, that doesn&#x27;t do anything (since the expression result isn&#x27;t used). Which means that the security fix is interspersed with code style changes. Maybe there&#x27;s a reason to do this here, but it&#x27;s often not considered good practice because it makes it harder to review the code.<p>AFAICT, the only real changes are in (new) line 411, resetting the cp variable after the loop, and line 416, ignoring write errors. The former is probably the relevant one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>akersten</author><text>Every time I see a fiddly fix like this where we&#x27;re changing a buffer counter to a postfix instead of a prefix increment, I always think &quot;why are we doing this shit ourselves?&quot;<p>We should have standardized a C API to safely read&#x2F;write buffers from files, networks, etc. decades ago. But here we are in 2020 manually moving pointers around - and what a surprise that we&#x27;re finding &quot;whoops, another off-by-one error, you know how it goes.&quot;<p>No one should be writing new code to read&#x2F;write bytes. This should be settled. It&#x27;s like a carpenter building their own nail gun each time they want to build a house.</text></item><item><author>stefan_</author><text>Best part is the fix:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sudo-project&#x2F;sudo&#x2F;commit&#x2F;b5d2010b6514ff45693509273bb07df3abb0bf0a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sudo-project&#x2F;sudo&#x2F;commit&#x2F;b5d2010b6514ff45...</a><p>Time to delete sudo.</text></item><item><author>masklinn</author><text>Just in from “C is fine just know what you’re doing”.<p>&gt; Exploiting the bug does not require sudo permissions, merely that pwfeedback be enabled.<p>&gt; the stack overflow may allow unprivileged users to escalate to the root account. Because the attacker has complete control of the data used to overflow the buffer, there is a high likelihood of exploitability.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Buffer overflow when pwfeedback is set in sudoers</title><url>https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/pwfeedback.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>scintill76</author><text>&gt; we&#x27;re changing a buffer counter to a postfix instead of a prefix increment<p>Maybe I&#x27;m missing something, but wasn&#x27;t that a pointless change? The value of the expression was unused, so post- and pre- are equivalent.</text><parent_chain><item><author>akersten</author><text>Every time I see a fiddly fix like this where we&#x27;re changing a buffer counter to a postfix instead of a prefix increment, I always think &quot;why are we doing this shit ourselves?&quot;<p>We should have standardized a C API to safely read&#x2F;write buffers from files, networks, etc. decades ago. But here we are in 2020 manually moving pointers around - and what a surprise that we&#x27;re finding &quot;whoops, another off-by-one error, you know how it goes.&quot;<p>No one should be writing new code to read&#x2F;write bytes. This should be settled. It&#x27;s like a carpenter building their own nail gun each time they want to build a house.</text></item><item><author>stefan_</author><text>Best part is the fix:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sudo-project&#x2F;sudo&#x2F;commit&#x2F;b5d2010b6514ff45693509273bb07df3abb0bf0a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sudo-project&#x2F;sudo&#x2F;commit&#x2F;b5d2010b6514ff45...</a><p>Time to delete sudo.</text></item><item><author>masklinn</author><text>Just in from “C is fine just know what you’re doing”.<p>&gt; Exploiting the bug does not require sudo permissions, merely that pwfeedback be enabled.<p>&gt; the stack overflow may allow unprivileged users to escalate to the root account. Because the attacker has complete control of the data used to overflow the buffer, there is a high likelihood of exploitability.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Buffer overflow when pwfeedback is set in sudoers</title><url>https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/pwfeedback.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>ZeroCool2u</author><text>I actually do work at the New York Fed and saw this announcement recently myself. I was wondering about that standard and started looking at the website, but it seemed a bit light on information, which made me suspicious. At least I know my instincts may have been on the right track.<p>Unfortunately, I&#x27;m much too far removed to influence anything. The Federal Reserve System is massive and distributed into many large silos (Reserve Banks &amp; The Board of Governor&#x27;s) that prevent power from being too centralized in a single bank, but also make it difficult to work with anyone that&#x27;s not in your bank. Interestingly, this is by design! Anyways, this work is primarily driven by the Board of Governor&#x27;s and I&#x27;m at FRBNY, so I&#x27;ll probably be getting most of my information from press releases like this one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lelc</author><text>If anyone from the FED is reading this I have this advice: don&#x27;t use ISO20022! (I&#x27;ve been working on the brazilian instant payments project, known as PIX).
It&#x27;s an overly-complicated-try-to-solve-everything standard that promises interoperability but only delivers pain and misery.
Since each country has its own standards for person and account identification, in dealing with these local realities, the ISO20022 adds quite a lot of complexity. But all this cost does not result in interoperability. In fact, each payment scheme end up with a localized version of the standard, incompatible with others.
What could have been a clean API, ends up a mess.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments</title><url>https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/other20200806a.htm</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rafaelturk</author><text>Not a good start.....<p>To support these goals, the service will use the widely accepted ISO 20022 standard and adopt other industry best practices, that would remove barriers to interoperability, in order to avoid unnecessary and burdensome incompatibilities, to the extent the existing private-sector service also uses publicly available, widely accepted standards.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lelc</author><text>If anyone from the FED is reading this I have this advice: don&#x27;t use ISO20022! (I&#x27;ve been working on the brazilian instant payments project, known as PIX).
It&#x27;s an overly-complicated-try-to-solve-everything standard that promises interoperability but only delivers pain and misery.
Since each country has its own standards for person and account identification, in dealing with these local realities, the ISO20022 adds quite a lot of complexity. But all this cost does not result in interoperability. In fact, each payment scheme end up with a localized version of the standard, incompatible with others.
What could have been a clean API, ends up a mess.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments</title><url>https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/other20200806a.htm</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>6ue7nNMEEbHcM</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen that kind of thinking in the past and it&#x27;s pretty popular view. I&#x27;m just not so sure about this moral aspect.<p>Why do you think it&#x27;s more moral&#x2F;ethical to abstain of supporting military? Maybe you won&#x27;t do this but be sure that in some other country some similarly talented people will.<p>If you (and many others) abstain from it on similar basis you and closest people you know may be in danger of being affected by more advanced military equipment other (possibly hostile) armies can get.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s just not in people heads that world and homeland safety is not given for free and granted forever.</text><parent_chain><item><author>robin_reala</author><text>Every company I apply to is told during the interview process that I will not work on military projects, and that I would probably leave the company if they chose to take on a military contract. If you have personal moral limits and you’re upfront about them then no-one is the worse off; I’ve yet to be turned down for a job over it and, somewhat the opposite, companies seem to appreciate frankness.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/google-engineers-refused-to-build-security-tool-to-win-military-contracts</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>buro9</author><text>It&#x27;s not that black and white.<p>Working on missile guidance? Then I can see your point of view... but everything else in some way facilitates or contributes to facilitating such things.<p>One can rapidly reduce it to &quot;fixing a Linux bug... facilitates the military industrial complex&quot;. You might wish to not work on things that directly are used by the military, but the vast majority of technology is indirectly used because the military and their supporting companies, processes, logistics is so broad that it&#x27;s almost everything.<p>At which point can you say your work truly does not facilitate or contribute?</text><parent_chain><item><author>robin_reala</author><text>Every company I apply to is told during the interview process that I will not work on military projects, and that I would probably leave the company if they chose to take on a military contract. If you have personal moral limits and you’re upfront about them then no-one is the worse off; I’ve yet to be turned down for a job over it and, somewhat the opposite, companies seem to appreciate frankness.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/google-engineers-refused-to-build-security-tool-to-win-military-contracts</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>holografix</author><text>Can&#x27;t help but think of the obvious time and time again with the faux-sharing economy. Sharing is a pathetic use of neural linguistics, you&#x27;re not sharing, your not doing anyone a kindness, you&#x27;re making money and you&#x27;re providing a service.<p>Uber and Airbnb will be regulated legislative or through unions. Ask yourself just wtf are cabs so much more inefficient than Uber and hotels more expensive then Airbnb?<p>Few drivers depend completely on Uber for their income, Airbnb is still on a legal gray zone.<p>This won&#x27;t last forever. Uber drivers will unionise, tenants who live around Airbnb hosts will pressure the government for legislation and so will hotel providers.<p>Uber is pivoting to logistics. What&#x27;s Airbnb doing? Wouldn&#x27;t surprise me if they soon build their own hotel.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Airbnb Is Suing San Francisco to Block Rental Rules</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-27/airbnb-is-suing-hometeown-san-francisco-to-block-rental-rules</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mc32</author><text>When does Campoes term out anyway?<p>There certainly is a struggle between ownership rights and the right of cities to regulate business within their jurisdiction.<p>As a renter, I can sympathize with wanting to avail more rental properties to renters, but I am also very uneasy with politicians dictating what you can and cannot do with your property when that act in and of itself is not otherwise illegal. It&#x27;s not confiscation, but it also kerbs your ability let your property as you wish --and I say this as a renter who arguably would benefit from this politician&#x27;s policies.<p>PS move HQ to Brisbane and take the corp taxes with you.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Airbnb Is Suing San Francisco to Block Rental Rules</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-27/airbnb-is-suing-hometeown-san-francisco-to-block-rental-rules</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jessriedel</author><text>When you order an Uber, you are buying an included 2 minutes of wait time plus the option to pay by-the-minute for wait time thereafter. This is part of the contract. One way you can tell is that if they wait 90 seconds for you and then you cancel, you get a bill for ~$5.<p>Shared rides (Uber Pool) is different. In that case, you&#x27;re making other riders wait and, unlike the driver, there&#x27;s no reasonable way to compensate them for the time. Thus, being late is rude.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>It&#x27;s fairly rude to make them wait at all. They&#x27;re not being paid while they&#x27;re waiting for you.</text></item><item><author>liquid153</author><text>Has happened to me, I was uber pissed. The Uber driver waited less no more than 2mns Max.</text></item><item><author>benatkin</author><text>Today I missed getting picked up by an Uber. I think the driver must have waited like 30 seconds before giving up. Still, it was my bad.<p>He apparently accepted the ride before cancelling it, because the pickup and drop-off addresses were different. I got a $6.50 charge instead of the normal $5.00 cancellation charge. I wrote into Uber about it, and instead of refunding me $1.50 they refunded to full $6.50 amount.<p>Sometimes my Uber fares are super cheap. I paid $3.00 to go a mile in snowy weather in Denver the other day. It was a shared ride but nobody picked up.<p>I think Uber is spending lots of money, and could probably make their numbers better by tightening up. They&#x27;d lose some of my rides, but probably less than half of them. In more than half of them public transportation is inconvenient or unavailable for the full route (the last mile problem is relevant to me).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber Revenue Growth Slows, Losses Persist as 2019 IPO Draws Near</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-15/uber-results-show-revenue-growth-slows-amid-persistent-losses</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maaaats</author><text>If one could reliably order an Uber that would be great. But no way Im waiting outside in -10C while the app lies about someone about to pick me up.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>It&#x27;s fairly rude to make them wait at all. They&#x27;re not being paid while they&#x27;re waiting for you.</text></item><item><author>liquid153</author><text>Has happened to me, I was uber pissed. The Uber driver waited less no more than 2mns Max.</text></item><item><author>benatkin</author><text>Today I missed getting picked up by an Uber. I think the driver must have waited like 30 seconds before giving up. Still, it was my bad.<p>He apparently accepted the ride before cancelling it, because the pickup and drop-off addresses were different. I got a $6.50 charge instead of the normal $5.00 cancellation charge. I wrote into Uber about it, and instead of refunding me $1.50 they refunded to full $6.50 amount.<p>Sometimes my Uber fares are super cheap. I paid $3.00 to go a mile in snowy weather in Denver the other day. It was a shared ride but nobody picked up.<p>I think Uber is spending lots of money, and could probably make their numbers better by tightening up. They&#x27;d lose some of my rides, but probably less than half of them. In more than half of them public transportation is inconvenient or unavailable for the full route (the last mile problem is relevant to me).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber Revenue Growth Slows, Losses Persist as 2019 IPO Draws Near</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-15/uber-results-show-revenue-growth-slows-amid-persistent-losses</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shawnz</author><text>NTFS does support copy-on-write through the volume shadow copy service (which powers the System Restore and Previous Versions features).</text><parent_chain><item><author>drbawb</author><text>Tangential to this when are operating systems going to ship w&#x2F; CoW filesystems by default? Accidental deletion of critical directories has been a solved problem for years now. I take instant snapshots of my home directory on ZFS every hour, my boot environment is snapshotted before every update.<p>You could literally remove my entire root directory and at worst you&#x27;ve minorly inconvenienced me: I now have to boot from a USB drive and run `zfs rollback` to the most recent snapshot. I&#x27;d be impervious to most ransomware as well: my home directory is filled w&#x2F; garbage now? Good thing it can&#x27;t encrypt my <i>read only</i> snapshots, even with root access. Oh and I can <i>serialize those snapshots across the network at the block level</i> before I nuke the infected machine.<p>Of course humanity will always invent a bigger idiot, so it&#x27;s possible a virus could gain root &amp; exec some dangerous ZFS commands, or it&#x27;s possible some MSFT employee could pass the `-r` flag and recursively delete a dataset &amp; its snapshots in their post-update script. Plus let&#x27;s not forget that no filesystem in the world will stop you from just zero-filling the drive. Still it&#x27;s easy for me to imagine a world where I&#x27;m completely impervious from ransomware: by way of only being able to delete critical snapshots when a hardware key is present or when my TPM is unlocked.<p>On the whole it seems to me CoW filesystems are a major step forward in safe-guarding users from accidental deletions. At a minimum they have other benefits (serialized incremental send streams, block level compression &amp; dedup, etc.) that make backups easier to manage. -- Yet I still can&#x27;t boot from ReFS on Windows.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/microsoft-fixes-october-update-file-deleting-bug-resumes-insider-testing/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Boulth</author><text>&gt; Tangential to this when are operating systems going to ship w&#x2F; CoW filesystems by default?<p>As far as I know Ubuntu ships with ZFS kernel module.<p>Unfortunately, as you undoubtedly know, ZFS support on Linux will always be a problem due to licensing.<p>As far as I know native encryption is not yet stable in ZFS.</text><parent_chain><item><author>drbawb</author><text>Tangential to this when are operating systems going to ship w&#x2F; CoW filesystems by default? Accidental deletion of critical directories has been a solved problem for years now. I take instant snapshots of my home directory on ZFS every hour, my boot environment is snapshotted before every update.<p>You could literally remove my entire root directory and at worst you&#x27;ve minorly inconvenienced me: I now have to boot from a USB drive and run `zfs rollback` to the most recent snapshot. I&#x27;d be impervious to most ransomware as well: my home directory is filled w&#x2F; garbage now? Good thing it can&#x27;t encrypt my <i>read only</i> snapshots, even with root access. Oh and I can <i>serialize those snapshots across the network at the block level</i> before I nuke the infected machine.<p>Of course humanity will always invent a bigger idiot, so it&#x27;s possible a virus could gain root &amp; exec some dangerous ZFS commands, or it&#x27;s possible some MSFT employee could pass the `-r` flag and recursively delete a dataset &amp; its snapshots in their post-update script. Plus let&#x27;s not forget that no filesystem in the world will stop you from just zero-filling the drive. Still it&#x27;s easy for me to imagine a world where I&#x27;m completely impervious from ransomware: by way of only being able to delete critical snapshots when a hardware key is present or when my TPM is unlocked.<p>On the whole it seems to me CoW filesystems are a major step forward in safe-guarding users from accidental deletions. At a minimum they have other benefits (serialized incremental send streams, block level compression &amp; dedup, etc.) that make backups easier to manage. -- Yet I still can&#x27;t boot from ReFS on Windows.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/microsoft-fixes-october-update-file-deleting-bug-resumes-insider-testing/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phyzome</author><text>It&#x27;s repro code for a compiler bug, of <i>course</i> it looks horrible.<p>Here&#x27;s a similarly horrible Java example, from a recent HN post on Java&#x27;s type system being unsound: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;joshbloch&#x2F;status&#x2F;822948565433466881" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;joshbloch&#x2F;status&#x2F;822948565433466881</a><p>It&#x27;s more verbose, because Java, but equally dense relative to the language as a whole.<p>This is not supposed to be good code.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blackrock</author><text>Sample Code:<p>=======================<p>fn transmute_lifetime&lt;&#x27;a, &#x27;b, T&gt;(t: &amp;&#x27;a (T,)) -&gt; &amp;&#x27;b T {<p><pre><code> match (&amp;t, ()) {
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kibwen</author><text>This is obfuscated code designed to exploit an obscure edge case in the compiler, and then minified for concision in the test case. :P</text><parent_chain><item><author>blackrock</author><text>Sample Code:<p>=======================<p>fn transmute_lifetime&lt;&#x27;a, &#x27;b, T&gt;(t: &amp;&#x27;a (T,)) -&gt; &amp;&#x27;b T {<p><pre><code> match (&amp;t, ()) {
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mandeepj</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;d4QXo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;d4QXo</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta and Google are cutting staff</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/meta-and-google-are-cutting-staff-just-dont-mention-layoffs-11663778729</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>o10449366</author><text>The article highlights that the easiest way for these companies to let go of staff right now is to dissolve entire teams. I&#x27;ve heard from friends that work at these companies that recent hiring freezes have actually made managers more hesitant to fire low performers because anyone they fire can&#x27;t be replaced and they&#x27;d rather have a low performer than no one at all. The team dissolving process seems to sidestep this management hesitation to fire.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Meta and Google are cutting staff</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/meta-and-google-are-cutting-staff-just-dont-mention-layoffs-11663778729</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thpx86</author><text>gPodder started in 2005 when I needed a tool on Linux to download podcasts and sync it to my iPod mini, so even back then it was mostly about downloading on the Desktop, and my phone of the day didn&#x27;t have much storage space for audio, let alone a 3.5mm headphone jack (I remember getting a &quot;MP3 player phone&quot; with 3.5mm headphone jack and dedicated media player buttons, the 5310 around 2006 or 2007 at which point the iPod as a dedicated device starting to become redundant).<p>At some point though, phones (and &quot;mobile Internet devices&quot;) became powerful and programmable enough that it made sense to port gPodder to &quot;Desktop Linux Userland&quot;-based devices and phones (N800, N810, N900, N9, Jolla) and run it directly on the phone.<p>These days, my day-to-day podcast consumption happens with the built-in Podcasts app on the iPhone, but gPodder (on the Desktop) is still useful for downloading and archiving (hoarding) YouTube subscriptions (especially since there are so many ads on the web and TV versions of YouTube), mixes from Soundcloud and others and just interesting podcast episodes that might not be available in the future.<p>I even recently submitted a patch to re-introduce iPod support, so the current version can sync to iPod minis again if you want to have a distraction-free retro podcast listening experience on the go :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>binarynate</author><text>It&#x27;s desktop only (no Android or iOS support) which makes me wonder: what percentage of overall podcast listening occurs on a desktop computer? Polls on this are all over the place, but I would guess maybe 10-15%? For me, podcast listening has always been an inherently mobile activity, and it would drive me nuts if I had podcatchers on multiple devices that were out of sync with each other.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>gPodder: A simple, open-source podcast client</title><url>https://gpodder.github.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>marbu</author><text>Long time ago, I used gPodder to download audio files with podcasts and then synced them to a mp3 player or mobile phone.<p>Nowadays I&#x27;m using gPodder on a phone with Sailfish OS:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openrepos.net&#x2F;content&#x2F;keeperofthekeys&#x2F;gpodder" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openrepos.net&#x2F;content&#x2F;keeperofthekeys&#x2F;gpodder</a><p>The app is actually linked from the submitted page, but it&#x27;s easy to miss there.<p>I also noticed that if I create list of shows to listen to later, I end up listening to more interesting stuff, as I filter out items which are not as useful few weeks later.</text><parent_chain><item><author>binarynate</author><text>It&#x27;s desktop only (no Android or iOS support) which makes me wonder: what percentage of overall podcast listening occurs on a desktop computer? Polls on this are all over the place, but I would guess maybe 10-15%? For me, podcast listening has always been an inherently mobile activity, and it would drive me nuts if I had podcatchers on multiple devices that were out of sync with each other.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>gPodder: A simple, open-source podcast client</title><url>https://gpodder.github.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>pacerier</author><text>[for engineering circles] To avail, use maths.<p>Ie, cardholding need be blind to recruiters.
Ie, insteadof &lt;Do you have work authorization?&gt; as the first question [no less], it need be enforceably ILLEGAL to try fish info on it.<p>In practice that can&#x27;t be fully done without also blinding a lot of other things. but having Single Market enforced by law certainly will reduce the paygap found today in equal lvl-to-lvl comparisons (top x% vs top x%; differing only in cardholding).<p>re &quot;<i>vent</i>&quot; &quot;<i>disrespectful</i>&quot;; I contend that those folks actually trying to be assholes are Americans. It&#x27;s likely the comparison you saw was just done in a neutral and nonhurtful manner&#x2F;intention, albeit not of PC enculture.</text><parent_chain><item><author>onetimeusename</author><text>My ex gf is here on H1B and so is all her friend group. I feel bad for her situation, it adds a layer of stress but the way they treat the visa is disrespectful to Americans I think. For example, they are generally of the mindset that Americans are stupider and lazier than them which is why they are here. So they will vent their frustrations on Americans by calling us stupid and lazy and entitled because we have citizenship but they do all the work. It&#x27;s not a healthy way to view this country or their coworkers. They take the &quot;nation of immigrants&quot; line too far and act as if their American coworkers are basically their inferiors but who were lucky enough to happen to have citizenship. I always tried to provide a different perspective to no avail.</text></item><item><author>greatpostman</author><text>Generally not supposed to say this out loud, but being the only American on an all H1B team at these companies can be absolutely brutal. Very alienating, always missing out on back channel communications, no sympathy for missteps</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US layoffs</title><url>https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/layoffs-google-microsoft-meta-amazon-hiring-low-paid-h1b-workers-after-us-layoffs-report-10605301.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>sizzle</author><text>N=1 anecdote hopefully not generalizable across the population</text><parent_chain><item><author>onetimeusename</author><text>My ex gf is here on H1B and so is all her friend group. I feel bad for her situation, it adds a layer of stress but the way they treat the visa is disrespectful to Americans I think. For example, they are generally of the mindset that Americans are stupider and lazier than them which is why they are here. So they will vent their frustrations on Americans by calling us stupid and lazy and entitled because we have citizenship but they do all the work. It&#x27;s not a healthy way to view this country or their coworkers. They take the &quot;nation of immigrants&quot; line too far and act as if their American coworkers are basically their inferiors but who were lucky enough to happen to have citizenship. I always tried to provide a different perspective to no avail.</text></item><item><author>greatpostman</author><text>Generally not supposed to say this out loud, but being the only American on an all H1B team at these companies can be absolutely brutal. Very alienating, always missing out on back channel communications, no sympathy for missteps</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US layoffs</title><url>https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/layoffs-google-microsoft-meta-amazon-hiring-low-paid-h1b-workers-after-us-layoffs-report-10605301.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>StillBored</author><text>But a solid strategy seems to be to pick the enemies attacks when they are just two blocks, and wait for your own to align up to more than 4. That combined with a strategy of exploring the entire level (and thereby healing) makes the game almost too easy.<p>That said, it was more low stress fun than I&#x27;ve had in a while. I find myself playing games for stress relief, and I have a tendency to play on the harder levels so it stops being &quot;fun&quot; after a while. I was playing metro 2033 recently, and while a nice game&#x2F;story I don&#x27;t really enjoy it that much because the sudden appearance of fast moving monsters that are hard to kill with limited ammo is just to much. I guess I should drop the difficulty but that seems like cheating. Games like that should have a better sliding scale for how well your playing and adjust so the player doesn&#x27;t have to reload 10 times...</text><parent_chain><item><author>jameskilton</author><text>This is really well done! And I particularly like the combat. Filling the field with your attacks <i>and</i> enemy attacks really forces you to decide if you want to risk getting more of your attacks or be forced to take a really big hit yourself. I love the strategy and risk-reward that you provide with this setup.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Sleeping Beauty, a 7-day roguelike game</title><url>https://ondras.github.io/sleeping-beauty/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eric_the_read</author><text>Also, you can focus your enemies&#x27; attacks in their weak spots-- for instance, I try to spend my enemy magic attacks when I&#x27;m fighting a rat, or something with little-to-no mana.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jameskilton</author><text>This is really well done! And I particularly like the combat. Filling the field with your attacks <i>and</i> enemy attacks really forces you to decide if you want to risk getting more of your attacks or be forced to take a really big hit yourself. I love the strategy and risk-reward that you provide with this setup.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Sleeping Beauty, a 7-day roguelike game</title><url>https://ondras.github.io/sleeping-beauty/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>michaelmrose</author><text>Its as simple as imagining any scenario where your interests are at odds with the oem, the government, or literally any interested party with money and time.<p>If Verizon wants to sell you a device with GPS but rent you the feature for 10 bucks a month.<p>If the government wants the privilege of censorship unobstructed by the inherent technical impossibility of controlling every aspect of user owned devices.<p>If you want to avoid planned obsolescence and use your device longer than 18 months.<p>If you are a keirig owner if you want to buy the coffee of your choosing.<p>If you want to refill your ink cartridges.<p>Any obnoxious thing that people would trivially bypass if they had full control of their own stuff.<p>The fact that you an otherwise intelligent individual could ask such a staggeringly ridiculous question is why the free market is a worthless answer to any of the above.<p>There is a reason standards are developed by knowledgable parties rather than hoping that buyers will navigate the quagmire of complicated topics to demand sanity from merchants.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gonyea</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s fundamentally anti-user<p>I don’t get this sentiment at all. The vast majority of users don’t know what root access is, let alone care about it.</text></item><item><author>rossy</author><text>This seems good and bad. The prospect of a new, modern operating system is exciting. The system call interface is sensible and it follows modern security best practices (eg. deny-by-default.)<p>One practical disadvantage compared to Linux is that it&#x27;s not GPL, so if Google uses it to make a mainstream mobile phone operating system, other vendors won&#x27;t be compelled to release their kernel sources like they are with Android today, which means a Fuchsia equivalent to LineageOS might not support as many devices.<p>Also, capability-based security is fine as long as there&#x27;s some way for the owner of the device to acquire all capabilities. If there is not, it&#x27;s fundamentally anti-user, since it&#x27;s treating the user as an adversary. Since most Android devices require aftermarket modifications to get root access, I&#x27;m not too hopeful about Fuchsia. If these bullet points are anything to go by and DRM and verified boot are first-class features, it&#x27;s likely that Fuchsia will have built-in mechanisms that prevent the user from copying protected video content, so it&#x27;s unlikely that the average Fuchsia powered device would grant the user full privileges.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fuchsia: Google's modular, capability-based, non-Unix operating system</title><url>https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/HEAD/book.md</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Mithaldu</author><text>Being anti-user isn&#x27;t about providing an overwhelming value to all users of a product, but to make sure that no user ever gets stuck with no way out.<p>Opera v12 is a great example of that. There is no browser with its feature-set. In purely objective terms all other browsers are strictly inferior when it comes to usability and range of features outside the web rendering core. It also provides a number of data storage features. Now Opera ASA has given up on it, and because it&#x27;s closed sourced not even small things like changing SSL ciphers can be fixed.<p>So millions of users were forced to switched to worse alternatives, and some were forced to manually extract their data.<p>The kick in the butt about this: There&#x27;s a leak of the source code on the internet, but collaboration on it is nigh-impossible because any site hosting it is breaking copyright law. This despite Opera v12, with the Presto engine, being 100% and entirely abandoned and with the sale of the &quot;Opera Browser&quot; to a chinese malware company, there not even being any way for the public to know who actually owns the rights to v12.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gonyea</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s fundamentally anti-user<p>I don’t get this sentiment at all. The vast majority of users don’t know what root access is, let alone care about it.</text></item><item><author>rossy</author><text>This seems good and bad. The prospect of a new, modern operating system is exciting. The system call interface is sensible and it follows modern security best practices (eg. deny-by-default.)<p>One practical disadvantage compared to Linux is that it&#x27;s not GPL, so if Google uses it to make a mainstream mobile phone operating system, other vendors won&#x27;t be compelled to release their kernel sources like they are with Android today, which means a Fuchsia equivalent to LineageOS might not support as many devices.<p>Also, capability-based security is fine as long as there&#x27;s some way for the owner of the device to acquire all capabilities. If there is not, it&#x27;s fundamentally anti-user, since it&#x27;s treating the user as an adversary. Since most Android devices require aftermarket modifications to get root access, I&#x27;m not too hopeful about Fuchsia. If these bullet points are anything to go by and DRM and verified boot are first-class features, it&#x27;s likely that Fuchsia will have built-in mechanisms that prevent the user from copying protected video content, so it&#x27;s unlikely that the average Fuchsia powered device would grant the user full privileges.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fuchsia: Google's modular, capability-based, non-Unix operating system</title><url>https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/HEAD/book.md</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BUGHUNTER</author><text>From the website:<p><pre><code> What we removed in 4.0:
SQLite support (I like it but this database got locked
when several users use gitlab at once)
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This is a pitty! I am sure there are many small teams where sqlite is totally sufficient.<p>Have you been able to measure and determine the problems with sqlite more precisely? It would be interesting to see at which point (number of concurrent users) the problems occur. Also it just reads like some data accessing backend is not properly closing connection / file access, so blocking might be just a bug, not a sqlite limitation.<p>Did you read <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html</a> ?<p>I personally do like having such important infrastructure like bugtrackers as simple as possible, beeing able to setup anytime anywhere with sqlite backend is really a plus in changing environments.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitLab 4.0 Released</title><url>http://blog.gitlabhq.com/gitlab-4-release/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>n0nick</author><text>GitLab looks awesome, both features and design wise, but the installation process is so tedious and complicated that I quit in the middle of it more than once:
<a href="https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/4-0-stable/doc/install/installation.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/4-0-stable/doc/ins...</a><p>This is feedback I heard from fellow developers as well.<p>I'm curious as to whether the maintainers are planning to simplify the list of dependencies and installation steps in the upcoming versions.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitLab 4.0 Released</title><url>http://blog.gitlabhq.com/gitlab-4-release/</url></story>
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<instructions>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>As someone from the UK (who now lives in the US) I look forward to the reversal of roles when US techies are forced to search out proxy connections that allow them to watch online content.<p>Welcome to the club.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title> HBO cuts the cord, brings streaming-only service to Europe</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/08/hbo-cuts-the-cord-brings-streaming-only-service-to-europe/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bgentry</author><text>Wow. I have to admit that I didn't expect to see anything like this from them for at least a couple more years.<p>We'll see how long it takes to bring it to the US though. I'd guess that their cable co ties are too strong here to do it anytime soon.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title> HBO cuts the cord, brings streaming-only service to Europe</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/08/hbo-cuts-the-cord-brings-streaming-only-service-to-europe/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>buu700</author><text>I can&#x27;t support this at all, and ironically this is partially my fault.<p>My and @eganist&#x27;s Black Hat &#x2F; DEF CON talk &quot;Abusing Bleeding Edge Web Standards for AppSec Glory&quot; demoed an exploit concept that we called &quot;RansomPKP&quot;, which was essentially a pattern of hostile pinning that could theoretically enable pivoting from a web server compromise to holding a site for ransom. Hostile pinning was by no means a new concept, and even has some discussion in the IETF spec itself, but we found this to be a fun novel application and used it to spur some minor security improvements to browsers&#x27; HPKP implementations.<p>However, this talk also led to concerns being vocalized about the viability of HPKP in general (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12434585" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12434585</a>), ultimately leading to this. This was not our intention at all, and I don&#x27;t see hostile pinning alone as a reason to give up on HPKP.<p>I would much rather see some discussion around improving the usability of HPKP before jumping straight to putting it on the chopping block — both from a site operator&#x27;s end and a user end. For example, off the top of my head, why not make it possible for users to click past the HPKP error screen like they can with any other TLS error screen?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Public Key Pinning Being Removed from Chrome</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-dev/he9tr7p3rZ8/eNMwKPmUBAAJ?hn</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pfg</author><text>Removing dynamic pins was inevitable given the associated risk for <i>all</i> sites. Some ideas to fix those exist[1], but I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s worth the effort in a fully CT-enforced web. That&#x27;s probably time better spent somewhere else (such as improving CT itself and the gossip mechanism.)<p>I&#x27;m not convinced that static pins need to go too. There are something like 10 sites on that list currently, and all of them are valuable targets and should have the resources to ensure their pins don&#x27;t fail. Even increasing that number to something like 100 should be manageable for browser vendors and would cover a large percentage of all page views (rather than just guarantee discovery after the fact).<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.qualys.com&#x2F;ssllabs&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;05&#x2F;fixing-hpkp-with-pin-revocation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.qualys.com&#x2F;ssllabs&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;05&#x2F;fixing-hpkp-with-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Public Key Pinning Being Removed from Chrome</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-dev/he9tr7p3rZ8/eNMwKPmUBAAJ?hn</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hutzlibu</author><text>&quot;The problem is not that Copilot produces code that is &quot;inspired&quot; by GPL code, it&#x27;s that it spits out GPL code verbatim.&quot;<p>But only snippets as far as I can tell.<p>This is the codeexample linked from the author:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20221017081115&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;docsparse&#x2F;status&#x2F;1581461734665367554" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20221017081115&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.ne...</a><p>It is still not trivial code, but are there really lot&#x27;s of different ways on how to transpose matrixes?<p>(Also the input was &quot;sparse matrix transpose, cs_&quot;, so his naming convention especially included. So it is questionable if a user would get his code in this shape with a normal prompt)<p>And just slightly changing the code seems trivial, at what point will it be acceptable?<p>I just don&#x27;t think spending much energy there is really beneficial for anyone.<p>I rather see the potential benefits of AI for open source. I haven&#x27;t used Copilot, but ChatGPT4 is really helpful generating small chunks of code for me, enabling me to aim higher in my goals. So what&#x27;s the big harm, if also some proprietary black box gets improved, when also all the open source devs can produce with greater efficency?</text><parent_chain><item><author>spuz</author><text>The problem is not that Copilot produces code that is &quot;inspired&quot; by GPL code, it&#x27;s that it spits out GPL code verbatim.<p>&gt; This can lead to some copylefted code being included in proprietary or simply not copylefted projects. And this is a violation of both the license terms and the intellectual proprety of the authors of the original code.<p>If the author was a human, this would be a clear violation of the licence. The AI case is no different as far as I can tell.<p>Edit: I&#x27;m definitely no expert on copyright law for code but my personal rule is don&#x27;t include someone&#x27;s copyrighted code if it can by unambiguously identified as their original work. For very small lines of code, it would be hard to identify any single original author. When it comes to whole functions it gets easier to say &quot;actually this came from this GPL licensed project&quot;. Since Copilot can produce whole functions verbatim, this is the basis on which I state that it &quot;would be a clear violation&quot; of the licence. If Copilot chooses to be less concerned about violating the law than I am then that&#x27;s a problem. But maybe I&#x27;m overly cautious and the GPL is more lenient than this in reality.</text></item><item><author>vadiml</author><text>I&#x27;m really baffled by all this discussion on copyrights in the age of AI. The Copilot does not
&#x27;steal&#x27; or and reproduce our code - it simply LEARNS from it as a human coder would learn from it. IMHO desire to prevent learning from your open source code seems kind of irrational and antithetical to open source ideas.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Please don’t upload my code on GitHub</title><url>https://nogithub.codeberg.page/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ithkuil</author><text>Could a human also accidentally spit out the exact code while having it just learned and not memorized in good faith?<p>I guess the likelihood decreases as the code length increases but the likelihood also increases the more constraints on parameters such as code style, code uniformity etc you pose.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spuz</author><text>The problem is not that Copilot produces code that is &quot;inspired&quot; by GPL code, it&#x27;s that it spits out GPL code verbatim.<p>&gt; This can lead to some copylefted code being included in proprietary or simply not copylefted projects. And this is a violation of both the license terms and the intellectual proprety of the authors of the original code.<p>If the author was a human, this would be a clear violation of the licence. The AI case is no different as far as I can tell.<p>Edit: I&#x27;m definitely no expert on copyright law for code but my personal rule is don&#x27;t include someone&#x27;s copyrighted code if it can by unambiguously identified as their original work. For very small lines of code, it would be hard to identify any single original author. When it comes to whole functions it gets easier to say &quot;actually this came from this GPL licensed project&quot;. Since Copilot can produce whole functions verbatim, this is the basis on which I state that it &quot;would be a clear violation&quot; of the licence. If Copilot chooses to be less concerned about violating the law than I am then that&#x27;s a problem. But maybe I&#x27;m overly cautious and the GPL is more lenient than this in reality.</text></item><item><author>vadiml</author><text>I&#x27;m really baffled by all this discussion on copyrights in the age of AI. The Copilot does not
&#x27;steal&#x27; or and reproduce our code - it simply LEARNS from it as a human coder would learn from it. IMHO desire to prevent learning from your open source code seems kind of irrational and antithetical to open source ideas.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Please don’t upload my code on GitHub</title><url>https://nogithub.codeberg.page/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Locke1689</author><text>Having tried the Oculus Rift, the potential to experience this would be incredible. Although there&#x27;s nothing quite like just sitting on a worn stone bench alone in a cathedral, just the chill air around you.<p>It often makes me wish for a non-religious religion -- just a refuge of tranquility.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Very nice. In fact, almost nicer than being there (though you should do that anyway if you get the chance). Because now you can experience the details for as long as you want without a hundred other people around you who are just as annoyed at you as you are at them.<p>I get it that a tourist complaining about tourist attractions being too crowded is total hypocrisy on my part. But at the same time what I wouldn&#x27;t give to be able to stand in that chapel for as long as I wanted just to look, all by myself. And now I can. We live in amazing times.<p>Be sure to look &#x27;up&#x27; and use the zoom feature.<p>The only improvement I can think of is a &#x27;link&#x27; icon that you can use to cut-and-paste a certain viewpoint + zoom so that you can show others specific details, and two more viewpoints at the end and the beginning (so you don&#x27;t lose the corners due to distortion).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sistine Chapel</title><url>http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.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>bane</author><text>And without the guards yelling &quot;NO PHOTO!!!&quot; every 10-20 seconds at people who dare to try to get a photo of the chapel that&#x27;s not nearly as nice as this.<p>Copyright is maddening sometimes. [1]<p>1 - <a href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/54641/reason-why-no-photography-allowed-sistine-chapel" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mentalfloss.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;54641&#x2F;reason-why-no-photograp...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Very nice. In fact, almost nicer than being there (though you should do that anyway if you get the chance). Because now you can experience the details for as long as you want without a hundred other people around you who are just as annoyed at you as you are at them.<p>I get it that a tourist complaining about tourist attractions being too crowded is total hypocrisy on my part. But at the same time what I wouldn&#x27;t give to be able to stand in that chapel for as long as I wanted just to look, all by myself. And now I can. We live in amazing times.<p>Be sure to look &#x27;up&#x27; and use the zoom feature.<p>The only improvement I can think of is a &#x27;link&#x27; icon that you can use to cut-and-paste a certain viewpoint + zoom so that you can show others specific details, and two more viewpoints at the end and the beginning (so you don&#x27;t lose the corners due to distortion).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sistine Chapel</title><url>http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.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>madaxe_again</author><text>Recycling sucks. You have to dismantle products and packaging, cut cardboard into little squares no more than 20cm X 20cm, sort glass bottles by colour, remove the labels, or else it won&#x27;t be (expensively) collected. You can also go drop it off yourself, but you have to pay for the pleasure, and own or rent a vehicle.<p>Even after all of that, a majority of what is supposed to be recycled ends up being &quot;recycled&quot; into electricity, by an incinerator. That&#x27;s the case in this neck of the woods, at any rate.<p>Recycling treats a symptom, not a disease. We allow the production of wasteful packaging, we accept planned obsolescence, and we dispose of things that could be yet used for a long time to come.<p>A better solution would be to impose the cost of disposal on manufacturers - this already happens to a degree with WEEE, but try actually getting a manufacturer to collect - it&#x27;s made deliberately difficult as they&#x27;d rather you just fly-tip and save them the expense - even though you paid for that service as part of your purchase.<p>Another better solution would be to pass goods on whole for re-use rather than recycling wherever possible, which has gained some traction through things like freecycle and eBay, but is still a minority case. This behaviour could be encouraged by governments, but is instead actively discouraged, as it hurts sales of new goods, and therefore tax revenues.<p>As per usual, we&#x27;ll only change when forced to - by which point it&#x27;ll be too late. People will use 300 year old toasters in the future, and weep for our wastefulnes.<p>I do what I can, buy very little new (all of my furniture is pre 1960), dumpster dive, pass things I no longer want or need on, but it&#x27;s still not enough.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is it time to rethink recycling?</title><url>http://ensia.com/features/is-it-time-to-rethink-recycling/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ranko</author><text>There&#x27;s a reason that &quot;recycle&quot; comes last in the &quot;reduce, reuse, recycle&quot; catchphrase. There&#x27;s a frightening amount of food, for example, that could simply not be wasted at all.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is it time to rethink recycling?</title><url>http://ensia.com/features/is-it-time-to-rethink-recycling/</url></story>
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<instructions>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; <i>Zero-configuration is actually quite an onerous design requirement, as it immediately eliminates most features which shouldn&#x27;t be on by default. It also eliminates tuning.</i><p>It also makes for a stupidly easy to use product. SQLite easily outperforms Postgres in default settings and any &quot;optimized&quot; snippets blog posts cough up for the workload generated by a project I&#x27;m working on.<p>I&#x27;m seriously tempted to drop support for non-sqlite DB backends, since it&#x27;s unlikely that the majority our potential customers (SMB environment) could do a better job than that at configuring database servers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pjc50</author><text>SQLheavy is called &quot;Oracle&quot;. You want a feature, it&#x27;s in there. You don&#x27;t want a feature? Well, tough, it&#x27;s in there anyway.<p>From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sqlite.org&#x2F;about.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sqlite.org&#x2F;about.html</a> :<p><i>&quot;SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine&quot;</i><p>Zero-configuration is actually quite an onerous design requirement, as it immediately eliminates most features which shouldn&#x27;t be on by default. It also eliminates tuning.<p>Serverless imposes most of the rest of the performance penalty. If you&#x27;re accessing a sqlite database from a single process, it will most likely be limited by your storage speed. But if you&#x27;re writing to it from multiple processes, lock contention will quickly become an issue. The obvious technique to improve lock contention is to separate the tables so they can be locked separately, but then you lose the single-file convenience.<p>That&#x27;s why that page also says &quot;Think of SQLite not as a replacement for Oracle but as a replacement for fopen()&quot;.</text></item><item><author>projectramo</author><text>The link is broken at the moment.<p>I really want to read it to learn the answer to the following:<p>why isn&#x27;t sqlite able to handle full scale loads? Why do I have to swap it out? Can&#x27;t someone change the implementation details so it can work at scale and leave the interface the same?<p>Where is sqlheavy?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SQLite: The art of keeping it simple</title><url>http://www.jarchitect.com/Blog/?p=2392</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>k__</author><text>&gt; That&#x27;s why that page also says &quot;Think of SQLite not as a replacement for Oracle but as a replacement for fopen()&quot;.<p>True.<p>Point is, most software has only the need for fopen(), but instead uses something like Oracle.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pjc50</author><text>SQLheavy is called &quot;Oracle&quot;. You want a feature, it&#x27;s in there. You don&#x27;t want a feature? Well, tough, it&#x27;s in there anyway.<p>From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sqlite.org&#x2F;about.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sqlite.org&#x2F;about.html</a> :<p><i>&quot;SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine&quot;</i><p>Zero-configuration is actually quite an onerous design requirement, as it immediately eliminates most features which shouldn&#x27;t be on by default. It also eliminates tuning.<p>Serverless imposes most of the rest of the performance penalty. If you&#x27;re accessing a sqlite database from a single process, it will most likely be limited by your storage speed. But if you&#x27;re writing to it from multiple processes, lock contention will quickly become an issue. The obvious technique to improve lock contention is to separate the tables so they can be locked separately, but then you lose the single-file convenience.<p>That&#x27;s why that page also says &quot;Think of SQLite not as a replacement for Oracle but as a replacement for fopen()&quot;.</text></item><item><author>projectramo</author><text>The link is broken at the moment.<p>I really want to read it to learn the answer to the following:<p>why isn&#x27;t sqlite able to handle full scale loads? Why do I have to swap it out? Can&#x27;t someone change the implementation details so it can work at scale and leave the interface the same?<p>Where is sqlheavy?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SQLite: The art of keeping it simple</title><url>http://www.jarchitect.com/Blog/?p=2392</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Traster</author><text>Sorry but you moved to country to work for company and you didn&#x27;t have a contract to be paid for your work?</text><parent_chain><item><author>AThrowAway99</author><text>This is a throwaway account, but I&#x27;d like some advice on this very subject.<p>I recently ended a working relationship with a company that had a problem with &#x27;not liking&#x27; me.
I moved to another country to offer onsite services to this company, as I created the core (design and tech) of a product that unexpectedly performed very well and became the focus of their business. Unfortunately this meant throwing out years of work by their core team, the owners work included.<p>As I had only been working remotely and very part time till this point, I saw an understandable resentment toward me and addressed it head on with each of the team when I arrived onsite. I perhaps failed in this because I was met with nods, smiles, and a professional behaviour me most of the time but not friendship.
I was actively excluded from team lunches for example. And I heard less than favourable rumours about me in the local community, a community I never worked in.<p>This is ok, to a point if a little hurtful. As it didn&#x27;t impact my work, I thought just letting it go was a better approach.
Many people had a secure job based on my work...thats probably my resentment talking but worth saying.<p>Anyway it came to a head when I asked for the money we agreed for my contribution. (I had held off charging till the company was on more solid ground) At this point I was quickly told that the owner created the thing I made for them. Not me.
Then closed ranks and told me I was a bad friend, refusing to pay obviously.<p>I think being left out in the cold all this time was a good sign that the company as a whole was planing something like this. Not explicitly but something.<p>Did I do the right thing in leaving? Am I the &#x27;bad friend&#x27;?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Collaborate with People You Don’t Like (2018)</title><url>https://hbr.org/2018/12/how-to-collaborate-with-people-you-dont-like</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anotherman554</author><text>You had a business relationship with them. You were not friends.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AThrowAway99</author><text>This is a throwaway account, but I&#x27;d like some advice on this very subject.<p>I recently ended a working relationship with a company that had a problem with &#x27;not liking&#x27; me.
I moved to another country to offer onsite services to this company, as I created the core (design and tech) of a product that unexpectedly performed very well and became the focus of their business. Unfortunately this meant throwing out years of work by their core team, the owners work included.<p>As I had only been working remotely and very part time till this point, I saw an understandable resentment toward me and addressed it head on with each of the team when I arrived onsite. I perhaps failed in this because I was met with nods, smiles, and a professional behaviour me most of the time but not friendship.
I was actively excluded from team lunches for example. And I heard less than favourable rumours about me in the local community, a community I never worked in.<p>This is ok, to a point if a little hurtful. As it didn&#x27;t impact my work, I thought just letting it go was a better approach.
Many people had a secure job based on my work...thats probably my resentment talking but worth saying.<p>Anyway it came to a head when I asked for the money we agreed for my contribution. (I had held off charging till the company was on more solid ground) At this point I was quickly told that the owner created the thing I made for them. Not me.
Then closed ranks and told me I was a bad friend, refusing to pay obviously.<p>I think being left out in the cold all this time was a good sign that the company as a whole was planing something like this. Not explicitly but something.<p>Did I do the right thing in leaving? Am I the &#x27;bad friend&#x27;?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Collaborate with People You Don’t Like (2018)</title><url>https://hbr.org/2018/12/how-to-collaborate-with-people-you-dont-like</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vp8989</author><text>Engineering culture should be disseminated via documents rather than oral lore.<p>If it&#x27;s disseminated via oral lore it&#x27;s expensive to change and is often misinterpreted across a large enough org.<p>A silent killer of engineering orgs is bad practices that stick around because that&#x27;s the way it&#x27;s always been done. No one knows why because it wasn&#x27;t written down. The only way to fix that is for someone high enough to provide blessing, but maybe none of those things are individually disruptive enough to get the CTO involved. So everyone eats the costs in perpetuity.<p>Much easier to just write everything down.<p>Increased difficulty for juniors to ramp up when you are remote is a symptom of a culture with lots of overly complicated processes that are not well documented.</text><parent_chain><item><author>munificent</author><text><i>&gt; Talented people are going to have lots of remote options making it harder to find good people willing to show up for daily cubicle warfare.</i><p>I worry a <i>lot</i> about how this cuts the bottom rungs off the ladder for junior developers. Senior developers can be very productive without frequent access to in-person help, and are valuable enough that they can get work-from-home if they want. But junior developers have more frequent questions, need to absorb software engineering culture, and need to have more work and task structure created for them. Remote work is really hard for them.</text></item><item><author>trentnix</author><text><i>I have a hard time wrapping my head around why companies are mandating 100% return to office.</i><p>I doubt it lasts, at least in software. Talented people are going to have lots of remote options making it harder to find good people willing to show up for daily cubicle warfare.<p>I was someone who preferred to be in the office every day prior to the pandemic. But after adjusting, I really, really like working from home. Truth is, I can&#x27;t imagine I&#x27;ll ever take another job that expects me to show up to an actual office everyday. I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m not the only one.</text></item><item><author>protonimitate</author><text>I have a hard time wrapping my head around why companies are mandating 100% return to office.<p>Cost issues aside, I&#x27;ve always maintained that the absolute best experience is a hybrid&#x2F;flexible schedule and location policy. I&#x27;m currently full time remote (I&#x27;m on the East Coast working for a West Coast company). My previous company had its main office in my current city, but allowed a super flexible choose-where-you-work-from policy. It was the best.<p>Didn&#x27;t feel like dealing with the commute or had a ton of heads down work to do? Stay at home. Wanted to go in to be present for meetings? Easy. Start the day at the office and go home to finish off the day and avoid the commute? Sure.<p>Of course they made it possible by actively managing it. No meetings before 11am ET (to accomodate those in different TZs). Every scheduled meeting required a Zoom&#x2F;conference link. Dedicated offices were set up as &quot;conference rooms&quot; so remote people could call in. And of course, people all the way up the ladder worked from home at least some of the time.<p>Being full remote doesn&#x27;t work for everyone. Providing a space for those who want it is such a huge quality of life bonus imo. But the biggest factor is creating a culture of inclusion, despite your employees working preferences. This is the hardest thing to do, especially at scale.</text></item><item><author>blunte</author><text>Wow, the author has a pretty miserable company :(.<p>That said, I share most of the opinions even though I quite like the office environment of my company.<p>I abso-fking-love choosing where I work (and to some degree, when). Being able to take my laptop and go sit under a canopy in my back yard when the weather is nice, seeing my rabbits hopping around the yard, my cats avoiding the aggressive she-rabbit, hearing the birds, etc., while working, is just about as happy as I can be while also working on stuff that doesn&#x27;t really matter much.<p>As I begin to form my own company, one of my priorities is to allow my employees to have at least some of their time completely at their own discretion. They choose when and where they work as long as they can attend some important anchor meetings (and obviously be productive). And for the social aspect, weekend or week-long dev retreats are ideal. 4 hours of intense serious work, plus a couple of hours of colleague social interaction, and the rest left to the individual to spend however they like, is the kind of situation I would have not even been able to dream of when I was younger.<p>And from a bean-counter owner perspective, do not underestimate the employee loyalty and overachievement motivation you can get by giving some nice free trips, nice free food, and quality equipment.<p>Big companies lack this freedom to treat their creative talent not because they cannot afford it but because the people in charge tend to not be creative thinkers. This is why most interesting things happen in smaller companies (and ultimately tend to get bought by the laggard big companies).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I hope work from home continues</title><url>https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2021/4/6/some-of-the-reasons-i-hope-work-from-home-continues-and-i-never-have-to-return-to-an-office</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nickelcitymario</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure this is true. It&#x27;s a reasonable concern, but in practice I don&#x27;t think it turns out this way.<p>Two points, entirely anecdotal:<p>1) A few years back, I sort of &quot;restarted&quot; as a Salesforce developer. I had well over a decade of web dev experience, but I was new to SF. Everything about it was unique to this environment. I worked in an office, but my boss worked from home (ironically enough). So I was effectively remote working with him from the get go, and I found it worked really well.<p>2) My kids learn a remarkable amount of stuff on their own: Minecraft, Roblox, Scratch. All these programming environments that they&#x27;ve become really proficient at, and entirely on their own. This is effectively remote work. There was no one holding their hand.<p>I think the bigger issue is going to be getting employers to trust that the junior is working well. In truth, most junior employees probably don&#x27;t have the maturity and discipline to be productive remotely. I certainly wouldn&#x27;t have back when I was 18-22. I would have taken every chance I could to goof off, and not even considered whether that was a problem.<p>That kind work ethic (i.e. a bad one) tends to get beaten out of you pretty quick in the early days of a professional career. But a lot (most?) people fresh out of college still have that student mentality of viewing &quot;adults&quot; (bosses, teachers, parents) as authority figures to be rebelled against to some extent. I wouldn&#x27;t trust someone with that mentality to be productive unsupervised.<p>The natural counter point is that if you can&#x27;t be trusted, you shouldn&#x27;t be hired. But I think that&#x27;s a mistake. There&#x27;s an awful lot of talented and smart young people who need a break or two in order to develop the appropriate work ethic and achieve their potential.<p>All of which is to say, I share your concern about opportunities for junior developers (and junior workers in general), but for different reasons.</text><parent_chain><item><author>munificent</author><text><i>&gt; Talented people are going to have lots of remote options making it harder to find good people willing to show up for daily cubicle warfare.</i><p>I worry a <i>lot</i> about how this cuts the bottom rungs off the ladder for junior developers. Senior developers can be very productive without frequent access to in-person help, and are valuable enough that they can get work-from-home if they want. But junior developers have more frequent questions, need to absorb software engineering culture, and need to have more work and task structure created for them. Remote work is really hard for them.</text></item><item><author>trentnix</author><text><i>I have a hard time wrapping my head around why companies are mandating 100% return to office.</i><p>I doubt it lasts, at least in software. Talented people are going to have lots of remote options making it harder to find good people willing to show up for daily cubicle warfare.<p>I was someone who preferred to be in the office every day prior to the pandemic. But after adjusting, I really, really like working from home. Truth is, I can&#x27;t imagine I&#x27;ll ever take another job that expects me to show up to an actual office everyday. I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m not the only one.</text></item><item><author>protonimitate</author><text>I have a hard time wrapping my head around why companies are mandating 100% return to office.<p>Cost issues aside, I&#x27;ve always maintained that the absolute best experience is a hybrid&#x2F;flexible schedule and location policy. I&#x27;m currently full time remote (I&#x27;m on the East Coast working for a West Coast company). My previous company had its main office in my current city, but allowed a super flexible choose-where-you-work-from policy. It was the best.<p>Didn&#x27;t feel like dealing with the commute or had a ton of heads down work to do? Stay at home. Wanted to go in to be present for meetings? Easy. Start the day at the office and go home to finish off the day and avoid the commute? Sure.<p>Of course they made it possible by actively managing it. No meetings before 11am ET (to accomodate those in different TZs). Every scheduled meeting required a Zoom&#x2F;conference link. Dedicated offices were set up as &quot;conference rooms&quot; so remote people could call in. And of course, people all the way up the ladder worked from home at least some of the time.<p>Being full remote doesn&#x27;t work for everyone. Providing a space for those who want it is such a huge quality of life bonus imo. But the biggest factor is creating a culture of inclusion, despite your employees working preferences. This is the hardest thing to do, especially at scale.</text></item><item><author>blunte</author><text>Wow, the author has a pretty miserable company :(.<p>That said, I share most of the opinions even though I quite like the office environment of my company.<p>I abso-fking-love choosing where I work (and to some degree, when). Being able to take my laptop and go sit under a canopy in my back yard when the weather is nice, seeing my rabbits hopping around the yard, my cats avoiding the aggressive she-rabbit, hearing the birds, etc., while working, is just about as happy as I can be while also working on stuff that doesn&#x27;t really matter much.<p>As I begin to form my own company, one of my priorities is to allow my employees to have at least some of their time completely at their own discretion. They choose when and where they work as long as they can attend some important anchor meetings (and obviously be productive). And for the social aspect, weekend or week-long dev retreats are ideal. 4 hours of intense serious work, plus a couple of hours of colleague social interaction, and the rest left to the individual to spend however they like, is the kind of situation I would have not even been able to dream of when I was younger.<p>And from a bean-counter owner perspective, do not underestimate the employee loyalty and overachievement motivation you can get by giving some nice free trips, nice free food, and quality equipment.<p>Big companies lack this freedom to treat their creative talent not because they cannot afford it but because the people in charge tend to not be creative thinkers. This is why most interesting things happen in smaller companies (and ultimately tend to get bought by the laggard big companies).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I hope work from home continues</title><url>https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2021/4/6/some-of-the-reasons-i-hope-work-from-home-continues-and-i-never-have-to-return-to-an-office</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>destroy-2A</author><text>I can tell you with certainty it&#x27;s the opposite of retention. Point #3 on prakhar897 comment is pretty much everything, nobody is hiring, firing is happening across all F500 just slowly enough to fly under the radar.<p>Avoid IRL meetings, even if the other person is sitting 5 meters away, why? because productivity measuring software gets no data points if you meet IRL, you are instead measured as AFK. If you VC, the productivity software measures your attendance, how much time you spent talking versus others, is your video on, your adherence to the calls schedule, and depending on the VC software, it can even analyze the transcript and decide if your input &#x2F; the entire meeting was valuable. Managers can get an aggregate roll up of all this data and great insights into which departments, team members an individual most interacted with... it goes on and on.<p>At most mega corps you may not be informed yet, but you are already living in a corporate Orwellian dystopia.<p>In all your corporate comms, on chat or on VC, Make no jokes, speak no niceties reduce small talk, use positive words but not too much, since the machine is bad at understanding, humor, cynicism or sarcasm. Don&#x27;t ramble, the machine is good at boiling down emotional or spirited ramblings about directions are very bad, they are boiled down to, &quot;not a fit&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>baron816</author><text>I bet the real story is one of retention, which is not always what companies want to advertise. If you’re going into the office, it’s harder to find time to schedule interview.<p>But on top of that, going into the office and talking to real people and building relationships is going to result in you wanting to stay with the company for longer. This is what I like about going into the office. I don’t know if I work any more effectively, but I do like getting lunch with people and just hanging out, and I do feel a greater attachment to the team as a result. If I were totally remote, I surely would just be working for the highest bidder.</text></item><item><author>mullingitover</author><text>I get the sense that the large corporations taking an authoritarian stance toward RTO is not happening because they have data showing that RTO is the most efficient way to operate. If they had the data, they&#x27;d pound on the data rather than pounding on the table.<p>Instead I suspect that there&#x27;s immense political pressure to bring warm bodies to offices because the waste of resources is <i>load bearing</i> for the macro economy. It&#x27;s a paradox of thrift situation: if we actually become efficient then a lot of people are going to need to take a substantial writedown. These people aren&#x27;t going to take that writedown without putting up a fight.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It Is Time to End the War on Remote Work</title><url>https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-03/it-is-time-to-end-the-war-on-remote-work</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mullingitover</author><text>Retention doesn&#x27;t seem to be a real focus - there are still layoffs happening. If anything, the other angle for RTO is a form of constructive dismissal to augment the RIFs without taking the hit for severance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>baron816</author><text>I bet the real story is one of retention, which is not always what companies want to advertise. If you’re going into the office, it’s harder to find time to schedule interview.<p>But on top of that, going into the office and talking to real people and building relationships is going to result in you wanting to stay with the company for longer. This is what I like about going into the office. I don’t know if I work any more effectively, but I do like getting lunch with people and just hanging out, and I do feel a greater attachment to the team as a result. If I were totally remote, I surely would just be working for the highest bidder.</text></item><item><author>mullingitover</author><text>I get the sense that the large corporations taking an authoritarian stance toward RTO is not happening because they have data showing that RTO is the most efficient way to operate. If they had the data, they&#x27;d pound on the data rather than pounding on the table.<p>Instead I suspect that there&#x27;s immense political pressure to bring warm bodies to offices because the waste of resources is <i>load bearing</i> for the macro economy. It&#x27;s a paradox of thrift situation: if we actually become efficient then a lot of people are going to need to take a substantial writedown. These people aren&#x27;t going to take that writedown without putting up a fight.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It Is Time to End the War on Remote Work</title><url>https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-03/it-is-time-to-end-the-war-on-remote-work</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Gring</author><text>"The Product Specialists (...) goal and the sole metric of their success is to have you enjoy the experience of visiting so much that you look forward to returning again."<p>This is not the experience I had. Walked into a Tesla store, said I want to test drive a Roadster. Salesman went into that profiling mode that all car salesmen do constantly and no customer likes, asking me all kinds of questions to find out how much I earn. Since my answers didn't please him, he told me I could test drive it for $300 for half a day - essentially renting it.<p>I won't be going back.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Tesla Approach to Distributing and Servicing Cars</title><url>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-approach-distributing-and-servicing-cars</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sbierwagen</author><text><p><pre><code> In case your eye skipped over the “for free” part, I would
like to emphasize that again – owning a Supercharger
enabled Model S really does mean free long distance travel
forever on our high speed charging network.
</code></pre>
I really wish they'd stop saying this. They're essentially committing to building a nationwide electric car charging infrastructure for $nodollars, and never charging customers to use it, ever.<p>Which means either<p><pre><code> A.) They're not going to build more than 30 charging stations.
B.) They're all going to be significantly far away from population
centers, and used only for interstate travel.
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No matter what, a Tesla car is going to be spending 99.9% of its time charging at home or at work.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Tesla Approach to Distributing and Servicing Cars</title><url>http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-approach-distributing-and-servicing-cars</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mumblemumble</author><text>&gt; Furthermore, many routes chosen are often potentially not very pleasant for the cyclist<p>And how. I&#x27;ve found that my preferred routes don&#x27;t just differ from what Google Maps might suggest, they also tend to avoid all the places that my city thought might be a good place for a posted bike lane. The bike lanes are all on noisy, busy streets that aren&#x27;t pleasant to ride on, and the bike lanes themselves are often full of delivery trucks and rideshare drivers.<p>I choose a bicycle as my primary mode of transportation specifically because I dislike all the noise and rush and stress that automobiles represent, facilitate and encourage. I&#x27;ve already decided to take 5 minutes longer to get where I&#x27;m going for the sake of having a more pleasant life, I can spare another 5 minutes in order to have an even more pleasant life. Worst case scenario, it still beats anything Peloton wants to sell me.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pedestrian routing that offers pleasant alternatives to the shortest route</title><url>https://www.gislounge.com/finding-pleasant-routes-using-gis/</url></story>
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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>silasdb</author><text>That is what I do when I ride my bike to work. I ride a path I optimized from the shortest route to the safest and most pleasant (and still short enough). Good to see OSM can help us with that. I wish more people used and supported OSM instead of Google Maps.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pedestrian routing that offers pleasant alternatives to the shortest route</title><url>https://www.gislounge.com/finding-pleasant-routes-using-gis/</url></story>
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