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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>OJFord</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &amp;gt; Given this, you would only have to be struck and killed &amp;gt; by lightning 6.8 years in a row to equal a sha1 hash &amp;gt; collision probability. &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Oh, well that changes everything! ;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>godson_drafty</author><text>They were off by a factor of 10 with the likelihood of being struck and killed by lightning, according to the nws website.&lt;p&gt;To clarify: the likelihood of being merely struck by lightning is ~ 1&amp;#x2F;1,000,000 per year. The likelihood of being struck &lt;i&gt;and killed&lt;/i&gt; is 1&amp;#x2F;10,000,000 , or about 1&amp;#x2F;2^23.25&lt;p&gt;Given this, you would only have to be struck and killed by lightning 6.8 years in a row to equal a sha1 hash collision probability.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Git 2.11 has been released</title><url>https://github.com/blog/2288-git-2-11-has-been-released</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peff</author><text>Oh, you&amp;#x27;re right. I misread the chart (and just fixed the blog post).&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of other caveats, too. Such as the idea of each year being an independent probability.</text><parent_chain><item><author>godson_drafty</author><text>They were off by a factor of 10 with the likelihood of being struck and killed by lightning, according to the nws website.&lt;p&gt;To clarify: the likelihood of being merely struck by lightning is ~ 1&amp;#x2F;1,000,000 per year. The likelihood of being struck &lt;i&gt;and killed&lt;/i&gt; is 1&amp;#x2F;10,000,000 , or about 1&amp;#x2F;2^23.25&lt;p&gt;Given this, you would only have to be struck and killed by lightning 6.8 years in a row to equal a sha1 hash collision probability.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Git 2.11 has been released</title><url>https://github.com/blog/2288-git-2-11-has-been-released</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TrackerFF</author><text>I got downvoted for saying that maybe it&amp;#x27;s time to treat serious ransomware attacks (infrastructure, security, health, etc.) as terrorism - as in the sense that they&amp;#x27;re a threat to the national security. But this kinda shows the response I was referencing to.&lt;p&gt;A lot of people like to think of ransomware attacks as the ultimate stress test as far as security goes, and thus a good thing - but let&amp;#x27;s not get too blinded by our professions (most probably in tech), these kinds of attacks can have serious consequences: Imagine if some foreign state agency (masquerading as hackers) launches a multiheaded attack on, say, utilities plants - in the middle of the winter. The victims&amp;#x2F;targets will pay whatever us necessary.&lt;p&gt;With that said, I understand that many people will recoil at such things - we saw what the patriot act did, and how easy it is to overstep and abuse such laws, in the name of &amp;quot;national security&amp;quot;. But it is a serious problem, in the same way actual piracy thrived in the gulf of Aden, as soon as the shipping companies started paying.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bredren</author><text>It was a mistake to attack the business side of the oil company, because it created what could be sold as reasonable doubt to shut down the pipeline.&lt;p&gt;As a result, the ransom had the optics of an attack on infrastructure. As evidenced by the coverage of Americans desperately filling up containers.&lt;p&gt;This created the impetus for the US to treat this as an incident far and above the ambient ransomware activities leading up to this.&lt;p&gt;It also gave the US an opportunity to show how effective it could be when it had the political cover to do so.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/darkside-ransomware-gang-quits-after-servers-bitcoin-stash-seized/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>this_user</author><text>The fact that their coins were apparently easily stolen also debunks another favourite talking point of the crypto people that it secures your money from government access. Clearly, ways and means have been developed to do just that if necessary.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bredren</author><text>It was a mistake to attack the business side of the oil company, because it created what could be sold as reasonable doubt to shut down the pipeline.&lt;p&gt;As a result, the ransom had the optics of an attack on infrastructure. As evidenced by the coverage of Americans desperately filling up containers.&lt;p&gt;This created the impetus for the US to treat this as an incident far and above the ambient ransomware activities leading up to this.&lt;p&gt;It also gave the US an opportunity to show how effective it could be when it had the political cover to do so.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/darkside-ransomware-gang-quits-after-servers-bitcoin-stash-seized/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mickael-kerjean</author><text>Russian visitors of my foss project (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.filestash.app&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.filestash.app&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) now see the message of peace address to them by president Zelenskyy: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=Fwzb_JX7u04&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=Fwzb_JX7u04&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>neonsunset</author><text>1: Small website with simple JS to ddos a list of russian gov and propaganda websites. Works anywhere where those are not blocked (e.g. Ukraine). Link - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stop-russian-desinformation.near.page&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stop-russian-desinformation.near.page&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. Console tool for unplanned load testing Link - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;codesenberg&amp;#x2F;bombardier&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;tag&amp;#x2F;v1.2.5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;codesenberg&amp;#x2F;bombardier&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;tag&amp;#x2F;v1.2....&lt;/a&gt; Example usage - .&amp;#x2F;bombardier-linux-amd64 --duration=240h --connections=1000 --latencies &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lenta.ru&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lenta.ru&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;UPD: For some of the sites, you may need to run Chrome with CORS disabled: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alfilatov.com&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;run-chrome-without-cors&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alfilatov.com&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;run-chrome-without-cors&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Windows: Right click on desktop, add new shortcut, Add the target as &amp;quot;[PATH_TO_CHROME]\chrome.exe&amp;quot; --disable-web-security --disable-gpu --user-data-dir=~&amp;#x2F;chromeTemp , Click OK. OSX: open -n -a &amp;#x2F;Applications&amp;#x2F;Google\ Chrome.app&amp;#x2F;Contents&amp;#x2F;MacOS&amp;#x2F;Google\ Chrome --args --user-data-dir=&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;tmp&amp;#x2F;chrome_dev_test&amp;quot; --disable-web-security , Linux: google-chrome --disable-web-security</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/exclusive-ukraine-calls-hacker-underground-defend-against-russia-2022-02-24/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jl6</author><text>Really, how much defensive value does this have for Ukraine?&lt;p&gt;DDOSing Russian news websites just allows them to cry victim - “look, they don’t want you to hear the truth!”.&lt;p&gt;Disrupting the Russian internet in general also harms any anti-war protesters trying to organize.</text><parent_chain><item><author>neonsunset</author><text>1: Small website with simple JS to ddos a list of russian gov and propaganda websites. Works anywhere where those are not blocked (e.g. Ukraine). Link - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stop-russian-desinformation.near.page&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stop-russian-desinformation.near.page&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. Console tool for unplanned load testing Link - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;codesenberg&amp;#x2F;bombardier&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;tag&amp;#x2F;v1.2.5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;codesenberg&amp;#x2F;bombardier&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;tag&amp;#x2F;v1.2....&lt;/a&gt; Example usage - .&amp;#x2F;bombardier-linux-amd64 --duration=240h --connections=1000 --latencies &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lenta.ru&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lenta.ru&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;UPD: For some of the sites, you may need to run Chrome with CORS disabled: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alfilatov.com&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;run-chrome-without-cors&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alfilatov.com&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;run-chrome-without-cors&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Windows: Right click on desktop, add new shortcut, Add the target as &amp;quot;[PATH_TO_CHROME]\chrome.exe&amp;quot; --disable-web-security --disable-gpu --user-data-dir=~&amp;#x2F;chromeTemp , Click OK. OSX: open -n -a &amp;#x2F;Applications&amp;#x2F;Google\ Chrome.app&amp;#x2F;Contents&amp;#x2F;MacOS&amp;#x2F;Google\ Chrome --args --user-data-dir=&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;tmp&amp;#x2F;chrome_dev_test&amp;quot; --disable-web-security , Linux: google-chrome --disable-web-security</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/exclusive-ukraine-calls-hacker-underground-defend-against-russia-2022-02-24/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kingofhdds</author><text>&amp;lt;&amp;lt;ust FYI, Belarusians often refer to Donald Trump as the american Lukashenka.&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;p&gt;Not true. I&amp;#x27;m Belarusian, and it&amp;#x27;s the first time I&amp;#x27;m seeing this. I cannot say for every compatriot, of course, but &amp;quot;Belarusians often refer&amp;quot; implies something well-known, and it&amp;#x27;s not the case here. Truth be told, thoughts of majority of Belarusians do not revolve around US policy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lowry</author><text>Just FYI, Belarusians often refer to Donald Trump as the american Lukashenka. They share quite a few traits.</text></item><item><author>myth_drannon</author><text>Just FYI Belarus is not a democracy and the laws change at the whim of the rulers. Read the journal of this blogger who got arrested there &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;amp&amp;#x2F;blogs-trending-38804499&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;amp&amp;#x2F;blogs-trending-38804499&lt;/a&gt;, the people(the foreign nationals) who were in jail with him...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://media.dev.by/decree_media_kit_en.pdf</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>docdeek</author><text>I imagine all leaders share some traits no matter how good, evil, or truly monstrous they are. The reality is, however, that Americans can vote their leader out of office in a couple of years while in Belarus they just cannot.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lowry</author><text>Just FYI, Belarusians often refer to Donald Trump as the american Lukashenka. They share quite a few traits.</text></item><item><author>myth_drannon</author><text>Just FYI Belarus is not a democracy and the laws change at the whim of the rulers. Read the journal of this blogger who got arrested there &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;amp&amp;#x2F;blogs-trending-38804499&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;amp&amp;#x2F;blogs-trending-38804499&lt;/a&gt;, the people(the foreign nationals) who were in jail with him...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://media.dev.by/decree_media_kit_en.pdf</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CydeWeys</author><text>&amp;gt; She spoke at length about how we should accept that our children won&amp;#x27;t have regular jobs - they would have a few &amp;#x27;gig&amp;#x27; employments: driving a cab a few days each week before stocking shelves in the evening and maybe working part-time at an old-people&amp;#x27;s home.&lt;p&gt;This just sounds so staggeringly inefficient. A person doing one full-time job well is gonna easily beat out many people doing that job part-time (and thus poorly). Plus, think of all the extra unnecessary commuting that comes with doing lots of little jobs spread throughout the day vs just the one job. I don&amp;#x27;t know how anyone can seriously advocate that this state of the world would be an improvement for anyone, except possibly the employers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>null_object</author><text>Not really sure why this was originally flagged (or this is possibly a dupe of the original post which was flagged?), but even though the comments that I&amp;#x27;ve seen so far are giving it a negative spin I think there are quite a few important points in the article about the way in which our (I&amp;#x27;m generalizing about the broad HN demographic) quite privileged lifestyles do have a concomitant cost for &lt;i&gt;somebody&lt;/i&gt; who needs to service our day-to-day needs and wants.&lt;p&gt;This ranges from everything like online shopping (I bought a pair of trainers yesterday on a &lt;i&gt;Sunday&lt;/i&gt; afternoon, and they were shipped from the warehouse 2 hours later), to the people who are used in low-wage countries to make those trainers at a price I feel is &amp;#x27;affordable&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m reminded of a newspaper interview with a bank director here in Sweden a few years ago. She spoke at length about how we should accept that our children won&amp;#x27;t have regular jobs - they would have a few &amp;#x27;gig&amp;#x27; employments: driving a cab a few days each week before stocking shelves in the evening and maybe working part-time at an old-people&amp;#x27;s home. The obvious implication to me was that it was &lt;i&gt;other people&amp;#x27;s children&lt;/i&gt; she was talking about &lt;i&gt;not her&amp;#x27;s.&lt;/i&gt; On the contrary, &lt;i&gt;they&lt;/i&gt; would obviously be sitting in the back of the cab, on their way to their well-paid career in banking, just like their mother.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We’re all paying for someone else’s 4-hour work week, not ours</title><url>https://aninjusticemag.com/were-all-paying-for-someone-else-s-4-hour-work-week-not-ours-68b2168af55?gi=f8725c21cb1b</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marcus_holmes</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t this the dream of automation, though? That all those shitty jobs are replaced by robots, and the humans are left with only the interesting, creative, ones?&lt;p&gt;Those old pictures of banks, where there were huge rooms full of 100&amp;#x27;s of clerks, all busy doing double-entry book-keeping. Now that&amp;#x27;s all done by computers and the clerks are doing something else, almost certainly something more interesting.&lt;p&gt;The problem, of course, is that the benefits of automation are accruing to the owners. If Amazon manages to replace all their warehouse staff with robots, then the benefits go to the Amazon shareholders. Which is OK, because the shareholders funded the creation of the robots. But as a society, we need to spread this more. We need UBI.</text><parent_chain><item><author>null_object</author><text>Not really sure why this was originally flagged (or this is possibly a dupe of the original post which was flagged?), but even though the comments that I&amp;#x27;ve seen so far are giving it a negative spin I think there are quite a few important points in the article about the way in which our (I&amp;#x27;m generalizing about the broad HN demographic) quite privileged lifestyles do have a concomitant cost for &lt;i&gt;somebody&lt;/i&gt; who needs to service our day-to-day needs and wants.&lt;p&gt;This ranges from everything like online shopping (I bought a pair of trainers yesterday on a &lt;i&gt;Sunday&lt;/i&gt; afternoon, and they were shipped from the warehouse 2 hours later), to the people who are used in low-wage countries to make those trainers at a price I feel is &amp;#x27;affordable&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m reminded of a newspaper interview with a bank director here in Sweden a few years ago. She spoke at length about how we should accept that our children won&amp;#x27;t have regular jobs - they would have a few &amp;#x27;gig&amp;#x27; employments: driving a cab a few days each week before stocking shelves in the evening and maybe working part-time at an old-people&amp;#x27;s home. The obvious implication to me was that it was &lt;i&gt;other people&amp;#x27;s children&lt;/i&gt; she was talking about &lt;i&gt;not her&amp;#x27;s.&lt;/i&gt; On the contrary, &lt;i&gt;they&lt;/i&gt; would obviously be sitting in the back of the cab, on their way to their well-paid career in banking, just like their mother.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We’re all paying for someone else’s 4-hour work week, not ours</title><url>https://aninjusticemag.com/were-all-paying-for-someone-else-s-4-hour-work-week-not-ours-68b2168af55?gi=f8725c21cb1b</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>08-15</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t review for free.&lt;p&gt;Seriously. Every time you review for a journal and don&amp;#x27;t ask for a reasonable (say, $150&amp;#x2F;h) fee, you are enabling their predatory practices. Stop doing it.&lt;p&gt;Come to think about it, why not copy their pricing scheme? Sure, I&amp;#x27;ll review for this particular journal for $3000&amp;#x2F;h---or I agree to review for any of your journals, for a flat rate of $3000&amp;#x2F;week, even if there is nothing interesting to review...&lt;p&gt;But really, at the very least, stop doing it for free.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; otherwise I risk plagirizing my own writing.&lt;p&gt;No, you don&amp;#x27;t, because that&amp;#x27;s impossible. You might risk infringing the journal&amp;#x27;s copyright---but the journal only has a copyright on the final article, not on the words you submitted. Maybe that&amp;#x27;s what differentiates Biology from Physics: you guys thinks self-plagiarization (sp?) is a thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nacc</author><text>I always wonder why some disciplines are more open than others [0]. As someone in biology: the state of publication is very sad. We have to pay thousands to _submit_ a manuscript, and then:&lt;p&gt;- get rejected right away, or&lt;p&gt;- the manuscript gets distributed to fellow scientists (who reviews for free). The reviews get collected and manuscript rejected, or&lt;p&gt;- we get a chance to address the reviewer&amp;#x27;s concern, resubmit and gets rejected, or&lt;p&gt;- The editor does some proof-reading and publish the paper behide a paywall. I lose all the rights and I may need to ask the journal for permission to use part of it in my thesis, otherwise I risk plagirizing my own writing.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when I read preprints in computer science&amp;#x2F;physics&amp;#x2F;bioinformatics etc. I feel in those disciplines researchers are a big happy family, and we biologists are locked in a prisoner&amp;#x27;s dilemma because we can&amp;#x27;t communicate. Then we fight each other and the publication companies are selling tickets for others to watch.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.idea.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;fees-and-other-business-models-fund-open-access-journals&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.idea.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;fees-and-other-business-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I still won’t review for or publish with Elsevier</title><url>http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2016/12/12/why-i-still-wont-review-for-or-publish-with-elsevier-and-think-you-shouldnt-either/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>VodkaHaze</author><text>Holy crap this is depressing. I&amp;#x27;m happy that the state of the art in economics, currently, is to post working papers and preprints online.&lt;p&gt;This has the side effects of papers being cited before being published, and turning out to be bad, but is certainly a huge net positive overall.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s rare to not be able to find a free pdf preprint of an economics paper written in the last 6-7 years, which is great.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nacc</author><text>I always wonder why some disciplines are more open than others [0]. As someone in biology: the state of publication is very sad. We have to pay thousands to _submit_ a manuscript, and then:&lt;p&gt;- get rejected right away, or&lt;p&gt;- the manuscript gets distributed to fellow scientists (who reviews for free). The reviews get collected and manuscript rejected, or&lt;p&gt;- we get a chance to address the reviewer&amp;#x27;s concern, resubmit and gets rejected, or&lt;p&gt;- The editor does some proof-reading and publish the paper behide a paywall. I lose all the rights and I may need to ask the journal for permission to use part of it in my thesis, otherwise I risk plagirizing my own writing.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when I read preprints in computer science&amp;#x2F;physics&amp;#x2F;bioinformatics etc. I feel in those disciplines researchers are a big happy family, and we biologists are locked in a prisoner&amp;#x27;s dilemma because we can&amp;#x27;t communicate. Then we fight each other and the publication companies are selling tickets for others to watch.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.idea.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;fees-and-other-business-models-fund-open-access-journals&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.idea.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;fees-and-other-business-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why I still won’t review for or publish with Elsevier</title><url>http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2016/12/12/why-i-still-wont-review-for-or-publish-with-elsevier-and-think-you-shouldnt-either/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hypeatei</author><text>I find it amazing that your subscription to that bug thread survived all those years. Wow!</text><parent_chain><item><author>paol</author><text>Ha! I was subscribed to this bug for most of those 25 years. Note that Firefox didn&amp;#x27;t exist at the time, this was filed against Netscape Navigator.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t remember why I was subscribed to the bug, must have commented on it or something. Got the occasional email notification about it over the years, always got a chuckle out of it. Then a couple of days ago, lo and behold, it was fixed!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years</title><url>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33654</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>robin_reala</author><text>Me too: I remember, when I was first toying with the idea of building websites as a career, being fascinated by the idea of having a web site where the background was transparent or translucent down to the desktop behind. I always figured you should be able to do something like html { background: transparent; } and have it just work.&lt;p&gt;It’s worth pointing out that this bug fix doesn’t actually do that. For a start, it’s a preference that can be toggled on by the user or an extension, rather than a default thing that websites can choose. Probably for the best: it’d certainly open up new avenues for clickjacking.</text><parent_chain><item><author>paol</author><text>Ha! I was subscribed to this bug for most of those 25 years. Note that Firefox didn&amp;#x27;t exist at the time, this was filed against Netscape Navigator.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t remember why I was subscribed to the bug, must have commented on it or something. Got the occasional email notification about it over the years, always got a chuckle out of it. Then a couple of days ago, lo and behold, it was fixed!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years</title><url>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33654</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anonytrary</author><text>One thing I dislike about the iterator protocol is that it creates garbage around every value you&amp;#x27;re iterating over:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; let set = new Set([1,2,3]), it = set.values(), n; while(!(n = it.next()).done) console.log(n); &amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F; {value: 1, done: false} &amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F; {value: 2, done: false} &amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F; {value: 3, done: false} &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; I found this strange considering javascript has symbols now. Symbols would be perfect for the iterator protocol:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; while((n = it.next()) !== Symbol.iteratorDone) console.log(n) &amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F; 1 &amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F; 2 &amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F; 3 &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Not that this is too much of an issue, I&amp;#x27;m sure using yield&amp;#x2F;yield*&amp;#x2F;of will eventually optimize this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JavaScript iterator patterns</title><url>https://loige.co/javascript-iterator-patterns</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jondubois</author><text>Iterators and generators are powerful and can make code much cleaner&amp;#x2F;more declarative. Especially when used with async&amp;#x2F;await.&lt;p&gt;If anyone is interested, I recently released a real-time WebSocket library (Node.js and front end) which only uses Async Iterators to stream data (no event listener callbacks):&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hackernoon.com&amp;#x2F;getting-started-with-asyngular-bbe3dd1c716c&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hackernoon.com&amp;#x2F;getting-started-with-asyngular-bbe3dd...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Feedback welcome.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JavaScript iterator patterns</title><url>https://loige.co/javascript-iterator-patterns</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mmjaa</author><text>Shades of FF Chartwell, which is one of those amazing things you just think to yourself &amp;quot;well, this is going to take over the world of design and GUI&amp;#x27;s and so on&amp;quot;, only .. for some reason, it doesn&amp;#x27;t:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;typographica.org&amp;#x2F;typeface-reviews&amp;#x2F;chartwell&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;typographica.org&amp;#x2F;typeface-reviews&amp;#x2F;chartwell&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;FF Chartwell is a set of three fonts* that together create a remarkable set of tools for creating bar, line, and pie charts. It uses OpenType ligatures to perform its magic – a series of numbers can be transformed into clean, perfectly rendered graphs, as you type.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Having used Chartwell for a few projects, I&amp;#x27;m fairly convinced that this ligature trick is the way &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; GUI&amp;#x27;s should be done. In fact I&amp;#x27;ve got this hypothesis going, that every GUI toolkit&amp;#x2F;method is eventually just going to re-invent ligatures and type... ;)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fonts for Complex Data</title><url>https://www.typography.com/blog/fonts-for-complex-data</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>saintPirelli</author><text>There is actually regulation in the EU (and I suppose other countries) that requires a minimum height of the letters in the ingredient list. The wider typeface would not satisfy these regulations.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.foodlabels.co.uk&amp;#x2F;food_information_regulations_2014.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.foodlabels.co.uk&amp;#x2F;food_information_regulations_201...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fonts for Complex Data</title><url>https://www.typography.com/blog/fonts-for-complex-data</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tzs</author><text>Sone of these may be more skewed than they should be due to similar jobs sometimes having more than one title, with the different titles being strongly associated with gender.&lt;p&gt;For example, in a small organization one person might perform the duties of a janitor and of a maid. If that person is male he will probably be called a janitor, and if that person is female she will probably be called a maid.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Most Female and Male Occupations Since 1950</title><url>https://flowingdata.com/2017/09/11/most-female-and-male-occupations-since-1950/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>disconnected</author><text>Many of those shifts from a majority male workforce to a majority female workforce seem to happen quickly (or even abruptly) at around the 1960s&amp;#x2F;1970s.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not well versed in American history. Did anything significant happen then to cause this, or is it just an interesting anomaly?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Most Female and Male Occupations Since 1950</title><url>https://flowingdata.com/2017/09/11/most-female-and-male-occupations-since-1950/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bonaldi</author><text>Steve &lt;i&gt;did&lt;/i&gt; see it as a priority: Project Builder/Interface Builder &lt;i&gt;were&lt;/i&gt; &quot;prosumer&quot;, when launched. NeXT put a lot of effort into the developer tools, and not just for developers: the &quot;Why the World Needs A New Computer&quot; brochure had a whole spread devoted to Interface Builder, explaining how an end user could get most of the way towards creating their app, (with a mention of handing off to an engineer for the tricky parts, admittedly).&lt;p&gt;They definitely saw creating a magical user experience for developers as a priority. Good thing, too, as at one point WebObjects -- which had a GUI editor to create bindings for HTML in 1996! -- was all that was keeping them afloat.&lt;p&gt;(The NeXT dev environment is one of the things TBL credits for making him able to start the WWW, incidentally)&lt;p&gt;Apple, too, had its fair share of UX-work-for-Devs. MPW Worksheets were one of the first attempts in many years to think of a shell as more than just a line printer in a window. Dylan had a clever and elegant UI (when it wasn&apos;t crashing). Of course there was Hypercard, as you mentioned.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it&apos;s really hard for such things to get traction with developers, I suspect more than a little because of a &quot;I just need vi&quot; mentality, which reminds me of the hoary &quot;why would I want a toy mouse and pretty pictures when I have MS-DOS like a real man?&quot; nonsense from the WiMP Wars. Some devs do seem convinced that there&apos;s no better way of programming a computer than for them to churn out text (apart from maybe getting your IDE to churn out text for you) and so traction is hard to get for &quot;magical&quot; experiences.&lt;p&gt;As for developing for non-developers, that remains a really difficult problem, because the challenge is not really in expressing your _solution_ to a problem so much as it is in being able to state the problem clearly. Tools can only help so much with that, mostly in giving expressive power to people who didn&apos;t realise they were suited to programming.&lt;p&gt;Even given all that, Apple continues to pour work into Automator, an under-appreciated app which is really bringing the power of basic scripting to people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lukifer</author><text>I wish that before Steve had left us, someone would have been able to ask him about the lack of a magical user experience for developers. While Apple has always made &quot;closed&quot; hardware, the Apple II and the early Macs were delightful toyboxes for swaths of young people: BASIC, Hypercard, ResEdit, etc. They (we) learned, tinkered, explored, taking the concept of a &quot;bicycle for the mind&quot; to a whole new level.&lt;p&gt;There&apos;s a lot to like about modern Mac and iPhone development: the tools and the documentation are arguably better than they&apos;ve ever been, and the APIs have become absurdly powerful. But there&apos;s very little magic or UX to be found for the young and the new: even if you scrape together the $99 and brave the frustrating certificate process, it still takes a lot of overhead to make anything happen on the screen. (Recent improvements like ARC and storyboards help, but they&apos;re a band-aid.)&lt;p&gt;I think there remains a tremendous unfilled space in the computing world for usable &quot;prosumer&quot; programming, in the spirit of Hypercard. If the FSF types could pull their neckbeards out of their UNIX sphincters for five minutes, they&apos;d see that the real barrier to truly free software is software that&apos;s trivial to learn how to edit or create [1]. And if Steve had seen this as a priority, I have no doubt that he could have made it happen.&lt;p&gt;[1] Obviously, not all software could be written this way; we&apos;d still need engineers. But even web-enabled Hypercard-style apps would allow people to create a great deal of value for themselves and others, and give them the courage to venture deeper.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Against Nostalgia - Mike Daisey on Steve Jobs</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/opinion/jobs-looked-to-the-future.html</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xsmasher</author><text>In my lifetime, home computers have moved from being tinker-boxes that blink a few lights to consumer-ready products that non-hackers can use. Jobs helped that transition, much like Henry Ford helped the car make the same kind of transition.&lt;p&gt;That wasn&apos;t a mistake either - read the chapters in folklore.org where he fought tooth and nail against having any expansion or ports in the original mac. The openness of the Apple II was mostly Woz.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lukifer</author><text>I wish that before Steve had left us, someone would have been able to ask him about the lack of a magical user experience for developers. While Apple has always made &quot;closed&quot; hardware, the Apple II and the early Macs were delightful toyboxes for swaths of young people: BASIC, Hypercard, ResEdit, etc. They (we) learned, tinkered, explored, taking the concept of a &quot;bicycle for the mind&quot; to a whole new level.&lt;p&gt;There&apos;s a lot to like about modern Mac and iPhone development: the tools and the documentation are arguably better than they&apos;ve ever been, and the APIs have become absurdly powerful. But there&apos;s very little magic or UX to be found for the young and the new: even if you scrape together the $99 and brave the frustrating certificate process, it still takes a lot of overhead to make anything happen on the screen. (Recent improvements like ARC and storyboards help, but they&apos;re a band-aid.)&lt;p&gt;I think there remains a tremendous unfilled space in the computing world for usable &quot;prosumer&quot; programming, in the spirit of Hypercard. If the FSF types could pull their neckbeards out of their UNIX sphincters for five minutes, they&apos;d see that the real barrier to truly free software is software that&apos;s trivial to learn how to edit or create [1]. And if Steve had seen this as a priority, I have no doubt that he could have made it happen.&lt;p&gt;[1] Obviously, not all software could be written this way; we&apos;d still need engineers. But even web-enabled Hypercard-style apps would allow people to create a great deal of value for themselves and others, and give them the courage to venture deeper.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Against Nostalgia - Mike Daisey on Steve Jobs</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/opinion/jobs-looked-to-the-future.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>kstenerud</author><text>NixOS has a related problem in that you can&amp;#x27;t set the machine&amp;#x27;s MAC address without a hack:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; # Hack: Change the default MAC address after network but before dhcpcd runs systemd.services.setmacaddr = { script = &amp;#x27;&amp;#x27; &amp;#x2F;run&amp;#x2F;current-system&amp;#x2F;sw&amp;#x2F;bin&amp;#x2F;ip link set dev eth0 address ${macaddr} &amp;#x2F;run&amp;#x2F;current-system&amp;#x2F;sw&amp;#x2F;bin&amp;#x2F;systemctl stop dhcpcd.service &amp;#x2F;run&amp;#x2F;current-system&amp;#x2F;sw&amp;#x2F;bin&amp;#x2F;ip addr flush eth0 &amp;#x2F;run&amp;#x2F;current-system&amp;#x2F;sw&amp;#x2F;bin&amp;#x2F;systemctl start dhcpcd.service &amp;#x27;&amp;#x27;; wantedBy = [ &amp;quot;basic.target&amp;quot; ]; after = [ &amp;quot;dhcpcd.service&amp;quot; ]; }; &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; If you don&amp;#x27;t do this, it uses some black magic to decide the MAC address based on various hardware, making system migration and maintenance a nightmare.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nyx</author><text>Ahh, &amp;#x2F;etc&amp;#x2F;machine-id, we meet again... Last time I met you, you were causing my cloned VM to get the same DHCP address as its original and blow up my VM network, despite libvirt&amp;#x27;s virt-clone utility properly randomizing vNIC MAC addresses, because netplan defaults to using you as the DHCP client identifier. If only we could meet under more pleasant circumstances.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ubuntu 22.04 LTS servers and phased apt updates</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/Ubuntu2204ServerPhasedUpdates</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lima</author><text>virt-clone only takes care of the libvirt config but won&amp;#x27;t touch unique identifiers in your disk image.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2F;etc&amp;#x2F;machine-id isn&amp;#x27;t the only thing to worry about when duplicating a VM - think SSH host key, DHCP leases, various filesystem UUIDs, log files, MAC addresses in ifcfg-* files and udev-persistent-net rules...&lt;p&gt;You can use virt-sysprep[1] to clean up a disk image.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.libguestfs.org&amp;#x2F;virt-sysprep.1.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.libguestfs.org&amp;#x2F;virt-sysprep.1.html&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>nyx</author><text>Ahh, &amp;#x2F;etc&amp;#x2F;machine-id, we meet again... Last time I met you, you were causing my cloned VM to get the same DHCP address as its original and blow up my VM network, despite libvirt&amp;#x27;s virt-clone utility properly randomizing vNIC MAC addresses, because netplan defaults to using you as the DHCP client identifier. If only we could meet under more pleasant circumstances.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ubuntu 22.04 LTS servers and phased apt updates</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/Ubuntu2204ServerPhasedUpdates</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dave_sullivan</author><text>They are all player formed.&lt;p&gt;Another interesting aspect is that almost every in-game item is &amp;quot;player manufactured&amp;quot; by mining raw materials, refining those materials, using those refined materials to make items from blueprints, then sell those items to other players.&lt;p&gt;Each step in that cycle requires specialized skill trees, so it&amp;#x27;s usually not one person that does it all.&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t really have NPC shops and inventory is just what people are making and selling. &amp;quot;What to make&amp;quot; is itself informed by buyer demand and everything from raw material to finished items has a market set price.&lt;p&gt;Simply being a trader in Eve can be fun.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hellofunk</author><text>Who created this war, is it part of the initial game or are these &amp;quot;societies&amp;quot; forming ad-hoc by the players and making wars between them?</text></item><item><author>rkangel</author><text>Short version (from the point of view of an outsider to the events):&lt;p&gt;During the last big large scale conflict, an alliance called CO2 defected from its parent coalition The Imperium to the other side. This was a big loss to the Imperium - CO2 were one of their larger and better groups of fighters. It turned the tide of the war and the Imperium were left with emnity towards CO2 due to their betrayal.&lt;p&gt;In the time since then, Gigx who runs CO2 has (among other things) been annoying people inside and outside his alliance over various diplomatic incidents. One of those was TheJudge who was a leader in CO2 (but subordinate to gigx). Simultaneously TheJudge was being slowly talked into betraying CO2 by a couple members of the Imperium. This was significantly helped by the three of them being on a player elected group of representatives to the developers, that meets in person a few times a year.&lt;p&gt;TheJudge had enough power and control over the alliance and its assets that when he eventually decided to actually jump ship, he could sell off ships, space stations (&amp;#x27;citadels&amp;#x27;) and other expensive things owned by the alliance. The Imperium are taking credit for this betrayal - they consider it &amp;#x27;revenge&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;Up to now this is all classic Eve - betrayal by people you trust. The postscript is less nice though: gigx in a moment of anger asked in in game chat for real life contact details for TheJudge so that he could &amp;#x27;cut off his hands&amp;#x27;. This is obviously not OK and CCP banned gigx permanently. This has the side-effect of putting the final nail in the CO2 coffin.</text></item><item><author>hellofunk</author><text>I must be completely out of touch, because I could not make heads or tails of nearly any word in this article. In fact, I&amp;#x27;m so out of touch, I couldn&amp;#x27;t tell if I was reading a real news item or a piece of short fiction. Damn there some areas of the tech scene that are as foreign to me as, say, hitching a tent along the Antarctic coast.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Eve Players Pulled Off the Biggest Betrayal in Its History</title><url>https://kotaku.com/how-eve-players-pulled-off-the-biggest-betrayal-in-its-1806168400</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>graphitezepp</author><text>100% ad-hoc societies and only organic wars only here!</text><parent_chain><item><author>hellofunk</author><text>Who created this war, is it part of the initial game or are these &amp;quot;societies&amp;quot; forming ad-hoc by the players and making wars between them?</text></item><item><author>rkangel</author><text>Short version (from the point of view of an outsider to the events):&lt;p&gt;During the last big large scale conflict, an alliance called CO2 defected from its parent coalition The Imperium to the other side. This was a big loss to the Imperium - CO2 were one of their larger and better groups of fighters. It turned the tide of the war and the Imperium were left with emnity towards CO2 due to their betrayal.&lt;p&gt;In the time since then, Gigx who runs CO2 has (among other things) been annoying people inside and outside his alliance over various diplomatic incidents. One of those was TheJudge who was a leader in CO2 (but subordinate to gigx). Simultaneously TheJudge was being slowly talked into betraying CO2 by a couple members of the Imperium. This was significantly helped by the three of them being on a player elected group of representatives to the developers, that meets in person a few times a year.&lt;p&gt;TheJudge had enough power and control over the alliance and its assets that when he eventually decided to actually jump ship, he could sell off ships, space stations (&amp;#x27;citadels&amp;#x27;) and other expensive things owned by the alliance. The Imperium are taking credit for this betrayal - they consider it &amp;#x27;revenge&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;Up to now this is all classic Eve - betrayal by people you trust. The postscript is less nice though: gigx in a moment of anger asked in in game chat for real life contact details for TheJudge so that he could &amp;#x27;cut off his hands&amp;#x27;. This is obviously not OK and CCP banned gigx permanently. This has the side-effect of putting the final nail in the CO2 coffin.</text></item><item><author>hellofunk</author><text>I must be completely out of touch, because I could not make heads or tails of nearly any word in this article. In fact, I&amp;#x27;m so out of touch, I couldn&amp;#x27;t tell if I was reading a real news item or a piece of short fiction. Damn there some areas of the tech scene that are as foreign to me as, say, hitching a tent along the Antarctic coast.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Eve Players Pulled Off the Biggest Betrayal in Its History</title><url>https://kotaku.com/how-eve-players-pulled-off-the-biggest-betrayal-in-its-1806168400</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_kst_</author><text>Slide 31 says:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Actually, this is how arrays are handled in C. A C array is a set of consecutive memory addresses. The first value is pointed to by a pointer. int a[] = {1, 2, 3}; &amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F; create an array &amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F; a is just a pointer to the first element... &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; No, &amp;quot;a&amp;quot; is an array, not a pointer. Defining an array object does not create a pointer. The expression &amp;quot;a&amp;quot; is implicitly &lt;i&gt;converted&lt;/i&gt; to a pointer to the array&amp;#x27;s first element in most but not all contexts.&lt;p&gt;If &amp;quot;a&amp;quot; were nothing more than a pointer to the first element of the array, then &amp;quot;sizeof a&amp;quot; would yield the size of a pointer rather than the size of the array object.&lt;p&gt;This is all explained very well in section 6 of the comp.lang.c FAQ, &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.c-faq.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.c-faq.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>C for high level programmers (slides)</title><url>http://charliethe.ninja/slideshow/introtoc.html</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>I think the problem with learning C is that you need to learn stuff like make, autoconf, how the compiler + preprocessors work (what do all those flags even mean!?), how making &amp;quot;cross-platform&amp;quot; stuff works, how to pull in and use &amp;quot;libraries&amp;quot;, C-isms, how to test, etc. C itself is a very small and simple language, but the tooling and patterns are old and mysterious.&lt;p&gt;In college I learned how to program embedded systems with C (and ASM). Once I knew how to debug, build, and push it onto the device, it was surprisingly easy and beautiful. There&amp;#x27;s no confusing and magical abstractions, it&amp;#x27;s just you and the hardware. You pull up the microcontroller&amp;#x27;s manual, and as long as you have an idea of what the lingo means, you can make it dance to your will.&lt;p&gt;Something I disliked was that with both microcontrollers I used, there was dark magic involved in building and uploading your binary. One of the devices provided examples for a specific IDE, so I imported that example and used it as a base. I could keep modifying it and keep adding files, but I never managed to setup a &amp;quot;new&amp;quot; project. The other device was similar, but instead of using an IDE it provided a Makefile, which was nicer.&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know any good resources on learning and writing real-world C? I&amp;#x27;ve looked at C projects here and there over the years, with the most interesting being GNU Coreutils... But even if I can eventually understand what some code does, how do I learn why it does it that way?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d love for a guide that showed things like: &amp;quot;do X and Y because of this and that&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;test X and Y by running the following&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;write tests using XYZ&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;debug X using Tool A, and Y using Tool B&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;pull in this library by copying these files into these places, and use it by adding the following lines to the following files&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;generate docs by pulling in this tool and set it up by doing the following&amp;quot;, etc.&lt;p&gt;In the web world there&amp;#x27;s a massive set of problems, but it tends to be easy to find &amp;quot;boilerplate&amp;quot; generators that will get you up and running. And after you&amp;#x27;ve tried out a few of them, you can usually pick up how people are mixing and matching different tools.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Another comment linked to &amp;quot;Learn C The Hard Way&amp;quot; [0], and after browsing through the chapters it seems to cover a lot of the topics I&amp;#x27;m interested in.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;c.learncodethehardway.org&amp;#x2F;book&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;c.learncodethehardway.org&amp;#x2F;book&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>C for high level programmers (slides)</title><url>http://charliethe.ninja/slideshow/introtoc.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>Gordonjcp</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been driving a 27-year-old Range Rover for a year. Sometimes I need to hold the ignition key close to the receiver in the rear window for it to lock. Sometimes I need to jiggle the steering lock a little for the flappy door to close and tell it the key is out, before it will lock. Sometimes I need to poke the &amp;quot;petrol flap&amp;quot; button a couple of times before the flap will open.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the radio doesn&amp;#x27;t really get a good signal on Radio 4 and I need to press the SEEK button on the steering wheel.&lt;p&gt;The dashboard displays were fuzzy and hard-to-read, but I wiped the dust off and they were fine. They did go totally dark once when I was fiddling with the brightness control, but I turned them back on.&lt;p&gt;It has never need rebooted. It has never forgotten how to be fuelled up. It has never just turned off all its electronics at speed on the motorway. The UI doesn&amp;#x27;t show any information beyond speed, engine RPM, coolant temperature and fuel level, unless there&amp;#x27;s some sort of fault indication up.&lt;p&gt;I am really not convinced about buying a modern car.&lt;p&gt;(My last car was also a 27-year-old Range Rover, which I still have)</text><parent_chain><item><author>dependsontheq</author><text>I wouldn&amp;#x27;t call it &amp;quot;woes&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I have been driving an VW ID 3 since last year, it runs their custom Android OS System and should have all of the latest features. It has been quite an experience.&lt;p&gt;The car is fine, basic driving functions are fine, even the driver assist features are generally fine if they are running.&lt;p&gt;The software running all the displays and the &amp;quot;augmented&amp;quot; heads up display is ridiculous.&lt;p&gt;The car one did shut down all displays (including speed) while driving on the Autobahn (error message: no input), I stopped in the next town, charging the car was no longer possible. I tried to find out how to do hard reboot, my wife found a thread in a forum, &amp;quot;leave the car with all smart keys, go at least 50 meters from the car, wait for 15 minutes&amp;quot;. That did the trick.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the voice recognition comes on and does something weird, I have no idea why or what it tries to do, sometimes it starts a specific radio station, it has not once recognized anything I said.&lt;p&gt;Some Update added a blue light glowing in front of the driver in the small LED strip, it just ominously glows for a second. It looks a bit like a warning, I have no idea what it is warning about, it just happens sometimes.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes in the night the alarm starts and wakes the neighborhood, but I was able to solve that by disabling the proximity features in the smart key system.&lt;p&gt;The navigation forgets that I can charge the car at home after every update. 20 kilometers before I am home it recommends I should charge for 2 hours.&lt;p&gt;The UI&amp;#x2F;UX is unintuitive and ugly. It shows a lot of useless information in weird places and a lot of stuff is hard to find.&lt;p&gt;The list of weird experiences I had with this car is endless, and a lot of is just just bad software development, like the issue on the Autobahn.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Porsche boss faces software woes keeping VW a step behind Tesla</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-09-01/porsche-boss-faces-software-woes-keeping-vw-steps-behind-tesla-tsla</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>temac</author><text>Some of the bugs and ergonomics problem you describe seem dangerous. The regulators should come in and ban those cars until they are fixed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dependsontheq</author><text>I wouldn&amp;#x27;t call it &amp;quot;woes&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I have been driving an VW ID 3 since last year, it runs their custom Android OS System and should have all of the latest features. It has been quite an experience.&lt;p&gt;The car is fine, basic driving functions are fine, even the driver assist features are generally fine if they are running.&lt;p&gt;The software running all the displays and the &amp;quot;augmented&amp;quot; heads up display is ridiculous.&lt;p&gt;The car one did shut down all displays (including speed) while driving on the Autobahn (error message: no input), I stopped in the next town, charging the car was no longer possible. I tried to find out how to do hard reboot, my wife found a thread in a forum, &amp;quot;leave the car with all smart keys, go at least 50 meters from the car, wait for 15 minutes&amp;quot;. That did the trick.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the voice recognition comes on and does something weird, I have no idea why or what it tries to do, sometimes it starts a specific radio station, it has not once recognized anything I said.&lt;p&gt;Some Update added a blue light glowing in front of the driver in the small LED strip, it just ominously glows for a second. It looks a bit like a warning, I have no idea what it is warning about, it just happens sometimes.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes in the night the alarm starts and wakes the neighborhood, but I was able to solve that by disabling the proximity features in the smart key system.&lt;p&gt;The navigation forgets that I can charge the car at home after every update. 20 kilometers before I am home it recommends I should charge for 2 hours.&lt;p&gt;The UI&amp;#x2F;UX is unintuitive and ugly. It shows a lot of useless information in weird places and a lot of stuff is hard to find.&lt;p&gt;The list of weird experiences I had with this car is endless, and a lot of is just just bad software development, like the issue on the Autobahn.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Porsche boss faces software woes keeping VW a step behind Tesla</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-09-01/porsche-boss-faces-software-woes-keeping-vw-steps-behind-tesla-tsla</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nirkalimi</author><text>I read this book cover to cover.&lt;p&gt;For someone self taught, who has a beginner understanding of Python (control structures, data types, classes, functions, loops, etc) this is undoubtedly the easiest way to introduce them to Algorithms and Abstract Data structures. This really takes a beginner to an intermediate level in small easily digestible chunks.&lt;p&gt;My question to you now, HN: are there any books on the market that can guide a beginner&amp;#x2F;itermediate (who knows Python and perhaps a framework like Django) to better understand the ins and outs of programming for the web? I am not talking about getting an app up and running, I am talking about understanding the flow of data, maybe things like WSGI, security, APIs, etc. Something that can really take an intermediate to an &amp;quot;Expert&amp;quot; level.&lt;p&gt;Any Suggestions?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures</title><url>http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/pythonds/index.html</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lpnotes</author><text>We&amp;#x27;ve had a couple of virtual study group Google Hangout meetings about this book at CodeBuddies -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://hangouts.codebuddies.org/category/data-structures-and-algorithms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hangouts.codebuddies.org&amp;#x2F;category&amp;#x2F;data-structures-and...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;IMO this is one of those books where it helps to talk about the material out loud&amp;#x2F;screenshare. The material can sometimes be dense.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures</title><url>http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/pythonds/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>Rooster61</author><text>&amp;gt; The same thing happens to programming positions.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t stress how important this is. Folks going to things like boot camps or other educational outlets that focus on one language will utterly kill their career if they aren&amp;#x27;t aware of how fast things move. If you don&amp;#x27;t learn the underlying abstractions and paradigms that take various forms in different languages, you will get left in the dust in a matter of a few years.&lt;p&gt;The best programmers I&amp;#x27;ve ever worked with got excited about programming patterns and paradigms, not frameworks and syntactic sugar. Those are also the ones I paid the most attention to.&lt;p&gt;Bottom line for both software and IT engineers: you learn to learn, not just to do.</text><parent_chain><item><author>klodolph</author><text>This has been happening since the 1970s. Or earlier. I don’t really think of it as an apocalypse. IT skills have never had a long shelf life. Any time you are a technology expert at your company, in IT, the technology landscape will shift under you. This is the Red Queen Hypothesis in action. People who ran mainframes in the 1980s became trusted experts and then most of the jobs evaporated. Same thing happened to people running critical VAX or Unix systems. Your skills are only valuable as long as the related technology is.&lt;p&gt;The same thing happens to programming positions.&lt;p&gt;But I think the good news is missing from this article—IT jobs are, overall, sticking around or increasing in number. (According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the jobs are growing “faster than average for all occupations”). You do have to keep updating your skill set, but it’s not like manufacturing, where efficiencies eliminate jobs altogether or move them to completely different sectors. And there is that ageism to worry about, and uncertainty.&lt;p&gt;I’m personally more worried about some of the other remaining white-collar office jobs, like the accountants, paralegals, HR, various banking positions, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The creeping IT apocalypse</title><url>https://forrestbrazeal.com/2019/01/16/cloud-irregular-the-creeping-it-apocalypse/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Ruxbin1986</author><text>There are hundreds of thousands of people or System Administrators that have made life long careers out of managing networks, server farms, windows and linux systems since the early 90s. It&amp;#x27;s not fancy as software development or drives business value but work that needs to be done.&lt;p&gt;The Cloud greatly diminishes and in some cases completely eliminates that work. The only thing left is actual software development.</text><parent_chain><item><author>klodolph</author><text>This has been happening since the 1970s. Or earlier. I don’t really think of it as an apocalypse. IT skills have never had a long shelf life. Any time you are a technology expert at your company, in IT, the technology landscape will shift under you. This is the Red Queen Hypothesis in action. People who ran mainframes in the 1980s became trusted experts and then most of the jobs evaporated. Same thing happened to people running critical VAX or Unix systems. Your skills are only valuable as long as the related technology is.&lt;p&gt;The same thing happens to programming positions.&lt;p&gt;But I think the good news is missing from this article—IT jobs are, overall, sticking around or increasing in number. (According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the jobs are growing “faster than average for all occupations”). You do have to keep updating your skill set, but it’s not like manufacturing, where efficiencies eliminate jobs altogether or move them to completely different sectors. And there is that ageism to worry about, and uncertainty.&lt;p&gt;I’m personally more worried about some of the other remaining white-collar office jobs, like the accountants, paralegals, HR, various banking positions, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The creeping IT apocalypse</title><url>https://forrestbrazeal.com/2019/01/16/cloud-irregular-the-creeping-it-apocalypse/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Alupis</author><text>What features are missing specifically?&lt;p&gt;As a happy paying (both corporate and personal) Bitwarden user, the only gripe I had was the lack of multiple-profiles on the same device (which was recently added and works great). We came from KeePass though, so we&amp;#x27;re likely a more &amp;quot;spartan&amp;quot; user of password managers than some.</text><parent_chain><item><author>snoopy_telex</author><text>I went through the process evaluating Bitwarden recently. It&amp;#x27;s a shame but it&amp;#x27;s many years behind 1Password and their roadmap doesn&amp;#x27;t really appear... hopeful towards catching up.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m waiting for someone to actually build a better 1Password, learning from the mistakes, rather then migrating to something else right now.</text></item><item><author>dkonofalski</author><text>As someone who has been using 1Password from almost the very beginning, I think the issue with the forum stuff is trust. If you&amp;#x27;re trusting a company to store your passwords and credentials in the cloud, then there&amp;#x27;s a certain level of transparency and openness that&amp;#x27;s required. I also have not had any issues with the subscription model, despite using standalone vaults for as long as possible, and the performance is fine for me on v8 (but I also have the newest Macbook with max RAM so that might not be the case for people on older&amp;#x2F;less-capable machines).&lt;p&gt;I, personally, am not happy about the way that this or the subscription update have been handled because, to me, it makes me question how they would communicate something far more serious. If they&amp;#x27;re delisting forum posts because of a decision to not update their app in the Mac App Store yet, how can I be sure that they won&amp;#x27;t delist forum posts when they have a data breach? How can I be sure that they&amp;#x27;re not obfuscating other things that are more important than forum posts to try and sweep bigger issues under the rug? It&amp;#x27;s like the old adage goes - &amp;quot;If you&amp;#x27;re willing to lie about something that doesn&amp;#x27;t matter, what are you willing to do about something that does?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;These moves are forcing me to, at the very least, start looking at a new password manager. 1Password is still the best, in my opinion, in terms of features and usability but that won&amp;#x27;t always be the case and transparency and respect for your users are far more important to me than niche features. If I can&amp;#x27;t trust your company over something small, there&amp;#x27;s no way I&amp;#x27;m going to continue trusting them with some of the most important info in my life. I currently use both LastPass (not a fan) and 1Password. I&amp;#x27;ll be re-evaluating KeePass and Bitwarden because of this.</text></item><item><author>n42</author><text>Why does 1Password always bring so much controversy in discussion forums? I’ve been a happy paying customer for 10 (!) years. I was there for the migration to a subscription model. I introduced Teams at my company eagerly when it launched. I updated to 1P8 recently without thinking about it, saw the new UI, thought “huh, neat” and moved on. Performance is fine. I barely noticed the change.&lt;p&gt;I am a professional, and don’t mind paying their very reasonable subscription so they can continue to actively maintain the security and functionality of the software that literally protects my entire digital identity. I’m baffled by how many people in our industry are upset by their business model. If you’re making six figures writing software and think $3&amp;#x2F;month for a cornerstone of your security suite is offensive, you need to grow the fuck up, frankly.&lt;p&gt;Likewise, I don’t care how they moderate their forums.&lt;p&gt;The comments in these threads always feel so self entitled. Use another piece of software if those things are important to you. Plenty of us understand and appreciate the value these guys are creating for us. For me, nothing compares. I’ve tried Keepass, Bitwarden, Apple’s built-in thing, Enpass; they are all either amateurish or missing key functionality that 1Password has that I use every day. All the same, I’m happy they exist. Some day I may need them. I hope more pop up.&lt;p&gt;Anyways, if you’re a dev or employee at 1P I’m writing this for you. Sorry about the jerks. Plenty of us out here love what you are doing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>1Password delisting forum posts critical of their new Electron based 1Password 8</title><url>https://1password.community/discussion/128419/version-8-in-the-apple-app-store/p6</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ValentineC</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a 1Password user, and the main thing that stopped me from using Bitwarden was them not having Account Switching.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;ve managed to implement it in their clients in March this year [1], and I&amp;#x27;ve been moving some of my shared credentials over to a self-hosted Vaultwarden server.&lt;p&gt;What other features do you think are missing from Bitwarden?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bitwarden.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;account-switching-phased-rollout-for-bitwarden-clients&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bitwarden.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;account-switching-phased-rollout-...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>snoopy_telex</author><text>I went through the process evaluating Bitwarden recently. It&amp;#x27;s a shame but it&amp;#x27;s many years behind 1Password and their roadmap doesn&amp;#x27;t really appear... hopeful towards catching up.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m waiting for someone to actually build a better 1Password, learning from the mistakes, rather then migrating to something else right now.</text></item><item><author>dkonofalski</author><text>As someone who has been using 1Password from almost the very beginning, I think the issue with the forum stuff is trust. If you&amp;#x27;re trusting a company to store your passwords and credentials in the cloud, then there&amp;#x27;s a certain level of transparency and openness that&amp;#x27;s required. I also have not had any issues with the subscription model, despite using standalone vaults for as long as possible, and the performance is fine for me on v8 (but I also have the newest Macbook with max RAM so that might not be the case for people on older&amp;#x2F;less-capable machines).&lt;p&gt;I, personally, am not happy about the way that this or the subscription update have been handled because, to me, it makes me question how they would communicate something far more serious. If they&amp;#x27;re delisting forum posts because of a decision to not update their app in the Mac App Store yet, how can I be sure that they won&amp;#x27;t delist forum posts when they have a data breach? How can I be sure that they&amp;#x27;re not obfuscating other things that are more important than forum posts to try and sweep bigger issues under the rug? It&amp;#x27;s like the old adage goes - &amp;quot;If you&amp;#x27;re willing to lie about something that doesn&amp;#x27;t matter, what are you willing to do about something that does?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;These moves are forcing me to, at the very least, start looking at a new password manager. 1Password is still the best, in my opinion, in terms of features and usability but that won&amp;#x27;t always be the case and transparency and respect for your users are far more important to me than niche features. If I can&amp;#x27;t trust your company over something small, there&amp;#x27;s no way I&amp;#x27;m going to continue trusting them with some of the most important info in my life. I currently use both LastPass (not a fan) and 1Password. I&amp;#x27;ll be re-evaluating KeePass and Bitwarden because of this.</text></item><item><author>n42</author><text>Why does 1Password always bring so much controversy in discussion forums? I’ve been a happy paying customer for 10 (!) years. I was there for the migration to a subscription model. I introduced Teams at my company eagerly when it launched. I updated to 1P8 recently without thinking about it, saw the new UI, thought “huh, neat” and moved on. Performance is fine. I barely noticed the change.&lt;p&gt;I am a professional, and don’t mind paying their very reasonable subscription so they can continue to actively maintain the security and functionality of the software that literally protects my entire digital identity. I’m baffled by how many people in our industry are upset by their business model. If you’re making six figures writing software and think $3&amp;#x2F;month for a cornerstone of your security suite is offensive, you need to grow the fuck up, frankly.&lt;p&gt;Likewise, I don’t care how they moderate their forums.&lt;p&gt;The comments in these threads always feel so self entitled. Use another piece of software if those things are important to you. Plenty of us understand and appreciate the value these guys are creating for us. For me, nothing compares. I’ve tried Keepass, Bitwarden, Apple’s built-in thing, Enpass; they are all either amateurish or missing key functionality that 1Password has that I use every day. All the same, I’m happy they exist. Some day I may need them. I hope more pop up.&lt;p&gt;Anyways, if you’re a dev or employee at 1P I’m writing this for you. Sorry about the jerks. Plenty of us out here love what you are doing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>1Password delisting forum posts critical of their new Electron based 1Password 8</title><url>https://1password.community/discussion/128419/version-8-in-the-apple-app-store/p6</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fjklap</author><text>&amp;quot;Following Bernal’s dismissal, Tesla also cut off his access to the FSD Beta system in the vehicle he personally owns, a 2021 Tesla Model 3, despite having no safety “strikes” in the software.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This shows that you don&amp;#x27;t own a Tesla, it owns you. What was Musk saying again about the freezing of the bank accounts of the Canadian truckers?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla fired an employee after he posted driverless tech reviews on YouTube</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/15/tesla-fired-employee-who-posted-fsd-beta-videos-as-ai-addict-on-youtube.html</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kappattack</author><text>Sounds like he broke some kinda of NDA which he probably signed himself, resulting in removal from the beta program and being let go from his position. That kinda sucks, because it seems his content did have a positive spin to it and it doesnt seem like he meant to hurt anyone or the company.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t see whats wrong with the action taken though. He probably agreed to these terms and then he broke them. Whether he was aware that he was going against his own agreement or not is out of the question. I don&amp;#x27;t like Tesla as a company or a car manufacturer (nothing personal, I just wouldnt buy their cars) and I agree that this response was probably to be expected by anyone who was aware of the terms surrounding their employment and the internal beta access that position grants them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla fired an employee after he posted driverless tech reviews on YouTube</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/15/tesla-fired-employee-who-posted-fsd-beta-videos-as-ai-addict-on-youtube.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>vanusa</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Paraphrasing his own words, he learned a lot, met some good people, found some good practices that he&amp;#x27;s going to carry forward with him... isn&amp;#x27;t that a successful outcome?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I agree that it definitely doesn&amp;#x27;t read like a straight tale of horror and abuse. But I don&amp;#x27;t see how can you sum it up it by saying &amp;quot;he found some good practices&amp;quot; when he takes care to point out, for example:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Everything is Urgent (but takes forever)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a grind, day-in, day-out, with lots of made up stress.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Unfortunately, the majority of my time is spent doing “program” style work which leaves about 10% of my time for technical work. Ultimately this is not what I want to be doing with my career.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;So the work sucked basically. And definitely wasn&amp;#x27;t what he was expecting.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;One of the projects I was assigned to had an engineer who had never done web development (didn’t know HTTP, HTML, CSS or Javascript) was tasked with doing the front end system design for a React application (and the API that would power the UI).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Standard sweatshop practices, sounds like.&lt;p&gt;Oh and did we mention on-call? About which he says:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;To be blunt: it sucks.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Which (among other reasons) is why he quit after 10 months. Which is definitely not a step to be taken lightly, because (aside from losing on the compensation) it basically amounts to a resume stain.&lt;p&gt;Now of course he said positive things as well, and it wasn&amp;#x27;t a simple condemnation of Amazon, by any stretch. But still -- it strikes me as rather strange that you are somehow able sum it up as &amp;quot;he had good things happen to him there&amp;quot; and it was a &amp;quot;succesful outcome&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;To my ears, his experience there read like a very mixed bag.&lt;p&gt;My paraphrase of his report would be: &amp;quot;You learn a lot there, but it&amp;#x27;s a grind that will suck you dry before you know it.&amp;quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>strgcmc</author><text>I see a lot of these comments have taken to a kind of Amazon-bashing and venting their own experiences, where the author actually... didn&amp;#x27;t?&lt;p&gt;I thought the author was incredibly fair&amp;#x2F;objective, and at least the way I read it, it wasn&amp;#x27;t so much that he had such a miserable experience or could only stomach 10 months of pain&amp;#x2F;abuse (in fact if you actually read to the end, he praises his manager, his teammates, etc.), and more so that it only took him 10 months to realize that the company culture and way-of-working was not aligned with his personal preferences. He does have legitimate complaints about parts of his experience, and makes some keen observations about the consequences and tradeoffs of Amazon choosing to adopt the culture that it does (though I also think he&amp;#x27;s wrong about a few things too), but overall it&amp;#x27;s less of a &amp;quot;Amazon == bad&amp;quot; piece and more of a &amp;quot;this is why it wasn&amp;#x27;t to my taste&amp;quot; reflection.&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I would congratulate the author, and think of this as a success-story. Paraphrasing his own words, he learned a lot, met some good people, found some good practices that he&amp;#x27;s going to carry forward with him... isn&amp;#x27;t that a successful outcome (minus the annoyance of another round of job hunting, but hey in this market, another job hop is probably just an opportunity to level up comp, rather than an existential threat that you might be unemployed and starve)? Obviously the team&amp;#x2F;org he was in is suffering major attribution problems, and that&amp;#x27;s obviously a bad thing, but that&amp;#x27;s not his problem either.&lt;p&gt;Note: in case it wasn&amp;#x27;t clear, I do work within Amazon, but these opinions are my own, not representing my employer, blah blah</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months</title><url>https://benadam.me/thoughts/my-experience-at-amazon/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>haswell</author><text>I appreciate your comment and the nuance it brings to the conversation, but I also wonder if some of this is a distinction without a difference.&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t the only difference between the Amazon-bashing and OP&amp;#x27;s take just a matter of delivery, tact and perspective? I personally prefer a communication style that doesn&amp;#x27;t involve bashing, and I would probably choose to write a post much like the OP, but I think it&amp;#x27;s also very charitable to Amazon, almost to a fault.&lt;p&gt;For example, section 3: &amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;Everything is Urgent (but takes forever)&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot; resonates with me deeply, because many of the issues described are similar to the issues I face at a different platform company. These issues weren&amp;#x27;t always present (I&amp;#x27;ve been here long enough to see the growing pains evolve), and my conclusion isn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;this just isn&amp;#x27;t the right place for me&amp;quot;, but rather &amp;quot;the company is trying to continue operating in a manner that only works in small orgs, and must make deep fundamental changes going forward&amp;quot;. Now, to be fair, if that change doesn&amp;#x27;t happen, then it does become a place that &amp;quot;isn&amp;#x27;t for me&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;But &amp;quot;This isn&amp;#x27;t for me&amp;quot; implies it&amp;#x27;s a matter of personal preference, and perfectly fine for some folks, but some of these issues are deep, fundamental problems that must be solved and likely require changes in the org or every person who takes that role going forward will reach the same conclusion (or someone who&amp;#x27;s too desperate to care will just deal with it). That doesn&amp;#x27;t make the underlying problem go away.&lt;p&gt;Realizing that a place isn&amp;#x27;t for you and thinking about it that way is arguably healthier than getting angry about it and staying in that environment. But the reason that place isn&amp;#x27;t for you might still stem from organizational issues that make Amazon (or any company with similar problems) arguably &amp;quot;not the right place&amp;quot; for just about &lt;i&gt;anyone&lt;/i&gt;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>strgcmc</author><text>I see a lot of these comments have taken to a kind of Amazon-bashing and venting their own experiences, where the author actually... didn&amp;#x27;t?&lt;p&gt;I thought the author was incredibly fair&amp;#x2F;objective, and at least the way I read it, it wasn&amp;#x27;t so much that he had such a miserable experience or could only stomach 10 months of pain&amp;#x2F;abuse (in fact if you actually read to the end, he praises his manager, his teammates, etc.), and more so that it only took him 10 months to realize that the company culture and way-of-working was not aligned with his personal preferences. He does have legitimate complaints about parts of his experience, and makes some keen observations about the consequences and tradeoffs of Amazon choosing to adopt the culture that it does (though I also think he&amp;#x27;s wrong about a few things too), but overall it&amp;#x27;s less of a &amp;quot;Amazon == bad&amp;quot; piece and more of a &amp;quot;this is why it wasn&amp;#x27;t to my taste&amp;quot; reflection.&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I would congratulate the author, and think of this as a success-story. Paraphrasing his own words, he learned a lot, met some good people, found some good practices that he&amp;#x27;s going to carry forward with him... isn&amp;#x27;t that a successful outcome (minus the annoyance of another round of job hunting, but hey in this market, another job hop is probably just an opportunity to level up comp, rather than an existential threat that you might be unemployed and starve)? Obviously the team&amp;#x2F;org he was in is suffering major attribution problems, and that&amp;#x27;s obviously a bad thing, but that&amp;#x27;s not his problem either.&lt;p&gt;Note: in case it wasn&amp;#x27;t clear, I do work within Amazon, but these opinions are my own, not representing my employer, blah blah</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months</title><url>https://benadam.me/thoughts/my-experience-at-amazon/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Certified</author><text>I got the pleasure of meeting David Byrne and having a lunch with him at Affrah Mediterranean in Richardson, TX in the late 2000s. It was near the end of my stint at Hanson Robotics for the exhibition &amp;quot;Souls &amp;amp; Machines&amp;quot; at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, Spain. He voiced one of our robots singing. He was, without a question, the most down to earth celebrity I have met to this day. I left that lunch struck how genuinely kind and encouraging he was, even to me as a lowly intern early in my career. I try to channel a bit of him at that lunch anytime I’m working with anyone cutting their teeth on anything new. We all need a little bit of kindness and encouragement at that stage.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Once in a Lifetime</title><url>https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2022/once-in-a-lifetime/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kaycebasques</author><text>Happy to see another Talking Heads (TH) fanatic.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Pull Up The Roots&lt;/i&gt; has been the most impactful TH song for me so far. I was obsessed with it for about 6 months. I literally listened to it probably 2-3 times a day for those 6 months. I was in a point of my life where I felt like I needed radical change so &amp;quot;pull up the roots&amp;quot; was a powerful message for me. Also I love how weird and chaotic the message is and the song is just downright catchy to me.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=tQS6XfuH2wE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=tQS6XfuH2wE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;That whole &lt;i&gt;Speaking In Tongues&lt;/i&gt; album is quite good. Definitely my favorite TH album. Great name for an album and very attractive cover art.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;True Stories&lt;/i&gt; is also a very fun peak into the 80s. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;True_Stories_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;True_Stories_(film)&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Once in a Lifetime</title><url>https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2022/once-in-a-lifetime/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wool_gather</author><text>Particularly in this case we should note that while there may be lost freedom for some developers, there is an &lt;i&gt;increase&lt;/i&gt; in freedom for some users. They gain the freedom to explore the wares available in the app market without spending (as much) time worrying about bad actors.</text><parent_chain><item><author>avip</author><text>Alas, a walled garden is not the opposite of freedom. Indeed, in many places, living in a walled garden will make you factually freeer than your fellows outside.</text></item><item><author>pashabitz</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s important to look at the broader issue: &amp;quot;App stores&amp;quot; are walled gardens, policed by corporations and are the opposite of freedom. The web is open and free. We made a deal with the devil when we collectively decided to write and use apps and not the web. This is just one symptom.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My App Is Dead in the Water</title><url>https://medium.com/@mds6058/my-app-is-dead-in-the-water-93a97a137eff</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Dotnaught</author><text>Your argument misrepresents the metaphor. It&amp;#x27;s the wall that&amp;#x27;s the barrier to freedom, not what goes on within.</text><parent_chain><item><author>avip</author><text>Alas, a walled garden is not the opposite of freedom. Indeed, in many places, living in a walled garden will make you factually freeer than your fellows outside.</text></item><item><author>pashabitz</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s important to look at the broader issue: &amp;quot;App stores&amp;quot; are walled gardens, policed by corporations and are the opposite of freedom. The web is open and free. We made a deal with the devil when we collectively decided to write and use apps and not the web. This is just one symptom.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My App Is Dead in the Water</title><url>https://medium.com/@mds6058/my-app-is-dead-in-the-water-93a97a137eff</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>schickling</author><text>Hi, co-founder of Graphcool here. It&amp;#x27;s very exciting to see AWS adopting GraphQL as a part of their offering. GraphQL in combination with serverless functions is a great fit to build applications quickly and shines in the use case described by AppSync.&lt;p&gt;P.S. We&amp;#x27;ll soon release a few example of how to use AppSync together with Graphcool (which works really well together!)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and off-line capabilities</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-appsync/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tal_berzniz</author><text>Amazon is amazing at creating scaleable and reliable services, but their UX and the way they announce new products is awful.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s room for startups to wrap these services into something more usable. There are already good examples: netlify, graph.cool, dashbird and others.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS AppSync – Build data-driven apps with real-time and off-line capabilities</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-appsync/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>egypturnash</author><text>This gave me hope when I saw it yesterday morning. For once, some news that sounded like something the &lt;i&gt;heros&lt;/i&gt; of a cyberpunk novel would have been doing, instead of another corporation being even more horrible than a supposedly-parodic fictional corporation with a technology to abuse for profit.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbb9d/hackers-are-spamming-businesses-receipt-printers-with-antiwork-manifestos</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>The article suggests it&amp;#x27;s probably just mass blasting to any open port 9100 (HP Jetdirect) on the internet. Hoping it&amp;#x27;s something more sophisticated, as the thought of random bosses having to police printers is pretty amusing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbb9d/hackers-are-spamming-businesses-receipt-printers-with-antiwork-manifestos</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pg</author><text>There is a similar trajectory in what you choose to build. In stage 1 you write programs that are conspicuously missing features; in stage 2 you write programs that have too many features (and yet may still be missing some important ones); in stage 3 you write programs that do exactly what&apos;s needed.&lt;p&gt;My experience suggests that one good way to speed the transition to stage 3 is to try to make your programs short. When I was writing &lt;i&gt;On Lisp&lt;/i&gt; I spent a lot of time working on programs that had to be short enough to be reproduced in the book, and this cured me of the tendency to pile on features.&lt;p&gt;Rtm&apos;s example probably helped too. His source code is as laconic as he is in person.</text><parent_chain><item><author>axiom</author><text>I&apos;ve always felt that most good programmers go through 3 stages.&lt;p&gt;Stage 1: Write very simple, naive code, no fancy design patterns, just kind of brute force everything.&lt;p&gt;Stage 2: Discover design pattens, and fancy obscure programming constructs. Use them &lt;i&gt;everywhere&lt;/i&gt; regardless of whether it makes sense or makes the code easier to understand and maintain.&lt;p&gt;Stage 3: Realize the folly of stage 2, and enter a zen like state where one writes deceptively simple, clean code. Rarely, if ever, use any fancy constructs or design patterns (except where it actually makes sense to use them.)&lt;p&gt;For the novice programmer looking at someone else&apos;s code it&apos;s very very easy to confuse stages 1 and 3.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Wrong Aesthetic</title><url>http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1276445247.html</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arethuza</author><text>I think there is a stage between 2 and 3 where people become obsessed with coding standards that say thing like &quot;don&apos;t use the ternary operator because it can be confusing&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>axiom</author><text>I&apos;ve always felt that most good programmers go through 3 stages.&lt;p&gt;Stage 1: Write very simple, naive code, no fancy design patterns, just kind of brute force everything.&lt;p&gt;Stage 2: Discover design pattens, and fancy obscure programming constructs. Use them &lt;i&gt;everywhere&lt;/i&gt; regardless of whether it makes sense or makes the code easier to understand and maintain.&lt;p&gt;Stage 3: Realize the folly of stage 2, and enter a zen like state where one writes deceptively simple, clean code. Rarely, if ever, use any fancy constructs or design patterns (except where it actually makes sense to use them.)&lt;p&gt;For the novice programmer looking at someone else&apos;s code it&apos;s very very easy to confuse stages 1 and 3.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Wrong Aesthetic</title><url>http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1276445247.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>negative_zero</author><text>Something that I have found very interesting: In New Zealand the QR codes are like the &amp;quot;Works Now&amp;quot; NSW ones. The combination of the A4 page size, the QR code taking up most of that page and peoples natural standing distance away from the posters, roughly means that the QR code takes up most of their screen. And I am not sure why, but some phones seem to &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; struggle with this setup.&lt;p&gt;And when the code won&amp;#x27;t scan, people&amp;#x27;s natural tendency is to then move closer to the QR code (make it fill the whole screen), which doesn&amp;#x27;t help at all. But if they instead initially move away it can fix the issue.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure what would cause this? Maybe a reduction in relative angular distortion? Or perhaps only a crop of the image is &amp;quot;scanned&amp;quot; for QR codes?&lt;p&gt;But yeah this, (very) anecdotal, data point would counterintuitively push for a smaller QR code than &amp;quot;Works now&amp;quot;(maybe 10-20%).&lt;p&gt;The best experience I have had was the Queensland system. The QR codes I saw were different than explained at the end of this article. They were small (Original NSW size) but very simple codes. From the look and the number below, I assumed it was just a 6 digit number. Those would scan very fast (as in while I was still moving the phone at speed to align with the QR code).&lt;p&gt;In NZ the behaviour is: stop, aim, scan, wait, done. But in Queensland it worked so well I could just keep walking, wave my phone in the direction of the barcode and it would catch it.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I just found those experiences very interesting, maybe others will too :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mechanical sympathy for QR codes: making NSW check-in better</title><url>https://huonw.github.io/blog/2021/10/nsw-covid-qr/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lifthrasiir</author><text>The workflow is generally reversed in South Korea: the visitor shows a generated QR code to the merchant&amp;#x27;s camera for the check-in. (There are also multiple fallbacks available.) The QR code is, to my knowledge, a very short living JWT credential and looks like this: (I&amp;#x27;ve redacted pretty much every nonce for the obvious reason)&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 003|eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIwMTIzNDU2Nzg5YWJjZGVmMDEyMzQ1Njc4OWFiY2RlZiIsImVucCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3NzLmNvb3YuaW8vMDEyMzQ1Njc4OUFiQ2RFZkdoSWoiLCJpc3MiOiJBQ01FIiwiZXhwIjoxNjAwMDAwMDAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjoiMDAzIn0.AEwfg3OC34g07x_xVWekdUumxPTqbrRFvQkOVV_TQT4 &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; That got encoded into a fairly large QR code---61 by 61 modules (version 11, error correction level L)---and it is always painful to get it recognized, mainly because every merchant&amp;#x27;s device is different and some devices and&amp;#x2F;or apps are particularly less responsive.&lt;p&gt;It is very noticable that there is a lot of redundancy here: the format of JWT payload will be very regular, always having `sub`, `enp`, `iss`, `exp` and `version` (fixed to `003`) fields in a verbose base64 format for example. It makes a fun challenge to optimize this into something much smaller.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mechanical sympathy for QR codes: making NSW check-in better</title><url>https://huonw.github.io/blog/2021/10/nsw-covid-qr/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hueving</author><text>Oil doesn&amp;#x27;t have the same use cases as electricity. Until we have electric planes, ships, heavy trucks, farm equipment and freight trains, there is still a big place for oil in transportation.&lt;p&gt;Also, until we get some good energy storage solutions, we are just going to run into the same problems of too much electricity during the middle of the day and not enough in the evening.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SwellJoe</author><text>Given the water situation in most of Texas, I find it unbelievable that anyone is still pushing oil, especially shale oil, as an energy option anywhere in Texas. And, yet, all those old oil barons are still pushing that agenda, and still controlling the narrative at every level of government.&lt;p&gt;That same desert could house miles of solar panels and miles of wind farms. But, very few people are pushing &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; solution to the energy problem, even though it is now price-competitive with fossil fuels to do so in places like Texas, where both wind and sun are plentiful almost year round.</text></item><item><author>sulam</author><text>Keep in mind that this is oil which needs to be horizontally drilled for, meaning fracking. Fracking has destroyed water tables because of the chemicals used and been linked to earthquakes in Canada. Not to mention that it is very intensive in terms of water use.&lt;p&gt;But of course, while the oil is running there are lots of jobs created, at least until OPEC decides they&amp;#x27;ve had enough and drives the price of oil back down.&lt;p&gt;Since this is Texas, I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure the local community won&amp;#x27;t worry about this stuff much (I grew up in Texas and have relatives who live just north of this field&amp;#x27;s extent). Hopefully the benefits will outweigh the costs for them -- it&amp;#x27;s not clear that this has been the case for North Dakota.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/permian-s-wolfcamp-holds-20-billion-barrels-of-oil-u-s-says</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BurningFrog</author><text>Unless I vastly underestimate how much land oil extraction uses, that land could &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; house miles of solar panels and miles of wind farms.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SwellJoe</author><text>Given the water situation in most of Texas, I find it unbelievable that anyone is still pushing oil, especially shale oil, as an energy option anywhere in Texas. And, yet, all those old oil barons are still pushing that agenda, and still controlling the narrative at every level of government.&lt;p&gt;That same desert could house miles of solar panels and miles of wind farms. But, very few people are pushing &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; solution to the energy problem, even though it is now price-competitive with fossil fuels to do so in places like Texas, where both wind and sun are plentiful almost year round.</text></item><item><author>sulam</author><text>Keep in mind that this is oil which needs to be horizontally drilled for, meaning fracking. Fracking has destroyed water tables because of the chemicals used and been linked to earthquakes in Canada. Not to mention that it is very intensive in terms of water use.&lt;p&gt;But of course, while the oil is running there are lots of jobs created, at least until OPEC decides they&amp;#x27;ve had enough and drives the price of oil back down.&lt;p&gt;Since this is Texas, I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure the local community won&amp;#x27;t worry about this stuff much (I grew up in Texas and have relatives who live just north of this field&amp;#x27;s extent). Hopefully the benefits will outweigh the costs for them -- it&amp;#x27;s not clear that this has been the case for North Dakota.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/permian-s-wolfcamp-holds-20-billion-barrels-of-oil-u-s-says</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>This is how the industry has always worked. The 486SX was a 486DX with the FPU burned off with a laser. Initially this was to make use of parts with a defective FPU, but parts with perfectly good FPUs were often disabled to fulfil demand.&lt;p&gt;CPUs are produced to a single design within a processor series. The ones with no faults are clocked the fastest and have all their features enabled. Parts with lots of flaws are sold off as crippled budget processors. AMD&apos;s triple-core processors seem a bit strange until you realise that they&apos;re a quad-core part with one faulty core.&lt;p&gt;Overclockers have known about this for years, identifying countless &apos;good batches&apos; of processors and GPUs that were perfectly capable of being clocked faster, but were sold as cheap parts to fulfil demand.&lt;p&gt;If this seems like a con, then the whole IC fabrication industry is a con - artificially crippling ICs has been standard practice for decades.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can already do</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/18/intel-wants-to-charge-50-to-unlock-stuff-your-cpu-can-already-d/</url><text></text></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gaius</author><text>This is quite normal in high-end kit; If you buy an HP SuperDome for example with half the CPUs they&apos;ll probably actually ship you a fully loaded one with half the chips turned off (still for the price of exactly what you ordered). Then when you want to upgrade you don&apos;t have to take any downtime, you just pay them the difference and they supply you with the codes to unlock it. IBM do this with mainframes all the time.&lt;p&gt;First time I&apos;ve seen this on consumer kit tho&apos;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can already do</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/18/intel-wants-to-charge-50-to-unlock-stuff-your-cpu-can-already-d/</url><text></text></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>justin66</author><text>&amp;gt; Indeed, so boring was the final race of the season (and to be honest, the two that preceded it)&lt;p&gt;Abu Dhabi is a boring racetrack that makes passing quite difficult, but if you could not find something interesting about the Brazil race (Ricciardo started at 14th and made his way up to 6th and Hamilton started &lt;i&gt;on the pit lane&lt;/i&gt; and clawed his way up to 4th) or the Mexico race (won by Verstappen, a 20 year old guy who was not driving a Mercedes or Ferrari, with a &lt;i&gt;19 second margin over the 2nd place Mercedes,&lt;/i&gt; which has been dominant and is a much better car), it&amp;#x27;s possible you&amp;#x27;re just not an F1 fan.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s fine, and it probably points to a good audience for the &amp;quot;e-sports&amp;quot; racing. Maybe some of those guys will convert to being F1 fans, maybe some of them won&amp;#x27;t, but it is not an expensive experiment for F1 to run. Pretty much all they have to do is push this while not embarrassing themselves too badly with the fans of motor racing who couldn&amp;#x27;t care less about e-sports. (who knows? The loud reaction among fans to the F1 logo change might indicate that they&amp;#x27;re all insane anyway, so it is impossible to predict)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Formula 1 e-sports now more exciting than the real thing</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/11/formula-1-esports-now-more-exciting-than-the-real-thing-and-thats-a-problem/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>munchbunny</author><text>When it comes to racing, the new push into e-sports is really exciting to me because it adds a huge element of accessibility. Cars are expensive, and actually owning a car that you take on the track is expensive and time consuming, but with a racing wheel, a PC&amp;#x2F;console, and a VR headset, you can get a pretty visceral and convincing facsimile of a high performance car.&lt;p&gt;The first time I tried racing in VR (in Dirt Rally), I had the brilliant idea of using a Group B car. On a flat screen, it just feels really fast and requires intense focus. In VR, you really feel like you&amp;#x27;re sitting on a rocket and the car is trying to kill you.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Formula 1 e-sports now more exciting than the real thing</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/11/formula-1-esports-now-more-exciting-than-the-real-thing-and-thats-a-problem/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>OscarCunningham</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve reported this as a bug here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1758975&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1758975&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>Hitton</author><text>&amp;gt;Now the first line ends like this which is still a perfectly valid gif. How might that look?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Amazing! Stupendous! Wonderful! As of the time of this writing, it’s just a perfectly black square. And this is the case in every single renderer I’ve tried. Gimp, Chrome, Firefox, Preview, gifiddle, you name it.&lt;p&gt;Funnily enough in my browser (Firefox on Ubuntu) it&amp;#x27;s transparent, but it&amp;#x27;s level of transparency I have never seen before - I can see the window below.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You Don&apos;t Know GIF – An analysis of a GIF file and some weird GIF features</title><url>https://blog.darrien.dev/posts/you-dont-know-gif</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>earthbee</author><text>Same for me, I can see my wallpaper and desktop icons. Very strange. Wonder if this is a risk for being exploited somehow to take photos of people&amp;#x27;s desktops</text><parent_chain><item><author>Hitton</author><text>&amp;gt;Now the first line ends like this which is still a perfectly valid gif. How might that look?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Amazing! Stupendous! Wonderful! As of the time of this writing, it’s just a perfectly black square. And this is the case in every single renderer I’ve tried. Gimp, Chrome, Firefox, Preview, gifiddle, you name it.&lt;p&gt;Funnily enough in my browser (Firefox on Ubuntu) it&amp;#x27;s transparent, but it&amp;#x27;s level of transparency I have never seen before - I can see the window below.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You Don&apos;t Know GIF – An analysis of a GIF file and some weird GIF features</title><url>https://blog.darrien.dev/posts/you-dont-know-gif</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wastedhours</author><text>Amazon has one of the perfect data mixes - like Google, it has all the infrastructure for true &lt;i&gt;intent&lt;/i&gt; based advertising (sponsored listings on result pages, based on specific searches or product info), as well as comprehensive end-to-end customer journey information for your more passive advertising as well.&lt;p&gt;The latter will probably earn them decent scratch, even if it&amp;#x27;s perhaps not long-term sustainable with data issues and adblocking (Facebook can work for passive advertising because the user intent is snacks of procrastination, passive ads can be snacks of procrastination too if done well, though will always be low rent). The former though, now they&amp;#x27;re in pretty much every vertical, is where the winning happens.&lt;p&gt;As in the article, even if companies don&amp;#x27;t sell through Amazon, there&amp;#x27;ll still be an Amazon Tax if they want to get into the search results like with AdWords.&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be at all surprised to see Amazon leapfrog Facebook, once their attribution pixel gets some traction in the wild.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cm2012</author><text>Amazon ad revenue alone ($2.2 billion) for Q2 was already around 15% of Facebook&amp;#x27;s total Q2 revenue ($13 billion). That is nuts, if they have any room to grow that further, since ads isn&amp;#x27;t even Amazon&amp;#x27;s specialty.&lt;p&gt;For reference, Snapchat did $290 million in the same timeframe, Twitter $660 million.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/business/media/amazon-digital-ads.html</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RaceWon</author><text>The problem with Amazon is that it is a race to the Absolute lowest possible price point. Now don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, I&amp;#x27;m not saying that boatloads of vendors don&amp;#x27;t make money advertising there (and people on Amazon are for Sure in the market), but wouldn&amp;#x27;t you rather get people to your own website via say YouTube, which is only going to get more and more popular, and then convince them to buy from you Now... I would if I was currently selling online. It simply makes more &amp;quot;cents.&amp;quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>cm2012</author><text>Amazon ad revenue alone ($2.2 billion) for Q2 was already around 15% of Facebook&amp;#x27;s total Q2 revenue ($13 billion). That is nuts, if they have any room to grow that further, since ads isn&amp;#x27;t even Amazon&amp;#x27;s specialty.&lt;p&gt;For reference, Snapchat did $290 million in the same timeframe, Twitter $660 million.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/business/media/amazon-digital-ads.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>pas</author><text>The solution is History, as in the data&amp;#x2F;evidence-driven profession. It&amp;#x27;s perfectly well applicable to contemporary events too.&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia&amp;#x2F;wikinews with all its faults gets a lot closer than the NYT. Because it&amp;#x27;s not static, it&amp;#x27;s not maddening fluff and drivel (when every fucking &amp;quot;article&amp;quot; is a story, &amp;quot;Abigale stood in the doorway in a chilly afternoon, disoriented by the bad news that her application by the Local State Office of Nobody Ever Heard of Ever was denied ...&amp;quot; and seven paragraphs later we will finally find out some new nugget of information, maybe even at the end of every such amazing certified five-times-Pulitzer piece there will be some hard data &amp;quot;statistic&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s simply not enough demand for such an outlet with rigor, standards, etc. (Or maybe there is and it&amp;#x27;s a market niche, or it&amp;#x27;s an outright market failure that this need is not satisfied.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>np-</author><text>My ultimate problem is that once this fact becomes apparent to people, many of them tend to go down the rabbit hole of getting what they perceive as the &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; news from blogs&amp;#x2F;forum posts&amp;#x2F;opinionated tweets&amp;#x2F;random guy with a youtube channel. As in, the eventual consequence to mass media having poor rigorous standards of reporting is that people will migrate to sources that have even poorer standards. TBH, I don&amp;#x27;t really know what the solution to the problem is.</text></item><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>In some real way, Gell-Mann amnesia sustains the entire news industry. We have to believe there is a central, reliable source of news somewhere out there, despite so much evidence to the contrary.</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>If you read this article and know the types of things that Scott writes, remember this experience and try to imagine how many other nytimes outrage articles are similarly full of lies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Silicon Valley’s Safe Space</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arduanika</author><text>Personally I think I&amp;#x27;ve arrived at a place where I&amp;#x27;m wary of Gell-Mann Amnesia both with the established sources, &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; with the conspiracy rabbit holes. I&amp;#x27;ve seen both NYT and &amp;quot;alt&amp;quot; news say things that are straight-up incorrect about facts that I know from my own experience, in my own domains of knowledge, so I&amp;#x27;m not going to trust either blindly. I&amp;#x27;m left trying to piece together from various sources of different slants, at different points on the established&amp;#x2F;fringe spectrum. This is harder than taking a side, but I want to believe it&amp;#x27;s worth it.&lt;p&gt;Btw, I&amp;#x27;m not trying to draw a simple equivalency here. &amp;quot;Thinking for yourself&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t as easy as saying &amp;quot;both sides distort&amp;quot; and plotting a naive midpoint between extremes. You have to read everything critically.</text><parent_chain><item><author>np-</author><text>My ultimate problem is that once this fact becomes apparent to people, many of them tend to go down the rabbit hole of getting what they perceive as the &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; news from blogs&amp;#x2F;forum posts&amp;#x2F;opinionated tweets&amp;#x2F;random guy with a youtube channel. As in, the eventual consequence to mass media having poor rigorous standards of reporting is that people will migrate to sources that have even poorer standards. TBH, I don&amp;#x27;t really know what the solution to the problem is.</text></item><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>In some real way, Gell-Mann amnesia sustains the entire news industry. We have to believe there is a central, reliable source of news somewhere out there, despite so much evidence to the contrary.</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>If you read this article and know the types of things that Scott writes, remember this experience and try to imagine how many other nytimes outrage articles are similarly full of lies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Silicon Valley’s Safe Space</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.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>Cyphase</author><text>Thanks for sharing! Perfect game until Level 6, died on level 7 with 21,150 points.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s an old 3d pong game from the flash era where you put spin on the ball.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.crazygames.com&amp;#x2F;game&amp;#x2F;curve-ball-3d&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.crazygames.com&amp;#x2F;game&amp;#x2F;curve-ball-3d&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>apgwoz</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve never &amp;quot;studied&amp;quot; &amp;quot;paddle dynamics&amp;quot; in these games, and when implementing pong, always just reflected, which doesn&amp;#x27;t provide good game play, but pong is always a &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m trying out a different framework&amp;quot; type exercise.&lt;p&gt;Pong using where it hits to affect the angle never totally made sense to me. I assume the explanation is &amp;quot;the paddle is drawn as a rectangle, but is actually parabolic.&amp;quot; Additionally, I&amp;#x27;ve always wondered why I&amp;#x27;ve never seen a pong where the paddles have acceleration to some maximum velocity, and if the paddle is not stationary, you get lateral spin, causing non-linear ball paths on the return hit.</text></item><item><author>jsnell</author><text>Very cool!&lt;p&gt;The physics seem very different from classing pong &amp;#x2F; arkanoid physics, where the angle is determined by which part of the paddle was hit. Instead it seems like it&amp;#x27;s maybe totally random within a fairly small cone around the horizontal axis. Is that intentional?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: 2d web paddle game</title><url>https://raould.github.io/pn0gstr0m/</url><text>Simple retro paddle arcade game written in Javascript, using good ol&amp;#x27; Canvas.</text></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>airstrike</author><text>Soooo satisfying, thanks for sharing. Now I also feel like writing my own version</text><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s an old 3d pong game from the flash era where you put spin on the ball.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.crazygames.com&amp;#x2F;game&amp;#x2F;curve-ball-3d&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.crazygames.com&amp;#x2F;game&amp;#x2F;curve-ball-3d&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>apgwoz</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve never &amp;quot;studied&amp;quot; &amp;quot;paddle dynamics&amp;quot; in these games, and when implementing pong, always just reflected, which doesn&amp;#x27;t provide good game play, but pong is always a &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m trying out a different framework&amp;quot; type exercise.&lt;p&gt;Pong using where it hits to affect the angle never totally made sense to me. I assume the explanation is &amp;quot;the paddle is drawn as a rectangle, but is actually parabolic.&amp;quot; Additionally, I&amp;#x27;ve always wondered why I&amp;#x27;ve never seen a pong where the paddles have acceleration to some maximum velocity, and if the paddle is not stationary, you get lateral spin, causing non-linear ball paths on the return hit.</text></item><item><author>jsnell</author><text>Very cool!&lt;p&gt;The physics seem very different from classing pong &amp;#x2F; arkanoid physics, where the angle is determined by which part of the paddle was hit. Instead it seems like it&amp;#x27;s maybe totally random within a fairly small cone around the horizontal axis. Is that intentional?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: 2d web paddle game</title><url>https://raould.github.io/pn0gstr0m/</url><text>Simple retro paddle arcade game written in Javascript, using good ol&amp;#x27; Canvas.</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>spacemanaki</author><text>This was published in the New Yorker, and there was some discussion about it when PARC posted something on their blog responding to it: &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2548325&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2548325&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;An interesting letter was printed in a subsequent issue: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letters/2011/06/27/110627mama_mail3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letters/2011/06/27/110627m...&lt;/a&gt; whose author wrote a longer blog post about this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://dorophone.blogspot.com/2011/07/duckspeak-vs-smalltalk.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://dorophone.blogspot.com/2011/07/duckspeak-vs-smalltalk...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I find that whole story a bit poignant, especially given that the MIT Scratch app (Smalltalk based programming for kids) was not allowed into the iPad app store.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation.</title><url>http://www.gladwell.com/2011/2011_05_16_a_creationmyth.html</url><text></text></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iqster</author><text>Malcom Gladwell talking about innovation? No thanks! This is the same dude who thinks Intellectual Ventures is an innovation machine.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation.</title><url>http://www.gladwell.com/2011/2011_05_16_a_creationmyth.html</url><text></text></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>philippemnoel</author><text>This is a great post. As an extension developer myself (pg_bm25), seeing more native support for search-related functionalities that extensions can harness would be really great.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m surprised nothing was mentioned around pgBouncer&amp;#x2F;connection pooling. Having more native support for general connection pooling has been a requested feature in Postgres for a while, and many popular DBMS have it built-in. Just how some of what Patroni offer should be better bundled in (as the author argues), I think the same could&amp;#x2F;should be true for pgBouncer</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thoughts on PostgreSQL in 2024</title><url>https://jkatz05.com/post/postgres/postgresql-2024/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>&amp;gt; Logical replication allows the real-time streaming of changes from a database into any system that can understand the PostgreSQL logical replication protocol.&lt;p&gt;My Christmas wish for 2024-2025 is that we have an industry standard format for replication. A simple transform (hopefully) of either WAL or logical replication, that we can feed into backup software, search, analytics, whatever.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s something out there that fulfills the duties of Kafka and half a dozen other tools (at least two of which don&amp;#x27;t exist yet due to significant barriers to entry) with about a quarter of the code. We just need to carve it out of the block of marble.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thoughts on PostgreSQL in 2024</title><url>https://jkatz05.com/post/postgres/postgresql-2024/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arbuge</author><text>“Having a college degree is most beneficial to the kids who aren’t that smart,” Reeves said. Intelligent kids will have thousands of opportunities to demonstrate their skills. Less-talented kids, on the other hand, have to rely on credentials that make them seem intelligent — high SAT scores, top-tier diplomas and corporate internships.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This would seem to contradict the premise of the article. The talented poor kids would by that argument have no problem breaking into the top echelons of society, irrespective of the resources available to rich kids to attend the best colleges. Reality is somewhere in between.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The &apos;Glass Floor&apos; Is Keeping America&apos;s Richest Idiots at the Top</title><url>https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/the-glass-floor-is-keeping-americas-richest-idiots-at-the-top_n_5d9fb1c9e4b06ddfc516e076?ri18</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>swalsh</author><text>&amp;gt; America has a social mobility problem. Children born in 1940 had a 90% chance of earning more than their parents. For children born in 1984, the odds were 50-50.&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#x27;s not unimportant to remember that Americas economic position in the world was dramatically different then. With the end of WWII, we had the Brenton Woods system, and the Marshall Plan. Those 2 systems drove economic growth, and placed America in the center of it. It was an unprecentented period of economic development worldwide, but especially so for America. The tech boom drove quite a bit of growth too, but it was narrower, and not in the same level of magnitude.&lt;p&gt;The point is, 1944 - 1991 is a HIGHLY unusual economic state, and it&amp;#x27;s not reasonable to expect that the mobility that existed then should still exist today.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The &apos;Glass Floor&apos; Is Keeping America&apos;s Richest Idiots at the Top</title><url>https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/the-glass-floor-is-keeping-americas-richest-idiots-at-the-top_n_5d9fb1c9e4b06ddfc516e076?ri18</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eyelidlessness</author><text>This unfortunately ruined reading for me for a long time. I associated reading with sleep, and it became a pavlovian response: a few pages in, any time of day under any circumstances, I&amp;#x27;d start to nod off.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sotojuan</author><text>Doing some casual reading before sleeping has really helped.</text></item><item><author>kilroy123</author><text>I think key to getting really good rest is to unplug. I know most people tend to sit on their phones or computer for a few hours. Some science suggest that isn&amp;#x27;t good rest because your nervous system is still being stimulated. [1]&lt;p&gt;I find I get the best rest when I unplug for a bit. Take a long walk, just for the sake of walking. Or lay down for 30 minutes and do nothing for a while.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;mental-downtime&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;mental-downtime&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How being alone may be the key to rest</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37444982</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>curiousgal</author><text>I feel like an entire different person when I am reading a book. It&amp;#x27;s very soothing, even if the book is dense and thought-provoking.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sotojuan</author><text>Doing some casual reading before sleeping has really helped.</text></item><item><author>kilroy123</author><text>I think key to getting really good rest is to unplug. I know most people tend to sit on their phones or computer for a few hours. Some science suggest that isn&amp;#x27;t good rest because your nervous system is still being stimulated. [1]&lt;p&gt;I find I get the best rest when I unplug for a bit. Take a long walk, just for the sake of walking. Or lay down for 30 minutes and do nothing for a while.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;mental-downtime&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;mental-downtime&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How being alone may be the key to rest</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37444982</url></story>

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<instructions>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>The great depression in live performances is truly a global tragedy. If you think restaurants and barbershops have it bad, imagine theaters. For most of them it&amp;#x27;s basically impossible to do social distancing and remain financially solvent. People may be itching to go out to eat and get a haircut, but it will be a long time before people are going to pack in to an opera house. Couple that with the fact that audiences for ballet, opera, and orchestras skews much older I&amp;#x27;m any case, and I fear many of these art forms will face a catastrophic blow in some cities.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cirque Du Soleil Files for Bankruptcy Protection</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/cirque-du-soleil-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-in-canada-11593455498</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>narag</author><text>I never liked circus. It was mildly interesting in tv or movies. The one time that I went to a show, I was lucky enough to be far from the action: a lion sprayed the two front rows. The smell was everywhere, everything had a sad vibe, even (maybe specially) the clowns. Only trapeze artists saved the evening for me.&lt;p&gt;Cirque du Soleil was an entirely different matter. Everything was shiny, cool, happy. My son had a great time. I had a great time. Sad to see them close. Hope they can come back to life somehow.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cirque Du Soleil Files for Bankruptcy Protection</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/cirque-du-soleil-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-in-canada-11593455498</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>antirez</author><text>About Tcl and the embedded world, a few years ago I wrote a single-file Tcl interpreter that is mostly compatible with current Tcl implementations (something is missing like namespaces, something was added like anonymous functions):&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jim.tcl.tk/index.html/doc/www/www/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jim.tcl.tk/index.html/doc/www/www/index.html&lt;/a&gt; (source code is here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;Now maintained by Steve Bennett, and actively used by some embedded folks.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I can’t believe I’m praising Tcl</title><url>http://www.yosefk.com/blog/i-cant-believe-im-praising-tcl.html?</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cturner</author><text>You can get lisp to interact more like a console language. Write a parser to accept python-ish whitespace syntax (whilst still allowing parens syntax), and transform that s-expressions so you can pass to the interpreter&lt;p&gt;To imply:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; (define (fn a b) (list (car a) (car (car b)))) &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; You could type:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; define: fn a b list: car a car (car b) &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; As it&apos;s a console, in practice you&apos;ll mostly be typing commands like this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; load x y z &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; but you have good mechanisms for going deeper. And if you just want to write in s-expressions you still can.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I can’t believe I’m praising Tcl</title><url>http://www.yosefk.com/blog/i-cant-believe-im-praising-tcl.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>notahacker</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure there is really any comparable business. I mean, if you look at the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA then (i) the executives make orders of magnitude more (ii) the expenses are spread around a much smaller pool of people and training facilities and (iii) the sportspeople play more than once every four years and the second and third tier players are much more widely recognised.&lt;p&gt;The thing is, you could take away the president of the IOC&amp;#x27;s not-exactly-FIFA-esque expense account featured in this article and you&amp;#x27;ve got just enough money to pay stipends - the meagre stipends the article complains about - for 10-12 more Olympic hopefuls. And there are 10,200 athletes competing in Rio, and for every athlete that made it, there are several more that devoted years of their time and their local federation&amp;#x27;s expense budget to trying to get there. Even if the IOC and the Olympic organizing committees had no costs at all and simply passed on all its 1.4bn per annum income on to local federations, there&amp;#x27;s really not that much to share between training and developing 50k athletes that might make the cut in facilities in 200 countries; certainly not enough to give them proper cash salaries after expenses.&lt;p&gt;Sure, some executives might be overpaid, but that&amp;#x27;s really not why most Olympians are poor or indebted until they medal or break into the media and most of them aren&amp;#x27;t rich afterwards. [It doesn&amp;#x27;t help that the article conflates the IOC with how the individual US sporting associations choose to divvy up their cash, which I&amp;#x27;m sure is more favourable to the senior executives and less favourable to the athletes than the vast majority of national associations.] It&amp;#x27;s not the monopoly that&amp;#x27;s keeping athletes from earning an adequate living from Olympic revenue, it&amp;#x27;s that there&amp;#x27;s simply not enough money to go around, unless governments or individual sponsors decide to chip in to pay athletes on top of that. Needless to say, athletes already living on the breadline aren&amp;#x27;t going to be very enamoured with the suggestion of getting rid of the endorsements and ads so they have to pay all their training costs too.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andr3w321</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m pretty surprised at the HN comments and sentiment here of &amp;quot;if the athletes don&amp;#x27;t like it don&amp;#x27;t participate.&amp;quot; It is a clear monopoly by the IOC. The IOC is a business. The athletes are the talent.&lt;p&gt;Look at any comparable business and the talent makes a way bigger % of the money, actors in the movie industry, musicians in the music industry, professional athletes in NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA etc. These are all &amp;quot;jobs&amp;quot; that people would gladly do for low pay just like the Olympics if that was their only choice. Does that mean that the other industries are overpaying their talent? No imo. It&amp;#x27;s reasonable to expect that the people that provide the talent and a large part of the value to the industry deserve a large portion of the rewards.&lt;p&gt;Professional athletes and hollywood have strong unions to fight for fair pay(they used to be exploited for low pay), the music industry is a semimonopoly and does screw artists, but at least there is some level of competition. If you don&amp;#x27;t like one record company you can always switch labels.&lt;p&gt;The problem with the Olympics and what makes them so valuable to begin with is their rarity. They only come around once every four years. A top tier athlete may only make one Olympics in his&amp;#x2F;her lifetime and perhaps as many as ~three. Are you really going to organize and &amp;quot;holdout&amp;quot; for a whole Olympic games with your fellow athletes to maybe better the financial position for all your fellow Olympians? It&amp;#x27;s one thing to sit out a season when your expected career is 10 seasons and you may only have to sit out 1&amp;#x2F;3 of one season, it&amp;#x27;s entirely different when you may have to sit out your entire career. The athletes are being exploited because&lt;p&gt;1. IOC is a monopoly&lt;p&gt;2. Their careers are short&lt;p&gt;3. It&amp;#x27;s too risky to organize because the risk of not competing is too high. They&amp;#x27;ve trained so hard to get there, to not compete is not really an option.&lt;p&gt;4. Olympics only happen once every four years.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a very similar situation as the NCAA except for #4. If you want to make it &amp;quot;not about the money&amp;quot; that&amp;#x27;s fine by me, make tickets to attend these events cheap or free, let any network cover the games(why does NBC get a coverage monopoly?), get rid of the endorsements and ads, make all the IOC &amp;quot;volunteer&amp;quot; administrators unpaid, but it&amp;#x27;s never going to happen. When coaches and administrators are making millions and the talent is making close to zero, the talent is clearly being exploited.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Olympic executives cash in on a ‘Movement’ that keeps athletes poor</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/olympic-executives-cash-in-on-a-movement-that-keeps-athletes-poor/2016/07/30/ed18c206-5346-11e6-88eb-7dda4e2f2aec_story.html</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eanzenberg</author><text>It really is &amp;quot;If you don&amp;#x27;t like it don&amp;#x27;t attend.&amp;quot; Go promote your archery competition on ESPN and see how many viewers tune in and how much money you earn.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andr3w321</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m pretty surprised at the HN comments and sentiment here of &amp;quot;if the athletes don&amp;#x27;t like it don&amp;#x27;t participate.&amp;quot; It is a clear monopoly by the IOC. The IOC is a business. The athletes are the talent.&lt;p&gt;Look at any comparable business and the talent makes a way bigger % of the money, actors in the movie industry, musicians in the music industry, professional athletes in NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA etc. These are all &amp;quot;jobs&amp;quot; that people would gladly do for low pay just like the Olympics if that was their only choice. Does that mean that the other industries are overpaying their talent? No imo. It&amp;#x27;s reasonable to expect that the people that provide the talent and a large part of the value to the industry deserve a large portion of the rewards.&lt;p&gt;Professional athletes and hollywood have strong unions to fight for fair pay(they used to be exploited for low pay), the music industry is a semimonopoly and does screw artists, but at least there is some level of competition. If you don&amp;#x27;t like one record company you can always switch labels.&lt;p&gt;The problem with the Olympics and what makes them so valuable to begin with is their rarity. They only come around once every four years. A top tier athlete may only make one Olympics in his&amp;#x2F;her lifetime and perhaps as many as ~three. Are you really going to organize and &amp;quot;holdout&amp;quot; for a whole Olympic games with your fellow athletes to maybe better the financial position for all your fellow Olympians? It&amp;#x27;s one thing to sit out a season when your expected career is 10 seasons and you may only have to sit out 1&amp;#x2F;3 of one season, it&amp;#x27;s entirely different when you may have to sit out your entire career. The athletes are being exploited because&lt;p&gt;1. IOC is a monopoly&lt;p&gt;2. Their careers are short&lt;p&gt;3. It&amp;#x27;s too risky to organize because the risk of not competing is too high. They&amp;#x27;ve trained so hard to get there, to not compete is not really an option.&lt;p&gt;4. Olympics only happen once every four years.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a very similar situation as the NCAA except for #4. If you want to make it &amp;quot;not about the money&amp;quot; that&amp;#x27;s fine by me, make tickets to attend these events cheap or free, let any network cover the games(why does NBC get a coverage monopoly?), get rid of the endorsements and ads, make all the IOC &amp;quot;volunteer&amp;quot; administrators unpaid, but it&amp;#x27;s never going to happen. When coaches and administrators are making millions and the talent is making close to zero, the talent is clearly being exploited.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Olympic executives cash in on a ‘Movement’ that keeps athletes poor</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/olympic-executives-cash-in-on-a-movement-that-keeps-athletes-poor/2016/07/30/ed18c206-5346-11e6-88eb-7dda4e2f2aec_story.html</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>heleninboodler</author><text>I have a handful I&amp;#x27;d nominate as &amp;quot;lazy programmer&amp;quot; colors that I think are useful as placeholders but aren&amp;#x27;t as horrid as #FF00FF etc:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; blue #aabbdd green #aaddbb purple #bbaadd pink #ddaabb orange #ddbbaa &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; (I usually end up using #bbddaa as well but it&amp;#x27;s just a different shade of green)</text><parent_chain><item><author>picdit</author><text>A few of my favorites so far:&lt;p&gt;Screaming Grey: #AAAAAA&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s Still Basically Black: #000001&lt;p&gt;Nice: #696969 (lol)&lt;p&gt;These would make for some great candidates: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;colors.lol&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;colors.lol&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; ;)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors</title><url>https://colornames.org/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nirui</author><text>BTW, that &amp;quot;Nice Cyan&amp;quot; (#006969) is actually really nice (at least to me), I can imagine myself building a website&amp;#x2F;app with that color theme.</text><parent_chain><item><author>picdit</author><text>A few of my favorites so far:&lt;p&gt;Screaming Grey: #AAAAAA&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s Still Basically Black: #000001&lt;p&gt;Nice: #696969 (lol)&lt;p&gt;These would make for some great candidates: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;colors.lol&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;colors.lol&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; ;)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors</title><url>https://colornames.org/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>umpox</author><text>Pretty cool! Check out Google&amp;#x27;s headless browser API Puppeteer too, they provide a few really useful functions for doing stuff like this.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;GoogleChrome&amp;#x2F;puppeteer&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;examples&amp;#x2F;pdf.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;GoogleChrome&amp;#x2F;puppeteer&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;exampl...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Really easy to work around, I used it to build a simple CLI to generate device screenshots of a webpage by modifying the user-agent and resolution to match each device.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;umpox&amp;#x2F;generateDeviceScreenshots&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;umpox&amp;#x2F;generateDeviceScreenshots&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome</title><url>https://github.com/esbenp/pdf-bot</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>czechdeveloper</author><text>All I need now is CMYK support in Chrome and I can make HTML based print ready PDF rendering. That would be quite upgrade compared to my current options.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome</title><url>https://github.com/esbenp/pdf-bot</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>redwall_hp</author><text>What was actually an antitrust issue: leveraging a 98% market share as a cudgel to move into a new market by&lt;p&gt;1. Including a free competitor in a hot new market&lt;p&gt;2. Threatening hardware OEMs with financial penalties (not getting OEM copies of Windows) if they continued the practice of bundling the primary player&amp;#x27;s product (Netscape)&lt;p&gt;Back then, Web browsers were something you went to a brick and mortar store and paid good money for a disk to get. They weren&amp;#x27;t just handed out for free online. Microsoft flattened the competition in a market they were not previously in by leveraging their dominance in another market.</text><parent_chain><item><author>______-_-______</author><text>A few years ago, including a browser with your OS was an antitrust violation. What happened?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Open Web Advocacy</title><url>https://open-web-advocacy.org/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aluminum96</author><text>Microsoft at the time had a virtual OS monopoly (around 90% market share if I recall), and the court found that they were unlawfully leveraging an existing monopoly for advantage in a different market (web browsers). With less than 50% share, Apple does not have an OS monopoly, so the same logic does not apply.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, I&amp;#x27;m all in favor of enacting laws to protect freedom on the web platform. But the Microsoft fact pattern just doesn&amp;#x27;t apply.</text><parent_chain><item><author>______-_-______</author><text>A few years ago, including a browser with your OS was an antitrust violation. What happened?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Open Web Advocacy</title><url>https://open-web-advocacy.org/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>Not quite an identical profile; it&amp;#x27;s not quite 1g, since Venus is less massive, and you&amp;#x27;re already quite a ways off the surface.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s still not &lt;i&gt;trivial&lt;/i&gt;, but it&amp;#x27;s not like there are a whole lot of do-overs when launching valuable human cargo from Earth, either. (What happens if the space shuttle&amp;#x27;s engines go awry? Everyone on board dies, and everyone on the ground speculates as to whether they died within 30 seconds, or survived to hit the ocean.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>JulianMorrison</author><text>1g at 1 atmosphere has disadvantages. Namely: to get &lt;i&gt;off&lt;/i&gt; the planet, you will need a fully fuelled multistage rocket with an almost identical profile to rockets you&amp;#x27;d launch from ground level on Earth. Something like a Falcon 9. That&amp;#x27;s a bit heavy to lug all the way from Earth.&lt;p&gt;Bonus: you have to launch by dropping it into a hell-cauldron of poison gases miles above a crushing, melting surface, better hope you don&amp;#x27;t have an engine out, because there are no launch aborts or do-overs. Then you have to fly it out through a hot corrosive acid atmosphere which I don&amp;#x27;t imagine would be very friendly to machined aluminum.</text></item><item><author>aetherson</author><text>In terms of human habitation, the big advantages of Venus&amp;#x27; atmosphere are:&lt;p&gt;1. It has essentially Earth-normal gravity. Zero-G long-term is a death sentence for humans. The long term effects of Martian gravity are unknown. It seems safe to assume that Venus gravity is fine.&lt;p&gt;2. It is protected from impact and radiation by an atmosphere in a way that Mars or asteroids never will be.&lt;p&gt;3. It has an essentially limitless supply of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur available to it.&lt;p&gt;4. It is reasonably well-positioned for solar power.&lt;p&gt;5. It is relatively temperate.&lt;p&gt;6. Low pressure differential between inside a habitat and outside of one means that leaks are less severe and containment breaches are easier to react to.&lt;p&gt;But there is at least one huge disadvantage:&lt;p&gt;1. Everything besides carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur needs to be imported, either from a fantastically hostile surface, or down through reentry into an atmosphere in a deep gravity well and rendezvousing with an aerostat.&lt;p&gt;That disadvantage is a pretty goddamn significant one for human habitation.&lt;p&gt;But it&amp;#x27;s not a disadvantage for long-term robot probes, and it&amp;#x27;s... less... of a disadvantage for a minimal-population scientific base.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why We Should Build Cloud Cities on Venus</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-we-should-build-cloud-cities-on-venus</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stcredzero</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; 1g at 1 atmosphere has disadvantages. Namely: to get off the planet, you will need a fully fuelled multistage rocket with an almost identical profile to rockets you&amp;#x27;d launch from ground level on Earth.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Condense Carbon Monoxide and Sulphuric Acid from Venus&amp;#x27;s atmosphere for use as fuel and oxidizer in a hypersonic rocketplane that tops out at about Mach 11. Have the rocketplane rendezvous with the end of a rotating tether.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tethers.com/papers/HASTOLAIAAPaper.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tethers.com&amp;#x2F;papers&amp;#x2F;HASTOLAIAAPaper.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;No multi-stage rocket. No expendable launch vehicles. That&amp;#x27;s probably not the actual solution, but it shows that you don&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; to have a Falcon 9 equivalent.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Then you have to fly it out through a hot corrosive acid atmosphere which I don&amp;#x27;t imagine would be very friendly to machined aluminum.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It should be possible to condense HF out of the Venusian atmosphere, so we should be able to manufacture PTFE locally with input from non-Earth resources. (Mining chondrites from Mercury and Venus-crossing asteroids.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>JulianMorrison</author><text>1g at 1 atmosphere has disadvantages. Namely: to get &lt;i&gt;off&lt;/i&gt; the planet, you will need a fully fuelled multistage rocket with an almost identical profile to rockets you&amp;#x27;d launch from ground level on Earth. Something like a Falcon 9. That&amp;#x27;s a bit heavy to lug all the way from Earth.&lt;p&gt;Bonus: you have to launch by dropping it into a hell-cauldron of poison gases miles above a crushing, melting surface, better hope you don&amp;#x27;t have an engine out, because there are no launch aborts or do-overs. Then you have to fly it out through a hot corrosive acid atmosphere which I don&amp;#x27;t imagine would be very friendly to machined aluminum.</text></item><item><author>aetherson</author><text>In terms of human habitation, the big advantages of Venus&amp;#x27; atmosphere are:&lt;p&gt;1. It has essentially Earth-normal gravity. Zero-G long-term is a death sentence for humans. The long term effects of Martian gravity are unknown. It seems safe to assume that Venus gravity is fine.&lt;p&gt;2. It is protected from impact and radiation by an atmosphere in a way that Mars or asteroids never will be.&lt;p&gt;3. It has an essentially limitless supply of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur available to it.&lt;p&gt;4. It is reasonably well-positioned for solar power.&lt;p&gt;5. It is relatively temperate.&lt;p&gt;6. Low pressure differential between inside a habitat and outside of one means that leaks are less severe and containment breaches are easier to react to.&lt;p&gt;But there is at least one huge disadvantage:&lt;p&gt;1. Everything besides carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur needs to be imported, either from a fantastically hostile surface, or down through reentry into an atmosphere in a deep gravity well and rendezvousing with an aerostat.&lt;p&gt;That disadvantage is a pretty goddamn significant one for human habitation.&lt;p&gt;But it&amp;#x27;s not a disadvantage for long-term robot probes, and it&amp;#x27;s... less... of a disadvantage for a minimal-population scientific base.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why We Should Build Cloud Cities on Venus</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-we-should-build-cloud-cities-on-venus</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>loudtieblahblah</author><text>This ignores that the web has birthed a global culture of people where participation in online discussion is the majority of their lives. And they sit around looking to be offended to raise their own social value amonst their online peers.&lt;p&gt;Being offended is about obtaining value and for mobs to obtain power.&lt;p&gt;The two way street of both trying to not offend AND the listener trying to honestly interpret what is being said goes out the window&lt;p&gt;Whenever you have a bad actor on either side of communication, it breaks down.&lt;p&gt;The common wisdom, though, is that the bad actor is always the speaker.&lt;p&gt;And its simply not true.&lt;p&gt;The other problem is, as a culture, everyone is responsible for everyone else&amp;#x27;s emotions. No one is asked to be responsible for their own.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t have a problem with codes of conduct per se.&lt;p&gt;I do have a problem with a culture that constantly asks people to not be responsible for how they process information. Even negative, even offensive information.&lt;p&gt;Relationship therapists teach couples to use &amp;quot;I&amp;quot; language vs &amp;quot;you&amp;quot; language to express feelings (Google it if you don&amp;#x27;t understand)&lt;p&gt;This way you take responsibility for how external stimuli makes you feel rather than making your partner wholly responsible and thus making discussion adversarial&lt;p&gt;This problem is happening in FOS projects or even just social media in general.&lt;p&gt;Everyone is a soccer player, falling down, grabbing their leg hoping to get the most people feeling sorry for them, claiming 1% if the bullies and edgelords out there are some dominant social group. It&amp;#x27;s crap</text><parent_chain><item><author>TuringTest</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; how can we share out most wonderful and beautiful ideas with each other&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The trick is to create channels with limited audiences, where you can set an expectation of which ideas are acceptable and which are not.*&lt;p&gt;It always has been, but the the arrival of new communication methods has disrupted the traditional channels, and now every idea is propagated to a much larger and looser audience, which aren&amp;#x27;t aware or don&amp;#x27;t share the expectations of the sender.&lt;p&gt;We need to rebuild the architecture of communication channels around this principle of limited audiences sharing a common understanding, and reshape the current &amp;quot;free&amp;quot; massive communication tools so that they respect this principle instead of exploiting the benefits of popularising aggressive messages for their shock value.&lt;p&gt;This compartmentalisation of channels would do much more for freedom of expression than the current &amp;quot;everyone gets a distorted and contextless version of the original message and can have their say&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;* By the way, this is the reason why explicit Codes of Conduct are a &lt;i&gt;good&lt;/i&gt; thing for online projects. Without them, you simply get a &lt;i&gt;default&lt;/i&gt; implicit code of conduct based on the expectations of the dominant group; which is not a good solution for people coming from any other group.</text></item><item><author>AHappyCamper</author><text>I understand that there are a lot of people who are hurting right now, and I empathize with their pain, but how can we share out most wonderful and beautiful ideas with each other or convey important information to the public if we believe there might be serious reprisals against us if we &amp;quot;say the wrong thing&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;For example, I personally helped work against slavery on the Black Market in the Middle East, and I wanted to raise awareness of this issue.&lt;p&gt;But now I have to be worried that I&amp;#x27;ll insult people by using the term Black Market, and will also insult people by giving off the impression that the the Middle East is a 3rd world primitive place where they buy and sell slaves.&lt;p&gt;There is no &amp;quot;right&amp;quot; way to convey the issue above without offending someone. So what should I do? Just shut my mouth and don&amp;#x27;t say anything? Then the slave trade will continue to operate freely...&lt;p&gt;All speech besides threats of violence needs to be free, or we can&amp;#x27;t progress as a society.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Those who exercise free speech should also defend it even when it’s offensive</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-19/protests-free-speech-first-amendment</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>haberman</author><text>&amp;gt; The trick is to create channels with limited audiences, where you can set an expectation of which ideas are acceptable and which are not.&lt;p&gt;Do you mean that a community could allow argument X, but disallow counter-argument Y? That sounds like a recipe for an echo chamber.&lt;p&gt;I definitely see the benefit in saying that certain &lt;i&gt;topics&lt;/i&gt; are out of scope for a given community. But saying which ideas are acceptable and which are not sounds like codifying the dominance of an official viewpoint.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TuringTest</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; how can we share out most wonderful and beautiful ideas with each other&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The trick is to create channels with limited audiences, where you can set an expectation of which ideas are acceptable and which are not.*&lt;p&gt;It always has been, but the the arrival of new communication methods has disrupted the traditional channels, and now every idea is propagated to a much larger and looser audience, which aren&amp;#x27;t aware or don&amp;#x27;t share the expectations of the sender.&lt;p&gt;We need to rebuild the architecture of communication channels around this principle of limited audiences sharing a common understanding, and reshape the current &amp;quot;free&amp;quot; massive communication tools so that they respect this principle instead of exploiting the benefits of popularising aggressive messages for their shock value.&lt;p&gt;This compartmentalisation of channels would do much more for freedom of expression than the current &amp;quot;everyone gets a distorted and contextless version of the original message and can have their say&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;* By the way, this is the reason why explicit Codes of Conduct are a &lt;i&gt;good&lt;/i&gt; thing for online projects. Without them, you simply get a &lt;i&gt;default&lt;/i&gt; implicit code of conduct based on the expectations of the dominant group; which is not a good solution for people coming from any other group.</text></item><item><author>AHappyCamper</author><text>I understand that there are a lot of people who are hurting right now, and I empathize with their pain, but how can we share out most wonderful and beautiful ideas with each other or convey important information to the public if we believe there might be serious reprisals against us if we &amp;quot;say the wrong thing&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;For example, I personally helped work against slavery on the Black Market in the Middle East, and I wanted to raise awareness of this issue.&lt;p&gt;But now I have to be worried that I&amp;#x27;ll insult people by using the term Black Market, and will also insult people by giving off the impression that the the Middle East is a 3rd world primitive place where they buy and sell slaves.&lt;p&gt;There is no &amp;quot;right&amp;quot; way to convey the issue above without offending someone. So what should I do? Just shut my mouth and don&amp;#x27;t say anything? Then the slave trade will continue to operate freely...&lt;p&gt;All speech besides threats of violence needs to be free, or we can&amp;#x27;t progress as a society.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Those who exercise free speech should also defend it even when it’s offensive</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-19/protests-free-speech-first-amendment</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toxik</author><text>I don’t know what I think, it’s not a normal situation in my country. Businesses sign the union agreement, because it is a collaborative process between the union and the employer. The whole system is predicated on good faith. Tesla is openly being adversarial and the union has now after years said enough, and declared a legal strike. Strikes are usually resolved long before this stage. Unions in Denmark and Norway don’t often go on sympathy strikes for Swedish unions.&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, screw the Musk boy. There are other EV manufacturers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yreg</author><text>I find it insane that the workers of the state-owned postal office can decide what mail to deliver based on their personal views.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s next, the mass transit drivers refusing to stop near Tesla&amp;#x27;s offices? Court workers refusing to accept Tesla&amp;#x27;s lawsuits? Firemen refusing to put out fire on Tesla&amp;#x27;s properties?</text></item><item><author>toxik</author><text>Right, and they don’t. The workers do.</text></item><item><author>gottorf</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s wild! As a (pseudo-) government agency, it seems like the postal service shouldn&amp;#x27;t be legally allowed to pick and choose whose mail to deliver and whose to withhold.</text></item><item><author>eckesicle</author><text>&amp;gt; Postal workers even decided not to deliver mail to the electric automaker, including license plates – an action that Musk called &amp;quot;insane&amp;quot;. The local court has since put a stop to that action.&lt;p&gt;This is no longer true. A higher court overturned that decision and the license plates are again blocked from reaching Tesla.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/07/swedish_tesla_strike_international/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>actionfromafar</author><text>They can&amp;#x27;t decide based on personal views. That is illegal. It&amp;#x27;s only legal during a strike.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yreg</author><text>I find it insane that the workers of the state-owned postal office can decide what mail to deliver based on their personal views.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s next, the mass transit drivers refusing to stop near Tesla&amp;#x27;s offices? Court workers refusing to accept Tesla&amp;#x27;s lawsuits? Firemen refusing to put out fire on Tesla&amp;#x27;s properties?</text></item><item><author>toxik</author><text>Right, and they don’t. The workers do.</text></item><item><author>gottorf</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s wild! As a (pseudo-) government agency, it seems like the postal service shouldn&amp;#x27;t be legally allowed to pick and choose whose mail to deliver and whose to withhold.</text></item><item><author>eckesicle</author><text>&amp;gt; Postal workers even decided not to deliver mail to the electric automaker, including license plates – an action that Musk called &amp;quot;insane&amp;quot;. The local court has since put a stop to that action.&lt;p&gt;This is no longer true. A higher court overturned that decision and the license plates are again blocked from reaching Tesla.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/07/swedish_tesla_strike_international/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Aurornis</author><text>&amp;gt; More than half (55 percent) of all the income generated by 501(c)(3) organizations comes from tax-exempt hospitals and health-care plans.&lt;p&gt;The median operating margins for hospitals is around 0% or some times negative. Injecting more costs into the system is only going to push prices further upward.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The majority of tax-exempt organizations today are business-like in form and function, including credit unions, hospitals, utilities, insurance companies, universities, professional athletic associations, golf clubs, and consulting firms, to name a few.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m completely on board with clamping down on tax exempt status for a lot of these other businesses, though. Credit Unions are nice, but they&amp;#x27;re still just banks. Insurance companies are obviously businesses. Athletic associations, golf clubs, consulting firms -- What is even going on that allowed these to be nonprofits?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reining in America&apos;s $3.3T tax-exempt economy</title><url>https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/501c3-nonprofit-organization-tax-exempt/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>francisofascii</author><text>Setting more appropriate land taxes would be a good start, which is much easier then trying to figure out how to tax income. The harder part is reducing the tax liability based on the &amp;quot;public good&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;how benevolent&amp;quot; the organization is. Hard but not impossible. For example, a private golf club would pay higher taxes than a public golf course. Or a church that allows anyone in or has tons of community outreach to the neighborhood pays less or no taxes vs a church that has tons of requirements or hoops to jump through.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reining in America&apos;s $3.3T tax-exempt economy</title><url>https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/501c3-nonprofit-organization-tax-exempt/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>raz32dust</author><text>I find two problems with these kinds of studies:&lt;p&gt;(1) How are you defining &amp;quot;happiness&amp;quot;? If you define happiness as social interaction, obviously the introverts will be &amp;quot;unhappy&amp;quot;. Here, this study seems to define it as &amp;quot;psychological well-being (measured by self-esteem, life satisfaction, and happiness)&amp;quot;. Is being unsatisfied bad? I would argue that it is not necessarily true. Unsatisfied people tend to bring change to society. So what are we trying to optimize for? You improve what you measure. Are we measuring the right metric? If having high levels of dopamine is happiness, is it ok to inject everyone with dopamine to make them &amp;quot;happy&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;(2) Are these activities symptoms of unhappiness or causes? I think they are just symptoms. The more I study about this, the more I feel that &amp;quot;unhappiness&amp;quot; is more of a trait. Mostly genes and internal hormones and chemistry and biology. This constant push to be &amp;quot;happy&amp;quot; makes life worse for the &amp;quot;sad&amp;quot; people.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Do Happy Teens Do?</title><url>https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/our-changing-culture/201808/what-do-happy-teens-do</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gumby</author><text>For some reason it jumped out at me that they considered time in religious services as a measurable component of how an ordinary person might spend their time. I can see how it might be relevant to the topic at hand but it&amp;#x27;s quite uncommon for me to encounter a normative discussion of religious activity as an unremarkable thing.&lt;p&gt;Is it common (i.e. do I live in a bubble) or is it a marker of something about this article that I am missing? I pretty much only encounter mention of religion in the news headlines and am not sure I even know anyone who attends any kind of religious service more than two or three times a year.&lt;p&gt;It may be quite common and I might live in a bubble, but then is it mentioned routinely?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Do Happy Teens Do?</title><url>https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/our-changing-culture/201808/what-do-happy-teens-do</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>burntoutfire</author><text>&amp;gt; Something in the handling of the homeless problem had failed in that city.&lt;p&gt;Or, the homeless are recent migrants from other areas? At least where i live, the homeless all congregate in biggest wealthiest cities, because it&amp;#x27;s easier to beg, their presence blends in more and also local communities are more atomized so they don&amp;#x27;t fight off the homeless as hard as in smaller places. I&amp;#x27;ve heard a story of one homeless guy who have recently been sleeping on a bus stop near my home - he&amp;#x27;s basically travelling from one big city center to another, and stays as long as the police doesn&amp;#x27;t chase him off the area.</text><parent_chain><item><author>austincheney</author><text>The city of Austin, TX could be a case study of what not to do. I was remotely employed to company with offices in Austin in 2014-2015 and it was awesome to visit and walk around down town. I always had a blast.&lt;p&gt;I visited Austin in 2019 and there were homeless people EVERYWHERE. Every green space and nearly every street corner seemed to be littered with homeless people. The difference crystal clear. Something in the handling of the homeless problem had failed in that city.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Finland has slashed homelessness; the rest of Europe is failing</title><url>https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/12/18/finland-has-slashed-homelessness-the-rest-of-europe-is-failing</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SaintGhurka</author><text>To add some missing details on this, in 2018&amp;#x2F;19 the city council passed some ordinances that removed the criminality of some homeless activities. Specifically, they made it explicitly legal to camp in most public spaces (excluding parks) and they permit panhandling, sitting and sleeping on public sidewalks.&lt;p&gt;So there&amp;#x27;s a lot of &amp;quot;campsites&amp;quot; downtown. A lot of tents, or just people in sleeping bags on the sidewalk. A lot of people peeing against the buildings.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hard to score the upsides and downsides without starting an argument, but it feels like much of Austin has soured on the &amp;quot;decriminalization of homelessness&amp;quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>austincheney</author><text>The city of Austin, TX could be a case study of what not to do. I was remotely employed to company with offices in Austin in 2014-2015 and it was awesome to visit and walk around down town. I always had a blast.&lt;p&gt;I visited Austin in 2019 and there were homeless people EVERYWHERE. Every green space and nearly every street corner seemed to be littered with homeless people. The difference crystal clear. Something in the handling of the homeless problem had failed in that city.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Finland has slashed homelessness; the rest of Europe is failing</title><url>https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/12/18/finland-has-slashed-homelessness-the-rest-of-europe-is-failing</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wmccullough</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m happy to be harsh because I&amp;#x27;ve had years and years of experience dealing with IBM.&lt;p&gt;Their tools are trash for the cost they want. The majority of their offerings are overengineered and prone to failure in a production setting.&lt;p&gt;They are pros at selling to non-technical management, all the while IT employees get stuck dealing with the aftermath.&lt;p&gt;We ended up getting stuck with the IBM version of work item management, called Jazz Team Concert. From the &amp;quot;source control&amp;quot; to the actual setup and configuration, the product was a nightmare. The worst part was when we looked at license renewal. They wanted three quarters of a million dollars for something that was essentially dog shit wrapped in cat shit.&lt;p&gt;In case you thought I might be on the fence with IBM, I&amp;#x27;ll add one final clarifying point:&lt;p&gt;Fuck IBM.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway9980</author><text>IBM vastly over promises with their marketing. It is so frustrating to have to answer questions from the CEO about why we don&amp;#x27;t solve all our problems with magic beans from IBM&amp;#x27;s Watson.&lt;p&gt;I understand that this is what they want. They want to drive executives&amp;#x27; interest in the product, but I believe they do so at the expense of their goodwill with the tech community.&lt;p&gt;Am I the only one who cringes when these ads air?&lt;p&gt;Edit: &amp;quot;magic beans&amp;quot; is harsh and it isn&amp;#x27;t that I don&amp;#x27;t think their tools are good. My point is that they put you in a position where it seems very unlikely to meet expectations.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/13/jefferies-gives-ibm-watson-a-wall-street-reality-check/</url></story>

<instructions>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_haterade</author><text>I recently sat through a sales pitch for a piece of IBM software that has an intensely focused (and better) competitor.&lt;p&gt;IBM&amp;#x27;s sales pitch was that 1) this particular piece of software was &amp;quot;central to IBM&amp;#x27;s [market niche] strategy&amp;quot;, and 2) if we didn&amp;#x27;t go with IBM&amp;#x27;s product, we would miss out on all the interoperability with IBM&amp;#x27;s Watson that the future is going to bring. The tone veered toward fire-and-brimstone. I wasn&amp;#x27;t sold, I was put off. They&amp;#x27;ve demoed other things in the past that I&amp;#x27;ve had my socks knocked off by, but they&amp;#x27;re nothing that&amp;#x27;s the sort of &amp;quot;indistinguishable from magic&amp;quot; that they&amp;#x27;re promising in all the marketing hype.&lt;p&gt;The thing is, IBM delivers tremendous value, and they have some fantastic products. However, stunts like that leave people like me with a very sour taste in my mouth. If they&amp;#x27;d just focus on delivering a better product, as quantified by hard metrics, (which they could easily afford to do), they&amp;#x27;d keep making out like bandits for a very long time. There&amp;#x27;s tremendous good-will toward them in the market: bad experience aside, I&amp;#x27;m still favorably disposed toward them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway9980</author><text>IBM vastly over promises with their marketing. It is so frustrating to have to answer questions from the CEO about why we don&amp;#x27;t solve all our problems with magic beans from IBM&amp;#x27;s Watson.&lt;p&gt;I understand that this is what they want. They want to drive executives&amp;#x27; interest in the product, but I believe they do so at the expense of their goodwill with the tech community.&lt;p&gt;Am I the only one who cringes when these ads air?&lt;p&gt;Edit: &amp;quot;magic beans&amp;quot; is harsh and it isn&amp;#x27;t that I don&amp;#x27;t think their tools are good. My point is that they put you in a position where it seems very unlikely to meet expectations.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/13/jefferies-gives-ibm-watson-a-wall-street-reality-check/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hkmurakami</author><text>My &amp;quot;networking&amp;quot; became 100x easier and more effective once I ditched &amp;quot;networking events&amp;quot; (not that I ever went to many) and made &amp;quot;friends of friends&amp;quot; networking through hikes&amp;#x2F;biking&amp;#x2F;dinner&amp;#x2F;etc. my main mode of expanding my circle of friendly knowledge worker acquaintances.&lt;p&gt;Also you form actual friendships from time to time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rb808</author><text>Being a wallflower isn&amp;#x27;t a great way to meet people agreed. but after a few decades I&amp;#x27;ve come to realize that its a symptom rather than a cause - if you want to meet people you need to plan ahead - invite others to come with you, go to places you know people already - introduce yourself and chat to friends of friends not strangers.&lt;p&gt;If you go to a place where you&amp;#x27;re by yourself and aren&amp;#x27;t talking to people you aren&amp;#x27;t a wallflower, you just didn&amp;#x27;t prepare.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Wallflowers Don&apos;t Make Friends</title><url>http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/why-wallflowers-dont-make-friends.html</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danenania</author><text>This is very true--feeling comfortable and making friends in a roomful of complete strangers is difficult even for extroverts. Some people can pull it off but they are well outside the norm. Being a wallflower is a natural inclination for anyone in this scenario. It&amp;#x27;s not only shy people who feel this way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rb808</author><text>Being a wallflower isn&amp;#x27;t a great way to meet people agreed. but after a few decades I&amp;#x27;ve come to realize that its a symptom rather than a cause - if you want to meet people you need to plan ahead - invite others to come with you, go to places you know people already - introduce yourself and chat to friends of friends not strangers.&lt;p&gt;If you go to a place where you&amp;#x27;re by yourself and aren&amp;#x27;t talking to people you aren&amp;#x27;t a wallflower, you just didn&amp;#x27;t prepare.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Wallflowers Don&apos;t Make Friends</title><url>http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/why-wallflowers-dont-make-friends.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>anigbrowl</author><text>Jeepers, talk about burying the lede until the &lt;i&gt;last goddam paragraph&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;tl;dr &amp;#x27;[Fabiano] Caruana did show up, drawing his final two games to win the tournament (and its $100,000 top prize) with a record of 7-0-3, getting 8.5 points out of a possible 10. His victory at the Sinquefield Cup earned Caruana the &lt;i&gt;highest tournament performance rating of all time,&lt;/i&gt; crushing even Karpov’s legendary result at Linares. Earth’s finest chess players couldn’t manage to pin Caruana with a single loss.&amp;#x27;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sinquefield Cup: One of the most amazing feats in chess history</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2014/09/sinquefield_cup_one_of_the_most_amazing_feats_in_chess_history_just_happened.single.html</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aardshark</author><text>&lt;i&gt;But while poker is, at heart, a simple game, easy enough to grok that you can strategize along with Phil Ivey when he plays on TV, a grandmaster-level chess match is totally bewildering.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Just as my brain is hopelessly puny next to Magnus Carlsen’s, so is Carlsen’s compared to that of a modern chess-playing machine.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t like these rhetorical techniques that debase one thing to show how great another thing is. There&amp;#x27;s a certain dishonesty in them, as if the author were qualified to make these observations.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sinquefield Cup: One of the most amazing feats in chess history</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2014/09/sinquefield_cup_one_of_the_most_amazing_feats_in_chess_history_just_happened.single.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>cxr</author><text>People love to trot out examples like this while remaining totally silent about why they&amp;#x27;re trying to add&amp;#x2F;subtract numbers and strings in the first place or articulate what they expected to happen when they did it.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;On two occasions I have been asked, &amp;quot;Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?&amp;quot; [...] I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.&lt;/i&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>kamranjon</author><text>&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; + 4 = &amp;quot;44&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;44&amp;quot; - 4 = 40</text></item><item><author>user3939382</author><text>&amp;gt; I tend to think of Javascript as the language that fulfills the promises that BASIC never did&lt;p&gt;I taught myself BASIC when I was 7 when I didn&amp;#x27;t know what a programming language was.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been programming JS for 25 years and I still commonly can&amp;#x27;t predict what the behavior of some aspects of my code is going to be, or what the state of the application is at a given point, until I try&amp;#x2F;run it.</text></item><item><author>sublinear</author><text>I would like to point out that a possible reason this repo is so popular is that Javascript is more accessible to more people than any other programming language today and this shows the demand to meet these programmers halfway and help further their education. I think most js devs know Javascript is a poor choice for this, but they have to walk before they can run.&lt;p&gt;I tend to think of Javascript as the language that fulfills the promises that BASIC never did.&lt;p&gt;If every student walking into a computer science course only knew Javascript, that would still be a massive improvement over the past where half the students didn&amp;#x27;t know any programming language at all or only some vastly underpowered ones like Logo or BASIC.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JavaScript-algorithms: Algorithms and data structures implemented in JavaScript</title><url>https://github.com/trekhleb/javascript-algorithms</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mdp2021</author><text>True, and apparently counterintuitive if presented that way, but it makes sense as &amp;#x27;+&amp;#x27; is a string concatenation operator. It is the type conversion that can be used in unclear contexts - it can be comfortable and also dangerous.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kamranjon</author><text>&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; + 4 = &amp;quot;44&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;44&amp;quot; - 4 = 40</text></item><item><author>user3939382</author><text>&amp;gt; I tend to think of Javascript as the language that fulfills the promises that BASIC never did&lt;p&gt;I taught myself BASIC when I was 7 when I didn&amp;#x27;t know what a programming language was.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been programming JS for 25 years and I still commonly can&amp;#x27;t predict what the behavior of some aspects of my code is going to be, or what the state of the application is at a given point, until I try&amp;#x2F;run it.</text></item><item><author>sublinear</author><text>I would like to point out that a possible reason this repo is so popular is that Javascript is more accessible to more people than any other programming language today and this shows the demand to meet these programmers halfway and help further their education. I think most js devs know Javascript is a poor choice for this, but they have to walk before they can run.&lt;p&gt;I tend to think of Javascript as the language that fulfills the promises that BASIC never did.&lt;p&gt;If every student walking into a computer science course only knew Javascript, that would still be a massive improvement over the past where half the students didn&amp;#x27;t know any programming language at all or only some vastly underpowered ones like Logo or BASIC.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JavaScript-algorithms: Algorithms and data structures implemented in JavaScript</title><url>https://github.com/trekhleb/javascript-algorithms</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mattsears</author><text>AirBnB didn&amp;#x27;t fail. It has some work to do with managing fees, but overall, it provides a great service for people wanting a better or different experience than traditional hotels AND it&amp;#x27;s provide hosts with additional income at the same time. I much rather give my money to people needing extra savings than big business hotel chains.&lt;p&gt;I always look at Airbnb first when traveling because I value options like a kitchen where I can cook my own meals, a washer and dryer where I can wash my clothes, and a sofa to relax on.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ohbleek</author><text>AirBnB failed. I don&amp;#x27;t even check it out anymore when I travel because a hotel typically costs about the same due to the fees charged by the hosts. I would choose a hotel over AirBnB until the price difference is 15-20% lower in favor of AirBnB because there are too many unknowns with AirBnB and the novelty has worn off entirely. Plus since so many listings are owned by some company or person renting out multiple locations, whats the difference any more?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/airbnb-s-loss-nearly-doubles-in-fourth-quarter-before-virus-hit</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>exhilaration</author><text>What AirBnB has over hotels is locations inside neighborhoods. Take Montreal for example, the hotels are clustered downtown, which is fine if that&amp;#x27;s what you&amp;#x27;re looking for. But by staying in an AirBnB you get a local experience, in a local neighborhood. It&amp;#x27;s like this all over the world.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ohbleek</author><text>AirBnB failed. I don&amp;#x27;t even check it out anymore when I travel because a hotel typically costs about the same due to the fees charged by the hosts. I would choose a hotel over AirBnB until the price difference is 15-20% lower in favor of AirBnB because there are too many unknowns with AirBnB and the novelty has worn off entirely. Plus since so many listings are owned by some company or person renting out multiple locations, whats the difference any more?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/airbnb-s-loss-nearly-doubles-in-fourth-quarter-before-virus-hit</url></story>

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<instructions>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>They did throw &amp;gt;100,000,000 CPU-hours at it &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11550922&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=11550922&lt;/a&gt; , but they still got extremely lucky to find such a good address. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=8538390&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=8538390&lt;/a&gt; It&amp;#x27;s not usually that easy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>riffraff</author><text>&amp;gt; [re magic &amp;quot;expand 32-byte k&amp;quot; string] And it&amp;#x27;s readable ASCII text, so you can be pretty sure there&amp;#x27;s no back door in there.&lt;p&gt;I am not sure this matters?&lt;p&gt;I mean, facebook managed to get a reasonably nice .onion routing id (facebookcorewwwi.onion) by bruteforcing stuff right?&lt;p&gt;I can imagine bruteforcing the &amp;quot;backdoor key space&amp;quot; to find something that looks good, am I insane?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The design of Chacha20</title><url>http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/chacha20-design</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cwmma</author><text>If backdoored constants are easy enough to find that you are able to find them AND they are appropriate English phrases then the cipher itself is likely broken doubly so as the origional version of chacha had 2 key sizes 16-byte and 32-byte and each used the applicable constant, so in this case you would have had to have found 2 matching back doored constants.&lt;p&gt;That being said you aren&amp;#x27;t crazy this is what the nsa was accused of doing with elliptical curves though they had started with inexplicable random seeds.</text><parent_chain><item><author>riffraff</author><text>&amp;gt; [re magic &amp;quot;expand 32-byte k&amp;quot; string] And it&amp;#x27;s readable ASCII text, so you can be pretty sure there&amp;#x27;s no back door in there.&lt;p&gt;I am not sure this matters?&lt;p&gt;I mean, facebook managed to get a reasonably nice .onion routing id (facebookcorewwwi.onion) by bruteforcing stuff right?&lt;p&gt;I can imagine bruteforcing the &amp;quot;backdoor key space&amp;quot; to find something that looks good, am I insane?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The design of Chacha20</title><url>http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/chacha20-design</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>19h</author><text>I’d be careful with H100 on clouds right now — we ran Onnx &amp;amp; PyTorch payloads an ran into issues that haven’t been addressed yet.&lt;p&gt;For instance, onnx &amp;amp; PyTorch just died randomly and a few thousand dollars later we figured it was directly caused by incorrect assumptions made in the underlying implementations where the developers almost definitely did not have access to an H100 yet.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nvidia’s H100: Funny L2, and Tons of Bandwidth</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/07/02/nvidias-h100-funny-l2-and-tons-of-bandwidth/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Roark66</author><text>Personally I think we&amp;#x27;re doing AI wrong. Every time we simplify the architecture we get huge improvement in speed. CPUs have to everything (load&amp;#x2F;store, branching, execution), GPUs do a lot less branching and aren&amp;#x27;t optimised for it. This is why they can be made massively parallel. What if we cut out arbitrary load&amp;#x2F;store too? This would look like A DSP. All memory would be prepared in advance and the massively parallel accelerator would &amp;quot;stream walk&amp;quot; through It without having to load store arbitrary memory locations. The speed improvement could be on par with CPU-&amp;gt;Gpu. Of course this would be for inference mostly. There is a startup that is trying to do just that called tinycorp. I&amp;#x27;m certainly watching it with interest</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nvidia’s H100: Funny L2, and Tons of Bandwidth</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/07/02/nvidias-h100-funny-l2-and-tons-of-bandwidth/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mechanical_fish</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I have always considered American citizens to be more attached to civil liberties and individual freedom than most Europeans.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps, but still... it&apos;s complicated. Ask an Irish-American in the 1800s, a black American in 1840 or 1930, or a Japanese-American in 1944:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theworld.org/2010/02/19/actor-george-takei-remembers-his-internment/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.theworld.org/2010/02/19/actor-george-takei-rememb...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;From the earliest days of the USA, it has taken a lot of fighting to keep the ideals alive in practice as well as on paper.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cdavid</author><text>What seems interesting to me as a European is that this type of reactions happened mostly in the US. Terror attacks have happened for a long time in Europe (red brigades, IRA, algerian terror cells, etc...), and the reaction has been quite different to say the least. Granted, the amount of damages has been different (nothing near 9/11 has ever happened on European soil), but I don&apos;t think that explains it.&lt;p&gt;This is even more incomprehensible to me because I have always considered American citizens to be more attached to civil liberties and individual freedom than most Europens.</text></item><item><author>makecheck</author><text>From 2006, and sadly so; this advice should have been followed back in 2002, and been the reality by 2010. Schneier is well known, but somehow still isn&apos;t being heard by the right ears...how can we help change that?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bruce Schneier: Refuse to be terrorized</title><url>http://www.schneier.com/essay-124.html</url><text></text></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SkyMarshal</author><text>Many of us in the US who &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; attached to civil liberties and individual freedom are taking notice.&lt;p&gt;From civil liberties to software patents, maybe Europe isn&apos;t what Rush Limbaugh says it is. Wonder of wonders.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cdavid</author><text>What seems interesting to me as a European is that this type of reactions happened mostly in the US. Terror attacks have happened for a long time in Europe (red brigades, IRA, algerian terror cells, etc...), and the reaction has been quite different to say the least. Granted, the amount of damages has been different (nothing near 9/11 has ever happened on European soil), but I don&apos;t think that explains it.&lt;p&gt;This is even more incomprehensible to me because I have always considered American citizens to be more attached to civil liberties and individual freedom than most Europens.</text></item><item><author>makecheck</author><text>From 2006, and sadly so; this advice should have been followed back in 2002, and been the reality by 2010. Schneier is well known, but somehow still isn&apos;t being heard by the right ears...how can we help change that?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bruce Schneier: Refuse to be terrorized</title><url>http://www.schneier.com/essay-124.html</url><text></text></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hpcjoe</author><text>This should go on twitter as &amp;quot;Dudes posting their massive W&amp;#x27;s&amp;quot; :D&lt;p&gt;Mine is 22, about to start grad school for a Ph.D. in applied math (I&amp;#x27;m Ph.D. in theoretical physics, but am a secret math nerd ... wife is also a math nerd and an M.S. Physics).&lt;p&gt;Early on we discovered how much she loved reading. So, we read to her, every night. For a while, I could quote whole sections of &amp;quot;The Sleep Book&amp;quot; (Dr. Seuss) from memory. As she grew older, she read. Voraciously. Throughout high school, she insisted she wanted to be an artist, which we completely supported. Said she hated math.&lt;p&gt;She liked some physical activity, though I could never convince her to work out with me or my wife at the gym.&lt;p&gt;Went through an IB program in high school. Told us at the end, after getting into a competitive art school, that she was happy she never had to take math, ever again. Fast forward a year, and she was aching to change majors.&lt;p&gt;She graduated with a double major (one being math), and a minor. Got into a bunch of grad schools for Ph.D.&lt;p&gt;Now, the girl who hated math at the end of high school, is about to move on to be a woman in a math Ph.D. program.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a point to this.&lt;p&gt;Your kid will find some things interesting, and others less so. Don&amp;#x27;t worry about that, and enjoy discovering what she likes with her. If you do the dad thing right, you will wind up with a kid who can adapt to new situations, and find joy in what they do.&lt;p&gt;My daughter still does (absolutely amazing) art on her own. Not just a dad saying this, she really is tremendously talented. And we encourage her to continue to pursue what she likes&amp;#x2F;loves.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oblib</author><text>I became a single parent when my daughter turned 1 year old. When she got old enough we&amp;#x27;d go fishing, bicycling, swimming, and hiking a lot. We&amp;#x27;d also go to a used book store twice a month (on pay day) so she could pick out a few books to read. She loved doing that.&lt;p&gt;She had no interest at all in learning how to code or gaming but she loved helping in the garden and in the kitchen prepping and cooking meals.&lt;p&gt;When she got to Jr. High she wanted to join the &amp;quot;Cheerleader&amp;quot; squad so there were a lot early morning rides to school I had to make, and lot&amp;#x27;s of Basketball games I attended until she graduated, but I had a lot fun cheering along with them.&lt;p&gt;During those years I setup a campsite on our property so her and her friends could go hang out there. I&amp;#x27;m sure they had more fun than most parents would approve of but they never got into any real trouble, the police were never called, and no one got hurt bad enough for the parents to call me. For the most part all those parents knew exactly where their kids were and what they were doing. And that I was close enough to deal with anything that came up. But there were never any serious issues.&lt;p&gt;She&amp;#x27;s 37 years old now, still loves to hike, backpack, swim, fish, garden, and cook, and most important, she still likes to hang out with me!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity</title><text>It&amp;#x27;s the start of the holidays. My daughter is 11 y&amp;#x2F;o and I&amp;#x27;m currently unemployed. I would like to do some projects with her that may interest her&amp;#x2F;us while enjoying the time together. Any suggestions&amp;#x2F; ideas would be great!</text></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nickysielicki</author><text>We have such a weird culture around how we treat teenagers in this country. We all remember drinking and smoking as teens, but parents tends to rule with an iron fist and convince themselves that they have more control than their parents did, which means we force healthy normal curious kids to go out to a secluded area (probably by car) to get high or drunk or explore in other ways, away from an adult that could help if something goes wrong, and at a much greater chance of involving the police and putting their future in jeopardy. I respect you for giving your daughter and her friends a safe place to just be normal teenagers. I’m not saying parents should buy their teens a bottle of vodka but everyone should start from a place of being realistic and reducing harm.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oblib</author><text>I became a single parent when my daughter turned 1 year old. When she got old enough we&amp;#x27;d go fishing, bicycling, swimming, and hiking a lot. We&amp;#x27;d also go to a used book store twice a month (on pay day) so she could pick out a few books to read. She loved doing that.&lt;p&gt;She had no interest at all in learning how to code or gaming but she loved helping in the garden and in the kitchen prepping and cooking meals.&lt;p&gt;When she got to Jr. High she wanted to join the &amp;quot;Cheerleader&amp;quot; squad so there were a lot early morning rides to school I had to make, and lot&amp;#x27;s of Basketball games I attended until she graduated, but I had a lot fun cheering along with them.&lt;p&gt;During those years I setup a campsite on our property so her and her friends could go hang out there. I&amp;#x27;m sure they had more fun than most parents would approve of but they never got into any real trouble, the police were never called, and no one got hurt bad enough for the parents to call me. For the most part all those parents knew exactly where their kids were and what they were doing. And that I was close enough to deal with anything that came up. But there were never any serious issues.&lt;p&gt;She&amp;#x27;s 37 years old now, still loves to hike, backpack, swim, fish, garden, and cook, and most important, she still likes to hang out with me!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity</title><text>It&amp;#x27;s the start of the holidays. My daughter is 11 y&amp;#x2F;o and I&amp;#x27;m currently unemployed. I would like to do some projects with her that may interest her&amp;#x2F;us while enjoying the time together. Any suggestions&amp;#x2F; ideas would be great!</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>tyre</author><text>SOMA has no culture—it&amp;#x27;s almost entirely apartment buildings and startup offices now.&lt;p&gt;One reason is rents, another is that startups provide food&amp;#x2F;drinks in order to keep people at work. Not enough demand to create a healthy ecosystem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>&amp;gt; it&amp;#x27;s the only food place open in SF SOMA late night&lt;p&gt;Wow that surprises me. I would have though SOMA would have been one of the best places in the world for people with disposable income leaving startups late and wanting to buy food on the way home.</text></item><item><author>jacquesc</author><text>As someone who eats these fake chicken sandwiches occasionally, cant say I&amp;#x27;m surprised. I always assumed these things were the equivalent of chicken hot dog patties or something. Don&amp;#x27;t know why people eat these things... oh ya -- it&amp;#x27;s the only food place open in SF SOMA late night.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DNA tests show Subway sandwiches could contain just 50% chicken</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/business/marketplace-chicken-fast-food-1.3993967</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>escot</author><text>The SF food scene is falling apart and it&amp;#x27;s somewhat caused by tech workers eating all their meals at their office.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>&amp;gt; it&amp;#x27;s the only food place open in SF SOMA late night&lt;p&gt;Wow that surprises me. I would have though SOMA would have been one of the best places in the world for people with disposable income leaving startups late and wanting to buy food on the way home.</text></item><item><author>jacquesc</author><text>As someone who eats these fake chicken sandwiches occasionally, cant say I&amp;#x27;m surprised. I always assumed these things were the equivalent of chicken hot dog patties or something. Don&amp;#x27;t know why people eat these things... oh ya -- it&amp;#x27;s the only food place open in SF SOMA late night.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DNA tests show Subway sandwiches could contain just 50% chicken</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/business/marketplace-chicken-fast-food-1.3993967</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geebee</author><text>Has this always been the case? I remember hearing way back in the 80s various (and probably hyperbolic) stories about how the dollar value of the land in greater Tokyo was greater than the dollar value of the all the land in the entire United States, how if you dropped a $10,000 bill in Tokyo it would be worth less than the land it covered, that sort of thing.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s possible for land to be valuable and worth owning while buildings are not viewed as investments. I&amp;#x27;m not convinced that SF owners of single family properties would necessarily be financially harmed by a major relaxation of density restrictions. It&amp;#x27;s entirely possible that the value of living space per square foot could go down while the value of land per sq foot goes up.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hackermailman</author><text>Japanese also don&amp;#x27;t consider housing to be equity or investment, it depreciates in value every year. A house is just a house not something to speculate on or store money in. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;us-japan-economy-land&amp;#x2F;japan-average-land-prices-rise-for-1st-time-in-27-years-government-survey-idUSKCN1LY10J&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;us-japan-economy-land&amp;#x2F;japan-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tokyo proves that housing shortages are a political choice</title><url>https://www.citymetric.com/fabric/tokyo-proves-housing-shortages-are-political-choice-4623</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Tuna-Fish</author><text>The way this is achieved is by making sure that there is never a housing shortage, by building enough to keep the prices low.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s never an investment because prices never appreciate, so no-one would even try to invest in it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hackermailman</author><text>Japanese also don&amp;#x27;t consider housing to be equity or investment, it depreciates in value every year. A house is just a house not something to speculate on or store money in. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;us-japan-economy-land&amp;#x2F;japan-average-land-prices-rise-for-1st-time-in-27-years-government-survey-idUSKCN1LY10J&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;us-japan-economy-land&amp;#x2F;japan-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tokyo proves that housing shortages are a political choice</title><url>https://www.citymetric.com/fabric/tokyo-proves-housing-shortages-are-political-choice-4623</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>w-m</author><text>Impressions from last week’s CVPR, a conference with 12k attendees on computer vision - Pretty much everyone is using NVIDIA GPUs, and pretty much everyone isn’t happy with the prices, and would like some competition in the space:&lt;p&gt;NVIDIA was there with 57 papers, a website dedicated to their research presented at the conference, a full day tutorial on accelerating deep learning, and ever present with shirts and backpacks in the corridors and at poster presentations.&lt;p&gt;AMD had a booth at the expo part, where they were raffling off some GPUs. I went up to them to ask what framework I should look into, when writing kernels (ideally from Python) for GPGPU. They referred me to the “technical guy”, who it turns out had a demo on inference on an LLM. Which he couldn’t show me, as the laptop with the APU had crashed and wouldn’t reboot. He didn’t know about writing kernels, but told me there was a compiler guy who might be able to help, but he wasn’t to be found at that moment, and I couldn’t find him when returning to the booth later.&lt;p&gt;I’m not at all happy with this situation. As long as AMDs investment into software and evangelism remains at ~$0, I don’t see how any hardware they put out will make a difference. And you’ll continue to hear people walking away from their booth, saying “oh when I win it I’m going to sell it to buy myself an NVIDIA GPU”.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Testing AMD&apos;s Giant MI300X</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/06/25/testing-amds-giant-mi300x/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jsheard</author><text>All eyes are of course on AI, but with 192GB of VRAM I wonder if this or something like it could be good enough for high end production rendering. Pixar and co still use CPU clusters for all of their final frame rendering, even though the task is ostensibly a better fit for GPUs, mainly because their memory demands have usually been so far ahead of what even the biggest GPUs could offer.&lt;p&gt;Much like with AI, Nvidia has the software side of GPU production rendering locked down tight though so that&amp;#x27;s just as much of an uphill battle for AMD.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Testing AMD&apos;s Giant MI300X</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/06/25/testing-amds-giant-mi300x/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scrollaway</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve observed similar behavior in some others.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;ll observe that in more than just porn and games, you&amp;#x27;ll observe it in life in general. In fact for a lot of people that&amp;#x27;s the definition of a mid-life crisis: Suddenly waking up, realizing that you&amp;#x27;ve been &lt;i&gt;wasting your life&lt;/i&gt; slaving at a job you don&amp;#x27;t like, to make money that pays for things you don&amp;#x27;t own which you only have to offset how shitty your job makes you feel.&lt;p&gt;If your doctor told you &lt;i&gt;right now&lt;/i&gt;, &amp;quot;you have exactly two weeks to live&amp;quot;, would your life be unchanged for the next two weeks, or would you suddenly wake up and think &amp;quot;Holy hell, what have I been doing for the past age(self) years?&amp;quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>xapata</author><text>Keep in mind that one&amp;#x27;s personal experience may not be representative of the &amp;quot;average&amp;quot; person.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; single-player games&lt;p&gt;I get obsessive about some games. A completionist, one might say. And when I&amp;#x27;ve achieved what I want to in the game, I suddenly wake up and realize I haven&amp;#x27;t been outside for a week and I&amp;#x27;ve ignored my friends, family, and colleagues. Worst, the guilt of that realization can be so overwhelming that I am tempted to ignore it and simply start another game that takes over my consciousness.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve observed similar behavior in some others. It was most obvious among World of Warcraft (WoW) players when I went to university. I knew more than a handful of WoW players who dropped out of school because they found their in-game social circle more important than just about everything else in their lives. Rather than studying or going out, they needed to be present for the next raid (WoW session).</text></item><item><author>an_ko</author><text>What is it about porn that makes you feel depressed? I&amp;#x27;ve heard that opinion before, but I just can&amp;#x27;t relate, despite being one of those people raised on abundant internet porn. It has been a very clear net positive for me. I&amp;#x27;m in a successful long-term relationship.&lt;p&gt;Are single-player games tearing society apart? Is a deck of cards wasted on solitaire? Must all bicycles be tandem?</text></item><item><author>dawhizkid</author><text>I wonder if the same can be said for internet porn. I too used to think people who wanted to ban porn were just kooky evangelicals, but at some point realized myself how empty and depressed I felt after watching it.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m almost more curious about the societal consequences of young people (mostly male) being raised on abundant internet porn and its role (if any) it plays in how men emotionally and physically connect with women or other men.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/11/16761016/former-facebook-exec-ripping-apart-society</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cortesoft</author><text>I feel like this is just describing the human experience. We go through cycles of obsession and focus, and then a realization that our obsession and focus has kept us from other parts of our lives. We adjust, and then repeat the cycle.&lt;p&gt;It could be video games, but it could be lots of hobbies, or work, or a new relationship, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xapata</author><text>Keep in mind that one&amp;#x27;s personal experience may not be representative of the &amp;quot;average&amp;quot; person.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; single-player games&lt;p&gt;I get obsessive about some games. A completionist, one might say. And when I&amp;#x27;ve achieved what I want to in the game, I suddenly wake up and realize I haven&amp;#x27;t been outside for a week and I&amp;#x27;ve ignored my friends, family, and colleagues. Worst, the guilt of that realization can be so overwhelming that I am tempted to ignore it and simply start another game that takes over my consciousness.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve observed similar behavior in some others. It was most obvious among World of Warcraft (WoW) players when I went to university. I knew more than a handful of WoW players who dropped out of school because they found their in-game social circle more important than just about everything else in their lives. Rather than studying or going out, they needed to be present for the next raid (WoW session).</text></item><item><author>an_ko</author><text>What is it about porn that makes you feel depressed? I&amp;#x27;ve heard that opinion before, but I just can&amp;#x27;t relate, despite being one of those people raised on abundant internet porn. It has been a very clear net positive for me. I&amp;#x27;m in a successful long-term relationship.&lt;p&gt;Are single-player games tearing society apart? Is a deck of cards wasted on solitaire? Must all bicycles be tandem?</text></item><item><author>dawhizkid</author><text>I wonder if the same can be said for internet porn. I too used to think people who wanted to ban porn were just kooky evangelicals, but at some point realized myself how empty and depressed I felt after watching it.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m almost more curious about the societal consequences of young people (mostly male) being raised on abundant internet porn and its role (if any) it plays in how men emotionally and physically connect with women or other men.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/11/16761016/former-facebook-exec-ripping-apart-society</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DennisP</author><text>There are actually two problems, that people often mix up. One is how we get a sense of self, which I think is what you&amp;#x27;re talking about. Another is how qualia, like the perception of color, arise at all. Nobody seems to have any idea how that happens; we have no way to map some arrangement of atoms to a perception and prove from first principles that one leads to another.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TheHideout</author><text>Tangent by PhD student in Cognitive Science here - My current belief is that consciousness arises at the cross section of 3 core skills: Theory of Mind [0], Autobiographic Episodic Memory [1], and Embodied Cognition [2].&lt;p&gt;Principally, recognizing that other people have intentions and beliefs different from your own, being able to understand that you have experienced a timeline of personal experiences and these contribute to who you are, and that you are a physical being that can think in-situ as well as plan your physical actions in the future.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m favoriting this link and will try to return to it after my dissertation is done for reflection.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Theory_of_mind&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Theory_of_mind&lt;/a&gt; [1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Episodic_memory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Episodic_memory&lt;/a&gt; [2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Embodied_cognition&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Embodied_cognition&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are the brain’s electromagnetic fields the seat of consciousness?</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/are-the-brains-electromagnetic-fields-the-seat-of-consciousness</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>glial</author><text>Thanks for sharing. My own pet theory is very similar to yours: humans evolved consciousness in order to ‘observe’ our cognitive and emotional state, so that we can build models and apply them to reason about other people’s cognitive and emotional states. It’s hard to have ‘theory of mind’ about someone else when you don’t have access to your own mind to start with.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TheHideout</author><text>Tangent by PhD student in Cognitive Science here - My current belief is that consciousness arises at the cross section of 3 core skills: Theory of Mind [0], Autobiographic Episodic Memory [1], and Embodied Cognition [2].&lt;p&gt;Principally, recognizing that other people have intentions and beliefs different from your own, being able to understand that you have experienced a timeline of personal experiences and these contribute to who you are, and that you are a physical being that can think in-situ as well as plan your physical actions in the future.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m favoriting this link and will try to return to it after my dissertation is done for reflection.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Theory_of_mind&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Theory_of_mind&lt;/a&gt; [1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Episodic_memory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Episodic_memory&lt;/a&gt; [2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Embodied_cognition&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Embodied_cognition&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are the brain’s electromagnetic fields the seat of consciousness?</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/are-the-brains-electromagnetic-fields-the-seat-of-consciousness</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blakeburch</author><text>I see things going the same direction. I&amp;#x27;ve always been pretty anti-dashboard because of the lack of long-term utility. If you want to make data-driven decisions, you need to spend the time codifying the decision making process and automating that. Automated actioning off data is far more impactful than automated visualization of data.&lt;p&gt;When it comes to business stakeholders, the biggest obstacle is trust. If you&amp;#x27;re not a data person, or a developer, decision logic being gated behind code is a scary black box. &amp;quot;If I can&amp;#x27;t control it, I can&amp;#x27;t trust it&amp;quot;. That feeling gets even worse when we build systems that are controlled by AI or ML.&lt;p&gt;I think we need more solutions for data teams that allow business stakeholders to take part in the automated workflow deployment. Let them see how things are connected together. Let them verify that the decisions are being made correctly every day. Let them tweak levers so they have a say in how things are working. That&amp;#x27;s the only way to move beyond the current environment where everyone wants a dashboard, but no one looks at it.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a big problem I&amp;#x27;m aiming to solve right now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>monkeydust</author><text>As someone who runs teams deploying BI to internal stakeholders (product, sales) I am pretty fed up with them.&lt;p&gt;Firstly Tableau, QlikView or PowerBI are all pretty much doing the same thing whatever flavour you prefer.&lt;p&gt;We find that maybe 10% of users will actually use them to garner new actionable insights and 90% will moan there&amp;#x27;s too much data for them to process and no one appreciates the immense amount of data munging that goes on behind the scenes to make those pretty graphs.&lt;p&gt;Where do we go? Personally I see a lot of the insights being automated and turned into actions on the server side without anyone touching a BI tool. This can be achieved with rules based approach and perhaps some correlation, trend analysis over time series data. Where you do need to go beyond that then perhaps AR&amp;#x2F;VR will provide a novel and more valuable approach.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is BI dead? – On dismantling data&apos;s ship of Theseus</title><url>https://benn.substack.com/p/is-bi-dead</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SilverRed</author><text>We provide power bi access to the data our app runs on and it has been a mixed bag. The customers absolutely love it. But they build dashboards where hitting the refresh button can bring a super expensive db to its knees for half an hour.&lt;p&gt;So then we have to get our db people in to rewrite all of their reports so they don&amp;#x27;t do this which eliminated the benefit of having the customers do it.&lt;p&gt;In the end there is just no avoiding having experts build the dashboards.</text><parent_chain><item><author>monkeydust</author><text>As someone who runs teams deploying BI to internal stakeholders (product, sales) I am pretty fed up with them.&lt;p&gt;Firstly Tableau, QlikView or PowerBI are all pretty much doing the same thing whatever flavour you prefer.&lt;p&gt;We find that maybe 10% of users will actually use them to garner new actionable insights and 90% will moan there&amp;#x27;s too much data for them to process and no one appreciates the immense amount of data munging that goes on behind the scenes to make those pretty graphs.&lt;p&gt;Where do we go? Personally I see a lot of the insights being automated and turned into actions on the server side without anyone touching a BI tool. This can be achieved with rules based approach and perhaps some correlation, trend analysis over time series data. Where you do need to go beyond that then perhaps AR&amp;#x2F;VR will provide a novel and more valuable approach.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is BI dead? – On dismantling data&apos;s ship of Theseus</title><url>https://benn.substack.com/p/is-bi-dead</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>belval</author><text>I hate TikTok because it&amp;#x27;s so good. It&amp;#x27;s a frictionless content pump that we can open and doom-scroll for hours. I have never seen such a beautifully crafted user experience, from the recommendation algorithm that is top-notch the content that is catchy and highlights trends without overdoing it and the absence of political content if you don&amp;#x27;t engage with it (or maybe there is none at all).&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t have it on my phone, but I truly see it as the pinnacle of the stupidly addictive social media app and it scares me because it means that Chinese companies are just as capable as us to spin the next Facebook and distribute propaganda to the next generation.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57522368</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>curiousllama</author><text>The big difference between Tik Tok and everything else to me: when I stop scrolling, I feel _good_.&lt;p&gt;On Instagram, I scroll until I hate myself. On Facebook, I used to scroll until I got frustrated. But on Tik Tok - it&amp;#x27;s a dopamine hit without the hangover.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57522368</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>So many companies are making these decisions very quickly. So many that I don&amp;#x27;t think it has anything to do directly with the war. They are pulling out because their money people, the only people who really matter in a large corporation, are in a panic. Nobody knows whether it will even be &lt;i&gt;possible&lt;/i&gt; let alone moral to do business in Russian. How do you get money out when the banks are delisted? How do you get money into Russia without violating sanctions? How many of your Russian &amp;quot;business partners&amp;quot; are the subject of sanctions? Is paying tax in Russia a sanctions violation? As the Russian government struggles for cash, will any of your corporate assets be seized? If they are, will insurance cover such seizures? (No.) The money people also look at the dramatic fall in the value of Russian currency. Therefor, setting aside all the moral debates about wars and violence, from a purely financial perspective these are all prudent financial decisions. The PR statements on twitter about supporting Ukraine are just window dressing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Red Hat is discontinuing sales and services in Russia and Belarus</title><url>https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-response-war-ukraine</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrits</author><text>An interesting possible long term consequence of this is having top tier free and open source commercial alternatives coming out of Russia. Nationalized piracy would also pour over into the West and we&amp;#x27;d probably see people here getting software updates from Moscow.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Red Hat is discontinuing sales and services in Russia and Belarus</title><url>https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-response-war-ukraine</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>FraaJad</author><text>Commenters on this site had similar observations about D language&amp;#x27;s forum, which is written in D.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://forum.dlang.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forum.dlang.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; Code: &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;CyberShadow&amp;#x2F;DFeed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If one insists on writing a webapp in a C&amp;#x2F;C++ like language, D might be the sane way to do it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>captainmuon</author><text>This site feels ridiculously fast. I&amp;#x27;ve noticed that with other compiled frameworks too, e.g. CppCMS: &lt;a href=&quot;http://cppcms.com/wikipp/en/page/main&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cppcms.com&amp;#x2F;wikipp&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;page&amp;#x2F;main&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if it is just the lightweight HTML the websites use, or if there is really so much speed to gain from using a compiled language.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nope.c – A web framework with a tiny footprint</title><url>http://nopedotc.com/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nyir</author><text>Yes, there are definitely huge speed gains possible and if you choose an implementation which is still interactive you get the benefits of both (I know one particular example in CL: teepeedee2, there are some blogs posts, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://john.freml.in/teepeedee2-c10k&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;john.freml.in&amp;#x2F;teepeedee2-c10k&lt;/a&gt; or so).</text><parent_chain><item><author>captainmuon</author><text>This site feels ridiculously fast. I&amp;#x27;ve noticed that with other compiled frameworks too, e.g. CppCMS: &lt;a href=&quot;http://cppcms.com/wikipp/en/page/main&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cppcms.com&amp;#x2F;wikipp&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;page&amp;#x2F;main&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if it is just the lightweight HTML the websites use, or if there is really so much speed to gain from using a compiled language.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nope.c – A web framework with a tiny footprint</title><url>http://nopedotc.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>jimrandomh</author><text>Not a mystery, and discussed previously on HN before. The IRS abandoned this technology because it lost key employees, because it was not legally allowed to pay market rates for them. Discussion in 2018: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=16377804&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=16377804&lt;/a&gt; .</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IRS programming mystery continues</title><url>https://federalnewsnetwork.com/tom-temin-commentary/2020/01/irs-programming-mystery-continues/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aejnsn</author><text>Can someone explain to me why the IRS even bothered with a patent application on software? Those are taxpayer dollars being used to fund that innovation--unless it&amp;#x27;s a classified technology, it should be public domain.&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, why did the IRS spend time and salaries to reinvent the wheel for a solution that is likely to exist as an OTS product?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IRS programming mystery continues</title><url>https://federalnewsnetwork.com/tom-temin-commentary/2020/01/irs-programming-mystery-continues/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RestlessMind</author><text>As an HNer, I find what Waymo (and other autonomous vehicle companies) are doing is simply fabulous. Technology improvement is a big impetus for human progress. Looking back over the past century, inventions like transistor, rockets, internet, satellites, nuclear power and aviation significantly improved our quality of life.&lt;p&gt;Autonomous vehicles belong to the same league. I am very happy that a non trivial amount of resources are devoted to them and it&amp;#x27;s not just a next SV fad like some ICO &amp;#x2F; Juicero &amp;#x2F; photo sharing app. Rooting for the success of this technology.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are driving 25,000 miles every day</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/20/waymos-autonomous-vehicles-are-driving-25000-miles-every-day/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dzdt</author><text>Human drivers average about 1 fatality per 100 million vehicle miles traveled. [1] So we are still a long ways from being able to access safety in comparison to humans. [1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov&amp;#x2F;Api&amp;#x2F;Public&amp;#x2F;ViewPublication&amp;#x2F;812451&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov&amp;#x2F;Api&amp;#x2F;Public&amp;#x2F;ViewPublication&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are driving 25,000 miles every day</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/20/waymos-autonomous-vehicles-are-driving-25000-miles-every-day/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mhartl</author><text>The timing of this is eerily appropriate for me. Some of you may be aware that Andrew Lange, a professor of physics at Caltech, committed suicide last week. (His NY Times obituary is here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/science/space/28lange.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/science/space/28lange.html&lt;/a&gt;) I taught Physics 1 with Andrew for three years when I was just starting grad school, and knew him not only as a brilliant scientist and excellent teacher but also as an incredibly warm, supportive, and positive person. I would never, in a million years, have guessed that he would someday take his own life.&lt;p&gt;I was nowhere near as close to Andrew as Tom was to Dan, but for the first time I understand, in a small way, the pain and confusion Tom must have endured (and, in diminished form, must still be enduring). Thank you, Tom, for sharing Dan with us.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dan</title><url>http://blog.dislocatedday.com/dan-760</url><text></text></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>swombat</author><text>&lt;i&gt;In November, recovery was a mere hope; now, it is a growing reality.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m glad to hear it. Welcome back.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dan</title><url>http://blog.dislocatedday.com/dan-760</url><text></text></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>godelski</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m really tired of these papers and experiments.&lt;p&gt;You cannot test reasoning when you don&amp;#x27;t know what&amp;#x27;s in the training set. You have to be able to differentiate reasoning from memorization, and that&amp;#x27;s not trivial.&lt;p&gt;Moreso, the results look to confirm that at least some memorization is going on. Do we really not think GPT has extensively been trained on arithmetic in base 10, 8, and 16? This seems like a terrible prior. Even if not explicitly, how much code has it read that performs these tasks. How many web pages, tutorials, Reddit posts cover oct and hex? They also haven&amp;#x27;t defined zero shot correctly. Arithmetic in these bases aren&amp;#x27;t 0-shot. They&amp;#x27;re explicitly in distribution...&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m unsure about base 9 and 11. It&amp;#x27;s pretty interesting to see that GPT 4 is much better at these. Anyone know why? Did they train on these? More bases? Doesn&amp;#x27;t seem unreasonable but I don&amp;#x27;t know.&lt;p&gt;The experimentation is also extremely lacking. The arithmetic questions only have 1000 tests where they add two digits. This is certainly in the training data. I&amp;#x27;m also unconvinced by the syntax reasoning tasks since the transformer (attention) architecture seems to be designed for this. I&amp;#x27;m also unconvinced these tasks aren&amp;#x27;t in training. Caesar ciphers are also certainly in the training data.&lt;p&gt;The prompts are also odd and I guess that&amp;#x27;s why they&amp;#x27;re in the appendix. For example, getting GPT to be better at math or many tasks by having it write python code is not novel.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s some stuff here but this really doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like a lot of work for 12 people from a top university and a trillion dollar company. It&amp;#x27;s odd to see that many people when the experiments can be run in a fairly short time.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inductive or deductive? Rethinking the fundamental reasoning abilities of LLMs</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00114</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hydrox24</author><text>Is there a good reason to exclude abductive reasoning from an analysis like this? It&amp;#x27;s even considered by at least one of the referenced papers (Fangzhi 2023a).&lt;p&gt;Abductive reasoning is common in day-to-day life. It seeks the best explanation for some (often incomplete) observations, and reaches conclusions without certainty. I would have thought it would be important to assess for LLMs.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inductive or deductive? Rethinking the fundamental reasoning abilities of LLMs</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00114</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonnytran</author><text>Has anyone had any experience where adding or removing client-side validation has affected conversion?&lt;p&gt;Other comments talked about client-side validation being mainly for UX and user convenience. But I&apos;m wondering if it has a noticeable effect on whether or not people actually submit the form all the way to completion (i.e. no errors).&lt;p&gt;I made a tool that I have server-side form validation. I found that saving the invalid input so that I could examine it later was extremely valuable in understanding what people were entering, so that I could make the tool smarter. A good example is like with Parsley&apos;s demo where it requires &lt;a href=&quot;http://&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://&lt;/a&gt; for the website URL. After seeing that people tried to enter URLs without &lt;a href=&quot;http://&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://&lt;/a&gt;, I knew I could change my code to automatically infer it. &lt;a href=&quot;http://&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://&lt;/a&gt; is obvious, but a lot of times, people will surprise you. I don&apos;t have stats, but presumably this kind of change increases conversion. I realize this anecdote is a different effect than what I&apos;m asking about client-side validation.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Parsley.js: never write a single JavaScript line to validate your forms</title><url>http://parsleyjs.org</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jiggy2011</author><text>This is a clean way to solve the low hanging fruit of form validation, stuff like isItAnEmailAddress().&lt;p&gt;What I always find messy in web frameworks is doing validations which are more complicated.&lt;p&gt;For example a radio button choice which hides another form element which would otherwise be mandatory but should now not be filled in at all. Or where supplying a value between certain dates changes another date field from optional to mandatory and also must check that these dates are between certain values dictated by the first date field.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Parsley.js: never write a single JavaScript line to validate your forms</title><url>http://parsleyjs.org</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dereg</author><text>I would have this on if it wasn&amp;#x27;t for the fact that I get calls from delivery drivers, who all have unknown numbers, and for whom the notification must be immediate.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MR4D</author><text>Select &amp;quot;Silence unknown callers&amp;quot; and you&amp;#x27;re done.&lt;p&gt;Last month I had a flurry of spam texts and calls. I moved the slider to the &amp;quot;enable&amp;quot; side a few weeks ago and have had zero issues since.</text></item><item><author>avtar</author><text>Apple’s call and sms spam filtering remains subpar to say the least. When I had a Pixel, I had the option to let the OS transcribe what the potential spammer was saying and end the call. It’s puzzling why Apple isn’t doing more here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iOS 16 Available September 12th</title><url>https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-16/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frizkie</author><text>This is a great feature but it&amp;#x27;s a huge double-edged sword. I need to remember to turn it off when I&amp;#x27;m expecting a call from an unpredictable number, and then I need to remember to turn it back on again after I receive the call. It would be great if I could turn it off for some number of hours or days.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MR4D</author><text>Select &amp;quot;Silence unknown callers&amp;quot; and you&amp;#x27;re done.&lt;p&gt;Last month I had a flurry of spam texts and calls. I moved the slider to the &amp;quot;enable&amp;quot; side a few weeks ago and have had zero issues since.</text></item><item><author>avtar</author><text>Apple’s call and sms spam filtering remains subpar to say the least. When I had a Pixel, I had the option to let the OS transcribe what the potential spammer was saying and end the call. It’s puzzling why Apple isn’t doing more here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iOS 16 Available September 12th</title><url>https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-16/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>e3b0c</author><text>In the long run, this seems to be partly due to Henry George theorem (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Henry_George_theorem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Henry_George_theorem&lt;/a&gt;). Otherwise real estate wouldn&amp;#x27;t be that exceptional than other asset classes, as the article suggests.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickff</author><text>From what I can see, this data-set and analysis seems to indicate that investors have been discouraged from investing in productive assets and investment vehicles by the low interest rates (or IRR). In response, people are spending more money on luxuries (such as their houses).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Piketty’s rising share of capital income and the US housing market</title><url>http://voxeu.org/article/piketty-s-housing-capital-results-new-us-facts</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davidw</author><text>Housing is also a market where people can get very involved in the local government to prevent additional supply from being brought on line, despite soaring demand, mostly via zoning. Look at places like Palo Alto and Boulder.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickff</author><text>From what I can see, this data-set and analysis seems to indicate that investors have been discouraged from investing in productive assets and investment vehicles by the low interest rates (or IRR). In response, people are spending more money on luxuries (such as their houses).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Piketty’s rising share of capital income and the US housing market</title><url>http://voxeu.org/article/piketty-s-housing-capital-results-new-us-facts</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thomashop</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Instead of thinking about codegen as a replacement for a developer, what if we thought about it as an extension?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;In my filter bubble most people would already agree with the statement that generative code models are an extension rather than a replacement. It&amp;#x27;s not that revelatory of a statement.&lt;p&gt;Saying they are a replacement without any evidence to suggest this is already starting to happen seems like it&amp;#x27;s taking a larger leap of faith.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What codegen is good for</title><url>https://www.figma.com/blog/what-codegen-is-actually-good-for/#aAkZ9</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jackconsidine</author><text>I thought these were some good ideas. In my experience I vacillate between &amp;quot;omg the singularity is here&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;this actually isn&amp;#x27;t that good for X specific task&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I very much trust the output of LLMs to be well-designed, but I don&amp;#x27;t trust things to just work, especially if the system is complicated. I experimented a bit the past few days doing a task myself (building an interface in an existing project), using AI assist, and trying to get AI to solve completely (GPT-4). The solve completely pathway failed and I found myself in an interminable loop. AI-assist was a solid experience.&lt;p&gt;Anecdotal but consistent with Figma&amp;#x27;s observation</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What codegen is good for</title><url>https://www.figma.com/blog/what-codegen-is-actually-good-for/#aAkZ9</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stevear</author><text>I am really glad someone else has noticed this and feels the same way.&lt;p&gt;This quote from that thread pissed me off all morning: &quot;If you told the common man any time in history other than the baby boomer generation, that the way to get rich was &apos;hard work&apos; and &apos;Budgeting&apos; they would die of laughter.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Every day I feel more and more alienated by the victim mentality on Reddit. It seems to be the only tangible by-product of the Occupy Wall Street protests.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t even know why I visit Reddit anymore.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dwc</author><text>There&apos;s a sad undercurrent to this, as some redditors respond that they find this depressing. While I understand their plight, I do not understand the sustained pessimism for most of the depressed ones.&lt;p&gt;I went to work right out of high school at menial jobs. No college, no big family business. Paycheck-to-paycheck, and any minor emergency like a dead car battery was a financial crisis. I did not &quot;get lucky&quot; on stocks or anything. While getting rich has not been a focus for me, I decided I definitely did NOT like being poor. Lots of small steps, and staying on the lookout for ways to improve matters has led me to not be poor. I&apos;m not rich but I&apos;m in decent shape and moving in the right direction: no debt except the mortage, which will be payed off soonish; some money in savings, stocks, 401k, etc. I&apos;m living at a decent level and should be able to retire in some comfort. No magic. No big windfalls. This is doable by most of those depressed people.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Redditors who are rich (net worth $1 million+) - how did you get rich?</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/rqejz/redditors_who_are_rich_net_worth_1_million_how/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mfieldhouse</author><text>To sum up the average discussion about jobs and money on reddit: a victim mentality and belief that we live in the hardest time ever to get a job because of events outside of our control.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dwc</author><text>There&apos;s a sad undercurrent to this, as some redditors respond that they find this depressing. While I understand their plight, I do not understand the sustained pessimism for most of the depressed ones.&lt;p&gt;I went to work right out of high school at menial jobs. No college, no big family business. Paycheck-to-paycheck, and any minor emergency like a dead car battery was a financial crisis. I did not &quot;get lucky&quot; on stocks or anything. While getting rich has not been a focus for me, I decided I definitely did NOT like being poor. Lots of small steps, and staying on the lookout for ways to improve matters has led me to not be poor. I&apos;m not rich but I&apos;m in decent shape and moving in the right direction: no debt except the mortage, which will be payed off soonish; some money in savings, stocks, 401k, etc. I&apos;m living at a decent level and should be able to retire in some comfort. No magic. No big windfalls. This is doable by most of those depressed people.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Redditors who are rich (net worth $1 million+) - how did you get rich?</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/rqejz/redditors_who_are_rich_net_worth_1_million_how/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lambdaxyzw</author><text>The point of certificate transparency is to have a public audit log of every certificate issued. Even if you had your own CA, you would be obliged to report every certificate you issue to the CT. This is a feature, not a bug.</text><parent_chain><item><author>filleokus</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m taking this opportunity to once again ask for the widespread adoption of the Name Constraints extension in x509, and subsequent roll-out of constrained intermediate CA certs signed by a publicly trusted root.&lt;p&gt;Would be so convenient to have an intermediate CA cert constrained to *.my-name.com to avoid situations like this. Being forced to either use a private PKI infrastructure or using wildcards to not leak host names is so annoying.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Search.chatgpt.com domain and SSL cert have been created</title><url>https://search.chatgpt.com</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lxgr</author><text>This would be so great. It also just mirrors the DNS trust model nicely, which is what’s used for X.509 trust anyway by most CAs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>filleokus</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m taking this opportunity to once again ask for the widespread adoption of the Name Constraints extension in x509, and subsequent roll-out of constrained intermediate CA certs signed by a publicly trusted root.&lt;p&gt;Would be so convenient to have an intermediate CA cert constrained to *.my-name.com to avoid situations like this. Being forced to either use a private PKI infrastructure or using wildcards to not leak host names is so annoying.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Search.chatgpt.com domain and SSL cert have been created</title><url>https://search.chatgpt.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>clarkdave</author><text>Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana are just fantastic. After being unsatisfied with a whole bunch of Logging As A Service providers (I tried loggly.com, logentries.com and splunkstorm.com) I spent an afternoon setting up Logstash and co and couldn&amp;#x27;t be happier.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a neat demo of Kibana here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://demo.kibana.org/#/dashboard/elasticsearch/Logstash%20Search&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;demo.kibana.org&amp;#x2F;#&amp;#x2F;dashboard&amp;#x2F;elasticsearch&amp;#x2F;Logstash%20...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The only thing that isn&amp;#x27;t fully baked in with this stack is alerts (e.g. sending an email if a certain error log message comes in), but you can do that using Logstash filters and outputs, although there&amp;#x27;s no pretty UI.&lt;p&gt;There are some excellent Chef cookbooks for setting up Logstash and friends too:&lt;p&gt;- Logstash: &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/lusis/chef-logstash&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;lusis&amp;#x2F;chef-logstash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Elasticsearch: &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/elasticsearch/cookbook-elasticsearch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;elasticsearch&amp;#x2F;cookbook-elasticsearch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Kibana: &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/lusis/chef-kibana&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;lusis&amp;#x2F;chef-kibana&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Logstash joins Elasticsearch</title><url>http://www.elasticsearch.com/blog/welcome-jordan-logstash/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>benmmurphy</author><text>logstash + elasticsearch are pretty amazing. however, if you are generating a high rate of log entries you may want to consider using mozilla hekad instead (&lt;a href=&quot;http://hekad.readthedocs.org/en/latest/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hekad.readthedocs.org&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;latest&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;). on our servers logstash was running around 20% CPU during quite periods while hekad was running around 1-2% CPU. while during busy periods i think logstash was going up to 100% CPU while hekad was sitting around 20-30% CPU.&lt;p&gt;hekad is written in go which compiles down to native code while logstash is written in jruby which is not the most performant runtime.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Logstash joins Elasticsearch</title><url>http://www.elasticsearch.com/blog/welcome-jordan-logstash/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lelanthran</author><text>&amp;gt; You don&amp;#x27;t switch between Greek and French while speaking English.&lt;p&gt;Challenge accepted: &amp;quot;The stoic young man bid us au revoir and left&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The thing is, English borrows &lt;i&gt;so much&lt;/i&gt; from other languages that it&amp;#x27;s not apparent to English speakers that the words are from other languages.&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;et cetera (etc)&lt;p&gt;id est (i.e.)&lt;p&gt;videlicet (viz)&lt;p&gt;sic&lt;p&gt;and that&amp;#x27;s just Latin.&lt;p&gt;Think about Schadenfreud, Bon appétit, Au revoir, Macho, Amigo, Kindergarten, Uber, Gesundheit, Smorgasbord, Apartheid, Trek...&lt;p&gt;Honestly, the list goes on and on and on. English speakers use more &amp;quot;borrowed&amp;quot; phrases and words than any other language I can think of.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cool_dude85</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t switch between Greek and French while speaking English.</text></item><item><author>pfannkuchen</author><text>&amp;gt; The switch between languages isn’t random, though&lt;p&gt;We kind of do this already in mainline English, switching between Germanic, French, Latin and Greek based on some unwritten rules. Adding Spanish wouldn’t really change things that much considering its close relatives French and Latin are already so well represented. Though I’m sure the Spanish part is more dominant in this dialect than it would be eventually in the broader language.</text></item><item><author>alehlopeh</author><text>It goes a lot deeper than this in Miami. A big chunk of suburban miami is populated by white Cuban exiles and their descendants. Growing up we spoke in Spanglish, which involves switching back and forth between English and Spanish, often multiple times within the same sentence. The switch between languages isn’t random, though. There are rules that govern which words you should say in which language, when to switch, etc. I’ve never heard anyone investigating how these rules work, but there are millions of Americans of Cuban descent in Miami for whom Spanglish is their true native language.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linguists have identified a new English dialect that’s emerging in South Florida</title><url>https://theconversation.com/linguists-have-identified-a-new-english-dialect-thats-emerging-in-south-florida-205620</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tchaffee</author><text>When you say the word &amp;quot;energy&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;hotel&amp;quot; you are switching to French. After a few centuries of this you don&amp;#x27;t notice and consider it common English.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cool_dude85</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t switch between Greek and French while speaking English.</text></item><item><author>pfannkuchen</author><text>&amp;gt; The switch between languages isn’t random, though&lt;p&gt;We kind of do this already in mainline English, switching between Germanic, French, Latin and Greek based on some unwritten rules. Adding Spanish wouldn’t really change things that much considering its close relatives French and Latin are already so well represented. Though I’m sure the Spanish part is more dominant in this dialect than it would be eventually in the broader language.</text></item><item><author>alehlopeh</author><text>It goes a lot deeper than this in Miami. A big chunk of suburban miami is populated by white Cuban exiles and their descendants. Growing up we spoke in Spanglish, which involves switching back and forth between English and Spanish, often multiple times within the same sentence. The switch between languages isn’t random, though. There are rules that govern which words you should say in which language, when to switch, etc. I’ve never heard anyone investigating how these rules work, but there are millions of Americans of Cuban descent in Miami for whom Spanglish is their true native language.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linguists have identified a new English dialect that’s emerging in South Florida</title><url>https://theconversation.com/linguists-have-identified-a-new-english-dialect-thats-emerging-in-south-florida-205620</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kylecordes</author><text>It feels like this and the numerous other &amp;quot;awesome&amp;quot; lists which claim to be curated, are curated in only the most trivial sense: perhaps someone looked to see if each new entry in some plausible way is in the right general category of thing, i.e. is not a random unrelated link. For example, this one looks like a list of open source applications that could be found or were submitted so far for inclusion.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t see any evidence on this one or any other of any genuine curation, which would be characterized by saying &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; to some of the possible candidates.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately the words awesome and curation have so little meaning among lists of programming-related things, that it would probably be a waste of time for someone to actually do that, and would possibly generate hard feelings from whatever projects end up in the &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; pile.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;No&amp;quot; is hard.</text><parent_chain><item><author>octref</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m baffled. A random list that links to a few most-starred node app got 50+ upvotes in 2 hours on HN and is currently No.1. First commit 3 days ago. I fail to see how it&amp;#x27;s awesome.&lt;p&gt;Anyone enlighten me?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A curated list of open source applications built with Node.js</title><url>https://github.com/sqreen/awesome-nodejs-projects</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frou_dh</author><text>&amp;quot;curated list&amp;quot; is a major meme. I think the word curated makes people feel fancy.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hn.algolia.com&amp;#x2F;?query=curated%20list&amp;amp;sort=byPopularity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hn.algolia.com&amp;#x2F;?query=curated%20list&amp;amp;sort=byPopulari...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>octref</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m baffled. A random list that links to a few most-starred node app got 50+ upvotes in 2 hours on HN and is currently No.1. First commit 3 days ago. I fail to see how it&amp;#x27;s awesome.&lt;p&gt;Anyone enlighten me?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A curated list of open source applications built with Node.js</title><url>https://github.com/sqreen/awesome-nodejs-projects</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>s1artibartfast</author><text>I would also add that many (most?) European countries allow multiple unions in the same shop, with worker choice. Inter-union competition is important to keep unions honest and aligned with their workers. I think this more than anything else is responsible for the anti-union sentiment in the US.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>Good point. Sweden has better institutions and labor laws to reduce friction and enable cooperation.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Enterprise bargaining&lt;/i&gt; in the US is more zero sum game between companies and workers. Everything you give to workers, reduces competitive edge against non-union competitors. It&amp;#x27;s in company interest to fight unions as much as possible.&lt;p&gt;In &lt;i&gt;sectoral bargaining&lt;/i&gt;, unions negotiate same deal with their counterparts representing corporations. When nobody gets competitive edge over others, there is less downside for agreeing.</text></item><item><author>Ekaros</author><text>Also they forget that on average they are pretty benign. At least in my field they ask for quite tame things. And them being same union for everyone means that you don&amp;#x27;t really lose much to competitors. As they will have same rules in place...</text></item><item><author>nabla9</author><text>American companies often think that European unions are just stronger than unions in Europe. They don&amp;#x27;t realize that labor and union laws are different.&lt;p&gt;Toys R Us tried the same in Sweden. They initially refused agreement and hired only non-union workers. But transport and logistics workers union and finance union started sympathy strike. Toys R Us didn&amp;#x27;t get deliveries and bank workers refused work related to company.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swedish unions strike: Blocks mail and package deliveries for Tesla</title><url>https://www.seko.se/press-och-aktuellt/nyheter/2023/seko-stoppar-brev-och-paket-till-tesla/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>avgcorrection</author><text>&amp;gt; Enterprise bargaining in the US is more zero sum game between companies and workers. Everything you give to workers, reduces competitive edge against non-union competitors. It&amp;#x27;s in company interest to fight unions as much as possible.&lt;p&gt;I suppose they will always hide behind “competitive” edge. The more naked truth seems to be that between the stakeholders of the CEO+board of directors v.s. workers—avoiding the nebolous “company interest”—there is always inherently a zero sum game. Like one of the automative CEOs in the US who boasted about how she was paid according to her performance—her performance being, among other things, directly related to how low she could keep wages for the rank and file.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>Good point. Sweden has better institutions and labor laws to reduce friction and enable cooperation.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Enterprise bargaining&lt;/i&gt; in the US is more zero sum game between companies and workers. Everything you give to workers, reduces competitive edge against non-union competitors. It&amp;#x27;s in company interest to fight unions as much as possible.&lt;p&gt;In &lt;i&gt;sectoral bargaining&lt;/i&gt;, unions negotiate same deal with their counterparts representing corporations. When nobody gets competitive edge over others, there is less downside for agreeing.</text></item><item><author>Ekaros</author><text>Also they forget that on average they are pretty benign. At least in my field they ask for quite tame things. And them being same union for everyone means that you don&amp;#x27;t really lose much to competitors. As they will have same rules in place...</text></item><item><author>nabla9</author><text>American companies often think that European unions are just stronger than unions in Europe. They don&amp;#x27;t realize that labor and union laws are different.&lt;p&gt;Toys R Us tried the same in Sweden. They initially refused agreement and hired only non-union workers. But transport and logistics workers union and finance union started sympathy strike. Toys R Us didn&amp;#x27;t get deliveries and bank workers refused work related to company.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swedish unions strike: Blocks mail and package deliveries for Tesla</title><url>https://www.seko.se/press-och-aktuellt/nyheter/2023/seko-stoppar-brev-och-paket-till-tesla/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>randycupertino</author><text>Good. I hope he is successful in taking them down. I know too many people who&amp;#x27;ve wasted $$ falling prey to these MLM scams.&lt;p&gt;I know an emergency room physician who stopped working as an MD to sell Arbonne products (another MLM like herbalife that sells makeup and diet shakes) after getting roped into it by a nurse we worked with. Now she is in the nurse&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;downline.&amp;quot; Utter waste of an education.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Siege of Herbalife (2015)</title><url>http://fortune.com/2015/09/09/the-siege-of-herbalife/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Outdoorsman</author><text>Interesting article...lots of up-votes, but few weighing in... I&amp;#x27;ll give it a go...&lt;p&gt;Money is at stake for one side..a stock has been publicly shorted...&lt;p&gt;Money, and a &amp;quot;way of life&amp;quot; created, for many, by an organizational structure (MLM), is at stake for Herbalife, to include it&amp;#x27;s financial managers, distributors and customers...&lt;p&gt;I can only respond by sharing my own personal experiences with MLMs...&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve never been approached by anyone that I suspected was knowingly, or unknowingly, involved in an MLM-type business that was selling a product I couldn&amp;#x27;t live without...and in many cases the &amp;quot;peddlers&amp;quot; had obviously been coached to tout benefits that I firmly believed didn&amp;#x27;t exist, or weren&amp;#x27;t possible...&lt;p&gt;This to include lotions, juices, air purifiers, supplements, etc...you name it...&lt;p&gt;In this specific case I can say the same...I try to go with the best available evidence whenever I can...&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve never seen any evidence that a normal healthy person derives significant benefit from supplements of any kind...vitamins, herbs, juice extracts, whatever...&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m wary of &amp;quot;snake oil&amp;quot; to a fault...if you aren&amp;#x27;t well seek medical advice...buying something from a salesman is possibly one of the worst things you can do if you&amp;#x27;re concerned about your health...spend that money getting yourself checked out...&lt;p&gt;The question for me is not whether Herbalife offers any kind of a health benefit to consumers, or an economic benefit to those involved in it&amp;#x27;s distribution network...&lt;p&gt;The question to be answered is whether or not a &amp;quot;whistle-blower&amp;quot; should ethically be allowed to profit, substantially, from blowing that whistle...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Siege of Herbalife (2015)</title><url>http://fortune.com/2015/09/09/the-siege-of-herbalife/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>weq</author><text>This is totally not at the same scale, but still applicable. Coming from am immigrant family, jumping from 20k a year to 150k @ the age of 20 felt to me like i had made it. I traded in my civic for a sports car, bought a house, all the whisky a young man could want etc etc. Did i feel content? At first. Happier? At first. Then the realisation that there will always be someone wealthier dawned apon me. Those people work longer, harder, have more pressure, responsibility and usually dont even have the time to enjoy their wealth. Managing wealth? You do stupid shit like getting into more debt to try and &amp;quot;save money from the tax man&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;The more money u earn, the more money u spend, the more stress u have.&lt;p&gt;I quite my job 8 years later, sold everything and travelled the world for 2 years, trying lifestyles i never imagined. In the far reaches of the amazonian rainforst where i vonunteered to help study the pink dolphins, I saw the poorest people were actually the happiest people. They had &amp;quot;nothing&amp;quot;, but everything at the same time. Everywhere i went this was true. All my ailments that followed me while i was in civialisation suddenly dissapeared. Did they suffer from depression? nup. Poverty? from the outside we assume this was a bad word, but at the ground level, nup. If u live in a place that provides u with everything u need natually, u dont need money.&lt;p&gt;That was just 1 experience of many. Everyday was saturday and i had a purpose - looking for the meaning of life. I found it everywhere i looked, and money was never part of the equation.&lt;p&gt;So now im back; i love coding. Im already living the dream. I dont choose work based on pay, i choose it based on my moral compass. What did i discover? Well i think the meaning of life is a little different for everybody, but at our core, its love, connections, and experiences. No matter how much money you have, you cant buy the above.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.avvx62.dsl.pipex.com&amp;#x2F;boto&amp;#x2F;br_about.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.avvx62.dsl.pipex.com&amp;#x2F;boto&amp;#x2F;br_about.htm&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>madmax108</author><text>This is so contrastingly similar (yup, that&amp;#x27;s a phrase) with an equally thought provoking set of tweets notch put up a couple of months after selling minecraft:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying, and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance.&lt;p&gt;In sweden, I will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families to have time to do shit, watching my reflection in the monitor&lt;p&gt;When we sold the company, the biggest effort went into making sure the employees got taken care of, and they all hate me now.&lt;p&gt;Found a great girl, but she&amp;#x27;s afraid of me and my life style and went with a normal person instead.&lt;p&gt;I would Musk and try to save the world, but that just exposes me to the same type of assholes that made me sell minecraft again&lt;p&gt;People who made sudden success are telling me this is normal and will pass. That&amp;#x27;s good to know! I guess I&amp;#x27;ll take a shower then!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Really puts a light on the whole, money will make you happy spin that so many technologists seem to have fallen into.&lt;p&gt;References:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637562496056995840&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637562496056995840&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637563038258868224&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637563038258868224&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637563226755067904&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637563226755067904&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637563481139638272&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637563481139638272&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637563733124980736&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637563733124980736&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637565210266570752&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637565210266570752&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637569407208849408&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637569407208849408&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I was a multi-millionaire by 27–here&apos;s what I learned</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/28/i-was-a-multi-millionaire-by-27-heres-what-i-learned.html</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jfoutz</author><text>I hope notch pulls a jk Rowling, creates a pseudonym and makes another game.&lt;p&gt;Minecraft alpha was &lt;i&gt;fun&lt;/i&gt;. Quirky weird and awesome. I like to think notch was happy building that. He could start another, and cultivate a community. If it sucks (the pressure), open source it.&lt;p&gt;Or whatever, it&amp;#x27;s his life, and I wish him all the best.</text><parent_chain><item><author>madmax108</author><text>This is so contrastingly similar (yup, that&amp;#x27;s a phrase) with an equally thought provoking set of tweets notch put up a couple of months after selling minecraft:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying, and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance.&lt;p&gt;In sweden, I will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families to have time to do shit, watching my reflection in the monitor&lt;p&gt;When we sold the company, the biggest effort went into making sure the employees got taken care of, and they all hate me now.&lt;p&gt;Found a great girl, but she&amp;#x27;s afraid of me and my life style and went with a normal person instead.&lt;p&gt;I would Musk and try to save the world, but that just exposes me to the same type of assholes that made me sell minecraft again&lt;p&gt;People who made sudden success are telling me this is normal and will pass. That&amp;#x27;s good to know! I guess I&amp;#x27;ll take a shower then!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Really puts a light on the whole, money will make you happy spin that so many technologists seem to have fallen into.&lt;p&gt;References:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637562496056995840&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637562496056995840&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637563038258868224&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637563038258868224&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637563226755067904&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637563226755067904&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637563481139638272&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637563481139638272&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637563733124980736&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637563733124980736&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637565210266570752&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637565210266570752&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637569407208849408&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;notch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;637569407208849408&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I was a multi-millionaire by 27–here&apos;s what I learned</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/28/i-was-a-multi-millionaire-by-27-heres-what-i-learned.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>akdor1154</author><text>Yeah k8s is great. It gives you an infinite rope generator to let you hang yourself with ever increasing complexity, but with a bit of restraint you can orchestrate pretty much anything in a simple or at least standard way.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d take a stack of yaml over a stack of bespoke aws managed service scripts any day.</text><parent_chain><item><author>erulabs</author><text>Well I think it&amp;#x27;s neat. The bit I find most provoking is the &amp;quot;if you already have Kubernetes...&amp;quot; premise. I find myself having a hard time not wanting to shove everything into the Kubernetes framework simply to avoid having to document what solutions I&amp;#x27;ve chosen. `kubectl get all` gives me an overview of a project in a way that is impossible if every single project uses a different or bespoke management system.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;simple&amp;#x2F;complex&amp;quot; is not the right paradigm. The real SRE controversy is &amp;quot;unique&amp;#x2F;standard&amp;quot;. Yes, the standard approach is more complex. But it is better _in practice_ to have a single approach, rather than many individually-simpler, but in-aggregate-more-complex approaches.&lt;p&gt;Kubernetes is never the perfect solution to an engineering problem, but it is almost always the most pragmatic solution to a business problem for a business with many such problems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My IRC client runs on Kubernetes</title><url>https://xeiaso.net/blog/2024/k8s-irc-client/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Spivak</author><text>Is the mountain of k8s code on top of your cloud of choice not strictly more complex than the cloud services it&amp;#x27;s orchestrating? Like I think k8s is good software but to hear that you&amp;#x27;re not choosing it because it&amp;#x27;s good engineering is surprising. To me that&amp;#x27;s the only reason you choose it, because you want or need the control-loop based infrastructure management that you can&amp;#x27;t get on say AWS alone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>erulabs</author><text>Well I think it&amp;#x27;s neat. The bit I find most provoking is the &amp;quot;if you already have Kubernetes...&amp;quot; premise. I find myself having a hard time not wanting to shove everything into the Kubernetes framework simply to avoid having to document what solutions I&amp;#x27;ve chosen. `kubectl get all` gives me an overview of a project in a way that is impossible if every single project uses a different or bespoke management system.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;simple&amp;#x2F;complex&amp;quot; is not the right paradigm. The real SRE controversy is &amp;quot;unique&amp;#x2F;standard&amp;quot;. Yes, the standard approach is more complex. But it is better _in practice_ to have a single approach, rather than many individually-simpler, but in-aggregate-more-complex approaches.&lt;p&gt;Kubernetes is never the perfect solution to an engineering problem, but it is almost always the most pragmatic solution to a business problem for a business with many such problems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My IRC client runs on Kubernetes</title><url>https://xeiaso.net/blog/2024/k8s-irc-client/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>f3d46600-b66e</author><text>How does Nokia 215 solve the problem? All messages, including any images, wi now go through the carrier&amp;#x27;s network (and the recipient&amp;#x27;s carrier) and be subject to intercept, analysis, and sale by those two entities.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure how is that better?&lt;p&gt;Wouldn&amp;#x27;t AOSP&amp;#x2F;Lineage with Signal installed be better?</text><parent_chain><item><author>hughrr</author><text>It’s too late either way. The fact that it even got this far through implementation says the vendor is not on my side. Not only that once capability is revealed it can be required by governments and manipulated under warrant. Particularly in some regimes, mine included, the vendor can be compelled to do something and not say anything. My comment doesn’t even cover how monumentally flawed the entire thing is either.&lt;p&gt;So I’ve been on the verge of doing this for years so this was the final push and motivation.&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I sold my iPad and Apple Watch. They are being shipped today. I’m just waiting on refunds on my AppleCare for my MacBook and iPhone now and I will sell them.&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I had a Nokia 215 arrive as a replacement phone. Also a monster pile of PC bits arrived which have been assembled into a Ubuntu running desktop. I am spending today migrating my data over carefully. When the MacBook sells I will buy a Nikon DSLR.&lt;p&gt;At the end of this I lose perhaps 20% convenience for an immeasurable privacy gain, lose a big chunk of the distractions from my life and end up with some cash left over which I will use to go on holiday.&lt;p&gt;The only thing I will miss is Apple Music but it’ll give me a chance to curate my music collection without distraction again.</text></item><item><author>zpeti</author><text>I really hope there is enough momentum to stop this. It&amp;#x27;s definitely the last straw for me in terms of apple products. I haven&amp;#x27;t bought a new iphone for 4 years, I&amp;#x27;m slowly trying to switch to a lightphone (non smartphone). My mac needs a change but I will probably switch to linux.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s absolutely ridiculous what apple has become. The exact opposite of what they used to represent, when I loved them. God rest Steve Jobs soul, his 1984 ad is exactly what apple is now. Screwed devs on app store, strongarmed into compliance, cooperation with china, worse and worse UX on phones, and now this...&lt;p&gt;Really disappointing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/6/22613365/apple-icloud-csam-scanning-whatsapp-surveillance-reactions</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vel0city</author><text>Before buying the DSLR, I&amp;#x27;d recommend at least checking out the 1&amp;quot; sensor size market. These cameras still take excellent quality photos in a wide range of lighting conditions but are so much more compact than having an interchangeable lens system.&lt;p&gt;I sold my DSLR a couple of years after getting my G9x Mark II. The DSLR was always gathering dust compared to the G9x which with a small belt case could easily be taken anywhere.&lt;p&gt;That said these cameras are definitely not as flexible as a full SLR nor will you get the same performance. Its a large sensor when compared to a camera or other point and shoots but its still nothing compared to APS-C.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hughrr</author><text>It’s too late either way. The fact that it even got this far through implementation says the vendor is not on my side. Not only that once capability is revealed it can be required by governments and manipulated under warrant. Particularly in some regimes, mine included, the vendor can be compelled to do something and not say anything. My comment doesn’t even cover how monumentally flawed the entire thing is either.&lt;p&gt;So I’ve been on the verge of doing this for years so this was the final push and motivation.&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I sold my iPad and Apple Watch. They are being shipped today. I’m just waiting on refunds on my AppleCare for my MacBook and iPhone now and I will sell them.&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I had a Nokia 215 arrive as a replacement phone. Also a monster pile of PC bits arrived which have been assembled into a Ubuntu running desktop. I am spending today migrating my data over carefully. When the MacBook sells I will buy a Nikon DSLR.&lt;p&gt;At the end of this I lose perhaps 20% convenience for an immeasurable privacy gain, lose a big chunk of the distractions from my life and end up with some cash left over which I will use to go on holiday.&lt;p&gt;The only thing I will miss is Apple Music but it’ll give me a chance to curate my music collection without distraction again.</text></item><item><author>zpeti</author><text>I really hope there is enough momentum to stop this. It&amp;#x27;s definitely the last straw for me in terms of apple products. I haven&amp;#x27;t bought a new iphone for 4 years, I&amp;#x27;m slowly trying to switch to a lightphone (non smartphone). My mac needs a change but I will probably switch to linux.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s absolutely ridiculous what apple has become. The exact opposite of what they used to represent, when I loved them. God rest Steve Jobs soul, his 1984 ad is exactly what apple is now. Screwed devs on app store, strongarmed into compliance, cooperation with china, worse and worse UX on phones, and now this...&lt;p&gt;Really disappointing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/6/22613365/apple-icloud-csam-scanning-whatsapp-surveillance-reactions</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ck2</author><text>So by your standard, Martin Luther King Jr. should be getting out of prison just about now?&lt;p&gt;Manning was a whistlerblower, just like Snowden, with less power and ability for flight to defend themselves.&lt;p&gt;There was no personal gain ever intended or achieved, yet great personal loss even in the best outcome. They saw something very wrong happening and had little to no way to say &amp;quot;hey there are some incredibly powerful forces in this country doing some very evil things&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;The problem is we only treat whistleblowers like traitors legally and Manning&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;trial&amp;quot; was a complete scam, zero media coverage allowed on purpose by the government so they could be railroaded.</text><parent_chain><item><author>duaneb</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure if either of them deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but I believe Manning&amp;#x27;s sentence is reasonable. I&amp;#x27;d like to shake his hand, buy him a beer, thank him personally, but it&amp;#x27;s a decision he made that has severe consequences for a reason. And while I don&amp;#x27;t like Snowden at all, I think his actions are much more justifiable from an ethical point of view. It&amp;#x27;s not like terrorists were unaware the NSA was spying before they had proof—the only people being blindfolded were citizens. Manning&amp;#x27;s actions were more complex and the ramifications were less straightforwardly positive.</text></item><item><author>ck2</author><text>Everyone has already forgotten Pfc. Manning rotting away for 35 years.&lt;p&gt;I saw a &amp;quot;free Snowden&amp;quot; sign the other day which I thought was asinine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/29/edward-snowden-nominated-nobel-peace-prize</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>efdee</author><text>&amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;d like to shake his [sic] hand, buy him [sic] a beer, thank him [sic] personally&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;but I believe Manning&amp;#x27;s sentence [of 35 years in prison] is reasonable&amp;quot;. My jaw dropped to the floor. Assuming that you want to thank her for doing that thing that landed her in prison, there is nothing you can say that can reconcile those two statements for me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>duaneb</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure if either of them deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but I believe Manning&amp;#x27;s sentence is reasonable. I&amp;#x27;d like to shake his hand, buy him a beer, thank him personally, but it&amp;#x27;s a decision he made that has severe consequences for a reason. And while I don&amp;#x27;t like Snowden at all, I think his actions are much more justifiable from an ethical point of view. It&amp;#x27;s not like terrorists were unaware the NSA was spying before they had proof—the only people being blindfolded were citizens. Manning&amp;#x27;s actions were more complex and the ramifications were less straightforwardly positive.</text></item><item><author>ck2</author><text>Everyone has already forgotten Pfc. Manning rotting away for 35 years.&lt;p&gt;I saw a &amp;quot;free Snowden&amp;quot; sign the other day which I thought was asinine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/29/edward-snowden-nominated-nobel-peace-prize</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>robterrell</author><text>Her implication is that this guy&amp;#x27;s dog is why the taser was visible, and the taser was reported as a handgun, and the police responded to that. I&amp;#x27;d say he&amp;#x27;s a party -- his self-reported distraction started the whole series of events.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is a person Rebecca Solnit chose to single out, carefully juxtaposing reports of his (incredibly obnoxious) behavior against Nieto&amp;#x27;s shooting, to which, even by Solnit&amp;#x27;s account (read carefully), &lt;i&gt;he was not a party&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want to get drinks with this character in Solnit&amp;#x27;s story, either. But I&amp;#x27;m not sure we should applaud the tactic of summoning up and focusing outrage on people like this.</text></item><item><author>navait</author><text>&amp;gt; Evan Snow, a thirtysomething “user experience design professional”..., who had moved to the neighbourhood about six months earlier (and who has since departed for a more suburban environment)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Snow never seemed to recognise that his out-of-control dog was the aggressor: “So Luna was, I think, looking to move around the benches or behind me to run up happily to get a chip from Mr Nieto. Mr Nieto became further – what’s the right word? – distressed, moving very quickly and rapidly left to right, trying to keep his chips away from Luna. He ran down to these benches and jumped up on the benches, my dog following. She was at that point vocalising, barking, or kind of howling.”&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;– in his deposition for the case, under oath, his exact words were that he was distracted by a female “jogger’s butt”. “I can imagine that somebody would – could assume the dog was being aggressive at that point,” Snow said. The dog did not come when he called, but kept barking. Nieto, Snow says, then pulled back his jacket and took his Taser out, briefly pointing at the distant dog-owner before he pointed it at the dog baying at his feet. The two men yelled at each other, and Snow apparently used a racial slur, but would not later give the precise word. As he left the park, he texted a friend about the incident. His text, according to his testimony, said, “in another state like Florida, I would have been justified in shooting Mr Nieto that night”&lt;p&gt;Is this guy real? This is the sort of person I&amp;#x27;d expect to see on &lt;i&gt;Silicon Valley&lt;/i&gt; not in the real world, he fits the techbro stereotype exactly. After each sentence I read, I thought this guy couldn&amp;#x27;t get even more stereotypical, but he managed to lower the bar further.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/21/death-by-gentrification-the-killing-that-shamed-san-francisco</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wambotron</author><text>Other people said he seemed agitated and nervous when their dogs were walking about by him. I imagine if a dog just charged at you and was barking&amp;#x2F;howling while its owner was staring at someone&amp;#x27;s ass, you&amp;#x27;d be on edge for a bit as well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is a person Rebecca Solnit chose to single out, carefully juxtaposing reports of his (incredibly obnoxious) behavior against Nieto&amp;#x27;s shooting, to which, even by Solnit&amp;#x27;s account (read carefully), &lt;i&gt;he was not a party&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want to get drinks with this character in Solnit&amp;#x27;s story, either. But I&amp;#x27;m not sure we should applaud the tactic of summoning up and focusing outrage on people like this.</text></item><item><author>navait</author><text>&amp;gt; Evan Snow, a thirtysomething “user experience design professional”..., who had moved to the neighbourhood about six months earlier (and who has since departed for a more suburban environment)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Snow never seemed to recognise that his out-of-control dog was the aggressor: “So Luna was, I think, looking to move around the benches or behind me to run up happily to get a chip from Mr Nieto. Mr Nieto became further – what’s the right word? – distressed, moving very quickly and rapidly left to right, trying to keep his chips away from Luna. He ran down to these benches and jumped up on the benches, my dog following. She was at that point vocalising, barking, or kind of howling.”&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;– in his deposition for the case, under oath, his exact words were that he was distracted by a female “jogger’s butt”. “I can imagine that somebody would – could assume the dog was being aggressive at that point,” Snow said. The dog did not come when he called, but kept barking. Nieto, Snow says, then pulled back his jacket and took his Taser out, briefly pointing at the distant dog-owner before he pointed it at the dog baying at his feet. The two men yelled at each other, and Snow apparently used a racial slur, but would not later give the precise word. As he left the park, he texted a friend about the incident. His text, according to his testimony, said, “in another state like Florida, I would have been justified in shooting Mr Nieto that night”&lt;p&gt;Is this guy real? This is the sort of person I&amp;#x27;d expect to see on &lt;i&gt;Silicon Valley&lt;/i&gt; not in the real world, he fits the techbro stereotype exactly. After each sentence I read, I thought this guy couldn&amp;#x27;t get even more stereotypical, but he managed to lower the bar further.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/21/death-by-gentrification-the-killing-that-shamed-san-francisco</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajross</author><text>The causation goes the other way around though. Companies with precipitous stock drops are virtually always ones that had rapid growth leading up to the fall. Companies experiencing rapid growth generally need more space, and are more likely to &quot;build a new campus&quot; as a way to get that space.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kabdib</author><text>A bit of Silly Valley lore: Go graph &quot;Company builds a new campus&quot; against &quot;Company stock falls like a rock.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Atari, 1983.&lt;p&gt;Apple, 1991.&lt;p&gt;Sun (both times, I forget the years).&lt;p&gt;SGI, 1990s.&lt;p&gt;Various other companies (I forget which, it&apos;s been a while). It&apos;s like the hubris builds up to the point where the company is in a natural position to say, &quot;Hey, we need a new campus,&quot; and the Gods decide that a little humiliation is in order as well . . .</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steve Jobs Presents His Ideas For A New Apple Campus</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/07/steve-jobs-cupertino/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lurker19</author><text>Is Seattle different? Amazon 2011?&lt;p&gt;Does Microsoft&apos;s 20-year-long campus expansion count?</text><parent_chain><item><author>kabdib</author><text>A bit of Silly Valley lore: Go graph &quot;Company builds a new campus&quot; against &quot;Company stock falls like a rock.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Atari, 1983.&lt;p&gt;Apple, 1991.&lt;p&gt;Sun (both times, I forget the years).&lt;p&gt;SGI, 1990s.&lt;p&gt;Various other companies (I forget which, it&apos;s been a while). It&apos;s like the hubris builds up to the point where the company is in a natural position to say, &quot;Hey, we need a new campus,&quot; and the Gods decide that a little humiliation is in order as well . . .</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steve Jobs Presents His Ideas For A New Apple Campus</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/07/steve-jobs-cupertino/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>theprotocol</author><text>Thanks for posting this. I&amp;#x27;ve experienced something similar. My nasal passages have almost always been swollen since I was 11-12. Most ENTs I&amp;#x27;d seen over the last 15-20 years have completely failed to provide me with relief. Earlier in 2018 I visited an ENT who noted that my turbinates were &amp;quot;absolutely massive&amp;quot; and the rest of the nasal passage was swollen.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the swelling would affect the rest of my airway and I&amp;#x27;d feel like I couldn&amp;#x27;t take even a moderately deep breath. I&amp;#x27;d be rushed to the ER but the doctors couldn&amp;#x27;t find anything other than an elevated heart rate (and some immediately went to their go-to diagnosis of it being stress or a panic attack). After going through that about 10 times, I got a good doctor who told me: &amp;quot;oh dear, you&amp;#x27;re actually choking.&amp;quot; But then, things like hereditary angioedema were ruled out, and the cause remained elusive. I later discovered I could control my symptoms with diet.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m now looking into having somnoplasty to reduce the size of my turbinates, but it&amp;#x27;s unclear whether doing so will simply shift the problem to another narrow point of my swollen nasal passage.&lt;p&gt;I appear to have lost some kind of cosmic lottery because I also have severe digestive issues and must follow a very strict diet (which also reduces the airway swelling). As you touched upon, it is very hard to accept that you spent most of your life not being able to be yourself. I know I spent most of mine in a subdued fight or flight mode due to the chronic strain on my basic bodily functions. It&amp;#x27;s been a cruel existence thus far and I can&amp;#x27;t wait for the day I can rid myself of this torture definitively (my plan for fixing my problems is getting closer to fruition and I&amp;#x27;ve had some success with some of the measures I&amp;#x27;ve tried).</text><parent_chain><item><author>brightball</author><text>I had a nasal problem that I didn’t know about until I tried breath right strips. Wearing those things was life changing for me. I felt like a different person and honestly can’t believe I spent my entire life not realizing I had a problem.&lt;p&gt;Eventually got it fixed permanently, but yea...breathing is huge.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: The problem I had was called Nasal Valve Collapse. It’s something that happens in much older people, but essentially if I inhaled hard through my nose my nostrils collapsed so I’d have to breath through my mouth. It made aerobic exercise very difficult, taking deep breaths in general too.&lt;p&gt;I discovered how big of a deal it was when I tried on of those 9 Round gyms in my early 30s. The 1st round is jump rope and it tore my throat up. I was so exhausted after 3 minutes of jump rope that the rest of the workout was basically awful. I came back the next week (my throat was really sore for a week) with a Breathe Right strip on to see if it helped. I did the whole workout, jump rope included, like it was nothing.&lt;p&gt;After I saw the difference, I tried sleeping in them and woke up more alert than I had in recent memory. Great night sleep. Then eventually, I tried just wearing one all day when I was working from home and it was significant by the end of the day.&lt;p&gt;There was a point where I just realized that I felt so much better wearing them that I was literally wearing them all the time, including in the office.&lt;p&gt;Eventually I decided to visit an E.N.T. who diagnosed me and gave me a couple of surgical options...which were both kinda scary and didn’t have great success rate. I visited another to get a 2nd opinion and he was confident that it could be fixed with a slightly modified septoplasty.&lt;p&gt;I ended up doing the surgery and I’ll go ahead and tell you, the recovery is awful...but it worked. I still see a marginal benefit from using a Breathe Right but I probably have 70% of the improvement all the time from where I was before.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Proper Breathing Brings Better Health</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/proper-breathing-brings-better-health/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>riku_iki</author><text>I am curious why it is so important to breath through nose during aerobic exercises? I succeeded very well in different high intensive kinds of sport like boxing and sprint running, and always breathed using mouth..</text><parent_chain><item><author>brightball</author><text>I had a nasal problem that I didn’t know about until I tried breath right strips. Wearing those things was life changing for me. I felt like a different person and honestly can’t believe I spent my entire life not realizing I had a problem.&lt;p&gt;Eventually got it fixed permanently, but yea...breathing is huge.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: The problem I had was called Nasal Valve Collapse. It’s something that happens in much older people, but essentially if I inhaled hard through my nose my nostrils collapsed so I’d have to breath through my mouth. It made aerobic exercise very difficult, taking deep breaths in general too.&lt;p&gt;I discovered how big of a deal it was when I tried on of those 9 Round gyms in my early 30s. The 1st round is jump rope and it tore my throat up. I was so exhausted after 3 minutes of jump rope that the rest of the workout was basically awful. I came back the next week (my throat was really sore for a week) with a Breathe Right strip on to see if it helped. I did the whole workout, jump rope included, like it was nothing.&lt;p&gt;After I saw the difference, I tried sleeping in them and woke up more alert than I had in recent memory. Great night sleep. Then eventually, I tried just wearing one all day when I was working from home and it was significant by the end of the day.&lt;p&gt;There was a point where I just realized that I felt so much better wearing them that I was literally wearing them all the time, including in the office.&lt;p&gt;Eventually I decided to visit an E.N.T. who diagnosed me and gave me a couple of surgical options...which were both kinda scary and didn’t have great success rate. I visited another to get a 2nd opinion and he was confident that it could be fixed with a slightly modified septoplasty.&lt;p&gt;I ended up doing the surgery and I’ll go ahead and tell you, the recovery is awful...but it worked. I still see a marginal benefit from using a Breathe Right but I probably have 70% of the improvement all the time from where I was before.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Proper Breathing Brings Better Health</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/proper-breathing-brings-better-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>Isamu</author><text>&amp;gt;The action should serve as a wake-up call, not just for other router makers, but entire industries tied to the so-called Internet of Things wave that&amp;#x27;s adding Internet connectivity to refrigerators, watches, and other everyday devices. Over the past few years, researchers have uncovered a litany of security defects that make it possible for such devices to be remotely hijacked by attackers. Often, the hackers can use their position to install malicious code on the devices or to surreptitiously monitor the comings and goings of the owners.&lt;p&gt;Pretty much what we&amp;#x27;ve all been saying here.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Asus lawsuit puts entire industry on notice over shoddy router security</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/02/asus-lawsuit-puts-entire-industry-on-notice-over-shoddy-router-security/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>manyxcxi</author><text>I really hope this leads to some change some day. If router makers can be held accountable for not providing minimum security standards then maybe we&amp;#x27;ll stop seeing so many &amp;quot;me too&amp;quot; BS options and gimmicks and get a smaller stable of trustworthy routers&amp;#x2F;firmwares.&lt;p&gt;It kind of sucks that my first requirement for buying a router is that I must be able to immediately, and easily, flash a new firmware on to it. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter whose makes them, you are going to be receiving absolute shit for an OS, save for maybe a few prestige models of some of the better brands.&lt;p&gt;I liked the TP-Link Archer C7s because they were easy to flash and came with some pretty nice hardware for the price. Their products have been badly vulnerable, and now they&amp;#x27;re locking out alternative firmware. So even when you find a brand&amp;#x2F;model you like, that may not last.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Asus lawsuit puts entire industry on notice over shoddy router security</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/02/asus-lawsuit-puts-entire-industry-on-notice-over-shoddy-router-security/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mschuster91</author><text>&amp;gt; This was super distressing for a lot of people, as those belongings usually included wallet, phone, and keys. So after you are done at Central Booking, you are basically left with no possessions or money, and no way to get into your home or contact anyone.&lt;p&gt;Please, someone tell me this is fucking illegal.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What happens after you’re arrested at a protest in New York</title><url>https://medium.com/@noralev/what-happens-after-you-re-arrested-at-a-protest-in-new-york-975bb34fb47c</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spodek</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;for every one of the 120+ of us in holding, there was also a cop who was waiting there too, being paid overtime and trying to get our paperwork processed so that they could go home&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cops being paid overtime is a tremendous conflict of interest motivating them to arrest and to process slowly.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What happens after you’re arrested at a protest in New York</title><url>https://medium.com/@noralev/what-happens-after-you-re-arrested-at-a-protest-in-new-york-975bb34fb47c</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway189262</author><text>If only Oracle would stop gimping performance on the free version of GraalVM. The best optimizations, the ones that make it faster than OpenJDK, are $$$$$. And they&amp;#x27;re trying to replace OpenJDK&amp;#x27;s compiler with Graal, to convert Java back into a language where performance costs money.&lt;p&gt;Imagine if the free version of gcc or clang had gimped performance. The whole purpose of a compiler is to build code that&amp;#x27;s as performant as possible.&lt;p&gt;I won&amp;#x27;t go near Graal</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ZipPy: fast and lightweight Python 3 implementation using the Truffle framework</title><url>https://github.com/securesystemslab/zippy</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>latenightcoding</author><text>Also see: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;graalvm&amp;#x2F;graalpython&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;graalvm&amp;#x2F;graalpython&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ZipPy: fast and lightweight Python 3 implementation using the Truffle framework</title><url>https://github.com/securesystemslab/zippy</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danh</author><text>Except, of course, satire written in C, Objective-C or Javascript.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spamizbad</author><text>Eagerly anticipating a post from John Gruber explaining how satire is an inferior form of humor that drags a platform&apos;s comedic potential down.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>App Store Bans Pulitzer-Winning Satirist. For Satire</title><url>http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/apple-bans-satire/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tjogin</author><text>Wouldn&apos;t that be completely out of character for him, since he&apos;s usually pretty hard on Apple for their mismanaged AppStore — &lt;i&gt;especially&lt;/i&gt; when it comes to arbitrary refusals?</text><parent_chain><item><author>spamizbad</author><text>Eagerly anticipating a post from John Gruber explaining how satire is an inferior form of humor that drags a platform&apos;s comedic potential down.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>App Store Bans Pulitzer-Winning Satirist. For Satire</title><url>http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/apple-bans-satire/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>L_Rahman</author><text>Functionally this is the easiest problem in the world to solve. It&amp;#x27;s the same solution for scooters and dockless bikeshare.&lt;p&gt;Take two parking spots in each block. Put beacons on the corners or some kind of signaling tape around the whole thing. Only let users drop off rides inside that spot. Bonus points for having non-locking racks to help organize.&lt;p&gt;People get to litter their car on the side of my road, often in the bike lane for free and everyone walks around like it&amp;#x27;s okay. It&amp;#x27;s not. Neither are the scooters on the sidewalk. We know how to solve both problems. Parking spots for dockless transit and banning cars from transit and pedestrian rich neighborhoods.&lt;p&gt;[edit] I removed a line saying I was annoyed that people kept complaining the scooter parking situation. Those complaints point out a very real problem with scooter deployments and that we have a solution for it that is difficult to get passed doesn&amp;#x27;t make the complaint less valid.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>I think the big issue that most people have with them is the large externality of having scooters littered around the sidewalk.&lt;p&gt;In a lot of places in West Los Angeles, you are having to step around them constantly if you walk down the street. People literally just drop them in the middle of the sidewalk, because there is no incentive for them to not do that.&lt;p&gt;This means that everyone who doesn&amp;#x27;t use the service has to suffer.</text></item><item><author>fourmii</author><text>These scooters and scooter companies seem pretty divisive, especially on HN. I understand they&amp;#x27;re operating in grey areas, I guess kinda like Uber before them, but they are causing (I think) positive disruption.&lt;p&gt;I personally love these scooters. I&amp;#x27;m living in Australia now where we don&amp;#x27;t have them. But last month I took a 3 week road trip from LAX to DC and back so I could hit cities I hadn&amp;#x27;t been to before. And in many of these cities, I used a Bird to get around. These scooters opened up so much more of these cities for me than I could have seen if I just walked every where.&lt;p&gt;I think they provide real value to a city, for tourists to get around, and for citizens for the last mile and to complement other forms of transport. We just need for these scooter companies to be less like Uber and actually work with the cities to come up with reasonable regulations (in particular insisting on all riders wearing helmets)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lime and Bird are growing rapidly</title><url>https://www.futureengine.org/articles/scooters-are-worth-10b</url></story>

<instructions>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>&lt;i&gt;the large externality of having scooters littered around the sidewalk.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;You and I have very different definitions of &amp;quot;large.&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;d call this &amp;quot;very minor.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It also depends on the comparison group. I mean, look at these astounding photos of mammoth, abandoned dockless vehicles: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;slate.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;astounding-photos-capture-graveyards-of-unused-dockless-vehicles-in-american-cities.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;slate.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;astounding-photos-capture...&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Cities will, over time, reallocate a small amount of the space currently devoted to very large dockless vehicles to small dockless vehicles and thus solve the problem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>I think the big issue that most people have with them is the large externality of having scooters littered around the sidewalk.&lt;p&gt;In a lot of places in West Los Angeles, you are having to step around them constantly if you walk down the street. People literally just drop them in the middle of the sidewalk, because there is no incentive for them to not do that.&lt;p&gt;This means that everyone who doesn&amp;#x27;t use the service has to suffer.</text></item><item><author>fourmii</author><text>These scooters and scooter companies seem pretty divisive, especially on HN. I understand they&amp;#x27;re operating in grey areas, I guess kinda like Uber before them, but they are causing (I think) positive disruption.&lt;p&gt;I personally love these scooters. I&amp;#x27;m living in Australia now where we don&amp;#x27;t have them. But last month I took a 3 week road trip from LAX to DC and back so I could hit cities I hadn&amp;#x27;t been to before. And in many of these cities, I used a Bird to get around. These scooters opened up so much more of these cities for me than I could have seen if I just walked every where.&lt;p&gt;I think they provide real value to a city, for tourists to get around, and for citizens for the last mile and to complement other forms of transport. We just need for these scooter companies to be less like Uber and actually work with the cities to come up with reasonable regulations (in particular insisting on all riders wearing helmets)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lime and Bird are growing rapidly</title><url>https://www.futureengine.org/articles/scooters-are-worth-10b</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>flyinglizard</author><text>My understanding is that there&amp;#x27;s simply filesystem access for the modem, through some Samsung supplied kernel driver. Replicant implies Samsung may have &lt;i&gt;another&lt;/i&gt; backdoor in the modem itself, allowing to remotely issue commands accessing the phone&amp;#x27;s filesystem. That is pure speculation and FUD.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Samsung Galaxy devices running proprietary Android versions come with a back-door that provides remote access to the data stored on the device. In particular, the proprietary software that is in charge of handling the communications with the modem, using the Samsung IPC protocol, implements a class of requests known as RFS commands, that allows the modem to perform remote I&amp;#x2F;O operations on the phone&amp;#x27;s storage. As the modem is running proprietary software, &lt;i&gt;it is likely that it offers over-the-air remote control&lt;/i&gt;, that could then be used to issue the incriminated RFS messages and access the phone&amp;#x27;s file system.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Nothing substantiated there, just speculation.&lt;p&gt;Edit: This is not even interesting, and I&amp;#x27;ll explain why: normally, any component that has a kernel driver can already access all your data. The network interface in your PC can already do just the same - it has some proprietary firmware running on it, as well as a privileged OS driver that can see anything the system does; and it&amp;#x27;s connected to the internet.&lt;p&gt;Most likely, Samsung placed the driver there for providing a convenient storage area for the modem&amp;#x27;s firmware, in case it requires one (for logging, updating or whatever).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Samsung Galaxy Back-door</title><url>http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/SamsungGalaxyBackdoor</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jmomo</author><text>This reads mostly like an advert for Replicant.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;However, when Replicant is installed on the device, this back-door is not effective: Replicant does not cooperate with back-doors.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I am sure that people who run alternative ROMs&amp;#x2F;OSes would like to know if they are affected or not, but there doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to be much mention of that... except this line, which seems to indicate that at least Cyanogen IS affected:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Alternatively, the kernel could block the incriminated RFS requests and keep a trace of them in the logs for the record. That option would work for CyanogenMod, where the incriminated proprietary blob is still used.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve heard about Replicant before and am interested in it, but something about a self-serving warning like that turns me off.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Okay, my bad. I thought this was like a public announcement, not just a wiki page. That makes the context different, so my comments about reading like an advert are not nearly as applicable.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Samsung Galaxy Back-door</title><url>http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/SamsungGalaxyBackdoor</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>enaaem</author><text>Very good point! Let&amp;#x27;s say you move into a new market, trying to undercut the status quo. The status quo, with their power of scale and experience can just undercut you back. Who is benefitting from this? The customers! So if the customers want more competition they have to pay you to play. Which means they have to co-invest with you and promise to buy your service later.&lt;p&gt;A good is example are the Apple iPhone screens. If Apple wants a new competing supplier, they have to invest in new competitors.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway9878</author><text>Everybody with more money than you can always undercut you in anything you ever do so why bother ever trying to do anything</text></item><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s the issue. We know that due to economy of scale and domain experience, AWS will always have the lowest cost (to Amazon) for storage -- whether that&amp;#x27;s totally-reliable storage, or sorta-reliable. If there was a demand for sorta-reliable, they&amp;#x27;d build a sorta-reliable S3 and undercut you. Then, blockchain adds inefficiency. Therefore, it&amp;#x27;s basically impossible for any blockchain solution to have a lower total cost to provide storage.</text></item><item><author>Taek</author><text>Author here. A lot of these numbers are drawn from experience in the mining world, where people realized that when cost is the ultimate bottom line, a lot of corners can be cut.&lt;p&gt;Sia systems don&amp;#x27;t need a ton of networking. I ran the networking buildout costs by some networking people, and again it comes down to cutting corners. If you only need 10 gbps per rack, if you don&amp;#x27;t mind having extra milliseconds added, etc, you can get away with very scrappy setups. The whole point is that it&amp;#x27;s not a highly reliable facility.</text></item><item><author>kmod</author><text>I worked on the design of Dropbox&amp;#x27;s exabyte-scale storage system, and from that experience I can say that these numbers are all extremely optimistic, even with their &amp;quot;you can do it cheaper if you only target 95% uptime&amp;quot; caveat. Networking is much more expensive, labor is much more expensive, space is much more expensive, depreciation is faster than they say, etc etc. I don&amp;#x27;t think the authors have ever done any actual hardware provisioning before.&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;#x27;t read all their math but I expect their final result to be off by a factor of 2-5x. Hard drives are a surprisingly low percentage of the cost of a storage system.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month</title><url>https://blog.sia.tech/cloud-storage-for-2-tb-mo-8a34043e93bb</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arcticbull</author><text>My point is taking something, adding inefficiency, then pronouncing it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;cheapest in class&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t logically possible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway9878</author><text>Everybody with more money than you can always undercut you in anything you ever do so why bother ever trying to do anything</text></item><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s the issue. We know that due to economy of scale and domain experience, AWS will always have the lowest cost (to Amazon) for storage -- whether that&amp;#x27;s totally-reliable storage, or sorta-reliable. If there was a demand for sorta-reliable, they&amp;#x27;d build a sorta-reliable S3 and undercut you. Then, blockchain adds inefficiency. Therefore, it&amp;#x27;s basically impossible for any blockchain solution to have a lower total cost to provide storage.</text></item><item><author>Taek</author><text>Author here. A lot of these numbers are drawn from experience in the mining world, where people realized that when cost is the ultimate bottom line, a lot of corners can be cut.&lt;p&gt;Sia systems don&amp;#x27;t need a ton of networking. I ran the networking buildout costs by some networking people, and again it comes down to cutting corners. If you only need 10 gbps per rack, if you don&amp;#x27;t mind having extra milliseconds added, etc, you can get away with very scrappy setups. The whole point is that it&amp;#x27;s not a highly reliable facility.</text></item><item><author>kmod</author><text>I worked on the design of Dropbox&amp;#x27;s exabyte-scale storage system, and from that experience I can say that these numbers are all extremely optimistic, even with their &amp;quot;you can do it cheaper if you only target 95% uptime&amp;quot; caveat. Networking is much more expensive, labor is much more expensive, space is much more expensive, depreciation is faster than they say, etc etc. I don&amp;#x27;t think the authors have ever done any actual hardware provisioning before.&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;#x27;t read all their math but I expect their final result to be off by a factor of 2-5x. Hard drives are a surprisingly low percentage of the cost of a storage system.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month</title><url>https://blog.sia.tech/cloud-storage-for-2-tb-mo-8a34043e93bb</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xenihn</author><text>&amp;gt;Discussion will be about some piece of controversial research, e.g. GMOs or vaccines. People who want to discuss the merits of the research are shouted down by what I can only describe as &amp;#x27;science fanbois&amp;#x27; -- anything that is &amp;#x27;against science&amp;#x27; must be wrong.&lt;p&gt;Discussions on reddit (and all sorts of other social platforms) are being influenced and manipulated by people who are being paid to do so, and anyone who denies that at this point is delusional.&lt;p&gt;Source: I know people who run firms that provide this service.</text><parent_chain><item><author>smallnamespace</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve seen this form of scientism playing out frequently on Reddit and other Internet forums lately. Discussion will be about some piece of controversial research, e.g. GMOs or vaccines. People who want to discuss the merits of the research are shouted down by what I can only describe as &amp;#x27;science fanbois&amp;#x27; -- anything that is &amp;#x27;against science&amp;#x27; must be wrong.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re missing the inherent tension in science between a received body of knowledge and the skepticism it takes to produce new knowledge.</text></item><item><author>cloakandswagger</author><text>&amp;gt; We have too many people thinking it&amp;#x27;s okay to discredit scientists and scholars because they don&amp;#x27;t understand how research works.&lt;p&gt;And a similar number of people who elevate science to the level of religion, marching in its name and developing a brand of hero worship for scientists when they too know nothing at all about the scientific process. Both are forms of anti-intellectualism that are growing in our polarized political environment.</text></item><item><author>umbrellathorn</author><text>&amp;gt; for a useless degree they&amp;#x27;ll never use&lt;p&gt;I went to school for such a degree. While I don&amp;#x27;t use it in my day to day now, I still consider it priceless. There&amp;#x27;s some inherent value added to a person who pursues to study a bit of humanities, history, philosophy and art in college apart from their major. Scholarly work really helps shape the way you look at life for the better.&lt;p&gt;Part of this is that you really understand why you need to trust academic work for general human advancement. We have too many people thinking it&amp;#x27;s okay to discredit scientists and scholars because they don&amp;#x27;t understand how research works.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>There is definitely an education bubble. It&amp;#x27;s way too easy to get money for college. You hear a lot of stories about the increasing costs of college and crushing debt on graduation, but you don&amp;#x27;t hear a lot of stories of &amp;quot;I wanted to go to college but couldn&amp;#x27;t get a loan&amp;quot;. Almost everyone gets approved, regardless of their future ability to pay it back.&lt;p&gt;We need a fundamental shift in the way college is paid for. Some (many?) would like to see a government funded system, others would like to see the removal of subsidized loans to bring prices back down (and leaving many unable to afford college in its wake).&lt;p&gt;Another solution is to let you go to school for free and then pay a percent of all your future earnings back to your college, or at least into a pool that pays for the next generation&amp;#x27;s college. Of course with that system, colleges would bias towards people who are pursuing profitable majors, so you&amp;#x27;d probably see a lot more STEM degrees and a lot fewer of everything else, until it got oversaturated, but there is a very long lead time between &amp;quot;too many degrees&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;no one studies this anymore&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;In other words, the fundamental problem is that we tell kids that college is the only path, creating insanely high demand for the product, when in reality there would be plenty of people much better served learning a trade or skill instead of four years doing something hate for a useless degree they&amp;#x27;ll never use.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/student-loans-raise-other-risks-as-debt-equals-u-s-junk-market</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simias</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s really about science, it&amp;#x27;s more about reddit. You&amp;#x27;ll find the same thing on any discussion on any somewhat popular subreddit regardless of the subject. There&amp;#x27;s almost always a reddit hivemind sanctioned Good Answer to any issue and if you stray away from the Good Path you&amp;#x27;ll get buried in downvotes, regardless of how much effort you put into arguing your point. Conversely if you make a completely useless one-liner comment agreeing with the Good Answer then you&amp;#x27;ll be showered with upvotes and propelled to the top of the page.&lt;p&gt;Upvote&amp;#x2F;downvotes are de-facto agree&amp;#x2F;disagree buttons on reddit. As a forum it&amp;#x27;s completely useless to discuss anything beyond cat pictures and funny gifs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>smallnamespace</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve seen this form of scientism playing out frequently on Reddit and other Internet forums lately. Discussion will be about some piece of controversial research, e.g. GMOs or vaccines. People who want to discuss the merits of the research are shouted down by what I can only describe as &amp;#x27;science fanbois&amp;#x27; -- anything that is &amp;#x27;against science&amp;#x27; must be wrong.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re missing the inherent tension in science between a received body of knowledge and the skepticism it takes to produce new knowledge.</text></item><item><author>cloakandswagger</author><text>&amp;gt; We have too many people thinking it&amp;#x27;s okay to discredit scientists and scholars because they don&amp;#x27;t understand how research works.&lt;p&gt;And a similar number of people who elevate science to the level of religion, marching in its name and developing a brand of hero worship for scientists when they too know nothing at all about the scientific process. Both are forms of anti-intellectualism that are growing in our polarized political environment.</text></item><item><author>umbrellathorn</author><text>&amp;gt; for a useless degree they&amp;#x27;ll never use&lt;p&gt;I went to school for such a degree. While I don&amp;#x27;t use it in my day to day now, I still consider it priceless. There&amp;#x27;s some inherent value added to a person who pursues to study a bit of humanities, history, philosophy and art in college apart from their major. Scholarly work really helps shape the way you look at life for the better.&lt;p&gt;Part of this is that you really understand why you need to trust academic work for general human advancement. We have too many people thinking it&amp;#x27;s okay to discredit scientists and scholars because they don&amp;#x27;t understand how research works.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>There is definitely an education bubble. It&amp;#x27;s way too easy to get money for college. You hear a lot of stories about the increasing costs of college and crushing debt on graduation, but you don&amp;#x27;t hear a lot of stories of &amp;quot;I wanted to go to college but couldn&amp;#x27;t get a loan&amp;quot;. Almost everyone gets approved, regardless of their future ability to pay it back.&lt;p&gt;We need a fundamental shift in the way college is paid for. Some (many?) would like to see a government funded system, others would like to see the removal of subsidized loans to bring prices back down (and leaving many unable to afford college in its wake).&lt;p&gt;Another solution is to let you go to school for free and then pay a percent of all your future earnings back to your college, or at least into a pool that pays for the next generation&amp;#x27;s college. Of course with that system, colleges would bias towards people who are pursuing profitable majors, so you&amp;#x27;d probably see a lot more STEM degrees and a lot fewer of everything else, until it got oversaturated, but there is a very long lead time between &amp;quot;too many degrees&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;no one studies this anymore&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;In other words, the fundamental problem is that we tell kids that college is the only path, creating insanely high demand for the product, when in reality there would be plenty of people much better served learning a trade or skill instead of four years doing something hate for a useless degree they&amp;#x27;ll never use.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/student-loans-raise-other-risks-as-debt-equals-u-s-junk-market</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JeremyNT</author><text>I once found a nice open source ambient noise generator on F-Droid. Fully local, offline.&lt;p&gt;One day the developer decided to switch to a pay SaaS model. They updated the open source app to be a thin client for their web service.&lt;p&gt;Surely many existing users on the play store found quite a surprise when they updated!&lt;p&gt;F-Droid at least provides a little protection here, with the independent builds and easy downgrades, and if the community is big enough you see forks appear. But sadly this kind of cashing in is always going to be a risk with open source software in app stores.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Chatting</author><text>This is unethical.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t necessarily blame the developer for selling: I understand that some offers are difficult to refuse. But I absolutely do blame him for being dishonest to his users and contributors.&lt;p&gt;No one was told about this. People only found out about the sale by chance, because someone noticed that the Play Store listing details were changed and made a post on Reddit.&lt;p&gt;When confronted on GitHub, the developer gave evasive answers, citing vague and unrelated issues, such as &amp;quot;the quality of the Android ecosystem dropping&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I assume a lot of users bought these apps with the expectation that they were not infested with ads, data mining, dark patterns, etc. Most people have automatic updates enabled, and they will get all of the above shoved into their face before they can prevent it.&lt;p&gt;The value of these acquisitions is determined almost entirely by the userbase. The developer was only able to get this deal &lt;i&gt;because&lt;/i&gt; of his users. At the very least, they deserved to be treated with some basic amount of respect.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company</title><url>https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmvdoug</author><text>So, to be fair, the thing about his displeasure with Android was in response to somebody asking if he would be involved in helping maintain a fork that’s being set up. He said no and gave his Android reasons. Which to me sounds like he’s literally getting out of Android development.&lt;p&gt;Now, I didn’t read all the way to the bottom of that thread and GitHub, but no one really seem to ask him why he didn’t give notice of to anybody. The comments were either like, no, don’t do it, or we’ve gotta fork this. They weren’t really about how he has handled the issue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Chatting</author><text>This is unethical.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t necessarily blame the developer for selling: I understand that some offers are difficult to refuse. But I absolutely do blame him for being dishonest to his users and contributors.&lt;p&gt;No one was told about this. People only found out about the sale by chance, because someone noticed that the Play Store listing details were changed and made a post on Reddit.&lt;p&gt;When confronted on GitHub, the developer gave evasive answers, citing vague and unrelated issues, such as &amp;quot;the quality of the Android ecosystem dropping&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I assume a lot of users bought these apps with the expectation that they were not infested with ads, data mining, dark patterns, etc. Most people have automatic updates enabled, and they will get all of the above shoved into their face before they can prevent it.&lt;p&gt;The value of these acquisitions is determined almost entirely by the userbase. The developer was only able to get this deal &lt;i&gt;because&lt;/i&gt; of his users. At the very least, they deserved to be treated with some basic amount of respect.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company</title><url>https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jbclements</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m afraid I literally laughed out loud at your request for a &lt;i&gt;simple&lt;/i&gt; standard algorithm for r5rs macro systems. However, it&amp;#x27;s a sympathetic laugh. Macro Hygiene is still very hard, principally because (I claim) there&amp;#x27;s not yet a clean and widely accepted model for it. Matthew Flatt&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;sets of scopes&amp;quot; model is (IMNSHO) the current leader. Time will tell whether he or anyone else comes up with a simpler and more widely accepted model. But yes: as an implementor, it &amp;quot;feels&amp;quot; &lt;i&gt;very heavy&lt;/i&gt;, and you keep thinking that there must be a simpler solution to this problem (aside from just throwing the problem out and giving up on hygiene and language composability).</text><parent_chain><item><author>kovrik</author><text>Can anyone explain why there are so many implementations of Scheme written in Scheme? What is the point of doing that (apart from learning purposes)?&lt;p&gt;I know, for example that people want Racket VM to be implemented in Chez Scheme because Chez is super fast. But what about all other implementations?&lt;p&gt;Also, as I&amp;#x27;m currently writing R5RS&amp;#x2F;Clojure hybrid in Kotlin, can anyone please share any _simple_ standard algorithm of implementing r5rs macro system and macro expander?&lt;p&gt;The only thing I could find is &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cs.indiana.edu&amp;#x2F;chezscheme&amp;#x2F;syntax-case&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cs.indiana.edu&amp;#x2F;chezscheme&amp;#x2F;syntax-case&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gerbil – An opinionated dialect of Scheme designed for systems programming</title><url>https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>huntie</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s usually to provide extra features. For example, Gerbil has a more advanced macro and module system than most Scheme implementations. It&amp;#x27;s also very easy to do because you&amp;#x27;re bascially given an AST for your new Scheme that you transform into the base Scheme.&lt;p&gt;Gerbil&amp;#x27;s docs have an example of this: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;vyzo&amp;#x2F;gerbil&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;tutorial&amp;#x2F;lang.md&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;vyzo&amp;#x2F;gerbil&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;tutorial&amp;#x2F;lang...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>kovrik</author><text>Can anyone explain why there are so many implementations of Scheme written in Scheme? What is the point of doing that (apart from learning purposes)?&lt;p&gt;I know, for example that people want Racket VM to be implemented in Chez Scheme because Chez is super fast. But what about all other implementations?&lt;p&gt;Also, as I&amp;#x27;m currently writing R5RS&amp;#x2F;Clojure hybrid in Kotlin, can anyone please share any _simple_ standard algorithm of implementing r5rs macro system and macro expander?&lt;p&gt;The only thing I could find is &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cs.indiana.edu&amp;#x2F;chezscheme&amp;#x2F;syntax-case&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cs.indiana.edu&amp;#x2F;chezscheme&amp;#x2F;syntax-case&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gerbil – An opinionated dialect of Scheme designed for systems programming</title><url>https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ndr</author><text>If you are reading this comment before the article: they use Yandex&amp;#x27;s OLAP solution, ClickHouse, and Kafka.&lt;p&gt;The whole article explains how and why they got there, it is actually very well written!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Cloudflare analyzes 1M DNS queries per second</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-analyzes-1m-dns-queries-per-second/</url></story>

<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>otterley</author><text>The XFS &amp;quot;lock up&amp;quot; issue is concerning -- it&amp;#x27;s been a very long time since I&amp;#x27;ve seen any showstopping issues with that filesystem. Is anyone aware of what&amp;#x27;s going on there?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Cloudflare analyzes 1M DNS queries per second</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-analyzes-1m-dns-queries-per-second/</url></story>