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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>combatentropy</author><text>&amp;quot;. . . unlike every single horror I&amp;#x27;ve ever witnessed when looking closer at SCM products, git actually has a simple design, with stable and reasonably well-documented data structures. In fact, I&amp;#x27;m a huge proponent of designing your code around the data, rather than the other way around, and I think it&amp;#x27;s one of the reasons git has been fairly successful. . . .&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;--- Linus Torvalds, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lwn.net&amp;#x2F;Articles&amp;#x2F;193245&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lwn.net&amp;#x2F;Articles&amp;#x2F;193245&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>cmarschner</author><text>To me the beauty of git stems from the fact that it is an implementation of a functional data structure. It‘s a tree index that is read-only, and updating it involves creating a complete copy of the tree and giving it a new name. Then the only challenge is to make that copy as cheap as possible - for which the tree lends itself, as only the nodes on the path to the root need to get updated. As a result, you get lock-free transactions (branches) and minimal overhead. And through git‘s pointer-to-parent commit you get full lineage. It is so beautiful in fact that when I think about systems that need to maintain long-running state in concurrent environments, my first reaction is ”split up the state into files, and maintain it through git(hub)“.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder</title><url>https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linus-torvalds-git-proved-i-could-be-more-than-a-one-hit-wonder/</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>BenoitEssiambre</author><text>I sometimes like to explain things the other way around in terms of functional programming immutability being like version control for program state.&lt;p&gt;I rarely use functional programming but I certainly see its appeal for certain things.&lt;p&gt;I think the concept of immutability in functional programming confuses people. It really clicked for me when I stopped thinking of it in terms of things not being able to change and started instead to think of it in terms of each version of things having different names, somewhat like commits in version control.&lt;p&gt;Functional programming makes explicit, not only which variables you are accessing, but which version of it.&lt;p&gt;It may seem like you are copying variables every time you want to modify them but really you are just giving different mutations, different names. This doesn&amp;#x27;t mean things are actually copied in memory. Like git, the compiler doesn&amp;#x27;t need to make full copies for every versions. If it sees that you are not going to reference a particular mutation, it might just physically overwrite it with the next mutation. In the background &amp;quot;var a=i, var b=a+j&amp;quot;, might compile as something like &amp;quot;var b = i; b+=j&amp;quot;;</text><parent_chain><item><author>cmarschner</author><text>To me the beauty of git stems from the fact that it is an implementation of a functional data structure. It‘s a tree index that is read-only, and updating it involves creating a complete copy of the tree and giving it a new name. Then the only challenge is to make that copy as cheap as possible - for which the tree lends itself, as only the nodes on the path to the root need to get updated. As a result, you get lock-free transactions (branches) and minimal overhead. And through git‘s pointer-to-parent commit you get full lineage. It is so beautiful in fact that when I think about systems that need to maintain long-running state in concurrent environments, my first reaction is ”split up the state into files, and maintain it through git(hub)“.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder</title><url>https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linus-torvalds-git-proved-i-could-be-more-than-a-one-hit-wonder/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>signal11</author><text>Ron, thank you for your work on Loom, it’s very exciting and I’m looking forward to using it in production code!&lt;p&gt;As an aside, Ron had a JUG talk 6 months ago which I found really helpful where he went into more detail about why they chose this approach: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;KmMU5Y_r0Uk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;KmMU5Y_r0Uk&lt;/a&gt; (27m20s mark, and from 2m50 there’s a more general introduction to Loom).&lt;p&gt;I’m sure there are other videos&amp;#x2F;papers as well, but this was a pretty good overview of Java vs other languages’ approach to async.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pron</author><text>&amp;gt; I wonder why we went down that whole async&amp;#x2F;await craze with so many languages?&lt;p&gt;We addressed this, albeit very briefly, in the Alternatives section of the JEP: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openjdk.java.net&amp;#x2F;jeps&amp;#x2F;425&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openjdk.java.net&amp;#x2F;jeps&amp;#x2F;425&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are multiple reasons:&lt;p&gt;1. Languages that don&amp;#x27;t already have threads have an implicit assumption built into all existing code that program state cannot change concurrently. This is why scheduling points need to be marked explicitly, and why adding threads — whether user-mode or OS — might break existing code in some very tricky ways. That&amp;#x27;s the case of JavaScript.&lt;p&gt;2. Some languages target an IR without control over its backend, making an efficient implementation of user-mode threads difficult, if not impossible. async&amp;#x2F;await requires only changes to the frontend compiler. That&amp;#x27;s the case of Kotlin, and, perhaps to a lesser extent, Rust.&lt;p&gt;3. Some languages have technical features that make implementing user-mode threads efficiently more difficult than in others. Pointers into the stack and careful control over memory allocation make this more challenging in languages like C++ and Rust than in Java.</text></item><item><author>nu11ptr</author><text>From &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cr.openjdk.java.net&amp;#x2F;~rpressler&amp;#x2F;loom&amp;#x2F;loom&amp;#x2F;sol1_part1.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cr.openjdk.java.net&amp;#x2F;~rpressler&amp;#x2F;loom&amp;#x2F;loom&amp;#x2F;sol1_part1.h...&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Whereas the OS can support up to a few thousand active threads, the Java runtime can support millions of virtual threads. Every unit of concurrency in the application domain can be represented by its own thread, making programming concurrent applications easier. Forget about thread-pools, just spawn a new thread, one per task. You’ve already spawned a new virtual thread to handle an incoming HTTP request, but now, in the course of handling the request, you want to simultaneously query a database and issue outgoing requests to three other services? No problem — spawn more threads. You need to wait for something to happen without wasting precious resources? Forget about callbacks or reactive stream chaining — just block. Write straightforward, boring code. All the benefits threads give us — control flow, exception context, debugging flow, profiling organization — are preserved by virtual threads; only the runtime cost in footprint and performance is gone. There is no loss in flexibility compared to asynchronous programming because, as we’ll see, we have not ceded fine-grained control over scheduling.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This seems so obvious in hindsight as the &amp;quot;right way&amp;quot;. I wonder why we went down that whole async&amp;#x2F;await craze with so many languages?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JEP proposed to target JDK 19: 425: Virtual Threads (Preview)</title><url>https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2022-April/006530.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>kevincox</author><text>I think you are missing a key benefit of async&amp;#x2F;await. It can be implemented incredibly efficiently. This is because it is &amp;quot;stackless&amp;quot;. Or in other words you know the exact amount of &amp;quot;stack&amp;quot; space required and you can allocate this exactly instead of allocating a real stack which can be very much larger.&lt;p&gt;For example if I want to implement a &amp;quot;sleep&amp;quot; with async&amp;#x2F;await I probably only need to store the wake time as state, if I want to make a virtual thread to do the same I likely need to allocate a large stack just in case I use it.&lt;p&gt;Of course this can be mitigated with stack caching, small stacks, segmented stacks or other tricks. But doing this is still more expensive than knowing how much &amp;quot;stack&amp;quot; you need up-front and allocating only that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pron</author><text>&amp;gt; I wonder why we went down that whole async&amp;#x2F;await craze with so many languages?&lt;p&gt;We addressed this, albeit very briefly, in the Alternatives section of the JEP: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openjdk.java.net&amp;#x2F;jeps&amp;#x2F;425&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openjdk.java.net&amp;#x2F;jeps&amp;#x2F;425&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are multiple reasons:&lt;p&gt;1. Languages that don&amp;#x27;t already have threads have an implicit assumption built into all existing code that program state cannot change concurrently. This is why scheduling points need to be marked explicitly, and why adding threads — whether user-mode or OS — might break existing code in some very tricky ways. That&amp;#x27;s the case of JavaScript.&lt;p&gt;2. Some languages target an IR without control over its backend, making an efficient implementation of user-mode threads difficult, if not impossible. async&amp;#x2F;await requires only changes to the frontend compiler. That&amp;#x27;s the case of Kotlin, and, perhaps to a lesser extent, Rust.&lt;p&gt;3. Some languages have technical features that make implementing user-mode threads efficiently more difficult than in others. Pointers into the stack and careful control over memory allocation make this more challenging in languages like C++ and Rust than in Java.</text></item><item><author>nu11ptr</author><text>From &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cr.openjdk.java.net&amp;#x2F;~rpressler&amp;#x2F;loom&amp;#x2F;loom&amp;#x2F;sol1_part1.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cr.openjdk.java.net&amp;#x2F;~rpressler&amp;#x2F;loom&amp;#x2F;loom&amp;#x2F;sol1_part1.h...&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Whereas the OS can support up to a few thousand active threads, the Java runtime can support millions of virtual threads. Every unit of concurrency in the application domain can be represented by its own thread, making programming concurrent applications easier. Forget about thread-pools, just spawn a new thread, one per task. You’ve already spawned a new virtual thread to handle an incoming HTTP request, but now, in the course of handling the request, you want to simultaneously query a database and issue outgoing requests to three other services? No problem — spawn more threads. You need to wait for something to happen without wasting precious resources? Forget about callbacks or reactive stream chaining — just block. Write straightforward, boring code. All the benefits threads give us — control flow, exception context, debugging flow, profiling organization — are preserved by virtual threads; only the runtime cost in footprint and performance is gone. There is no loss in flexibility compared to asynchronous programming because, as we’ll see, we have not ceded fine-grained control over scheduling.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This seems so obvious in hindsight as the &amp;quot;right way&amp;quot;. I wonder why we went down that whole async&amp;#x2F;await craze with so many languages?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JEP proposed to target JDK 19: 425: Virtual Threads (Preview)</title><url>https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2022-April/006530.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>zitterbewegung</author><text>I think the biggest issue in video games is the disconnect between how people perceive developers and what they do. Many people complain about QA teams and how they &amp;quot;aren&amp;#x27;t doing their job&amp;quot;. The real issue is that making video games requires so much testing that they can&amp;#x27;t keep up with meeting deadlines and goals. Considering that someone has to hand test nearly all situations that the only way you can really test a game is to release a beta quality game and let your users tell you whats wrong. Warframe is the best at trying to manage peoples expectations. The creative director went on periscope during a big release which made people understand what is happening. The head liveops (community manager) allows them to walk on water (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;rebbford&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;rebbford&lt;/a&gt;) due to her ability to manage the community. Warframe is the sole example of a game that treats its uses like adults.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Door Problem (2014)</title><url>http://www.lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-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>k__</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s like with all software.&lt;p&gt;On one project I have a whole design team that tells me how the doors should look and behave.&lt;p&gt;On the next project nobody really cares, so I paint them black, lock all of them and wait till someone complains abut a few that they want to open. ;)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Door Problem (2014)</title><url>http://www.lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-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>huhtenberg</author><text>Actually it _is_ mostly due to Chinese money and the fact that Vancouver is the closest Canadian metropolis to Hong Kong, which jump-started the Vancouver bubble in 1999.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alacombe</author><text>&amp;gt; It needs to separate out Vancouver and the rest. Vancouver is its own bubble of self-perpetuating nonsense propagated by Chinese money.&lt;p&gt;Not just Chinese money, see my comment below.&lt;p&gt;To summarize: 1) best climate for Canada, 2) bounded north, west, and south, 3) land already developed, 4) high immigration</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>So I have two issues with this post.&lt;p&gt;1. It needs to separate out Vancouver and the rest. Vancouver is its own bubble of self-perpetuating nonsense propagated by Chinese money.&lt;p&gt;2. The article states shares are better because companies can plow money back into the business, which completely misses the point because price rises aren&amp;#x27;t pure speculation. There is a HUGE labour cost in housing such that housing prices track inflation (particularly wage inflation).&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s the real value in property investment in periods like the 1970s that saw really high inflation.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s more land represents a largely non-renewable resource. Take Manhattan as a fairly extreme example. They&amp;#x27;re not making more land to put things on. Other cities like Chicago, LA and especially Atlanta can basically spread forever. But even in those cities, inner city land is irreplaceable and finite.&lt;p&gt;Now I&amp;#x27;m not saying Canada isn&amp;#x27;t in a bubble or that bubble won&amp;#x27;t burst. But the author takes a naive stock-centric view of things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Canada&apos;s Housing Bubble Will Burst</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-21/canada-s-housing-bubble-will-burst</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>aianus</author><text>The climate in Vancouver is horrific. Rain and clouds for months on end with no respite.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alacombe</author><text>&amp;gt; It needs to separate out Vancouver and the rest. Vancouver is its own bubble of self-perpetuating nonsense propagated by Chinese money.&lt;p&gt;Not just Chinese money, see my comment below.&lt;p&gt;To summarize: 1) best climate for Canada, 2) bounded north, west, and south, 3) land already developed, 4) high immigration</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>So I have two issues with this post.&lt;p&gt;1. It needs to separate out Vancouver and the rest. Vancouver is its own bubble of self-perpetuating nonsense propagated by Chinese money.&lt;p&gt;2. The article states shares are better because companies can plow money back into the business, which completely misses the point because price rises aren&amp;#x27;t pure speculation. There is a HUGE labour cost in housing such that housing prices track inflation (particularly wage inflation).&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s the real value in property investment in periods like the 1970s that saw really high inflation.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s more land represents a largely non-renewable resource. Take Manhattan as a fairly extreme example. They&amp;#x27;re not making more land to put things on. Other cities like Chicago, LA and especially Atlanta can basically spread forever. But even in those cities, inner city land is irreplaceable and finite.&lt;p&gt;Now I&amp;#x27;m not saying Canada isn&amp;#x27;t in a bubble or that bubble won&amp;#x27;t burst. But the author takes a naive stock-centric view of things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Canada&apos;s Housing Bubble Will Burst</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-21/canada-s-housing-bubble-will-burst</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MisterTea</author><text>I hate to break it to you but children being exposed to &amp;quot;unsavory&amp;quot; things outside of parental supervision is part of growing up. It&amp;#x27;s called street smarts.&lt;p&gt;Ever watch watch south park? Then you know who Kenny is and how dysfunctional his family is. Every kid meets a Kenny in their lifetime. They&amp;#x27;re the kid who knows where his parents porn stash is kept and by 13 is raiding their parents booze and drug stash. He&amp;#x27;s the kid whose house you go to watch R films and look at hustler magazines (I&amp;#x27;m dating myself here). They also most likely had a hacked cable box with the playboy channel. In their bedroom.&lt;p&gt;Of course your parents told you to stay away &amp;quot;from that boy&amp;quot;. But after school you tell your parents you&amp;#x27;re &amp;quot;going to John&amp;#x27;s house to study&amp;quot; but instead you and a few other friends meet up at &amp;quot;Kenny&amp;#x27;s&amp;quot; place ;-). Though, It&amp;#x27;s not all porn and bad things. It&amp;#x27;s just a great place to hang out and play ball or nintendo or whatever because no one is telling you to study or do homework. It&amp;#x27;s pure rebellious freedom and it&amp;#x27;s exciting.&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t shield your kids forever. And the more you shield them the worse prepared they are for the harsh realities of the world. The best approach is to educate your kids of dangers and and hope for the best. Teach them about sex, drugs, alcohol, smoking, violence, abuse, behavioral issues, etc. Make sure they know what can be potentially harmful. My mother and father did a good job of that so I knew when to hang back and say &amp;quot;no thanks&amp;quot;. I stayed away from drinking and drushguse my who adolescent life.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ptd</author><text>How do you control the content your children are exposed to once they go to school?&lt;p&gt;I remember being shocked about a decade ago that a group of 3rd graders had seen The Hangover(a rated R movie) without the permission of their parents. When I asked how they were able to do this without their parents knowing, they almost laughed at me.&lt;p&gt;The idea that their parents could effectively censor the content they consumed was not something they understood. There was always someone with a phone, computer, laptop, USB key, DVD, etc.&lt;p&gt;When kids are young and you(or a loved one) has eyes on them 24&amp;#x2F;7 it’s easy to control their lives, and the content they are exposed to. I’m very curious as to how parents effectively censor the world for older kids who are around other kids, without turning into the dreaded “helicopter” parent.&lt;p&gt;It seems like an overwhelming challenge.</text></item><item><author>bpizzi</author><text>Father of two little guys of 7 &amp;amp; 5 here. Personal story below.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no tablets at home, no games on parent&amp;#x27;s smartphones. They have access to technology thought. But we are a &amp;quot;NO ADS ALLOWED HERE&amp;quot; kind of home :)&lt;p&gt;Netflix is freely accessible on the only TV we have, during &amp;quot;opening hours&amp;quot;, so that they can choose actively their program and not be exposed to TV ads (the TV has only access to Netflix).&lt;p&gt;They can switch on a Raspberry with an emulator where they can play some games from the 80&amp;#x2F;90&amp;#x27;. But they have to enter one command on the little Bluetooth keyboard (and they do!).&lt;p&gt;And finally they can sit at the home&amp;#x27;s PC, start windows, ask parents to open their session and launch complex games such as Age Of Empire.&lt;p&gt;No internet access, only books for now.&lt;p&gt;When they happen to be exposed to TV ads at grand-parents home, for ex, you can really see what kind of behavior ads are ingraining in little brains: &amp;quot;I want this!&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Why is this so short?&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Why don&amp;#x27;t they tell the price?&amp;quot;. That&amp;#x27;s always an opportunity for me to educate them to what&amp;#x27;s actually happening before their eyes: &amp;quot;look guys, this is a company (some people at work) that&amp;#x27;s working to expose their products (toys) to your eyes, hoping that you will ask your parents to spend money to buy it. They&amp;#x27;re smart, but we are smarter!&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m very inclined to think that toddlers should not have access to tablets, moreover to mainstream games on Android&amp;#x2F;Iphone. My personnal guess is that It&amp;#x27;s not preparing them to mastering technology, it&amp;#x27;s preparing them to be &lt;i&gt;addicted&lt;/i&gt; to technology.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kids’ Apps Are Crammed With Ads</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/style/kids-study-apps-advertising.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>Rjevski</author><text>&amp;gt; How do you control the content your children are exposed to once they go to school?&lt;p&gt;Not OP, but in my opinion it should be pretty easy to control &lt;i&gt;undesirable&lt;/i&gt; content. Nobody likes ads; I see no reason for the kids to actively seek out ads once they know what ads really are.&lt;p&gt;As far as controlling &amp;quot;desirable&amp;quot; content like movies, games, etc, I&amp;#x27;m not sure it should be, but that&amp;#x27;s a rant for another day!</text><parent_chain><item><author>ptd</author><text>How do you control the content your children are exposed to once they go to school?&lt;p&gt;I remember being shocked about a decade ago that a group of 3rd graders had seen The Hangover(a rated R movie) without the permission of their parents. When I asked how they were able to do this without their parents knowing, they almost laughed at me.&lt;p&gt;The idea that their parents could effectively censor the content they consumed was not something they understood. There was always someone with a phone, computer, laptop, USB key, DVD, etc.&lt;p&gt;When kids are young and you(or a loved one) has eyes on them 24&amp;#x2F;7 it’s easy to control their lives, and the content they are exposed to. I’m very curious as to how parents effectively censor the world for older kids who are around other kids, without turning into the dreaded “helicopter” parent.&lt;p&gt;It seems like an overwhelming challenge.</text></item><item><author>bpizzi</author><text>Father of two little guys of 7 &amp;amp; 5 here. Personal story below.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no tablets at home, no games on parent&amp;#x27;s smartphones. They have access to technology thought. But we are a &amp;quot;NO ADS ALLOWED HERE&amp;quot; kind of home :)&lt;p&gt;Netflix is freely accessible on the only TV we have, during &amp;quot;opening hours&amp;quot;, so that they can choose actively their program and not be exposed to TV ads (the TV has only access to Netflix).&lt;p&gt;They can switch on a Raspberry with an emulator where they can play some games from the 80&amp;#x2F;90&amp;#x27;. But they have to enter one command on the little Bluetooth keyboard (and they do!).&lt;p&gt;And finally they can sit at the home&amp;#x27;s PC, start windows, ask parents to open their session and launch complex games such as Age Of Empire.&lt;p&gt;No internet access, only books for now.&lt;p&gt;When they happen to be exposed to TV ads at grand-parents home, for ex, you can really see what kind of behavior ads are ingraining in little brains: &amp;quot;I want this!&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Why is this so short?&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Why don&amp;#x27;t they tell the price?&amp;quot;. That&amp;#x27;s always an opportunity for me to educate them to what&amp;#x27;s actually happening before their eyes: &amp;quot;look guys, this is a company (some people at work) that&amp;#x27;s working to expose their products (toys) to your eyes, hoping that you will ask your parents to spend money to buy it. They&amp;#x27;re smart, but we are smarter!&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m very inclined to think that toddlers should not have access to tablets, moreover to mainstream games on Android&amp;#x2F;Iphone. My personnal guess is that It&amp;#x27;s not preparing them to mastering technology, it&amp;#x27;s preparing them to be &lt;i&gt;addicted&lt;/i&gt; to technology.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kids’ Apps Are Crammed With Ads</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/style/kids-study-apps-advertising.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>misternyce</author><text>I have been thinking about this quite a bit, recently, as well and I do think the future does look like something you described. However, I do have doubts. Outside of being worried about the big brands removing your access to your hard earned reputations (which seems unlikely on a mass scale), what would be the other common uses cases for a crypto identity key? As we know, in order for a majority of people to adopt new technologies, there has to be a very compelling use case. I am not sure a consolidated identity key solves any real problem or rather it is just a cool tech thing that us hackers would like to see, kind of similar to the problem that bitcoin in general is having in achieving adoption.&lt;p&gt;I am curious if you guys have any really good thoughts on products that could implement a crypto identity key that solves a real life problem. Would love to discuss.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bigiain</author><text>People need to be much more aware of the fact that you don&amp;#x27;t own your gmail address, or your Twitter&amp;#x2F;Facebook&amp;#x2F;LinkedIn&amp;#x2F;Instagram&amp;#x2F;whatever account. Those companies encourage people to build their reputations and networks and &amp;quot;personal brands&amp;quot; inside their walled gardens, while repeatedly demonstrating that they won&amp;#x27;t lift a finger to help protect the user&amp;#x27;s custodianship of &amp;quot;their&amp;quot; usernames.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately - when you explain this to people there&amp;#x27;s no really good answer to their immediate &amp;quot;so what should I do?&amp;quot; question.&lt;p&gt;I no more &amp;quot;own&amp;quot; the bigiain.com domain than I own &amp;quot;bigiain&amp;quot; on HN, or &amp;quot;bigiain@gmail.com&amp;quot;. While I can ensure I keep paying for it&amp;#x27;s registration, I have no doubt that if Monsanto or Goldman Sachs or Apple launched an new thing and trademarked it &amp;quot;Bigiain&amp;quot;, my registrar would fold instantly to a legal demand from their lawyers, and I&amp;#x27;d be just as out-in-the-cold as all those people without friends-of-friends in high enough places at Instafacetwigoo to &amp;quot;fix things&amp;quot;, or with publicity platforms like @mat behind them.&lt;p&gt;I suspect in the future, there&amp;#x27;ll be a well known way to tie your online activity&amp;#x2F;reputation&amp;#x2F;network to a strong public key (with some distributed blockchain-like revocation&amp;#x2F;renewal audit trail). If anyone&amp;#x27;s working on something like that - I&amp;#x27;d love to hear about it...</text></item><item><author>andmarios</author><text>What strikes me most in these stories, is how you always have to find some higher ranking company employee through personal connections in order to get a tiny possibility to take your account back.&lt;p&gt;These companies build on their users but, when their users need them, they betray them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Even with 2FA, Google accounts can be hacked with just a phone number</title><url>https://ello.co/gb/post/knOWk-qeTqfSpJ6f8-arCQ</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>icebraining</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I have no doubt that if Monsanto or Goldman Sachs or Apple launched an new thing and trademarked it &amp;quot;Bigiain&amp;quot;, my registrar would fold instantly to a legal demand from their lawyers&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That particular problem can be solved by getting a domain that nobody else would want. In my case, I&amp;#x27;ve registered my first name+last name.com, which will certainly never be considered for a trademark.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bigiain</author><text>People need to be much more aware of the fact that you don&amp;#x27;t own your gmail address, or your Twitter&amp;#x2F;Facebook&amp;#x2F;LinkedIn&amp;#x2F;Instagram&amp;#x2F;whatever account. Those companies encourage people to build their reputations and networks and &amp;quot;personal brands&amp;quot; inside their walled gardens, while repeatedly demonstrating that they won&amp;#x27;t lift a finger to help protect the user&amp;#x27;s custodianship of &amp;quot;their&amp;quot; usernames.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately - when you explain this to people there&amp;#x27;s no really good answer to their immediate &amp;quot;so what should I do?&amp;quot; question.&lt;p&gt;I no more &amp;quot;own&amp;quot; the bigiain.com domain than I own &amp;quot;bigiain&amp;quot; on HN, or &amp;quot;bigiain@gmail.com&amp;quot;. While I can ensure I keep paying for it&amp;#x27;s registration, I have no doubt that if Monsanto or Goldman Sachs or Apple launched an new thing and trademarked it &amp;quot;Bigiain&amp;quot;, my registrar would fold instantly to a legal demand from their lawyers, and I&amp;#x27;d be just as out-in-the-cold as all those people without friends-of-friends in high enough places at Instafacetwigoo to &amp;quot;fix things&amp;quot;, or with publicity platforms like @mat behind them.&lt;p&gt;I suspect in the future, there&amp;#x27;ll be a well known way to tie your online activity&amp;#x2F;reputation&amp;#x2F;network to a strong public key (with some distributed blockchain-like revocation&amp;#x2F;renewal audit trail). If anyone&amp;#x27;s working on something like that - I&amp;#x27;d love to hear about it...</text></item><item><author>andmarios</author><text>What strikes me most in these stories, is how you always have to find some higher ranking company employee through personal connections in order to get a tiny possibility to take your account back.&lt;p&gt;These companies build on their users but, when their users need them, they betray them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Even with 2FA, Google accounts can be hacked with just a phone number</title><url>https://ello.co/gb/post/knOWk-qeTqfSpJ6f8-arCQ</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrismealy</author><text>Having read a ton of Hayek I thought I&amp;#x27;d share what the real Hayek is like, not the libertarian poster child. Actually existing Hayek would probably disappoint most libertarians. He’s against corporate personhood, skeptical about patents and copyright, and for urban planning, unemployment benefits, public health, socialized medicine, and inheritance taxes. It seems like what gets him really riled up is setting prices for cucumbers or state-owned hat factories.&lt;p&gt;His contribution to social science is his focus on distributed information in economic production. Think about how decision-making is distributed in capitalist economies: bankers, investors, asset managers, producers, distributors, retailers, brokers, executives, corporate planning departments, middle managers, marketing departments, advertising, etc. Just imagine trying to replicate all that effort with a few office buildings&amp;#x27; worth of planners in Moscow (Compare that to just Wall Street!). You can&amp;#x27;t run an economy without enough planners.&lt;p&gt;Hayek never tells jokes. I think if he had any sense of humor at all it might have occurred to him that designing the perfect society without planners (or much democracy) was certainly a kind of planning. He&amp;#x27;s like the whiteboard in &amp;quot;Office Space&amp;quot; that says &amp;quot;Planning to Plan&amp;quot; except it says &amp;quot;Planning to not Plan&amp;quot; and it&amp;#x27;s three books and 700 pages long (&amp;quot;Law, Legislation and Liberty&amp;quot;).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Friedrich Hayek and the Collective Brain</title><url>https://capx.co/friedrich-hayek-and-the-collective-brain/</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>aerodeck</author><text>Funny to see this on HN. I am currently reading a book that details the recent history of economic theory and how it has been in bed with neoliberalism. It has much to say about Hayek and the Mont Pelerin Society, a think-tank that he founded to develop his ideas.&lt;p&gt;What surprises me about Hayek was that he had a radical conception of decentralization, managing to talk about human society as though on-par with an ant-colony. IMO, this sort of anti-humanism is a necessary ingredient for overcoming anthropocentrism in our current thinking and pivoting towards ecological thinking, rather than purely rational thinking.&lt;p&gt;However, I think Hayek makes some tremendous mistakes in his thinking. Firstly, by reducing the Collective Brain to merely the market&amp;#x2F;price-discovery, he ignores the possibility that price-controls and&amp;#x2F;or social-demonization could themselves be components of that brain (perhaps fulfilling the function of an OS&amp;#x27;s kernel). Hayek talks much about there being no one person who can understand everything, but fails to critique himself. Secondly, he fails to see how the setup of a market has an influence on the kind of information that gets processed. In order for some thing to be exchanged on the market, it needs to be commodified in some way. This transformation of &amp;#x2F;thing&amp;#x2F; into &amp;#x2F;commodity&amp;#x2F; is where the social slight-of-hand happens, necessarily discounting some aspect of it&amp;#x27;s worth. An example is having two identical mugs, but one of those mugs being &amp;#x2F;mine&amp;#x2F; and therefore special to me. That specialness doesn&amp;#x27;t exist if the mugs are a commodity, and perhaps that specialness fulfills an informational&amp;#x2F;computational function. In the end, the price is a result of a collective brain, but the market itself is a human construct. Facebook, Wikipedia, Reddit and 4Chan all structure their &amp;#x27;markets&amp;#x27; differently, with incredibly different results.&lt;p&gt;Hayek had some good ideas, but he was too much of an apologist for the existing economic order for those ideas to really be useful. As technologists resurrect his ideas to apologize for the existing technological order, the same will likely be the case.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Friedrich Hayek and the Collective Brain</title><url>https://capx.co/friedrich-hayek-and-the-collective-brain/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TideAd</author><text>I mean the answer is that you just feel it out. 1 month is soon enough to wait, 2 months is gray area, 3 months is probably fine. And if it&amp;#x27;s a huge vest, then you give more leeway.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re not appealing to some objective rule here. You&amp;#x27;re thinking about what would look like shitty behavior to the rest of your employees.&lt;p&gt;Firing people gracefully is a really, really important part your relationship to your employees. It&amp;#x27;s about whether people feel like they&amp;#x27;re being respected as professionals or abused like they work in a sweatshop.</text><parent_chain><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>If you can&amp;#x27;t fire an employee because the vesting of their shares is &amp;quot;part of their compensation&amp;quot;, what&amp;#x27;s the point of vesting at all? You should just give it to them on day 1, right? How is an executive supposed to operate if something that was promised for the fulfillment of service &lt;i&gt;through a certain day&lt;/i&gt; becomes an entitlement any time before that agreed date? One month is too &amp;quot;obvious&amp;quot;? How about 2 months? 6 months? Where is the line when it&amp;#x27;s ok to fire someone before their vesting day but not after?</text></item><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Vesting is part of compensation. Denying part of compensation after the fact is bad look. Keep in mind that they&amp;#x27;re options, and unless exercised, and there&amp;#x27;s a liquidity event, both of which are highly uncertain, it&amp;#x27;s all funny money.&lt;p&gt;If you terminate shortly before vesting:&lt;p&gt;1. You face the prospect of an expensive and distracting wrongful termination suit.&lt;p&gt;2. You&amp;#x27;re sending a &lt;i&gt;blindingly&lt;/i&gt; obvious signal to all &lt;i&gt;other&lt;/i&gt; employees, and potential employees, that you can, will, &lt;i&gt;and have&lt;/i&gt; terminated employees immediately before vesting. That may well prove ruinous if you find yourself unable to hire and&amp;#x2F;or retain talent.&lt;p&gt;Let the vest happen. Whether you separate from the employee before or after is your call, though if you&amp;#x27;ve made that determination, do so.&lt;p&gt;PIPs are fugly as hell for all involved but exist for a reason. You should probably look into setting that up as a process.&lt;p&gt;Fix your recruitment, training, and monitoring processes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Firing an employee under a month before vest?</title><text>I&amp;#x27;m the founder of an early stage startup, around 10 employees.&lt;p&gt;One of those (one of the first to join) has been an issue for quite a while. Lots of time off, low effort at work, minimal hours. Felt like squeezing water out of a stone to get a result from them.&lt;p&gt;Recently, their behavior has gotten worse despite feedback. Taking off without informing team. Found out a lot of past work was plain wrong.&lt;p&gt;They vest in a few weeks. I don&amp;#x27;t want to have them on the team anymore, I&amp;#x27;m done trying and this employee is negatively affecting me and the company.&lt;p&gt;Should I let them vest then let them go, or just let them go? Feedback from former founders esp is helpful. Any downsides to having them on the cap table?</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>GavinMcG</author><text>This is a great example of a line-drawing fallacy. The claim isn&amp;#x27;t wrong just because there&amp;#x27;s no universal precise line.</text><parent_chain><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>If you can&amp;#x27;t fire an employee because the vesting of their shares is &amp;quot;part of their compensation&amp;quot;, what&amp;#x27;s the point of vesting at all? You should just give it to them on day 1, right? How is an executive supposed to operate if something that was promised for the fulfillment of service &lt;i&gt;through a certain day&lt;/i&gt; becomes an entitlement any time before that agreed date? One month is too &amp;quot;obvious&amp;quot;? How about 2 months? 6 months? Where is the line when it&amp;#x27;s ok to fire someone before their vesting day but not after?</text></item><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Vesting is part of compensation. Denying part of compensation after the fact is bad look. Keep in mind that they&amp;#x27;re options, and unless exercised, and there&amp;#x27;s a liquidity event, both of which are highly uncertain, it&amp;#x27;s all funny money.&lt;p&gt;If you terminate shortly before vesting:&lt;p&gt;1. You face the prospect of an expensive and distracting wrongful termination suit.&lt;p&gt;2. You&amp;#x27;re sending a &lt;i&gt;blindingly&lt;/i&gt; obvious signal to all &lt;i&gt;other&lt;/i&gt; employees, and potential employees, that you can, will, &lt;i&gt;and have&lt;/i&gt; terminated employees immediately before vesting. That may well prove ruinous if you find yourself unable to hire and&amp;#x2F;or retain talent.&lt;p&gt;Let the vest happen. Whether you separate from the employee before or after is your call, though if you&amp;#x27;ve made that determination, do so.&lt;p&gt;PIPs are fugly as hell for all involved but exist for a reason. You should probably look into setting that up as a process.&lt;p&gt;Fix your recruitment, training, and monitoring processes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Firing an employee under a month before vest?</title><text>I&amp;#x27;m the founder of an early stage startup, around 10 employees.&lt;p&gt;One of those (one of the first to join) has been an issue for quite a while. Lots of time off, low effort at work, minimal hours. Felt like squeezing water out of a stone to get a result from them.&lt;p&gt;Recently, their behavior has gotten worse despite feedback. Taking off without informing team. Found out a lot of past work was plain wrong.&lt;p&gt;They vest in a few weeks. I don&amp;#x27;t want to have them on the team anymore, I&amp;#x27;m done trying and this employee is negatively affecting me and the company.&lt;p&gt;Should I let them vest then let them go, or just let them go? Feedback from former founders esp is helpful. Any downsides to having them on the cap table?</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>schott12521</author><text>I thoroughly appreciated this article as I&amp;#x27;ve been building a short-form video content streaming service and the performance hasn&amp;#x27;t been what I expected.&lt;p&gt;Granted, I knew that my service needs to be able to scale at different bottlenecks, but a lot of &amp;quot;build your own video service!&amp;quot; tutorials start with:&lt;p&gt;- Build a backend, return a video file&lt;p&gt;- Build a frontend, embed the video&lt;p&gt;And that leaves a lot to be desired in terms of performance. I think the actual steps should be:&lt;p&gt;- Build a backend that consists of:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - Video Ingestion service - Video Upload &amp;#x2F; Processing Service that saves the video into chunks - Build a streaming service that returns video chunks &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; - Build a frontend that consists of:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - Build or use a video streaming library that can play video chunks as a stream &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Edit: From the author&amp;#x27;s links, I found this website which is very informative: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;howvideo.works&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;howvideo.works&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Video streaming at scale with Kubernetes and RabbitMQ</title><url>https://alexandreolive.medium.com/video-streaming-at-scale-with-kubernetes-and-rabbitmq-6e23fd0e75fb</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>com2kid</author><text>This is nice if you only have to deliver in one format, but as soon as you want to show up on TVs you are stuck delivering in a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; of formats, and life gets complicated quickly.&lt;p&gt;Throw subtitles in multiple languages, and different audio tracks, into the mix, and all of a sudden streaming video becomes a nightmare.&lt;p&gt;Finally, if you are dealing with copyrighted materials, you have to be aware as to what country your user is physically residing in while accessing the videos, as you likely don&amp;#x27;t have a license to stream all your videos in every country all at once.&lt;p&gt;Throw this all into a blender and what is needed is a very fancy asset catalog management system, and that part right there ends up being annoyingly complicated.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Video streaming at scale with Kubernetes and RabbitMQ</title><url>https://alexandreolive.medium.com/video-streaming-at-scale-with-kubernetes-and-rabbitmq-6e23fd0e75fb</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ab9</author><text>&quot;No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Is that really true? The first Orwell book I read (&lt;i&gt;Homage to Catalonia&lt;/i&gt;) was required for a history class -- a class that had previously assigned some truly awful literature. So I was pessimistic and I read it grudgingly at first. But halfway through the book, I realized I loved it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Orson Scott Card&apos;s Amazon Review of Ender&apos;s Game</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/review/R3SKPG9XEJYASE/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0812589041&amp;nodeID=&amp;tag=&amp;linkCode=</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>latch</author><text>I always thought of Ender&apos;s Game of something like a child&apos;s book. Something like Harry Potter to LoTRs. I don&apos;t think there&apos;s anything wrong with that, I mean, Harry Potter got a whole bunch of people reading. But seeing this explanation helps me better understand why I feel like that, and what it means.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;d call this an analysis more than a review. Whatever you think it is, I found it a pretty honest and open piece coming from someone who has such a personal stake in the book.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Orson Scott Card&apos;s Amazon Review of Ender&apos;s Game</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/review/R3SKPG9XEJYASE/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0812589041&amp;nodeID=&amp;tag=&amp;linkCode=</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rasengan</author><text>Hi mobitar. Thanks for the highest score in regard to the objective measures. Regarding the subjective impression and experience, I&amp;#x27;d like to let you know what&amp;#x27;s going on. If you feel that this changes your impression, it would be great to update accordingly!&lt;p&gt;The HTTP connection upon startup is for the region data request which is signed and verified upon receipt. It&amp;#x27;s tamper proof, but you can read it. It&amp;#x27;s something that anyone with the client can read, and the client is free to download.&lt;p&gt;Arguably, it&amp;#x27;s more secure to entrust the communication from PIA to the client software itself than to blindly entrust it to HTTPS which has provably been compromised due to bad actors in the past.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re in #privateinternetaccess on irc.freenode.net to discuss anytime as well!&lt;p&gt;Thanks for everything mobitar and for taking the time to produce this report.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mobitar</author><text>PIA actually scores as one of the highest on the objective measures. The star count is just a subjective impression and experience with getting it set up. They connect over HTTP on startup instead of HTTPS (which is unacceptable for a privacy company). They then ping almost a hundred servers on startup (no other app does this, at least not to this extent).</text></item><item><author>abstractbeliefs</author><text>Regardless of how you feel about _why_ PIA sponsor the organisations they do, it is surprising to see someone claiming they &amp;quot;perhaps put [their money] to better use&amp;quot; given their record of supporting foss and digital&amp;#x2F;online rights [1].&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the characterization as being extremely focused on the tech illiterate I feel isn&amp;#x27;t really the case either, they have lots of docs about how to use OpenVPN [2].&lt;p&gt;Thirdly, while there&amp;#x27;s no online free trial, at DEFCON and other events they do liberally hand out free trial cards.&lt;p&gt;The above points, as well as reading the commentary, leads me to believe that the author hasn&amp;#x27;t spent much time at all using or understanding the various product offerings, and the written review and star-score seem to clash with the high feature based score listed above. I can&amp;#x27;t speak at all for the other providers, but I don&amp;#x27;t feel like PIA at least has been well researched.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.privateinternetaccess.com&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;companies-we-sponsor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.privateinternetaccess.com&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;companies-we-spo...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.privateinternetaccess.com&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;client-support&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.privateinternetaccess.com&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;client-support&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;As full disclosure, I&amp;#x27;m a unpaid volunteer for a non-profit PIA has contributed to. I have used in the past, but do not currently use, PIA VPN.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>VPN Report – Reviews of the top VPNs</title><url>https://vpnreport.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>jwfxpr</author><text>Considering your claim to be interested in producing a quality analysis of the various services and clients, and in other reviews you took pains to point out that connections were made to Google analytics servers, I found it pretty disappointing that you didn&amp;#x27;t explain what the servers that PIA were pinging actually &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Are they, as I suspect (as a PIA user), pinging their own servers worldwide, to find the fastest options available? Are they pinging third parties?&lt;p&gt;Your review basically says &amp;quot;pings are bad m&amp;#x27;kay&amp;quot; without demonstrating any understanding of what the client is &lt;i&gt;doing&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, your questioning of the use of port 80 makes me wonder about your own security knowledge. You really don&amp;#x27;t understand why a commercial VPN product designed to be used by portable devices in unexpected environments might commence a connection on port 80?&lt;p&gt;These &amp;#x27;objections&amp;#x27; you have make me sceptical of your attention to detail in general.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mobitar</author><text>PIA actually scores as one of the highest on the objective measures. The star count is just a subjective impression and experience with getting it set up. They connect over HTTP on startup instead of HTTPS (which is unacceptable for a privacy company). They then ping almost a hundred servers on startup (no other app does this, at least not to this extent).</text></item><item><author>abstractbeliefs</author><text>Regardless of how you feel about _why_ PIA sponsor the organisations they do, it is surprising to see someone claiming they &amp;quot;perhaps put [their money] to better use&amp;quot; given their record of supporting foss and digital&amp;#x2F;online rights [1].&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the characterization as being extremely focused on the tech illiterate I feel isn&amp;#x27;t really the case either, they have lots of docs about how to use OpenVPN [2].&lt;p&gt;Thirdly, while there&amp;#x27;s no online free trial, at DEFCON and other events they do liberally hand out free trial cards.&lt;p&gt;The above points, as well as reading the commentary, leads me to believe that the author hasn&amp;#x27;t spent much time at all using or understanding the various product offerings, and the written review and star-score seem to clash with the high feature based score listed above. I can&amp;#x27;t speak at all for the other providers, but I don&amp;#x27;t feel like PIA at least has been well researched.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.privateinternetaccess.com&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;companies-we-sponsor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.privateinternetaccess.com&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;companies-we-spo...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.privateinternetaccess.com&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;client-support&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.privateinternetaccess.com&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;client-support&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;As full disclosure, I&amp;#x27;m a unpaid volunteer for a non-profit PIA has contributed to. I have used in the past, but do not currently use, PIA VPN.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>VPN Report – Reviews of the top VPNs</title><url>https://vpnreport.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>pcarolan</author><text>The real losers when this happens are the small businesses and nonprofits with recurring payments that have to contact their customers and ask them to reenter their new credit cards after they are replaced. Even in the best case, they&amp;#x27;re probably out a months revenue which can make or break a company.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JPMorgan Says Data Breach Affected 76M Households</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-02/jpmorgan-says-data-breach-affected-76-million-households.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>apayan</author><text>The amount of private data about individuals that JP Morgan has makes it a very attractive target to attackers despite any difficulty (perceived or real) it takes to get the data.&lt;p&gt;Extending that logic, it means the NSA is an even more worthwhile target for attackers, because they have far more private financial data about individuals in the USA and people abroad. But you can bet that when (not if) a breach of the NSA happens, it will never be reported to the public.&lt;p&gt;The only solution here is to do away with these centralized stores of all our private and financial information, so the incentive for these attacks no longer exist. There&amp;#x27;s no amount of technological hardening that will prevent a determined attacker (state sponsored or otherwise) to give up, when the reward for a successful attack is so high. Until then, reports of massive data breaches are going to be more and more common.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JPMorgan Says Data Breach Affected 76M Households</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-02/jpmorgan-says-data-breach-affected-76-million-households.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>dekhn</author><text>The GIL will never be removed from the main python implementation. Histortically, the main value of GIL removal proposals and implementations has been to spur the core team to speed up single core codes.&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#x27;s too late to consider removing the gil from the main implementation. Like guido said in the PEP thread, the python core team burned the community for 10 years with the 2-3 switch, and a GIL change would be likely as impactful; we&amp;#x27;d have 10 years of people complaining their stuff didn&amp;#x27;t work. Frankly I wish Guido would just come out and tell Sam &amp;quot;no, we can&amp;#x27;t put this in cpython. You did a great work but compatibility issues trump performance&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Kind of a shame because Hugunin implemented a Python on top of the CLR some 20 years ago and showed some extremely impressive performance results. Like jython, and pypy and other implementations, it never caught on because compatibility with cpython is one of the most important criteria for people dealing with lots of python code.</text><parent_chain><item><author>samwillis</author><text>The &amp;quot;Faster Python&amp;quot; team are doing a fantastic job, it&amp;#x27;s incredible to see the progress they are making.&lt;p&gt;However, there is also a bit of a struggle going on between them and the project to remove the GIL (global interpreter lock) from CPython. There is going to be a performance impact on single threaded code if the &amp;quot;no GIL&amp;quot; project is merged, something in the region of 10%. It seems that the faster Python devs are pushing back against that as it impacts their own goals. Their argument is that the &amp;quot;sub interpreters&amp;quot; they are adding (each with its own GIL) will fulfil the same use cases of multithreaded code without a GIL, but they still have the overhead of encoding and passing data in the same way you have to with sub processors.&lt;p&gt;There is also the argument that it could &amp;quot;divide the community&amp;quot; as some C extensions may not be ported to the new ABI that the no GIL project will result in. However again I&amp;#x27;m unconvinced by that, the Python community has been through worse (Python 3) and even asyncIO completely divides the community now.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s somewhat unfortunate that this internal battle is happening, both projects are incredible and will push the language forward.&lt;p&gt;Once the GIL has been removed it opens us all sorts of interesting opportunities for new concurrency APIs that could enable making concurrent code much easer to write.&lt;p&gt;My observation is that the Faster Python team are better placed politicly, they have GVR on the team, whereas No GIL is being proposed by an &amp;quot;outsider&amp;quot;. It just smells a little of NIH syndrome.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Our Plan for Python 3.13</title><url>https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/main/3.13/README.md</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>matsemann</author><text>GIL is one of the things that make Python an annoyance to work with. In saner languages, you could handle multiple requests at the same time, or easily spin something off in a thread to work in the background. In Python you can&amp;#x27;t do this. You need to duplicate your process, then pay the price of memory usage and other things multiple processes hinder (like communication between threads or pre-computed values now aren&amp;#x27;t shared so you need something external again). To deploy your app, you end up with 10 different deploys because each of them have to have a different entry point and separate task to fulfill.</text><parent_chain><item><author>samwillis</author><text>The &amp;quot;Faster Python&amp;quot; team are doing a fantastic job, it&amp;#x27;s incredible to see the progress they are making.&lt;p&gt;However, there is also a bit of a struggle going on between them and the project to remove the GIL (global interpreter lock) from CPython. There is going to be a performance impact on single threaded code if the &amp;quot;no GIL&amp;quot; project is merged, something in the region of 10%. It seems that the faster Python devs are pushing back against that as it impacts their own goals. Their argument is that the &amp;quot;sub interpreters&amp;quot; they are adding (each with its own GIL) will fulfil the same use cases of multithreaded code without a GIL, but they still have the overhead of encoding and passing data in the same way you have to with sub processors.&lt;p&gt;There is also the argument that it could &amp;quot;divide the community&amp;quot; as some C extensions may not be ported to the new ABI that the no GIL project will result in. However again I&amp;#x27;m unconvinced by that, the Python community has been through worse (Python 3) and even asyncIO completely divides the community now.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s somewhat unfortunate that this internal battle is happening, both projects are incredible and will push the language forward.&lt;p&gt;Once the GIL has been removed it opens us all sorts of interesting opportunities for new concurrency APIs that could enable making concurrent code much easer to write.&lt;p&gt;My observation is that the Faster Python team are better placed politicly, they have GVR on the team, whereas No GIL is being proposed by an &amp;quot;outsider&amp;quot;. It just smells a little of NIH syndrome.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Our Plan for Python 3.13</title><url>https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/main/3.13/README.md</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>If they have those admirable middle class traits were they born that way? Or is cultural and social inheritance as influential as genetic inheritance?&lt;p&gt;I used to live in an upper middle class area, and a worrying number of the people were very polished thieves. They spent an unholy amount of time fighting over inheritances with other family members and over property boundaries with neighbours. When they worked - inevitably as land owners, landlords, upmarket real estate agents, investment advisors, lawyers, company directors, horse breeders, and so on - they&amp;#x27;d always pad their bills and expenses, inflate their prices, and cheat on their taxes.&lt;p&gt;Were they &amp;quot;successful&amp;quot; - in the sense of being very comfortably off? Of course they were.&lt;p&gt;Did they try to marry their own? Naturally - out of snobbery and opportunism if for no other reason.&lt;p&gt;Were they admirable human beings or truly productive members of society? Not noticeably. Between the drink and drug problems, the predictable infidelities and ensuing dramas, and the polished and educated facade hiding feral greed and entitlement, they looked good from the outside - not so much from the inside.&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#x27;t own shares&amp;#x2F;stocks to any significant extent your labour goes to supporting these people. They make a lot of money from &amp;quot;investments&amp;quot; and pretend this is a glorious, noble, and risky social service. In fact they&amp;#x27;re simply skimming money from the top of the economy into their own pockets - effectively wasting it when it could be put to work doing something innovative for future generations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bedhead</author><text>You are right about the feedback loops that make it hard to escape poverty. The most uncomfortable one to talk about is basic social network effects. Two people meet at some prestigious college and get married - are we shocked they have children who are predisposed for success? Besides from having god-given IQ, they are likely some combination of ambitious, punctual, respectful of authority, long-term oriented, hard-working, etc. But would one of those parents have ever been interested in marrying and having kids with some high school dropout, someone from a vastly different social place and lacking those values? It&amp;#x27;s pretty rare. Society organizes itself around this stuff and it&amp;#x27;s extremely powerful. The two high school dropouts end up hooking up and having kids and it&amp;#x27;s often times (though obviously not always) the opposite cycle. And yeah there are plenty of societal biases that are real, but I really don&amp;#x27;t think anything will ever be as powerful as this self-organizing dynamic of how people marry and have kids. It&amp;#x27;s cold and depressing and uncomfortable but it&amp;#x27;s reality.</text></item><item><author>drewrv</author><text>This essay uses a weak straw-man: &lt;i&gt;the only way to become a billionaire is by exploiting people&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think the &amp;quot;principle of charity&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;steel-man&amp;quot; criticism of billionaires isn&amp;#x27;t that every single billionaire is directly exploiting people. It would be closer to something like this:&lt;p&gt;The problem is that our society has feedback loops that make it hard to escape poverty, and feedback loops that let the wealthy amass more wealth and power. It doesn&amp;#x27;t have to be this way, it&amp;#x27;s a product of our laws and can be changed.&lt;p&gt;Warren Buffet doesn&amp;#x27;t directly exploit anyone. However he does pay less taxes than his secretary. To the extent that Uber drivers and Amazon warehouse workers are exploited, it&amp;#x27;s because our society has millions of desperate people struggling to get by. What&amp;#x27;s the point of being the wealthiest nation ever on paper, if there&amp;#x27;s terrible schools, high infant mortality, and lead in the drinking pipes?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Billionaires Build</title><url>http://paulgraham.com/ace.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>benc666</author><text>Thank you for this well-thought (and written) comment. Human nature - ignored at own peril.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bedhead</author><text>You are right about the feedback loops that make it hard to escape poverty. The most uncomfortable one to talk about is basic social network effects. Two people meet at some prestigious college and get married - are we shocked they have children who are predisposed for success? Besides from having god-given IQ, they are likely some combination of ambitious, punctual, respectful of authority, long-term oriented, hard-working, etc. But would one of those parents have ever been interested in marrying and having kids with some high school dropout, someone from a vastly different social place and lacking those values? It&amp;#x27;s pretty rare. Society organizes itself around this stuff and it&amp;#x27;s extremely powerful. The two high school dropouts end up hooking up and having kids and it&amp;#x27;s often times (though obviously not always) the opposite cycle. And yeah there are plenty of societal biases that are real, but I really don&amp;#x27;t think anything will ever be as powerful as this self-organizing dynamic of how people marry and have kids. It&amp;#x27;s cold and depressing and uncomfortable but it&amp;#x27;s reality.</text></item><item><author>drewrv</author><text>This essay uses a weak straw-man: &lt;i&gt;the only way to become a billionaire is by exploiting people&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think the &amp;quot;principle of charity&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;steel-man&amp;quot; criticism of billionaires isn&amp;#x27;t that every single billionaire is directly exploiting people. It would be closer to something like this:&lt;p&gt;The problem is that our society has feedback loops that make it hard to escape poverty, and feedback loops that let the wealthy amass more wealth and power. It doesn&amp;#x27;t have to be this way, it&amp;#x27;s a product of our laws and can be changed.&lt;p&gt;Warren Buffet doesn&amp;#x27;t directly exploit anyone. However he does pay less taxes than his secretary. To the extent that Uber drivers and Amazon warehouse workers are exploited, it&amp;#x27;s because our society has millions of desperate people struggling to get by. What&amp;#x27;s the point of being the wealthiest nation ever on paper, if there&amp;#x27;s terrible schools, high infant mortality, and lead in the drinking pipes?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Billionaires Build</title><url>http://paulgraham.com/ace.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>konschubert</author><text>This is absolutely great and it will enable A LOT of very useful applications.&lt;p&gt;One question though: I assume that the automatic detection of form fields does not always work. Especially if the PDF does not exist in a “fillable&amp;quot; format. Am I right with that interpretation?</text><parent_chain><item><author>nathan_f77</author><text>Hi HN! I started FormAPI because I&amp;#x27;ve been living in Southeast Asia for the last few years, and I&amp;#x27;ve had to fill in a lot of visa application and extension forms. I want to build a service where you can fill in visa forms online, so I built FormAPI as the first step towards that project.&lt;p&gt;I also used to work at Gusto (a payroll company), and we had to fill out a lot of tax forms, which took a lot of work. I know this is something that many financial and legal startups have to do, so hopefully FormAPI can make this process a lot easier.&lt;p&gt;Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: An API for filling out PDF forms</title><url>https://formapi.io</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>curun1r</author><text>Back in 2000-2001, I worked up a prototype of something similar using Adobe&amp;#x27;s FDF SDK [1] for PDF. We had a PDF-centric application that would render to PDF using an HTML -&amp;gt; PDF library and it was hugely problematic, so the prototype definitely made things a lot easier and, had the business not run out of money at about that time, it would have been the direction we headed with the product.&lt;p&gt;So, how similar is this to FDF? Does it use FDF under the hood? If not, what are the pros and cons of this over FDF?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.adobe.com&amp;#x2F;devnet&amp;#x2F;acrobat&amp;#x2F;fdftoolkit.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.adobe.com&amp;#x2F;devnet&amp;#x2F;acrobat&amp;#x2F;fdftoolkit.html&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>nathan_f77</author><text>Hi HN! I started FormAPI because I&amp;#x27;ve been living in Southeast Asia for the last few years, and I&amp;#x27;ve had to fill in a lot of visa application and extension forms. I want to build a service where you can fill in visa forms online, so I built FormAPI as the first step towards that project.&lt;p&gt;I also used to work at Gusto (a payroll company), and we had to fill out a lot of tax forms, which took a lot of work. I know this is something that many financial and legal startups have to do, so hopefully FormAPI can make this process a lot easier.&lt;p&gt;Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: An API for filling out PDF forms</title><url>https://formapi.io</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adolph</author><text>Awesome Knowledge Management List:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;brettkromkamp&amp;#x2F;awesome-knowledge-management&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;brettkromkamp&amp;#x2F;awesome-knowledge-managemen...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Interview with maintainer:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pythonpodcast.com&amp;#x2F;contextualize-topic-modeling-episode-267&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pythonpodcast.com&amp;#x2F;contextualize-topic-modeling-e...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kb: A minimalist hacker-oriented knowledge base manager</title><url>https://github.com/gnebbia/kb</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>techbio</author><text>What a fantastic name for a command-line knowledge base! Extremely heartening for anyone who&amp;#x27;s gone through the briar-patch of browsing through a self-disorganizing hierarchy of sub-kilobyte text files. The animated screenshots on GitHub are very welcome. Interesting.&lt;p&gt;I would like to see more import&amp;#x2F;export options.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kb: A minimalist hacker-oriented knowledge base manager</title><url>https://github.com/gnebbia/kb</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wildrhythms</author><text>I think the unfortunate truth is that &amp;quot;please restart your computer&amp;quot;-level stuff actually &lt;i&gt;does&lt;/i&gt; solve whatever problem the customer is reporting enough that companies put value into that type of support.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re reading HN you probably don&amp;#x27;t need that level of support, but that&amp;#x27;s not to say there aren&amp;#x27;t customers who need their hand held to restart a computer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mgkimsal</author><text>&amp;quot;scaling support&amp;quot; almost always seems hand in hand with &amp;quot;dumbing down for lowest common denominator&amp;quot;. By the time things have made it through &amp;quot;please restart your computer&amp;quot;-level stuff, maybe the only way to scale is to put real engineers on problems and &amp;quot;allow&amp;quot; them to actually talk to the people having the problems. This approach seems to be the only one companies seem hell-bent on never trying.</text></item><item><author>Steeeve</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s comical. I feel like I have an understanding of what&amp;#x27;s going on because I&amp;#x27;ve been in this scenario on a contract - not with Google.&lt;p&gt;I was told - &amp;quot;there&amp;#x27;s a backlog of support requests. They are old requests that nobody has been working on and our offshore team can&amp;#x27;t handle. Being an expert in this particular product (and always in need of some extra cash), I said &amp;quot;OK, but let me be very clear that this is secondary to all other work that I&amp;#x27;m doing.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Then they proceeded to hand over tickets. I wasn&amp;#x27;t allowed to communicate directly to customers, and communicating with their offshore staff was a challenge. &amp;quot;I need a log to even begin to troubleshoot this.&amp;quot; followed by a frustrated customer reporting &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t know why you&amp;#x27;re asking for this log, it won&amp;#x27;t help.&amp;quot; OK, I have to be more clear with support, who I assumed would know. &amp;quot;I need this log. You create it by taking these steps.&amp;quot; Another follow up from the customer with the same log again, reporting more frustration. Repeat this process 5 or 6 times, on 20 different tickets. I finally follow up along a different path. &amp;quot;Well, you see they see a request for logs and they only have one template to ask for logs. I&amp;#x27;ll get it straightened out.&amp;quot; A month goes by. I&amp;#x27;m getting requests for updates. I follow up on every path I have available. One customer was smart enough to get me the right logs, but they did not forward that log on. After much back and forth I ended up getting that one log. It pointed to a source code problem that I had no access to view, let alone edit. And of course, I have no contact to send this to.&lt;p&gt;What I ended up doing is submitting a bug report, the proper logs, and a summary of the logic problem in the source through one of my clients support account. Then I updated the tickets that looked to be related with &amp;quot;pending outcome of support ticket 1234. Months later, that particular problem was patched.&lt;p&gt;Hopefully the customers with their tickets stuck in &amp;quot;level 3 support&amp;quot; were eventually notified. I backed out of that project at some point because it just wasn&amp;#x27;t a good use of my time.&lt;p&gt;I understand the need to find a way to scale support. But if you are going to scale, monitor for effectiveness, plan for procedural changes, and do something to make sure the communications channels are working.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It&apos;s been 191 days since Google Drive worked for me</title><url>https://dynalist.io/d/wRIiJ0s0ONiB1w98ginB4g_n</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>flukus</author><text>Because engineers are expensive, engineers that can talk to customers are even more expensive and decent engineers willing to do support are even more expensive.&lt;p&gt;That said, I do think software devs should be more involved with the customer for other reasons, far to often they are building software without having any idea what the customers workflow is.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mgkimsal</author><text>&amp;quot;scaling support&amp;quot; almost always seems hand in hand with &amp;quot;dumbing down for lowest common denominator&amp;quot;. By the time things have made it through &amp;quot;please restart your computer&amp;quot;-level stuff, maybe the only way to scale is to put real engineers on problems and &amp;quot;allow&amp;quot; them to actually talk to the people having the problems. This approach seems to be the only one companies seem hell-bent on never trying.</text></item><item><author>Steeeve</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s comical. I feel like I have an understanding of what&amp;#x27;s going on because I&amp;#x27;ve been in this scenario on a contract - not with Google.&lt;p&gt;I was told - &amp;quot;there&amp;#x27;s a backlog of support requests. They are old requests that nobody has been working on and our offshore team can&amp;#x27;t handle. Being an expert in this particular product (and always in need of some extra cash), I said &amp;quot;OK, but let me be very clear that this is secondary to all other work that I&amp;#x27;m doing.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Then they proceeded to hand over tickets. I wasn&amp;#x27;t allowed to communicate directly to customers, and communicating with their offshore staff was a challenge. &amp;quot;I need a log to even begin to troubleshoot this.&amp;quot; followed by a frustrated customer reporting &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t know why you&amp;#x27;re asking for this log, it won&amp;#x27;t help.&amp;quot; OK, I have to be more clear with support, who I assumed would know. &amp;quot;I need this log. You create it by taking these steps.&amp;quot; Another follow up from the customer with the same log again, reporting more frustration. Repeat this process 5 or 6 times, on 20 different tickets. I finally follow up along a different path. &amp;quot;Well, you see they see a request for logs and they only have one template to ask for logs. I&amp;#x27;ll get it straightened out.&amp;quot; A month goes by. I&amp;#x27;m getting requests for updates. I follow up on every path I have available. One customer was smart enough to get me the right logs, but they did not forward that log on. After much back and forth I ended up getting that one log. It pointed to a source code problem that I had no access to view, let alone edit. And of course, I have no contact to send this to.&lt;p&gt;What I ended up doing is submitting a bug report, the proper logs, and a summary of the logic problem in the source through one of my clients support account. Then I updated the tickets that looked to be related with &amp;quot;pending outcome of support ticket 1234. Months later, that particular problem was patched.&lt;p&gt;Hopefully the customers with their tickets stuck in &amp;quot;level 3 support&amp;quot; were eventually notified. I backed out of that project at some point because it just wasn&amp;#x27;t a good use of my time.&lt;p&gt;I understand the need to find a way to scale support. But if you are going to scale, monitor for effectiveness, plan for procedural changes, and do something to make sure the communications channels are working.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It&apos;s been 191 days since Google Drive worked for me</title><url>https://dynalist.io/d/wRIiJ0s0ONiB1w98ginB4g_n</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Dowwie</author><text>Note the following passage:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s clear to me that a certain proportion of application developers are allergic to putting business logic in the database system, despite the fact that batch processing logic is often a great deal faster when implemented that way. Perhaps the fact that clients are now able to cede full control of transaction scope to procedural code running on the database server (code that can be written in a familiar scripting language) will help application developers to get over the understandable aversion. Hope springs eternal.&amp;quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PostgreSQL 11: something for everyone</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/764515/</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>clarkevans</author><text>Now, if I could only have a pljulia... so that I could run statistical analysis (packaged as a Julia function) from a query. With PostgreSQL the request queue is never ending ;)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PostgreSQL 11: something for everyone</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/764515/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>notadev</author><text>Most Sailors on ships work in watch rotations. If you’re lucky it’s three shifts, but more often than not it’s “port and starboard” shifts of 12-on&amp;#x2F;12-off. This is especially hard for those who work nights.&lt;p&gt;Even if your shift ends at, say, 0800, you still have to eat, then attend muster (like a daily standup), then do an hour or so of “cleaning stations”. Afterward you can’t go to sleep yet because the berthing where you sleep is waiting for the XO to inspect. Once that’s all done, you are still up because they planned a General Quarters (GQ) drill or a man overboard at 1000. Two hours later and you are finally free, but it’s lunch so you might as well eat. You have about 8 hours left, but you are also delinquent on 2 or 3 qualifications that require walk-through a or attending trainings which only happen during the day. Maybe you want to send an email home, so you go to the library to wait for a free computer.&lt;p&gt;By the time that’s all done, you have about 4 or 5 hours to sleep. You might be able to do that without problem for a day or two, but a week later and you are friend.</text><parent_chain><item><author>uh_uh</author><text>Why do they do this?</text></item><item><author>crooked-v</author><text>I have to wonder how much of this support is the military trying to find a technological workaround so they can keep using schedules that intentionally leave everyone sleep deprived all the time, instead of just adjusting those schedules to let people get enough sleep.&lt;p&gt;While the worst cases of that are generally in the Navy (for example, entire ship crews running on 4 hours of a sleep a night as standard practice, serving as a major factor in those lethal collisions back in 2017), it&amp;#x27;s pretty common for Army grunts to get six hours of sleep a night or less while on deployment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brain-cleaning sleeping cap gets US Army funding</title><url>https://newatlas.com/science/brain-cleaning-skullcap-sleep-glymphatic-system-us-army/</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>javanscala</author><text>They actually have training &amp;#x2F; excercises within the Army (and I assume other branches), where they intentionally sleep deprive you while evaluating you on tasks. It’s assumed there will be points in battle where you can’t sleep. 24hrs without sleep happened fairly often, but the longest training that I can recall with sleep deprivation lasted 72 hours. Most people did manage to “sleep” during that time, but 20 minutes at most, as the cadence of the tasks was designed that you couldn’t sleep at all. I must admit though my platoon could mostly do our jobs in our sleep because the actions had been drilled into us and we had done them so many times with little or no sleep.</text><parent_chain><item><author>uh_uh</author><text>Why do they do this?</text></item><item><author>crooked-v</author><text>I have to wonder how much of this support is the military trying to find a technological workaround so they can keep using schedules that intentionally leave everyone sleep deprived all the time, instead of just adjusting those schedules to let people get enough sleep.&lt;p&gt;While the worst cases of that are generally in the Navy (for example, entire ship crews running on 4 hours of a sleep a night as standard practice, serving as a major factor in those lethal collisions back in 2017), it&amp;#x27;s pretty common for Army grunts to get six hours of sleep a night or less while on deployment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brain-cleaning sleeping cap gets US Army funding</title><url>https://newatlas.com/science/brain-cleaning-skullcap-sleep-glymphatic-system-us-army/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>magnio</author><text>There are more details in the FB post of Tomas Mikolov (author of word2vec) recently: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;share&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;kXYaYaRvRCr5K2Ze&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;share&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;kXYaYaRvRCr5K2Ze&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;A hilarious and poignant point I see is how experts make mistake too. Quote:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I also received a lot of comments on the word analogies - from &amp;quot;I knew that too but forgot to publish it!&amp;quot; (Geoff Hinton, I believe you :) happens to everyone, and anyways I think everybody knows what the origin of Distributed Representations is) to &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s a total hack and I&amp;#x27;m sure it doesn&amp;#x27;t work!&amp;quot; (random guys who didn&amp;#x27;t bother to read the papers and try it out themselves - including Ian Goodfellow raging about it on Twitter).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Word2Vec received &apos;strong reject&apos; four times at ICLR2013</title><url>https://openreview.net/forum?id=idpCdOWtqXd60</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>nybsjytm</author><text>I think the reviewers did a good job; the reviews are pretty reasonable. Reviews are supposed to be about the quality of a paper, not how influential they might be in the future! And not all influential papers are actually very good.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Word2Vec received &apos;strong reject&apos; four times at ICLR2013</title><url>https://openreview.net/forum?id=idpCdOWtqXd60</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>denysonique</author><text>The parts for the EU market seem to be more expensive than for the US.&lt;p&gt;Example, iPhone 13 Pro Max screen price:&lt;p&gt;US: $311.96&lt;p&gt;UK: $338.63 ($26.73 more expensive)&lt;p&gt;Poland: $351.35 ($39.39 more expensive)&lt;p&gt;The prices are without VAT&amp;#x2F;Sales Tax (20% for UK and 23% for Poland already deducted respectively)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple launches Self Service Repair in Europe</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-launches-self-service-repair-in-europe/</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>sircastor</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been recently trying to resurrect my mom&amp;#x27;s old 2015 MacBook Air and there&amp;#x27;s a special excitement in being able to follow the clues on the logic board as to where there&amp;#x27;s a problem, and then being able to fix it.&lt;p&gt;When I was going through my father&amp;#x27;s stuff after he died, I came across a Television manual that had come with the product. It included a full schematic of the TV. Every resistor, capacitor, transistor, and diode. I marveled at the idea that the company who made this TV was more interested in your having confidence in the product than protecting their next sale...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple launches Self Service Repair in Europe</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-launches-self-service-repair-in-europe/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>StringyBob</author><text>My current Thinkpad has a physical switch to disable radios. I&amp;#x27;d like to have a physical &amp;#x27;privacy&amp;#x27; switch that cut the power to internal microphones and cameras. To be security aware, this has to be an auditable hardware power switch, and not just an interrupt&amp;#x2F;driver&amp;#x2F;bios combination that could be bypassed. It&amp;#x27;s also prefereable for security to have a an off-by-default switch, than an activity light you might not notice...</text><parent_chain><item><author>justin</author><text>I would be more concerned about the microphone. I can easily cover the camera with tape. Also, random pictures of me programming or reading HN are probably less damaging audio recordings of conversations I might be having.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Research shows how MacBook Webcams can spy on their users without warning</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18/research-shows-how-macbook-webcams-can-spy-on-their-users-without-warning/</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>greglindahl</author><text>I use a cut-out piece of postit note for the camera, and a small piece of etape for the microphones -- seems stable, and both are pretty easy to take off without leaving too much spooge behind.</text><parent_chain><item><author>justin</author><text>I would be more concerned about the microphone. I can easily cover the camera with tape. Also, random pictures of me programming or reading HN are probably less damaging audio recordings of conversations I might be having.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Research shows how MacBook Webcams can spy on their users without warning</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18/research-shows-how-macbook-webcams-can-spy-on-their-users-without-warning/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mhicks</author><text>Not sure where the second statement came from but if you can let me know the source, I can correct it.&lt;p&gt;I can represent OpenShift fairly well. We will always have a free level of service and we are trying very hard to keep what is free today, free forever. We have tweaked a couple of things based on user feedback but the goal is to have a meaningful free offering.&lt;p&gt;At the same time, we are getting constant feedback that users want more than just the free offering. We also know that with pricing, they will want stability and predictability in pricing so we&apos;ve spent a lot of time to get users involved and a lot of feedback in the pricing before we launch it. We want that pricing to be sustainable as well as valuable to users.&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps</text><parent_chain><item><author>bobsy</author><text>I don&apos;t like this &quot;Free&quot; business.&lt;p&gt;It doesn&apos;t make sense and the complete lack of pricing info really puts me off.&lt;p&gt;So I play around with this, like it and choose to stick with it. They then introduce uncompetitive pricing.. I just wasted my time. They do not need to give exact pricing - they might not know at the moment - but they should at least give an overview of what they plan to do.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; We will keep this free plan for the foreseeable future. The free plan allows...&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; This free plan will exist while we develop and test the service. As the service becomes stable we will be introducing paid plans and you will be asked to upgrade.&lt;p&gt;These 2 statements make sense to me. The fact they mention nothing about pricing on their site confuses and annoys me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenShift by Red Hat</title><url>https://openshift.redhat.com/app/</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>adestefan</author><text>I have a feeling Red Hat is going to try to make money off the private cloud businesses. Pitch OpenShift + support as an offering for companies to use internally. The free hosting that they&apos;re currently offering is just a way to get beta testers. Anything they make off of future plans would be icing on the cake.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bobsy</author><text>I don&apos;t like this &quot;Free&quot; business.&lt;p&gt;It doesn&apos;t make sense and the complete lack of pricing info really puts me off.&lt;p&gt;So I play around with this, like it and choose to stick with it. They then introduce uncompetitive pricing.. I just wasted my time. They do not need to give exact pricing - they might not know at the moment - but they should at least give an overview of what they plan to do.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; We will keep this free plan for the foreseeable future. The free plan allows...&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; This free plan will exist while we develop and test the service. As the service becomes stable we will be introducing paid plans and you will be asked to upgrade.&lt;p&gt;These 2 statements make sense to me. The fact they mention nothing about pricing on their site confuses and annoys me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenShift by Red Hat</title><url>https://openshift.redhat.com/app/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sjolsen</author><text>&amp;gt;The point, of course, is that trying to create &amp;quot;one macro to rule them all&amp;quot; is already wrongheaded. There shouldn&amp;#x27;t be one universal iteration construct.&lt;p&gt;I agree that MAPCAR et al. should be used &lt;i&gt;when they&amp;#x27;re appropriate&lt;/i&gt;. They are, however, sometimes simply not, and it&amp;#x27;s important to be able to build code to handle those cases. You don&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;need&lt;/i&gt; LOOP for that, since you can always use TAGBODYs and GOs, but LOOP is almost certainly more appropriate, just as MAPCAR et al. are &lt;i&gt;usually&lt;/i&gt; more appropriate than LOOP.&lt;p&gt;In other words, yes, there should be a universal iteration construct; there just shouldn&amp;#x27;t be &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; a universal iteration construct. There&amp;#x27;s nothing wrong with having multiple tools at different abstraction levels for the same group of tasks, and I&amp;#x27;d argue that it&amp;#x27;s usually a &lt;i&gt;good&lt;/i&gt; thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ScottBurson</author><text>I should write a nice long blog post on how to iterate in CL without using (full) LOOP. (I have no problem with the trivial CLtL1 form of LOOP.) There&amp;#x27;s DO, there&amp;#x27;s MAPCAR, there&amp;#x27;s REDUCE, there&amp;#x27;s REMOVE-IF-NOT and the like, and these days we often have the option of using tail recursion. I believe that different kinds of loops &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; be written with different constructs, as this gives the reader a clue up front about the nature of the loop. If you see a MAPCAR, for example, you can assume (well, you &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; be able to assume) that the iterations are independent; there is no data flow from one invocation of the mapped function to another, so the ordering of the input list(s) affects only the ordering of the result list, not its contents. Furthermore, any loop with that property &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; be written as a MAPCAR so the reader can tell that.&lt;p&gt;The point, of course, is that trying to create &amp;quot;one macro to rule them all&amp;quot; &lt;i&gt;is already wrongheaded&lt;/i&gt;. There &lt;i&gt;shouldn&amp;#x27;t be&lt;/i&gt; one universal iteration construct.</text></item><item><author>hga</author><text>When I was part of the social community that included most of the Lisp Machine hackers including several superb macrologists, call it 1980-3, I don&amp;#x27;t remember any other single thing generating more discussion. Not about it being bad, or dangerously over-complicated, just what it should do and how.&lt;p&gt;So, yeah. I don&amp;#x27;t remember using it more than once in my own code.</text></item><item><author>michaelcampbell</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know it enough to love or hate it, but I&amp;#x27;m reading one of Paul Graham&amp;#x27;s books where he says (paraphrasing) &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t worry if you don&amp;#x27;t understand LOOP; no one understands LOOP.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>ScottBurson</author><text>&lt;i&gt;People have added some Englishy stuff and at least the syntax of that is not in the spirit of Lisp.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ha! I knew it! He hated LOOP as much as I do! :-)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (2009)</title><url>http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Steele-Interviews-John-McCarthy</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>malisper</author><text>I agree with you to some degree. Higher order functions should be used wherever possible and there should be some alternatives to LOOP for the common cases such as iterating over a range of numbers. It is much easier to understand patterns when they are built into the language than when they are written out using LOOP.&lt;p&gt;The thing is LOOP is very good at creating ad hoc kinds of loops. Say you are writing a loop to do password validation. Repeat at most N times and then lock the account or go through once a correct password is entered. That kind of iteration is too specific for pretty much any kind of looping construct besides LOOP.&lt;p&gt;As I see it, LOOP is not about creating &amp;quot;one macro to rule them all&amp;quot;, it&amp;#x27;s about creating a macro that&amp;#x27;s a catch-all. One that you can always use when nothing else quite describes what you want.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m just thinking out loud.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ScottBurson</author><text>I should write a nice long blog post on how to iterate in CL without using (full) LOOP. (I have no problem with the trivial CLtL1 form of LOOP.) There&amp;#x27;s DO, there&amp;#x27;s MAPCAR, there&amp;#x27;s REDUCE, there&amp;#x27;s REMOVE-IF-NOT and the like, and these days we often have the option of using tail recursion. I believe that different kinds of loops &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; be written with different constructs, as this gives the reader a clue up front about the nature of the loop. If you see a MAPCAR, for example, you can assume (well, you &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; be able to assume) that the iterations are independent; there is no data flow from one invocation of the mapped function to another, so the ordering of the input list(s) affects only the ordering of the result list, not its contents. Furthermore, any loop with that property &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; be written as a MAPCAR so the reader can tell that.&lt;p&gt;The point, of course, is that trying to create &amp;quot;one macro to rule them all&amp;quot; &lt;i&gt;is already wrongheaded&lt;/i&gt;. There &lt;i&gt;shouldn&amp;#x27;t be&lt;/i&gt; one universal iteration construct.</text></item><item><author>hga</author><text>When I was part of the social community that included most of the Lisp Machine hackers including several superb macrologists, call it 1980-3, I don&amp;#x27;t remember any other single thing generating more discussion. Not about it being bad, or dangerously over-complicated, just what it should do and how.&lt;p&gt;So, yeah. I don&amp;#x27;t remember using it more than once in my own code.</text></item><item><author>michaelcampbell</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know it enough to love or hate it, but I&amp;#x27;m reading one of Paul Graham&amp;#x27;s books where he says (paraphrasing) &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t worry if you don&amp;#x27;t understand LOOP; no one understands LOOP.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>ScottBurson</author><text>&lt;i&gt;People have added some Englishy stuff and at least the syntax of that is not in the spirit of Lisp.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ha! I knew it! He hated LOOP as much as I do! :-)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (2009)</title><url>http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Steele-Interviews-John-McCarthy</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>parhamn</author><text>This has a name -- its called blue&amp;#x2F;green deploys. The idea is if you&amp;#x27;re running the &amp;#x27;blue&amp;#x27; version of the site, you run a new &amp;#x27;green&amp;#x27; version then then route traffic to it once everything is fine (usually at the LB level) and revert if necessary&lt;p&gt;The way you solve the migration problem (much harder than it sounds) is to do only non backwards breaking migrations between a blue green switch. So you end up doing your migrations in multiple deploys (e.g add a field, and start using the new field with no references to the old field in the code, then remove the old field in the next blue&amp;#x2F;green deploy). I&amp;#x27;ve generally found that it might not be worth the effort though depending on the context (especially if your initial healtcheck is before the migration).</text><parent_chain><item><author>Beltiras</author><text>I was responsible for a 10^6 views&amp;#x2F;day (due to most traffic being daytime, comes out to 10-20 req&amp;#x2F;sec) website running on Django. I went through hell arriving at this solution because the system was in disarray when I took over and deployed on an expensive cloud solution (so resources were limited). Finally I just put my foot down and demanded we buy servers instead, we would have more bare metal by a factor of 4 than we needed and we would pay only a fraction of what we did for the previous &amp;quot;solution&amp;quot;. I could provision all the VMs I wanted, provided I didn&amp;#x27;t break the host.&lt;p&gt;I arrived at this procedure: Spin up a dyno, worker, caches and warm everything up. Run smoketests to validate everything from the app-server onwards is lit and firing on all cylinders. Redirect nginx traffic to the new setup. If everything turns to shit in a second, reverse traffic change and re-evaluate. If everything works and nothing is broken after an hour, take the old dynos&amp;#x2F;workers&amp;#x2F;caches offline.&lt;p&gt;The trick was if there were migrations that broke the older version that you did it in 2 or more steps to isolate the changed model interactions.&lt;p&gt;And nobody should be using gunicorn, it&amp;#x27;s way less performant than uWSGI (citing:&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.kgriffs.com&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;uwsgi-vs-gunicorn-vs-node-benchmarks.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.kgriffs.com&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;uwsgi-vs-gunicorn-vs-node...&lt;/a&gt;).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deploying a Django App with No Downtime</title><url>https://medium.com/@healthchecks/deploying-a-django-app-with-no-downtime-f4e02738ab06</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>CoffeeDregs</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; And nobody should be using gunicorn, it&amp;#x27;s way less performant than uWSGI &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; uWSGI may be different now, but 4 years ago I built a browser toolbar C&amp;amp;C API server that peaked at about 2k requests per second. We used uWSGI to front our Django application with SoftLayer HTTP load balancers in front of uWSGI. uWSGI was speaking HTTP and translating to WSGI, but did so only in one thread&amp;#x2F;process. So while 8-16 Django threads were tootling along, the single uWSGI HTTP-&amp;gt;WSGI thread was pegged. We switched to gunicorn and had dramatically better performance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Beltiras</author><text>I was responsible for a 10^6 views&amp;#x2F;day (due to most traffic being daytime, comes out to 10-20 req&amp;#x2F;sec) website running on Django. I went through hell arriving at this solution because the system was in disarray when I took over and deployed on an expensive cloud solution (so resources were limited). Finally I just put my foot down and demanded we buy servers instead, we would have more bare metal by a factor of 4 than we needed and we would pay only a fraction of what we did for the previous &amp;quot;solution&amp;quot;. I could provision all the VMs I wanted, provided I didn&amp;#x27;t break the host.&lt;p&gt;I arrived at this procedure: Spin up a dyno, worker, caches and warm everything up. Run smoketests to validate everything from the app-server onwards is lit and firing on all cylinders. Redirect nginx traffic to the new setup. If everything turns to shit in a second, reverse traffic change and re-evaluate. If everything works and nothing is broken after an hour, take the old dynos&amp;#x2F;workers&amp;#x2F;caches offline.&lt;p&gt;The trick was if there were migrations that broke the older version that you did it in 2 or more steps to isolate the changed model interactions.&lt;p&gt;And nobody should be using gunicorn, it&amp;#x27;s way less performant than uWSGI (citing:&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.kgriffs.com&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;uwsgi-vs-gunicorn-vs-node-benchmarks.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.kgriffs.com&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;uwsgi-vs-gunicorn-vs-node...&lt;/a&gt;).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deploying a Django App with No Downtime</title><url>https://medium.com/@healthchecks/deploying-a-django-app-with-no-downtime-f4e02738ab06</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nappy-doo</author><text>Years ago, I started at Google, and was in Charlie&amp;#x27;s cafe, eating alone. I&amp;#x27;m sitting there, and up walks Ken Thompson. He sits down, introduces himself as Ken, and asks me what I work on. We sat there for a good 40 minutes just chatting.&lt;p&gt;One of my coolest memories of working at Google was that time. He was so down to earth, never bothered to talk up about who he was (even though I knew). I really appreciated that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ken Thompson quotes</title><url>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson</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>DonHopkins</author><text>&amp;quot;You can&amp;#x27;t trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.) No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.&amp;quot; -Ken Thompson&lt;p&gt;Reminds me of Theo de Raadt&amp;#x27;s quote about ESR&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;many eyes&amp;quot; argument:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;My favorite part of the &amp;quot;many eyes&amp;quot; argument is how few bugs were found by the two eyes of Eric (the originator of the statement). All the many eyes are apparently attached to a lot of hands that type lots of words about many eyes, and never actually audit code.&amp;quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ken Thompson quotes</title><url>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>keltex</author><text>You used to be able to deduct any consumer debt. But that stopped in 1986. The reason was &amp;quot;Congress believed deductions for personal interest encouraged people to consume and stifle savings.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.telegram.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;local&amp;#x2F;worcester&amp;#x2F;2007&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;reagan-axed-tax-deduction-for&amp;#x2F;52945177007&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.telegram.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;local&amp;#x2F;worcester&amp;#x2F;2007&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>gosub100</author><text>While we&amp;#x27;re in this topic: why is unsecured credit card debt NOT tax deductible but secured debt like HELOC is?&lt;p&gt;Fwiw I don&amp;#x27;t really care what the technical reason is, it&amp;#x27;s a rhetorical question to add to the ways the credit system holds back the poor.</text></item><item><author>matthewdgreen</author><text>The only thing I would add to your comment is that &lt;i&gt;merchants&lt;/i&gt; aren’t the ones being forced to pay these stupid fees, it’s their customers (and primarily their poorer and often non-card using ones) who are being quite heavily taxed to fund a marketing scheme for rich customers. Most competitive businesses can’t afford to fund such an elaborate targeted marketing campaign directly out of their fees without some competitive pushback: hence the actual question you should ask is why the entire system exists, and the answer has to do with a pile of inefficiency and rent collection based on regulatory capture.</text></item><item><author>nkurz</author><text>An interesting article, but it doesn&amp;#x27;t sufficiently emphasize the lede: When you use a reward card, the merchant is charged a higher fee than if you used a &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; card. Simply by putting a different branding on the plastic you pay with, the credit card issuer gets more money from each transaction.&lt;p&gt;The article goes on to ask the question &amp;quot;Why isn’t every card a rewards card?&amp;quot;, meaning why doesn&amp;#x27;t every card pay cash back, but I think the more interesting question is why every card isn&amp;#x27;t branded in a way that makes the issuer more money. Why do they bother to issue cards where they get paid less? Why not brand every card as a &amp;quot;Signature Preferred&amp;quot; and then pocket the money instead of giving it to the less discerning customers?&lt;p&gt;And the most interesting question only gets a handwave: &amp;quot;The basic intuition underlying rewards cards as a product is that highly desirable customers have options in how they spend their money.&amp;quot; But how far does this go in explaining why merchants &amp;quot;choose&amp;quot; to participate in this program. The obvious answer would seem to be that they get no benefit from the system as it exists but have no real choice, but maybe there is a better answer?&lt;p&gt;I liked the topic, but wished the author could have given more insight on what&amp;#x27;s happening behind the scenes to produce the outcome we see.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anatomy of a credit card rewards program</title><url>https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/anatomy-of-credit-card-rewards-programs/</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>Spooky23</author><text>It was! Auto leases were deductible too which was a big subsidy for the auto industry.&lt;p&gt;Once rich people figured out how to get poor people to be angry about things like higher marginal tax rates for rich people and “death taxes”, we raised taxes on the suckers to benefit the richer people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gosub100</author><text>While we&amp;#x27;re in this topic: why is unsecured credit card debt NOT tax deductible but secured debt like HELOC is?&lt;p&gt;Fwiw I don&amp;#x27;t really care what the technical reason is, it&amp;#x27;s a rhetorical question to add to the ways the credit system holds back the poor.</text></item><item><author>matthewdgreen</author><text>The only thing I would add to your comment is that &lt;i&gt;merchants&lt;/i&gt; aren’t the ones being forced to pay these stupid fees, it’s their customers (and primarily their poorer and often non-card using ones) who are being quite heavily taxed to fund a marketing scheme for rich customers. Most competitive businesses can’t afford to fund such an elaborate targeted marketing campaign directly out of their fees without some competitive pushback: hence the actual question you should ask is why the entire system exists, and the answer has to do with a pile of inefficiency and rent collection based on regulatory capture.</text></item><item><author>nkurz</author><text>An interesting article, but it doesn&amp;#x27;t sufficiently emphasize the lede: When you use a reward card, the merchant is charged a higher fee than if you used a &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; card. Simply by putting a different branding on the plastic you pay with, the credit card issuer gets more money from each transaction.&lt;p&gt;The article goes on to ask the question &amp;quot;Why isn’t every card a rewards card?&amp;quot;, meaning why doesn&amp;#x27;t every card pay cash back, but I think the more interesting question is why every card isn&amp;#x27;t branded in a way that makes the issuer more money. Why do they bother to issue cards where they get paid less? Why not brand every card as a &amp;quot;Signature Preferred&amp;quot; and then pocket the money instead of giving it to the less discerning customers?&lt;p&gt;And the most interesting question only gets a handwave: &amp;quot;The basic intuition underlying rewards cards as a product is that highly desirable customers have options in how they spend their money.&amp;quot; But how far does this go in explaining why merchants &amp;quot;choose&amp;quot; to participate in this program. The obvious answer would seem to be that they get no benefit from the system as it exists but have no real choice, but maybe there is a better answer?&lt;p&gt;I liked the topic, but wished the author could have given more insight on what&amp;#x27;s happening behind the scenes to produce the outcome we see.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Anatomy of a credit card rewards program</title><url>https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/anatomy-of-credit-card-rewards-programs/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Softly</author><text>Missed my favourite part of learning the mainframe: where the enter key is.&lt;p&gt;Return and enter and two different keys, but, on most modern systems, they perform a similar function. On z&amp;#x2F;OS Return moves down a line (similar to Tab, but ignoring all entries on the current line) and Enter actually sends to data off.&lt;p&gt;Once you get used to it, it&amp;#x27;s really no different to the Linux or Windows command lines. It&amp;#x27;s certainly dated, but that&amp;#x27;s what you get from running a system designed to be fully backwards compatible (with 24-bit, 31-bit and 64-bit addressing modes) that can continue to run software that&amp;#x27;s over 40 years old.&lt;p&gt;[For reference, the mainframe originally had 24-bit addressing. When IBM wanted to add 32-bit addressing, they found that people had been using the remaining byte to store other data, such as flags. So, to avoid breaking customer applications, the 32nd bit is used to identify whether the address is 24-bits or 31-bits]&lt;p&gt;((And yes, for the record, I am an IBMer, working in a z&amp;#x2F;OS product that&amp;#x27;s over 40 years old))</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hello World on z/OS</title><url>https://medium.com/@bellmar/hello-world-on-z-os-a0ef31c1e87f</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>userbinator</author><text>The reason why things are the way they are on mainframes, and how you should think intuitively, becomes a lot clearer once you realise that they are a long-evolved version of the very first mechanical punched-card processors:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Unit_record_equipment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Unit_record_equipment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I&amp;#x27;m almost willing to bet that the foreignness of mainframes to the average developer is due to mini&amp;#x2F;microcomputers having become dominant and taken a very different evolutionary path; Linux and DOS&amp;#x2F;Windows have far more in common with each other than mainframe OSes, despite their huge differences, because they evolved from mini&amp;#x2F;microcomputers and UNIX.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hello World on z/OS</title><url>https://medium.com/@bellmar/hello-world-on-z-os-a0ef31c1e87f</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheRealPomax</author><text>&amp;quot;we don&amp;#x27;t know&amp;quot; is not as good as &amp;quot;we don&amp;#x27;t know, but it won&amp;#x27;t be less than the material cost, which is currently X&amp;quot; would go a long way towards taking the people you want to get excited about this product seriously. We understand how &amp;quot;things cost money&amp;quot; works, but going &amp;quot;we don&amp;#x27;t know, figure it out yourself&amp;quot; is not a nice thing to tell people who are actually interested in what you&amp;#x27;re making =)&lt;p&gt;Even updating it to say &amp;quot;it will likely be in the $100-$200 range due to material cost and production fees&amp;quot; is fine: that&amp;#x27;s a _huge_ range, and still better than &amp;quot;we don&amp;#x27;t know, figure it out yourself&amp;quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>penkia</author><text>hi, project creator penk here, thanks for the comment, &amp;quot;we don&amp;#x27;t know&amp;quot; is the honest answer we can give at this moment, since we hadn&amp;#x27;t ordered any parts.&lt;p&gt;For your reference the first batch (10pcs) EVT boards is about ~90USD a piece: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;anUASlT.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;anUASlT.jpg&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>jasoneckert</author><text>I like this project. However, I wish that under the FAQ for &amp;quot;What&amp;#x27;s the target price?&amp;quot; they had a better answer than &amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;ll know better in DVT stage, meanwhile please find the bill of materials in design files for detail.&amp;quot; Who is going to Google each of the 89 components listed in the bill of materials to get a rough guess (since it doesn&amp;#x27;t list price info)?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet</title><url>https://cutiepi.io/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>yitchelle</author><text>I find it refreshing and frightening that target price is not known when attempting to build a commercial grade electronics.&lt;p&gt;Is component selection conducted without any price consideration?</text><parent_chain><item><author>penkia</author><text>hi, project creator penk here, thanks for the comment, &amp;quot;we don&amp;#x27;t know&amp;quot; is the honest answer we can give at this moment, since we hadn&amp;#x27;t ordered any parts.&lt;p&gt;For your reference the first batch (10pcs) EVT boards is about ~90USD a piece: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;anUASlT.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;i.imgur.com&amp;#x2F;anUASlT.jpg&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>jasoneckert</author><text>I like this project. However, I wish that under the FAQ for &amp;quot;What&amp;#x27;s the target price?&amp;quot; they had a better answer than &amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;ll know better in DVT stage, meanwhile please find the bill of materials in design files for detail.&amp;quot; Who is going to Google each of the 89 components listed in the bill of materials to get a rough guess (since it doesn&amp;#x27;t list price info)?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet</title><url>https://cutiepi.io/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>austenallred</author><text>We had an economics professor that had a $110 textbook with tear-out homework assignments that needed to be completed in pen.&lt;p&gt;He said that he did so in order to make sure the publishing company would keep printing them, intentionally and openly ensuring there wouldn&amp;#x27;t be a used book market. His justification is in the syllabus here &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;economics.byu.edu&amp;#x2F;Documents&amp;#x2F;Syllabi%20-%20broken&amp;#x2F;20135%20Kearl%20110-1.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;economics.byu.edu&amp;#x2F;Documents&amp;#x2F;Syllabi%20-%20broken&amp;#x2F;201...&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Looking back, and having printed a book, I&amp;#x27;m 99% sure that&amp;#x27;s BS. Or, at best, you could print the book much cheaper yourself.</text><parent_chain><item><author>georgeecollins</author><text>When I went to UCSD (a long time ago) the standard engineering calculus book was revised every other year, usually changing all the homework problems, destroying the used market for it. It was written by the chair of the department. In that way the professors and the book publishers had an interest in keeping the price of textbooks very high.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>States are moving to cut college costs by introducing open-source textbooks</title><url>https://qz.com/962487/states-are-moving-to-cut-college-costs-by-introducing-open-source-textbooks/</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>username223</author><text>Classic. When I was at UCSD (also a long time ago), I had the privilege of taking a course from a professor who used his own $70 textbook, then &amp;quot;taught&amp;quot; by reading it in front of a whiteboard. Undergrad tuition was also going up 20-30% per year at the time, for something that could only charitably be called &amp;quot;education.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s very little excuse to create new versions of a calculus textbook. My decades-old Thomas still works just fine.</text><parent_chain><item><author>georgeecollins</author><text>When I went to UCSD (a long time ago) the standard engineering calculus book was revised every other year, usually changing all the homework problems, destroying the used market for it. It was written by the chair of the department. In that way the professors and the book publishers had an interest in keeping the price of textbooks very high.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>States are moving to cut college costs by introducing open-source textbooks</title><url>https://qz.com/962487/states-are-moving-to-cut-college-costs-by-introducing-open-source-textbooks/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marcyb5st</author><text>Because to power a type 2 civilization you need around 4 * 10^26W (as the paper states). Over a year that is around 10^31 kWh worth of energy. Assuming fusion can transform 1% of the input mass in energy you need ~ 1.4 * 10^19 kg per year. To put that number into perspective mount Everest weights 2.7×10^14 kg [1] so thousands Everests worth of mass.&lt;p&gt;That is a lot of mass to extract and transport to the power stations (accelerate, decelerate). So it just makes sense to only needing to build the facilities to collect the power from existing sources (stars, black holes) without the logistics of transporting the fuel.&lt;p&gt;Moreover, the space around a star or black hole is real estate that would go unused otherwise, while asteroids, moons, ... are more likely usable by such an advanced civilization.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.quora.com&amp;#x2F;What-would-the-estimated-weight-of-Mount-Everest-be&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.quora.com&amp;#x2F;What-would-the-estimated-weight-of-Mou...&lt;/a&gt; (I took the highest estimate in the first answer)</text><parent_chain><item><author>ardit33</author><text>The whole concept of a Dyson sphere is kinda idiotic. Any civilization that is capable to build one, it is probably able to work out fusion energy very efficiently.&lt;p&gt;There is no point to go and harness energy around a star or a black hole, when you can just produce it locally with a lot less resources&amp;#x2F;waste and materials. The sun itself is actually very inefficient in producing energy.&lt;p&gt;There is no need to harness the sun million of km away, when you can recreate it in your home planet. The only way to produce a dyson like of sphere, is to tame an over-heated sun, and reflect away un-needed energy. But there is no point to build one to just harness it.&lt;p&gt;It makes great sci-fi stories, but that&amp;#x27;s about it. Scientifically, it just doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Dyson sphere around a black hole</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.15181</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>healsjnr1</author><text>But what are you fusing? If you want efficiency I guess you&amp;#x27;ll be using deuterium etc, of which we only have so much.&lt;p&gt;After that your efficiency declines until... Well you end up with fusion reactors that look like the sun. You also end up fusing all the mass that we need to live our lives on and make stuff out of.&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#x27;t think a civilisation could ever need the amount of energy that a Dyson sphere could provide, that&amp;#x27;s fine, we don&amp;#x27;t need one.&lt;p&gt;But if you imagine a civilisation that does need the energy a Dyson sphere can provide, then they make a lot of sense.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ardit33</author><text>The whole concept of a Dyson sphere is kinda idiotic. Any civilization that is capable to build one, it is probably able to work out fusion energy very efficiently.&lt;p&gt;There is no point to go and harness energy around a star or a black hole, when you can just produce it locally with a lot less resources&amp;#x2F;waste and materials. The sun itself is actually very inefficient in producing energy.&lt;p&gt;There is no need to harness the sun million of km away, when you can recreate it in your home planet. The only way to produce a dyson like of sphere, is to tame an over-heated sun, and reflect away un-needed energy. But there is no point to build one to just harness it.&lt;p&gt;It makes great sci-fi stories, but that&amp;#x27;s about it. Scientifically, it just doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Dyson sphere around a black hole</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.15181</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gustavus</author><text>Ya ever heard of the OAuth2 protocol? I spent almost half a decade working on identity stuff, and spending a lot of time in OAuth land. OAuth is an overly complicated mess that has many many ways to go wrong and very few ways to go right.&lt;p&gt;If you told me the NSA&amp;#x2F;CIA had purposefully sabotaged the development of the OAuth2 protocol to make it so complex that no one can implement it securely it&amp;#x27;d be the best explanation I&amp;#x27;ve heard yet about why it is the monstrosity it is.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jdougan</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m curious as to how successful they were at subverting the IETF process. It wouldn&amp;#x27;t be impossible, but since much of the process is in the open it could be difficult, especially if they did it under their own name.&lt;p&gt;I suspect most of it was done under different corporate identities, and probaby just managed to slow adoption of systematic security architectures. Of course, once the Snowden papers came out, all that effort was rendered moot as the IETF reacted pretty hard.</text></item><item><author>neilv</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;How do they accomplish their goals with project BULLRUN? One way is that United States National Security Agency (NSA) participates in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) community protocol standardization meetings with the explicit goal of sabotaging protocol security to enhance NSA surveillance capabilities.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Discussions with insiders confirmed what is claimed in as of yet unpublished classified documents from the Snowden archive and other sources.&amp;quot; (page 6-7, note 8)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s long been stories about meddling in other standards orgs (both to strengthen and to weaken them), but I don&amp;#x27;t recall hearing rumors about sabotage of &lt;i&gt;IETF&lt;/i&gt; standards.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some new snippets from the Snowden documents</title><url>https://www.electrospaces.net/2023/09/some-new-snippets-from-snowden-documents.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>eddythompson80</author><text>sabotaging a design is remarkably easy. We have several individuals that almost do it effortlessly. It&amp;#x27;s almost a talent for some. I suspect that doing it maliciously while hiding behind some odd corner scenario or some compatibility requirements can&amp;#x27;t be that hard and will be almost impossible to prove or detect.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jdougan</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m curious as to how successful they were at subverting the IETF process. It wouldn&amp;#x27;t be impossible, but since much of the process is in the open it could be difficult, especially if they did it under their own name.&lt;p&gt;I suspect most of it was done under different corporate identities, and probaby just managed to slow adoption of systematic security architectures. Of course, once the Snowden papers came out, all that effort was rendered moot as the IETF reacted pretty hard.</text></item><item><author>neilv</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;How do they accomplish their goals with project BULLRUN? One way is that United States National Security Agency (NSA) participates in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) community protocol standardization meetings with the explicit goal of sabotaging protocol security to enhance NSA surveillance capabilities.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Discussions with insiders confirmed what is claimed in as of yet unpublished classified documents from the Snowden archive and other sources.&amp;quot; (page 6-7, note 8)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s long been stories about meddling in other standards orgs (both to strengthen and to weaken them), but I don&amp;#x27;t recall hearing rumors about sabotage of &lt;i&gt;IETF&lt;/i&gt; standards.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some new snippets from the Snowden documents</title><url>https://www.electrospaces.net/2023/09/some-new-snippets-from-snowden-documents.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>lamontcg</author><text>This is the same logic as &amp;quot;sudo forces people to think about what they&amp;#x27;re typing&amp;quot;, which it doesn&amp;#x27;t, it just makes you type sudo and your password really quickly and equally mindlessly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>makeitdouble</author><text>This kind of tool needs context awareness to be useful.&lt;p&gt;After the first 30~40 times you’re asked if you want to delete these pods, solving the question coming next becomes automatic. If you’re in a “I’m on my dev env, nothing bad can happen” mindset, that prompt won’t get you out of it, it will just be a tedious step, we’ve seen that time and time again.&lt;p&gt;It becomes a lot more interesting if it can ask “you’re going to delete from the cluster prod, do you really want to ?” and only do so for production.&lt;p&gt;Same for “rm -f” really, if it can confirm before you’re deleting a tree of thousands of file, and not when it’s 3 empty directories you created 3 min ago.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shellfirm: Intercept risky patterns at the command line</title><url>https://github.com/kaplanelad/shellfirm</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>davedx</author><text>When I used to admin Windows servers we had production’s desktop background set to red, that worked well, especially when you had multiple remote desktop sessions open. Wonder if that’s doable for non-GUI enabled Linux servers</text><parent_chain><item><author>makeitdouble</author><text>This kind of tool needs context awareness to be useful.&lt;p&gt;After the first 30~40 times you’re asked if you want to delete these pods, solving the question coming next becomes automatic. If you’re in a “I’m on my dev env, nothing bad can happen” mindset, that prompt won’t get you out of it, it will just be a tedious step, we’ve seen that time and time again.&lt;p&gt;It becomes a lot more interesting if it can ask “you’re going to delete from the cluster prod, do you really want to ?” and only do so for production.&lt;p&gt;Same for “rm -f” really, if it can confirm before you’re deleting a tree of thousands of file, and not when it’s 3 empty directories you created 3 min ago.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shellfirm: Intercept risky patterns at the command line</title><url>https://github.com/kaplanelad/shellfirm</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kaitai</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s unfortunate that the link that made the front page here is to the BBC article rather than the NYTimes article [1] on the same study, as the NYTimes article much more clearly addresses a number of the points brought up by commenters here today. The NYTimes article briefly mentions other non-pregnancy related studies on the &amp;quot;pruning&amp;quot; of grey matter. One place to get a bunch of citations for studies on synaptic pruning is in the lit review of [2], since the NYTimes article itself doesn&amp;#x27;t have a citation for synaptic pruning research in adolescents. However, the NYTimes article does link to [3], an article about spontaneous theory of mind and synaptic density in 18-26 year olds. It looks at a this group of people not by age but by performance on theory of mind tasks, examining the relationship with structural MRI data from the participants. This sheds some light on efficiency and good performance on theory of mind tasks and the neuroanatomy of a person. I think for most HNers taking out thinking about pregnancy and looking at this study first would be useful in understanding the results -- we&amp;#x27;ve all got a lot of preconceived notions about the effects of pregnancy that make it hard to think about the results of the study rationally.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;health&amp;#x2F;pregnancy-brain-change.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;health&amp;#x2F;pregnancy-brain-cha...&lt;/a&gt; [2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC2475802&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC2475802&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; [3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scan.oxfordjournals.org&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;327.abstract&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scan.oxfordjournals.org&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;327.abstract&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pregnancy alters woman&apos;s brain &apos;for at least two years&apos;</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38341901</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>radicalbyte</author><text>Anecdotally I can say it has a large effect on the male brain too. The lack of sleep and time changes you. You get ruthless against time stealers and start seeing 6 hours as a nice long sleep.&lt;p&gt;Full disclosure : I&amp;#x27;ve had about 8hr sleep in 3 days,two sick kids...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pregnancy alters woman&apos;s brain &apos;for at least two years&apos;</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38341901</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sokoloff</author><text>&amp;gt; purposefully choosing goals that you do not know how to achieve, which is a problem&lt;p&gt;Purposefully choosing goals that you don’t yet know how to achieve is one of the powers of OKRs; they’re not meant to be limited to project plan-style marches towards a known outcome.&lt;p&gt;Take the classic YouTube “one billion hours in daily user watch time” by the end of 2016, which was about a 10x multiple over their 2012 stat. There’s no way they knew how to reach that goal, but the objective helped them to align and constantly make small decisions in support of that goal (instead of other conflicting goals, each of which could be argued to be good for Google in a different way).</text><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>One of my issues with OKRs is the oft-repeated line that the goals should be so audacious that you should only expect to achieve about 70% of them.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re following this advice, you are either purposefully choosing goals that you do not know how to achieve, which is a problem, or purposefully choosing goals whose achievement relies on way too many externalities over which you have little control, which is a problem.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not saying external factors shouldn&amp;#x27;t be considered, or that we should only set goals that are within comfortable reach.&lt;p&gt;Rather, I&amp;#x27;m saying the uncertainty should be accounted for differently. It should be baked into our goals, not treated as if it only matters at the OKR level.&lt;p&gt;Imagine if you were to plan a sprint, and your story points did not factor in uncertainty at all. Then, you committed to a sprint size that also did not take into account uncertainty. But your stakeholders agreed that a 30% sprint failure rate was acceptable.&lt;p&gt;Now imagine baking in uncertainty into your estimates and then committing to a sprint size you can realistically hit. Add stretch goals if you want. Doesn&amp;#x27;t that seem more sensible?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OKRs masquerade as strategy</title><url>https://rogermartin.medium.com/stop-letting-okrs-masquerade-as-strategy-a57fc2cea915</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>chockablock</author><text>I’ve heard that too, but for me it registered as a way of shaking people free of their fear of writing down their true objectives, lest they find themselves on the hook for missing it. Something along the lines of ‘What would you do if you were not afraid?’&lt;p&gt;I think the analogy to a sprint plan is perhaps misplaced: the point of an objective is not to break down the work for planning purposes but to capture the strategic imperative.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>One of my issues with OKRs is the oft-repeated line that the goals should be so audacious that you should only expect to achieve about 70% of them.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re following this advice, you are either purposefully choosing goals that you do not know how to achieve, which is a problem, or purposefully choosing goals whose achievement relies on way too many externalities over which you have little control, which is a problem.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not saying external factors shouldn&amp;#x27;t be considered, or that we should only set goals that are within comfortable reach.&lt;p&gt;Rather, I&amp;#x27;m saying the uncertainty should be accounted for differently. It should be baked into our goals, not treated as if it only matters at the OKR level.&lt;p&gt;Imagine if you were to plan a sprint, and your story points did not factor in uncertainty at all. Then, you committed to a sprint size that also did not take into account uncertainty. But your stakeholders agreed that a 30% sprint failure rate was acceptable.&lt;p&gt;Now imagine baking in uncertainty into your estimates and then committing to a sprint size you can realistically hit. Add stretch goals if you want. Doesn&amp;#x27;t that seem more sensible?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OKRs masquerade as strategy</title><url>https://rogermartin.medium.com/stop-letting-okrs-masquerade-as-strategy-a57fc2cea915</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&amp;gt; For good and for ill, it is Constitutionally problematic to &amp;quot;lock down&amp;quot; an entire state&lt;p&gt;Not particularly, curfew and similar restrictions are common emergency measures, and their is no Constitutional difference for greater scale except that it reduces the possibility of it being covert discrimination. And, even if it was, Cuomo had one of the most pressing needs to do it of any state, and was slower than some others. Now, I&amp;#x27;m not arguing he was negligent, but he&amp;#x27;s not a head-and-shoulders above everyone else standout the way he&amp;#x27;s been portrayed upthread, either.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; On the other hand, the state can totally shut down businesses&lt;p&gt;Cuomo was slow at that, too.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I will further note that for Cuomo to be criminally prosecuted, he would need to commit some crime&lt;p&gt;Untrue. People are criminally prosecuted (and even convicted) without committing crimes all the time. He&amp;#x27;d have to be accused of a crime, though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fennecfoxen</author><text>For good &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; for ill, it is Constitutionally problematic to &amp;quot;lock down&amp;quot; an entire state, as it is essentially placing millions of people under arrest, which in the general case is a stupefyingly terrible power for any government to wield.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the state can &lt;i&gt;totally&lt;/i&gt; shut down businesses. In circumstances like this, it is not suspect in the least.&lt;p&gt;I will further note that for Cuomo to be criminally prosecuted, he would need to commit some crime. Now, this happens sometimes in NY government (quite often, really) but it usually involves corruption; I am not aware of any particular law he has violated in acquitting his duties in this matter. Anger may indeed be &lt;i&gt;quite&lt;/i&gt; justified, but when politicians are prosecuted for their policies after the fact, this is usually more effective at turning a place into a banana republic than it is at improving the quality of the policies.</text></item><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>Sorry what? His state has the highest infection rate and he just &lt;i&gt;NOW&lt;/i&gt; did a 100% workforce reduction. He hasn&amp;#x27;t even issued &amp;quot;a shelter in place&amp;quot; order. BARS WERE OPEN MONDAY. Thousands of deaths will be on his hands. I think he should be criminally prosecuted.&lt;p&gt;NY needs to be locked down &lt;i&gt;NOW&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item><item><author>throwaway5752</author><text>There is no doubt Cuomo should be the national point person for the response to the crisis based on his performance so far. He is independently working with regional manufacturing to retool to make critical medical PPE and ventilators, and has organized a regional coalition including CT, NJ, and PA. I have not agreed with him all the time, but his crisis management has been exemplary and he will have saved many lives in NY by the time this is done.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New York Governor announces 100% workforce reduction for non-essential services</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/20/new-york-governor-announces-100-workforce-reduction-for-non-essential-services/</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>ransom1538</author><text>Turns out, we do have a law against what he is doing:&lt;p&gt;Manslaughter: the crime of killing a human being without malice aforethought, or otherwise in circumstances not amounting to murder.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fennecfoxen</author><text>For good &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; for ill, it is Constitutionally problematic to &amp;quot;lock down&amp;quot; an entire state, as it is essentially placing millions of people under arrest, which in the general case is a stupefyingly terrible power for any government to wield.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the state can &lt;i&gt;totally&lt;/i&gt; shut down businesses. In circumstances like this, it is not suspect in the least.&lt;p&gt;I will further note that for Cuomo to be criminally prosecuted, he would need to commit some crime. Now, this happens sometimes in NY government (quite often, really) but it usually involves corruption; I am not aware of any particular law he has violated in acquitting his duties in this matter. Anger may indeed be &lt;i&gt;quite&lt;/i&gt; justified, but when politicians are prosecuted for their policies after the fact, this is usually more effective at turning a place into a banana republic than it is at improving the quality of the policies.</text></item><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>Sorry what? His state has the highest infection rate and he just &lt;i&gt;NOW&lt;/i&gt; did a 100% workforce reduction. He hasn&amp;#x27;t even issued &amp;quot;a shelter in place&amp;quot; order. BARS WERE OPEN MONDAY. Thousands of deaths will be on his hands. I think he should be criminally prosecuted.&lt;p&gt;NY needs to be locked down &lt;i&gt;NOW&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item><item><author>throwaway5752</author><text>There is no doubt Cuomo should be the national point person for the response to the crisis based on his performance so far. He is independently working with regional manufacturing to retool to make critical medical PPE and ventilators, and has organized a regional coalition including CT, NJ, and PA. I have not agreed with him all the time, but his crisis management has been exemplary and he will have saved many lives in NY by the time this is done.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New York Governor announces 100% workforce reduction for non-essential services</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/20/new-york-governor-announces-100-workforce-reduction-for-non-essential-services/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alexhaefner</author><text>Can anyone here speak to Tornado.websocket? What&apos;s the performance like? How could you load balance with torando.websocket? Is it production ready?&lt;p&gt;Congrats on the release!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tornado 2.2 released</title><url>http://www.tornadoweb.org/documentation/releases/v2.2.0.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>csytan</author><text>Congrats!&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve been using Tornado for over a year now and am impressed with how active Ben has been in improving it. I&apos;m especially happy with the addition of this simple but important feature: &quot;Template errors now generate better stack traces.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tornado 2.2 released</title><url>http://www.tornadoweb.org/documentation/releases/v2.2.0.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>olalonde</author><text>Government doesn&amp;#x27;t ban books because some of them are inappropriate for minors though. They let parents handle this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tablespoon</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;#x27;exposes &amp;quot;minors to absolutely unsuitable answers compared to the their degree of development and self-awareness.&amp;quot;&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; So do (certain) books.&lt;p&gt;Minors are typically given books that are appropriate to &amp;quot;their degree of development and self-awareness.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>SanderNL</author><text>&amp;#x27;exposes &amp;quot;minors to absolutely unsuitable answers compared to the their degree of development and self-awareness.&amp;quot;&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;So do (certain) books.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s another issue right? If you let your minor access stuff, they.. access stuff. Hard to control? I know and it is. How is this specific to OpenAI?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/italian-privacy-regulator-bans-chatgpt/</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>mrighele</author><text>TV has plenty of material that is absolutely unsuitable &amp;quot;compared to the their degree of development and self-awareness.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The only protection they have is that they those materials are usually (but not always) available in certain hours and there is a nice warning before that says that the content is not appropriate for them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tablespoon</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;#x27;exposes &amp;quot;minors to absolutely unsuitable answers compared to the their degree of development and self-awareness.&amp;quot;&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; So do (certain) books.&lt;p&gt;Minors are typically given books that are appropriate to &amp;quot;their degree of development and self-awareness.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>SanderNL</author><text>&amp;#x27;exposes &amp;quot;minors to absolutely unsuitable answers compared to the their degree of development and self-awareness.&amp;quot;&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;So do (certain) books.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s another issue right? If you let your minor access stuff, they.. access stuff. Hard to control? I know and it is. How is this specific to OpenAI?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/italian-privacy-regulator-bans-chatgpt/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Calavar</author><text>Another good article in this space is the New Yorker&amp;#x27;s report on Hahneman Hospital [1], which was acquired by a private equity firm and dissolved a few years later.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newyorker.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;the-death-of-hahnemann-hospital&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newyorker.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;the-death-of-h...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>verteu</author><text>Reminds me of &amp;quot;Does Private Equity Investment in Healthcare Benefit Patients?&amp;quot; [1].&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Our estimates show that PE ownership increases the short-term mortality of Medicare patients by 10%, implying 20,150 lives lost due to PE ownership over our twelve-year sample period. This is accompanied by declines in other measures of patient well-being, such as lower mobility, while taxpayer spending per patient episode increases by 11%. We observe operational changes that help to explain these effects, including declines in nursing staff and compliance with standards.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nber.org&amp;#x2F;system&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;working_papers&amp;#x2F;w28474&amp;#x2F;w28474.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nber.org&amp;#x2F;system&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;working_papers&amp;#x2F;w28474&amp;#x2F;w284...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/upshot/private-equity-doctors-offices.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>johndhi</author><text>An absolutely wild and illuminating statement</text><parent_chain><item><author>verteu</author><text>Reminds me of &amp;quot;Does Private Equity Investment in Healthcare Benefit Patients?&amp;quot; [1].&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Our estimates show that PE ownership increases the short-term mortality of Medicare patients by 10%, implying 20,150 lives lost due to PE ownership over our twelve-year sample period. This is accompanied by declines in other measures of patient well-being, such as lower mobility, while taxpayer spending per patient episode increases by 11%. We observe operational changes that help to explain these effects, including declines in nursing staff and compliance with standards.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nber.org&amp;#x2F;system&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;working_papers&amp;#x2F;w28474&amp;#x2F;w28474.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nber.org&amp;#x2F;system&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;working_papers&amp;#x2F;w28474&amp;#x2F;w284...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/upshot/private-equity-doctors-offices.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>0dayz</author><text>I never stated nor insinuated that you shouldn&amp;#x27;t form opinions about &amp;quot;things&amp;quot;, my point was very clear about the fact that you don&amp;#x27;t need to _always_ analyze something politically and can instead analyze it differently or choose not to because it doesn&amp;#x27;t serve much interest or benefit for you, the community or society.&lt;p&gt;Unless you are willing to bite the bullet and agree then that we ought to analyze politically why a ball is round or why birds fly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>__loam</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>0dayz</author><text>Yes, but not everything needs to analyzed politically.&lt;p&gt;Nor making a political assumption about someone.</text></item><item><author>davidgoudet</author><text>Everything is political my friend.</text></item><item><author>0dayz</author><text>That is not what the prejorative mean, I don&amp;#x27;t see the point in making this political.</text></item><item><author>davidgoudet</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not pejorative for you if you are a liberal, for me it is pejorative, I see Luddites as people who damage important parts of production systems and threaten people&amp;#x27;s lives.&lt;p&gt;I understand your point of view if you&amp;#x27;re from a first-world country and you never experienced the terror of having people interfering with the means of production.</text></item><item><author>sakex</author><text>&amp;gt; Today, the word “Luddite” is used as an insult to anyone resistant to technological innovation&lt;p&gt;Interesting, I never thought of the term as pejorative. I always thought of the movement as a kind of working-class heroes trying to navigate an uncertain future where rich people made them obsolete.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rethinking the Luddites</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/rethinking-the-luddites-in-the-age-of-ai</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>MichaelZuo</author><text>Can you write down your analysis of the preceding comments for the benefit of the passing reader?</text><parent_chain><item><author>__loam</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>0dayz</author><text>Yes, but not everything needs to analyzed politically.&lt;p&gt;Nor making a political assumption about someone.</text></item><item><author>davidgoudet</author><text>Everything is political my friend.</text></item><item><author>0dayz</author><text>That is not what the prejorative mean, I don&amp;#x27;t see the point in making this political.</text></item><item><author>davidgoudet</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not pejorative for you if you are a liberal, for me it is pejorative, I see Luddites as people who damage important parts of production systems and threaten people&amp;#x27;s lives.&lt;p&gt;I understand your point of view if you&amp;#x27;re from a first-world country and you never experienced the terror of having people interfering with the means of production.</text></item><item><author>sakex</author><text>&amp;gt; Today, the word “Luddite” is used as an insult to anyone resistant to technological innovation&lt;p&gt;Interesting, I never thought of the term as pejorative. I always thought of the movement as a kind of working-class heroes trying to navigate an uncertain future where rich people made them obsolete.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rethinking the Luddites</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/rethinking-the-luddites-in-the-age-of-ai</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xchkr1337</author><text>My experience with this is literally the opposite, I almost never clicked the buttons on the left side (except for the language switcher but that isn&amp;#x27;t in the hamburger menu now) but I always found long tables of contents very annoying on bigger articles, I find the new design generally more comfortable to read with. The only complaint I have is that it doesn&amp;#x27;t remember the state of the fullscreen button.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dwringer</author><text>This immediately made me think of Wikipedia&amp;#x27;s latest change that moves their main menu behind just such a hamburger button on desktop, and replaces it with a table of contents down the left side.&lt;p&gt;Now instead of lazily clicking from one random article to the next (or to a different language, or to &amp;quot;current events&amp;quot;, or the &amp;quot;main page&amp;quot; of headline articles), one has to move the mouse twice and make two clicks to get to it through the hamburger menu, or use the URL bar. I can&amp;#x27;t even remember the last time I went back to the ToC when reading a Wikipedia article and this change is utterly incomprehensible to me.</text></item><item><author>detritus</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Over the last few decades hamburger buttons have become the de facto standard to expand larger menus on smaller devices. They are so ubiquitous that every user immediately knows what they are when seen in the top left or right corner, which makes them a good user interface element choice.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Last Few Decades&amp;quot;? Eh? A decade.. perhaps?&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Every User Immediately&amp;quot;? This is not at all my experience. Perhaps with younger users, but I&amp;#x27;ve seen plenty of people younger than I even stumble over sites where the nav was hidden behind a hamburger menu icon.&lt;p&gt;This sounds like it was written by someone very much in their own bubble</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Accessible hamburger buttons without JavaScript</title><url>https://www.pausly.app/blog/accessible-hamburger-buttons-without-javascript</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>marginalia_nu</author><text>Yeah on desktop it&amp;#x27;s particularly bizarre design choice. Hamburger buttons are designed to conserve pixels on cramped horizontal screens. They make zero sense on a 4k ultrawide monitor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dwringer</author><text>This immediately made me think of Wikipedia&amp;#x27;s latest change that moves their main menu behind just such a hamburger button on desktop, and replaces it with a table of contents down the left side.&lt;p&gt;Now instead of lazily clicking from one random article to the next (or to a different language, or to &amp;quot;current events&amp;quot;, or the &amp;quot;main page&amp;quot; of headline articles), one has to move the mouse twice and make two clicks to get to it through the hamburger menu, or use the URL bar. I can&amp;#x27;t even remember the last time I went back to the ToC when reading a Wikipedia article and this change is utterly incomprehensible to me.</text></item><item><author>detritus</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Over the last few decades hamburger buttons have become the de facto standard to expand larger menus on smaller devices. They are so ubiquitous that every user immediately knows what they are when seen in the top left or right corner, which makes them a good user interface element choice.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Last Few Decades&amp;quot;? Eh? A decade.. perhaps?&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Every User Immediately&amp;quot;? This is not at all my experience. Perhaps with younger users, but I&amp;#x27;ve seen plenty of people younger than I even stumble over sites where the nav was hidden behind a hamburger menu icon.&lt;p&gt;This sounds like it was written by someone very much in their own bubble</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Accessible hamburger buttons without JavaScript</title><url>https://www.pausly.app/blog/accessible-hamburger-buttons-without-javascript</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>themgt</author><text>I just read this and thought ... didn&amp;#x27;t that transaction take place after the infamous tweet? Couldn&amp;#x27;t anyone have done it? Quick google and sure enough: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@jimmysong&amp;#x2F;no-sean-spicer-didnt-make-some-secret-bitcoin-transaction-94b4851844b5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@jimmysong&amp;#x2F;no-sean-spicer-didnt-make-some...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why are so many so desperate to believe this immense hydra of a conspiracy theory?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sean Spicer Tweeted a Bitcoin Address – Not His Password</title><url>https://patribotics.blog/2017/05/01/exclusive-sean-spicer-tweeted-a-bitcoin-address-not-his-password/</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>Flammy</author><text>It is pretty amazing how fast tech can go from tiny niche proto-community to mainstream awareness if not yet mainstream usage.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sean Spicer Tweeted a Bitcoin Address – Not His Password</title><url>https://patribotics.blog/2017/05/01/exclusive-sean-spicer-tweeted-a-bitcoin-address-not-his-password/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rlm</author><text>Any chance you could put an ebook up for sale? Your book hasn&apos;t been released in Europe yet, and the import charges when buying from Amazon.com are pretty bad (~200% increase in price). :-/</text><parent_chain><item><author>joshkaufman</author><text>This is exactly what I did with business, instead of getting an MBA or a PhD.&lt;p&gt;Here&apos;s my reading list: &lt;a href=&quot;http://personalmba.com/best-business-books/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://personalmba.com/best-business-books/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here&apos;s the book I wrote, condensing what I learned in the process: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591843529/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591843529/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I now own my own business, work for myself as a business teacher and consultant, have an enormous amount of flexibility in my day-to-day schedule, and make more than professors who teach at top business schools.&lt;p&gt;Education is changing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Do It Yourself Masters in Financial Engineering</title><url>http://blog.hiremebecauseimsmart.com/post/2860511335/design-your-own-mfe</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>kmfrk</author><text>Give yourself some credit for going through 99+ books, though; if something doesn&apos;t sink in after all that, then you should reconsider the way you read. :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>joshkaufman</author><text>This is exactly what I did with business, instead of getting an MBA or a PhD.&lt;p&gt;Here&apos;s my reading list: &lt;a href=&quot;http://personalmba.com/best-business-books/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://personalmba.com/best-business-books/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here&apos;s the book I wrote, condensing what I learned in the process: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591843529/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591843529/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I now own my own business, work for myself as a business teacher and consultant, have an enormous amount of flexibility in my day-to-day schedule, and make more than professors who teach at top business schools.&lt;p&gt;Education is changing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Do It Yourself Masters in Financial Engineering</title><url>http://blog.hiremebecauseimsmart.com/post/2860511335/design-your-own-mfe</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hk__2</author><text>&amp;gt; If this is really the case, then I would say the name sucks. It&amp;#x27;s hard to know what &amp;#x27;Google One&amp;#x27; means from just the name.&lt;p&gt;It’s also hard to know what &amp;quot;Google&amp;quot; means from its name. And &amp;quot;Windows&amp;quot;. And &amp;quot;Bing&amp;quot;. And &amp;quot;Facebook&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Twitter&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;WhatsApp&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Amazon&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Yelp&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Pocket&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Chrome&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Firefox&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Safari&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Uber&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Steam&amp;quot;, and many more.</text><parent_chain><item><author>donald123</author><text>If this is really the case, then I would say the name sucks. It&amp;#x27;s hard to know what &amp;#x27;Google One&amp;#x27; means from just the name. And there is &amp;#x27;Android One&amp;#x27;, which is designed for low-end devices, it would really confuse people when they talk about android one, google one. I can see more people will refer it as &amp;quot;google one drive&amp;quot;, and microsoft also has its &amp;quot;One Drive&amp;quot;, that&amp;#x27;s even more confusing to all the average users.</text></item><item><author>ianstormtaylor</author><text>I think this article is missing the bigger picture—this isn&amp;#x27;t about storage. This is Google trying to copy the success of Amazon Prime.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re going to try to unify lots of different benefits under a single, high-value subscription. The storage plans and priority support are just the first benefit they&amp;#x27;ve tied to the subscription.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In addition to access to experts, the company also promises to provide subscribers with other benefits. Google One’s director Larissa Fontaine told me that those could include discounts on hotels you find in Google Search, preferred rates for other Google services or credits on Google Play. “We hope to build those out over time,” she noted.&lt;p&gt;That would make more sense as to why they&amp;#x27;re &amp;quot;rebranding&amp;quot; these plans an not just updating Google Drive&amp;#x27;s pricing plans. &amp;quot;Google One&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t a single product, it&amp;#x27;s a single subscription across many products, just like Amazon Prime.&lt;p&gt;Of course, I could be wrong.&lt;p&gt;It does seem like a weird way to launch the subscription if that&amp;#x27;s what they&amp;#x27;re trying to do, since the announcement goes deep into the weeds of storage. And the low-end plans seem much too cheap to be able to add meaningful benefits to in the future.&lt;p&gt;Even the idea of multiple tiers of the subscription might be too complicated. One of the nice things about Prime is that although it&amp;#x27;s expensive, there&amp;#x27;s only one option.&lt;p&gt;Seeing as this is Google we&amp;#x27;re talking about, I could imagine this new subscription will have incredible amounts of churn in branding, pricing and benefits along the way, and probably end up as a confusing mess in the minds of customers. Amazon&amp;#x27;s Prime took a very different route. It started out as a very clear subscription service for cheaper shipping, and then added more and more benefits as time went on. These days it&amp;#x27;s a little confusing, but it didn&amp;#x27;t start that way. If Google already can&amp;#x27;t get the messaging to be clear, it doesn&amp;#x27;t bode well for them adding lots of orthogonal benefits in the future and keeping it all sane.&lt;p&gt;I bet we&amp;#x27;ll see a Stratechery article about Google One in the context of Amazon Prime soon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/14/say-hello-to-google-one/</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>vishnu_ks</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think many people have heard of Android One. Also, the people who have heard of Android One can easily differentiate it from Google One.</text><parent_chain><item><author>donald123</author><text>If this is really the case, then I would say the name sucks. It&amp;#x27;s hard to know what &amp;#x27;Google One&amp;#x27; means from just the name. And there is &amp;#x27;Android One&amp;#x27;, which is designed for low-end devices, it would really confuse people when they talk about android one, google one. I can see more people will refer it as &amp;quot;google one drive&amp;quot;, and microsoft also has its &amp;quot;One Drive&amp;quot;, that&amp;#x27;s even more confusing to all the average users.</text></item><item><author>ianstormtaylor</author><text>I think this article is missing the bigger picture—this isn&amp;#x27;t about storage. This is Google trying to copy the success of Amazon Prime.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re going to try to unify lots of different benefits under a single, high-value subscription. The storage plans and priority support are just the first benefit they&amp;#x27;ve tied to the subscription.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In addition to access to experts, the company also promises to provide subscribers with other benefits. Google One’s director Larissa Fontaine told me that those could include discounts on hotels you find in Google Search, preferred rates for other Google services or credits on Google Play. “We hope to build those out over time,” she noted.&lt;p&gt;That would make more sense as to why they&amp;#x27;re &amp;quot;rebranding&amp;quot; these plans an not just updating Google Drive&amp;#x27;s pricing plans. &amp;quot;Google One&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t a single product, it&amp;#x27;s a single subscription across many products, just like Amazon Prime.&lt;p&gt;Of course, I could be wrong.&lt;p&gt;It does seem like a weird way to launch the subscription if that&amp;#x27;s what they&amp;#x27;re trying to do, since the announcement goes deep into the weeds of storage. And the low-end plans seem much too cheap to be able to add meaningful benefits to in the future.&lt;p&gt;Even the idea of multiple tiers of the subscription might be too complicated. One of the nice things about Prime is that although it&amp;#x27;s expensive, there&amp;#x27;s only one option.&lt;p&gt;Seeing as this is Google we&amp;#x27;re talking about, I could imagine this new subscription will have incredible amounts of churn in branding, pricing and benefits along the way, and probably end up as a confusing mess in the minds of customers. Amazon&amp;#x27;s Prime took a very different route. It started out as a very clear subscription service for cheaper shipping, and then added more and more benefits as time went on. These days it&amp;#x27;s a little confusing, but it didn&amp;#x27;t start that way. If Google already can&amp;#x27;t get the messaging to be clear, it doesn&amp;#x27;t bode well for them adding lots of orthogonal benefits in the future and keeping it all sane.&lt;p&gt;I bet we&amp;#x27;ll see a Stratechery article about Google One in the context of Amazon Prime soon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/14/say-hello-to-google-one/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bbarn</author><text>I am an out of shape former racer who has ridden his bike 10 times in the last two years. I have a dad belly and rarely work out at all. I recently did The Rift this summer - a 200km gravel race here in Iceland that people come from all over the world to race. I did it on a carbon cyclocross bike from my racing days with file treads. I felt like the light weight of my bike outweighed just about every gravel fad that&amp;#x27;s out there right now. I was flying past people on the hills, and while the ride felt very rough on the high speed flats, I was still going fast. If I were in my racing shape of a few years ago I think I would have been in the top 5-10% of racers, largely because nearly everyone was on giant heavy gravel bikes with massive tires loaded for friggin bikepacking from the look of it. My wife has a purpose-built gravel bike, and she commented on just how slow it felt going uphill (she is a former state cyclocross champion).&lt;p&gt;With the exception of the absolute professionals, most people &amp;quot;Racing&amp;quot; these events are just there to finish them, and the pros? It&amp;#x27;s basically just a road race. Gravel offers no significant challenge in handling your bike, and any reasonable set-up can win if it&amp;#x27;s light enough and the rider is fit enough. The Aero arms race certainly matters in time trials, but I remain unconvinced there&amp;#x27;s enough benefit for the actual racing. I know US Midwest gravel races are effectively flat, but acceleration is greatly improved with a light bike too.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Aerodynamics of Gravel Bikes</title><url>https://www.renehersecycles.com/aerodynamics-of-gravel-bikes/</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>hi</author><text>&amp;gt; the fastest riders in the 200-mile Unbound average 20 mph (32 km&amp;#x2F;h) across the Flint Hills of Kansas.&lt;p&gt;Let’s not forget that the most important aspect of averaging 20mph on grave roads: drafting, low body weight and high fitness.&lt;p&gt;If you watch footage of the unbound gravel race they mention, the winners are with a group of riders until the very end.&lt;p&gt;The fastest riders are professionals sponsored by the companies trying to sell you this aero gear.&lt;p&gt;If you want to ride faster ride in a group, find your ideal body weight and spend money on a coach. Only then spend money on bike parts beyond the basic lubricated chain, correct tire psi, etc.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Aerodynamics of Gravel Bikes</title><url>https://www.renehersecycles.com/aerodynamics-of-gravel-bikes/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maddyboo</author><text>We don&amp;#x27;t know about the specifics of the accident, but I just want to say that simply not being &amp;quot;at fault&amp;quot; is not the same thing as driving safely. A large number of accidents can be avoided by the non-&amp;quot;at fault&amp;quot; party alone exercising caution – something autonomous vehicles should be far superior at than humans.&lt;p&gt;Say you&amp;#x27;re approaching an intersection with a green light while another car is traveling perpendicular at a moderately high rate of speed – perhaps just 5mph faster than their maximum safe stopping speed. You&amp;#x27;re completely allowed to just keep driving through the intersection, and when they hit you, they will be at fault. However, you could have avoided the collision by recognizing the situation and slowing down – and this is a type of analysis that autonomous vehicles are specially suited for compared to human drivers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>downandout</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;It should be frightening to anyone on the streets that Uber managers are making decisions to put self driving cars on the road.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something that probably should have been in the article&amp;#x27;s title that this accident occurred because the &lt;i&gt;human&lt;/i&gt; driver in the &lt;i&gt;other car&lt;/i&gt; failed to yield. While Uber is certainly a very flawed company, neither its technology nor its people were at fault here.</text></item><item><author>heisenbit</author><text>From a strategy point Uber is in a desperate position. After the Google lawsuit their self-driving story is not working. Their existing business is loosing money in most places with no end in sight. Top level executives are leaving which is a sign that they can&amp;#x27;t imagine a positive course in the medium term.&lt;p&gt;The company is under extreme pressure and has proven over and over again to be willing to cut corners when it comes to legal compliance. It should be frightening to anyone on the streets that Uber managers are making decisions to put self driving cars on the road. They neither have the culture, patience nor the expertise to make decisions affecting life and death.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber to Suspend Autonomous Tests After Arizona Accident</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-25/uber-autonomous-vehicle-gets-in-accident-in-tempe-arizona</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>bdcravens</author><text>&amp;gt; the human driver in the other car failed to yield&lt;p&gt;Driving around Houston this happens to me several times a day. Obviously the technology wasn&amp;#x27;t designed for essentially &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; driving conditions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>downandout</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;It should be frightening to anyone on the streets that Uber managers are making decisions to put self driving cars on the road.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something that probably should have been in the article&amp;#x27;s title that this accident occurred because the &lt;i&gt;human&lt;/i&gt; driver in the &lt;i&gt;other car&lt;/i&gt; failed to yield. While Uber is certainly a very flawed company, neither its technology nor its people were at fault here.</text></item><item><author>heisenbit</author><text>From a strategy point Uber is in a desperate position. After the Google lawsuit their self-driving story is not working. Their existing business is loosing money in most places with no end in sight. Top level executives are leaving which is a sign that they can&amp;#x27;t imagine a positive course in the medium term.&lt;p&gt;The company is under extreme pressure and has proven over and over again to be willing to cut corners when it comes to legal compliance. It should be frightening to anyone on the streets that Uber managers are making decisions to put self driving cars on the road. They neither have the culture, patience nor the expertise to make decisions affecting life and death.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber to Suspend Autonomous Tests After Arizona Accident</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-25/uber-autonomous-vehicle-gets-in-accident-in-tempe-arizona</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>Hangul itself is quite easy: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ryanestrada.com&amp;#x2F;learntoreadkoreanin15minutes&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ryanestrada.com&amp;#x2F;learntoreadkoreanin15minutes&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;But the Korean phonology is different from English and generally simpler so you’ll need to approximate a fair bit (not unlike English words in Japanese phonology).</text><parent_chain><item><author>rvba</author><text>Is there some way to learn hangul to be able to write it?&lt;p&gt;I dont ask about learning actual Korean. Just Hangul yo say &amp;quot;write English in Hangul&amp;quot; - if it is possible.&lt;p&gt;Or some service that &amp;quot;translitetates&amp;quot; your name to Hangul?</text></item><item><author>masklinn</author><text>&amp;gt; In particular for Korea: Hangul [0], which is a &amp;quot;simpler&amp;quot; language&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not a language, it&amp;#x27;s an alphabet. And I fail to see the need for quotes, there&amp;#x27;s really no denying hangul is simpler than hanja.&lt;p&gt;However the syllabic structure of hangul would still make it a lot more challenging printing than the linear structure of the latin alphabetic script: you&amp;#x27;d need either a type piece per syllable (of which there are &amp;gt;10000), or you&amp;#x27;d need a variant for each possible block layout.&lt;p&gt;There are 9 possible layouts, though there are limitations which cuts down on the complexity of that option. But still, assuming you want fixed-size &lt;i&gt;blocks&lt;/i&gt; and depending on your decisions on complex finals you&amp;#x27;d need 6-9 variants of each initial, and 2-3 version of each final.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re fine with variable-size blocks (and spacers to line things up) then you can probably cut down to 3 or even 2 of each initials, but it&amp;#x27;s not going to look great.</text></item><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>One thing that doesn&amp;#x27;t get mentioned often is that the West had a &amp;quot;simpler&amp;quot; alphabet of 26 characters, 10 numbers, and a few punctuation marks (~20). Ok, add uppercase, and you&amp;#x27;re still at about 80 individual, distinct characters.&lt;p&gt;Chinese or Korean, on the other hand, needed many more characters. Creating the movable types for them was not an easy feat. Certainly more difficult than with the German equivalent.&lt;p&gt;In particular for Korea: Hangul [0], which is a &amp;quot;simpler&amp;quot; language that gradually took over Hanja [1] in Korea, was &amp;quot;created&amp;quot; only in the 15th century, not before. Earlier than that, even if Korea has the equivalent of &amp;quot;printing&amp;quot;, the complexity of it was higher than the one experienced with the west alphabet.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Origin_of_Hangul&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Origin_of_Hangul&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Hanja&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Hanja&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why was western printing superior to Asian printing?</title><url>https://erikexamines.substack.com/p/why-was-western-printing-superior</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>igorkraw</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s actually easy enough to be done in 30 minutes (the guide says 15 but I&amp;#x27;m old and slow): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ryanestrada.com&amp;#x2F;learntoreadkoreanin15minutes&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ryanestrada.com&amp;#x2F;learntoreadkoreanin15minutes&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;you simply insert padding-vocals and &amp;quot;silences&amp;quot; to make the syllable stuff line up, my name (Igor) becomes (silence)I-go-ru.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rvba</author><text>Is there some way to learn hangul to be able to write it?&lt;p&gt;I dont ask about learning actual Korean. Just Hangul yo say &amp;quot;write English in Hangul&amp;quot; - if it is possible.&lt;p&gt;Or some service that &amp;quot;translitetates&amp;quot; your name to Hangul?</text></item><item><author>masklinn</author><text>&amp;gt; In particular for Korea: Hangul [0], which is a &amp;quot;simpler&amp;quot; language&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not a language, it&amp;#x27;s an alphabet. And I fail to see the need for quotes, there&amp;#x27;s really no denying hangul is simpler than hanja.&lt;p&gt;However the syllabic structure of hangul would still make it a lot more challenging printing than the linear structure of the latin alphabetic script: you&amp;#x27;d need either a type piece per syllable (of which there are &amp;gt;10000), or you&amp;#x27;d need a variant for each possible block layout.&lt;p&gt;There are 9 possible layouts, though there are limitations which cuts down on the complexity of that option. But still, assuming you want fixed-size &lt;i&gt;blocks&lt;/i&gt; and depending on your decisions on complex finals you&amp;#x27;d need 6-9 variants of each initial, and 2-3 version of each final.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re fine with variable-size blocks (and spacers to line things up) then you can probably cut down to 3 or even 2 of each initials, but it&amp;#x27;s not going to look great.</text></item><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>One thing that doesn&amp;#x27;t get mentioned often is that the West had a &amp;quot;simpler&amp;quot; alphabet of 26 characters, 10 numbers, and a few punctuation marks (~20). Ok, add uppercase, and you&amp;#x27;re still at about 80 individual, distinct characters.&lt;p&gt;Chinese or Korean, on the other hand, needed many more characters. Creating the movable types for them was not an easy feat. Certainly more difficult than with the German equivalent.&lt;p&gt;In particular for Korea: Hangul [0], which is a &amp;quot;simpler&amp;quot; language that gradually took over Hanja [1] in Korea, was &amp;quot;created&amp;quot; only in the 15th century, not before. Earlier than that, even if Korea has the equivalent of &amp;quot;printing&amp;quot;, the complexity of it was higher than the one experienced with the west alphabet.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Origin_of_Hangul&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Origin_of_Hangul&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Hanja&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Hanja&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why was western printing superior to Asian printing?</title><url>https://erikexamines.substack.com/p/why-was-western-printing-superior</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lwb</author><text>I was really hoping for \dt but looks like they haven&amp;#x27;t implemented it yet. The number one most common thing I look up when I&amp;#x27;m using a SQL variant is how to show the tables. I suppose there would be complications with NoSQL but you could just show available collections or whatever else it maps to in that case.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Usql – A Universal CLI for Databases</title><url>https://github.com/xo/usql</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>swasheck</author><text>... not to be confused with ... U-SQL&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;u-sql&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;u-sql&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Usql – A Universal CLI for Databases</title><url>https://github.com/xo/usql</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dilap</author><text>Native english speaker, math major.&lt;p&gt;This seems really awesome! I feel like descriptive, long variable names have both an advantage and a disadvantage: advantage, obviously, that they&amp;#x27;re clear, but disadvantage that simply having all that filler text everywhere begins to make the code harder to follow in a serious way. So there&amp;#x27;s always this tug-of-war between short variable names that make flow easy to follow but require a lot of context or guessing to decipher and long variable names that obscure flow.&lt;p&gt;Math (and languages like APL, K) are extreme examples of this: as an aid to thinking really hard, they go to extremes of dense notation requiring lots of context&amp;#x2F;previous to even begin to understand what&amp;#x27;s going on.&lt;p&gt;Using Chinese characters in normal code seems like it could fairly painlessly (once you knew Chinese!) get you a lot of the advantages of small-space characters while still encoding a lot more helpful context than a single latin letter.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tomkwok</author><text>View page source.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &amp;lt;script&amp;gt; $(function () { var 火 = new Firebase(&amp;quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hacker-news.firebaseio.com&amp;#x2F;&amp;quot;); var ໆ = &amp;quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;&amp;quot;; $(&amp;quot;#誤&amp;quot;).hide(); $(&amp;quot;form&amp;quot;).submit(function () { 火.child(&amp;quot;v0&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;&amp;quot; + $(&amp;quot;#username&amp;quot;).val()).on(&amp;quot;value&amp;quot;, function(結果) { var 人 = 結果.val(); if (人 &amp;amp;&amp;amp; 人.created) { var 時 = new Date(人.created * 1e3); var YYYYMMDDhhmmss = 時.toISOString().slice(0,19).replace(&amp;#x2F;[-T:]&amp;#x2F;g,&amp;quot;&amp;quot;); var ꜛ = &amp;quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;&amp;quot;.concat(YYYYMMDDhhmmss, &amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;&amp;quot;, ໆ); $(&amp;#x27;body&amp;#x27;).fadeOut(); location = ꜛ; } else { $(&amp;quot;#誤&amp;quot;).show(); } }); return false; }); }); &amp;#x2F;* ASCII art omitted to save space *&amp;#x2F; &amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;script&amp;gt; &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Wow, non-latin characters for variable names.&lt;p&gt;And if you&amp;#x27;d like to learn some Chinese, here is the definition of all Chinese characters appeared above.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 火 = fire 誤 = error &amp;#x2F; mistake 時 = time 結果 = result (a term &amp;#x2F; expression with figurative meaning) 果 = fruit 人 = human &amp;#x2F; person &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; ---&lt;p&gt;My pick: &amp;#x27;HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later today&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=7404972&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=7404972&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>See what Hacker News looked like on the day you joined</title><url>http://bemmu.github.io/hncakeday/</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>coolandsmartrr</author><text>Neato! Given that Bemmu live in Japan, I think he intended using the Kanji characters as Japanese characters, although they were originally derived from traditional Chinese (still used in Taiwan).</text><parent_chain><item><author>tomkwok</author><text>View page source.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &amp;lt;script&amp;gt; $(function () { var 火 = new Firebase(&amp;quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hacker-news.firebaseio.com&amp;#x2F;&amp;quot;); var ໆ = &amp;quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;&amp;quot;; $(&amp;quot;#誤&amp;quot;).hide(); $(&amp;quot;form&amp;quot;).submit(function () { 火.child(&amp;quot;v0&amp;#x2F;user&amp;#x2F;&amp;quot; + $(&amp;quot;#username&amp;quot;).val()).on(&amp;quot;value&amp;quot;, function(結果) { var 人 = 結果.val(); if (人 &amp;amp;&amp;amp; 人.created) { var 時 = new Date(人.created * 1e3); var YYYYMMDDhhmmss = 時.toISOString().slice(0,19).replace(&amp;#x2F;[-T:]&amp;#x2F;g,&amp;quot;&amp;quot;); var ꜛ = &amp;quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;&amp;quot;.concat(YYYYMMDDhhmmss, &amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;&amp;quot;, ໆ); $(&amp;#x27;body&amp;#x27;).fadeOut(); location = ꜛ; } else { $(&amp;quot;#誤&amp;quot;).show(); } }); return false; }); }); &amp;#x2F;* ASCII art omitted to save space *&amp;#x2F; &amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;script&amp;gt; &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; Wow, non-latin characters for variable names.&lt;p&gt;And if you&amp;#x27;d like to learn some Chinese, here is the definition of all Chinese characters appeared above.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 火 = fire 誤 = error &amp;#x2F; mistake 時 = time 結果 = result (a term &amp;#x2F; expression with figurative meaning) 果 = fruit 人 = human &amp;#x2F; person &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; ---&lt;p&gt;My pick: &amp;#x27;HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later today&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=7404972&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=7404972&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>See what Hacker News looked like on the day you joined</title><url>http://bemmu.github.io/hncakeday/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leonim</author><text>My favorite terminal based client to explore SQLite databases and many other data formats is the TUI VisiData[1].&lt;p&gt;It has a spreadsheet-like interface and makes it very easy to explore a SQLite database in the terminal&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.visidata.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.visidata.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] tutorial: VisiData in 60 Seconds(&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jsvine.github.io&amp;#x2F;intro-to-visidata&amp;#x2F;the-big-picture&amp;#x2F;visidata-in-60-seconds&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jsvine.github.io&amp;#x2F;intro-to-visidata&amp;#x2F;the-big-picture&amp;#x2F;v...&lt;/a&gt;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>pampa</author><text>For everybody using sqlite cli from a terminal window, check out litecli [1]. It has some nice features like syntax color, better completion and query editing etc. It is part of the dbcli [2] family of database terminal clients. There are cli for mysql, postgres, redis and other databases.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;litecli.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;litecli.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dbcli.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dbcli.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Command Line Shell for SQLite</title><url>https://www.sqlite.org/cli.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>flas9sd</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a fan of the series too, for one specific puropse: being able to set a pager.&lt;p&gt;Generally the sqlite cli would be sufficient, but not having a pager for the output overflows the terminal and is a major hindrance in working with standard database tools.&lt;p&gt;Using no GUI helps with learning too I think. There are workarounds to stay in the shell context and pipe to the utils and append a pager. For an analogy, it&amp;#x27;s `pager less` in mysql and `\pset pager less` in postgres. See my comment on v3.33 (when alot of cli enhancements got introduced): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sqlite.org&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;forumpost&amp;#x2F;3d157b175c&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sqlite.org&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;forumpost&amp;#x2F;3d157b175c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The mongodb cli neither has the ability to set a pager I noticed recently.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pampa</author><text>For everybody using sqlite cli from a terminal window, check out litecli [1]. It has some nice features like syntax color, better completion and query editing etc. It is part of the dbcli [2] family of database terminal clients. There are cli for mysql, postgres, redis and other databases.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;litecli.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;litecli.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dbcli.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dbcli.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Command Line Shell for SQLite</title><url>https://www.sqlite.org/cli.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>permanentdecaf</author><text>Pavel Durov wants everyone to think security is about trust in people. Most companies in that business do the same, because it&amp;#x27;s easier than building something that doesn&amp;#x27;t require trust in people. The way Pavel Durov and others like him present &amp;quot;trust&amp;quot; is (ironically) shady corporate structures[1], shell companies, or use of the word &amp;quot;Switzerland.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;They want people to think like that because they&amp;#x27;ve built businesses that require it. Telegram stores the messages you send&amp;#x2F;receive unencrypted on their servers. That&amp;#x27;s not good, unless you&amp;#x27;ve been trained to think that &amp;quot;privacy&amp;quot; is just about choosing the company, government, or legal jurisdiction that gets total access to your data.&lt;p&gt;Security professionals know that&amp;#x27;s not how we should think about security (never trust &lt;i&gt;people&lt;/i&gt;!), because Durov is leaving a lot out: there aren&amp;#x27;t safe jurisdictions, servers get hacked, and centralized databases will get compromised. Logic, though, is probably no match for conspiracy theories.&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;the-intersect&amp;#x2F;wp&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;the-secret-american-origins-of-telegram-the-encrypted-messaging-app-favored-by-the-islamic-state&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;the-intersect&amp;#x2F;wp&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;11...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>otalp</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;quot;It would be naive to think you can run an independent&amp;#x2F;secure cryptoapp based in the US.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be a shot at WhatsApp and Signal, implying that they have loopholes that allow the FBI to snoop in. I&amp;#x27;m not sure how true that is. This might be an attempt to deflect from the fact that Telegram uses a home-baked encryption protocol which might be insecure, while WhatsApp uses the OWS protocol.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Telegram founder: US intelligence tried to bribe us to weaken encryption</title><url>https://news.fastcompany.com/telegram-founder-us-intelligence-agencies-tried-to-bribe-us-to-weaken-encryption-4040876</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>retox</author><text>If I&amp;#x27;m not mistaken Telegram has already been proven insecure once in the past. WhatsApp is a zuck property now, you can consider it insecure.</text><parent_chain><item><author>otalp</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;quot;It would be naive to think you can run an independent&amp;#x2F;secure cryptoapp based in the US.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be a shot at WhatsApp and Signal, implying that they have loopholes that allow the FBI to snoop in. I&amp;#x27;m not sure how true that is. This might be an attempt to deflect from the fact that Telegram uses a home-baked encryption protocol which might be insecure, while WhatsApp uses the OWS protocol.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Telegram founder: US intelligence tried to bribe us to weaken encryption</title><url>https://news.fastcompany.com/telegram-founder-us-intelligence-agencies-tried-to-bribe-us-to-weaken-encryption-4040876</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>numlocked</author><text>(OP here). In practice my stress level about this (for me and my family) is about zero. Eight year olds are quite smart; he knows exactly what is going on here and finds it entertaining. Real dad’s presence isn’t going anywhere. It’s largely a fun gimmick and treated as such. And if it started getting weird, I’d just turn it off.&lt;p&gt;Now, as the tech improves I think this line of thinking is going to be a legitimate concern - I don’t think you are being a wet blanket. But at its current level, it’s pretty transparently a half-baked computer program, and treated as such by my kid.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hm-nah</author><text>This is a wild concept to wrestle with. Questions that arise…&lt;p&gt;- What are the ramifications of a child interacting with the voice of their dad, through a computer interface?&lt;p&gt;- What happens if the child interacts MORE with robodad than with actualdad?&lt;p&gt;- How does the child attribute the things they’ve “learned” from their now, robo, dad?&lt;p&gt;- Is this an offshoot of how the TV was the new babysitter in the decades after it came out? “Go ask robodad”.&lt;p&gt;- What happens when the child reconciles what robodad says with what actual dad says? “But robodad says…”.&lt;p&gt;- How will the child remember which “dad” shared which “wonderful piece of advice”? This is treading on shaky ground to me. At a time where many families in the western world (everywhere?) are dealing with digital distractions, social media mental disease, and general lack of cohesion… and now MITM AI between a parent and a child… whooo… idk.&lt;p&gt;- How will actualdad feel in 1year, 2years, 5years of this “tool” “augmenting” his parenting?&lt;p&gt;- How will actualmom feel about the child interacting with this thing? How could this make her feel?&lt;p&gt;Pretty crazy how this poster anthropomorphized AI and placed it directly between one of the most sacred communication paths.&lt;p&gt;How many dads are going take this project as a “todo” and follow suite?&lt;p&gt;I hope others are thinking about these questions and I’m not being a wet blanket.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Robot Dad</title><url>https://blog.untrod.com/2023/11/robot-dad.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>the_other</author><text>&amp;gt; I hope others are thinking about these questions and I’m not being a wet blanket.&lt;p&gt;I wasn&amp;#x27;t, specifically. But they feel like specialisations or subclasses of the general unease I feel about a lot of our contemporary tech.&lt;p&gt;As an example: I&amp;#x27;ve grown to hate most social tech, mainly because of the tracking. But the mental image I used to get me off it was to imagine Zuck sitting in on all my conversations, silently taking notes. You wouldn&amp;#x27;t tolerate that, even if it wasn&amp;#x27;t Zuck. And yet we do.&lt;p&gt;Many of us are willing to remove the human connection, the effort to learn, the struggle to express from our day to day lives. It&amp;#x27;s the learning and struggle that gives extra value to the encounters we have and the situations we make. To me, using a lot of this technology feels like giving away something of what makes life worth living. (I understand the convenience; I get that &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s just a tool&amp;quot;, I use tools all the time, I&amp;#x27;m willing to engage with this new stuff to learn more about it, but slowly).&lt;p&gt;The worst is that we&amp;#x27;re giving that effort, that learning, that struggle (and its impact on us) to unaccountable entities which can bypass the social contracts we would normally make with one another, and which can scale up profit from that donation, thereby also devaluing our own labours and experiences to enrich a small few. Open source mitigates some of that, but most users would still be giving up their own embodiment of their creative acts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hm-nah</author><text>This is a wild concept to wrestle with. Questions that arise…&lt;p&gt;- What are the ramifications of a child interacting with the voice of their dad, through a computer interface?&lt;p&gt;- What happens if the child interacts MORE with robodad than with actualdad?&lt;p&gt;- How does the child attribute the things they’ve “learned” from their now, robo, dad?&lt;p&gt;- Is this an offshoot of how the TV was the new babysitter in the decades after it came out? “Go ask robodad”.&lt;p&gt;- What happens when the child reconciles what robodad says with what actual dad says? “But robodad says…”.&lt;p&gt;- How will the child remember which “dad” shared which “wonderful piece of advice”? This is treading on shaky ground to me. At a time where many families in the western world (everywhere?) are dealing with digital distractions, social media mental disease, and general lack of cohesion… and now MITM AI between a parent and a child… whooo… idk.&lt;p&gt;- How will actualdad feel in 1year, 2years, 5years of this “tool” “augmenting” his parenting?&lt;p&gt;- How will actualmom feel about the child interacting with this thing? How could this make her feel?&lt;p&gt;Pretty crazy how this poster anthropomorphized AI and placed it directly between one of the most sacred communication paths.&lt;p&gt;How many dads are going take this project as a “todo” and follow suite?&lt;p&gt;I hope others are thinking about these questions and I’m not being a wet blanket.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Robot Dad</title><url>https://blog.untrod.com/2023/11/robot-dad.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>throw14082020</author><text>What is happening here is interesting. Almost like facebook messenger has lost its network effects. Its so easy to install Signal and get setup, and there is a compelling reason to leave Facebook&amp;#x27;s ecosystem. I previously assumed the network effects were so strong no one could leave Facebook without being a hermit. It turns out people who actually want to contact me will actually bother to install Signal and join me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Daniel_sk</author><text>I moved 10 of my non-IT (male, age ~30-35) friends from FB Messenger group chat to Signal. None of them had any problems setting it up, none had any questions during the setup. I just invited them to the group after they created accounts (you can also use an invitation link) and the chat continued on Signal. No one has looked back at FB Messenger and we are not missing any functionality. I am slowly spreading in my circles and so far with only positive feedback.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Getting Started with Signal</title><url>https://www.justingarrison.com/blog/2021-01-11-getting-started-with-signal/</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>pjkundert</author><text>Yup, my wife just move a large group of non-technicals from Facebook Messenger to Signal. No problems, thus far!</text><parent_chain><item><author>Daniel_sk</author><text>I moved 10 of my non-IT (male, age ~30-35) friends from FB Messenger group chat to Signal. None of them had any problems setting it up, none had any questions during the setup. I just invited them to the group after they created accounts (you can also use an invitation link) and the chat continued on Signal. No one has looked back at FB Messenger and we are not missing any functionality. I am slowly spreading in my circles and so far with only positive feedback.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Getting Started with Signal</title><url>https://www.justingarrison.com/blog/2021-01-11-getting-started-with-signal/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DiabloD3</author><text>Relevantish studies: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pubmed&amp;#x2F;22331240&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pubmed&amp;#x2F;22331240&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pubmed&amp;#x2F;28185844&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pubmed&amp;#x2F;28185844&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;pii&amp;#x2F;S1532045614001045&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;pii&amp;#x2F;S1532045614...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And the worst one of all: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;people.csail.mit.edu&amp;#x2F;seneff&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;Glyphosate_V_glycine_analogue_2016.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;people.csail.mit.edu&amp;#x2F;seneff&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;Glyphosate_V_glycin...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;So yeah, not only does it cause cancer, it causes a wide range of diseases: literally any one that can be caused by protein misassembly in ways that the body can&amp;#x27;t easily clear the protein (or if it does, the glyphosate can end up being reused instead of flushed out of your body) can be linked to this.&lt;p&gt;So, in around 5 years, if they come out with a study that Autism is caused by, or greatly enhanced by, glyphosate exposure in utero or during nursing (glyphosate concentrations are extremely high in breast milk in mothers exposed to the chemical), I will not be surprised whatsoever.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-14/monsanto-accused-of-ghost-writing-papers-on-roundup-cancer-risk</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>refurb</author><text>Ignoring the question as to whether or not &amp;quot;killing the study&amp;quot; was nefarious or not, this is a great lesson on what you should and shouldn&amp;#x27;t say in emails.&lt;p&gt;I remember getting training a long time ago from my employer. If you&amp;#x27;re discussing anything remotely controversial, pick up the phone or walk to the person&amp;#x27;s office. &lt;i&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t put it in an email&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why? Because lawyers will find it and twist it however they want to make you look bad. Had a colleague annoy the hell out of you asking for something that didn&amp;#x27;t need to be done? Don&amp;#x27;t put &amp;quot;I deserve a medal for killing this study&amp;quot; in an email.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-14/monsanto-accused-of-ghost-writing-papers-on-roundup-cancer-risk</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>This goes to a basic framing issue that crops up all the time in economics. [Situation] =&amp;gt; [Authorities Do Something] =&amp;gt; [New Situation] then everyone assumes that the authorities were primarily responsible for the change.&lt;p&gt;It seems like pretty intuitive logic but it doesn&amp;#x27;t make any sense on inspection; people adjust to changing economic circumstances much faster than the authorities can change things. The situation will change quickly even if the authorities do nothing. Lessons that get &amp;#x27;learned&amp;#x27; about crises and responding to them are probably a build-up of rain dances rather than actual knowledge.&lt;p&gt;It is a situation primed to promote economic witchcraft. Nobody agrees with which parts of are the most cargo-culty because political groups generally support the stupid ideas which happen to favour them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>matthewdgreen</author><text>The alternative story I’ve heard is that “stagflation” happened to coincide with a massive surge in oil prices due to OPEC — which are an input to just about every product we use, hence increasing prices — and Volcker’s deflationary recession just happened to coincide with OPEC falling apart. But this alternative explanation seems so obviously different from the lesson in your post that it can’t be the full story, so I assume there’s some nuance.</text></item><item><author>SkyMarshal</author><text>Volcker taught the world how central banks should reconcile their multiple, sometimes conflicting mandates to effectively manage monetary policy.&lt;p&gt;When he became chairman of the US Federal Reserve in 1980, the US was suffering from stagflation, or stagnation + inflation, which economists previously believed was impossible to have at the same time.&lt;p&gt;The fear was that solving stagnation by lowering interest rates would drive higher inflation, possibly hyperinflation, but conversely that raising interest rates to solve inflation would exacerbate the stagnation, possibly into a depression.&lt;p&gt;Volcker showed that focusing on and killing inflation by raising interest rates, even to extreme levels (briefly up to ~20%), you end both inflation and stagnation. For one reason, low, steady, predictable inflation, better enables businesses to plan, hire and invest.&lt;p&gt;And that has been central bank policy ever since (though they arguably mistakenly deviated from it under the latter part of Greenspan’s tenure). As Bernanke said, “He personified the idea of doing something politically unpopular but economically necessary.” It’s rare to have such an impact on one’s field, especially under such adverse circumstances.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Paul Volcker has died</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/business/paul-a-volcker-dead.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>pdonis</author><text>The nuance, if you want to call it that, is that you can&amp;#x27;t do controlled experiments with the actual world economy, so we &lt;i&gt;don&amp;#x27;t know&lt;/i&gt; what caused stagflation or what caused it to end. We can&amp;#x27;t go back and re-run the experiment and do something different (don&amp;#x27;t raise interest rates, or keep OPEC from collapsing) to see if it changes the outcome.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s notable that you use the word &amp;quot;story&amp;quot;: that is exactly the right word. These are stories we tell ourselves to try to make sense of what happened. But we should not mistake them for actual knowledge that would allow us to predict what will happen in the future. It isn&amp;#x27;t.</text><parent_chain><item><author>matthewdgreen</author><text>The alternative story I’ve heard is that “stagflation” happened to coincide with a massive surge in oil prices due to OPEC — which are an input to just about every product we use, hence increasing prices — and Volcker’s deflationary recession just happened to coincide with OPEC falling apart. But this alternative explanation seems so obviously different from the lesson in your post that it can’t be the full story, so I assume there’s some nuance.</text></item><item><author>SkyMarshal</author><text>Volcker taught the world how central banks should reconcile their multiple, sometimes conflicting mandates to effectively manage monetary policy.&lt;p&gt;When he became chairman of the US Federal Reserve in 1980, the US was suffering from stagflation, or stagnation + inflation, which economists previously believed was impossible to have at the same time.&lt;p&gt;The fear was that solving stagnation by lowering interest rates would drive higher inflation, possibly hyperinflation, but conversely that raising interest rates to solve inflation would exacerbate the stagnation, possibly into a depression.&lt;p&gt;Volcker showed that focusing on and killing inflation by raising interest rates, even to extreme levels (briefly up to ~20%), you end both inflation and stagnation. For one reason, low, steady, predictable inflation, better enables businesses to plan, hire and invest.&lt;p&gt;And that has been central bank policy ever since (though they arguably mistakenly deviated from it under the latter part of Greenspan’s tenure). As Bernanke said, “He personified the idea of doing something politically unpopular but economically necessary.” It’s rare to have such an impact on one’s field, especially under such adverse circumstances.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Paul Volcker has died</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/business/paul-a-volcker-dead.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>_jal</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s the exactly the thing - they are, indeed, chasing me off. When this Mac dies, I&amp;#x27;ll be replacing it with something running Debian.&lt;p&gt;It is too bad - the Mac hit this sweet-spot where it was pretty much my perfect machine for several years - a kickass Unix workstation in a decently built laptop, with a decent GUI, with access to consumer apps, too. It was great while it lasted.&lt;p&gt;Thing is, this is a reasonable thing for Apple to do. Back when they weren&amp;#x27;t enormous, it made sense for them to at least make token gestures to the Unix-weenie&amp;#x2F;developer market - we threw a lot of money at them and made them hip when they were down and out. Now we&amp;#x27;re in rounding-error territory, and that we got what we wanted for a while was sort of a happy accident, anyway. Building developer dream-machines was never Apple&amp;#x27;s thing.&lt;p&gt;I bought my first Mac in 1991, and this one will last a while longer. Can&amp;#x27;t really complain too much about 30 years of decent-to-awesome tools.</text><parent_chain><item><author>coldtea</author><text>They provide the OS. If you don&amp;#x27;t trust them, then you shouldn&amp;#x27;t trust anything running on top of it either...</text></item><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>If I install Little Snitch, it&amp;#x27;s because I trust Little Snitch to be responsible for my computer&amp;#x27;s network traffic, over and above anyone else.&lt;p&gt;I recognize that this won&amp;#x27;t necessarily apply to all users or all apps, but there needs to be a way for the user to designate trust. Apple services and traffic should not get special treatment.</text></item><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>This is one of those tough cases where software cuts both ways.&lt;p&gt;Some people are smart, informed developers that install a trusted tool to monitor their traffic and have legitimate reasons to want to inspect Apple traffic. They&amp;#x27;re dismayed.&lt;p&gt;Most people are the opposite and this move protects the most sensitive data from being easily scooped up or muddled in easily installed apps, or at least easily installed apps that don&amp;#x27;t use zero days.&lt;p&gt;Is the world better or worse due to this change? I&amp;#x27;d say a touch better, but I don&amp;#x27;t like the fact that this change was needed in the first place. I trust Apple, but I don&amp;#x27;t like trusting trust.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple&apos;s apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur</title><url>https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1318465421796782082</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>AnthonyMouse</author><text>&amp;gt; If you don&amp;#x27;t trust them, then you shouldn&amp;#x27;t trust anything running on top of it either...&lt;p&gt;Trust, but verify.&lt;p&gt;The problem with this is that it&amp;#x27;s taking away the ability to verify. Which takes away the ability to trust.</text><parent_chain><item><author>coldtea</author><text>They provide the OS. If you don&amp;#x27;t trust them, then you shouldn&amp;#x27;t trust anything running on top of it either...</text></item><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>If I install Little Snitch, it&amp;#x27;s because I trust Little Snitch to be responsible for my computer&amp;#x27;s network traffic, over and above anyone else.&lt;p&gt;I recognize that this won&amp;#x27;t necessarily apply to all users or all apps, but there needs to be a way for the user to designate trust. Apple services and traffic should not get special treatment.</text></item><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>This is one of those tough cases where software cuts both ways.&lt;p&gt;Some people are smart, informed developers that install a trusted tool to monitor their traffic and have legitimate reasons to want to inspect Apple traffic. They&amp;#x27;re dismayed.&lt;p&gt;Most people are the opposite and this move protects the most sensitive data from being easily scooped up or muddled in easily installed apps, or at least easily installed apps that don&amp;#x27;t use zero days.&lt;p&gt;Is the world better or worse due to this change? I&amp;#x27;d say a touch better, but I don&amp;#x27;t like the fact that this change was needed in the first place. I trust Apple, but I don&amp;#x27;t like trusting trust.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple&apos;s apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur</title><url>https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1318465421796782082</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zacmps</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s been brought up elsewhere in the thread but GCP deleting an entire tenant&amp;#x27;s account rules them out entirely from any serious business IMO.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jodiug</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m surprised to find all comments so strongly against Google. I do not like their customer support nor their surprise product closure acts... but I do find their cloud interface easy to use, pricing is solid, and (K8s&amp;#x2F;Cloud Run) I have barely been affected by any significant outage in some 8 years of use.&lt;p&gt;Contrast to Azure who despite their SLA had significant outages every few months that were very noticeable, sometimes even requiring us setting up an entire new K8s project from scratch. AWS is better in terms of reliability. Their UX is not great though, I often feel like I&amp;#x27;m a wizard waving my wand with permissions and connecting things like audit trails. Many actions are a bit delayed in their effect. I&amp;#x27;ve also had to contact support at times to raise arbitrary limits in the platform.&lt;p&gt;In balance I would recommend GCP. Their product closures have not affected me enough to scare me away. I guess experiences vary depending on which product we are using.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It is hard to recommend Google Cloud</title><url>https://ashishb.net/programming/google-cloud/</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>sunaookami</author><text>You can&amp;#x27;t even set spending limits on Google Cloud and have to use some obscure script that deactivates billing if you want to imitate it. The whole product is incredibly buggy and complicated.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jodiug</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m surprised to find all comments so strongly against Google. I do not like their customer support nor their surprise product closure acts... but I do find their cloud interface easy to use, pricing is solid, and (K8s&amp;#x2F;Cloud Run) I have barely been affected by any significant outage in some 8 years of use.&lt;p&gt;Contrast to Azure who despite their SLA had significant outages every few months that were very noticeable, sometimes even requiring us setting up an entire new K8s project from scratch. AWS is better in terms of reliability. Their UX is not great though, I often feel like I&amp;#x27;m a wizard waving my wand with permissions and connecting things like audit trails. Many actions are a bit delayed in their effect. I&amp;#x27;ve also had to contact support at times to raise arbitrary limits in the platform.&lt;p&gt;In balance I would recommend GCP. Their product closures have not affected me enough to scare me away. I guess experiences vary depending on which product we are using.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It is hard to recommend Google Cloud</title><url>https://ashishb.net/programming/google-cloud/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mnd</author><text>Erlang is a great programming language after one takes the time to understand the principles underlying it and its design. Everything fits very nicely into place. There are definitely things that could be done better, but then that’s the case with most programming languages and technologies after they have accumulated some dust. Elixir on the other hand, in my personal opinion, is a false prophet simply because it looks like something which it isn’t. It looks like Ruby and gives the programmer the feeling that he’s right at home, except it is in fact a very different beast with very different semantics, Erlang semantics, as opposed to Ruby. Therefore, if you want to program on the BEAM (the Erlang virtual machine) you better make sure you actually understand the system, its design, principles and also some of the semantics of Erlang itself, point at which you might as well just learn Erlang. I’m not saying that you cannot learn those things coming from Elixir, I’m just saying that if you want to build systems of reasonable complexity (like the ones that Erlang is known for) on top of the Erlang virtual machine, as opposed to CRUD web applications, then you must understand a lot more than just Elixir or Phoenix.</text><parent_chain><item><author>slashdotdash</author><text>Dave Thomas has described Elixir as follows: &amp;quot;Elixir took the Erlang virtual machine, BEAM, and put a sensible face on it. It gives you all the power of Erlang plus a powerful macro system.&amp;quot;[1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;startlearningelixir.com&amp;#x2F;elixir-for-rubyists&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;startlearningelixir.com&amp;#x2F;elixir-for-rubyists&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What&apos;s all this fuss about Erlang? (2007)</title><url>https://pragprog.com/articles/erlang/</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>jbernardo95</author><text>In other words, Elixir is the rocket that will make Erlang go big.</text><parent_chain><item><author>slashdotdash</author><text>Dave Thomas has described Elixir as follows: &amp;quot;Elixir took the Erlang virtual machine, BEAM, and put a sensible face on it. It gives you all the power of Erlang plus a powerful macro system.&amp;quot;[1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;startlearningelixir.com&amp;#x2F;elixir-for-rubyists&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;startlearningelixir.com&amp;#x2F;elixir-for-rubyists&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What&apos;s all this fuss about Erlang? (2007)</title><url>https://pragprog.com/articles/erlang/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>busterarm</author><text>I know a domme in the Connecticut area who says that lately this kind of work has become most of her business. She takes money to nag men to &amp;quot;do their chores&amp;quot; and occasionally sends them a lewd or two.&lt;p&gt;All via twitter.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fermienrico</author><text>It is so silly that this might actually be a good idea? I do want a good reminder and todo&amp;#x2F;red-flags don&amp;#x27;t do it for me. I can seriously see why speaking to a human and being accountable to someone can boost productivity. Consequences of not doing a task on time would be embarrassment and shame from someone you&amp;#x27;re paying. Or its just silly.&lt;p&gt;Customer defining the goals is akin to setting the difficulty on &amp;quot;easy&amp;quot; and beating the game. What would be good is if BaaS would interview the customer, set realistic but challenging goals for the customer based on the project needs and then push them. Similar to a gym coach.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Boss as a Service – Hire a boss, get stuff done</title><url>https://bossasaservice.life/</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>mycall</author><text>&amp;gt; interview the customer, set realistic but challenging goals for the customer based on the project needs and then push them.&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a normal project manager.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fermienrico</author><text>It is so silly that this might actually be a good idea? I do want a good reminder and todo&amp;#x2F;red-flags don&amp;#x27;t do it for me. I can seriously see why speaking to a human and being accountable to someone can boost productivity. Consequences of not doing a task on time would be embarrassment and shame from someone you&amp;#x27;re paying. Or its just silly.&lt;p&gt;Customer defining the goals is akin to setting the difficulty on &amp;quot;easy&amp;quot; and beating the game. What would be good is if BaaS would interview the customer, set realistic but challenging goals for the customer based on the project needs and then push them. Similar to a gym coach.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Boss as a Service – Hire a boss, get stuff done</title><url>https://bossasaservice.life/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kalid</author><text>Thanks for eloquently stating a problem I&apos;ve noticed for a while. I think there&apos;s a fear of not coming off as a hard-nosed, logical thinker, so the constant need for citation is a proxy for &quot;I believed XYZ because some authority said it was true. If I&apos;m wrong, it&apos;s not me, it&apos;s because I was mislead.&quot;&lt;p&gt;The world is full of single data points. If you see an anecdote, see it as a data point, but more importantly, see it as a metaphor which could apply to your situation.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I think some people wouldn&apos;t hug their kids until a study said it was ok (hrm, weren&apos;t there studies in the 50s saying you should do the opposite?). I&apos;d like to think I&apos;m rational, but sometimes you need to move beyond the cover-your-ass safety net of &quot;the study says&quot; and do what feels right. Citation? Here&apos;s a meta-study that most medical research studies are false (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/&lt;/a&gt;).</text><parent_chain><item><author>andywood</author><text>I agree with you, and there is a specific type of pedantry I find especially grating. I&apos;m talking about the constant insistence on citations and double-blind studies, even when it isn&apos;t appropriate - even when someone obviously means only to share their own experience. There&apos;s an aggressive form (&quot;Citation Needed&quot;) and a passive-aggressive form (&quot;Say, friend, that&apos;s a bold claim! I sure am interested in this. Do you have a source where I might read more about it?&quot;)&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, this is completely appropriate, as when someone is using an anecdote as their only support in a vigorous debate, or when information is clearly being presented as factual, when it probably isn&apos;t. But as &quot;Citation Needed&quot; has become a rampant meme in its own right, I think it is increasingly applied in knee-jerk, cargo-cultish, and inappropriate ways.&lt;p&gt;Sharing anecdotes and experiences is one of the fundamental ways that humans share information about the myriad little nooks of the world that we move through. I know it isn&apos;t science. I&apos;m quite well read on cognitive biases, statistics, and the scientific method; and I do not need to be reminded about these by HN commenters continually, every time somebody shares a story, or an opinion based on their experience.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m concerned about a chilling effect on the sharing of anecdotal information. There is information - information that I can use - in the many experiences related by others. I don&apos;t need or desire to get fully 100% of my information from peer-reviewed scientific studies. I know the difference between science and personal experience, and I would much rather bear the burden of telling the difference for myself, as the reader, than to have fewer people talking about their personal experiences.</text></item><item><author>reason</author><text>This submission could not have come at a better time.&lt;p&gt;Over the past couple of weeks, I&apos;ve been contemplating making a submission urging HNers to be &lt;i&gt;human&lt;/i&gt;, and to recognize that everyone else who comments here is also a &lt;i&gt;human&lt;/i&gt;, and that stories about startups and notable figures are essentially about &lt;i&gt;humans&lt;/i&gt; - humans who all have families, friends, ambitions, desires, flaws, struggles.&lt;p&gt;All too often I see people here forgetting about that. I myself have been guilty of it in the past too. But there&apos;s something about the negativity and criticism here that grates on me more than on other sites. I think people here tend to assume that being an engineer/programmer means that not only must they treat their code with utmost logic and rationality, but that they should look at life in the same manner - that to be an empathetic and emotional person puts them at some sort of optimizational and productive disadvantage. All that leads to is cold, harsh discourse and criticism without considering the more abstract, but very real ways humans feel and behave. It&apos;s sad to see.&lt;p&gt;So, I guess this is that submission. Next time you write a comment, ask yourself if you&apos;re being human and remind yourself that whatever you&apos;re about to say is directed at another human.&lt;p&gt;Stop being robots, and just act human.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I am very real</title><url>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/i-am-very-real.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>grepherder</author><text>Good point. To disagree so strongly when anectodal evidence is shared regardless of context became a culture in itself rather than a model for rational behaviour and is disruptive.&lt;p&gt;Academic science is an entirely different story. It&apos;s a growing body, and it grows by using previous information in its body, so any probability of disruptive/wrong data entering the system has to be reduced as much as it can with strict discipline. To apply the same standard to our daily lives is absurd - you could as well be against spoken conversation because it&apos;s too lossy and converse using pen&amp;#38;paper - speech recognition is tricky after all.&lt;p&gt;This doesn&apos;t take much more than common sense to get - you could formalize it for specific cases statistically, maybe using shannon entropy and such - anectodal information is still information and the loss of information by virtue of not being backed up by scientific method is in most cases insignificantly low - just think of it as an efficient compression algorithm.&lt;p&gt;If you aren&apos;t ethically against lossy audio/image/text compression, there is no reason to take such a strict stance against anectodal information. Most times it&apos;s very useful, just have your rationality filter/bs detector and the like on at all times like they should be.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andywood</author><text>I agree with you, and there is a specific type of pedantry I find especially grating. I&apos;m talking about the constant insistence on citations and double-blind studies, even when it isn&apos;t appropriate - even when someone obviously means only to share their own experience. There&apos;s an aggressive form (&quot;Citation Needed&quot;) and a passive-aggressive form (&quot;Say, friend, that&apos;s a bold claim! I sure am interested in this. Do you have a source where I might read more about it?&quot;)&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, this is completely appropriate, as when someone is using an anecdote as their only support in a vigorous debate, or when information is clearly being presented as factual, when it probably isn&apos;t. But as &quot;Citation Needed&quot; has become a rampant meme in its own right, I think it is increasingly applied in knee-jerk, cargo-cultish, and inappropriate ways.&lt;p&gt;Sharing anecdotes and experiences is one of the fundamental ways that humans share information about the myriad little nooks of the world that we move through. I know it isn&apos;t science. I&apos;m quite well read on cognitive biases, statistics, and the scientific method; and I do not need to be reminded about these by HN commenters continually, every time somebody shares a story, or an opinion based on their experience.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m concerned about a chilling effect on the sharing of anecdotal information. There is information - information that I can use - in the many experiences related by others. I don&apos;t need or desire to get fully 100% of my information from peer-reviewed scientific studies. I know the difference between science and personal experience, and I would much rather bear the burden of telling the difference for myself, as the reader, than to have fewer people talking about their personal experiences.</text></item><item><author>reason</author><text>This submission could not have come at a better time.&lt;p&gt;Over the past couple of weeks, I&apos;ve been contemplating making a submission urging HNers to be &lt;i&gt;human&lt;/i&gt;, and to recognize that everyone else who comments here is also a &lt;i&gt;human&lt;/i&gt;, and that stories about startups and notable figures are essentially about &lt;i&gt;humans&lt;/i&gt; - humans who all have families, friends, ambitions, desires, flaws, struggles.&lt;p&gt;All too often I see people here forgetting about that. I myself have been guilty of it in the past too. But there&apos;s something about the negativity and criticism here that grates on me more than on other sites. I think people here tend to assume that being an engineer/programmer means that not only must they treat their code with utmost logic and rationality, but that they should look at life in the same manner - that to be an empathetic and emotional person puts them at some sort of optimizational and productive disadvantage. All that leads to is cold, harsh discourse and criticism without considering the more abstract, but very real ways humans feel and behave. It&apos;s sad to see.&lt;p&gt;So, I guess this is that submission. Next time you write a comment, ask yourself if you&apos;re being human and remind yourself that whatever you&apos;re about to say is directed at another human.&lt;p&gt;Stop being robots, and just act human.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I am very real</title><url>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/i-am-very-real.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>nathanwallace</author><text>Readers may also enjoy Steampipe[1], an open source [2] tool that uses Postgres FDW&amp;#x27;s for live SQL queries against Jira, Confluence, GitHub, GitLab, AWS, Slack and many more tools [3].&lt;p&gt;1 - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;steampipe.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;steampipe.io&lt;/a&gt; 2 - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;turbot&amp;#x2F;steampipe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;turbot&amp;#x2F;steampipe&lt;/a&gt; 3 - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hub.steampipe.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hub.steampipe.io&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scrumdog – a program to download Jira Issues to a local database</title><url>https://whoek.com/b/jira-to-sqlite-with-scrumdog.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>simonw</author><text>Absolutely love this. I have a whole bunch of similar tools for importing stuff from different services into SQLite but I never got up the courage to take on Jira!&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s my github-to-sqlite tool which imports GitHub Issues &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;datasette.io&amp;#x2F;tools&amp;#x2F;github-to-sqlite&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;datasette.io&amp;#x2F;tools&amp;#x2F;github-to-sqlite&lt;/a&gt; - being able to query them in a local SQLite database is super-handy. I run a demo instance of the resulting database here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github-to-sqlite.dogsheep.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github-to-sqlite.dogsheep.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scrumdog – a program to download Jira Issues to a local database</title><url>https://whoek.com/b/jira-to-sqlite-with-scrumdog.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>JohnFen</author><text>&amp;gt; the cops say “we pinged your phone”. What that entails exactly I have no clue.&lt;p&gt;The cell phone infrastructure knows where your phone is. It has to in order for it to operate. The police routinely ask cell phone companies for locations of cell phones. Many (most?) not only won&amp;#x27;t require a warrant, but provide an official portal the police can use to conduct their queries without having to get a phone company employee to do it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>donatj</author><text>United States, couple years ago my friend in his mid-thirties was feeling depressed after his mom died. Came over to hang out, and wasn’t responding to his sisters calls.&lt;p&gt;His sister called in a welfare check on him and suddenly I have three cops knocking at my front door. They ask for him by name, say he isn’t in trouble. I go get him; he asks “how did you know where I was?” and the cops say “we pinged your phone”. What that entails exactly I have no clue.&lt;p&gt;Later I pulled up the video of them arriving on my cameras, they didn’t approach any of my neighbors houses first. It was just right to my front door like they knew exactly where he was. Kinda spooky.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone</title><url>https://gazettengr.com/france-passes-bill-to-allow-police-remotely-activate-phone-camera-microphone-spy-on-people/</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>paxys</author><text>Despite all the technology in the world the majority of police work is still plain old-fashioned knocking on doors and making phone calls. People will always voluntarily give up all the information in the world to be seen as good citizens. In your friend&amp;#x27;s case I&amp;#x27;m willing to bet that they asked the sister for the names of his close friends and acquaintances and yours matched up.</text><parent_chain><item><author>donatj</author><text>United States, couple years ago my friend in his mid-thirties was feeling depressed after his mom died. Came over to hang out, and wasn’t responding to his sisters calls.&lt;p&gt;His sister called in a welfare check on him and suddenly I have three cops knocking at my front door. They ask for him by name, say he isn’t in trouble. I go get him; he asks “how did you know where I was?” and the cops say “we pinged your phone”. What that entails exactly I have no clue.&lt;p&gt;Later I pulled up the video of them arriving on my cameras, they didn’t approach any of my neighbors houses first. It was just right to my front door like they knew exactly where he was. Kinda spooky.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone</title><url>https://gazettengr.com/france-passes-bill-to-allow-police-remotely-activate-phone-camera-microphone-spy-on-people/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>johnyzee</author><text>The most remarkable thing in this case, to me, is the extent to which the press colluded with the intelligence officials. The press is supposed to check and balance, but in this case they walked hand-in-hand with the agencies. The article seems to conclude that the officials are being punished for talking to the press - well yes, they worked with the press to &lt;i&gt;suppress&lt;/i&gt; the story, and successfully.&lt;p&gt;The whistleblower&amp;#x27;s revelations, obviously very serious and substantiated, have effectively been buried. No one in Denmark knows what this case is about, except that these top officials are being prosecuted for vague reasons, and with an undertone that it is all very unfair and probably a bad thing for Denmark.&lt;p&gt;Frankly, this BBC article probably contains more information than you would have from following the case in Danish media over a couple of years. (edit: Guardian, thanks for the correction)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scandinavian spy drama: An intelligence chief who came under state surveillance</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/02/scandinavian-spy-drama-the-intelligence-chief-who-came-under-state-surveillance</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>nmfisher</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m finding this difficult to follow. As far as I can tell:&lt;p&gt;1) Denmark partners with NSA for wiretap (presumably while Findsen&amp;#x2F;Frederiksen are head(s) of the respective agency)&lt;p&gt;2) Whistleblower thinks agency is overstepping its legal bounds in wiretap collection, files complaint and begins internal investigation&lt;p&gt;3) Agency dismisses results of internal investigation, tells whistleblower to drop it. Whistleblower subsequently goes to independent&amp;#x2F;external oversight body for investigation.&lt;p&gt;4) External oversight body publishes conclusion that agency illegally surveilled the entire country.&lt;p&gt;5) Findsen&amp;#x2F;Frederiksen arrested for allegedly disclosing details of the wiretap deal to various people (journalists&amp;#x2F;family&amp;#x2F;friends).&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t get it. What&amp;#x27;s the connection between the whistleblower and the &amp;quot;leaks&amp;quot;? Does the government need a sacrificial lamb for the illegal surveillance but they can&amp;#x27;t prosecute Findsen for that, so they&amp;#x27;re coming up with some alternate charges to placate the public?&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I have no sympathy for a spy boss whinging that he was under surveillance when (assuming what the whistleblower is saying is true), he was fine with putting &lt;i&gt;everybody in the whole country through practically the same thing&lt;/i&gt;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scandinavian spy drama: An intelligence chief who came under state surveillance</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/02/scandinavian-spy-drama-the-intelligence-chief-who-came-under-state-surveillance</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>standardUser</author><text>&amp;quot;...the same level as flashcard vocabulary learning&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;How exactly were you using it? It speaks to you, which is invaluable for developing an ear for the language. It forces you to translate both ways, which helps with reading and writing immensely. And optionally you can even speak answers in the foreign language to practice pronunciation (such that your phone can correctly transcribe what you&amp;#x27;re saying).&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not exactly an immersive language course, but it is vastly more useful than flash cards.&lt;p&gt;I know a lot of people like to speed through the tree and only complete the first level, which I suppose is a more vocab-focused way of using the app. But if you go deeper on each level it forces you to grapple with grammar a lot more.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nmfisher</author><text>I learned Mandarin and German pre-Duolingo, both to reasonable levels of proficiency.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve messed around with Duolingo a few times, just to get a feel for how useful it is. I came away feeling that it was about the same level as flashcard vocabulary learning - useful, but only a small part of the pie.&lt;p&gt;Vocabulary is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to be able to carry on a conversation. Mandarin in particular is more difficult, since you need to grind through hours and hour writing&amp;#x2F;rote learning characters to improve your vocabulary.&lt;p&gt;The one thing that noticeably accelerated my proficiency was having an actual conversation with a native speaker (host family&amp;#x2F;tutor&amp;#x2F;etc). That&amp;#x27;s not something that Duolingo really replicates.&lt;p&gt;Self-plug - coincidentally, earlier today I just released a small tool for Mandarin learners to practise their tone recognition! I&amp;#x27;ve been working on a larger app and this seemed like something that would have helped me when I first started out. App is currently live @ &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fluent.academy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fluent.academy&lt;/a&gt; - I&amp;#x27;ll be introducing more functionality for Mandarin learners in the near future, so would really love to hear from students of any level.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Duolingo</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51208154</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>dlevine</author><text>I have been learning Mandarin casually for a few years. A while back I went all the way through Duolingo. I picked up some new vocabulary, but it was probably the least effective study method I used.&lt;p&gt;With that said, it was reasonably fun, and I did stick with it for a while due to the gamification, so maybe there&amp;#x27;s hope for the feature. Just getting people to study a foreign language regularly is probably a good step.&lt;p&gt;I also think that they have implemented some more advanced learning features with a few languages.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nmfisher</author><text>I learned Mandarin and German pre-Duolingo, both to reasonable levels of proficiency.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve messed around with Duolingo a few times, just to get a feel for how useful it is. I came away feeling that it was about the same level as flashcard vocabulary learning - useful, but only a small part of the pie.&lt;p&gt;Vocabulary is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to be able to carry on a conversation. Mandarin in particular is more difficult, since you need to grind through hours and hour writing&amp;#x2F;rote learning characters to improve your vocabulary.&lt;p&gt;The one thing that noticeably accelerated my proficiency was having an actual conversation with a native speaker (host family&amp;#x2F;tutor&amp;#x2F;etc). That&amp;#x27;s not something that Duolingo really replicates.&lt;p&gt;Self-plug - coincidentally, earlier today I just released a small tool for Mandarin learners to practise their tone recognition! I&amp;#x27;ve been working on a larger app and this seemed like something that would have helped me when I first started out. App is currently live @ &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fluent.academy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fluent.academy&lt;/a&gt; - I&amp;#x27;ll be introducing more functionality for Mandarin learners in the near future, so would really love to hear from students of any level.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Duolingo</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51208154</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>njharman</author><text>The article is very slightly more nuanced but the conceptss the title purports is &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;DANGEROUSLY INCOMPETENT&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; for any security expert &amp;#x2F; discussion &amp;#x2F; context.&lt;p&gt;1) idea that security is something you check off and be done with is dangerously wrong. Security must be continuous, must be updated, reviewed, etc.&lt;p&gt;2) idea that you can &amp;quot;encrypt&amp;quot; [secure] your entire life is ludacris and leads to many dangerous security misconceptions. You don&amp;#x27;t even have control of your entire life, let alone ability to secure it. Most the data on you is owned by others and not even available to you to secure. &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;The world is not private or secure&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. Everyone needs to know and think about this when they are tweeting, sexting, talking shit about future president and then being surprised when SS comes to investigate.&lt;p&gt;3) idea that security is either on&amp;#x2F;off, a binary, that you can be secure or not. Is False and leads to extremely poor security choices, over&amp;#x2F;under securing. Nothing is secure. &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;There is not such thing as SECURE&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. Things lie on a gradient of security from easy to break to impractically difficult. Things on the impractical to break technically end are still broken due to social engineering, externalities (power consumption of cpu), poor practices surrounding item, etc. Security is making the effort required to get an item greater than the value of getting the item.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour</title><url>https://medium.freecodecamp.com/tor-signal-and-beyond-a-law-abiding-citizens-guide-to-privacy-1a593f2104c3#.ng2gfv9yj</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>schoen</author><text>[Copied from my comment on a duplicate post -- there seems to be random tracking junk at the end of the URL that prevents these from being detected as duplicates!]&lt;p&gt;I appreciate how practical these tips are and I hope people will follow them.&lt;p&gt;I have two quarrels with this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Andy Grove was a Hungarian refugee who escaped communism [... and] encourages us to be paranoid.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure that Grove was referring to business strategy, not communications security.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Congratulations — you can now use the internet with peace of mind that it’s virtually impossible for you to be tracked.&lt;p&gt;Something I&amp;#x27;ve seen over and over again is that Tor users tend to have a poor understanding of what Tor protects and doesn&amp;#x27;t protect. The original Tor paper said that Tor (or any technology of its kind) can&amp;#x27;t protect you against someone who can see both sides of the connection -- including just their &lt;i&gt;timing&lt;/i&gt;. Sometimes, some adversaries can see both sides of a person&amp;#x27;s connection. As The Grugq and others have documented, Tor users like Eldo Kim and Jeremy Hammond were caught by law enforcement because someone was monitoring the home and university networks from which they connected to Tor and saw that they used Tor at exactly the same time or times as the suspects did. (In Hammond&amp;#x27;s case, recurrently, confirming law enforcement&amp;#x27;s hypothesis about his identity; in Kim&amp;#x27;s case, only once, but apparently he was the only person at the university who used Tor at that specific time.)&lt;p&gt;As law enforcement has &lt;i&gt;actually identified Tor users&lt;/i&gt; in these cases, I think people need to understand that Tor is not magic and it protects certain things and not other things. In fact, I helped to make a chart about this a few years ago:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eff.org&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;tor-and-https&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eff.org&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;tor-and-https&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This chart was meant to show why using HTTPS is important when you use Tor, but it also points to other possible attacks (including an end-to-end timing correlation attack, represented in the chart by NSA observing the connection at two different places on the network) because many people in the picture know &lt;i&gt;something&lt;/i&gt; about what the user is doing.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been a fan of Tor for many years, but I think we have to do a lot better at communicating about its limitations.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour</title><url>https://medium.freecodecamp.com/tor-signal-and-beyond-a-law-abiding-citizens-guide-to-privacy-1a593f2104c3#.ng2gfv9yj</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeswin</author><text>But I wish new frameworks stayed away from inventing new language syntax. Not only is it a cognitive burden on programmers, it throws all the tooling off.&lt;p&gt;From Svelte: {#each cats as { id, name }, i}&lt;p&gt;JavaScript already has facility for loops and mapping, and relying on that will automatically get you tooling&amp;#x2F;IDE support. React handles this aspect quite well, and to me that&amp;#x27;s a point in favor of React.&lt;p&gt;I do agree with your post - especially on hooks being a step backward.</text><parent_chain><item><author>deckard1</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a big fan of Svelte. I&amp;#x27;ve raved about their documentation before, but it bears repeating: this should be the gold standard. You can read it all in a day. There are examples to follow right next to the documentation.&lt;p&gt;Svelte is both succinct and powerful. I find this in contrast to React which is often baffling and incoherent. I say this as someone that has used React professionally for 6 years. They&amp;#x27;ve changed their mind at least 3 times on the API and none of it fits together today. Hooks and classes don&amp;#x27;t mix, lifecycle methods are still out there and just as confusing today as they were years ago. Mixing state and functions. It&amp;#x27;s just a horrible bag of half-baked bad ideas. And it&amp;#x27;s not even batteries included.&lt;p&gt;Svelte has it all built-in. It has the equivalent of CSS modules. It has global reactive state and an incredibly simple state protocol that seems almost stupid if you&amp;#x27;re coming from Redux. You step out of your daze and realize you don&amp;#x27;t need all the rituals and boilerplate. The things I&amp;#x27;ve seen built on top of that simple protocol can be incredible. It&amp;#x27;s not magic. It&amp;#x27;s just JavaScript.&lt;p&gt;I dare say that Svelte is a joy. But I hesitate to even leave this comment here. Because I know the architecture astronauts are listening, eager to sink their claws into this simple elegant new thing and fill up their Github profiles with soon-to-be abandonware cruft which they will use to pad out article after Medium article which will all pour down upon Hacker News like a shit typhoon. Prodding us to join their cult of Svelte+RxJS. Or Svelte Sagas. Or their random dogma they toss into a giant bucket labeled &amp;quot;Svelte best practices.&amp;quot; And, of course, &amp;quot;Ten ways you are doing Svelte wrong.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I might be a little bit cynical.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Comparing Svelte and React</title><url>https://www.jackfranklin.co.uk/blog/comparing-svelte-and-react-javascript/</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>alfonsodev</author><text>I think many people adopted React because Facebook was behind it, and using it in production, the ecosystem is huge, there is a react- package for everything you can image, there is also react-native, I don&amp;#x27;t like it, but there it is, you can reuse the knowledge to build native mobile apps.&lt;p&gt;Now Svelte, I haven&amp;#x27;t been following, but I think the creators are working in what&amp;#x27;s going to be next and even better framework[1], to your point of things in Svelte not changing as much as in React, maybe it just a matter of time. Here is the video I had in my bookmarks for a while, I still couldn&amp;#x27;t make the time to watch, so I hope my comment is not too far from reality.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=qSfdtmcZ4d0&amp;amp;t=875s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=qSfdtmcZ4d0&amp;amp;t=875s&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>deckard1</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a big fan of Svelte. I&amp;#x27;ve raved about their documentation before, but it bears repeating: this should be the gold standard. You can read it all in a day. There are examples to follow right next to the documentation.&lt;p&gt;Svelte is both succinct and powerful. I find this in contrast to React which is often baffling and incoherent. I say this as someone that has used React professionally for 6 years. They&amp;#x27;ve changed their mind at least 3 times on the API and none of it fits together today. Hooks and classes don&amp;#x27;t mix, lifecycle methods are still out there and just as confusing today as they were years ago. Mixing state and functions. It&amp;#x27;s just a horrible bag of half-baked bad ideas. And it&amp;#x27;s not even batteries included.&lt;p&gt;Svelte has it all built-in. It has the equivalent of CSS modules. It has global reactive state and an incredibly simple state protocol that seems almost stupid if you&amp;#x27;re coming from Redux. You step out of your daze and realize you don&amp;#x27;t need all the rituals and boilerplate. The things I&amp;#x27;ve seen built on top of that simple protocol can be incredible. It&amp;#x27;s not magic. It&amp;#x27;s just JavaScript.&lt;p&gt;I dare say that Svelte is a joy. But I hesitate to even leave this comment here. Because I know the architecture astronauts are listening, eager to sink their claws into this simple elegant new thing and fill up their Github profiles with soon-to-be abandonware cruft which they will use to pad out article after Medium article which will all pour down upon Hacker News like a shit typhoon. Prodding us to join their cult of Svelte+RxJS. Or Svelte Sagas. Or their random dogma they toss into a giant bucket labeled &amp;quot;Svelte best practices.&amp;quot; And, of course, &amp;quot;Ten ways you are doing Svelte wrong.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I might be a little bit cynical.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Comparing Svelte and React</title><url>https://www.jackfranklin.co.uk/blog/comparing-svelte-and-react-javascript/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I really hope the ECC carries through. It irritates me to have to buy a &amp;quot;server&amp;quot; CPU if I want ECC on my desktop (which I do) and it isn&amp;#x27;t that many gates! Its not like folks are tight on transistors or anything. And on my 48GB desktop (currently using a Xeon CPU) I&amp;#x27;ll see anywhere from 1 to 4 corrected single bit errors a month.&lt;p&gt;For things like large CAD drawings which are essentially one giant data structure, flipping a bit in the middle of them somewhere silently can leave the file unable to be opened. So I certainly prefer not to have those bits flip.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X and 1950X CPUs Announced</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/11636/amd-ryzen-threadripper-1920x-1950x-16-cores-4g-turbo-799-999-usd</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>walkingolof</author><text>Best thing about this is that competition is back (in the high end x86 market) and the winner is the consumer, CPU market have been stale for a while.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X and 1950X CPUs Announced</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/11636/amd-ryzen-threadripper-1920x-1950x-16-cores-4g-turbo-799-999-usd</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anthonyskipper</author><text>Try mining cryptocurrency, running prime95, playing fps shooters, or even dota on high settings. You will notice the battery draining while plugged in. You also see it if you are on an airplane, but that is usually because the charger tries to pull too much and overheats and gives up ghost. Macbooks have underpowered chargers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chipotle_coyote</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;think&lt;/i&gt; I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen that behavior with a MacBook Pro of any vintage -- and I&amp;#x27;ve had an MBP of one stripe or another since at least 2007, using the date of the 2007 MacBook Pro gathering dust bunnies nearby -- except when I use the wrong power supply with it, e.g., a 13&amp;quot; MBP power supply with a 15&amp;quot; one, or my MacBook Air&amp;#x27;s power supply with any MBP now.&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t doubt it&amp;#x27;s possible to draw more power than the adapter can give you if you&amp;#x27;re pushing the MBP full-bore, but I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure that under normal power loads, this doesn&amp;#x27;t happen.</text></item><item><author>JadeNB</author><text>MBPs at some point switched to drawing power faster than it could be provided by the plug alone. Of course, you can&amp;#x27;t tell nowadays whether laptops will work without a battery, because most batteries are non-removeable.</text></item><item><author>pinfisher</author><text>That is unusual. I have never had a laptop that would not work without a battery present.</text></item><item><author>zozbot234</author><text>&amp;gt; What I&amp;#x27;d like to know is if it will work with the battery compartment empty on AC power only.&lt;p&gt;The Pinebook &lt;i&gt;laptops&lt;/i&gt; can work without a battery while connected to AC, but not out of the box. A simple hardware mod is necessary to enable this, that&amp;#x27;s documented by Pine.</text></item><item><author>slantyyz</author><text>I noticed this has a removable battery, which makes this very interesting to me.&lt;p&gt;What I&amp;#x27;d like to know is if it will work with the battery compartment empty on AC power only.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to have &amp;quot;smart&amp;quot; displays wall mounted around the house with dashboards on them. I&amp;#x27;ve read about so many instances where people used wall mounted iPads and Android tablets where the batteries would swell after a period of use.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard</title><url>https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinetab-10-1-linux-tablet-with-detached-backlit-keyboard</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>Rebelgecko</author><text>I suspect that this is the reason why MBPs now refuse to boot on low battery. You used to be able to start up the machine when your battery was at 0% (as long as you were plugged in), but newer MBPs complain and don&amp;#x27;t boot up until you recharge to 10% or so.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chipotle_coyote</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;think&lt;/i&gt; I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen that behavior with a MacBook Pro of any vintage -- and I&amp;#x27;ve had an MBP of one stripe or another since at least 2007, using the date of the 2007 MacBook Pro gathering dust bunnies nearby -- except when I use the wrong power supply with it, e.g., a 13&amp;quot; MBP power supply with a 15&amp;quot; one, or my MacBook Air&amp;#x27;s power supply with any MBP now.&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t doubt it&amp;#x27;s possible to draw more power than the adapter can give you if you&amp;#x27;re pushing the MBP full-bore, but I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure that under normal power loads, this doesn&amp;#x27;t happen.</text></item><item><author>JadeNB</author><text>MBPs at some point switched to drawing power faster than it could be provided by the plug alone. Of course, you can&amp;#x27;t tell nowadays whether laptops will work without a battery, because most batteries are non-removeable.</text></item><item><author>pinfisher</author><text>That is unusual. I have never had a laptop that would not work without a battery present.</text></item><item><author>zozbot234</author><text>&amp;gt; What I&amp;#x27;d like to know is if it will work with the battery compartment empty on AC power only.&lt;p&gt;The Pinebook &lt;i&gt;laptops&lt;/i&gt; can work without a battery while connected to AC, but not out of the box. A simple hardware mod is necessary to enable this, that&amp;#x27;s documented by Pine.</text></item><item><author>slantyyz</author><text>I noticed this has a removable battery, which makes this very interesting to me.&lt;p&gt;What I&amp;#x27;d like to know is if it will work with the battery compartment empty on AC power only.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to have &amp;quot;smart&amp;quot; displays wall mounted around the house with dashboards on them. I&amp;#x27;ve read about so many instances where people used wall mounted iPads and Android tablets where the batteries would swell after a period of use.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard</title><url>https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinetab-10-1-linux-tablet-with-detached-backlit-keyboard</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Simon_ORourke</author><text>&amp;gt; I do NOT recommend being upfront, unless there are no formal procedures in place and being honest actually helps. We are talking about your ability to feed and shelter yourself, so give up on the “honesty” thing. I have -never- been able to provide for myself after having been “honest”. [edit: after reading felonintexas let me update this. If someone point blank asks, tell them. Don’t volunteer this information. There is nothing to be gained]&lt;p&gt;No better advice has ever been given on HN, from minor things to major stuff. Never volunteer any information about yourself to anyone in the office beyond what is required to complete your job. Never say too much about previous roles and keep it very general.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nope00</author><text>Nov’22 is very recent, and won’t be your experience forever. It’s been a little over 20 years for me. Now, I get background checked every year. It doesn’t show.&lt;p&gt;Initially I worked in food service and on phpfreelancer. I spun that into consistent consulting work until a client offered a full time position (less than 15 people, no background checks).&lt;p&gt;As the years rolled by, I kept moving around. Eventually I tried at a large company(around 8 years ago) and nothing showed on the background check.&lt;p&gt;I do NOT recommend being upfront, unless there are no formal procedures in place and being honest actually helps. We are talking about your ability to feed and shelter yourself, so give up on the “honesty” thing. I have -never- been able to provide for myself after having been “honest”. [edit: after reading felonintexas let me update this. If someone point blank asks, tell them. Don’t volunteer this information. There is nothing to be gained]&lt;p&gt;Also, you are now an edge case. That means most advice doesn’t apply. This is both exciting and horribly anxiety driving at the same time. You will have to become comfortable blazing your own path and doing things others say is not possible.&lt;p&gt;Seriously, good luck. It is possible. It is amazing what you can do that everyone else thinks can’t be done.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?</title><text>Hello HN,&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have experience getting back into tech&amp;#x2F;startups post-felony?&lt;p&gt;I have been looking for work since I was released for an assault charge in November 2022.&lt;p&gt;Previously I worked in Information Security as a SecOps Eng, most recently at Tinder. Between lack of recent job experience, and my record, I have been through a series of offer reneges, recruiters ghosting me, or going into HR resume black holes.&lt;p&gt;I am eager to get back into tech and feel like my old self adding value to a great team&amp;#x2F;org.&lt;p&gt;Anyone have leads on companies that are open to taking chances on good candidates with less than sparkling backgrounds?&lt;p&gt;NOTE: My offense was not computer&amp;#x2F;finance&amp;#x2F;fraud&amp;#x2F;selling drugs&amp;#x2F;physical violence&amp;#x2F;based at all.&lt;p&gt;Here is my linkedin:&lt;p&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linkedin.com&amp;#x2F;in&amp;#x2F;saunderscaleb&amp;#x2F;</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>tonetegeatinst</author><text>Not a felon but grew up with everyone telling us that colleges would search our social media etc.&lt;p&gt;A friend told me that the 2 important rules to surviving corporate environments is the following in no specific order.&lt;p&gt;1. Never lie to someone, and own what you did. Wordsmithing is a gray area but never lie, the reputation of not being truthful can follow you for decades.&lt;p&gt;2. Never volunteer information that isn&amp;#x27;t specifically asked for. This isn&amp;#x27;t a free pass to not provide critical info when your working on stuff like a project, but keep in mind that HR always can dig up info when they want to fire you or not offer you a job. Be honest and to the point, but don&amp;#x27;t volunteer info that can put you in a bad spot.&lt;p&gt;TLDR: if they don&amp;#x27;t ask, don&amp;#x27;t tell. But if they ask, be honest</text><parent_chain><item><author>nope00</author><text>Nov’22 is very recent, and won’t be your experience forever. It’s been a little over 20 years for me. Now, I get background checked every year. It doesn’t show.&lt;p&gt;Initially I worked in food service and on phpfreelancer. I spun that into consistent consulting work until a client offered a full time position (less than 15 people, no background checks).&lt;p&gt;As the years rolled by, I kept moving around. Eventually I tried at a large company(around 8 years ago) and nothing showed on the background check.&lt;p&gt;I do NOT recommend being upfront, unless there are no formal procedures in place and being honest actually helps. We are talking about your ability to feed and shelter yourself, so give up on the “honesty” thing. I have -never- been able to provide for myself after having been “honest”. [edit: after reading felonintexas let me update this. If someone point blank asks, tell them. Don’t volunteer this information. There is nothing to be gained]&lt;p&gt;Also, you are now an edge case. That means most advice doesn’t apply. This is both exciting and horribly anxiety driving at the same time. You will have to become comfortable blazing your own path and doing things others say is not possible.&lt;p&gt;Seriously, good luck. It is possible. It is amazing what you can do that everyone else thinks can’t be done.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?</title><text>Hello HN,&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have experience getting back into tech&amp;#x2F;startups post-felony?&lt;p&gt;I have been looking for work since I was released for an assault charge in November 2022.&lt;p&gt;Previously I worked in Information Security as a SecOps Eng, most recently at Tinder. Between lack of recent job experience, and my record, I have been through a series of offer reneges, recruiters ghosting me, or going into HR resume black holes.&lt;p&gt;I am eager to get back into tech and feel like my old self adding value to a great team&amp;#x2F;org.&lt;p&gt;Anyone have leads on companies that are open to taking chances on good candidates with less than sparkling backgrounds?&lt;p&gt;NOTE: My offense was not computer&amp;#x2F;finance&amp;#x2F;fraud&amp;#x2F;selling drugs&amp;#x2F;physical violence&amp;#x2F;based at all.&lt;p&gt;Here is my linkedin:&lt;p&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linkedin.com&amp;#x2F;in&amp;#x2F;saunderscaleb&amp;#x2F;</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>tivert</author><text>&amp;gt; Finally! This is so annoying for Spotify users. Every time the system starts up, and Spotify is configured to start at startup, but you haven&amp;#x27;t interacted with the window yet, then press the physical play button on the keyboard—instead of starting playback as you&amp;#x27;d expect, the system starts Apple Music. It drives me mad.&lt;p&gt;But you&amp;#x27;re in Apple&amp;#x27;s ecosystem, you&amp;#x27;re supposed to use Apple products, happily.&lt;p&gt;The obvious fix for that &amp;quot;bug&amp;quot; is to start using Apple Music.</text><parent_chain><item><author>9dev</author><text>Finally! This is &lt;i&gt;so annoying&lt;/i&gt; for Spotify users. Every time the system starts up, and Spotify is configured to start at startup, but you haven&amp;#x27;t interacted with the window yet, then press the physical play button on the keyboard—instead of starting playback as you&amp;#x27;d expect, the system starts Apple Music. It drives me mad.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching</title><url>https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes</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>rcleveng</author><text>Also annoying if you use AirPods for Google Meet and Zoom. Half of the time when I put in my AirPods, here comes Apple Music, stealing focus from what I was trying to do.</text><parent_chain><item><author>9dev</author><text>Finally! This is &lt;i&gt;so annoying&lt;/i&gt; for Spotify users. Every time the system starts up, and Spotify is configured to start at startup, but you haven&amp;#x27;t interacted with the window yet, then press the physical play button on the keyboard—instead of starting playback as you&amp;#x27;d expect, the system starts Apple Music. It drives me mad.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching</title><url>https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pengaru</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not like you don&amp;#x27;t have the option of burning $duration_of_commute on personal time when you&amp;#x27;re already at home. &lt;i&gt;You&lt;/i&gt; set the boundaries, enforce them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a very personal decision though. For example, if I may offer up some counterarguments:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I step outside my home office to see my family and start unwinding for the evening. No wasted time on commute&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I find the commute (by train, I&amp;#x27;m lucky enough to get a seat) far more effective for unwinding to be honest. And once I&amp;#x27;m home, I&amp;#x27;m far more engaged with the family due to having that buffer time between work and home.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;the options for places to live are endless.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That never actually stopped me before. Hence the commute&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Not to mention I eat my own food on my lunch break.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;the biggest thing I miss about not commuting into London is the food. The variety, the quality, and above all, not having to cook it myself. Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, I don&amp;#x27;t mind cooking. But a lot of eateries do a lot better job of their signature meal than I could.&lt;p&gt;That all said, I&amp;#x27;m in no rush to go back. And when I do, it&amp;#x27;ll be a hybrid approach. Some days in and some days from home.&lt;p&gt;edit: why am I getting &lt;i&gt;heavily&lt;/i&gt; down voted for discussing personal reasons why I enjoyed working in the office? It&amp;#x27;s not like I&amp;#x27;m telling you your opinions are wrong or that you should go back to the office. All I&amp;#x27;m doing is voicing that there are some who do enjoy travelling into the city most days. Is it really that offensive a view point to read? Some people on here don&amp;#x27;t deserve to have moderation privileges.</text></item><item><author>lancemurdock</author><text>you can&amp;#x27;t put a price on the feeling I get when 5-530 hits, and I step outside my home office to see my family and start unwinding for the evening. No wasted time on commute and the options for places to live are endless. Not to mention I eat my own food on my lunch break.&lt;p&gt;I miss some interaction&amp;#x2F;bonding with coworkers and certainly acknowledge that &amp;quot;hallway talk&amp;quot; helped clear up requirements but the pros of work from home life are incomparable to the cons. I will never go back to an office</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Turmoil at Bezos&apos; Blue Origin: Talent exodus after CEO push for return to office</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-talent-exodus-ceo-pushed-return-to-office.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>hahajk</author><text>For those who are worried that they’ll miss the commute, you should consider ending the work day with exercise. You still get the alone&amp;#x2F;unplugged time but combined with endorphins and a general feeling of wellness. And it’s way better for you than sitting in a car!</text><parent_chain><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a very personal decision though. For example, if I may offer up some counterarguments:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I step outside my home office to see my family and start unwinding for the evening. No wasted time on commute&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I find the commute (by train, I&amp;#x27;m lucky enough to get a seat) far more effective for unwinding to be honest. And once I&amp;#x27;m home, I&amp;#x27;m far more engaged with the family due to having that buffer time between work and home.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;the options for places to live are endless.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That never actually stopped me before. Hence the commute&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Not to mention I eat my own food on my lunch break.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;the biggest thing I miss about not commuting into London is the food. The variety, the quality, and above all, not having to cook it myself. Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, I don&amp;#x27;t mind cooking. But a lot of eateries do a lot better job of their signature meal than I could.&lt;p&gt;That all said, I&amp;#x27;m in no rush to go back. And when I do, it&amp;#x27;ll be a hybrid approach. Some days in and some days from home.&lt;p&gt;edit: why am I getting &lt;i&gt;heavily&lt;/i&gt; down voted for discussing personal reasons why I enjoyed working in the office? It&amp;#x27;s not like I&amp;#x27;m telling you your opinions are wrong or that you should go back to the office. All I&amp;#x27;m doing is voicing that there are some who do enjoy travelling into the city most days. Is it really that offensive a view point to read? Some people on here don&amp;#x27;t deserve to have moderation privileges.</text></item><item><author>lancemurdock</author><text>you can&amp;#x27;t put a price on the feeling I get when 5-530 hits, and I step outside my home office to see my family and start unwinding for the evening. No wasted time on commute and the options for places to live are endless. Not to mention I eat my own food on my lunch break.&lt;p&gt;I miss some interaction&amp;#x2F;bonding with coworkers and certainly acknowledge that &amp;quot;hallway talk&amp;quot; helped clear up requirements but the pros of work from home life are incomparable to the cons. I will never go back to an office</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Turmoil at Bezos&apos; Blue Origin: Talent exodus after CEO push for return to office</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-talent-exodus-ceo-pushed-return-to-office.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>chongli</author><text>Between her and McConnell and the other gerontocrats in Washington, I’m really baffled. Why do these people grip the reins of power until their knuckles turn white? What is so important about political horse trading that they have to literally haul you out of office on a stretcher?</text><parent_chain><item><author>bhouston</author><text>She was mentally unfit to serve for the last couple years. It was a travesty many countries seem to have no mental bar required to serve or even reasonable age limits (Feinstein was 90!) Any decision &amp;quot;she&amp;quot; was made in the last couple years was made by her aids and not her. This is not how democracy is supposed to work.&lt;p&gt;Details:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Four U.S. senators, including three Democrats, as well as three former Feinstein staffers and the California Democratic member of Congress told The Chronicle in recent interviews that her memory is rapidly deteriorating. They said it appears she can no longer fulfill her job duties without her staff doing much of the work required to represent the nearly 40 million people of California.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;dianne-feinstein-senate-17079487.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;dianne-feinstei...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;With our aging population, we need to figure out how to be inclusive of those who can contribute, while identifying those who can not. Hard age limits are likely becoming less desirable as the population ages - retirement at 55 will seem like a joke. But that doesn&amp;#x27;t mean we should just accept people who are not with it in various positions of power.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dianne Feinstein has died</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/us/politics/dianne-feinstein-dead-senate.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>coldpie</author><text>Yes, and she&amp;#x27;s not the only one who is (edit: was) serving without being functional[1]. We need to start talking about upper age limits for public office. I believe it&amp;#x27;d require a constitutional amendment, but I expect there&amp;#x27;s lots of support for it from all sides. I&amp;#x27;d suggest 65 as a maximum age for being elected, which means one could serve to about age 71, for a six-year Senate term.&lt;p&gt;[1] This article is from six years ago. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www3.bostonglobe.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;congressional-pharmacy-has-reportedly-delivered-alzheimer-drugs-members-congress&amp;#x2F;4K2HsLB7YqLXIFDFzyHQxM&amp;#x2F;story.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www3.bostonglobe.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;congres...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>bhouston</author><text>She was mentally unfit to serve for the last couple years. It was a travesty many countries seem to have no mental bar required to serve or even reasonable age limits (Feinstein was 90!) Any decision &amp;quot;she&amp;quot; was made in the last couple years was made by her aids and not her. This is not how democracy is supposed to work.&lt;p&gt;Details:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Four U.S. senators, including three Democrats, as well as three former Feinstein staffers and the California Democratic member of Congress told The Chronicle in recent interviews that her memory is rapidly deteriorating. They said it appears she can no longer fulfill her job duties without her staff doing much of the work required to represent the nearly 40 million people of California.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;dianne-feinstein-senate-17079487.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;dianne-feinstei...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;With our aging population, we need to figure out how to be inclusive of those who can contribute, while identifying those who can not. Hard age limits are likely becoming less desirable as the population ages - retirement at 55 will seem like a joke. But that doesn&amp;#x27;t mean we should just accept people who are not with it in various positions of power.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dianne Feinstein has died</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/us/politics/dianne-feinstein-dead-senate.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>zackmorris</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s because:&lt;p&gt;1) Caller id was conceptually flawed from the beginning so was implemented as an honor system instead of something required to communicate (like an IP address)&lt;p&gt;2) Caller id is unregulated, so there is no penalty for spoofing&lt;p&gt;My previous comment on it:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=19303931&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=19303931&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;From the linked article:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Unlike phone numbers and domain name service (DNS), wherein there are internationally recognized databases that are authoritative sources, there is no central authority or regulation for caller ID. No FCC guidelines regulate carrier accuracy, and although federal regulations exist regarding telemarketers and spoofing, carriers can maintain their caller ID databases as they see fit.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.onsip.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;how-caller-id-works-why-it-might-take-months-to-update&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.onsip.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;how-caller-id-works-why-it-might-...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>themagician</author><text>Can someone explain to me how spoofing is even possible and why it is allowed? That’s what I’ve never understood about this whole thing. Does it has any legitimate use?&lt;p&gt;Robocalls would be much easier to address if you could block&amp;#x2F;report the actual number they come from.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The FCC has fined robocallers $208M and collected $7k</title><url>https://www.foxnews.com/tech/the-fcc-has-fined-robocallers-208-million-its-collected-6790</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>eridius</author><text>AIUI spoofing is possible because the phone systems were designed back in the days when a single entity controlled the entire network and so everything just trusts everything else.&lt;p&gt;That said, I don&amp;#x27;t know why we still haven&amp;#x27;t fixed this. We&amp;#x27;ve had plenty of time. I guess the answer just comes down to it costs money to fix it and the phone companies historically haven&amp;#x27;t cared. Though at this point, given how many people outright refuse to answer numbers they don&amp;#x27;t recognize due to spammers, you&amp;#x27;d think the phone companies would be feeling financial pressure to work towards restoring trust in the phone system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>themagician</author><text>Can someone explain to me how spoofing is even possible and why it is allowed? That’s what I’ve never understood about this whole thing. Does it has any legitimate use?&lt;p&gt;Robocalls would be much easier to address if you could block&amp;#x2F;report the actual number they come from.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The FCC has fined robocallers $208M and collected $7k</title><url>https://www.foxnews.com/tech/the-fcc-has-fined-robocallers-208-million-its-collected-6790</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>They awarded Obama a Nobel before he ever had a chance to do anything. There is a whole magic negro thing going on with Europeans intent on demonstrating that they aren&amp;#x27;t bigots. Right until the point they have brown immigrants entering their own country.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_vbnz</author><text>Yeah, it was shocking here in Stockholm when there were BLM protests in 2020.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like people are more involved in US politics than their national politics.</text></item><item><author>hunglee2</author><text>I think we (Americans &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; Europeans alike) wholly underestimate how Americanised European culture is becoming.&lt;p&gt;This is an observation rather than a criticism as I don&amp;#x27;t know whether this is &amp;#x27;good&amp;#x27; or &amp;#x27;bad&amp;#x27; but it is noticeable phenomena manifest through language, and probably an unintended consequence of the dependency of Europe on US communication technology, leading to the import of US communication styles, political priorities and cultural values.&lt;p&gt;France have always been conscious of this, no doubt as a result of their centuries old conflict with England, but it is interesting now to see Italian nationalists responding similarly. It&amp;#x27;s futile of course, as neither Italians, French nor any combination of European countries can or will make an internet independent of the US</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/01/europe/italian-government-penalize-english-words-intl/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>unmole</author><text>There was a protest march in Mumbai against gun violence in the US. That was the only time I ever wanted to punch someone for expressing a political opinion in person.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_vbnz</author><text>Yeah, it was shocking here in Stockholm when there were BLM protests in 2020.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like people are more involved in US politics than their national politics.</text></item><item><author>hunglee2</author><text>I think we (Americans &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; Europeans alike) wholly underestimate how Americanised European culture is becoming.&lt;p&gt;This is an observation rather than a criticism as I don&amp;#x27;t know whether this is &amp;#x27;good&amp;#x27; or &amp;#x27;bad&amp;#x27; but it is noticeable phenomena manifest through language, and probably an unintended consequence of the dependency of Europe on US communication technology, leading to the import of US communication styles, political priorities and cultural values.&lt;p&gt;France have always been conscious of this, no doubt as a result of their centuries old conflict with England, but it is interesting now to see Italian nationalists responding similarly. It&amp;#x27;s futile of course, as neither Italians, French nor any combination of European countries can or will make an internet independent of the US</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/01/europe/italian-government-penalize-english-words-intl/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>jtode</author><text>The spam is the biggest issue. We never solved it there, and it&amp;#x27;s only being controlled on usenet&amp;#x27;s imitators through tight control, which is not a feature of usenet.&lt;p&gt;One setup I could see working is a pubkey setup where anyone who posts, always encrypts with their private key, and anyone you want to hear from, you add their public key to your list of keys you decrypt to read.&lt;p&gt;Aggregators can occupy public keys as their &amp;quot;address&amp;quot; and any aggregator that gets obnoxious, you just trim it from your list, which only contains things you&amp;#x27;ve either let in or accepted via slates or whitelists.&lt;p&gt;Then the spammers can do whatever they like, really.&lt;p&gt;I believe the main reason usenet faded so thoroughly was that it became a piracy distribution platform very early on (not sure which came first, the pirate booty or the porn booty, but I&amp;#x27;m guessing porn), and very quickly there came a kind of unspoken &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t talk about usenet&amp;quot; code among those who already knew about it. At the time, Napster and bittorrent were the main targets of the authorities and IP trolls and usenet was just doing a Jim-From-The-Office-smirking-through-the-blinds.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mindcrime</author><text>I was in an AI conference yesterday, and there was a bunch of discussion in the chat about Slack channels, Discord servers, etc. So I was literally just lamenting the state of shared discussion forums, and commented that we all need to go back to Usenet and drop all these lame &amp;quot;walled garden&amp;quot; proprietary forums.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to tell people &amp;quot;install Thunderbird, sign up for a free Usenet provider, and join comp.ai, comp.misc, etc and have fun.&amp;quot; But I&amp;#x27;m a bit leery of encouraging people to do that since I&amp;#x27;m not sure what the state of spam being sent to the various Usenet groups is, or how providers are handling spam filtering (if at all).&lt;p&gt;That said, there&amp;#x27;s definitely a place for NNTP &amp;#x2F; Usenet. It might take some work to fix up some issues, but it would be great to see vibrant &amp;#x2F; fruitful discussions via Usenet again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>USENET rises again?</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/</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>reidrac</author><text>&amp;gt; sign up for a free Usenet provider&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but you make it sound like there are many. That allow posting, and free, I think I only know one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mindcrime</author><text>I was in an AI conference yesterday, and there was a bunch of discussion in the chat about Slack channels, Discord servers, etc. So I was literally just lamenting the state of shared discussion forums, and commented that we all need to go back to Usenet and drop all these lame &amp;quot;walled garden&amp;quot; proprietary forums.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to tell people &amp;quot;install Thunderbird, sign up for a free Usenet provider, and join comp.ai, comp.misc, etc and have fun.&amp;quot; But I&amp;#x27;m a bit leery of encouraging people to do that since I&amp;#x27;m not sure what the state of spam being sent to the various Usenet groups is, or how providers are handling spam filtering (if at all).&lt;p&gt;That said, there&amp;#x27;s definitely a place for NNTP &amp;#x2F; Usenet. It might take some work to fix up some issues, but it would be great to see vibrant &amp;#x2F; fruitful discussions via Usenet again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>USENET rises again?</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/</url></story>

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<instructions>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;quot;Kinect is sort of like a zero-button mouse with a lot of latency on it.&amp;quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>John Carmack Quakecon 2013 Keynote Livestream</title><url>http://www.twitch.tv/bethesda</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>jhickner</author><text>John Carmack talks at length about Haskell in this keynote. Definitely worth watching if you&amp;#x27;re interested in that stuff.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>John Carmack Quakecon 2013 Keynote Livestream</title><url>http://www.twitch.tv/bethesda</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>koboll</author><text>Okay, so Facebook has said she&lt;p&gt;- worked there for less than two years and had no direct reports&lt;p&gt;- never attended some sort of key meeting&lt;p&gt;- did not work on the subject matter in question&lt;p&gt;...and therefore, she lacks context which undermines some of her claims.&lt;p&gt;Which of those is a matter of character, or a &amp;quot;disgusting&amp;quot; attack? They might be wrong, or they might be right but bringing up irrelevancies, but the writer is acting like stating these is some sort of reprehensible smear.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook’s attempt to smear the whistleblower</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/5/22711182/facebook-whistleblower-smear-pr-response</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>ryandrake</author><text>I always liked Edward R. Murrow&amp;#x27;s response to Senator McCarthy&amp;#x27;s attempt to smear him: &amp;quot;Since he made no reference to any statements of fact that we made, we must conclude that he found no errors of fact.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.americanrhetoric.com&amp;#x2F;speeches&amp;#x2F;edwardrmurrowtomccarthy.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.americanrhetoric.com&amp;#x2F;speeches&amp;#x2F;edwardrmurrowtomcc...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook’s attempt to smear the whistleblower</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/5/22711182/facebook-whistleblower-smear-pr-response</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amai</author><text>In Denmark political ads are banned on TV. That reduces the amount of money necessary for campaigns before an election quite a lot:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oscepa.org&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news-a-media&amp;#x2F;op-eds&amp;#x2F;the-danish-way-of-elections&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oscepa.org&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news-a-media&amp;#x2F;op-eds&amp;#x2F;the-danish-way...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;slks.dk&amp;#x2F;fileadmin&amp;#x2F;user_upload&amp;#x2F;dokumenter&amp;#x2F;medier&amp;#x2F;reklamer&amp;#x2F;political_advertising_tv&amp;#x2F;poladvertising.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;slks.dk&amp;#x2F;fileadmin&amp;#x2F;user_upload&amp;#x2F;dokumenter&amp;#x2F;medier&amp;#x2F;rekl...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>Hermel</author><text>Still banned in Germany: ads for lawyers, ads for doctors, ads for cigarettes, ads for gambling, and ads for drugs that need a prescription.&lt;p&gt;When traveling to the US, it always strikes me how different public ads are. The US has more public ads and also much more aggressive ads. An ad for an injury lawyer would be unthinkable in Europa.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Germany Ends Ban on Abortion Advertisement</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/world/europe/germany-abortion-law.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>GeneralTspoon</author><text>&amp;gt; ads for cigarettes&lt;p&gt;When did this happen? When I was in Munich a few years back there were poster ads for cigarettes everywhere. I remember them being not very subtle about their “smoking is cool” message.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Hermel</author><text>Still banned in Germany: ads for lawyers, ads for doctors, ads for cigarettes, ads for gambling, and ads for drugs that need a prescription.&lt;p&gt;When traveling to the US, it always strikes me how different public ads are. The US has more public ads and also much more aggressive ads. An ad for an injury lawyer would be unthinkable in Europa.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Germany Ends Ban on Abortion Advertisement</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/world/europe/germany-abortion-law.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>King-Aaron</author><text>&amp;gt; If they&amp;#x27;re all keeping their racist opinions to themselves, I might waste a bunch of time being their friends&lt;p&gt;I have several friends who I know hold some less-than-sociable opinions, and they do tend to keep them to themselves.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t quite know how to frame what I&amp;#x27;m about to say, but I feel it&amp;#x27;s equally dickish to think that becoming someone&amp;#x27;s friend is a &amp;quot;waste of time&amp;quot; just because you don&amp;#x27;t agree with their opinion.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danschumann</author><text>The problem with hate speech laws are, it means you can&amp;#x27;t insult everyone equally. If you call someone stupid, they could accuse you of a crime, but you&amp;#x27;re not calling them stupid because of their race.&lt;p&gt;And I want people who actually are racist to talk, so I know who I don&amp;#x27;t want to be friends with. If they&amp;#x27;re all keeping their racist opinions to themselves, I might waste a bunch of time being their friends. And I can&amp;#x27;t correct them when they&amp;#x27;re wrong if they don&amp;#x27;t expose their opinions.&lt;p&gt;And what about having an argument? Someone could accuse you of a crime if they misinterpret what you say. That&amp;#x27;s the real problem here. You can say something with no hateful intent, but people can interpret it with vigorous hate. It&amp;#x27;s a really stupid law.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>German hate speech law tested as Twitter blocks satire account</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-hatecrime/german-hate-speech-law-tested-as-twitter-blocks-satire-account-idUSKBN1ES1AT</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>wernercd</author><text> &amp;gt; I want people who actually are racist to talk, so I know who I don&amp;#x27;t want to be friends with.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s more important and wide than &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t want to be their friends&amp;quot;...&lt;p&gt;How can you attack ideas if they aren&amp;#x27;t brought out into the open? How can you convince the racist? Or the people that have those thoughts but don&amp;#x27;t mention them?&lt;p&gt;They corner stone of freedom is discussing ideas.&lt;p&gt;I want the most vile pieces of shit to have their chance to speak... so that I can talk to them. I can talk to those who will listen. I will combat their ideas.&lt;p&gt;Cowards hide from ideas and words. It takes strength to fight them head on and out in the open.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danschumann</author><text>The problem with hate speech laws are, it means you can&amp;#x27;t insult everyone equally. If you call someone stupid, they could accuse you of a crime, but you&amp;#x27;re not calling them stupid because of their race.&lt;p&gt;And I want people who actually are racist to talk, so I know who I don&amp;#x27;t want to be friends with. If they&amp;#x27;re all keeping their racist opinions to themselves, I might waste a bunch of time being their friends. And I can&amp;#x27;t correct them when they&amp;#x27;re wrong if they don&amp;#x27;t expose their opinions.&lt;p&gt;And what about having an argument? Someone could accuse you of a crime if they misinterpret what you say. That&amp;#x27;s the real problem here. You can say something with no hateful intent, but people can interpret it with vigorous hate. It&amp;#x27;s a really stupid law.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>German hate speech law tested as Twitter blocks satire account</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-hatecrime/german-hate-speech-law-tested-as-twitter-blocks-satire-account-idUSKBN1ES1AT</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>msadowski</author><text>Very, interesting project! I found it so inspiring that I included it in the Weekly Robotics #34 that is live since 30s ago (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;weeklyrobotics.com&amp;#x2F;weekly-robotics-34&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;weeklyrobotics.com&amp;#x2F;weekly-robotics-34&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;For anyone interested here is a link to the paper: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arxiv.org&amp;#x2F;abs&amp;#x2F;1904.03815&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arxiv.org&amp;#x2F;abs&amp;#x2F;1904.03815&lt;/a&gt; . Having robotic arms for &amp;lt;$5k would be great for research, hobbyist and applications not requiring crazy accuracy. I don&amp;#x27;t have hard data at hand but I doubt that at present you can find commercially available robot with similar characteristics for less than $15k.&lt;p&gt;Another thing that&amp;#x27;s happening here and I really enjoy is how BLDC motors are being used in applications like these. The reason I like it so much is because hopefully there will be a market for cheap actuators that will do the job well enough to be used for some applications. I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure that among other things I&amp;#x27;ve seen a lot of BLDC based actuators on quadruped robots.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Berkeley Blue – Accelerating robotics through low-cost hardware</title><url>https://www.berkeleyopenarms.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>aerophilic</author><text>Abstract— Robots must cost less and be force-controlled to enable widespread, safe deployment in unconstrained human environments. We propose Quasi-Direct Drive actuation as a capable paradigm for robotic force-controlled manipulation in human environments at low-cost. Our prototype - Blue - is a human scale 7 Degree of Freedom arm with 2kg payload. Blue can cost less than $5000. We show that Blue has dynamic properties that meet or exceed the needs of human operators: the robot has a nominal position-control bandwidth of 7.5Hz and repeatability within 4mm. We demonstrate a Virtual Reality based interface that can be used as a method for telepresence and collecting robot training demonstrations. Manufacturability, scaling, and potential use-cases for the Blue system are also addressed. Videos and additional information can be found online at berkeleyopenarms.github.io.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Berkeley Blue – Accelerating robotics through low-cost hardware</title><url>https://www.berkeleyopenarms.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>jjeaff</author><text>I have a very short email address and get lots of these. What I do is immediately log in to the service and change the password. Then, if possible, I log out any other devices that are logged in.&lt;p&gt;Then they can never access the account and continue to to use the service.&lt;p&gt;Where available, I will delete the account as well.&lt;p&gt;I found that if I don&amp;#x27;t do this, then I am just going to be receiving notification emails forever from that account.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Pxtl</author><text>I have multiple &amp;quot;e-mail doppelgangers&amp;quot; - confused people who don&amp;#x27;t know their own email address and so accidentally use my address when they register stuff.&lt;p&gt;One&amp;#x27;s in Chile. I have almost no knowledge of Spanish. The other is in California.&lt;p&gt;Having experienced this:&lt;p&gt;Services need to email new email accounts they become aware of ASAP. They have literally &lt;i&gt;zero&lt;/i&gt; UI available to me to notify them that this is an invalid email address. The very first interaction when a user registers an account with their email on the service needs to be &amp;quot;Welcome username to MyCompany.com! If you didn&amp;#x27;t create an account with MyCompany, click here to let us know and we&amp;#x27;ll remove the email address from this user&amp;#x27;s account!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;If Netflix does not do this, Netflix is doing it wrong. It also would solve your security issue - by immediately notifying the address that a new account has been created on them, it notifies the user to expect additional emails and allows them to take action immediately.&lt;p&gt;This also prevents another problem: What happens if somebody has already accidentally claimed my email address on a service I want to join? If you don&amp;#x27;t provide a way in the emails to say &amp;quot;that&amp;#x27;s not me&amp;quot;, then I have no way to ever register for your service with my address.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user</title><url>https://jameshfisher.com/2018/04/07/the-dots-do-matter-how-to-scam-a-gmail-user</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>dpwm</author><text>I actually have dots in my Netflix account email address &lt;i&gt;because&lt;/i&gt; somebody who wasn&amp;#x27;t me had previously started to register for Netflix using my email address.&lt;p&gt;I have had to do this with some other services as well. Some services won&amp;#x27;t allow the + in gmail addresses, which is pretty annoying.&lt;p&gt;If a service starts recognising the dots don&amp;#x27;t matter and denying the plus symbol, there&amp;#x27;s a good chance I won&amp;#x27;t be able to register without obtaining a new email address.&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t mind but my name is really not that common -- my surname is uncommon enough for me not to have met another with that surname outside my family.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Pxtl</author><text>I have multiple &amp;quot;e-mail doppelgangers&amp;quot; - confused people who don&amp;#x27;t know their own email address and so accidentally use my address when they register stuff.&lt;p&gt;One&amp;#x27;s in Chile. I have almost no knowledge of Spanish. The other is in California.&lt;p&gt;Having experienced this:&lt;p&gt;Services need to email new email accounts they become aware of ASAP. They have literally &lt;i&gt;zero&lt;/i&gt; UI available to me to notify them that this is an invalid email address. The very first interaction when a user registers an account with their email on the service needs to be &amp;quot;Welcome username to MyCompany.com! If you didn&amp;#x27;t create an account with MyCompany, click here to let us know and we&amp;#x27;ll remove the email address from this user&amp;#x27;s account!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;If Netflix does not do this, Netflix is doing it wrong. It also would solve your security issue - by immediately notifying the address that a new account has been created on them, it notifies the user to expect additional emails and allows them to take action immediately.&lt;p&gt;This also prevents another problem: What happens if somebody has already accidentally claimed my email address on a service I want to join? If you don&amp;#x27;t provide a way in the emails to say &amp;quot;that&amp;#x27;s not me&amp;quot;, then I have no way to ever register for your service with my address.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user</title><url>https://jameshfisher.com/2018/04/07/the-dots-do-matter-how-to-scam-a-gmail-user</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>orbifold</author><text>I think that is not so much because of the fact that people do not want to use search, just that by experience they&amp;#x27;ve learned that it is usually next to useless on most sites. At least that is my experience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>One interesting thing we learn from build an online store: People uses search alot less that you would think.&lt;p&gt;We started to notice that customers will use the menu and filtering options, rather than searching for an item. Need something from the &amp;quot;electronics&amp;quot; category, click the electronics menu tab, and pick the subcategory. From there customers browse or filter until they find what they&amp;#x27;re looking for.&lt;p&gt;Of cause so do use the search, and most people would have better results if they did search directly.&lt;p&gt;My point is: Maybe we could have just used Postgresqls full text search in this case. The queries will be rather simply anyway. The new syntax won&amp;#x27;t matter much, you need to learn something new anyway if you use Solr or ElasticSearch. Search is fare less important than people think, it just needs to be there and be &amp;quot;good enough&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Yes, Sphinx is awesome, if you&amp;#x27;re doing plain searches, filtering can get complicated pretty quickly.</text></item><item><author>birken</author><text>Well the article is right in one sense: Postgres full text search is probably better than you think it would be and is very usable at non-massive scale&lt;p&gt;However, I still wouldn&amp;#x27;t recommend using it. The queries and indexes are all unintuitive, complex, not very readable and require learning a bunch of new syntax anyways (as you can see in the examples in the blog post). So just take the effort you would spend doing that and instead learn something with more features that will continue running no matter how large your scale.&lt;p&gt;While the blog mentions elasticsearch&amp;#x2F;solr (which are awesome and powerful), it doesn&amp;#x27;t mention sphinx (&lt;a href=&quot;http://sphinxsearch.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sphinxsearch.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;). If I were trying to make a simple search engine for my postgres&amp;#x2F;mysql powered site, I&amp;#x27;d use sphinx. The indexer can be fed directly with a postgres&amp;#x2F;mysql query, and it includes simple APIs for all languages to interface with the searcher daemon. And of course it is super fast, has way more features and can scale larger than you&amp;#x27;d ever need (sphinx powers craiglist&amp;#x27;s search).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Postgres full text search is good enough</title><url>http://blog.lostpropertyhq.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enough/#1</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>aw3c2</author><text>As a user I never trust myself to know the &amp;quot;right&amp;quot; search terms nor the search box to show the &amp;quot;right&amp;quot; results. If I browse, I know that I see all the items and I can filter with exact, pre-defined (trusted) attributes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>One interesting thing we learn from build an online store: People uses search alot less that you would think.&lt;p&gt;We started to notice that customers will use the menu and filtering options, rather than searching for an item. Need something from the &amp;quot;electronics&amp;quot; category, click the electronics menu tab, and pick the subcategory. From there customers browse or filter until they find what they&amp;#x27;re looking for.&lt;p&gt;Of cause so do use the search, and most people would have better results if they did search directly.&lt;p&gt;My point is: Maybe we could have just used Postgresqls full text search in this case. The queries will be rather simply anyway. The new syntax won&amp;#x27;t matter much, you need to learn something new anyway if you use Solr or ElasticSearch. Search is fare less important than people think, it just needs to be there and be &amp;quot;good enough&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Yes, Sphinx is awesome, if you&amp;#x27;re doing plain searches, filtering can get complicated pretty quickly.</text></item><item><author>birken</author><text>Well the article is right in one sense: Postgres full text search is probably better than you think it would be and is very usable at non-massive scale&lt;p&gt;However, I still wouldn&amp;#x27;t recommend using it. The queries and indexes are all unintuitive, complex, not very readable and require learning a bunch of new syntax anyways (as you can see in the examples in the blog post). So just take the effort you would spend doing that and instead learn something with more features that will continue running no matter how large your scale.&lt;p&gt;While the blog mentions elasticsearch&amp;#x2F;solr (which are awesome and powerful), it doesn&amp;#x27;t mention sphinx (&lt;a href=&quot;http://sphinxsearch.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sphinxsearch.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;). If I were trying to make a simple search engine for my postgres&amp;#x2F;mysql powered site, I&amp;#x27;d use sphinx. The indexer can be fed directly with a postgres&amp;#x2F;mysql query, and it includes simple APIs for all languages to interface with the searcher daemon. And of course it is super fast, has way more features and can scale larger than you&amp;#x27;d ever need (sphinx powers craiglist&amp;#x27;s search).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Postgres full text search is good enough</title><url>http://blog.lostpropertyhq.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enough/#1</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jmcgough</author><text>While this paper looks scary, keep in mind that the journal isn&amp;#x27;t particularly reputable and that the vast majority of studies find that mRNA vaccines are safe. It&amp;#x27;s certainly worth studying this (and many more researchers will continue to do so) but not really anything to merit not getting vaccinated.&lt;p&gt;If you want to confirm any pre-existing belief you may have, you can find fringe papers to support essentially anything.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Increased cardiovascular events in Israel during vaccine rollout and third wave</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10928-z</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>zentr1c</author><text>A Berlin News paper reports of the public inquiry of firefighters and emergency personnel to investigate the root cause of a rise in different &amp;quot;heart issue calls&amp;quot; of 27-31% in 2021 (40k calls) compared to 2018&amp;#x2F;2019.&lt;p&gt;In german: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.berliner-zeitung.de&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;berlin-feuerwehr-herzprobleme-und-schlaganfaelle-zahl-der-rettungseinsaetze-steigt-stark-an-li.222431&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.berliner-zeitung.de&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;berlin-feuerwehr-herzpr...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They argue to change from mandatory vaccination to optional vaccination for their profession.&lt;p&gt;Evolution will tell what the right choice was. I am having popcorn while watching the extremists battle each others position.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Increased cardiovascular events in Israel during vaccine rollout and third wave</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10928-z</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jandrese</author><text>I love Miyazaki films and their hand drawing is beautiful, but this article is kind of funny in how he retired in 2013 and went &amp;quot;I wonder if there is any merit to these weird &amp;#x27;computers&amp;#x27; people keep talking about?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Then he spends the next 5 years twiddling around with them and decides that yes, apparently the world was right and they are in fact useful for animation.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki [video]</title><url>https://kottke.org/18/10/never-ending-man-hayao-miyazaki</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>the_af</author><text>The clip they show him working on is the short that&amp;#x27;s shown in the Ghibli Museum!&lt;p&gt;I absolutely love almost everything from Miyazaki, but I wonder what&amp;#x27;s it like to work with&amp;#x2F;for him. This short trailer makes it seem he&amp;#x27;s probably a difficult man... like all great authors, I guess.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki [video]</title><url>https://kottke.org/18/10/never-ending-man-hayao-miyazaki</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>option_greek</author><text>They are using lightning wallets. So no on chain settling. No (extra) trees were harmed for hamburgers (though obviously opening and closing of channels and initial mining it self is energy intensive).</text><parent_chain><item><author>hsavit1</author><text>what an awful waste of energy. Each bitcoin transaction uses the energy equivalent the entire lifespan of a tree. Effectively, each bitcoin transaction is cutting down of tree... in this case, for a hamburger</text></item><item><author>vavooom</author><text>Found this interesting deck[1] on El Salvador&amp;#x27;s digital climate while looking for smart phone adoption statistics. It would appear that there are more than enough smart devices to allow for such a transition successfully. Already on Twitter we&amp;#x27;re seeing crypto-punks there using Bitcoin to pay for their McDonalds, paying something like 0.000002 Bitcoin. I can&amp;#x27;t help but wonder what the outcome +1 year &amp;#x2F; + 5 years will be.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;datareportal.com&amp;#x2F;reports&amp;#x2F;digital-2021-el-salvador&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;datareportal.com&amp;#x2F;reports&amp;#x2F;digital-2021-el-salvador&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first country to do so</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/el-salvador-adopts-bitcoin-official-currency-first-country-rcna1910</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>drdeca</author><text>How do you reach that number? (CO2&amp;#x2F;block) &amp;#x2F; (transactions&amp;#x2F;block)?&lt;p&gt;I imagine these transactions are being done over the lightning network or something like that(I could be wrong on this though), in which case that calculation wouldn’t give the right answer.&lt;p&gt;In addition, I think I would evaluate the CO2 costs per transaction based on the contributions to the mining reward (because this is the part of transaction which has an influence on how much power people use to mine), which I think for bitcoin is still relatively small compared to the block reward part? Well, there’s also the influence on the price that making transactions has.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hsavit1</author><text>what an awful waste of energy. Each bitcoin transaction uses the energy equivalent the entire lifespan of a tree. Effectively, each bitcoin transaction is cutting down of tree... in this case, for a hamburger</text></item><item><author>vavooom</author><text>Found this interesting deck[1] on El Salvador&amp;#x27;s digital climate while looking for smart phone adoption statistics. It would appear that there are more than enough smart devices to allow for such a transition successfully. Already on Twitter we&amp;#x27;re seeing crypto-punks there using Bitcoin to pay for their McDonalds, paying something like 0.000002 Bitcoin. I can&amp;#x27;t help but wonder what the outcome +1 year &amp;#x2F; + 5 years will be.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;datareportal.com&amp;#x2F;reports&amp;#x2F;digital-2021-el-salvador&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;datareportal.com&amp;#x2F;reports&amp;#x2F;digital-2021-el-salvador&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first country to do so</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/el-salvador-adopts-bitcoin-official-currency-first-country-rcna1910</url></story>

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<instructions>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>I don&amp;#x27;t feel like it&amp;#x27;s a strawman. I don&amp;#x27;t know the culture there, but what about:&lt;p&gt;- Talking about unions, or pay equity (Might be illegal to ban either)&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;Hey Jodie, my partner and I are marching in a Gay pride parade this weekend, wanna come?&amp;quot; (Is that political at Basecamp?)&lt;p&gt;- Some ex-military employees form an informal group to welcome and mentor new employees coming out of the military. (Is that political?)&lt;p&gt;- One of our new clients is a controversial group&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;etc, what should we do?&lt;p&gt;I could keep going for a while...it&amp;#x27;s difficult to avoid &amp;quot;politics&amp;quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stephsmithio</author><text>While I hear the, &amp;quot;But anything could be viewed as societal and political discussion&amp;quot;, it&amp;#x27;s kind of a straw man argument. We all know what types of discourse Jason and David are referring to and they augmented their request with, &amp;quot;But if you make a mistake, it&amp;#x27;s not the end of the world. Someone will gently remind you of the etiquette, and we&amp;#x27;ll move on. This isn&amp;#x27;t some zero-tolerance, max-consequences new policy.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;From my POV, they&amp;#x27;re taking a difficult stance to rid the workforce of the extreme forms of toxic distraction (which happens across the political spectrum and is pretty recognizable) and for the most part, doing exactly what you articulated: returning to reasonable adult conversations that 99% of people are capable of doing.</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Can there ever be a non-work related conversation between employees that is not a &amp;quot;societal and political discussion&amp;quot;? In the past week I have spoken to coworkers about high housing costs (bunch of us are testing the market right now), property taxes, EV rebates, weed legalization, homeless&amp;#x2F;drug use problem on the streets. All of this is apparently a fireable offense at Basecamp?&lt;p&gt;People are going to say &amp;quot;obviously stuff like this is okay&amp;quot;, but to me that&amp;#x27;s even worse. The company can and will apply arbitrary rules to whatever &lt;i&gt;they&lt;/i&gt; think is unacceptable political speech.&lt;p&gt;And if they do strictly enforce that employees must only ever communicate about work (and the weather or whatever), then that sounds like a very depressing and dystopian workplace.&lt;p&gt;Is it really that hard to hire adults who can have reasonable adult conversations (with sometimes differing opinions) without it being a &amp;quot;major distraction&amp;quot;? And is the best response to this really to bow down to the loudest voices on either side and shut down conversation for the 99% who are just...normal?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Changes at Basecamp</title><url>https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5</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>detaro</author><text>Part of the problem is that no, we do not know what they are referring to. Lots of murky lines, lots of people with bad experiences that what for them is essential is considered over lines, worry that it&amp;#x27;ll be used to silence internal discussion of things the company does, ... (and of course if you impose it on a company used to something different, it&amp;#x27;s potentially a massive culture shift)&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;you can take it to private channels&amp;quot; can play out either way I guess: it can be a completely valid replacement of using company channels, but it is an additional hurdle if you have no signals to go by who to talk to. And if you actually have a problem with work channels getting out of hand, I feel like it&amp;#x27;s a gamble to hope it works better in the dark.&lt;p&gt;If my employer told us we had to move the more social&amp;#x2F;less technical chat channels outside of company infrastructure, I&amp;#x27;m not sure that&amp;#x27;d be better overall. And sort of odd to go with each new hire &amp;quot;oh and btw there&amp;#x27;s this second chat without the bosses, come join&amp;quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stephsmithio</author><text>While I hear the, &amp;quot;But anything could be viewed as societal and political discussion&amp;quot;, it&amp;#x27;s kind of a straw man argument. We all know what types of discourse Jason and David are referring to and they augmented their request with, &amp;quot;But if you make a mistake, it&amp;#x27;s not the end of the world. Someone will gently remind you of the etiquette, and we&amp;#x27;ll move on. This isn&amp;#x27;t some zero-tolerance, max-consequences new policy.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;From my POV, they&amp;#x27;re taking a difficult stance to rid the workforce of the extreme forms of toxic distraction (which happens across the political spectrum and is pretty recognizable) and for the most part, doing exactly what you articulated: returning to reasonable adult conversations that 99% of people are capable of doing.</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Can there ever be a non-work related conversation between employees that is not a &amp;quot;societal and political discussion&amp;quot;? In the past week I have spoken to coworkers about high housing costs (bunch of us are testing the market right now), property taxes, EV rebates, weed legalization, homeless&amp;#x2F;drug use problem on the streets. All of this is apparently a fireable offense at Basecamp?&lt;p&gt;People are going to say &amp;quot;obviously stuff like this is okay&amp;quot;, but to me that&amp;#x27;s even worse. The company can and will apply arbitrary rules to whatever &lt;i&gt;they&lt;/i&gt; think is unacceptable political speech.&lt;p&gt;And if they do strictly enforce that employees must only ever communicate about work (and the weather or whatever), then that sounds like a very depressing and dystopian workplace.&lt;p&gt;Is it really that hard to hire adults who can have reasonable adult conversations (with sometimes differing opinions) without it being a &amp;quot;major distraction&amp;quot;? And is the best response to this really to bow down to the loudest voices on either side and shut down conversation for the 99% who are just...normal?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Changes at Basecamp</title><url>https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>HN is &lt;i&gt;terrible&lt;/i&gt; at interpreting sarcasm or jokes, partly because people will say the most extraordinary things with apparent sincerity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>snapcaster</author><text></text></item><item><author>oxfordmale</author><text>...and if IBM says it is 40%, it is definitely true. Just as IBM Watson is going to be the future of healthcare. Unfortunately, that future seems to consist of scrapping IBM Watson and selling it for parts &amp;#x2F;sarcasm</text></item><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>How can that be? By putting paper work in the blockchain they managed to cut shipping times by 40%!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;tech-industry&amp;#x2F;ibm-maersk-tradelens-blockchain-alliance-cuts-shipping-times-40-percent&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;tech-industry&amp;#x2F;ibm-maersk-tradelens...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seriously though I believe the blockchain has always been hidden behind an API hosted by IBM (access to those who got approved and paid a fee), blockchain was an implementation&amp;#x2F;marketing detail and the whole thing could have been done with Sybase&amp;#x2F;MDB etc. If they had promoted this as a standard&amp;#x2F;open way of describing shipping data it might have been beneficial.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Maersk/IBM to discontinue TradeLens, a blockchain-enabled global trade platform</title><url>https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2022/11/29/maersk-and-ibm-to-discontinue-tradelens</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>JasonFruit</author><text>Please stop using the phrase &amp;quot;extremely cringe&amp;quot;, and you will immediately be better at writing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>snapcaster</author><text></text></item><item><author>oxfordmale</author><text>...and if IBM says it is 40%, it is definitely true. Just as IBM Watson is going to be the future of healthcare. Unfortunately, that future seems to consist of scrapping IBM Watson and selling it for parts &amp;#x2F;sarcasm</text></item><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>How can that be? By putting paper work in the blockchain they managed to cut shipping times by 40%!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;tech-industry&amp;#x2F;ibm-maersk-tradelens-blockchain-alliance-cuts-shipping-times-40-percent&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;tech-industry&amp;#x2F;ibm-maersk-tradelens...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seriously though I believe the blockchain has always been hidden behind an API hosted by IBM (access to those who got approved and paid a fee), blockchain was an implementation&amp;#x2F;marketing detail and the whole thing could have been done with Sybase&amp;#x2F;MDB etc. If they had promoted this as a standard&amp;#x2F;open way of describing shipping data it might have been beneficial.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Maersk/IBM to discontinue TradeLens, a blockchain-enabled global trade platform</title><url>https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2022/11/29/maersk-and-ibm-to-discontinue-tradelens</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>k32</author><text>Nix is a nice research project, but after playing with it for ~6 months and contributing to nix-packages, I came to conclusion that (in my case) it&amp;#x27;s not suitable for production nor development, and now I manage my personal machines with a simple Ansible playbook.&lt;p&gt;Main reason for leaving was that Nix package maintainers have to heavily patch all software. Packaging for nix is more like porting software to another operating system. Just check the amount of ad-hoc patches in nix-packages repo, and note that they have automated tools for patching the most common problems, so the problem is even worse. Now how about quality of these patches... I was able to merge some pretty large patches to nix-packages from an anonymous and sketchy-looking github account, and they weren&amp;#x27;t scrutinized much, because the original author of the derivations abandoned them.&lt;p&gt;Moreover, Nix breaks the chain of trust for the language packages. For example, Erlang and Elixir packages are signed cryptographically. Most erlang libraries come with a rebar.lock file containing hashes of the dependencies, so reproducible builds are already ensured. Unfortunately, package hashes are incompatible with Nix derivation SHA&amp;#x27;s, because they include some additional envelope data. What did Nix people do to work around this problem? They patched out the checks for rebar.lock files from the 3rd party Erlang build system. I would not dare to run a distro that contains patches like this in any kind of production environment.&lt;p&gt;Additionally, &amp;#x2F;nix directory is readable by all users, so you cannot use Nix to manage secrets, and there was no universally approved way of doing so (or at least it was the case at the time I was using it).&lt;p&gt;As for personal use... You cannot install opam packages without dealing with incompatiblities, you cannot easily install games from Gog without dealing with incompatibilities, and to be honest, do you really need such degree of reproducibility for your very own dev machine?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One Week of NixOS</title><url>https://jae.moe/blog/2020/11/one-week-of-nixos/</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>rgoulter</author><text>My experience with Nix and NixPkgs is that 95% of the time it&amp;#x27;s fine. That 5% is a real PITA.&lt;p&gt;I think nix isn&amp;#x27;t as useful for developers using it to setup their workstation compared to for operations setting up deployment environments. -- I like that I can just run &amp;quot;nix --install myPackages&amp;quot; and have the exact, up-to-date versions of software installed... but, it&amp;#x27;s not often that I &lt;i&gt;need&lt;/i&gt; to run this. (The up-to-date versions thing is nice). -- Maybe this will be more compelling for stuff like GitHub Codespaces, and other ephemeral machines?&lt;p&gt;(EDIT: and nix-shell is cool and very pure, but looks to me like people are just fine using images of development environments&amp;#x2F;toolschains with VMs or Docker. etc.).&lt;p&gt;NixOS itself does feel very different to other OSs. I think people discount how much trouble they run into on other OSs. Partly because other OSs have larger communities, and advice will often apply across multiple OSs. With NixOS, there&amp;#x27;s a higher requirement for understanding of what&amp;#x27;s going on; and it&amp;#x27;s not obvious that the benefit from doing this is worth it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One Week of NixOS</title><url>https://jae.moe/blog/2020/11/one-week-of-nixos/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aficionado</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a little bit worried. At least at the same level as when I see a bunch of developers compiling programs without much understanding of what an LL(k) parser does, or how a pushdown automaton works, or what a Turing machine is. I usually feel the same every time I see an elevator without a liftman, don&amp;#x27;t compute a square root by hand, or hear about Google self-driving cars.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zxcvvcxz</author><text>Is anyone else at least a bit worried about a bunch of developers running around doing &amp;quot;machine learning&amp;quot; without much understanding of mathematics and probability? E.g. consider the creation of fragile models that overfit data being used in finance, infrastructure, medicine, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Machine Learning for Developers</title><url>http://xyclade.github.io/MachineLearning/</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>nostrademons</author><text>Is that any different from a bunch of developers plugging in magic numbers into a formula that they made up, which (to a first approximation) is roughly what happens now?&lt;p&gt;Realistically, the outcome will be the same as it is now: those firms whose models don&amp;#x27;t reflect reality will blow up, those whose do will get bigger, a few will get too big to fail off some very confidently-expressed models and make a lot of people mad at them, and eventually the market will straighten out who&amp;#x27;s lying and who&amp;#x27;s not. Won&amp;#x27;t be painless, but then, capitalism never is.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zxcvvcxz</author><text>Is anyone else at least a bit worried about a bunch of developers running around doing &amp;quot;machine learning&amp;quot; without much understanding of mathematics and probability? E.g. consider the creation of fragile models that overfit data being used in finance, infrastructure, medicine, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Machine Learning for Developers</title><url>http://xyclade.github.io/MachineLearning/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ben174</author><text>John Oliver&amp;#x27;s video is #3 trending on YouTube right now. It specifically calls for people to write comments on that page. He even bought up a domain that points directly to the page. &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gofccyourself.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gofccyourself.com&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>wcarron</author><text>Real confirmation of an attack would be a nice-to-have in this situation. I can see 3 probable realities:&lt;p&gt;1. The sheer volume of commenters and responses took down the system. They cover it by saying a DDoS attack was the cause. 2. They are intent on crippling Net Neutrality anyway, and either designed the system to insufficiently handle traffic and call it a DDos or even DDos themselves. 3. Since there are groups with vested interest in removing net neutrality, and they have deep pockets, I can easily see a few groups moving to protect their interests. In other words, a legitimate DDoS attack.&lt;p&gt;All 3 seem equally likely to me, especially considering Ajit Pai&amp;#x27;s stance on NN. This is not encouraging as a citizen of the US.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FCC’s comment system targeted by DDoS during filing period for net neutrality</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/08/the-fccs-comment-system-targeted-by-ddos-attacks-during-filing-period-for-net-neutrality/</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>clusmore</author><text>In 2016, Australia held its first online-first national census. Unsurprisingly it was a complete disaster, and the government told us the system was the victim of a DDoS attack right around dinner time for the east coast. They also told us they expected around 10 million participants and that during capacity planning they took the expected 1 million submissions per hour and doubled it to be safe, i.e. that a bunch of statisticians thought that 10 million people would form a uniform distribution over a day rather than spiking when they get home from work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wcarron</author><text>Real confirmation of an attack would be a nice-to-have in this situation. I can see 3 probable realities:&lt;p&gt;1. The sheer volume of commenters and responses took down the system. They cover it by saying a DDoS attack was the cause. 2. They are intent on crippling Net Neutrality anyway, and either designed the system to insufficiently handle traffic and call it a DDos or even DDos themselves. 3. Since there are groups with vested interest in removing net neutrality, and they have deep pockets, I can easily see a few groups moving to protect their interests. In other words, a legitimate DDoS attack.&lt;p&gt;All 3 seem equally likely to me, especially considering Ajit Pai&amp;#x27;s stance on NN. This is not encouraging as a citizen of the US.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FCC’s comment system targeted by DDoS during filing period for net neutrality</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/08/the-fccs-comment-system-targeted-by-ddos-attacks-during-filing-period-for-net-neutrality/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jyrkesh</author><text>Icons look pretty good, always grateful for free stuff like this.&lt;p&gt;Minor side: the first thing I typed into the filter box was &amp;quot;save&amp;quot; because I wanted to see how the designer thought about the whole &amp;quot;floppy disk == save&amp;quot; problem in a greenfield icon set. I thought it was even more remarkable (or just notable, I guess) that there&amp;#x27;s no Save icon at all, which really speaks to where the world is at around cloud-based web apps.&lt;p&gt;Why require someone to click Save at all, right?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>System UIcons – icons designed for products, no attribution</title><url>https://systemuicons.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>mholt</author><text>Please though, if you ever use these (or any icons, frankly), PLEASE accompany the icons with text so my aging parents -- and heck, me too -- know what they mean.&lt;p&gt;All too often I am helping my family members navigate UIs that are &amp;quot;clean&amp;quot; yes (plenty of whitespace! too much) but with icons that hide everything and don&amp;#x27;t mean anything.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Oh, to send it to your daughter? Click the 3 lines in the top right corner, then click the two lines joined by a circle. Er, the one that looks like a chart. Yeah, that means &amp;#x27;share&amp;#x27; apparently. You just have to know that.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I kind of miss the days when software didn&amp;#x27;t change so much and came with instruction manuals.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>System UIcons – icons designed for products, no attribution</title><url>https://systemuicons.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>cogman10</author><text>&amp;gt; Should both my service and Galactus have full, individual copies of this data structure?&lt;p&gt;Yes!&lt;p&gt;Maintaining that structure should be painful. Why? Because it&amp;#x27;s an exposed public API and there are ramifications to updating it that need to be thought out.&lt;p&gt;Further, it can be super easy to pollute that structure with information only relevant to the server or client.&lt;p&gt;Using something like JSON schema, openapi, or grpc&amp;#x2F;protobufs can make generating that second structure easy, but sharing it is something that has caused my org tremendous headaches.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BoppreH</author><text>&amp;gt; Shared data structures? Common library? Services have an API. If you are sharing data structures and a common &amp;quot;core&amp;quot; library across services, yes, you are officially doing it wrong.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I&amp;#x27;ve been doing this wrong all my life then.&lt;p&gt;Imagine I want to fetch user data by id from Galactus, the user data service. I know what &lt;i&gt;shape&lt;/i&gt; of data I want from it, and Galactus knows what &lt;i&gt;shape&lt;/i&gt; of data it provides. Should both my service and Galactus have full, individual copies of this data structure? Alternatively, if Galactus has a published schema that I refer to, isn&amp;#x27;t that a shared data structure?&lt;p&gt;By extracting the user data &lt;i&gt;shape&lt;/i&gt; to a common repository (library, header, schema, whatever), not only we deduplicate code, but we also centralize documentation. Maybe the `address` field is cached and frequently outdated, and someone from Galactus noted this down along with where to find the golden source.&lt;p&gt;Once you factor in other sources of redundancies (username regex, recommended logging, business-specific snippets), that naturally becomes a common library.&lt;p&gt;I get that it sacrifices some service independence, but is this piece of independence always so worth it, that common libraries are &amp;quot;officially doing it wrong&amp;quot;?</text></item><item><author>mjr00</author><text>I hate to be the guy who says &amp;quot;you aren&amp;#x27;t doing services right,&amp;quot; but... you aren&amp;#x27;t doing services right.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Each service has to be maintained and deployed and increases the boilerplate needed for shared data structures, complicated communication protocols and infrastructure. By the time we released our app, the common library used by most services has been updated over a hundred times. And every service has to follow suit eventually.&lt;p&gt;Shared data structures? Common library? Services have an &lt;i&gt;API&lt;/i&gt;. If you are sharing data structures and a common &amp;quot;core&amp;quot; library across services, yes, you are officially doing it wrong. From the architecture diagram it also looks like there&amp;#x27;s only one MongoDB instance, which, if you have multiple services talking to the same database[0], is &lt;i&gt;also&lt;/i&gt; a major sign that you&amp;#x27;re doing it wrong.&lt;p&gt;IMO the author came to the correct conclusion, that monoliths are better for a new project, but for the wrong reasons. Or maybe the right reasons which aren&amp;#x27;t clearly explained, which is that at the beginning you don&amp;#x27;t have a good enough grasp of the domain to properly separate into independent services.&lt;p&gt;[0] yes, there are exceptions where you can have multiple services use the same physical database to reduce maintenance overhead, but enforce separate ownership through different logical databases or even table-level permissions, but I&amp;#x27;m assuming that wasn&amp;#x27;t done here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to design software architecture for startups</title><url>https://appventuretime.blog/how-to-design-software-architecture-for-startups</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>Misdicorl</author><text>Another answer:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Imagine I want to fetch user data by id from Galactus, the user data service. I know what shape of data I want from it, and Galactus knows what shape of data it provides. Should both my service and Galactus have full, individual copies of this data structure?&lt;p&gt;No. Galactus should have the full shape of the &amp;quot;user object&amp;quot; but should never put that on the wire or expose it. The wire API should expose sensible things like &amp;quot;what is the billing and shipping address(es) of this user id&amp;quot;. Galactus is responsible for maintaining the mapping between the &amp;quot;user object&amp;quot; and whatever the relevant return format is for those data.&lt;p&gt;Edit: This allows you to run API migrations and data migrations independently. Which is &lt;i&gt;crucial&lt;/i&gt; for any service that will last longer than 1 year.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BoppreH</author><text>&amp;gt; Shared data structures? Common library? Services have an API. If you are sharing data structures and a common &amp;quot;core&amp;quot; library across services, yes, you are officially doing it wrong.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I&amp;#x27;ve been doing this wrong all my life then.&lt;p&gt;Imagine I want to fetch user data by id from Galactus, the user data service. I know what &lt;i&gt;shape&lt;/i&gt; of data I want from it, and Galactus knows what &lt;i&gt;shape&lt;/i&gt; of data it provides. Should both my service and Galactus have full, individual copies of this data structure? Alternatively, if Galactus has a published schema that I refer to, isn&amp;#x27;t that a shared data structure?&lt;p&gt;By extracting the user data &lt;i&gt;shape&lt;/i&gt; to a common repository (library, header, schema, whatever), not only we deduplicate code, but we also centralize documentation. Maybe the `address` field is cached and frequently outdated, and someone from Galactus noted this down along with where to find the golden source.&lt;p&gt;Once you factor in other sources of redundancies (username regex, recommended logging, business-specific snippets), that naturally becomes a common library.&lt;p&gt;I get that it sacrifices some service independence, but is this piece of independence always so worth it, that common libraries are &amp;quot;officially doing it wrong&amp;quot;?</text></item><item><author>mjr00</author><text>I hate to be the guy who says &amp;quot;you aren&amp;#x27;t doing services right,&amp;quot; but... you aren&amp;#x27;t doing services right.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Each service has to be maintained and deployed and increases the boilerplate needed for shared data structures, complicated communication protocols and infrastructure. By the time we released our app, the common library used by most services has been updated over a hundred times. And every service has to follow suit eventually.&lt;p&gt;Shared data structures? Common library? Services have an &lt;i&gt;API&lt;/i&gt;. If you are sharing data structures and a common &amp;quot;core&amp;quot; library across services, yes, you are officially doing it wrong. From the architecture diagram it also looks like there&amp;#x27;s only one MongoDB instance, which, if you have multiple services talking to the same database[0], is &lt;i&gt;also&lt;/i&gt; a major sign that you&amp;#x27;re doing it wrong.&lt;p&gt;IMO the author came to the correct conclusion, that monoliths are better for a new project, but for the wrong reasons. Or maybe the right reasons which aren&amp;#x27;t clearly explained, which is that at the beginning you don&amp;#x27;t have a good enough grasp of the domain to properly separate into independent services.&lt;p&gt;[0] yes, there are exceptions where you can have multiple services use the same physical database to reduce maintenance overhead, but enforce separate ownership through different logical databases or even table-level permissions, but I&amp;#x27;m assuming that wasn&amp;#x27;t done here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to design software architecture for startups</title><url>https://appventuretime.blog/how-to-design-software-architecture-for-startups</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arcticbull</author><text>I mean, we need only remember that in late 2016 two wash trading bots at Coinbase accounted for 99% of all global trading volume in Litecoin. (Likely Charlie Lee, btw) [1] And that Tether continues to exist after this devastating NYAG settlement. [2]&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s clearly manipulated. And it&amp;#x27;s manipulated because its roughly speaking globally unregulated, and tracks globally via cross-exchange arbitrage bots.&lt;p&gt;If the author found anything different I&amp;#x27;d eat my ...hat, and if you believe the trading patterns are as pure and organic as the driven snow I&amp;#x27;ve got an NFT of the Brooklyn bridge to sell you.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cftc.gov&amp;#x2F;PressRoom&amp;#x2F;PressReleases&amp;#x2F;8369-21&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cftc.gov&amp;#x2F;PressRoom&amp;#x2F;PressReleases&amp;#x2F;8369-21&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ag.ny.gov&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;2021.02.17_-_settlement_agreement_-_execution_version.b-t_signed-c2_oag_signed.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ag.ny.gov&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;2021.02.17_-_settlemen...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using Benford’s Law to Detect Bitcoin Manipulation</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/15/using-benfords-law-to-detect-bitcoin-manipulation/</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>Animats</author><text>Huh?&lt;p&gt;The NYSE looks that way because of a stock market rule that if the price falls below US$1 for 30 days, it becomes a &amp;quot;penny stock&amp;quot; and will be de-listed. There&amp;#x27;s also a tradition that when a stock gets well over $100, it splits. (Berkshire Hathaway refuses to go along with this, but everybody else does.) So issuers tend to split and reverse split to stay in the traditional trading range.&lt;p&gt;Commodity prices and foreign exchange rates don&amp;#x27;t behave like that. They don&amp;#x27;t split or reverse split. Also, their price is different depending on which currency you view it in.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using Benford’s Law to Detect Bitcoin Manipulation</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/15/using-benfords-law-to-detect-bitcoin-manipulation/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>EA-3167</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s more than a coincidence that we see this &amp;quot;anti-expert&amp;quot; ideology concentrated at the two political poles. For either the far left or right, it&amp;#x27;s important to reject evidence that doesn&amp;#x27;t conform to ideology, and eventually the way to do that is to reject authority that isn&amp;#x27;t your own. They don&amp;#x27;t want to be &lt;i&gt;subject&lt;/i&gt; to authority, they want to be &lt;i&gt;be&lt;/i&gt; the unquestioned authority.&lt;p&gt;It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if the topic is far beyond them, what matters is that they have an answer and that answer reinforces their biases. Reality is the enemy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>roughly</author><text>The anti-authority&amp;#x2F;anti-expert theme in American politics isn&amp;#x27;t a left or right phenomenon. There&amp;#x27;s a fundamental breakdown in institutional trust within American society which is present on both sides, and the similar approaches to wellness are a vivid expression of this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific &quot;wellness&quot; products</title><url>https://qz.com/1010684/all-the-wellness-products-american-love-to-buy-are-sold-on-both-infowars-and-goop</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>threatofrain</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s definitely an observed political dimension to alternative medicine camps; in other words there &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; a big &amp;quot;left vs right&amp;quot; phenomena that&amp;#x27;s worth observing. But what we might really be seeing is young vs old in the willingness to consider alternative medicine.&lt;p&gt;After all, why should young healthy people spend so much time thinking about rejecting mainstream medicine?</text><parent_chain><item><author>roughly</author><text>The anti-authority&amp;#x2F;anti-expert theme in American politics isn&amp;#x27;t a left or right phenomenon. There&amp;#x27;s a fundamental breakdown in institutional trust within American society which is present on both sides, and the similar approaches to wellness are a vivid expression of this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific &quot;wellness&quot; products</title><url>https://qz.com/1010684/all-the-wellness-products-american-love-to-buy-are-sold-on-both-infowars-and-goop</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>slg</author><text>&amp;gt;This didn&amp;#x27;t happen on Android, macOS, or Windows, despite all of them allowing alternative app stores.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m guessing you aren&amp;#x27;t a gamer. This absolutely happened on Android and PC. Fortnight is the most obvious example on Android and the various PC game stores are constantly battling over exclusives which has led to bizarre and annoying situations like this[1]&lt;p&gt;[1] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wccftech.com&amp;#x2F;goat-simulator-3-devs-tell-players-to-use-steam-as-a-response-to-lack-of-native-controller-support&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wccftech.com&amp;#x2F;goat-simulator-3-devs-tell-players-to-u...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>heavyset_go</author><text>Yet another example of the Facebook boogeyman being trotted out in an effort to explain why lack of user freedom, lack of consumer choice and anticompetitive business practices are actually good for the customers that are being fleeced by them.&lt;p&gt;This didn&amp;#x27;t happen on Android, macOS, or Windows, despite all of them allowing alternative app stores.</text></item><item><author>slg</author><text>What I&amp;#x27;m worried about is if the next time we open WhatsApp we see a splash message that says &amp;quot;Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are moving to the Meta Store! Please restart your phone and follow these easy steps to continue using these apps.&amp;quot; App developers have a lot more influence on mobile devices than they do on desktop OSes. This change would shift even more power to those large developers.&lt;p&gt;You can say a lot of negative things about Apple, but their incentives lined up with the end users more often than companies like Meta and Google.</text></item><item><author>themagician</author><text>Honestly, Apple could simply do exactly what they do for macOS now. The two are close enough to a merge at the architectural level that it would not be difficult. macOS is one step away from removing the ability to install unsigned software by default.&lt;p&gt;If you want to run unsigned software or extensions you will have to boot into a recovery console and change the security model. The warning dialogs will be enough to discourage most use. Things like ApplePay and iCloud may be disabled depending how far you reduce security, but you&amp;#x27;ll be able to do whatever you want.&lt;p&gt;I think it be a great solution to have a more uniform solution across all devices and platforms. It would create a boom in the hacker community, while still keeping &amp;gt;99.99% of users running from sealed system snapshots.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by EU laws</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-13/will-apple-allow-users-to-install-third-party-app-stores-sideload-in-europe</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>hoistbypetard</author><text>&amp;gt; This didn&amp;#x27;t happen on Android, macOS, or Windows, despite all of them allowing alternative app stores.&lt;p&gt;EA and Epic have entered the chat. This has absolutely happened on Windows. Source: the PC attached to my TV where my kid plays games, just this week.&lt;p&gt;I would posit that there are two possibilities for why it hasn&amp;#x27;t happened on Android:&lt;p&gt;1. The UX for alternative app stores is so terrible that they may as well not be allowed.&lt;p&gt;2. Not enough people want to pay for software on Anrdoid for this to be worthwhile.</text><parent_chain><item><author>heavyset_go</author><text>Yet another example of the Facebook boogeyman being trotted out in an effort to explain why lack of user freedom, lack of consumer choice and anticompetitive business practices are actually good for the customers that are being fleeced by them.&lt;p&gt;This didn&amp;#x27;t happen on Android, macOS, or Windows, despite all of them allowing alternative app stores.</text></item><item><author>slg</author><text>What I&amp;#x27;m worried about is if the next time we open WhatsApp we see a splash message that says &amp;quot;Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are moving to the Meta Store! Please restart your phone and follow these easy steps to continue using these apps.&amp;quot; App developers have a lot more influence on mobile devices than they do on desktop OSes. This change would shift even more power to those large developers.&lt;p&gt;You can say a lot of negative things about Apple, but their incentives lined up with the end users more often than companies like Meta and Google.</text></item><item><author>themagician</author><text>Honestly, Apple could simply do exactly what they do for macOS now. The two are close enough to a merge at the architectural level that it would not be difficult. macOS is one step away from removing the ability to install unsigned software by default.&lt;p&gt;If you want to run unsigned software or extensions you will have to boot into a recovery console and change the security model. The warning dialogs will be enough to discourage most use. Things like ApplePay and iCloud may be disabled depending how far you reduce security, but you&amp;#x27;ll be able to do whatever you want.&lt;p&gt;I think it be a great solution to have a more uniform solution across all devices and platforms. It would create a boom in the hacker community, while still keeping &amp;gt;99.99% of users running from sealed system snapshots.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by EU laws</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-13/will-apple-allow-users-to-install-third-party-app-stores-sideload-in-europe</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>The answer of wide decode and deep reorder buffer gets much closer than the “tricks” mentioned in tweets. That still doesn’t explain how Apple built an 8-wide CPU with such deep OOO that operates on 10-15 watts.&lt;p&gt;The limit that keeps you from arbitrarily scaling up these numbers isn’t transistor count. It’s delay—how long it takes for complex circuits to settle, which drives the top clock speed. And it’s also power usage. The timing delay of many circuits inside a CPU scare super-linearly with things like decode width. For example, the delay in the decode stage itself scales quadratically with the width of the decoder: ftp:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ftp.cs.wisc.edu&amp;#x2F;sohi&amp;#x2F;trs&amp;#x2F;complexity.1328.pdf (p. 15). The delay of the issue queues is quadratic both in the issue width and the depth of the queues. The delay of a full bypass network is quadratic in execution width. Decoding N instructions at a time also requires a register renaming unit that can perform register renaming for that many instructions per cycle, and the register file must have enough ports to be able to feed 2-3 operands to N different instructions per cycle. Additionally, big, multi-ported register files, deep and wide issue queues, and big reorder buffers also tend to be extremely power hungry.&lt;p&gt;On the flip side, the conventional wisdom is that most code doesn’t have enough inherent parallelism to take advantage of an 8-wide machine: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.realworldtech.com&amp;#x2F;shrinking-cpu&amp;#x2F;2&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.realworldtech.com&amp;#x2F;shrinking-cpu&amp;#x2F;2&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; (“The first sign that the party was over was diminishing returns from wider and wider superscalar designs. As CPUs went from being capable of executing 1, to 2, to 4, to even 6 instructions per cycle, the percentage of cycles during which they actually hit their full potential was dropping rapidly as both a function of increasing width and increasing clock rate.”). At the very least, such designs tend to be very application-dependent. Branch-y integer code like compilers tend to perform poorly on such wide and slow designs. The M1 by contrast manages to come close to Zen 3, which is already a high ILP CPU to begin with, despite a large clock speed deficit (3.2 ghz versus 5 ghz). And the performance seems to be robust—doing well on everything from compilation to scientific kernels. That’s really phenomenal and blows a lot of the conventional wisdom out of the water.&lt;p&gt;An insane amount of good engineering went into this CPU.</text><parent_chain><item><author>benjaminl</author><text>Unlike what has been said on Twitter the answer to why the M1 is fast isn’t due to technical tricks, but due to Apple throwing a lot of hardware at the problem.&lt;p&gt;The M1 is really wide (8 wide decode) and has a lot of execution units. It has a huge 630 deep reorder buffer to keep them all filled, multiple large caches and a lot of memory bandwidth.&lt;p&gt;It is just a monster of a chip, well designed balanced and executed.&lt;p&gt;BTW this isn’t really new. Apple has been making incremental progress year by year on these processor for their A-series chips. Just nobody believed those Geekbench benchmarks showing that in short benchmarks your phone could be faster than your laptop. Well turns out that given the right cooling solution those benchmarks were accurate.&lt;p&gt;Anandtech has a wonderful deep dive into the processor architecture.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.anandtech.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;16226&amp;#x2F;apple-silicon-m1-a14-deep-dive&amp;#x2F;2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.anandtech.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;16226&amp;#x2F;apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I didn’t mean to disparage Apple or the M1 by saying that Apple threw hardware at the problem. That Apple was able to keep power low with such a wide chip is extremely impressive and speaks to how finely tuned the chip is. I was trying to say that Apple got the results they did the hard way by advancing every aspect of the chip.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is Apple&apos;s M1 chip so fast?</title><url>https://erik-engheim.medium.com/why-is-apples-m1-chip-so-fast-3262b158cba2</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>sliken</author><text>You mention most of the big changes, except one. Assuming a random (but TLB friendly) pattern the M1 manages a latency of around 30-33ns to main memory, about half of what I&amp;#x27;ve seen anywhere else. Impressive.&lt;p&gt;Maybe motherboards should stop coming with dimms and use the apple approach to get great bandwidth and latency and come in 16, 32, and 64GB varieties by soldering LPDDR4x on the motherboard.</text><parent_chain><item><author>benjaminl</author><text>Unlike what has been said on Twitter the answer to why the M1 is fast isn’t due to technical tricks, but due to Apple throwing a lot of hardware at the problem.&lt;p&gt;The M1 is really wide (8 wide decode) and has a lot of execution units. It has a huge 630 deep reorder buffer to keep them all filled, multiple large caches and a lot of memory bandwidth.&lt;p&gt;It is just a monster of a chip, well designed balanced and executed.&lt;p&gt;BTW this isn’t really new. Apple has been making incremental progress year by year on these processor for their A-series chips. Just nobody believed those Geekbench benchmarks showing that in short benchmarks your phone could be faster than your laptop. Well turns out that given the right cooling solution those benchmarks were accurate.&lt;p&gt;Anandtech has a wonderful deep dive into the processor architecture.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.anandtech.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;16226&amp;#x2F;apple-silicon-m1-a14-deep-dive&amp;#x2F;2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.anandtech.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;16226&amp;#x2F;apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I didn’t mean to disparage Apple or the M1 by saying that Apple threw hardware at the problem. That Apple was able to keep power low with such a wide chip is extremely impressive and speaks to how finely tuned the chip is. I was trying to say that Apple got the results they did the hard way by advancing every aspect of the chip.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is Apple&apos;s M1 chip so fast?</title><url>https://erik-engheim.medium.com/why-is-apples-m1-chip-so-fast-3262b158cba2</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jvagner</author><text>At a certain size, corporate roadmaps and people management are inevitably political. Google modifying their search criteria to participate in China&amp;#x27;s market.. is political. Google&amp;#x27;s HR department working towards demographic goals.. is political (&lt;i&gt;I&amp;#x27;m&lt;/i&gt; not judging its political-ness, but it ended up being political, didn&amp;#x27;t it?).&lt;p&gt;Each of the major FAAMG companies has a political&amp;#x2F;dominance issue of some kind, one that comes to mind more immediately than all the political issues associated with those companies. Taking a swag at it:&lt;p&gt;* Facebook: privacy - exploitation (personal data exploitation)&lt;p&gt;* Amazon: automation&lt;p&gt;* Apple: privacy - enforced (withholding from gov&amp;#x27;t)&lt;p&gt;* Microsoft: [I&amp;#x27;m not even sure, they&amp;#x27;re flying low.. perhaps monopolization, or government backdoors?]&lt;p&gt;* Google: politicization&amp;#x2F;curation&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that Google&amp;#x27;s the clearest &amp;quot;ideation&amp;quot; company here, where censorship&amp;#x2F;curation is the most core part of their business model (Facebook is social media, Google is a borg-like machine collection all of the Internet and then putting algorithms around access to it), and most prone to politicization crossing the internal&amp;#x2F;external cultural barrier. [edit:spelling]</text><parent_chain><item><author>high_derivative</author><text>My inside-FAAMNG experience has been that most employees seem to be not interested in the politics and are primarily focused on doing good work (people in their 20s), or on putting in their 8 hours and going home to their families (people &amp;gt;30 mostly, of course they also want to do good work, just have additional new priorities in a young family).&lt;p&gt;Then there is a vocal minority who leverage that no individual&amp;#x27;s performance really affects the money printing machine. They blatantly view the company and its resources as a means to further their political goals.&lt;p&gt;They come across as incredibly entitled and tone-deaf against the actual working class or people actually suffering from oppression (say, women being incarcerated in Iran for decades for taking off their veils, or protesters in HK). No matter how petty and entitled the request, anything denied is interpreted as some larger act of &amp;quot;violence&amp;quot; against them.&lt;p&gt;What I didn&amp;#x27;t&amp;#x2F;don&amp;#x27;t understand is why management allowed that to happen. Either they actually believe in the political goals themselves, are afraid of the conflict, or believe it just does not matter for the company.&lt;p&gt;I think what management fails to understand often is that giving in to a demand is not viewed with gratitude but merely as accepting what&amp;#x27;s naturally right and good. In other words, giving in to demands 1..n does not give you credit when demand n+1 is posed. The ultimate conflict is just delayed.</text></item><item><author>segmondy</author><text>My eyes are hurting from seeing these articles whining about their misery while collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. Most companies have issues, and these issues are not &amp;quot;Company&amp;quot; issues but PEOPLE issues. Once you&amp;#x27;re large enough, you are going to have people with differing opinions, beliefs and values. These are going to clash. If you happen to be on the losing side and don&amp;#x27;t learn to accept it, you will find yourself miserable. Accept it and solider on to change if you truly believe in your fight.&lt;p&gt;There are folks out there working minimum wage jobs who are truly miserable, back breaking labor, standing on their feet all day, standing in the hot sun or out in the cold weather, avoiding dangerous machinery and avoiding trying to be maimed or worse loose their life. Dealing with stupid harassment and constant abuse from their boss who makes a $1 more above minimum wage.&lt;p&gt;Folks out there are really going through it. It doesn&amp;#x27;t mean that we don&amp;#x27;t have tough challenges in tech, but we have become spoiled and a bunch of whiners. The majority of the population are outside the industry and they roll their eyes when these type of articles come out and these incessant complaints don&amp;#x27;t endear them to us.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery-happiest-company-tech/</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>joelx</author><text>I agree completely with this.&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that true evil is MBS ordering the murder of journalist Khasshogi. True evil is invading and conquering Crimea. True evil is murdering your generals with anti-aircraft guns or watching dogs tear them apart while still alive.&lt;p&gt;Serving banner ads across sites does not even remotely compare.</text><parent_chain><item><author>high_derivative</author><text>My inside-FAAMNG experience has been that most employees seem to be not interested in the politics and are primarily focused on doing good work (people in their 20s), or on putting in their 8 hours and going home to their families (people &amp;gt;30 mostly, of course they also want to do good work, just have additional new priorities in a young family).&lt;p&gt;Then there is a vocal minority who leverage that no individual&amp;#x27;s performance really affects the money printing machine. They blatantly view the company and its resources as a means to further their political goals.&lt;p&gt;They come across as incredibly entitled and tone-deaf against the actual working class or people actually suffering from oppression (say, women being incarcerated in Iran for decades for taking off their veils, or protesters in HK). No matter how petty and entitled the request, anything denied is interpreted as some larger act of &amp;quot;violence&amp;quot; against them.&lt;p&gt;What I didn&amp;#x27;t&amp;#x2F;don&amp;#x27;t understand is why management allowed that to happen. Either they actually believe in the political goals themselves, are afraid of the conflict, or believe it just does not matter for the company.&lt;p&gt;I think what management fails to understand often is that giving in to a demand is not viewed with gratitude but merely as accepting what&amp;#x27;s naturally right and good. In other words, giving in to demands 1..n does not give you credit when demand n+1 is posed. The ultimate conflict is just delayed.</text></item><item><author>segmondy</author><text>My eyes are hurting from seeing these articles whining about their misery while collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. Most companies have issues, and these issues are not &amp;quot;Company&amp;quot; issues but PEOPLE issues. Once you&amp;#x27;re large enough, you are going to have people with differing opinions, beliefs and values. These are going to clash. If you happen to be on the losing side and don&amp;#x27;t learn to accept it, you will find yourself miserable. Accept it and solider on to change if you truly believe in your fight.&lt;p&gt;There are folks out there working minimum wage jobs who are truly miserable, back breaking labor, standing on their feet all day, standing in the hot sun or out in the cold weather, avoiding dangerous machinery and avoiding trying to be maimed or worse loose their life. Dealing with stupid harassment and constant abuse from their boss who makes a $1 more above minimum wage.&lt;p&gt;Folks out there are really going through it. It doesn&amp;#x27;t mean that we don&amp;#x27;t have tough challenges in tech, but we have become spoiled and a bunch of whiners. The majority of the population are outside the industry and they roll their eyes when these type of articles come out and these incessant complaints don&amp;#x27;t endear them to us.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery-happiest-company-tech/</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AlexandrB</author><text>&amp;gt; or giving them FOMO and complexes by depriving them of a phone.&lt;p&gt;I had plenty of friends when I was young that had restrictions on &amp;quot;TV time&amp;quot;. My parents, in contrast, were very &amp;quot;hands-off&amp;quot;. I&amp;#x27;ve never heard people who are now adults who had &amp;quot;TV time&amp;quot; restrictions express a lot of FOMO or regret about it. Some frame it as &amp;quot;my parents were strict&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;my parents were a little overbearing&amp;quot; but that&amp;#x27;s about it.&lt;p&gt;Obviously I understand that it&amp;#x27;s not the same thing since phones are a 2-way medium and can sometimes be a lynchpin for communication these days, but it&amp;#x27;s not &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; crazy or unprecedented either.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s talked about less (and I suspect the cause of a lot of reluctance to take phones away) is how parents now track their kids&amp;#x27; whereabouts using smartphones and apps[1].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;may&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;honey-lets-track-the-kids-phone-apps-now-allow-parents-to-track-their-children&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;may&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;honey-lets-tra...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>pesfandiar</author><text>This is sad. As a parent of a grade-schooler, I feel helpless with a complete lack of awareness around this. It feels as if everyone is calming their kids with opiates and Xanax, and no one bats an eye because that&amp;#x27;s what everyone else is doing.&lt;p&gt;Even if you&amp;#x27;re aware of the mental health issues associated with social media use, you have the option of either giving up and losing your kid to the phenomenon, or giving them FOMO and complexes by depriving them of a phone.&lt;p&gt;The only positive trend I&amp;#x27;ve seen is school districts banning smartphones. That could relieve some of the social pressure to hook your kid up with a smartphone so early in their life.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok</title><url>https://www.honest-broker.com/p/30-of-children-ages-5-7-are-on-tiktok</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>squigz</author><text>(I&amp;#x27;ll preface this by saying I&amp;#x27;m not a parent, and I don&amp;#x27;t raise children. I imagine it&amp;#x27;s not an easy endeavor. But...)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; you have the option of either giving up and losing your kid to the phenomenon, or giving them FOMO and complexes by depriving them of a phone.&lt;p&gt;Are these really the only 2 options you see? No &amp;quot;teach your child about the issues with being on a phone all day&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;set reasonable restrictions on phone usage&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;Edit: People replying to this comment seem to have forgotten the role of parents.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pesfandiar</author><text>This is sad. As a parent of a grade-schooler, I feel helpless with a complete lack of awareness around this. It feels as if everyone is calming their kids with opiates and Xanax, and no one bats an eye because that&amp;#x27;s what everyone else is doing.&lt;p&gt;Even if you&amp;#x27;re aware of the mental health issues associated with social media use, you have the option of either giving up and losing your kid to the phenomenon, or giving them FOMO and complexes by depriving them of a phone.&lt;p&gt;The only positive trend I&amp;#x27;ve seen is school districts banning smartphones. That could relieve some of the social pressure to hook your kid up with a smartphone so early in their life.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok</title><url>https://www.honest-broker.com/p/30-of-children-ages-5-7-are-on-tiktok</url></story>

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<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drewg123</author><text>I worked for Myricom 2001-&amp;gt;2013, and Google 2013-&amp;gt;2015. And, wow, I wish I could comment on this thread.. :)&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Scott&amp;#x27;s Medium blog post linked from this article is fascinating: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;swlh&amp;#x2F;myricom-an-hpc-story-and-lessons-learned-from-the-fall-of-an-industry-darling-35017e6373d8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;swlh&amp;#x2F;myricom-an-hpc-story-and-lessons-lea...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM</title><url>https://q3k.org/lanai.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>CalChris</author><text>&amp;gt; The world&amp;#x27;s best instruction mnemonic: PUNT, to switch between user and system contexts.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s pretty good but I still prefer PowerPC&amp;#x27;s EIEIO.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ibm.com&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;aix&amp;#x2F;7.2?topic=set-eieio-enforce-in-order-execution-io-instruction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ibm.com&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;aix&amp;#x2F;7.2?topic=set-eieio-enforce-...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM</title><url>https://q3k.org/lanai.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>belorn</author><text>I remember one of those very minor study that had a person trying to dismantle a bike lock in a park. Male with dark skin, male with white skin, female with dark skin and female with white skin.&lt;p&gt;The man with the dark skin had people tackle him down while calling the police. The other people on the team that was observing had to rush in to disarm the situation. The white man had people stare and point, but nothing dramatic happened. The woman with dark skin was practically ignored by people walking the park. For the white woman several people walked up and offered to help her with the bike.&lt;p&gt;I am not sure a beard and night time and actually changes this. The assumption about who can and can&amp;#x27;t be a criminal seems to be based on gender first, race second, and appearance&amp;#x2F;environment last. Would be very interesting to see a more deep study on that, through I expect they will mirror related studies such as those that look at outcomes from courts and criminal psychology.</text><parent_chain><item><author>superkuh</author><text>This was a wonderfully written piece and a lot of it rings true to me even as a white as you can be person in a smallish state university town in the midwest. But maybe being 6&amp;#x27;2&amp;quot; with a big unkempt hobo beard is almost as scary as being black.&lt;p&gt;I too love walking the streets at night. And I too have to not be myself and behave in very conscious ways to avoid being hassled and detained by the police. Police just assume that if you&amp;#x27;re out at night you are a criminal.&lt;p&gt;So much of his descriptions of having to learn to dress a certain way, behave a certain way, and literally go out of my way to avoid scaring people rings true. I get detained by the police a handful of times per year just for walking or being in places at times that most people aren&amp;#x27;t. I particularly get the police called on me if I walk through in rich neighborhoods. I&amp;#x27;ve had firearms pulled on me just for photographing trees in a public park (at night).&lt;p&gt;I tried to take up jogging for half a year but I quit and bought a bike after being stopped by police for being suspicious three times in as many months. Apparently jogging while not wearing a joggers uniform means I&amp;#x27;m up to no good. No non-criminal jogs in cargo pants and a t-shirt. And that was in the day time. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t even consider trying it at night.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not trying to marginalize his message that skin color is the cause. But it&amp;#x27;s certainly not the only cause. The root of the problem lies with the police, and society, villifying anyone who isn&amp;#x27;t diurnal.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Walking While Black</title><url>https://lithub.com/walking-while-black/</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>michaelgrafl</author><text>I used to take lots of walks at night before I had a full time job and children. I live in Austria and it seems bizarre to me that police officers would check you out just for walking around at night. I never had such an experience whether I was living in Vienna or my small hometown.&lt;p&gt;What I did see was black men having to show their ID at subway stations, which to me was a very unsettling thing, because it was pretty obvious that they were looking for drug dealers and focusing on a specific race.&lt;p&gt;I was held up in Croatia and had to show my ID twice. But I was with a group of people in a party area, so that kind of made sense.&lt;p&gt;Is taking walks maybe an uncommon thing in the USA?</text><parent_chain><item><author>superkuh</author><text>This was a wonderfully written piece and a lot of it rings true to me even as a white as you can be person in a smallish state university town in the midwest. But maybe being 6&amp;#x27;2&amp;quot; with a big unkempt hobo beard is almost as scary as being black.&lt;p&gt;I too love walking the streets at night. And I too have to not be myself and behave in very conscious ways to avoid being hassled and detained by the police. Police just assume that if you&amp;#x27;re out at night you are a criminal.&lt;p&gt;So much of his descriptions of having to learn to dress a certain way, behave a certain way, and literally go out of my way to avoid scaring people rings true. I get detained by the police a handful of times per year just for walking or being in places at times that most people aren&amp;#x27;t. I particularly get the police called on me if I walk through in rich neighborhoods. I&amp;#x27;ve had firearms pulled on me just for photographing trees in a public park (at night).&lt;p&gt;I tried to take up jogging for half a year but I quit and bought a bike after being stopped by police for being suspicious three times in as many months. Apparently jogging while not wearing a joggers uniform means I&amp;#x27;m up to no good. No non-criminal jogs in cargo pants and a t-shirt. And that was in the day time. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t even consider trying it at night.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not trying to marginalize his message that skin color is the cause. But it&amp;#x27;s certainly not the only cause. The root of the problem lies with the police, and society, villifying anyone who isn&amp;#x27;t diurnal.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Walking While Black</title><url>https://lithub.com/walking-while-black/</url></story>