<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>claytongulick</author><text>I knew my great grandmother well, played games with her into my teens, she was a little over 100 when she died.&lt;p&gt;She grew up on a plantation, had sharecroppers and knew many civil war veterans.&lt;p&gt;A lot of people think of that era as ancient history.&lt;p&gt;It really hasn&amp;#x27;t been that long.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ta8645</author><text>It always amazes me how far we&amp;#x27;ve come in that time.  That&amp;#x27;s only 250 generations of people, or so.  Not a lot, when you think of it in those terms.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dig near Paris unearths beginnings of urbanization dating back to 4,200 BC</title><url>https://www.lemonde.fr/en/science/article/2023/10/16/an-archaeological-dig-near-paris-unearthed-beginnings-of-urbanization-dating-back-to-4-200-b-c_6177642_10.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>canoebuilder</author><text>I too think it is interesting to look back in time using the generation metric. 
Also interesting to think about a generation still alive, those born in the 1920s and 30s and the huge changes in the state of the world seen in those lifetimes alone, and what that may portend for younger generations.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ta8645</author><text>It always amazes me how far we&amp;#x27;ve come in that time.  That&amp;#x27;s only 250 generations of people, or so.  Not a lot, when you think of it in those terms.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dig near Paris unearths beginnings of urbanization dating back to 4,200 BC</title><url>https://www.lemonde.fr/en/science/article/2023/10/16/an-archaeological-dig-near-paris-unearthed-beginnings-of-urbanization-dating-back-to-4-200-b-c_6177642_10.html</url></story>