jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is extended in the post/article "Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People" [0].

> The 1% rule is of course just another way of saying that the distribution of contributions follows a Power Law Distribution, which means that the level of inequality gets more drastic as you look at smaller subsets of users.

> Wikipedia's most active 1,000 people — 0.003% of its users — contribute about two-thirds of the site's edits. Wikipedia is thus even more skewed than blogs, with a 99.8–0.2–0.003 rule.

> 167,113 of Amazon’s book reviews were contributed by just a few "top-100" reviewers; the most prolific reviewer had written 12,423 reviews. How anybody can write that many reviews — let alone read that many books — is beyond me.

> YouTube power-user Justin Y. had a top comment on pretty much every video you clicked on for like a year. He says he spends 1-3 hours per day commenting on YouTube, finds videos by looking at the statistics section of the site to see which are spiking in popularity, and comments on a lot of videos without watching them.

> If you consume any content on the Internet, you're mostly consuming content created by people who for some reason spend most of their time and energy creating content on the Internet. And those people clearly differ from the general population in important ways. I don't really know what to do with this observation except to note that it seems like it's worth keeping in mind when using the Internet.

Of course, that post's author is clearly insane. With 72k reputation and 1000 posts on Stack Exchange, I'm proudly insane. And if you're about to reply with a witty comment, you might just be insane, too. ;)

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
Over here in (Western) Europe most people rent a trailer when they need it, unless you are living more rural. If you need it once in a blue moon then renting isn't really an issue. Many places that sell large things, like IKEA, also rent out large vans basically for free if you purchase from them.
> There are places where math is hard...

This is the realisation I had (20 years late). Especially beyond high school, maths is hard. You have to put the effort in, and you have to do the example problems.

I think its expressiveness and conciseness makes it more dispiriting to study: one page of a maths textbook can contain so much information, and it feels like you're just stupid when it takes an hour to understand that page fully.
Which feature allows it to mow people down better?
Not at this size. Electronic brakes are king when you’re sub-fifth-wheel.
To be honest, that is also a problem with human drivers
You'll find that it's not common knowledge among the general population, and presumably to some extent among the readership and authors of a financial newspaper.
Needs an update, but https://github.com/AustinPrivett/MatrixChainMultiply.jl does it. Could probably be handled more automatically.
I want my configuration to be easily diffable by git.
Thanks for your answers so far, I'm sorry I'm still being dim - the 'mass gaps' per the Wikipedia article you linked are thought to be in the region of "2 to 5 and 50 to 150 solar masses", and therefore stellar black holes are expected to be around 5-50 solar masses. The NYT article puts Cygnus X1 at 21 solar masses and therefore safely in the realm of possibility, but apparently now big enough to cause a problem, being bigger than 20 solar masses which was some other previous limit (the limit for a binary system?). I don't understand why it couldn't have been <= 20Msol at formation, and then acquired the rest parasitically from it's companion.
Derailing: Leaving aside that these drug laws are draconian, strict punishment does appear to have an impact on crime when observing 1st world countries. Japanese poverty rate for example is reportedly 16% and the last official rate in the U.S. was 10.5%, but has one of the lowest murder rates in the world. People like to chalk this up to mere "culture", which is absurd. Culture changes, and is itself informed by various factors which can include the law. The rehabilitation proponents skeptical of punishment tend to focus on recidivism only. The only question to ask is whether the severity of punishment is warranted.
Those are just websites.
Agreed. Go straight to the source: How to read a book, by Mortimer Adler. Ironically you will find there that you must grapple with the good books, which arguably disqualifies just reading about it in a blog.
This is just an unashamed ripoff of "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren. Seriously, he didn't even get "syntopical" right.
It is quite old, but I found it very helpful for writing my university project. Does anybody know any similar materials?
the idea is to generate the key in the device, so it never leave the device, therefore you cannot store it somewhere else like another device.

So, the ideia is for you to have two devices, each with its own key, the first device you use daily and the second you use store in a safe location.

if your first device in daily use stop working or is lost you use the second device you have stored to login to your systems to remove the keys from the lost device and add the keys for a new device that replace it and then store the second device back in a safe location.
It’s a violation of the NLRA to fire employees for organizing, so it makes a lot of sense that the reasons given for their termination would be something other than “you’re fired for unionizing”. I’ve read the other articles linked in this thread and there’s not much by way of evidence on either side besides Google’s statements but it’s naive to think that the company would outright say that they were violating federal labor laws even if they were.
Because the article title is extremely clickbaity and wrong. They fired four people because they were repeatedly breaking privacy policies and leaking documents.
> neither the SSD nor the data can be recovered

It looks like such a bug isn't necessarily SSD specific if it completely bricks the drive.

And while 32.768 hours may seem like a long time for a drive, it's under 4 years of continuous operation. Not unheard of if used in a NAS.
Wow, so many typos in that. I was trying to hammer out a reply so I could get out the door and it shows.
>he was already tried in absentia

I think that was in 'Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission', it's not a U.N. recognised body.
I have always wondered if we, as a species, are the problem. Maybe we’re really not supposed to spread and colonize every part of Earth. Maybe we’re supposed to stay within much narrower areas where the local produce is good enough.

Not sure if I’m making sense.
sorta, https://github.com/locua/oscooking, in style yes
Hmm, just 20 minutes before seeing this I was bemoaning the state of Spotify Windows desktop app. Seriously, still no EQ in 2021? And they seem to have removed any simple in-app way to manage cache/prevent download of songs, compared to years past.
5G for home internet service is horrible news. We get a scarce resource (airwaves) and we waste it in areas where we have been paying decades the cable providers to build infrastructure, but they only built local monopolies for us.

So now everyone's phone bill will go up, and we will all be data capped. What a mess.
Yeah, fun fact (not sure if you know): Teams is basically the commercial name for the internal "Skype Spaces" project.

Within the app itself they use a lot of .skype.com endpoints too (:

https://devspaces.skype.com/
Yes, but this is how law enforcement behaves across the board. (And when they do give you a drink then they can grab the cup and fingerprint it and run DNA tests, right?)
Am I alone in thinking that it's already more than easy enough to buy things? E-commerce is great the way it is and sometimes I enjoy going out into the world to shop at a real store.

All this lock-in to Amazon does is obscure that these days you can find the same deal or better elsewhere with a little bit of looking. Especially with groceries and household items Amazon has never been as competitive as they consistently are with media.
Sekou Sundiata blew my mind when I was introduced to his work in the mid-90s.
To me he's the bridge from Ginsberg, kerouac, Boroughs etc to more modern stuff like Saul Williams, Buddy Wakefield, etc
It's funny how before the whole scandal was public (or at least, before I personally became aware of it), the NSA sounded like a hip place to work: for example, their keynote here was quite cool:

https://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/session-video...

EDIT: I mean just look at that guy!
If you believe in equality of opportunity, parents should not be the main source of provision for children.

Every time someone mentions "who will provide for your children if you don't leave an inheritance behind?" I immediately have to ask, "what about all the children whose parents are not able to leave them an inheritance (ie: most of them)?"

It seems that it is you who have not really thought it out. Here's Adam Smith on the topic btw:

> "A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural." Smith said: "There is no point more difficult to account for than the right we conceive men to have to dispose of their goods after death."

http://budiansky.blogspot.ca/2010/10/adam-smith-thomas-jeffe...
Cynically, wage fixing does keep people happy and productive, because it means they spend less time worrying about how much more they could make at some other company.
Err I'm running Windows 8 on a 32Gb HP Stream 7. Heaps of music, and 3 movies, and the recovery partition and still have 17GB free. What causes your install to grow so much?
Agreed. It's a very common feeling that "I am better than the automation." Even as an engineer and a fan of statistics, I share that visceral and inherent bias in my ego-laden monkey brain.

On your specific example, there's little life-safety risk in inadvertent retraction of the gear. Sure, you're going to make expensive sparks, but it is extremely unlikely that anyone will die or even suffer life-changing injuries. The only likely injuries are from the slides and evacuation process.

In contrast, being unable to raise the gear can be a life-safety emergency. Take a piston twin such as the one I fly. An engine failure with the airplane heavy and the gear down is a bona fide emergency.

Suppose I take a bird or deer strike just after liftoff that damages the propeller and the "squat switch" (the weight-on-wheels sensor that prevents the gear being raised electrically). The prop damage may force me to shut down that engine at the same time that I can't raise the gear electrically (because the squat switch says we're still on the ground). I may not be able to climb the airplane with the available power on the left side engine while manually cranking up the gear, and I'm heavy, low, and slow.

What first seems like a "duh, pilots would have to be idiots for arguing they should be able to raise the gear with weight on the wheels" is actually a tradeoff between a high likelihood of inadvertent switch mis-use with only financial consequences versus a very low likelihood of losing the aircraft an all on board.

Of course, people are both bad at math, bad at understanding low probability/high impact events, and very uncomfortable with "costing" human lives such that a tradeoff can be made across financial losses and human lives lost.
> Isn't it obvious that alcohol can cause certain fatal diseases in proportion to consumption?

Its obvious that consumption is positively correlated to certain fatal conditions, but its not at all obvious that the risk is in proportion to (i.e., linearly correlated with) total lifetime consumption.

That's simply not the way things work.
I understood the service as only printing photos you've uploaded.
http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-biography-2013-...
I really love the work that was put into the developer tools console interaction.

The "cheater" achievement was a surprise.
Thanks for your replies guys. I think it's interesting to develop a massive piece of software at the same time than its language it must certainly contribute quick valuable feedbacks to the language's designers based this concrete application. Added to the fact that Rust is now developed in Rust!
I like this. I think he will too.
Here's a quick description:

Timeslot is a cross between a Todo list and a calendar. Simply add items to your day's agenda, and specify how long each will take. Timeslot will automatically generate start and end times for each item, so when you have to make a change, your entire agenda will update to flow around it.

An interesting tidbit you might notice about Timeslot: Once you log in, literally every bit of text on the screen is editable. I personally find this quite neat :)
Thanks for the advice.. I'll be sure to be clear on expectations, but I'm not sure how I can compensate him- I'm bootstrapping, and don't intend to raise funding.
My experience is that I upvote less now. Which means I'm more selective about what I upvote. I am no longer affected by the polling of the community.

If this is a common change in other's voting patterns, you might see a shrinking of mid ranked comments, since there are less votes to go around.

If this is the case, I would say that the herd metality has been removed. I never stopped voting on comments that I thought were really good, just on the ones that I was on the fence about, and pushed over by their rank.

The fact that the high comments have seen a bump? Maybe people are reading more in depth, which could get them a few extra up votes? It's a possiblity.

We won't know for sure until we see some actual stats about whats going on. I don't think either side could prove the other wrong at this point.
I have never. Ever. EVER. witnessed the top comment on an active HN thread be something "witty remarks that a lot of people found funny." Granted, I've only been here a year or so, but comment threads here do come very close to being a true meritocracy, where merit is a function is insight, relevance, wit and brevity.

HN only feels like Reddit comment threads to me on these introspective topics. I avoid them for the most part but your comment in particular stood out to me.
Thanks for your feedback!

1. Yes, I will definitely be making a mobile version of the app. Maybe it can be part of a paid plan?

2. You can actually already plan any day of the calendar. Just click on the date of the agenda to edit it.

3. Yup, another great idea I plan on implementing in the near future.
Vivek, please use this energy to create more opportunities and better conditions for US students, that's the only long-term solution.

You can't easily grab international (Asian) brains as you did 50 years ago. Things changed.
The people demanding drug reform would be fantastic, and the Mexican drug gangs is absurd on the face because if growing were legal here, they would have a hell of a lot less business. Not your point, I know.

Decentralization doesn't preclude smart, opt-in filtering, etc., by node operators, FWIW
You're defending caffeine use. Please show me one place where I suggested he should stop or sad that using caffeine was bad. In fact, I've gone out of my way half a dozen times to suggest the opposite.

All I did was ask why, rather than replace coffee with caffeine, he didn't simply kick caffeine all together.

Heh, legal dangers aren't probably as severe a concern as dangers during acquisition. I would suggest that anyone using cannabis at work is as dumb as anyone drinking at work. If you want to light up after work, I don't really see how that affects your performance at work. You don't get a hangover from cannabis use.

Maybe my tone conveyed otherwise, but I was really just curious as to why it was easier for the (parent, parent, parent) comment to keep using caffeine in a different form if he didn't enjoy drinking coffee.

I guess I'm still surprised at the ease of which people can ween themselves off of what I would call large doses of it. But that skepticism really isn't fair of me, especially considering peoples' default opinion of cannabis use and how much all of my experiences and friends' experiences differ from the typical stoner stereotype.

I am curious now though, when you say "heavy users tend to have long-term loss of productivity", is that even when at work, not high? Is that even after they've stopped smoking for long periods of time? Because even anecdotally, I've never really heard of that. I mean, I ditched a friend because he was addicted to pot. He was addicted to cigarettes and drinking and attention and designer glasses and he used people to get his way so I don't really think cannabis was the root issue, but I'm surprised to hear of people in the tech industry experiencing people that suffer as a result of use.

Oh well, I'm way off topic. tl;dr, I think we were talking past each other, more just making different points. Sorry for any attitude I had earlier. It's no excuse but it's been a long day, had some major presentations going on.
One issue I'd like to see explored more deeply is the path-dependence of a comment's final score.

There's this often unstated assumption that "good" comments will rise to the top.

What about this:

1) Display all comment scores, all the time
2) A new comment is posted
3) Segment the readership somehow, so that the comment has a (possibly different) score for each segment. E.g. Allow a comment to have 4 different scores.
4) Start the comment off with a random score in the range [-2, +2], but one that's different for each viewer segment
5) track (but hide) the number of upvotes and downvotes for each score
6) display just init + upvotes - downvotes to each segment
I can think of one way to make this a net positive.

They could upgrade the future by putting optical fiber into the roadbed and making it available at all the locations along the way.
Signal is just another walled garden, making it a no-go for me.
From the opposite point of view, in the last hour I’ve been added to 3 different group chats on Signal that were all previously WhatsApp chats (in which I did not participate, in spite of many of those friends repeatedly asking me to).

That’s added at least 20 or 30 friends/acquaintances into my signal contact list that I’m 99% sure downloaded signal for the first time this morning.
Plus, if I remember correctly, the editor thought Monica should rather compensate her for editing it. She'd been in the business for decades, she said, and Monica should feel privileged. Holy crap.
There is no mention of metabolism anywhere in this article. Not sure where you got that.

3rd sentence:

"Dieters have been encouraged to employ this trick for ages, with the reasoning quite simple: the water fills the stomach, thus reducing hunger."
i PREDICT DAT RATSPEAK wILL BEcoME tHe nEXT LOlSPEK
Let me rephrase: it would be fun in a training environment, not in a competitive environment.
They're certainly doing the right thing here. JavaScript optimization is a constant battle between (1) reducing HTTP requests by grouping code together in a single file, and (2) reducing file sizes by splitting code into separate files.

You don't want to group too much because you risk downloading code you don't need, but you don't want to split too much because you need to keep HTTP requests low. Proper optimization requires intelligent grouping of related code to create a balance between these two ideals, allowing the browser to cache commonly used resources so subsequent page loads are fast.

Their blog page has 6 external JavaScript files and 4 external stylesheets. Those numbers are pretty reasonable given the scope of their site.
One thing not mentioned is the development server slowness and need to constantly restart it. The live website actually ends up being much faster than the development site on your machine. Apparently, this is due to the fact that the development server is single threaded. TyphoonAE is one work around but then you're depending on a third-party to catch up with the latest API changes.
But people often do not care enough to change their "choices", even when the negative results are obvious. There must be a reason for that.
My frustration is many in the West don't recognize the genius and moral standing of the Chinese core leadership. Westerners focus on the censorship, the lack of democracy, the human rights violations, the communism, or the capitalism. The image continues to be one of a crazy communist dictatorship with no direction and no morals that just happened to get lucky with some twisted capitalism.

But capitalism is only a part of their success. Everyone knows you should do some free trade and open up the economy. The really hard part of running a country is managing the powerful internal special interest groups and getting all the systemic incentives aligned correctly so that people work together to produce better government and a better economy. Russia and many others have tried capitalism and failed because their political systems sucked.

The triumph of the Chinese leadership is how they have adapted the Singapore model, managed their powerful internal special interest groups and an insanely diverse geography and ethnic populations that don't speak the same language, keeping the country together, while getting a growing number of people to work on improving government and the economy and moving towards creating a fair, unified, and stable environment for business and wealth and improving peoples lives.

edit: I suppose I really know nothing about the moral standing of the Chinese core leadership. I don't know what they are thinking. But I see how many they have lifted out of poverty and their dedication to improving government and the lives of those people.
Seems pretty bubble like to me.
I dunno man, I have a whole bunch of stuff I'd write up, but the soon as I sit down, I dispair that anyone would think it was interesting because it was so obvious. It's happened to me a whole bunch of times. This advice helps in practice because it's way better to just spit stuff out until you hit upon something cool than bury it all. The stuff that will last will last.
This blog -- Arms Control Wonk -- is absolutely fantastic. The parent post itself is definitely worth reading, as is almost every post in the blog.
There are many things we say in our daily language that are either pointless or contradictory. This article talks about "but-head" sentence prefixes. Another example would be disingenuous greetings, such as asking "how's life?", "how's your day been?", etc, even though we don't really care. Proof that we don't care: The way people get uncomfortable when someone actually honestly answers "actually my day's been terrible because of A, B, C ...".

This article raises some interesting points that I've thought of myself sometimes. Before reading this article, I had made the assumption that it was just protocol. I assumed that there was something ... missing in the English language: Often times, when we use such set expressions, we're actually trying to convey some sort of emotion rather than the actual message of the words. "Hey how's it going" is actually suppose to mean "I am acknowledging your presense, and may or may not wish to engage in conversation with you unless your mood complements mine...".

After reading this article, I can't help but find myself agreeing with the author. A lot of these are nothing but self-serving converstation fillers. Unfortunately, I can't think of any alternatives besides downright bluntness ...
"For the Minuteman ICBM force, the US Air Force's Strategic Air Command worried that in times of need the codes would not be available, so they quietly decided to set them to 00000000; checking this combination was even present on the launch checklists. This was not changed until 1977."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link#Developm...