skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently in a small B2B software company. Bonuses were introduced as an alternative to dividends, as just a few employees had stocks. As such, the total bonus amount was directly tied to the total amount of dividends paid. The amount paid to each individual was determined by a few discrete levels, based on seniority and such.

Thus, higher results typically meant higher bonuses, and it felt transparent and predictable.

However, after many steady years we're now in a high-growth phase. So results are down due to many new hires, and consequently bonuses are down.

Due to our change of pace, they're changing the bonus system next year.

Back at my first job the company had a target-based bonus system. It was a bit dumb, because they couldn't bother seasonally adjusting the budget, just divided the target by 12, while activity flat-lined during July (summer vacation here) and peaked heavily in December (customers spending what's left of budget before end of the year). So we didn't really know how well we did until the end. And, as my boss mentioned when we were quite behind, the the target was set fairly arbitrarily at the start of the year anyway. Overall not a great way to do it.
>or if Mr. Mangione himself initiated the action in order to let someone "deserving" collect the reward.

this is a really interesting idea
Yes, the collectibles company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funko
High, but not particularly rare. IF you see a movie, there are probably several people >130 in the audience with you. When you filter by education and other factors, it goes up quickly. Depending on your line of work, a majority of your coworkers might be over 130.
Rupert Murdoch loses battle to control succession to his media empire
The PV stats seem low to me since Amazon for example started removing solar panels from their warehouse roofs due tu multiple fires in multiple different places.
Unless he went to a tiny high school it's unlikely that he was the smartest person in the school. Possibly in his year.
He was always going to be the fall guy. The groups he was involved in was full of federal informants and agents. Why such elements didn't try to stop him is another question for a FOIA that won't be returned for 100 years.
This is what is being referenced: https://arxiv.org/html/2410.16144v2
sounds like bs. it's parallel construction
I’m 45, lifting regularly, never been in better shape.
Yes, you can try these bindings:

- https://github.com/caketop/python-starlark-go

- https://github.com/inducer/starlark-pyo3

(I haven't tried them myself)
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Well, just like the robot is a simulacrum of a friend, the cloud disconnection can be a simulacrum of death, no need to explain to them about LLM tokens and their costs and how the MBA's costs-profits graph ended up not being sustainable for this shitty company.
Descend into the Depths of the Assad Regime's Bunker
You should change registrars. Sort the situation and move to a better one.
Yeah… they have defined the UX that everyone else is copying thus far. So I feel like you are pretty far off the mark.
It also works out pretty well for them, as they’re basically /the/ symbol of soulless commercialism, sanding down everything distinctive about characters and producing a cuboid of concentrated Brand. Anyone who voluntarily looks at that and decides they want to be a part of it is already on board with the corporate hellscape, so nothing they do could possibly harm their reputation among their customers.
There are private citizens that own and operate all of those things.
Not really. Half of people are barely literate. Maybe the top 10% have writing and language skills cogent and coherent enough to hang out on a website like this. So realistically we're talking about maybe 20% of the people you're interacting with. Possibly more, since this is the modern USENET where all the shape rotators hang out. People who can rotate shapes at all probably score at least that on tests.
5-10% of the battery itself. required 1/2" sheet rock, that 60-min door, etc etc. would have been more if I hired someone to do it.
I've used countless ROMs over the years, as well as stock android, AOSP, cyanogen mod, later lineage os., caylx etc., without google, with microg etc.

Honestly Graphene is the first where everything just worked, and gave me the option to take or leave google apps, and have them in a sandbox if I desired.

Probably the first time I haven't felt the need to root or install magisk modules to customize behavior.

For me it's like having your cake and eating it too.

To be honest, and this probably seems minor / trivial, but one of the only things I miss about using GOS is the ability to turn on the flash light by holding the power or whatever other button.

I'm curious about the rough edges you experienced.
A term I've heard since the ...2000's?...is "focus+context" [1], often used in visualisation. I'm looking for a very similar UI construct right now, for balancing simple high-level terms for non-technical people but digging in for people who want more detail, or who want a definition. My thinking is to have a sidebar with more info, but a closable popup might work better for mobile. Don't like popups but it's e.g. how iOS does "look up" when focusing on a word.

[1] And article hints at it with the lines "A fish eye lens doesn’t ask us to choose between focus and context" and "This concept isn’t new—it’s foundational to fields like data visualization."
correct. but a lot of people do. and it can be expensive.
Not sure why you think I'm talking for everyone. This is a forum for discussion, where people share their views and opinions, mine was that it's mediocre, yours was that it's amazing. That's the great thing about opinions, we all have them, and people who slate other peoples opinions tend to look a bit silly.

Also if you read here, their own announcement blog post, X, Bluesky and Reddit you'll find theres a fair few people sharing my views regarding micro hdmi and the nvme shenanigans.

My guess is you wildly overestimated how much people care what you care about.
Hopefully a very supportive set of lawyers from the EFF who see some low hanging fruit here.
Does an oncologist "directly profit off of human misery"?

Are cancer patients not miserable? Do oncologists work for free or for minimum wage?
Indeed, that's something I had in the back of my mind too.

(if anyone has ideas in the area, you can reach out to me)
> I’ve worked in CG for many years and despite the online nerd fests that decry CG imagery in films, 99% of those people can’t tell what’s CG or not unless it’s incredibly obvious.

I've noticed people assume things are CG that turn out to be practical effects, or 90% practical with just a bit of CG to add detail.
>Inactive GitHub profile

>how did you decide his iq was >130?

he threw his life in the dumpster and will spend the next 30 years in a 2x2 cell. smart guy indeed.
Well, humans do understand such thing as scale.

C4 and nuke are both just explosives, and there are laws in place that prohibit exploding them in the middle of the city. But the laws that regulate storage and access to the nukes and to C4 are different, and there is a very strong reason for that.

Censorship is bad, everyone agrees on that. But regulating access to technology that has already proven that it can trick people into sending millions to fraudsters is a must, IMO. And it'd better be regulated before in overthrows some governments, not after.
Thanks. I'll look for it.
I don't think it is necessarily true that the hero fails, or that he finds vitality in it in Kafka's work. In The Trial, our hero refuses the struggle (the opposite of vitality in it!) and gives up, dying "like a dog" in his words. In The Castle, our hero diligently tries to play the game but again finds the opposite of vitality in it; his status is repeatedly degraded. His status at the end is still indeterminate but he remains hopeful.

I think in general that if you think you've summed up Kafka with a sentence decisive enough that you can accuse others of resisting his message, then you probably prefigured your interpretation with the biases you brought into your first reading of him.
The weapon used in the murder? I've seen enough movies to know to get rid of it as soon as possible.
Graphene OS do not recommend or support rooting as far as I know.

Though I'm pretty sure you can just flash magisk / magisk modules as you would with any other ROM.
'Person of Interest' in CEO Shooting Has Background in Games Industry
yet 50% of murders go unsolved
Very few people understand this. It's why it's very hard to understand how normal people think wrt politics.
I don't know that means anything, I score well above 130, yet I will likely make ton of mistakes even if thought it about it and planned for months.

IQ tests are a single dimensional psychometric measurement tool that when if administered correctly only measures some attributes of what would be considered intelligence.

While those skills correlate to your ability to perform as a engineer it doesn't always translate to aptitude towards this sort of crime.

There are plenty of people who will score poorly in IQ tests but are "street smart". the good criminals (i.e. those have a long successful run or never get caught) are of this category.

For example Al Capone never got caught tied to any of his actual crimes, he had intimate understanding of the legal system and how not to get tied to evidence, he wouldn't score over 130 in IQ test probably
COVID is scary at personal scales and it did deeply traumatize us all, but at statistic scale it had 3.5% or so of mortality rate among unvaccinated humans. That isn't going to put us onto a list of endangered species.
No, The Computer Music Tutorial doesn't have any code as far as I remember.
I know there is a second edition but not sure what is new in there.

The Csound book is so great though. It would be nice if the orc/sco on the CD that came with it were available. I have the book still but the CD is long gone and so is owning a CD rom drive.

I just came back to csound recently and I think it has taken me about 25 years to actually like the sco. If one is use to a piano roll/DAW, the sco seems utterly ridiculous.

The csound manual now though actually has good working examples too. If I remember, that was not the case when the csound book came out and part of what made it so great too.
ahhh mental health humans have figured out how to read and rewrite neural pathways
Filtered through the police and then through the media. It's a game of Chinese telephone and a lot gets lost in the translations, which leads to a huge amount of misinformation. Case in point b and t 9.
Right, so they can't just pull the rug from under you for any reason they like, then. "Other important customer obligations" is the important and vague part, here.
I watch his channel almost every week, truly great content.
At a minimum it's a big legal gray area. Writing a book review isn't illegal and requires no financial engagement with the publisher, but I can't actually find if SparkNotes or CliffNotes have to pay royalties. Those would be a pretty good parallel in my mind, they are doing more than a quick summary or review and are effectively compressing the content.

It feels wrong to me but that says nothing of the laws we currently have or how a judge would rule on it. Personally if I were on a jury I'd be inclined to side with the NY Times in their case against OpenAI, with the huge caveat that I only know the basic of their case and am not bound to only what's officially evidence.
If that's the case, you make a call to a reporter — and then walk into a police station to surrender to authorities.
Bazel is the most distro hostile build system I know.
Thank you, I was losing faith in humanity.
We just solved a hard open math problem– the moving sofa problem
Well, "very high" according to what comparison group?

The overall general public? Sure.

People with STEM graduate degrees? Maybe not so much.
I don't think that was the protagonist.

[Spoiler below if anyone hasn't seen it]

There was guy setup in a room who was pretending to be a pedo so that the protagonist would kill him and his family would get paid by the antagonist.

The protagonist chooses not to kill him which also proves that it wasn't certain anyone else convicted by their psychic tech would have killed.
A smart person like that would now it would have been a matter of days until they were caught.

It's just too high profile, everybody would be on the case, all the experts in everything.
Unfortunately it doesn't work on mobile Chrome on Android.
I mean the only real tell for me is how expensive this stunt would be. I personally think this is a really cool use of genAI. But the consequences will be far reaching.
I agree. The media seemed to have jumped on the flirting angle because he was smiling. Isn’t that a little insulting to the hostel employee? I smiled at my barber today. Definitely wasn’t flirting.
If they solve every murder then they make it obvious. Maybe they just solve the ones involving millionaire victims and let the murders of the poors go unsolved.
Sheesh what a bunch of footguns await. Appreciate the heads up on partition encryption because yep, I'm in a local account environment. The entire upgrade feels far to risky at this point so I'll probably forgo it at least for a year or more like until I'm forced to upgrade.
Police Arrest UHC CEO Shooting Suspect, App Developer Luigi Mangione
That's a really good suggestion. I am trying to build some tutorial videos now. I feel the same way about listicles but they get a lot of impressions. People seem to love lists.
I made a new browser game: 5 in a row
get five in a row by placing the numbers strategically on the grid.

rows or columns with numbers in ascending or descending order (e.g., 1-2-3-4-5 or 5-4-3-2-1) and rows or columns of the same number (e.g. 2-2-2-2-2) will disappear.

a green ball will remove one of the black balls
Why React SEO Is Hard (and How I Solved It)
Now this is what I need
Osama bin Laden had a degree in civil engineering. I wonder how mathematicians rank against engineers
> Depending on your line of work, a majority of your coworkers might be over 130.

This seems pretty reasonable, but once you start to get to know people a bit...
How do you expect people to find things without an authoritative lookup database?
That radio station in hotel Rawanda could be a bad thing for you and people you cared about even if you personally could discern the lies so it wasn't fooling you.
As an American the most surprising thing about the reaction to the CEO being killed is supposedly the system is bad enough where killing people is okay but I don't know many people who vote in primary elections or care about local elections (which are where many people have the most influence on the system) and I also know some people who didn't even vote in the general election.

To be clear: This isn't me saying we shouldn't kill CEOs, this is me saying I think more people should vote in primaries and also try to make change on a local level
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They matter as much as good quality code matters. Even more so actually.
2048. There is no plausible conventional attack on 2048; whatever breaks 2048 is probably going to break 4096, as I understand it.

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/1978/how-big-an-r...
Healthchecks Python Library
Nope, you're not aware. The part running your prescription side is yet another part of the UHG business. That one is OptumRx.

Optum doesn't own hospitals specifically because they have strategically chosen to own almost every other type of clinic, including wiping out thousands of independent practices and small groups in just about every medical specialty (including primary care) that you can name.

Kaiser is an example of a much-less-bad version of this same pattern (called a pay-vider). They're non-profit so they don't have nearly the same incentive to leverage one side of their business to benefit the other.

Seriously: go do some research on how UnitedHealthcare, Optum, and OptumRx all coordinate to wipe out competition in local clinics and pharmacies.
sure, here's a link of a conversation from today 12/9/24 which has multiple incorrect: references, links, papers, journal titles, DOIs, and authors.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6757804f-3a6c-800b-b48c-ffbf144d73...

as just another example, chatgpt said in the Okita paper that they switched media on day 3, when if you read the paper they switched the media on day 8. so not only did it fail to generate the correct reference, it also failed to accurately interpret the contents of a specific paper.
You're right, that's pretty unfounded.
> overwhelmingly — positive — reaction

Be careful extrapolating from what you see on social media or—even worse—from news outlets' coverage of social media content. Social media is not representative of the real world, and the news media isn't incentivized to accurately describe the reactions on social media, so taking news stories about social media reactions is seeing the world through two bad filters, both of which will tend to exaggerate extremes.
Talk about Bazel in the context of a specific language is missing the point. Bazel is for huge monorepos that aren't based on a single language so that you can have a common interface for all your code in the monorepo regardless of what language individual bits are written in.
Who is "they"in this and why is world population something they care about?
> even then, if you charge someone for a service to dig and fill in holes, that there is no tangible product at the end does not mean there isn't an output that has a price, and that so increases GDP, just the same as, say, performing a dance does not leave a tangible product at the end, but the service still has a price and a value, and paying for it still increases GDP.

That blurs the line between the different calculation methods though, doesn't it? If nothing is produced then the production method of calculating wouldn't account for the transaction.

This method would also open the possibility for fraud. If the government wanted to boost GDP, for example, they could hire a bunch of people to dig a whole and fill it in all year. Would they? Probably not, they have easier ways to waste money and game GDP. But they could and that seems like a problem.

> because it takes time, it has a cost.

I don't know of any economic metrics that quantify the cost of time like this though. People like to point to unpaid labor as a huge blindspot for GDP precisely because of that - when your day is spent taking care of your home, children, or elderly parents the time is spent but GDP isn't impacted.
no telling whether that account is just somebody who renamed after the guy's Twitter handle leaked. it wasn't archived on the way back machine
Metrics can be sampled, because metrics by definition represent some statistically summarize-able set of observations of related events, whose properties are preserved even when those observations are aggregated over time. That aggregation doesn't result in loss of information. At worst, it results in loss of granularity.

That same key property is not true for logs. Logs cannot be aggregated without loss of information. By definition. This isn't up for debate. You can collect logs into groups, based on similar properties, and you can decide that some of those groups are more or less important, based on some set of heuristics or decisions you can make in your system or platform or whatever. And you can decide that some of those groups can be dropped (sampled) according to some set of rules defined somewhere. But any and all of those decisions result in loss of information. You can say that that lost information isn't important or relevant, according to your own guidelines, and that's fine, but you're still losing information.
I like RTS strategies.

I like having a grand strategy of some sort that works out in a final dramatic movement.

I find it mentally satisfying, regardless of the media, when a plan works out.
What do you think is a reasonable way to do business in an industry where every patient feels very strongly that they should get the best and most expensive treatment available regardless of their ability to pay?

Do you think insurance companies are magic money machines that somehow can produce more money to pay for treatment than they collect in premiums?

Do you really think UHC's 6% profit margin is the difference between them being the scum of the earth and perfect angels?
I always recommend Watrous's lecture notes: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~watrous/QC-notes/QC-notes.pdf

I prefer his explanation to most other explanations because he starts, right away, with an analogy to ordinary probabilities. It's easy to understand how linear algebra is related to probability (a random combination of two outcomes is described by linearly combining them), so the fact that we represent random states by vectors is not surprising at all. His explanation of the Dirac bra-ket notation is also extremely well executed. My only quibble is that he doesn't introduce density matrices (which in my mind are the correct way to understand quantum states) until halfway through the notes.
He thought his car's crash-prevention technology would make him safer
Isn't this entire discussion academic? You could just not mount it on the structure you live in.
If you have mixed-language needs, yes. But if not, standardized setup is far better with IDE integration (mostly, VS code LSP etc).
There was one after McAffee died as well. I think there is a group who just does this. Costs nothing and if their shitcoin launches, they exit scam as quickly as they appeared. Probably the same people. There are people who fake recent obituaries to drive advertising traffic and rob peoples houses when they are at funerals. There are also people who withold lifesaving care and deny legitimate claims using bullying tactics. It's a dark world.
A requirement for new bug reports: You must write unitelligible with werid spellin and less understend able lenguish. Try copy that, ai! Z)
It also seems like there might have been some "regular police work" going on at the beginning but when that didn't work fast enough, some bigger tools were called in.
Plus helicopters exist and he could, for example, fly out to a mining operation to meet with the site manager.
thread should start consulting crime organizations everyone here would know how to evade the feds lol