skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a shame there is no context for who Mangione even is,
at the linked post or here.
People are expected to just know.
But not a word.
Silence.

Sloppy work,
terrible writing.

Nobody could spare one minute to write, "Mangione was charged in the case of the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson", or something like it?
Is it taboo to even use the words murder or assassination in this context?
I see the keyword as a feature, not a crutch ;)

It guarantees that this area of code will always be evaluated at comptime, and otherwise fail to compile. Compilers (or rather their optimizer passes I guess) already try to fold a lot of code into a constant if it can be evaluated at compile time, but it will silently fall back to runtime evaluation when a variable slips into the code later. With a keyword I can at least say "please fail when that happens".
Unfortunately that link doesn't say anything about profit margins, or revenue/expenses. It only talks strictly about premiums, which is a monthly fee for insurance coverage, and is just one source of revenue for such a company. (at least it did help me learn more about the US healthcare system and some of its regulation, so thanks regardless haha)
It looks as if this is not autoregressive.

It would be interesting to see a similar approach that incrementally works from simpler ( fewer curves ) to more complex representations.

That way one could probably apply RLHF along the trajectory too.
I suspect the interest in the case comes mainly from the fact that Mangione doesn’t fit the typical “nothing left to lose” profile of most killers, especially outside of the crime-of-passion genre. A man with prospects doing such things may signal a turning of the tides in a way that makes some discontents hopeful. I personally don’t think it’s a good sign, but I can understand where people are coming from.
No problem with destroying lives and indirectly causing many deaths for pure personal gain, as long as under some definition of 2025 US law, it can be argued to be legal.

Much better than breaking the law by going 10 mph over the limit!

For what it's worth, there's 0 chance that the CEO had been a "law-abiding citizen" for their whole lives. Far too many laws open to interpretation for that to be the case for anyone.
This doesn't make sense as

1) it entirely depends on the prize and the financing infrastructure around it

2) athletes can participate in other competitions besides the Olympics
Yes, if you can substantially increase supply in the top decile or quartile, in terms of desirability.

That's difficult, for all sorts of reasons. NIMBYs protecting their investment is one aspect, but the maths of density, transport infrastructure and travel times is another big deal.

Walkable, interesting downtowns AND big floorplans AND low taxes AND abundant supply within a short travel time is a tough set of constraints.
Of course, there are plenty of places and circumstances where my phone company does not provide me service.
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Not even Salesforce was deranged enough to buy into "Metaverse"?
This also has to be balanced against the perverse incentive to construct bullshit laws to justify mass incarceration to get more prison slaves. Not a hypothetical either; this actually happened, because the US Constitution actually says very little about human rights.
And four years before that they elected a literal corpse because they were so sick of Donald Trump. And yet, somehow, the 2024 election was borderline the same.

Did literally anyone want Trump v Biden v 2.0? No. Literally nobody wanted that.

Did anyone actually want Kamala? No. Literally nobody wanted that.

>coordinated media and legal effort to make him disappear

Donald Trump is the most reported-on person of the past 10 years. This sentence does not make sense.

>along with multiple assassination attempts

You put this in the same sentence to make it seem like his "assassins" were on the same page as the media. They were not. Both of them were highly ineffective and downright cringey with their plans.
No, that is not violence. Violence is not just a word that means "you did something bad to someone".
the irony of this entire post ranting about the views of "children" (classified as people under...30?) when presented with evidence contrary to your beliefs.
Thank you for your explanation. However I already had showdead set to yes in my profile settings. I think I have seen dead comments before, they where comments that where in very light text,just about impossible to read, with out a copy and paste to note pad or something. However nothing appears i nthis case.
In Germany I believe the tradeoff is that you don't need to do any paperwork with your grid operator when you add a balcony powerplant, but then you're not reimbursed for the power you sell either. If you would do the paperwork, you would be paid with the excess power and could install bigger plant too. The _balcony_ implies that this is for small scale.
The software update angle has already been commented on, but I'm not sure this one is a good idea either:

> the device requires users to authenticate
That doesn't answer my question

I'll go out on a limb and just claim they're grey market. Someone can prove me wrong
> Then it would be just another Linux distro of which there are 100s already.

No, it would be a Wayland compositor, which could be made to run on Linux or the BSDs.

> This is a great environment to rapidly prototype new UI features, like it was the first time I saw an OS able to open UI folders and Applications from `ls` output in a terminal.

There's nothing special about this, Enlightenment did it on Linux many years before Serenity even existed.

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology.md

> but it's only targeted for the hobbyist developers building the OS to use and has no plans on becoming an OS for mainstream adoption.

It's such a shame because it could be a great Wayland compositor, and the features you mention could be made to work as a desktop environment.

Why spend years reinventing the wheel when others already did the hard work that they won't be able to replicate in the first place?

It's their time, sure. And they can do wherever they want but it's still wasted effort, whether people admit it or not.

Not even the BSDs are able to compete with Linux on driver's support, what makes people think SerenityOS could?

I also hardly doubt the SerenityOS people don't have any expectations to get at least some adoption, they're wasting their time with their current strategy.
Not volunteering and not shortening your sentence… isn’t?
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is
unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of
the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for the
law."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

This quote is painted onto one of my lockboxes and I have read and internalized it daily for over a decade now. Such a powerful sentiment, and I wholly agree. In my pursuit of accountability of law, I have come to understand just how much I respect the importance of law, as an anarchist.
Were you actively telling everyone you thought the murder of Bin Laden was wrong when it happened? I definitely don't remember seeing a single person doing so in the West.
"Only"?! That's 1 in 6 people. A terrifyingly high number, regardless of your stance on insurance companies.
> One in four is not "extremely limited". The age group where unfavourable wins clearly is 44+.

Some age groups, which on the whole don't vote, view Mangione more favorably than others, but still view him unfavourably.

Okay.
That's longer than an Orca will live in a Wal Mart.
You’re correct. The lab management sent out a message to this effect mid-day Wednesday. Many public-facing servers were taken down purposely due to the fires. Part of the lab HPC was also powered down, not sure what its status is now. The head nodes were up earlier today.

There are generators for other critical servers, and in particular the DSN operations have been moved temporarily to another location so they could continue.
I've found that biphasic sleep seems to fill a similar role for me. When I'm able I don't set alarms or make any preparations toward going to bed. I just sleep when I'm tired and wake up naturally. That leads to me often falling asleep around dark and waking up about 2.5-3.5 hours later. Then I'm up for a few hours, and asleep again a little bit before the sun comes up for a few more hours.

Now when I'm not able to just sleep and wake up completely naturally it always sucks following a more normal schedule of going to bed around midnight waking up around 7.

So I try to prioritize the biphasic sleep with the idea that the stages are variable. As in sometimes I sleep through all 3 stages, sometimes I stay up after the first time I wake up, or sometimes I don't initially fall asleep until the last stage.

I find that my days don't fit a 24 hours schedule either, but I don't feel like they fit the same set amount of hours each day at all.My motivational and energy levels are just different depending on the day and have a wake / rest cycle that can fit with that is beneficial.
It's the classic tech cultist mentality, they imagine the world is just like their little code base and it's just a matter of tweaking a few lines to solve the problem.

They're the real world "ignore friction, air resistance, &c." of kids physics exercises books.
Climate change is watching photos of disasters start at a great distance from you, but year after year they get closer and closer until you are there, taking the picture yourself.
I’m biased because I’ve practiced fencing for a long time, but you keep saying it’s dumb without explaining why.

First of all, which weapon do you refer to? Foil, epee or saber? They look quite different.

Saber is very fast and might look as you say, both fencers jumping quickly to each other to get their right of way and score. Epee looks quite different, there’s no right of way and the score target is the whole body, so it tends to be slower. Foil is in the middle in terms of speed, and much more technical.

IMO the issue with fencing is not that it looks “dumb”, but that it’s not easy to understand what is happening without knowing the rules. And then things happen fast.
Maybe in your bubble it's stable. Outside of that, it's not. There's tipping points. Just like the Americans tipping over to vote Trump. In the future, more points will be tipped when the asymmetrica effects of economic boom and bust cycles finally trip something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect?wprov=sfla1
The dreams of upper management are coming true.

You just got at your desk after scuba diving vacation pop into a Salesforce Agent and find the joy of unlimited workforce, Product Specialist Agent, Recruitment Agent, Slack Agent, integrate your Tableau data, your CRM data, your email data, your slack data into a big Salesforce Black Data Hole and lose your job in the next iteration.

Just because greed has no limits and optimized vertical integration is inevitable. I am loving it. And waiting for my UBI and social rating AI QBR/KPI.

The ultimate corporate suicide in action. Agent Smith incoming.
> if your hobby

"Olympians" representing their countries.

- Is your hobby "to create software"? Then you should not be paid for it.
- Do you like to help peolpe? Then you should not be paid for being a doctor.
- etc.

Who should earn all the money then? The owners of the TV stations, the owners of the hospitals, basically the people that does nothing and just own things. What a dystopia of a world are we creating.
US ag labour has rarely functioned in a free-market fashion.

Through 1864, roughly half of the ag states used slave labour.

California, nominally a free state, had developed (under Spanish and Mexican rule) using what was effectively slave native labour. Following statehood, ag labour was largely imported: from China in the 19th century, from Mexico and Japan in the 20th, with the Bracero programme (established in WWII), and of course Oakies during the dustbowl as immortalised in Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, all of whom were at best severely politically marginalised. Conditions in the antebellum former Confederacy long disadvantaged labour as well.

The US National Labour Relations Act (NLRA, 1935) explicitly excluded farm labor from its protections (wages, hours, conditions, unions). California eventually pased the Agricultural Labour Relations Act (ALRA) forty years later, which provided for the right to unionise (Cesar Chavez and the National Farm Workers Association features strongly in promoting this), and ... even it is fairly weak sauce despite being the only significant ag labour law in the US.

Farming itself is a marginal business, and farm labour gets the short side of that stick. The underlying economic reasons are complex, and not readily solved. It's not that the present situation is fair to farm workers at all, but a sudden shift would likely be catastrophic across the board. I'd like to see a far fairer system, but it would take significant governance and management to roll out smoothly.
It's called the Medical Loss Ratio rule of the Affordable Care Act. From my understanding the law states that health insurers MUST spend 80% of revenue from premiums on health care and if they don't, they must provide rebates to the policy holders. This is one of the reasons why health care costs have gone through the roof; health insurers must be spending all this money on health care costs, so they buy pharmacies and gouge the costs of cheap medicine to make up for the lost profits. Instead of paying $5 for insulin, they make you pay $60, which helps them hit the 80% rule.
That isn't true. Just because we find something entertaining in fiction does not mean we tolerate it in real life.
> I think you've drank the Kool aid straight from the firehouse.

I know what you’re trying to do, but mixing phrases only works when the combination makes sense, this one doesn’t.
An aspect worth considering: everyone with a large investment in civil society is opposed to murderous vigilantism, and while that includes the economic 1%, the fellow CEOs, the Media Industrial Complex*, et al., it also includes a much more boring demographic: simple, decent folk who are opposed to violence and law-breaking.

The status quo behaviour of Stack Exchange and others is pandering, but it’s just as likely to be pandering to mom and pop as it is to Musk and Murdoch.

* tongue-in-cheek
In C++ I ever only used operator overloading for vector/matrix math (where it is indeed very useful). I'd be fine if a language implements the vector math syntax directly (like shading languages do). Zig at least has a @Vector() [1] type which is a bit similar to Clang's Vector Extension (but unfortunately not the Extended Vector Extension) [2].

[1] https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Vector

[2] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#vectors-...
Or it could be a reference to the Portuguese patrol ship Viana Do Castelo, which has that very registration number! I think there are so many numerical ID schemes in use that you'd be able to find something relevent for any large number.
What can you tell me about stratpolitics.org and how you came across this poll?

It's been widely discredited as the company that released it seems to have come out of thin air with no history and has a patron account:

https://www.patreon.com/StratPolitics
My understanding is that people are twisting themselves into pretzels to blame the murder victim for something, but they have extremely hard time finding anything explicit to point to, so they just throw allusions, hoping that the reader will complete the bogus argument in their head.

Here, for example, the parent poster brings up some statistic that some very specific category of insurance claim denial went up in some period. The allusion is that this is nefarious, and is a result of some specific action by the murder victim. The reader is supposed to interpret it this way. Of course, there's absolutely zero evidence for any of these claims, and when you lay it down like that, it sounds pretty stupid without anything backing this up.
Sometimes it doesn't work, but fixing the mess is too expensive and we don't have time
> Nelson Mandela is not Luigi Mangione.

> This isn't apartheid

You're right. It is just segregation, a thing at which US (still) excels.
The reason I said it is a dumb idea is because OP has no idea about the current weather conditions. If the conditions are right, such as tonight when the Santa Ana winds have died down, you don't need fancy drones because firefighters are capable of doing things like this- https://x.com/ArtCandee/status/1877210056493539499
Musk has contributed towards a more sustainable future with electric cars, fueled the dream of being an interplanetary species with reusable rockets, and defended free speech in the western world via Twitter.
So your methodology to help the working poor is to put their employer out of business entirely? Great plan.
Mecha Comet Linux Handheld at CES 2025
>2024 election polls were wrong. Every single one had it either at a coin-flip odd between the two, or Kamala leading 1 point. It was 2 months ago, this isn't hard to remember.

>How it came out, in fact, was Trump winning popular vote with 2 million more votes than kamala, and almost 90 more electoral votes. That's FAR from coin-flip odds, and don't even get me started on the swing state polls, with Trump winning every single one.

It sounds like the polls were off about the popular vote by a few percentage points at most.

That meant a lot in the US election context, because the candidates were neck-and-neck.

It wouldn't change the basic picture of Mangione's support in the YouGov poll.

Why do I see so many basic reasoning errors like this on Hacker News? I thought this was supposed to be an intelligent forum with intelligent posters.
Intentionally/ostensibly mistaking the legal system for a system of ethics is such a colossal red flag that someone is willing to allow the exploitation of innocent people in order to improve or protect the quality of their own life.

You would think on a forum called Hacker News that people here would be more sensitive to how Corpgov warps society's perception of political dissidents, given the history of our own kind.
I believe that healthcare is deliberately limited by insane policy. Contrary to opinion insurance is not the problem. It’s doctors charging exorbitant fees.

We allow this because we let them scare us into voting for strict education.

But the reality is education could be fixed to cut the price by probably 80% - making the much smaller insurance amount negligible.

I hate to say it but pinning it on a ceo doesn’t seem right. His job was to ration a scarce resource. But why is it scare? Because the authorities thru the police force puts an end to unlicensed people regardless of their skills.

I was talking to a friend/acquaintance. Her dad was a doctor did all kinds of innovative surgeries on animals. But wasn’t licensed. She said he’d be called in by doctors to do surgeries all the time because he was the best.

But he wasn’t licensed. So California shut it all down.

The price of healthcare is 5x because we let people go to jail without a crime. If they went to jail for reckless I e untrained practice of medicine i understand. But seriously right now the problem is lack of supply that has to be rationed.
But that _have_ learned. They are systematically making violence a taboo the way sex was in the past.

If all people think violence is wrong and immoral instead of just against the rules they have written ("laws"), then they can keep writing rules that suit them even more and more without any pressure against it.
A lot of people did exactly that: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
>this is not how you handle it

Correct, it's just how one person handled it.

If it gets worse it'll likely be more than one.

Edit: not my downvote, corrective upvote actually.
I think you misunderstood their comment.
For something as simple as a vec3 type, Zig has a @Vector 'meta-type', it's quite bare bones though:

https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Vector
Also a wrong assumption. I'm surprised that my assumption was incorrect, I would have expected you to be empowered by the recent events to speak up. Wrong forum perhaps.
[video] Large discussion 21 hours ago (134 points, 66 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42632865
Do you think assassinating arch-dukes was being sold as virtuous back then either? Especially by the churches which were the moral arbiters of the time?

Plenty of people were still in favor, clearly.
> Sounds like the problem is lawyers and property owners:

Some of them might change their mind now that they’re owners of some acres of charcoal.

You cannot not choose a time - it’ll get chosen for you. Schedule should be known, cost included in taxes, risks known when property was acquired, liabilities limited in state or federal regulation. Weather doesn’t care about lawyers.
You wrote "the climate has been changing all the time"
It must have taken you so much effort and thinking to come up with such an illuminating, novel, and profound assertion.

Here is something of that ilk:

The statement "the climate has been changing all the time" is often used to downplay the significance of current climate change. While it's true that Earth's climate has undergone natural changes throughout its history, the current warming trend is different for several reasons:

Rate of Change: The current rate of warming is unprecedented in the past several thousand years. Natural climate fluctuations typically occur over much longer timescales, allowing ecosystems and species to adapt gradually. The rapid pace of current change is making it difficult for many species to keep up, leading to disruptions in ecosystems and biodiversity loss.

Cause of Change: While past climate change events were triggered by natural factors like volcanic eruptions or solar variations, the current warming trend is primarily driven by human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels. This has led to a significant increase in greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, trapping heat and warming the planet.

Magnitude of Change: The projected magnitude of future warming, if left unchecked, is likely to exceed the changes experienced during the past several million years. This could have severe consequences for human societies and natural ecosystems, including rising sea levels, more frequent and intense extreme weather events, and widespread species extinctions.

Evidence: The overwhelming scientific consensus supports the conclusion that human activities are the primary cause of current climate change. This is based on a vast body of evidence from multiple independent lines of research, including temperature records, ice core data, and climate models.

In summary, while the Earth's climate has naturally changed over long periods, the current warming trend is distinct in its rate, cause, magnitude, and supporting evidence. It is crucial to recognize the unique nature of human-induced climate change and take action to mitigate its impacts.
Not really. All the non tech folks I know just the free version of Google office suite for the handful of letters and spreadsheets they create a year.
How do you try to make someone disappear by talking about and showing video of them every day?