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Meta Fires Employee Making $400k per Year over a $25 Meal Voucher

entrepreneur.com

Meta fired about two dozen people in the company's Los Angeles office last week for misusing...
Meta fired about two dozen people in the company's Los Angeles office last week for misusing a $25 dinner voucher over an extended period of time. One employee made $400,000 per year.Meta gives employees a $20 credit for breakfast, $25 for lunch, and $25 for dinner through Grubhub or Uber Eats. Instead of using the ...

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Taming randomness in ML models with hypothesis testing and marimo

mozilla.ai
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Why conventional wisdom on health care is wrong (a primer) (2020)

randomcriticalanalysis.com

This is a short condensed summary of key facts and relevant evidence I have discovered in...
This is a short condensed summary of key facts and relevant evidence I have discovered in my extensive research on healthcare. Conventional wisdom on healthcare is far from the mark, both in general and specifically as pertains to the United States. I have written several lengthy blog posts over several years in whi...
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Arithmetic is an underrated world-modeling technology

substack.com

Of all the cognitive tools our ancestors left us, what’s best? Society seems to think pretty...
Of all the cognitive tools our ancestors left us, what’s best? Society seems to think pretty highly of arithmetic. It’s one of the first things we learn as children. So I think it’s weird that only a tiny percentage of people seem to know how to actually use arithmetic. Or maybe even understand what arithmetic is fo...
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Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic

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AI Mathematical Olympiad – Progress Prize 2

kaggle.com
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Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-sea vents

economist.com
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Python 3.12 vs. Python 3.13 – performance testing

lewoniewski.info

This article describes the performance testing results of Python 3.13 compared to Python 3.12. A total...
This article describes the performance testing results of Python 3.13 compared to Python 3.12. A total of 100 various benchmark tests were conducted on computers with the AMD Ryzen 7000 series and the 13th-generation of Intel Core processors for desktops, laptops or mini PCs. All tests were run on Windows 11 compute...
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The opponent-process theory of emotion (2010)

gettingstronger.org
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Laziness Death Spirals

lesswrong.com

I’ve claimed that Willpower compounds and that small wins in the present make it easier to...
I’ve claimed that Willpower compounds and that small wins in the present make it easier to get bigger wins in the future. Unfortunately, procrastination and laziness compound, too.You’re stressed out for some reason, so you take the evening off for a YouTube binge. You end up staying awake a little later than usual ...
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Emit

factorcode.org
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Show HN: MusicAny – I Build an AI Music Generator with Music Genre Knowledge

musicany.com
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Memory: the forgotten history

substack.com

In my 2023 article on the evolution of the calculator, I griped about the way we...
In my 2023 article on the evolution of the calculator, I griped about the way we teach the history of computers: I felt that we’re giving far too much credit to Charles Babbage. We have known how to make mechanical calculators at least since the 17th century; the concept of programmable machinery predated the Englis...
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The Shroud of Turin: History and Legends

substack.com

Religious and spiritual people say that everything happens for a reason and nothing happens by chance....
Religious and spiritual people say that everything happens for a reason and nothing happens by chance. I’m beginning to think they might be on to something. On May 15, 2024, I posted on X a reply to Naomi Wolf’s posted image of the famed Shroud of Turin—believed by many people to be the burial cloth of Jesus—noting ...
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NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews

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Ask HN: Why is there not more concern about the physical security of Cloudflare?

ycombinator.com
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A protocol for reliable notifications over a 1 bit fallible connection

paper.wf
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Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural frequency for emoji

unicode.org

Last Update: 2024-04-01 The goal of this page is to outline the process and requirements for...
Last Update: 2024-04-01 The goal of this page is to outline the process and requirements for submitting a proposal for new emoji; including how to submit a proposal, the selection factors that need to be addressed in each proposal, and guidelines on presenting evidence of frequency. Follow these guidelines and suppo...
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Makerfaire Ottawa: Rule 110 (2015)

tahnok.me

Wooohoo! I can now officially cross something off my bucket list: run marathon present project at...
Wooohoo! I can now officially cross something off my bucket list: run marathon present project at Makerfaire world domination? So, what was my project? Here’s a pic of it What do you mean you don’t know what is from that? WELL. What I built was basically part art, part math and part eletronics. I hooked up an RGB LE...
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Rethinking School Design

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How I failed to make a game: Raycasting on the GBA

mcejp.github.io

Today I am releasing my raycasting tech demo for the GameBoy Advance. Although it falls short...
Today I am releasing my raycasting tech demo for the GameBoy Advance. Although it falls short of the goals I set out in the beginning – which included releasing a playable game –, I think there are some lessons worth sharing with the world. This project started essentially as a challenge: inspired by the impressive ...
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Show HN: Sava OS – A desktop interface for you web browser

savaos.com
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The Kew Herbarium (2019)

toa.st

Matt Collins, Head Gardener at the Garden Museum and regular writer for TOAST, goes behind the...
Matt Collins, Head Gardener at the Garden Museum and regular writer for TOAST, goes behind the scenes at Kew Herbarium. I'm standing in the centre of the herbarium at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, surrounded by grand Victorian architecture. Three-storey staircases spiral beside tall columns of iron, and vast wooden cup...
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Amplification of electromagnetic fields by a rotating body

nature.com
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