skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does it mean anyone can jump in and demand a slice of the pie?

(Not a lawyer etc) As long as someone purchased a course at the discount price during the period specified (and meets the other criteria), yes - they qualify to get a portion of the $4M.

> how will it impact the future? Will Udemy have to stop the fake sales to avoid future lawsuits? $4m seems small considering their revenue.

The amount is likely based to some degree on the revenue generated by this tactic, so it should in a sense “undo” however they’ve profited from this tactic. If it’s more profitable to keep doing it, I expect there will be another suit similar to this one, and “they were fined and kept doing it” will be a potent argument for massively increasing the amount of the fine as a punitive measure.
Codacy Quality AI: Automatic fixing of any linter issues in your repo
It comes up empty for me.

Can you share the link?
I've had friends invite me in houses they rented. I invited friends in houses I rented.

I invented people at restaurants, I've been invited to restaurants. I cooked for friends, and friends cooked for me.

What's weird? I don't understand.

EDIT: I am not talking about reciprocation, I was invited to restaurants I couldn't really afford by people richer than me, I invited poorer people to restaurants and to vacations, etc.
The worst are the telephone chatbots. My bank’s is so incredible obnoxious and stupid that by the time you get to a human, the blood is boiling and its hard to get back to a professional level. If they need to do automatic triage (probably they dont), why not just use a old school “press 3 for x” assistant.
To be fair, there are behavioual interventions. That said, I do agree that there is a lot of pressure tobseek medical intervention for what are most likely environmental issues.
That’s hard a lot of this is knowledge from my Classics days.

There are other theories about Homeric verse. Scholars are pretty sure about formulaic composition explaining some features of Homer. It passes the sniff test and is a simple explanation to a lot of artifacts in the Homeric texts. Some analysis of Homer is misguided since it wasn’t made as a written work. This isn’t a universal belief among scholars today afaik, but it’s a defensible position.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral-formulaic_composition
Is this not the case already? Database drivers (or just your application code) are allowed to cache results if they like. The problem is cache invalidation.
Living without a car in those cities is severely limiting; I tried to do that in two of those and felt it was very difficult to buy groceries and get to work quickly and do easy recreation things on the weekend. It's not even practical to stay out late in many of those cities.

The only city in the US where you can live in most neighbourhoods and not be limited without a car is NY.

And all of those cities you mentioned are significantly larger (600-800k).
Economics -

Undergrad introductory textbook: https://www.core-econ.org/ebooks/ But it might be worth applying this to a topic while reading rather than simply reading a book.

Read papers vs 'news': https://ideas.repec.org/ the firehose of topics to subscribe (perhaps try reading a couple a month) http://nep.repec.org/ Central banks often have good macro summaries and topical papers.

econtwitter.net has a variety of people.

For econ history, or rather a history of economic thought, instead of attempting a tome, of which there are many progressing over centuries, and if reading really need to be read in full than in part (for example, discussion in part V III in The Wealth of Nations hardly paints discussion in I in an entirely positive light) try Blaug, Economic Theory in Retrospect.

For specific topics, like Industrial Economics, or Experimental Economics for example, consult the reading list of a university's undergraduate course options.
This was good food for thought, thanks for posting
Prior to the 2017 "Great American Eclipse", I made reservations at two hotels -- each within a day's drive of my location that were near the path of totality. I then built a screenscraper from one of the weather sites (WUnderground, IIRC) that took the cloud forecast for the eclipse and presented it as a time-series. (Yes, I knew there was significant uncertainty involved!)

About 3 days before the eclipse, I decided which site to visit and ditched the other hotel reservation.

It worked well. My wife and I each saw our first total solar eclipse!!!

There's one coming up in 2024 too. Maybe some enterprising soul would like to expand on the idea and create cloud-coverage forecasts for the entire path of totality?
I love how this requires ZERO learning effort on her part, she simply has a personalized ratio station rather than whatever someone else puts on.
In Capitalism, you are always encouraged to own instead of rent. The benefits of private ownership are extolled. Capitalists are shocked by “in 2030, you’ll own nothing and be happy.”

Ownership is an idea that allows companies that build things to sell excess capacity and luxury stuff. Like real estate in growing economies (China, or the American Dream in past decades of USA). Or like carmakers in the USA until recently.

Own that car! Then look how much unused metal is parked on the street most of the day, so carmakers can create more. When self-driving cars come along, our cities will become more beautiful again, with less parking lots and lanes. It’s also inefficient in more ways than one — a study in San Francisco found that 30% of all traffic is just circling looking for parking: https://www.reinventingparking.org/2013/10/is-30-of-traffic-...

Ownership is right to exclude all others from using a resource, even if you are not using it. So if I own a bike, no one else who needs it can use it, it just sits in the closet, thus more bikes are required to be sold to society. With CitiBike, or other bike sharing programs, bikes are rented on demand.

So one of the benefits is that you can project wealth and excess, and invite your friends to use the thing that no one could be using anyway.

The millennials and later generations are fine to rent on demand, even including clothes (“rent the runway”). They join clubs like SoHo club that let them use facilities on demand when they travel. It’s a different approach. And there, since it’s on-demand, there is less waste but also it becomes clear when someone is subsidizing someone else.

That said … now that there is so much capacity built (eg commercial and residential real estate) that SOMEONE has to own it, we may as well own it collectively (housing cooperatives) and schedule use of it (eg cooperative time shares) than the exploitative landlord model and airbnb model that raises rents sky-high.

Housing cooperatives. Taxi cooperatives. Credit unions. Eliminate the shareholder class, and let everyone own the network. Socialism online, without violence of the State. Someone should build that ;-)

PS: It just requires software to self-organize. And it is far better for the environment. Producing one electric car takes a lot of fossil fuels, and if they were shared we’d cut down on production and have more efficient consumption to recoup the costs after 70,000 miles.

PPS: Cooking at home is different from the above, because people typically buy food and consume food before it spoils. In fact, the post is wrong — going out to a restaurant is far more expensive than the supermarket food. Most societies until the 1990s did not afford to eat out all the time but they certainly invited people over quite often! House parties also gives a great reason to visit each other.
Some accommodation is nice. It's not enough to not own a car entirely.
I think their examples gallery mostly speaks for itself: this is a VERY capable plotting library. https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot-gallery
Maybe you can put a small example of code changes that illustrates this. The diagram helps but actual output based on a toy example would drive it home, I think.
Do people expect him to?

I'm in the process of selling my company and these weird dynamics are things that make me nervous.

Edit: in response to the negative comments and downvotes, of course I want to share the wealth. The problem is a lot of people (or at least a lot of my friends) don't like to feel like they can't stand on their own. Offering to pay for everything all the time is a turn off for a lot of people (on the receiving end).
Why wasting time on this? Why not just spend the dev time on showing more ads?
A broader question would be about biometrics in general. It was not too long ago when these were widely promoted, but now with advances in AI these seem to be increasingly an attack vector.
Post a reference to the legislation or its not real
This is a pointless gesture on part of apple. They know their artificial separation of stores won't fly with the EU but they still have to peacock around and pretend that they will comply because of their infinite generosity.

I suppose HN frowns upon this, but I find these attempts to save face ridiculous.
DSel: DSL/API/Abstract-Interface Generator and Runner for Ruby
You can use DSeL (pronounced Diesel -- best I could do) to:

Safely interact with any object as if you were operating within it.
No need to keep typing obj.* to work on obj.
Unsafely re-open (almost) any object like you re-open a Class and mess about it there.
Define clean APIs for 3rd party functionality via a DSL.
Documentation can be generated dynamically using API tree data.
Access APIs via a DSL.
Allows for scripting etc.
Create custom DSLs.

For a practical example see:

https://gist.github.com/Zapotek/a5393018391c7cc2e91c68079747...

For more practical examples:

https://documentation.ecsypno.com/deployment/scripted.html
https://documentation.ecsypno.com/interfaces/ruby-api/index....

And also:

https://github.com/qadron/dsel/tree/master/examples/
Thanks! Gonna try it out. Does it conflict with the official C/C++ extension?
"Why is Cloud Free going away?"

Then a bunch of word salad. Why can't companies just be honest and say "We cannot afford to offer a free plan anymore" and just be done with it. Nothing wrong with it. Business has to make money. But please just be straight.
How do you think he got that rich?
I have an ElGato capture device that doesn’t work with Linux - it’s the one right before the model that does work but is significantly more expensive. Maybe this can help me write a driver for it …
To hook people up on email marketing campaign
36% down YoY, but they beat investor Q1 consensus. Analysts predicted worse than this, so they've exceeded market expectations. Sapphire Rapids is only just starting to ramp sales, and the Emerald/Granite Rapids & Sierra Forest roadmaps are on track, which is the first time the Xeons have looked healthy in nearly 4 or 5 years. They trimmed the fat by selling off all businesses but their core ones, and are announcing IFS customers every other week. I'm not surprised investors are starting to move.
Mostly true, but Apple's whole thing is that their domain is user experience, not any particular technology. That's how you get from GUI to iPod to Apple Silicon. They should be able to do Siri right by focusing on experience.

I think the real problem is that they see Siri as a checkbox compete feature and not a core value prop that must be not just better but categorically different user experience. IMO it's a will problem, not an expertise one.
Thanks, I do! I use Pycharm and Datagrip a lot in my current life, both are excellent.
Looked perfect for me on Firefox Android, responsive and all. Any broken page in particular?
Yeah. Appreciate the hypothesis, but I'm not buying those examples. "Hey I rented a house for the weekend, wanna come party with me on the beach" isn't awkward at all. Asking how much you paid for it would be super weird though.
Men being allowed to feel things in an honourable and dutiful way has always been a successful package deal.
Thats an incredibly privileged view on this. The world doesn't run high paying western salaries. Most people earn significantly less. The average monthly indian salary, by now the largest country in the world population wise, is roundabout 450 USD.

Your advice boils down to just get richer and don't be poor.
https://docs.orbstack.dev/faq#free
What a great idea! Are you inclined to make a guide? If so, my old-school wife and myself would be grateful.

Otherwise, I will enjoy the fun of figuring it out for myself some day.
If your PGO program ends up in a situation which is the opposite of that you profiled, couldn't you end up with vastly worse performance than a non-optimized program?

I've always felt uncomfortable about PGO for more complex programs because of this.
Or maybe booking.com is actually a better experience for most people than the legacy hotel sites. It's more streamlined, it's cheaper, you don't have to sign up etc.

If you think I'm an astroturfer look at my comment history, I've never mentioned hotels before.
Well put. Exactly my thoughts. And given my MIL's attitude towards any visitor, the cops will be plied with food and chai till they burst. They will forget what they came for :)
Useful to know, thanks. Trouble is, it's going to be damn expensive and I know no shortage of bosses who will become angry at having failures pointed out. It really takes money and a good mindset.

> we usually omit it as too costly as if doing the first and only independent validation with our own users is not

Users will accept absolute shite and that is definitely a cost saving. Unfortunately. End users complain a lot but in the end they'll just work around bugs and this is why I blame a lot of the deficiency in current software development on end users.
everyone says this is cool, but I didn't understand it at all, so embarrassing :(( please eli5, honestly, want to understand this, what is this and how is it useful?
What if they make an AI that hallucinates something that looks like your file so they don't have to fetch it for you?
AMD's 5nm chips compete with and outperform the M1, low end laptops ship with 16GB of media by default, 8-10h of battery life is good enough for most people and Dell XPS laptops, for example, weigh 1.17kg, which is less than the M1 Air.
Bing app on mobile is functionally that now (kind of). I need it to control my lights though.
Things you didn’t know you could fuzz – FuzzingWeekly CW17
How are stock options and performance bonus given to the employees
Is the performance bonus and stock option given according to
individual performance or are they distributed to only the "best" employees based on the bell curve?

I expect an honest response to this question.

According to my limited experience from interacting with older developers and managers, performance bonus and stocks are alloted to the few "best" employees with in an organization by following a bell shape curve.

Anyone want to chip in ?
Like this site: https://oldtime.radio
hi folks, if someone has an invite and no use for it, i would be happy for sharing :) hn @ janek.fr
> As for the reverse-engineering of the game itself, my biggest achievement so far is managing to unlink the archive code from the game into a relocatable object file and writing an utility that leverages it to extract files from the game data archive. That sounds complicated, but with my tooling I just need to identify and annotate about 30 functions and global variables used in that part of the program to be able to export it, independently of the rest of the program. Then it's just a matter of writing some C glue code, compiling it to a Linux MIPS program and using QEMU user mode emulation to run the utility, without ever having rewritten that archive code in C or figuring out how it actually works.

I figured you’d have to be exceptionally proud of this. I don’t find this specific, yet extremely useful skill, to be common among reverse engineers.

Though you’d wish it was!
Interesting, would love to see an other comparison with Caddy.

Lately I have seen more and more people using it for its simplicity but I wonder what is the performance tradeoff, if any?
I wish I knew more about what percent of the sun was being blocked, percent coverage by panels etc. I’m not familiar with those panels, they seem partially transparent?
The low hanging fruit theory assumes there is only one tree and all fruit on it was visible from the beginning. Science has an exploration component that makes more low-hanging fruit visible and scaffolding component that makes existing fruit more accessible.
Definitely a marketable idea right there, ChicagoBoy11
This is exactly the type of shit I see benevolent AGI doing for us
For what it’s worth, the article seems to be about the difficulty of modeling human patterns of ambiguity in expression, not an LLM’s ability to understand or interpret or use ambiguity.

It’s an important distinction in my view. We aren’t talking about whether the model “knows” or “understands” the difference between different usage of ambiguous terms. We are talking about how consistently the model predicts intelligible word fragments likely to follow a prompt when the prompt includes word fragments that correspond with language humans often use ambiguously.

In other words, do we, the humans, understand our own ambiguous expression well enough to model it accurately enough to then interpret the model’s output according to our own understanding.

Paper seems to conclude, not quite yet.
Sounds like rebadging Microsoft -> Surface.
Which is discussed in the article and the risks associated mentionned - including to the residents of the nearby towns which had their windows broken by the explosion.

I personally wonder if any collants/oils/odd materials were vaporised high enough to reach the nearby towns - if the stuff in your car is bad, imagine in this.
> I would say that its adoption was mainly driven by iOS development, [...]

That is an extremely good point that somehow escaped me.
Even in countries where recording guest ID is a legal requirement, it can often be circumvented.
> The M1 MacBook Air is regularly on sale for $800 or less. I'm not sure how you can consider that an "over expensive toy".

It comes with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of disk.

Do you really need to ask why I call it an over expensive toy?
As an urban Amazon India user I can say few things:

- Amazon is increasingly becoming unusable. I feel I am browsing spam. And page over page it feels spam hasn’t ended. It doesn’t feel like a shopping experience at all.

- I really can’t trust its reviews anymore. Just can’t. It’s gone. Besides it has some weird logic of placing items. Read again — spam!

- In fact a lot that I would buy from Amazon I buy in stores or from those instant delivery apps like BlinkIt, Zepto (5-15 min kinda delivery)

- Amazon’s Prime delivery is a joke now. There are very very few products that I can get in 1 day or the next day.

- However Flipkart customer support is pathetic. So much that I really dread buying anything there. I buy something on it maybe once in years. But most folks go for reach and price. Customer service is the only reason I still tolerate rest of Amazon.in

- My folks in the village almost always use Flipkart. Some might not have heard of Amazon.

So of this huge arse market — Amazon is alienating its target audience and has never even touched the rest.
As mentioned elsewhere, a different design is being pursued. In addition, lots of similar changes have already landed as part of the Rust-in-Linux work, which has many of the same needs.

In addition, Rust doesn't require you to use allocation, ever. It was originally expected that users who can't handle allocation failures would eschew libstd in favor of libcore (a subset of libstd with all the allocating parts removed).
wow, I really enjoy the idea that basically, she just uses what works for her with better content. Really nice work
The South of Italy stands to gain a lot from solar power. There is a generational chance to restore the fortunes of an impoverished region, leveraging cheap and plentiful renewable energy like this guy is doing.
History of Yoga full film in English
interesting, seems like it could take the job of a movie looper with very little additional tuning.
I didn't try to codify a few little ideas I had into Linux UI apps purely because all the drama with Gnome and whatnot. I don't have time for this bullshit. Terminal apps can be written once and just work(tm). Linux GUI development has always been for people that have no life.
Usually those who want to exploit the system and those building the system have very, very different goals in mind
I used Arduino to build an automated RDT adapter for grinding espresso beans in such a manner that they don’t spread all over your counter. It was a fun project and learned a lot about the chemistry of beans.
Thanks for your response. I apologise, the term "idiots" was definitely over-the-top - while there are people who are paying more than they should, I didn't know about the loyalty programs (which makes me the idiot). Maybe it's a US-centric thing. In any case I understand that your experience with booking direct has been better than using third party.

The annoying thing is that should so obviously be the case! Booking direct should always be cheaper and better, right? But I've found that even if booking.com is cheaper the hotel refuses to match the price when booking directly. And they never told me about any loyalty scheme :/
Same as the economics field no? If more than 2/3 find it 'welcoming' than I'd count that as win. Hopefully the taxpayers didn't get charged an arm and leg.
> You can run stable diffusion faster on a M1 pro macbook pro than on a 1080ti 3900x desktop. DiffusionBee, I get .7s/iteration on a M1 using just 45w of power vs .98s/iteration on my 1080ti using over 5x that amount of power...

At what cost?

> I could upgrade to a 4080 and I am sure it would destroy it, but I doubt your laptop has a full power 4080 anyway.

Mine has a GeForce 2060 RTX. Not in any way overpowered, but runs games and StableDiffusion fast enough.

That at a fraction of the cost of an M1 Pro too, and the added benefit of not having to use MacOS