skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was curious so I did some Googling just to get a sense if what you're claiming is true and it turns out you very likely wrong on this matter. According to TIDES/University of Central Florida, more than 80% of UFC fighters have a college degree, which is much higher than many other sports including the NFL (31%), NBA (20%), and MLB (less than 45%).

But you mentioned fans specifically, and here you're also way off. Much like the other sports I mentioned, the demographics of UFC viewers are also much more educated than the other sports I mentioned. Based on the Sports Business Journal's survey, 42% of NBA viewers have a college degree, 34% for MLB, 32% for the NFL, and 55% for UFC.

Now you can object to college being a good indicator of intelligence and that's fine, but it's probably a much better indicator than just randomly making stuff up and stereotyping people based on their hobby.
This feature was invented on the Amiga for Lemmings. The Amiga had two joystick/mouse ports fully supported by the OS so it was a natural development.

MS-DOS made it much more difficult... using one mouse required that a mouse driver be resident in the 640k base memory and connected via COM or PS/2. Settlers had internal code to access a second serial based mouse but it wasn't straight-forward at all.

The DOS port of Lemmings didn't bother.
> Having the human touch will be an advantage, not a disadvantage.

My guess is that having the human touch could be like being a tailor in the age of big textile corporations.

Sure, a minority of people use them (and larger numbers use them for really special occasions, e.g. wedding dresses) but it's a tiny portion of the market.

Which of course doesn't mean that you can't be one of the actors of that small market, good luck!
The movie was released in the year 1972. The date in the title is for the article.
I'm glad scooters are not banned outright, every non-car person on the road is a bonus IMHO because it makes people care more about the road safety and air quality.

I don't know why governments in so many cities decide that scooter "litter" is acceptable in the slightest.

I don't blame startups for trying to get away with using everyone else's public and private property as their cost cutting "free storage" solution but come on now, no way in heck that can be done in society.

Nothing wrong with making them have official racks and bays around town, people can walk a block after they park.
You are correct. The problem is that the GitHub Terms of Service probably (guessing) have a clause which invalidates your license if you upload your code there. And that's exactly why you shouldn't use GitHub.
Would love it if he has made sure there is a similar secret switch in Azure.
It could one day be possible for AI content to be so superior to human content that it becomes distinguishable.

We may actually be identifying human content by how inferior it is to AI generated content. It could be happening already.
Nationalise the scooters like we did with urban rail systems?
Computers aren’t human. Software isn’t people.
I kept thinking what Java had to do with all this, but thanks to this comment it finally connected that it refers to Joe Rogan's podcast. I'm not very familiar with his podcast but there was some American podcaster who ended up being a covid denial fanatic. Might've been him.

The thing I dislike about Lex is that he doesn't really critically interview. If you interview someone, you put your credentials at stake to interview them, and it must be critical IMO. Instead, Lex is more of a marketeer, giving the interviewee room to spout their message via his platform.
Why should 4-5 years be lauded? I daily-drive an AthlonXP machine from 2008. Nothing about the hardware requires dropping support. (Linux has, sadly but understandably, dropped support for the older 386/486/ppro architectures in the name of kernel sanity, but I wouldn't run a desktop with any of those anyway.)

Dropping support for hardware that still runs perfectly fine, and isn't a heinous mess of architectural workarounds, is nothing more than a crass money-grab. Which is completely understandable for a company whose job is to make money, but I still don't see why that's praiseworthy.
This mini-referendum is a joke.

These cause some minor problems for parisians, and are used by a small minority of people so obviously any kind of referendums will overwhelmingly be against it. Especially since there is no "I don't care" option.

What would be the answer to:

- For or against dogs in the city?

- For or against smoking in the street?

- For or against mosques?

This is pure demagogy.
How does one go about creating something like this? Is there any tutorials out there?
I'm eager to include interactive graphics in my work
Finding a new form of data compression wouldn't suddenly abolish copyright.
Not really bizarre. You can regulate rental companies and insist on certain safety requirements, max speed etc but as soon as you let everyone ride their own, it's all out the window and the Police have enough to do without arguing about whether your scooter is going 3mph over the speed limit.

There is also the "taxi" argument that it is better to have 5000 shared scooters than 50000 private ones but I don't know whether one is really better, I guess scooters are designed to take inside at your work/home so maybe not as bad.
They don’t have an iOS app like Firefox Focus. Are they working on an iOS app?
America on the internet is different from America in real life. The Americans work 34.5 hours a week. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/AWHAETP
It's as much a case of whataboutism as your statement is of ignoratio elenchi.

That's not to say that I don't agree with your second statement. However, global geopolitics is far more complicated than how it tends to be presented to the general population, especially at times of war, and I don't think the OP asked the question in a malicious or dismissive way. We shouldn't be so quick to dismiss arguments as fallacies just because they don't line up with our point of view.
What are you trying to say here? Technically true is still true, so we should take it into account when making a decision.
To be fair, you probably don't need k8s either. In fact, steering clear of it will free up a lot of time and effort to actually being productive.
There was nothing in the rules prohibiting the terminal price.

And the letter of course says that. That doesn’t mean it’s their real motive or a correct conclusion.
I have tried to learn J, it seems to be one of the most well documented.

And Ike itself is not a bad environment to play around with K https://johnearnest.github.io/ok/ike/ike.html

It has a repl as well in: https://johnearnest.github.io/ok/ you can find source here: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok and manual here: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/blob/gh-pages/docs/Manual....

If this is the entirety of K - https://kparc.com/k.txt it does fit on a single full-screen page.
I haven't read The Cuckoo's Egg since the early 90's but credit it with providing a much needed moral compass at an important point in my life.

It also compelled me to seek out some American band that was mentioned in there called The Grateful Dead.

Life changing in two ways.
Calculators use floating point and can have catastrophic errors if not used correctly. So yes, calculators can be confidently wrong.
OP: "it's a stochastic parrot"
GPT-5: "I know you are, so what am I"
By the same logic. If I read your code and learnt something from it. Do I need to open source all my thoughts?
They should have said: "Just get a used Mac Mini". You can literally get them from macsales.com for less than $100. The intel machines have not gotten much faster, but their prices have dropped dramatically.
Muslims took christians as slaves and viceversa. So if you ended in the wrong ship boarded by pirates you could become a slave

Even during the conquer of the muslin kingdom of Granada a lot of the citizens were sold as slaves.
For context, Carlos Slim amassed his fortune by building monopolies in Mexico whilst its GDP and average income fared poorly. The country's landline suffered from high usage fees as a consequence. Very dubious whether he is a net positive for the world.

See Wikipedia and associated links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Slim#Reactions
I haven't seen this take in the thread yet, but I support the ban because the kick-scooter form factor is inherently more dangerous than the alternatives.

There are several ways they are more dangerous than a bicycle: Smaller wheels means a smaller obstacle brings the rider to a dead stop- once you hit something that is at the height of the axle of the wheel, it's the same as hitting a brick wall.

That's compounded by the fact that such falls use the scooter as a lever to smash the rider's face into the pavement. It's a very rare bicycle accident that throws the rider's head/face directly into the pavement- which means that bicycle helmets aren't designed to protect the face! So even the most common form of protection is much less effective for scooter riders.

The electric scooter is much closer in safety profile to the electric unicycle, but the electric unicycles feel dangerous to riders, so people give them respect. The scooter seems like a child's toy, so people overlook the danger.
Presumably the same way you make decisions on any piece of information. You should not be blindly trusting a single source.
> Electronics prices in the EU are simply crazy.

I remember being upset that the same laptop cost more in Australia than it did in the US, then I realized that it had a lot more to do with Australia's corporate tax rates. Turns out... companies do pass on taxes to the end purchasers.

It feels, and I don't mean offense here, that if the EU wants to tell companies which power plugs they can use, and stay heavy-handed with corporate tax rates, that people in the EU will need to just accept higher prices as the outcome of their leaders' actions.

Currency fluctuations, and corporate taxes explain all the price differences. Someone said "Oh it costs 7% more now than it did 2 years ago!" Gosh, compared to the rest of everything a price hike of only 7% seems like a really good deal over the last 3 years. =P (But I get we aren't used to tech prices ever going up over time.)

No company is in the business of giving things away, y'know? Anyway Apple just wants a profit of $X per unit. If your country adds a bunch of rules and costs, that's fine it's your right to self-govern and set whatever laws you want, but Apple is still going to get a profit of $X per unit.

Edit: Later today I'm picking up a laptop for a colleague who is coming in to town next week from an EU country. He wanted to buy it in the US since it was so much cheaper. Good timing on this post. (=
If humans still exist, those things will still hold value. I can't say for sure humans will survive in the same quantities once all things settle, but let's imagine we are in a future where deep learning has matured and netflix, steam, facebook, etc are all now just "prompt terminals" that output your request.

Then, with infinite variations, there will be infinite duds. People will value the ones that aren't duds so there will be a market for curators. And there will be a niche where people will want to see the exact same output together and talk about it.

Can you imagine facebook ? "Facebook, please give me a friend that <prompt here>"
Fluent Search [0] with Everything for your woes.

0 - https://fluentsearch.net/
I don’t really care about the copyright argument as it relates to human learning because I think this is all a Napster-style false flag by capital owners to enclose ALL data on the internet. The intent isn’t to argue about these models from first principles such that we all have IP-restriction free access from them. It’s to make them do enough legally gray things at scale that they get restricted to only a few power players.
I see this sentiment expressed frequently:

> "The past decades have shown that the benefits of technology are unevenly distributed, with some rich becoming super-rich with a good portion of the people lagging behind. However, it is also fair to say that the average well being in the world has steadily increased."

The average is far less important than the median, when it comes to social stability. You could argue that the establishment of plantation slavery in the American South improved the average wealth and leisure time relative to the pre-slavery economy, but the median would be highly skewed by a few people hoarding all the wealth and enjoying all the leisure time.

In the case of AI, ensuring that the results of individual productivity gains are not hoarded by the uber-wealthy is important. If AI helps an employee finish what used to be a 12-hour job in just 6 hours, why not cut the employee's working hours in half while retaining the same salary, instead of giving the executive suite another million-dollar compensation boost?

A 30-hr work week, enabled by AI assistance, would mean people had more time for community engagement, family interaction, personal development and so on, leading to healthier societies.
I use Safari as my main browser too. The features that link it between Mac and iPhone are very nice and easy to use.

What also is cool in Safari is to zoom into a page so that everything gets bigger which makes it easier to read text or view pictures (not sure if this is the normal zoom a site has, or something on top OS wise). But a lot of sites are breaking that behaviour now, which results in either not being able to zoom or elements overlapping in weird ways, text not staying where it should. I wonder what CSS stuff is used there.
Except they can’t actually write the next Marvel movie today.

I suspect AI getting good enough to create a Marvel movie is basically indistinguishable from it being able to create a good movie. The problem is LLM’s are basically just creating gibberish which mimics meaningful text well enough you don’t notice it’s meaningless as long as it’s a short enough sample.

Modern AI techniques are approaching human level capacity by combining a lifetime worth of information in their training sets with nearly human levels of computation. It’s not at the level of professionals, but being roughly as good as a teenager means crossing that threshold could happen well before people are ready for it.
> the U.S. thinks the layoffs that have hit the tech sector are because they overextended and made poor decisions during the stimulus-fueled boom

That's part of it. The other is there are categories of American white collar work which have always been bullshit jobs, it's just now okay to eliminate them.
That's a different discussion. Getty is clearly in the wrong there, but it has nothing to do with AI.
How are you defining the difference between non-risk-averse and not giving a shit?
So the reality with a lot of the mass market fast food like McDonald’s is there’s functionally two ways to look at it: You use the app for deals, and any coupons from circulars you get via mail, and buy only what’s a great deal. Or you get what you want and pay what’s on the board, price be damned.

There were consecutive months this summer where I could get a Spicy McCrispy (Big Mac pricing), a large fry, and any size soft drink for $2.14 with tax, across two transactions 15 minutes apart... every. Single. Day. Or I could get exactly what I might’ve wanted - including a shake - for about $13 and change.

If you want a good deal, you, “play the game.” You can order from a Domino’s and pay $50-60 for two pizzas delivered. Or you use the in-app coupons, pick it up yourself and pay $16.

For $13+ I’d rather cook real food at home for that money. For $2.14? Yeah, I’m up for that.
I suppose HN is unwilling to admit to itself of the obvious societal demerits they are enabling. Lying to oneself is I suppose very human, and exactly what you would expect of someone doing something unethical. The same thing happened with crypto.
As a Framework laptop Linux user: I agree-- it's really not a Linux-first device, but they have done some work after launch to make the device more Linux-friendly.

They've brought on dedicated staff for Linux support (Matt Hartley) and utilized LVFS to deliver seamless firmware updates. They've also continued to address Linux specific hardware/firmware bugs, which many companies prefer not to deal with.

I'm really hoping to see this Linux-friendliness continue with out-of-the-gate support for their new releases, particularly the GPU situation on the 16". It's certainly laudable to respond quickly to the enthusiast community, but it's even better to launch products with some level of testing on major distros.
Most of people don't work in these high paid areas, and there is no revolution in sight. Being newly impoverished is less pleasant than being poor, and we can expect some accidents there, but eventually people will probably adapt to the new normal.
It's all about trade-offs I guess. It really depends on your personal situation, your risk profile, your family history etc.

as a side note: I see El Pais trending very often the past days. Any ideas why this is happening?
Yes, I think you are right - but the explanation (this is a long time ago, so hazy memories) was the following scenario: you had invested in some Photoshop plugins, or there were some stock filters/plugins inside Photoshop which were not yet optimised for PPC. You wanted them to go fast, so you stayed on m68k for a while until the vendors sorted it out.

Also myth and lore was much more an everyday part of life then. It was hard to come by accurate information. I was really geeky, yet I never heard of the Speed Doubler until today. It indeed seems to be a very clever product, essentially JIT compiling 68k code?!
Now Run Fluent Search on top of it
That sounds great, but this is bllsht. They refuse porn explicitly (and stable diffusion as well btw, it's blocked by default but being opensource means that anyone can remove the nsfw filter) whereas there's no such policy about politics, and you can in fact generate political satires for pretty much everyone but Xi, and even the CEO acknowledge that this is done to keep access to the Chinese market (or to preserve “the ability for people in China to use this tech” as he says it).

I don't know why some people wants to keep defending the indefensible, is being a contrarian some kind of addiction?
This is a bull signal.

McDonald's is a classic counter-cyclical stock. When money gets tight people eat less at fancy restaurants and more at McDonald's. So McDonald's does well when people are doing poorly, and vice versa.
You beat me to it. I'm still using 8GB on my Win10 desktop. I play games (of course not the newest ones with all bells and whistles on, especially as I have only 1060 GTX card), I develop stuff in VS or VS Code, I browse the net on multiple browsers, I edit graphics etc. etc.

I wish I had 16GB but 8GB is _still perfectly fine_.
Sales tax is a lot higher in EU, so that accounts for 15-20% (at least) of the end consumer price difference.
Nintendo Will Repair Out-of-Warranty JoyCon for Free in the UK, EEA, Switzerland
I use a program called Everything. It's much faster.
Maybe for playing The Witcher 3. But I'd argue they're aimed at different audiences (hardcore vs casual gamer).
Yesterday, the cheapest MacBook Air (M1, 8Gb/256GB) was under $800 at Costco in the US.
What I found was that they often did but wouldn't claim to speak it. As in couldn't discuss literature or hold a job in language X but fluent enough that they had no issues reading directions or interacting with locals.
Both will exist either way.

The difference is that the open systems will be for personal use and the closed models by companies using it for profit. And the reason Adobe and others would be used in for profit settings is because they pay the artists. Which is what's intended by the lawsuits?

I suppose you could argue the beneficiaries are the shareholders of Disney, etc rather than its artists. At the same time, maybe this ends with open source systems that artists can host themselves.
What is sri-nic?
strings as objects and integers turning into floats when NaNs are introduced have been a much bigger annoyance to me, than it ought to.

I'm excited to try out the new pyarrow dtypes, but it also sounds confusing that there are now 2 classes of types
Same.. I have a 13" M1 that I bought right when they came out for a personal machine.

For work I have a 16" i9 from 2021. The M1 is so much faster and nicer to use.

Maybe if work gives me a M2 Ultra/Pro/Super/Titanium/whatever in 2024 that will make me want to replace the personal machine. But I doubt it. 90% of my computing is on my work machine and I don't get to use my personal machine for much that strains it. The personal things I do that "strain" a machine have become trivial these days in terms of non-pro photo & video editing.

Realistically I bet it's late 2025 or late 2026 I would be starting to think about upgrading it.
Thanks! This is the sense in which I had intended the sentence. I wish that I knew Terrence Tao and Ed Witten! The smart people I know personally I wanted to keep anonymous....
That we should take into account that NATO is already 'at their doorstep', regardless of which weapon systems are where, since they can be deployed anywhere later.
> Accessing a single column of a DataFrame as a Series (e.g. df["col"]) now always returns a new object every time it is constructed when Copy-on-Write is enabled (not returning multiple times an identical, cached Series object). This ensures that those Series objects correctly follow the Copy-on-Write rules (GH49450)

Is this going to mean I can’t do df[‘a’] = 2 to set all values in column a to 2?
I think the entire idea behind safety is to start worrying before it becomes critical.

Similarly with Covid, the right time to start worrying (on a societal level) was before the disease becomes widespread. The tragedy of that means that if you take the correct action at the right time and succeed, you will always look like you were overreacting.
Yes because app developers aren’t going to develop for the phone being bought by people with the highest incomes and willingness to spend money.

It’s been over a decade since indy developers really made a dent in the App Store.

Android is not exactly a piece of cake to develop for, the tool chain is slow, the emulator is slow, the device market os fragmented and people are still mostly running old versions of Android you have to support.

Not to mention most Android devices on the market are slow.
> with 8 GB and 256 GB of non-replaceable ram and ssd respectively.

Technically it is replaceable - replacement of surface mount components isn't actually too difficult and tools that are needed are affordable.
Problem is that the Apple won't give an option to buy memory or SSD chips on an open market.
While the replacement wouldn't be feasible for a typical laptop user, plenty of mobile repair shops would have done the upgrade with pleasure provided they could get access to chips.

Something we really need legislators to step in. Unfortunately in the EU the coming right to repair law is completely useless.
What laptop is it, if you don't mind? Also, what kind of work are you doing on it (if any)?
Claiming that capitalism should be thrown away because of a tiny minority of homeless people, while overall people are massively better off than socialist states could ever dream of, shows the absolute bankruptcy of socialist ideology that ran out of any reasonable arguments decades ago.
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