skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's awesome, and depressing, when you think of how rare that is.

But kudos to Jessica for giving a shit and the person in question for keeping at it.
Yes. Neural compression requires a combination of a model and a compressed message.

In the future, my guess is that (some) compression protocols may end up pretty static, and mainly consist of a simple message protocol and a way to check that you've got the correct version of the model for the messages you want to decompress.
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what about the switch pro controller? I'll sometimes charge it on whatever usb-c cable is nearby when I'm gaming and the controller starts to die. Is that OK?
We need a crowdsource information for this problem. Imagine a volunteer ask them the price and share it to the world. Glassdoor but for "sales price". Package it as a browser extension. Everyone becomes happy.
I believe that all data will be used for not-the-original purpose. The moment that a bit hits nonvolatile memory it's only a matter of when-and-how, not if.
I wish the same about people who sell adapters for plugging 15A electrical devices into 25A electrical outlets.

Sadly, the legal burden is placed exclusively on the buyer (via electrical code).
That seems like a bit of a grey area. I'm sure most people would assume that means it's a USB compatible port, but I'm also sure they would argue that they didn't explicitly state it to be a USB port, just a USB Type-C connector for use with the AC adapter or Switch dock.
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>Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics.

I largely agree with this perspective on philosophy. Philosophy poses as a sort of higher level view of reality than physics or science. Rather than thinking of philosophy as a higher level view I think of it as a biased point of view.

Things like the philosophy of ethics or religion really drive this point through. Religion and ethics are human inventions that don't exist outside of the human experience.

I'm sure there are great ideas that have arisen from within philosophy, but the field as a whole tries to unionize religion, ethics, science, morality and logic as if these areas of thought are suppose to peers. Morality and religion is as specific to human behavior as the mating behavior of chimpanzees; they should not be put into the same bin as science and logic.
Is it too much to ask for a tech company to just focus on their product and not delve into social advocacy?

Edit: The Unfck the Internet project proclaims to be all about user privacy, but it promotes an extension to report political ads and an extension to report recommended YouTube videos (with the goal of not exposing people certain content). That is why I see this as social advocacy because it's clearly got political motives.
Well, tfa mentions the Switch in particular as having potential issues with some chargers:

>Other devices, like the Nintendo Switch, only partially support the standard, and some unsupported chargers have bricked devices, reportedly due to the Switch’s maximum voltage being exceeded.

It also mentions issues with some devices/ports supporting "Power Delivery" and some not, and no way to tell them apart by just looking at them.

So, yeah, you can get lucky and everything just works, but that's not universal.
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Digilent's Analog Discovery 2 is my new Saleae. It has all the usual protocol analysis stuff but also has more built-in goodies like a terminal and scripting tools.

On top of that you get a lot more analog thingies including voltmeters, voltage supplies, and waveform generators.

And APIs! Python and LabVIEW...

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weird that they don't support ruby when their site is written in it
And how exactly does one know they have received a "high end" cable or charger? Because it cost enough? Because a website claimed it was "Offishial Ankker CABLE"?

I'm with you; as an educated techie I'm confident I can find a setup that works for my devices, but I'm far from the common denominator here. Frankly I'm a little concerned when HN thinks, "Nah this isn't a problem, USB-C is working just fine for me. None of my devices have blown up yet" says anything about whether it's a good standard.
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Can you expand on this? On desktop I don't see anything being stored anywhere on this site, but I'm likely missing something.
And trades out a $100 device for what $1000 worth of gadgets?
Ask HN: Why does Google Home require web tracking to function?
I recently disabled "Web and App Activity" tracking on my google account, but this effectively bricks Google Home. If you ask it something like "what is the weather?" it will give an error saying you need to enable web tracking. Meanwhile, I can go to google.com in incognito mode and it will tell me the local weather just fine.
Even worse, the Hutter challenge is based on just a 1GB fragment of (one particular snapshot of) English Wikipedia. Further highlighting what has been said elsewhere in this thread, that as far as compression goes this is basically just a variation on compression-via-giant-dictionary
Anonymous tracking is fine with them, I'd presume, and totally seems to be in line with Mozilla's stance, too, one would think. It isn't like their flagship product, Firefox, is free of all telemetry.
A Zcash user recently made a challenge for anyone to tell where his coins came from that went from taddress->zaddress->zaddress->taddress. The winner only had to look at past transactions and find the same coin amount to find the original t-address.

That is why privacy-by-default is very important, and why right now Monero should be considered more private.
The way that ex-felons are treated in society is despicable, no wonder there's a 55% recidivism rate if you get blocked at every attempt to becoming a productive member of society.

The Last Mile seems like a great program to share our tech skills and knowledge with people who really need a leg up. I will be signing up as a volunteer today.
My dad is a professor and I feel like he would have made this mistake too. He’s a good guy just really not tech savvy. I imagine if a red flag popped saying “this student broke the testing protocol” he would be much more likely to dish the standard punishment than try to use the confusing software to get to the bottom of it.
Like someone said upthread, the issue isn't with how it does not accept all profiles, but with how it says it accepts 20V while expecting 15V.
Streaming Netflix 4K on macOS Big Sur requires a Mac with a T2 security chip
The expansion of the scope of public schooling to include mitigating a broad range of social problems reminds me of how US police have been forced to deal with social issues that they are not really equipped to handle, such as, mental health, child welfare, drug addiction, other poverty adjacent problems, or the like.

There should be another agency directed to dealing with these out-of-scope issues. Because actual education efforts and funding gets diverted to dealing with the social issues rather than providing education.
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Wasn't POKE 686,0 something?
My high school was the regional hub for vocational training, so we had an entire wing devoted to these things. There was even a small restaurant and I remember one of the capstone projects for the year was actually building a house. Fortunately it has continued to be well-funded.

Unfortunately, an honors-level academic load meant there was no time in the schedule to take many of these classes.
It is not only a question of efficacy, it is also a question of whether allowing the incremental march toward tyranny to continue will lead to a worse outcome than not wearing the masks.

“Deadly disease is always the bigger risk” is a naive and dangerous response, in my opinion. The epidemiologists seem to have nothing to say about comparative risks from delayed stroke treatments, cancer screenings, and heart bypasses, or indeed the risks from totalitarianism and outright war. Those refusing to wear masks are not all doing so because they are idiots who don’t listen to their betters, many are refusing because they have some actual perspective, unlike far too many in our professional class, it seems.

For the record, I don’t give businesses a hard time over their mask rules, but I do like to put a piece of duct tape on the front of the mask to prompt people to think about it a little.
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And thinking people should be allowed to own 6 yachts is a defensible moral principle. My discussion wasn't about moral defensible principles. Everyone thinks their principles are morally defensible, that's not unique to you.

The number of people in hedge funds who own 6 yachts could probably be counted on one hand. The whole point was that she had no idea what she was talking about and admitted as much.

Nothing in economics is a scientific fact. Supply and demand isn't a scientific fact. Gravity isnt a scientific fact. So again, no idea what you are on about.

This is why I make an effort to speak up on economics literacy stuff. It brings out the least informed people but with the strongest opinions.
> It's these caveats that are the real downfall... for those of us in the technology world, it's easy for us to be aware of them. For everyone else, it's not.

I have the contrary impression: understanding the "caveat" implies strong distrust for the experts who know that "maybe it works" means "assume it doesn't work", while a blissfully unaware consumer could get lucky and never know that USB-C is actually fragmented and difficult to use.
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You're right, for some things people will have already intuited it, and in a large enough group someone will have intuited pretty much everything. But many people will also have the wrong intuition.

The danger here is if we find data that goes against our common sense, we have to really consider that data, not reject it and rely on our common sense only. Sometimes it's right, sometimes it's wrong. Having a study prove something by no means makes it definitive, but it does provide better evidence and lets us better know if our intuition aligns with reality.
Jaron Lanier in Conversation with Tim Maughan
It's almost like there are groups that are deliberately seeking to keep us ignorant.
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I agree; what counts as a filing system remains to be seen. Hence why I used a "sufficiently large" pile of stone tablets, to put it beyond doubt that it's not organized regardless of how strict or relaxed the interpretation.

I don't recall the source at the moment, but one convincing argument I've heard was that an amount of disorganized data that you can organize given a few hours time would probably be treated as equivalent to organized data in the eyes of the authorities, otherwise you'd have a trivial loophole.
I read the TOS too. I have first party cookies enabled, but I also said no to agreeing to include my data in the dataset. I suspect there's a selection bias of one kind of other in the TOS piece. Probably correlates with other fields too!
You definitely made me think with this comment. I came here ready to say “this is amazing” but read your comment and it dawned on me how incredibly depressing it is when you think how rare this sort of thing is.

Great comment and thanks for sharing that perspective.
Things Mozilla could do right now that would greatly improve our security and privacy:

Add anti-fingerprinting tech to the core browser or at least verify one of the existing add-ons that do it.

Add PGP/GPG to the core browser.

Look into sandboxing. Maybe pick up maintenance of Sanboxie.
I enjoy woodworking quite a bit, but before anyone gets any misconceptions, cost savings is NOT a reason to get into it. Unless you need very specific custom dimensions, IKEA can sell a piece of furniture significantly cheaper than I can get raw materials (even if my time is valued at zero).
They revoked the developer accounts because Epic intentionally violated the rules of those accounts. What you're doing by blaming Apple amounts to blaming the police for arresting a criminal that broke the law. Epic knew ahead of the time what the consequences were for violating the agreement and they knowingly did that. There was no strong-arming involved. The judge even stated in her initial briefing that Epic overstepped their bounds and didn't even need to do what they did to file their lawsuit. The only reason they did it was to try and stir up a PR storm but that backfired on them.
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They do not tackle the “opt in” issue though. I wish they said something like (either one of the option)

* next year will be opt in because ...
* we are considering of making next year opt in ...
* we considered of making next year opt in but we discarded the option because ...
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How does that work out in practice? At what point would you put in your two-week notice? If you wait until the last day of your PTO, that means you'd overlap in two jobs for two weeks.
I don't understand this stance to be honest. Do you also think that Apple's focus on privacy is wrong? Why would a company building a web browser not be concerned about the state of the web, the privacy of it's users, etc? These things seem to be directly related to their product.
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They have been doing poorly the past two days. Why is that?