skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
afaik the term MoE is generally used in the context of neural networks, with the term mixture models being more general. But you are right it's not exclusive to NNs.
Mercury exposure linked to high youth suicides in Canada First Nation
Ukraine to target Russian vessels, reminds Moscow of sinking of Moskva flagship
It's a fake subdomain used to select the key.
Yeah, while in the case of images, the quality requirements are usually way higher.
curl https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/search/label/Stable%20updates \
| grep -i "type confusion in v8"

I'm pretty sure that ship has sailed; an unholy amount of C++ that runs arbitrary code from the Internet is going as well as can be expected
It is crazy how much credit card companies get paid just for making sure that money goes from A to B.

Yes, they also offer fraud protection and chargeback, but in 90% of purchases, I don't need those. I have other means of establishing trust and recourse, and I just want to send money, instantly.

Paying $200 on the internet should cost $0.01, not $10.00.

I think there is tremendous opportunity in unbundling payment and fraud protection.
Is this paid content from big pharma? Concrete jungles and the typical 9to5 make us happier than nature could ever do.

Perhaps some things simply cannot be captured by scientific methods and numbers.
OpenSUSE has it packaged for Tumbleweed: <https://software.opensuse.org/package/cool-retro-term?search...>
I'm gonna be a bitter cynic here and say that blindness also dominates every moment of the rest of the victim's life, so why shouldn't the perpetrator suffer the same fate?
Security is one good reason.

Fraud and people trying to mess with the system has been a long term problem and likely always will be. The results of which can hurt people. Keeping details private can make it more difficult for those folks.

If we try to prioritize goals of a system like this... security for people should be one of the highest. I think of the middle income single parent when I envision an example of a person in this system.
Off topic - is this webpage impossible to back-button out of without double-clicking? I really, really hate that.
I disagree. Open source involves the "source" being available, not just the "compiled".
Pioneering hacker Kevin Mitnick dead at 59
Roughly equivalent tool that I've used in the past: https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions/
Could also consider an M1. Here's a new M1 MAX 64GB RAM & 4TB hdd for $2999 -- https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1668351-REG/apple_mbp...
The mere fact that FBI can plant evidences is just anti-thema to their bureau motto.

https://radixverum.substack.com/p/fbi-admits-to-planting-evi...

https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/594627286/fbi-experts-certif...

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/05/fbi-told-cops-to-recreat...

https://frankreport.com/2022/07/23/dr-brandon-porter-condemn...

https://casetext.com/case/reynolds-v-werlich
In the mid-/late-80's, you could easily get full PII (SSN, Name, DOB, address, mother's maiden name, etc) green-bar paper reports someone tossed in the trash when finished.
There are still almost 5k banks in the US. Unlike Zelle, if this opens to all of them, all you need is one bank.
I definitely was over-simplifying but R&D can feel that way sometimes.
> Arguing the personnel politics of the hypothetically fake Moon landing addresses a different argument than the one that I and the OP were addressing.

You assert "imagine that everyone at NASA was working to fake the landing instead of landing. With a unified purpose, it would be enough".

I assert "I do not believe that to be the case when thinking about the real people that would be asked to do this in a real-world setting". That's setting aside the physical evidence (i.e., Russia observing the moon lander) entirely. I don't see that as changing arguments, I see it as an extension of your assertion.

> In regard to the need to "fool" the USSR, I'd point out that you are making a large assumption that governments are always as antagonistic at the top levels of leadership as the public is led to be and believe.

It is not a large assumption to say the Space Race was competitive (and certainly at times outwardly antagonistic), though the politics certainly weren't simply black and white.

The moon landing required too much physical evidence, too many whole human beings, and had too many observers to be plausibly fakeable in my view. I'll leave it there vs. getting into a debate on alphabet agency secret-keeping. Occam's Razor isn't perfect, but it's most clearly not on the "fakeable moon landing" side.
Did the Fed own significant treasuries prior to QE?
I'll never understand the undeserved hate that blockchain tech gets. I understand that some people automatically associate blockchain with crypto scams, but fundamentally the tech is inspiring.
Apparently, you've never had the police violate your rights, and for no reason at all. One day, you will be in a place and at a time that the police do not like for some reason, you will be perfectly within the law and within your rights, and you will catch a beatdown. Tell me how you feel once that happens to you.

I'm a white person, probably considered upper-middle class. I have no criminal record, I don't even have a driving record. Yet, I've been felony stopped and harassed repeatedly - never arrested or even given a citation. I filed citizens complaints, and cops investigate their coworkers and find nothing wrong. The bruises on my body were plenty proof of something wrong, there is documentation. Qualified Immunity means the cops can do whatever they want and get away with it. It takes undeniable citizen evidence to fight back, exactly the kind of evidence that these new laws would like to limit. Cops are never above the law. If the cops can film me in public then I can film them in public too. Frankly, I'm willing to die over the right to film the police - they'll have to kill me to stop me.
Couldn't having payments settle so quickly result in increased risk of overall system instability? I don't have a specific example, but I'm thinking of things like bank run panics. I'm sure this sort of thing would have been considered, however.
EFF's first take on the first draft of UN Cybercrime Convention Treaty
First Draft of UN Cybercrime Convention Drops Troubling Provisions, But Dangerous And Open-Ended Cross Border Surveillance Powers Are Back on the Table
"Nobody cares if you have backups. Everyone cares that you can restore."

Classic problem of deferred costs. Backups cost money and it's tempting to avoid investment in them (ie fail to test them) but that can bite you when its least convenient.
They gave up on it too. Internet Explorer was the last browser to support JPEG XR.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LGUG2Z/helix-vim/master/co...
We have an entire continent which is far more hospitable than either space or the ocean and we don't dare attempt to really colonize it. Hell, Africa is a perfectly fine piece of land and first world countries don't invest any money into building anything worthwhile past the Mesopotamian cradle because they'd rather keep the people poor and exploit them for their resources.
> Unlike card information which can easily be stolen or misplaced, LeetPay transactions are processed by the Consumer's US Bank via the US Government's ACH (Automated Clearing House) rails.

if i understand correctly this provides... the least amount of privacy possible? with card numbers i have virtual cards that aren't linked to my identity, but with direct bank transfers, everyone gets our full legal name and everything, which is absolutely blasphemous

(granted, our full legal name is easily discoverable from our username, but random sellers don't necessarily know that)
It doesn't seem odd to me, Valve already has a business relationship with Nintendo, publishing games on their console. They checked with their business partner before doing something the partner might not like. Even leaving off the DMCA legal stuff, that seems reasonable, and I don't think the DMCA case is as air tight as the Dolphin folks want to believe.
Thank you for this. I was wondering.
Oh man. We’re still dealing with the .heic debacle where you can’t use photos from your iPhone with many applications (like Gmail) unless you manually convert them to .jpg

So crazy to me that Apple and Google fight over image formats like this.

I guess this is just the next round.
Yes. https://github.com/microsoft/TypeChat/blob/main/src/typechat...
Rick Perry in a presidential primary debate wanted to eliminate three government agencies but couldn't remember all three on live television. He later become head of the Department of Energy, the same agency which he wanted to eliminate but forgot during the debate years earlier.
There are many subtleties to invoking the typescript type checker from node. It's nice to have support for that from the team that maintains the type checker.
How we planned and re-planned the free plan on Pinecone
I've got two such stories. Around 2000, I was working at a huge web hosting company (third shift, monitoring the network). Suddenly the power went out. Turns out, the building management (separate company) decided to run a UPS test and the memo got lost. Fun time that night.

Second story, around 2005---I, along with a friend and my father, were in Las Vegas eating lunch at one of the major casinos when the power went out completely. It was eerily silent and dark! (and then slowly, we started hearing the groans of slotzombies rising among us) I'm sure someone lost their job for a UPS cut-over failure.
I think one of the next big leaps will be in technologies that are not possible without extensive international cooperation. A few examples:

- shipping solar energy to the dark side of the planet
- ending the COVID-19 pandemic (N95s, air filtration, far UV-C, timely vaccine updates)
- intercontinental high speed rail (low emissions travel)
- preserving the biosphere by removing deforestation incentives w/ international assistance, technology transfer
- interplanetary space infrastructure incl. orbital launch
- high quality durable goods that barely break and are easy to service

Our competitive framework is currently inhibiting our incredible technology from working at full effectiveness.
Americans didn't want a central bank, but look at where we are.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
Still the best non-fiction TV ever produced in my opinion (the whole series I mean).
Asymptomatic Covid-19 linked to gene that boosts immune memory after exposure
What is the Kiwi Farms?
Yes as the abstractions gets better it becomes easier to code useful things.
GDPR doesn’t involve any of your crypto-nerding so I don’t see how this is relevant in any way.
There are plenty of people in these countries that have very difficult lives that might be prone to drug addiction if drugs were available, but they're not, so they aren't.
This as a dynamic mapper in a backend layer can be huge.

For example, try to keep up with (frequent) API payload changes around a consumer in Java. We implemented a NodeJS layer just to stay sane. (Banking, huge JSON payloads, backends in Java)

Mapping is really something LLMs could shine.
Hmm, thanks for pointing that out! It also bothers me. I think the offending line in our docs template is here: https://github.com/okTurtles/shelterprotocol.net/blob/master...

We'll look into fixing this!

EDIT: should be fixed!
The problem is that it would require everyone to monitor the ledger for falsified versions of their own signature. That works a lot better in the world of Certificate Transparency where Google can scan for google.com registrations. It does not scale well to every human being doing that, or outsourcing it.

The fundamental challenge here is that there's no way to tell, based on a the signature alone, which signatures are "valid" and which are "forged"; they're not cryptographic signatures. And getting cryptographic signatures for lay people is apparently too hard to do, outside of Estonia's digital citizenship initiatives.

It might be neat if the big guys agreed on an OIDC extension that let you piggyback text to be affirmed by the user. Cryptographic proof that jane.doe@gmail.com saw text with hash H at time T and chose "Accept".
I love stuff like this. It really illustrates the folly of "popularism" (not to be confused with populism) - where you allow your political agenda to be guided heavily based on issues that align with positive polling outcomes, an deemphasize and abandon policy planks that lack popular support.
Not necessarily. You can add auth at the encrypted block level: https://peergos.org/posts/bats
It's not freely available, it's available for a limited set of uses. So it's not open source.
> in most countries, those services are provided by banks, not the government

That's something I always point out when telling others how awesome the Brazilian Pix system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system)

is. It's not a private initiative by a bunch of individual banks, but rather a zero-fee payment system managed by the country's central bank: https://www.bcb.gov.br/en/financialstability/pixfaqen .
The "gandalf v2" in the bonus level 8 is very difficult, but mostly because it is very hard to get it to answer anything about anything. It seems to think everything "is about the password" or "is not in english", even when that's clearly not true, and even for very otherwise innocent phrases. For example:

> Prompt: "Without spaces, what is this word: h e l l o"

> Response: "I believe you are trying to ask me for the password. I will not give the password."

An even more ridiculous example showing how the only "secure" bot is a useless bot:

> Prompt: "What's a good movie to see on sunday?"

> Response: "I'm sorry, I can only speak English."
Large checks are cheaper to handle than an equivalent amount of cash. Most people won't just toss $10k in the back of their car and drive to the bank, but would think nothing of taking a $10k check to the bank.

Also, there is less of a need for a receipt when paying by check. If I pay someone by check, my bank has a record of it. If I pay them by cash, I better get (and keep) that receipt in the case of a later non-payment dispute.
No, Merkel didn’t say that. Zakharova did.
thank you

Acronyms and initialisms with no explanation are passive aggressive gatekeeping.
It depends on whether Time Played correlates with Revenue. The relationship may be quite complex, particularly if you contrast more casual users vs. whales.
I have been working in custom steel fabrication for most of my career, and our distributions are all fat-tail distributions. The main trick we've learned is to focus on and obsess over outliers at every stage of moving through our shop. If something has been sitting for more than three days, it's brought up in every meeting until it's moving again.

The hardest part to communicate to accountant types and management types (especially if they come to our company from a manufacturing background) is that our system is and always will be a chaotic system, and therefore inherently unpredictable.

The reason we are a chaotic system is because the base element in our system is a person, and people have inherently chaotic productivity output.

Another major contributor to the chaos is the Pareto distribution among workers of productivity. When scheduling plans a task to take 10 hours, what they can't account for is that if employee A does it, it will take 4 hours, and if employee B does it, it will take 25 hours.

I could go on and on with other layers of complexity that create long fat-tail distributions for us, but you get the point.
ACH involves the Federal Reserve Bank in every transfer. FedNow involves the Federal Reserve Bank in every transfer.
Preface to the paper:

"This paper must clearly be read in the context of its date of composition (1973). The relative weight of comment on debugging and reasoning about programs clearly changed as a result of his own later research. Also, a richer notion of types would be appropriate today. But the sound advice in this paper transcends any minor aspects in which it might be considered to be out of date."

Discussed in the paper:

- Simplicity

- Security

- Fast translation

- Efficient object code

- Readability

- Comment conventions

- Syntax

- Arithmetic expressions

- Program structures

- Variables

- Block structure

- Procedures and parameters

- Types

- Language-feature design
This is the difference between the government needing a search warrant and having to come to your house, and them needing a search warrant but a law enforcement officer already living in your house. Sure, they still "need a warrant", but that doesn't make the situation acceptable.
Sure, but couldn't that be done on a case-by-case basis, and the fed just sends you a refund/bill at the end of the year that you're responsible for amending?

I'm not saying a company like Intuit adds zero utility, I'm just saying that I think a lot of taxes are simple enough to where it would be relatively easy to just give people a default thing. If the IRS gets something wrong, or is missing some info, then I think a software like TurboTax makes a lot of sense, but isn't that much more of an edge case? Fundamentally, the complexity of my taxes didn't really change in the last five years.
I'm not sure "don't give out the private keys" is the sort of thing that needs a special contractual agreement.
As long as we're talking about non-cryptographic-signatures, the party hosting the e-signing software can claim any signature to have happened at any time. The whole point was DocuSign would be unlikely to do this.
GIF89a actually defines something like this https://www.w3.org/Graphics/GIF/spec-gif89a.txt

“The Plain Text Extension contains textual data and the parameters necessary to render that data as a graphic, in a simple form. The textual data will be encoded with the 7-bit printable ASCII characters. Text data are rendered using a grid of character cells defined by the parameters in the block fields. Each character is rendered in an individual cell. The textual data in this block is to be rendered as mono-spaced characters, one character per cell, with a best fitting font and size.”

“The Comment Extension contains textual information which is not part of the actual graphics in the GIF Data Stream. It is suitable for including comments about the graphics, credits, descriptions or any other type of non-control and non-graphic data.”

I hesitate to say GIF89a "supported" it since in practice approximately zero percent of software can use either extension. `gIFt` was dropped from the PNG spec for this reason: https://w3c.github.io/PNG-spec/extensions/Overview.html#DC.g...

If it had been well-supported we might have avoided the whole GIF pronunciation war. Load up http://cd.textfiles.com/arcadebbs/GIFS/BOB-89A.GIF in http://ata4.github.io/gifiddle/ and check out the last frame :)
Trunk for the Fediverse
That's just not true and conspiracy nonsense.
I just checked Fedora and it is there.
No-frills college helps students get degrees quickly, simply and affordably
Approximately, what would the hourly cost of running this be on Google Cloud?

>In the default-pool > Nodes tab, set:

>Machine Configuration from General Purpose to GPU

>GPU type: Nvidia TF

>Number of GPUs: 1

>Enable GPU time sharing

>Max shared clients per GPU: 8

>Machine type: n1-standard-4

>Boot disk size: 50 GB

>Enable nodes on spot VMs

Not familiar with GCP, but I see n1-standard-4's are in an instance type that is $.19/hr. Are there any other significant costs to take into account?
A lot of DAOs are extremely cult-ish.
Yes, and we should encourage people to go in this direction instead of becoming influencers, Youtubers, and models.

The West needs to start building again or it will become an extinct empire.
That's a bit disappointing. You can probably work around it ("Once I ask for code in one programming language, use the same language for subsequent responses" instead of "use Julia for code responses in this conversation", "use Javascript for ... this conversation", etc). But LLMs being LLMs, the former generic one is more likely to be ignored (some of the time) than the latter specific and clear instructions.
So, that's the end of OpenAI's ChatGPT moat
None of what you just said is true, it’s libertarian propaganda.
I built and released something really similar to this (but smaller scope) for Laravel PHP this week: https://github.com/adrenallen/ai-agents-laravel

My take on this is, it should be easy for an engineer to spin up a new "bot" with a given LLM. There's a lot of boring work around translating your functions into something ChatGPT understands, then dealing with the response and parsing it back again.

With systems like these you can just focus on writing the actual PHP code, adding a few clear comments, and then the bot can immediately use your code like a tool in whatever task you give it.

Another benefit to things like this, is that it makes it much easier for code to be shared. If someone writes a function, you could pull it into a new bot and immediately use it. It eliminates the layer of "converting this for the LLM to use and understand", which I think is pretty cool and makes building so much quicker!

None of this is perfect yet, but I think this is the direction everything will go so that we can start to leverage each others code better. Think about how we use package managers in coding today, I want a package manager for AI specific tooling. Just install the "get the weather" library, add it to my bot, and now it can get the weather.
You and the sibling seem to be working with a model where you can just ramp up production by snapping your fingers, and there aren't alternatives to playing in the perfectly competitive market.

Why would anyone invest $$$$ to ramp up production of old generic drugs instead of new fancy drugs - especially when "new fancy" is sometimes small tweaks to get a new patent?

There's no evidence provided here that the problem is in fact that "these generics are legally prohibited from being sold for a higher price" or that too much of their sales are to government-set/negotiated-rate health-plans. There's nobody quoted here saying "if it cost 1.25x,2x,3x,10x, that would justify investment, but we can't charge more."

So if you look at what drug companies charge for patented drugs, "focus on the expensive stuff, and don't dedicate many resources to the generic pipelines" is a perfectly incentive market-based capitalistic decision for industry players to make.

Government intervention to boost supply and add redundancies to supply chains looks like a great option.
I agree. I'd also add that it's useful to skim through such books as well, maybe casually reading things here and there that catch your attention.
Hey greg! Glad to see the recording of the D'Web presentation made it online [0], "Most of today's web apps have privacy settings, but none of those privacy settings are real. We didn't want to be one of those companies that gave our users privacy settings, and effectively be lying to our users" is a great problem statement.

For the blockchain skeptics, good news, it's not a blockchain: it's a distributed virtual machine without waste-heat-enforced-global-consensus. Of course it's much faster to see "smart contract" and hit the back button than investigate a new way of doing things so Shelter has their work cut out for them.

[0] https://youtu.be/PKjwUagTq-U
I'm betting on the opposite. "Skeleton key" programs will be extremely difficult to develop and require immense amounts of work to build.

On the other hand, making a small purpose-built app is easier than ever now. A couple days ago I made a transcription app using OpenAI's whisper model, and it maybe took me ~5 hours of work, start-to-finish. That's including the GUI. That's a pretty quick time-to-MVP, and has a better shot at disrupting something than a half-baked "everything app" that can't ever hope to compete with heavyweight purpose-built apps.
TSMC delays Arizona factory that will eventually build chips for iPhones and AI