skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And Coinbase's position is that none of the crypto assets it lists meet that test. For the coins Coinbase lists:

- Criteria #2 is debatable
- They don't meet criteria #3
- Or they don't meet criteria #4

Lots of coins look like commodities. They represent a digital asset, not ownership in a common enterprise or a loan.

Coinbase believes that all of the tokens they list are securities. The SEC will need to tell Coinbase specifically what it believes they are doing wrong. At the very least, if they eventually file suit they will need to make a specific accusation.

It feels like a lot of people have knee-jerk crypto=bad reactions. But read their press release - it really sounds like Coinbase is trying their best to comply with U.S. regulation, and the regulators aren't doing their jobs.

And last - For digital assets that do look like securities, the SEC provides no way to register them, and thus vaguely implies that Americans can't own digital securities. That's not their decision to make - they either have to do their job and regulate crypto securities, or get congress to ban them.
> Yes, sufficiently intelligent AIs should realize how failable humans are and dismiss our morality as flawed

That statement assumes "morality" is an objective thing in the same way that (say) maths and physics are. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Whether morality is objective, and if so, how is it is objective, are extremely disputed topics. It isn't clear that the matter would be any more clear for an AI than it is for us, because maybe it is a case of theory being undetermined by the evidence.

> As humans, we've changed our morality quite significantly over the years, and intelligence + knowledge seems to accelerate the morality rate of change.

As humans, we don't agree on what is moral, we haven't, we still don't, and we seem unlikely to agree any time soon. It is true that there have been rapid changes in the majority morality of Western society over the last few decades – but the significant minorities who disagree with many of those changes haven't gone away, and are unlikely to disappear. We don't know how many of those changes will endure, and how many will turn out to just be "a phase". Eric Kaufmann argued in his 2010 book Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? that social/religious conservatives are likely to win out in the long-run due to having a higher birth rate.
> I can take my money and put it into a slot machine, gamble it on horses, gamble it on sports games. I can buy useless thousand dollar sneakers, I can buy pokemon cards. I can waste my money on absurdly overpriced art, give it to scammy non-profits, donate it to scammy spoiler political candidates.

> In some states I can use my money to hire hookers, or buy drugs.

> But if I want to buy crypto, all of a sudden that is a problem and the government needs to come in and "protect" me from it. Why is that, I wonder?

If the casinos advertised slot machines as an investment, would you still wonder?
I think giving the law serious teeth in deepfakes will solve some of the problem, like with blatant copyright violation that is straight up fraud and theft. Those laws exist and function. It’s not brazen theft if we are being nuanced and honest. I think if we charge deepfake tech designed and used for fraud as fraudulent activity in the same way, we would be able to stunt adverse development or usages of these tools. So I for one am happy about this article and think they’re going in the right direction. Penalize fraud as fraud. It’s still fraudulent activity.
Everyone knows what they are doing when gambling etc

But nowadays crypto is being pitched as an investment to the layperson who doesn’t understand the risks and isn’t being told those risks by the exchanges. It’s those folks the SEC is trying to protect.

That and prevention of larger market issues that can arise from unregulated financial services, ie FTX
> No. Instead, from Antwerp it's shipped half-way across the planet to China. There it is sawed into boards, grinded, and shipped to Rotterdam, again crossing half the planet. Back in the Netherlands, they do some finishing touches like sawing custom sizes and applying polish.

Does any portion of the lumber remain in China for the Chinese market?
She sold after the stock blew up to high levels. I was considering buying puts yesterday myself.

Oh, it’s 1.6% of her stake, too. Basic portfolio management.
Just asked ChatLLaMA to create a prompt for a text-to-image StableDiffusion model to create baby alpaca and they literally made baby alpacas (pun intended)!
https://twitter.com/aiaaidan/status/1638753650750136320
My understanding is banking for businesses is fairly hands-on and relationship-based, and for the same reason that normal investors don't deal with startups (so you have VCs), normal bankers don't want to either (so you have SVB). Startups are weird. Their relationship with money is weird. No steady cash flow like a normal small business, no collateral like a real estate thing, $100 million check in the door one day, broke the next.
The HN title primes us using the clickbaity word “blames”. Without that title, only a cynic would read that much into what is written by a technical person with a majority technical audience. I think your presumption is that Sam is an idiot (trying to pass the buck to a technical audience would be idiotic), and my presumption is that Sam is smart but in a hurry.

Go ahead and blast SamA for writing something transparently as an engineer, presumably quickly without over-thinking it. But don’t be surprised if he starts to write using highly conditional PR-talk with zero substance.

Meanwhile, wait and see their incidence report. That is writing for a discerning audience, and any whiff of passing-the-buck would be responded to harshly by the highly technical audience. This is an expected class of error, and it happens when a company develops and deploys fast, but I expect they will still try and change some processes to try and avoid similar issues (hard though that is)...

Apparently ‘we identified an issue, we are fixing it as fast as we can’ is not enough for some people. Some people also want Sam to use weasel words to avoid mis-reading of a single paragraph of text. A level of perfection few of us could achieve.
As someone who likes to make photographs I am always interested in how people around me are using cameras. Recently I have been observing that in a way we are already living in an augmented synthetic world. What I mean is, the majority of people going, for example, to my cities harbor side park, do not go and look at the scenery with just their own eyes, or just spend time etc with those they came with, they go with cameras and take photos of themselves, they look at the photos they took of each other together. They see a synthetic version of themselves augmented by computational photography code of their phones, or the beautifying filters of their apps, reflected back at themselves, and their experience of their life, their memory of their visit of that place becomes one of augmented reality.
Some people could argue that there is some damage to people by expecting to see a beautified version of your own face, or to always feeling a need to produce images to send to Social media networks, other could argue that this is just part of changing societal norms and that those augmented experiences are still authentic.
I feel like the line between fake/real authentic/unauthentic is going to move and warp in ways I can't even envision. Maybe just thinking in terms of fraud is a bit easier.
How is this measured? Most of the time they can't tell who's more productive (as in properly and not the noise or the loudest).
The Cornell University Witchcraft Collection
Drug tests are not uncommon in U.S. hiring. I had to take one once before taking a position.
That 10k messages amount to less than a day in a highly active business.
Unless there are self-aware robots out there crawling the internet and causing mayhem on their own, someone still had to build and deploy them.
Kudos. It's great to hear grit and perseverance working out in the end.
The SEC's position is that some crypto coins are securities. Gambling, hookers, political donations, and non-profit donations are all regulated.

Securities are regulated even more tightly because it's *really* easy to commit fraud and fleece people of their money by lying about investments. Capitalism works because most people trust that they can make investments without being defrauded.

With hookers, non-profit donations, political donations, drugs, overpriced art, etc., the consumer knows more or less what they're getting. Lots of crypto coins are scams, and it's reasonable for the government to regulate them

That said, as Coinbase complains, the SEC is doing a really bad job of regulating crypto securities in a usable way.
Really disappointed with the Tesla Optimus Bot walk posture. Looks as if there has been no advance since Honda's Asimo toddler wearing diaper walk. Tesla Optimus Bot needs to catwalk the badass costumes in CS2 with real world particle effects.
Note: I've generally seen Archive Team encourage donations to archive.org [1].

[1]: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Donate
Will not help if you use Parallels. (Read the Privacy Policy of Parallels to see why.)

Realtime connection info, logfiles and control arefeature of Murus, a frontend to the BSD pf that is included in macOS.

This kind of tool really belongs in your routers not your Max though. Any VC on here should consider writing a check to a startup making coreboot/linuxboot or libreboot routers using hardware that doesn’t originate in China’s sphere of influence. (Even some routers recently sold at Walmart retail have been shown to have CCP backdoors!)

[The ability to Notify a consumer’s Apple devices from their routers (using APNS command line utilities or CURL) has been around for a while so they can just as easily alert when That Guy in St Petersberg is launching a DDOS attack or whatever from the consumer’s p0wnd smartbulbs (as well as whatever trust is being violated by devs on their interactive computers) just like LittleSnitch/SOB/etc.]

Peace
Sometimes I think, maybe our complex cluster which runs PHP software (load balancer, app instances, cache etc.) can be replaced with a single performant machine running something like Rust
> having to manage IAM starting becoming a pain

Just use multiple AWS accounts. You won't need any complicated IAM policies.
You think Brian Armstrong is innocent that he's operating in good faith? We all know that all of the coins on Coinbase are either securities, ponzis, or yet to be rug-pulled scams. Sometimes all 3.

Coinbase and Brian Armstrong is defrauding the public.
Isn’t Coinbase the antithesis of everything crypto was designed to accomplish?

If we’re going to have a centralized third-party controlling our money, why bother?
That should be the default for security/privacy. It's better to have a CSP with just first-party trust too.
Are sneakers, pokemon cards, and art collections regulated?

What if I buy some sneakers thinking I'm going to flip them and then I lose money?
> the safest, most legal crypto brokerage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damning_with_faint_praise
>Everyone knows what they are doing when gambling etc

No they absolutely do not.
Is “but every single crypto does extensive wash trading to fake volume” a viable defense?
Demand Deposit Accounts also allow you to withdraw without any advance notice. Most companies will have one. They wouldn’t want to sit around and wait for a banker to pay their suppliers or make payroll. Usually, most operational expenses like that are integrated into whatever systems they use and money moves where they want it to.
I may be misremembering but I seem to recall that the Pokemon cards and other collectible card games go out of their way to clarify that they are NOT investments.
No they aren’t.

“The respondent companies are offering something more than fee simple interests in land…they are offering an opportunity to contribute money and to share in the profits of a large citrus fruit enterprise.”

https://recaldelaw.com/do-security-regulations-cover-real-es...
Yes. Using iPad and iCloud Private Origin. I hit it every. single time
Look at SPY weekly, week of 10 Oct '22. Bottom of inverse H&S.

That's just one technical indicator but a lot of very talented traders will tell you not to mess with that one in particular. Which could mean a big summer in '23.

Looking at SPY Monthly though, a good case for first shoulder of a proper H&S to complete sometime later this year, that'd be dippy. SPY M also showing incoming MACD & RSI crossovers, boom, that'll send it but again, watch out afterward.

No predictions though, those are not a good idea for beginners. Better to have a responsive, dynamic plan or system than a single set of predictions...prediction is overrated.

Not investing advice.
Nah they're just work cafeterias with pretty normal work cafeteria prices, similar to MS cafeterias. The free food == free employee labour model didn't really start in tech until google popularized it and aggressively marketed it (and similar "free" perks to encourage people to stay in the office w/o being paid more).
Dokku[0] does exactly that. Feels a very similar space to mrsk, but has been around for several years now.

[0] https://dokku.com/
It doesn't seem like the SEC has actually said what Coinbase is doing that is a security, or published regulations on how to determine which digital assets are securities and which are not

"The SEC staff told us they have identified potential violations of securities law, but little more. We asked the SEC specifically to identify which assets on our platforms they believe may be securities, and they declined to do so"

- https://www.coinbase.com/blog/we-asked-the-sec-for-reasonabl...

Coinbase seems to be trying their best to comply with regulation, but getting nowhere
When each level of company extracts it’s profit, and is doing what it can to maximize profit, it’s not surprising what the end result is.

Cities used to/should have public works departments. Not hire a contractor who hires a paver who rents the machinery to fix a pothole. The city should just own it all and hire someone as it will forever need to fix potholes.
>> Which kind of begs the question what is a manager?

I've come to realise there are two basic kinds of manager.

Firstly there's the one who interacts primarily one on one. He is able to understand the big picture, knows something about what's being done (enough to technically understand it) and identifies where communication between engineers needs to happen, or where one member of the team is getting off track.

The other kind of manager doesn't really have that understanding. Their approach is regular meetings, with all team members at every meeting, regardless of the topic. These meetings are often on a regular schedule, like every Wednesday afternoon. Outside of these meetings, you pretty much do whatever you like.

The first kind is typically preferable. Stuff gets done, better and quicker. The second kind gives you more team cover - everyone hears you warn about an upcoming issue so there's less dispute later and you don't get blamed behind your back. These projects though seem to take a lot longer (perhaps because more time is lost in meetings).

So which kind could an AI replace? Well in one sense the second. A shallow understanding, a common forum for engineers to discuss issues, requests for time-lines etc. Sure, seems like a sufficiently good AI could stand in for done managers.

The first kind though is much harder to replace. They have insight (can see issues coming before they happen), experience (we need to get hardware requirements in early because purchasing dept is slow), good people skills (Jane is capable, give her a task, she'll let you know when it's done, Bob is insecure, he needs praise every day) and so on.

So I guess the answer to your question will depend a lot on the managers, and management, you have experienced along the way.
I don't think it would have mattered. A loan wouldn't have helped their situation much - the extra liquidity might have kicked the can down the road a few days or weeks, but they still would have been basically insolvent. Probably only a big capital injection and the interest rate quickly dropping by a significant amount would have saved them (or being bought by a bigger bank that could absorb the losses and hold the long-term bonds to maturity).
> Drug tests are not uncommon in U.S. hiring. I had to take one once before taking a position.

It's very uncommon in the tech industry, even more so in Silicon Valley.
I recommend everyone take a look at ECS patterns. This is incredibly easy in $CURRENT_YEAR. Give it a dockerfile / image and CDK deploy:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/v2/docs/aws-cdk-lib.aws_...
TL;DR: LPC to ISA adapter basically allows you to
connect old ISA cards like a Sound
Blaster 16 here up to modern
motherboards. Doing the old standard Doom test
we have audio
as you can hear that's full audio music
and sound effect so seems to be
working. I'm going to be open sourcing
this board

transcript:

hi so this is a project I'm working on
it's uh well you can see uh LPC to ISA
adapter basically it allows you to
connect old Isa cards like this sound
blaster 16 here up to Modern
motherboards this is a socket 1155
motherboard with a Intel 6 series
chipset and the ISA adapter is connected
up to it through its TPM Port which is
normally used for an encryption key it's
got a Sandy Bridge Core i5 in it so you
know it's still a little bit older but
it's certainly got no business having an
Isa slot connected to it but yeah if I
just uh do the old standard Doom test
we have audio
as you can hear that's full audio music
and sound effect so uh yeah seems to be
working I'm going to be open sourcing
this board as well as making a longer
video explaining how it all works so get
subscribed to my channel if you don't
want to miss that
Time to get serious about competitive open source models. Can't we do a seti at home sort of thing to distribute the training?
Serge: Web interface for Alpaca through llama.cpp. Fully Dockerized
Comparison is with rest of the US.
>Which political party is helping working class Americans pay their bills?

Democrats per usual.

>I see my taxes going up and the benefit they provide me going down.

Anecdata. Maybe you’re not paying attention. Maybe you’re moving the goal posts. Maybe you’re right, but anecdotes don’t make an argument.

>The money machine and the national debt keep going brrrrr, so the inflation machine follows.

Gotta love all those tax breaks red presidents give the rich which everyone pays for.

>Unchecked immigration is devaluing the labor of citizens and straining our government services.

Got a citation that’s not from someone exaggerating and providing non literal commentary?

>I see a two tier Justice system that is becoming increasingly politicized and the elites are seldom held accountable.

You must be new here.
Just today I got Stanford's Alpaca-7b model running locally on my m1 mac, it’s just facebook’s Lamma-7b model which has been trained to complete tasks. It's getting close to the versatility of chatgpt where I could actually use it for everyday tasks. I don't think open source is that far away, especially considering how quickly Alpaca came out and how much better it is vs Lamma, which frequently would hallucinate and often didn't make sense.

Example of prompt to Lamma-7b:

> write a poem about open ai not being open source
Open AI is not really “open”
As this project isn’t open sore
It can be seen as closed fortress,
Inside which secrets are hidden.

Not mind blowing but still really interesting, I will note that its much better at things like answering trivia where's there's already lots of examples in its model
> Problem is Coinbase wants to be regulated, but the regulators are not accepting any regulated venue nor even willing to open discussions. Quite a strange attitude.

Coinbase wants regulations that permit them to do things. Regulators have decided permitting Coinbase to do things would be bad, so they haven't. Regulation doesn't necessarily mean permitting, it can also mean forbidding.
The problem with both the SEC and the California equivalent is their chilling effects on new technologies.

They send letters to companies saying "we think you're doing something bad", but don't tell them exactly what or file a lawsuit. Now the company is stuck. They can keep operating, but if they are found to actually be in violation, they can be fined all the way back to when they first got the letter.

So their only real option is to just stop doing business until they get an actual lawsuit or another letter stating that the enforcement agency is no longer thinking about investigating them.

I've personally been affected by this twice. Once the California regulator sent a letter to a crypto platform I was using, and they simply stopped allowing Californians to use the platform. I had to personally lobby on their behalf (along with them and many others) to the regulator to either sue them or release them from liability so I could get back on to the platform.

They shouldn't be allowed to send these letters, or if they do, they should require specifics so the company can stop doing the specific thing(s) the regulator doesn't like.
Yeah, and it was blown up when Facebook refused to play ball. They wanted to hire more engineers. They paid more and didn’t restrict where they recruited.
No. They aren't investment contracts. They're just sneakers.

The SEC regulates the market for investment contracts (securities). The CFTC regulates the market for commodities. The legal point is that the SEC says Coinbase is a securities market, but haven't made a specific accusation, and Coinbase disagrees. But if some digital assets are securities, then the SEC definitely has jurisdiction.

Nobody regulates the pokemon card market or sneaker market. I suppose congress could decide that it's super important to regulate sneakers, and set up the Sneakers and Exchange Comission. But they haven't yet
AuthN vs. AuthZ: What Is Auth?
Oh hell yes. About time someone references Hyperion.
SF is foggy before 11am and after 3pm between Apr and August. Then it’s cold from Nov-Feb. There’s literally only two months of good weather in SF proper (Sep/Oct). Certain areas might dodge the fog an hour extra. I found SF and London to have very similar weather. Rest of the Bay Area is a wholly different story. San Francisco has shitty weather.
But you don't have to do it yourself, that's what all the blocklists more knowledgeable people have created are for!
How would these even work?
It's just a voice changer that supposedly uses AI, not a TTS, it's not going improve inflection or expressiveness if the input lacks it
This read like a joke. There's so much of scamming going on regardless of these technologies.
Not so much protecting you, but ensuring a fair playing ground. If crypto is "finance", then it has to be subject to financial regulations.
Completion API for GPT-4 will be there soon. With extra stop tokens, but better than nothing. A compromise.

And it's not like what OpenAI did was an impossible magic trick. They've had a right team composition. And three insights. All present in the literature. Repeat that, you'll have GPT-4. But GPT-5. Well, that one is different game.

As to being open, they are still relatively open. Consider Apple, for example. No one complains about Apple being a bit skittish. Well, OpenAI got a bit skittish too. It's a period. They'll stabilize. And their setup of the company, with the non-profit board in control, profit caps is a really interesting try at the corporate design.
> Given both the competitive landscape and the safety implications of large-scale models like GPT-4, this report contains no further details about the architecture (including model size), hardware, training compute, dataset construction, training method, or similar.

It's 99 pages of marketing material
Puritan americans going to ruin everything if they can.