skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Does Coinbase stake on the user's behalf?

Yes. While blockchains like Ethereum are open protocols and staking is permissionless, it isn't exactly easy if you aren't savvy and/or somewhat well off already. The value add here is an IT service.

>Do they take a cut?

Yes, between 15 and 35 percent.

>What is Coinbase doing with the staked crypto?

Nothing, staking involves "locking" your crypto in exchange for the privilege of running a validator. This is equivalent to "mining" in a proof-of-work protocol, and comes with similar rewards from the protocol in exchange for securing the network (with the risk that if you deviate from consensus, your staked crypto could be "slashed"). Coinbase operates the validator on your behalf.

>Don't regular banks turn your deposits into investments (securities) that provide returns which become your interest?

I'm not sure every investment is a security (some of them are just loans), but more or less.

>Is the idea here that Coinbase is doing nothing but passing your crypto to the 'investment banks' to trade with and earn your return, then just depositing that 'interest' back?

Lol no.
Kelly ‘Aloria’ Lum has died
You can't give out loans really without fractional banking either. I mean you can. But not really.
Various regulatory bodies are fighting over crypto as they want to be the one to regulate it. Coinbase is just stuck in the middle of the battle for control.
REITs exist, the devil is in the detail
We have to identify a better method. You can't trial and error a pivotal act.
I've seen this recently, but only in the last few months, after years of using Little Snitch with Spaces, so I think it's a new thing either with the most recent version of Little Snitch, or macOS Ventura.
Can you expand on the limitations of AWS ECS? It seems like... you built a worse version of it.

Toss https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/anywhere on your own hardware and let someone else wake up at odd hours to worry about the container images making it on to the host.
A managers job, before anything else, is marketing.

Marketing to employees that they are contributing. Marketing to employees that the promotions they got are good, marketing to employees that the promotions they didn't get aren't because they didn't contribute greatly. Marketing to people above that their employees deserve promotion. Marketing to people above that they need more resources/headcount. Marketing to other teams that the priority that rewards them most isn't as important as what rewards your team the most. Marketing to new hires that it's a great place to work. Marketing to employees that could leave that it's a great place to stay. Marketing that the companies vision is great. Marketing that what the employee wants to work on isn't as important as the promises the team made.

Managers are salesmen.

I don't think software is going to replace that any time soon.
Hmm, this could only work if the entire industry is either stagnant or heavily regulated. You need only a few companies that don't go along to completely disrupt that plan.
It's not clear, because the details don't exist yet. There is only a directive that requires the member states change their national laws within a few years. There will likely be at least 27 different interpretations of the directive, which will all evolve in response to the specific circumstances in each member state.

Many countries also have informal mechanisms of enforcement. For example, businesses may have learned that it's often better to comply with the spirit of the law voluntarily. That way the final regulations will be more flexible and reasonable than by forcing the government to spell out the details explicitly. Or there may be strong unions, in which case many issues may be effectively decided in discussions between unions, businesses, and the government. If businesses burn too much political capital on a minor issue, they will have less influence on bigger issues.
I like Brave. Vivaldi is also good IMO. I want to like Firefox more, however I find myself going back to Brave.
Who is the other party in staked crypto?
I'm all for salary transparency, but I also miss the days when every tech company would have a single "Software Engineer" job posting on their board, and if you liked their vibe you'd apply for it. If they liked you in return, you were in. Everything else (your job title, seniority, salary, stock, what team and product you were actually going to work on, whether they had open headcount or not) were all just minor details that could be figured out later. And this wasn't just some tiny startup thing – companies like Google and Facebook were proud of this hiring process.

All of the laws and expectations around hiring today have made this model impossible to maintain. What exactly does this position entail? How much will the candidate get paid? What team is it for? How many open positions does the company have in total right now? What is the average salary for all of them? You have to answer all of this and more before you can even think of hiring someone new. The old response of "we just hire as many smart people as we can find and pay them what we think they are worth" doesn't cut it anymore.
In the article they said they have spent millions on lawyers only to be met with silence.
I don't even care if it's reproducible or not. I care it gives me correct responses to my questions and that's all.
ProtonMail and FastMail both have calendar options.
Wait, so next time I see a Macbook in a movie I should go file a complaint?
Iphone?

Didn't the incumbents come together for Android as a group?
There's no rule that agi has to have the same architecture as a human...
That sounds a lot like Regus to me, which has been around for a long time: https://www.regus.com/en-us
Depends on what you use DigitalOcean for. Fly historically provided a network of edge serving and some compute, and has recently taken in a monster pile of Heroku free tier (and partial free tier) refugees, whose needs don't really align with their original core business. I've not been following much, but it seems like they're in a transitory period.

For what it's worth, "lots of new interested customers" is nowhere near the top of the list of Bad Problems To Have In Business, I think, so they're probably fine medium term. Just the growing pains and possibly unwanted pivoting -- and monetizing the freebies -- might be an issue for a bit.
We're under no such misapprehension and we're keenly aware that this is an uphill battle. The issue is that LLMs have become part of the infrastructure of the Internet. Companies that build infrastructure have a responsibility to society, and we're documenting how OpenAI is reneging on that responsibility. Hindering research is especially problematic if you take them at their word that they're building AGI. If infrastructure companies don't do the right thing, they eventually get regulated (and if you think that will never happen, I have one word: AT&T).

Finally, even if you don't care about research at all, the article mentions OpenAI's policy that none of their models going forward will be stable for more than 3 months, and it's going to be interesting to use them in production if things are going to keep breaking regularly.
you have to pay to play...
Conversely, after using ChatGPT-4 (and generally loving it) -- I'm at peace with this maybe fact.
I remember reading this somewhere - "There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.". Though I do not think GPT-4 is even close to AGI it can definitely claim to be better at faking it than many intelligent beings can.
It might be less confusing if you consider that OpenAI was originally a non-profit. That it was even possible for them to end up in this state has massively undermined any trust I have in non-profits as a steward.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3naz/openai-is-now-everyth...

> OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit research organization by Altman, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, among other tech leaders. In its founding statement, the company declared its commitment to research “to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.” The blog stated that “since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact,” and that all researchers would be encouraged to share "papers, blog posts, or code, and our patents (if any) will be shared with the world."

> By March 2019, OpenAI shed its non-profit status and set up a “capped profit” sector, in which the company could now receive investments and would provide investors with profit capped at 100 times their investment.
Which political party is helping working class Americans pay their bills?

I see my taxes going up and the benefit they provide me going down. The money machine and the national debt keep going brrrrr, so the inflation machine follows. Unchecked immigration is devaluing the labor of citizens and straining our government services. I see a two tier Justice system that is becoming increasingly politicized and the elites are seldom held accountable.
I remember that guy -- he's the one who also pioneered PFOF (pay for order flow).
A friend of mine is building a Raspberry Pi ISA board so I’ll have to ping him on how it’s going.
I just found this cool sticky notes app that works well on i3
There is no secret. They're pretty normal developed countries.

The weird outlier is the US!
Coin base? The other stakers?
> It is hard to believe that our brain is just a bunch of attention layers and neural nets.

Our brain isn't, but I'd wager the architectural complexity of a physical, neuronal brain is not optimized for all useful mental tasks, and has perhaps a fair amount of local maxima that are near vestigial in overall positive impact on cognition. Just because the human brain model of cognition is the only way nature has been able to create GI doesn't mean it's the only way GI can be attained.

The best kind of machine is the simplest one needed to produce a desired outcome.
I'm not sure what you mean by novel, but every development project will always have requirements that are unique to solve their own respective business/domain problems. These unique, specialized requirements are further compounded by cultural and personal quirks that human stakeholders demand, making developments project essentially "novel". Current language models fail even with simple minor variations on existing problems that it hasn't seen before, so until then, current AI's won't be replacing any humans when it comes to actual problem solving.

Also, it was recently proven by experts that aliens are living on the earth's core, they breed spherical cows and flying pigs.
I don't think anyone really holds this position sincerely. Where people disagree is where the line should be drawn and how to do the cost benefit analysis of regulation.
>[arbitrary non-BTC token]'s goal would be for speculative trading

I doubt this claim with extreme prejudice.
> no bank is going to give carte blanche to large customers to run the bank

If the funds are in a DDA (Demand Deposit Account a/k/a standard US checking account), the bank is legally obligated to honor outflow transfers of any size, at any time.

(Not physical cash withdrawals, although they have to make timely arrangements to satisfy these too)

Banks can make DDAs unattractive for large balances (e.g. no interest), but I'm not aware of any limitation on a customer's right to access their funds held in a DDA.

If banks could bend these rules, bank runs would never happen.
Getting a Job as an Engineering Executive
I made a terminal AI as well based on ChatGPT: https://github.com/shellfly/aoi . I intend to provide a way to run the shell command automatically which can reduce lots copy and paste.
> The major determinant in hosting cost isn't power.

Let's do the math then.

https://www.hetzner.com/news/neue-dedicated-server-2023/

Let's assume the Hetzner EX101 consumes 200 W (equals 0.2 kW) on average.

Let's assume a private household electricity price of 0.40 EUR/kWh (Germany).

The monthly electricity cost will be;
0.40 EUR/kWh x 0.2 kW x 24 h/day x 30 day/month = 57.60 EUR/month for electricity.

The Hetzner EX101 costs 84 EUR/month.

So even with self-energy production and cheap electricity buy prices, power / electricity is very significant.
Correct me if im wrong, but cgi-bin things executed from scratch each time IIRC.

Whereas lambda will stay running for a period of receiving requests.
There's really no way to be sure that it will.
Do you think it's reasonable to only get 5 years of use from a $500-1000 phone? I sure don't.
I'm really really skeptical about the professional growth you can achieve during mostly unguided ~2 hours a week. Might be enough to read some articles, but not enough to build any marketable skills. ETA: I know very few people who find it enjoyable or sustainable to account for every single minute in their day, humans also need rest and downtime to continue to function.
Do you think anything digital could ever become conscious?
There’s no agreement about what an AGI is or does, let alone how it should do it.
In game theory territory, no company's best response is to stick to publicly posted salary ranges.

Suppose that you are among the top performing workers in the labor market. If you have two job offers, you could get those two companies to match each other's offers.

Each of the two company's best response is to match the other's offer to the point at which their offer is exactly equal to the value that you would bring to them. At that point, your net value to them is exactly zero, and beyond that, your net value is negative. So the highest salary that you can get is the value that you would produce for the company where you would be the second most productive.

If either company tries to stick to the publicly posted salary ranges even though you would bring them more value than that, then they are forgoing profits and not following their equilibrium best response.
No dog in this fight, but making an investment of millions in some aspect of your business is also not a guarantee that you will see any traction, much less success, with that effort.
In this sense, it's more hacking than crareful and well specified engineering, and that could lead down a path of instability in the product where some features get better while others get worse, without understanding exactly why.
Wow, just what I want - money controlled by, um, you.
Since OpenAI didn't release the parameter count of GPT-4, I've been wondering/doubting if it is really much bigger than GPT-3. The release of GPT-3.5 has shown that they've found ways of drastically cutting down compute costs (an order of magnitude) while maintaining or even improving the quality of the model's outputs.

Perhaps the reason that they didn't release the specifics of GPT-4 might be in part due to them wanting to be able to charge a decent amount and make a much larger profit than before. I've tried GPT-4 and so far haven't found it to be so much better than previous models. Some sources claim a 10x increase in ... well I don't know what exactly tbh. How do you even measure it? The opinions on this seem to differ a lot, depending on who you ask. By performance on standardized tests? That doesn't necessarily seem like the best metric for what the LLM tries to be.
Half million in penalties is pocket money for Jake Paul. But Kendra Lust, come on. At $5K per scene that's a lot of work wasted. Give this fine woman a break.
See my other comment on posix_spawn. It has its own issues and TOCTOU bugs that prevent it from being an actual alternative.
Staking is definately a promise of higher return with risk factors, so of course it is security.
You can understand crypto and not be a true believer
What’s a compliant token? How can I register my token with the SEC?
And yet collusion has happened in Big Tech.
ChatGPT Bug Exposed People's Conversation History
The unfortunate reality is that it's really difficult for the employees themselves to make sure that everyone is being paid equitably in a situation like that. At least with (reasonably sized) salary ranges, people will have a general feel of where they are - and then it's also easier to do other analysis, e.g. "does the company, for some reason, only ever promote men?"
Not dynamically linking to libc is pretty unusual. The libc-equivalent parts are in the Go runtime, statically linked.
Sure, but the article is talking about a completely different meaning of reproducibility, where a researcher uses an LLM as a tool to study some research question, and someone else comes along and wants to check whether the claims hold up.

This doesn't in any way require the training run or the build to be reproducible. It just requires the model, once released through the API, to remain available for a reasonable length of time (and not have the rug pulled with 3 days' notice).
> There is a simple bash one-liner…

> unshare -U --map-user=$(id -u) --map-group=$(id -g) -f -p sh -c '{ sleep inf &} &'
You're right that it doesn't translate literally to cash, but I've been able to cite increased velocity or point to systems I've designed at work with concepts I learned from similarly process books that allowed me to push for some solid compensation increases and I think the couple hundred dollars in books I purchase a year has allowed me to do that.
An RPi is not so much different from a PC in that the CPU core clock is going to be the fastest and everything else will be slower. You're not going to get 1.5GHz out of a GPIO.

https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/100011/how-f...
I've been hooked on some Google services since 2010 when I got a Nexus One phone. I liked the calendar and contacts because they were accessible from my other devices. I ported a few of my phone numbers to Google Voice shortly afterward and I liked being able to access voicemail and SMS from my other devices.

Sometime last year I noticed that Google Calendar was acting up with Thunderbird so I decided to migrate my calendar and contacts to Owncloud (https://owncloud.com/). That migration went very smoothly and I've had no trouble accessing my contacts/calendar from desktop, Android, and iOS. Everything works great, and Thunderbird no longer has problems.

To get completely off of Google's tit, I need to migrate my Google Voice to something else. I can migrate them to NumberBarn, but that doesn't take care of the spam filtering. Maybe I can use NoMoRobo...
Well, they were def at Rackspace in there somewhere.
Yannic Kilcher's opinion on this is likely correct. Similar parameter count, but trained for longer. The particulars of their instruction tuning/whatever-else-they-did are the real secret sauce.
I presume a withdrawal is different from a wire transfer or cheque.
In my opinion, remote work is here to stay in the long term. Many tech companies now jumping on the RTO trend may not yet fully comprehend the costs they will eventually incur. A number of their senior engineers are departing and finding high demand for their skills from remote companies. Not to mention that many are establishing their own startups, offering even greater flexibility in the workplace. In my sector of the industry (games), there are articles every week in the news about ex-leads building their own studios; can you guess why? What is more, anti-remote companies can't attract this talent with their headhunters anymore.

There will always be entry-level candidates willing to do whatever it takes to get a tech job and ambitious career makers gunning for those vacant leadership roles. But the costs of losing decades of institutional knowledge will catch up with these companies. They are harming themselves for an RTO whim and many won't make it in the long-term with his type of leadership.

WFH for engineers is a no-brainer however you look at it. Whether it's about quality of life, work and life balance, convenience, savings on office space and utilities, or being able to attract top talent. Why would I, as an engineer, apply for a job that will ask me to relocate, make my spouse quit their job to move with me, pull my kids out of school and make them find new friends elsewhere, abandon all my responsibilities to my community and put my house up for rent for a company when there are plenty more that don't ask me to do it? And most will still have a small office to come into if I so insist.

I don't think cunning malice or power plays can explain the decisions of leaders forcing RTO on their employees. There does not seem to be anything calculated about this to me. I reckon they just don't understand what happened to their business during the pandemic and they want to get back to the good old ways instead of finding the actual root causes of their problems. When the damage of RTO becomes clear, some will revert their decisions, and others will double down. Either they will go back to WFH or make space for others on the market. Doing work that can be done from home from the office is an unnatural state of things, it was only normal in very recent history, and hopefully briefly.
It did. That was a cooperative equilibrium in which they could share their gains from offering you a lower salary. In a non-cooperative equilibrium, they cannot share their gains so their best response is to match competing offers.
True, incredible rockstars that are so good can have custom roles created for them that pay a different salary; or, you can have a special, incredible-pay band with a broader range. Say:

"Software Engineer Fellow, range: 1.5M to 5M"
That doesn't mean securities must be never traded ever, especially given your broad definition.

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.

"We believe a large number of crypto securities also exist, and should be available to register and trade on SEC registered brokerages and exchanges, a point we've made repeatedly in our discussions. 9/15"

https://twitter.com/iampaulgrewal/status/1638660032324829184
I thought SBF's strategy was that everybody other than him is too dumb to understand the law.
wow, TIL the founder of RoR races LMP2 in Le Mans

he may have just become my new hero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH6vE97qIP4

Or for the full course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/15-s12-blockchain-and-money-fall...
The total (maximum; there was an income phaseout) amount under the CARES Act was $1,200 credit per single filer ($2,400 for married filing jointly) + $500 per dependent child, the amount under the American Rescue Plan (which had a different income phaseout) was $1,400 per individual (including adult and child dependents).

And, yeah, there were lots of other payments in those bills besides the income-tested-only stimulus payments to individuals. (
https://archive.is/jQspl
Maybe they'd rather pay coworkers than a giant tech company.
a product having utility does not preclude it from also being a security

its just that the SEC isnt applying that logic anywhere aside from crypto. so its either apply it everywhere or make a clear path to exemption that crypto assets can predictably comply with, where nothing has to be filed at all