skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coinbase is engaged in motivated reasoning here; they're trying to find every reason they can to not label their services as securities. I'd have to look up precedents to find more detailed guidance as to particular prongs, but offhand:

1. I really need to look up case law to decide if Coinbase is right on the investment of money part here, and I suspect in part it relies on technically-detailed arguments I have no knowledge of. But if your money is locked up, it's almost certainly meets this prong, and my understanding is that staking does lock your assets for a time.

2. The not-"common enterprise" argument here boils down to "it's all down by computers, so how can it be a common enterprise?" Which feels like the sort of gotcha legal loophole that plays out poorly in courts, although I will admit that I don't know the case law in detail to evaluate this claim well.

3. Expectation of profit is derived in large part from how it's advertised, which... yeah, this is going to point towards security. I should note in particular that in trying to describe why Coinbase's staking service doesn't meet this prong sounds suspiciously like the original scheme in the case that provided the Howey test. This alone should cast significant doubt on the entire analysis.

4. The "efforts of others" again relies on the "it's just computers, so obviously it can't count, right? ... right?" style of argument as prong #2, but even less convincingly.
I'm not sure that the LLC laws are exactly the problem.

I think it's the fact that you can get a company incorporated to do pretty much a vague _anything_ is the problem. There should be an ounce of thought by the State as to if what the person wants a company for is actually useful for society before granting them immunity.

The second major issue is that the State is never willing to dissolve a company once it reaches some size no matter how much wrong doing it does. Like Walls Fargo willfully creating fake accounts to charge consumers money should've just be an instant disqualification for a banking license.
OpenAI boss 'heartened' by talks with world leaders over will to contain AI
UN can go fuck themselves. Corrupted fuckers, sometimes literally (e.g. blue helmets). Silly forum, run mostly by dictators nowadays.

Once somebody's „human rights“ has to be provided by someone else and is someone else's work... It's no longer a „human right“. It's forced labour from the providing side. This modern version of so-called „human rights“ is a disgrace to once great idea.
That 2 thumbs up gesture guy is probably going to be the next big meme.
At some point, the immediate cost of fail-and-fix is lower than the total short to mid term cost of not fixing it.

The problem arises when systems are intentionally set up to fail (e.g. USPS pensions, gutting education), because those who set them on a doom course usually do so to offer a privatized "alternative" to pocket the profits.
Regarding home assistant:

> Is the best solution we can come up with a bunch of Docker containers running on a custom Linux distro?

It's really not that bad when you consider that HassOS has an updater. You don't need to reason about any sort of docker config if you don't want to. A lot of users have no idea what docker is and still get by. It's pretty appliance-like. Additionally, I run hassos in a VM, and that takes away even more of the 'managing a linux distro' aspect.

A few years in I did want the control to manage a docker container myself for frigate. I keep that alongside the hassos VM and no issues. So you can even mix and match if you like.
Because you get 4chan results in duckduckgo and yandex.
A focus on sexual situations. Does one same sex kiss constitute that? No I wouldn’t say it does on its own but when it is a pattern from these organizations then parents are well within their rights to reject it.

That companies are pushing these narratives is not secret and it is ok that these companies believe it to be more profitable to make these types of movies. It’s also ok for me to refuse to take my children to see them just like it’s ok that I do not allow them to watch YouTube or any other non curated video source.

None of this is me trying to limit the rights of anyone except for my children of course. It’s not me calling for anything to be banned or to force my views on other parents.

I’m simply saying I have had enough of these companies trying to push this culture war bullshit on my children and I do not care who in the world I anger by doing that. To do anything less would be a disservice to what I consider most sacred.
EU law only excludes patents for software “as such.” https://www.iam-media.com/regionindustry-guide/patents-in-eu.... You can still patent inventions embodied primarily in software so long as it’s in the context of an industrial or consumer application. So you can’t patent RSA, but you can patent a phone that uses RSA to securely transfer data.

Since the Supreme Court’s Alice decision in 2013, which tightened the longstanding exclusion to patentability for “abstract ideas,” it’s probably slightly harder to get (or keep) a software patent in the US than in the EU. Just because US courts are more willing to look past hardware aspects of an invention to see if the “gist” of the invention is an abstract idea implemented in software.
Can you make the same argument without invoking international bogeymen? This is basically one of the aforementioned Patriot Act talking points.
No, it's expert testimony. I can't believe I have to explain that on HN...
This looks like a product meant to serve a very niche market.

During lockdown I had the Intel Mac pro in my home office and my electric bill doubled with that thing on. It also pushed out so much heat, but at least the chassis design was whisper quiet. I don't know, by the end of it all, I was so happy to get that heavy thing out of my house.

Sure, it was definitely the fastest thing to enable the tools I needed back in 2020 and I was extremely happy to have it. It also became obsolete once the M1 had native tooling ready a couple of years later. Soooo yea.

I guess with all that excessive space in that chassis they can overclock the system and squeeze out every bit of performance. The PCI expansion could be good for production studios that need it. At that cost level though, the system will have to outperform anything you can find on the windows side.
CNN was in my opinion a leading news agency at some point in the past. Must be true around 2000. What did CNN do to themselves?

Has CNN been violating journalistic standards? Obviously yes, so which ones?

>Accuracy and Factual reporting?

Yikes no, CNN hasn't been doing anything like that recently.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/anderson-cooper-hurricane/

"Miscaptioned" is a nice way to call ACooper a liar.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/22/middleeast/tehran-respons...

CNN is completely wrong and clearly pushing something.

>Slander and libel

How much did CNN give the MAGA hat kid? It was a lot wasn't it?

>Harm limitation principle

CNN is violating this rule by far more then the rule even intends.

6 people at CNN wrote this... https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/25/politics/missing-postmarks-bo...

CNN is in gross violation of about all of the journalistic standards. The cost isn't immediate bankruptcy, you burn your reputation slowly as you violate journalistic standards. If you have a strong reputation, you can burn it for years upon years.

Difficult job for Licht to fire all the political activists and keep the journalists.
Doesn't matter, donut was just an abstraction.

s/eat a donut/make a network request/

Is "network request" a synchronous or asynchronous activity? It depends whether your code blocks and wait's until response (or timeout) or continues executing and handling it when it comes. It's property of the "attention" of the caller, not of activity itself.
> Gary Gensler, now SEC chairman, used to claim that 3/4 of the cryptocurrency market were not securities[0]. He has changed his tune significantly since then.

Has he? Most of the market is Bitcoin and Ethereum. To my knowledge, the SEC hasn't gone after anyone solely cashing trading those.

> 2) The SEC chairman can't answer this simple question: "is Ethereum a commodity or a security?

He also doesn't have to answer whether a taco is a sandwich. There haven't been any enforcement actions based solely on whether Ethereum is a security.

Binance launched an ICO. Zhao raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors, and then co-mingled investors' and clients' assets with his own. Their CCO admitted, in writing, to running an "unlicensed securities exchange." The poster child for web3 and crypto folks having no place near our financial system is such protestations that the law isn't clear. It's abundantly clear in the places it's being broken.
134 billion transistors, impressive.
iPad OS 17’s Live Collaboration on PDFs Could Challenge Google Docs
What if you needed its other features?
Safari Profiles - Well most of the browsers had it like years back
They probably measured click-through rates between users using the official app, versus third-party apps.

That's easy to measure.
Its true that Hector Martin said they didn't have the ability to add another interconnect like they did to double the Max to get Ultra.

But that ignores the entirely different chip design T6500 which was assumed to be for the new Mac Pro. No technical details of it ever leaked but its reasonable to assume it would offer higher performance than the T6002 chips which became M1 Max/Ultra
Its good. It just means they are not looking for M1 users to upgrade.
Ask HN: Anyone still using PHP to build side projects or webapps
Hello HN,

I’m always curious to learn PHP and eventually build projects. I would love to hear if anyone still using it
Where does crypto regulation go from here (May 2023)
[Sorry, commenting to self]

I remember now. XSLT was indeed crap, all XML syntactic sugar. But the "XSLT" expressions were XPath, which existed before XSLT came along, and it's XPath that had no support for namespaces. And it's XPath that was concise, and ressembled regexes, and shared with regexes the write-only property.

[Edit] So it's XPath that I think was amazing. Unfortunately it was bound to XML, which wasn't amazing.
ControlNet for QR Code
It's hilarious. People pay them for a credit card fraud prevention service but end up taking on the actual fraud responsibility anyway. Stripe is providing zero value here.
Many are still using the Intel iMacs and looking to upgrade, so the comparison is still relevant.
Thanks for that, that was a lot more informative on the specs (minus the usual marketing fluff, but hey!). Here are some key details that were missing from the original article:

> a powerful 8-core CPU with four performance cores and four efficiency cores

> a 10-core GPU

> a 16-core Neural Engine

> M2 delivers 100GB/s of memory bandwidth and supports up to 24GB of fast unified memory (pretty sure the base is 8GB, but it doesn't explicitly say)

> up to a 6K external display (via the Thunderbolt ports, no mention of 2+ externals afaict)

> a 3.5mm headphone jack

> up to 500 nits of brightness and support for 1 billion colors
Try company, ugh. The stuff I've seen at FAANG...
Nice try FBI. In all seriousness though, has it actually gotten so bad that yandex of all search engines is less censored? Or is it just less censored when it comes to topics controversial to the US (and not russia)? The fact that so much censoring is going on that google has a "hold on while we censor this" page is insane.
We don't have one right now, reddit is still a unique place (in good and bad ways).
Yes, I'm sure Apple is desperate to cash in on all of that mad DVD drive money.
For the modest price of 77k dollars!!!

I will use vectorization and multithreading instead, thanks!
More like:

- It should be illegal to defraud unsuspecting individuals by hiding information that would necessarily clarify the riskyness of the contracts they are engaging in.

- Businesses have way more information asymmetry advantage and we want to help limit this.

- Financial responsibilities of business and individuals is something that should be looked at by a third party because this can be financing bad things and/or be unfair to the individual due to the aforementioned information asymmetry.

- Various other reasonable points, while not perfect can certainly provide conscientious arguments for the them.
> I really don't understand the excitement either

In the latter interview, Wolf challenged Babler, pointing out that Marxism is associated with both "expropriation" and "the dictatorship of the proletariat".

To many people, those are pretty wild ideas, although apparently much less so for SPÖ members?

Guess time will tell what the Austrian voters at large actually think, their national elections aren't due until Autumn 2024...
How do we know that Binance is "above board" when they have never published a GAAP audit and their auditors have taken down their "proof of reserves"?
Outside of the themes, words, and presentation talents of Steve, these recent Apple events are making me realize I miss his wardrobe. I knew what he wore. I knew he really wanted to show me something, not just himself. Having every person in this demo wearing some highly unique designer clothing item results in it feeling inauthentic.
...assuming another reddit model is desired. Reddit turned into a cesspool long before it's API changes.
>like Rust has (Option<T> instead of `err != nil`

Didn't they implement generics already?

https://go.dev/blog/why-generics

It seems like their implementation has enough power to do this in most cases, although "Option" is not built in.
So your position is that the US Government intends to require every creator and trader of crypto to complete registration, notification, filing requirements with SEC? They pretty obviously don't want to enforce that or ask that of our populace. So we just get them enforcing whenever they want to (probably because Zhao is Chinese, basically).
It's a deliberately misleading metric overall imo as it frames the value prop on your developers rather than the product.

Plus, if the argument is to hold and we assume your 'bad' devs can't somehow reinvent K8s in a week and have to buy into this managed one -- surely they're going to waste an equal amount of hours learning and breaking it?

Lunacy!!
Forgot to link the Michigan Senate report: https://misenategopcdn.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/99/doccume...
Which of course brings up the whole process of eradicating homophobic hatred from straight society, which is accomplished by including these tiny things here and there so there is no questions or confusion; there just ‘is’, like with straight intimacy which is overwhelming and everywhere at all times.
"The S.E.C. said the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange mixed “billions of dollars” in customer funds and secretly sent them to a separate company controlled by Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao."

That's a criminal offense.

Here's the court filing.[1] This is just a civil case for now, but expect
criminal charges. "Between October 2022 and January 2023, Zhao personally received $62.5 million from one of the Binance bank accounts."

The court filing shows the structure of Zhao's companies. The SEC has figured out how Binance works.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/complaints/2023/comp-pr...
Coincidentally, Rolling Stone just published a profile on the founder in question:
Crypto’s Richest Man Is Waiting Out the Chaos
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/changp...
Their audience hasn’t had a 6 slotted mac since the 9600.
>At a certain point Reddit might decide that it’s simpler and cheaper to pay an ops person $15/hr to manage

if this was a profitable and beneficial endeavour it would already work this way. The reason moderation still lies in the community's hands (to whatever degree it does) is because reddit has hundreds of millions of monthly users and many tens of thousands of large subreddits and this is not $15/h but millions of dollars in costs per month that is currently being donated by community members to a large for profit company.

It also adds a layer of deniability for reddit - "we didn't do it, that moderator did it" etc. You can see what the response to moderation is on twitter and figure out how valuable not having to deal with it yourself is.

Your solution isn't scalable with profit.
I think that exemplifies why the patent system should at the very least not have the same rules and terms for physical products as for software, if it should exist for software at all. The time and capital investments to start up are just so dramatically different.
Universal basic income of nearly $2000/mo to be trialed in UK for the first time
Safari 2023 feature set looks like a chrome from 2017.
You don't need any AI to properly reject these orders. In fact, using AI here merely opens you up to the possibility that fraudsters find a weird structure that the AI black box somehow labels as non-risky.
> being above board

SEC has alleged multiple efforts to lie and deceive both regulators and users. It's hard to see how that qualifies as "above board".
> but also that they are fixable

Yet after 14 years they don't seem to ever actually get fixed - from just this week[0].

The fundamentals of crypto - irreversible, be your own bank, no margin of error, medieval castle level security practices/requirements, etc go against fundamental human nature. We forget things. We make mistakes. We're not capable of securing financial resources against an entire internet full of marauding bandits.

How many CC charges are disputed daily? How many password resets do you think Bank of America does daily? Answer is: staggering numbers. Post-FTX many "crypto users" (read: have an account on a CEX) actually interacted with blockchain for the first time and transferred crypto to a wallet. Ledger wallet sales exploded. It didn't take long for them to deal with such tremendous incoming of people losing access, forgetting seeds, etc to implement a backup mechanism. It didn't go well[1].

[0] - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/atomic-wallet...

[1] - https://decrypt.co/140317/ledger-crypto-wallet-under-fire-ov...
Saying this needs a one word answer is pretty reductive. I think it's obviously more nuanced than that.
A little RLHF is enough to fix most logic errors in a superficial way. For example, this is my favorite class of reasoning tests: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35155467

Over the last few months, I've seen dozens of people try hundreds of variations of that cabbage/goat/lion riddle and it failed all of them. I just tried it on GPT4 and it looks like it finally got "fixed" - it no longer ignores explicit instructions not to leave the lion and cabbage together.

However, it doesn't actually fix any reasoning ability in ChatGPT (It has none!). Changing cabbage/goat/lion to carrot/rabbit/puma respectively, for example:

> Suppose I have a carrot, a rabbit and a puma, and I need to get them across a river. I have a boat that can only carry myself and a single other item. I am not allowed to leave the carrot and puma alone together, and I am not allowed to leave the puma and rabbit alone together. How can I safely get all three across?

GPT4's response starts with "First, take the rabbit across the river and leave it on the other side.", ignoring the explicit instructions not to leave the puma and carrot alone together (the exact same failure mode as the previous variant).

Now that I've posted it, it will get fixed eventually - the cabbage/goat/lion fix took months. When it does I'll use "cheese/mouse/elephant" or something.
You are almost correct. It doesn't matter whether most people make a profit. It just matters that they are investing believing they will make a profit. Buying my worthless stock or investing in my pyramid scheme are both securities even if I'm the only one who makes anything.

It matters that the person buying reasonably thinks it could lead to profits. Not that it necessarily does.
Ahh yes Coley! So we finally find out where she's been stashed for the last two years.
Easy K8s Connectivity for Local Utils
This is off-topic unless you're aware of someone being charged for cash trading Bitcoin or Ethereum.

It's degrading to yourself to pretend in public anyone expected the SEC was cool with coins.
Yes. It's an absolute steal of a price to pay for something that persists in the environment. It seems like a big number to people who live off a paycheck but if you compare it to a project like a section of highway construction or an airport or whatever you quickly see that this is no penalty. Put another way, an NBA basketball franchise is worth 2.86 billion on average. The penalty is basically 1/3rd of a pro level basketball franchise.
I've been running Falcon 40bn instruct with 8 and 4bit quantization to great effect with the projects I'm developing locally. In terms of reasoning it's able to get many things in one shot that smaller models take n where n is 5 or more shots to get. The jump in performance is obvious for anyone following along with LLM scaling laws, but this is the only model of its scale where you can go out and build a product without concerns.

At first they had a pretty onerous commercialization clause they added to the Apache V2 (10% of revenue after 1MM), but it has since been removed making this fully open and good as a base for all types of tasks. I'm very excited to see what people are going to be able to do over the next few months.
Does anyone else find the presentation triggering uncanny valley vibes? Everything is so polished and perfect that it no longer feels like it's being presented by humans. It just comes off as incredibly inauthentic and utterly devoid of human connection. There's an avatar of a human presenting, but no humanity is present.
> At one time or another, it's been far more than half. Trump "losing the popular vote" was daily news on left-leaning sites. From Hillary Clinton:

This was a fact. No one claimed that he lost the electoral vote and no one claimed that he didn’t win based on the rules.

> In fact last year, a whopping 72%[0] of Democrats thought Russians got Donald Trump elected

It is a fact that Russia interfered in the election and that they were responsible for hacking and leaking the Democrats private messages. It is also a fact that people close to Trump were convicted about lying about their communication with Russia. The opinion part comes in about whether it resulted in Trumps winning.

I’m also not clutching my pearls. I know that the US has a history of interfering with (small d) democratic elections across the world.
We need cxoGPT to make "tough decisions". It is not clear that human CxOs are making better choices than an AI anyway.
insert XKCD five dollar wrench comic here
"Hearsay" is a derogatory term used to disparage evidence. It is entirely unscientific, as evidence is not ignored solely based on the messenger. You have to thoroughly evaluate the context, regardless of your personal preconceptions.

The guy has done a seven hour interview with Ross Coulthart, that is due to come out this week. He is reported to have such photos, documents, etc.

This story is bigger than Watergate by orders of magnitude. You playing ignorant here is ridiculous.
Being a hitman should be illegal.

Selling a slave should be illegal.

Accepting a bribery should be illegal.

Chop the trunk, not the branches.
The Mac Pro link in this page shows the Intel Xeon-based system. I was very confused
> I'm going to get the Qwitzatteracht discussion going on the three internet forums.

I used to play Qwitzatteracht with my friends as a schoolboy and love following the stats of players as an adult. With it being dropped from Sky news, I've been looking for other outlets on the sport... Where are you going to talk about this golfing varient? I would love to be more connected in the Qwitzatteracht world.