skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All this hard work on compliance makes the stockmarket one of the most even playing fields there is for investors, because the work of the SEC and other regulators around the world is there to ensure John Doe has the same chances as Warren Buffet to make money on the stockmarket. (Yes, the world of HFT is a bit different with their technological edge, but that's another story).

When Warren Buffet bought financial stocks in 2008-2009 the deals were done in such a way he could not lose money easily, or at least had a much lower chance than any ordinary investor.
I think it's easy to assume government agencies have weak / outdated tech, but the SEC is notoriously pretty advanced in how they identify bad actors. Think about situations where someone is passing information to a friend who does not work at a company and gets a cash kickback. Somewhere they're getting a graph of relationships, and then merging that with transactions + likely some detail around known public disclosures, and doing this all at a scale of hundreds of millions of people and billions[?] in daily trades.
Still not true and I live in Western Europe. Data cap is 50GB for a 30€ plan. This is farcry from "unlimited data plan".
The CSAM scanning solution allows law enforcement to do one thing, assuming they have full control over the image hash database: find people who have multiple photos that are already known to law enforcement that they upload to iCloud.

How would you use this to find criminals in general? I have a hard time to think of a very useful example. Maybe photos of bomb plans downloaded somewhere from the internet that are known to be used by criminal groups?

As to what stops a pedophile or a journalist form disabling iCloud photo storage: Absolutely nothing. This solution is supposed catch people storing CSAM photos in iCloud, that's it. A careful pedophile will not be caught by this.
NCMEC is an arm of the government. Either they share voluntarily or they get subpoenaed endlessly. Why do you think all of these companies even do this? lol

in any case I've given you the solution on how to use iCloud and not be scanned. Take your photos, sync your iDevice to your computer and manually upload to iCloud photos. there you go.
Up bank has a read only api.
So don't use iCloud Photo. The tech literally can't work without the server component.
> perl and pain

I feel this typo.
My bank does that too, and has done so for many years now. It's close to useless though, because I have no control over it. YNAB isn't just historical trends, it's a budgeting program.
> That’s only a problem in countries with poor network infrastructure, most developed countries have unlimited data plans at reasonable costs

This is false, I live in Western Europe. Data cap is 50GB for a 30€ plan. This is farcry from "unlimited data plan" and there is 4G everywhere.
Its like "rick and morty season 5" returns

Number of episodes: 8
No. of episodes: 6

garbage in garbage out
Windowblinds is still around, fyi: https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/download

I haven't tried it in years though
> to whom apple would refer hash matching images that pass human verification

I am under the impression that Apple's scheme allows them only to verify the output of the matching algorithm (the "safety vouchers"), and not the image content itself. So in the hypothetical situation described in the thread, it won't be possible for Apple to detect the false positive, and they could pass on the report to NCMEC.

I fear that this will lead to a law enforcement raid without any actual human verification of the offending image itself.

If I'm wrong, I welcome citations which demonstrate the opposite.
I find it hard to believe that the current situation could get any worse for consumers.
Pedophiles. But these people are consumers of extremely old content, which means the CSAM can won't even make a tiny dent against active, current abusers!

CSAM scanning is sold as beneficial, while in reality it won't do shit while it opens dangerous precedence backdoors!
The SEC will send a list to your compliance dept if they see weird trades (e.g. short-dated out-of-the-money calls) and ask if anyone on the list works there. The compliance dept also has a list of people with material non-public info and they get the list of people who made weird trades with the question “do you know any of these people?” If you know one and you didn’t provide them info then you say so because the implied threat is they’ll find out either way that you know one of them.
The xlsx document is based on the OpenDocument format, which actually came out in '05, so it's a wee bit older than that.
Concurrency issues are a challenge, but a bigger problem is when designing a copy-on-write B-Tree, which is what I did. With such a design, any change to a node causes a replacement to be allocated, and then the pointer into it must be changed too. This means that the referencing node must be copied, and so on.

If only the parent pointer needs to be changed (and up to the root), this isn't a big deal considering that B-Trees aren't very deep, and a good implementation will cache modifications anyhow.

When sibling pointers are introduced, a copy-on-write B-Tree will on average need to read and rewrite half of the B-Tree on every modification. For this reason, I don't use sibling pointers.
SEC/FINRA only gets access to blue sheet data. They don’t have direct “real time” access to all trading data.

This is why their data analytical skills are so impressive.
>This is incredible...

>translation: I couldn't keep up my end of the bargain and got mad at them for not giving me free things

What's incredible is that you're judging someone for having a financial situation that appears to be much tighter than your own. That's not a wholly unreasonable request for someone to make.

They asked for an extension and were willing to pay as soon as they got paid. That's the opposite of asking for "free things".
Why would that make it any likelier that they are also secretly searching your files, with another method? Seems completely orthogonal to me.
Not exactly.

Most exchanges require the client details to be sent to them (encrypted) so the regulators can see who is behind the orders on a real-time basis.

Canada for example is behind the times here, but has a program to address this : https://www.iiroc.ca/members/client-identifiers

If you are a corporation, you are required to provide your "Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)"

If you are a retail client, your account number is sent.
I am curious, what percentage of insider trading would you estimate never gets detected?
Probably because it’s a YC startup show HN?
The chickenshit club strikes again.
> No Country for Old Men, again IMO, rides that line a little close. Sure the Bardem character checks his boots at the end but there were some other major gaps that I don't think were set up. It was well acted and produced but expectations were not managed so it still goes into my meh pile.

Really? This is one of my favorite movies. What did you find overly ambiguous? If anything I felt the closing dialog and monologue were sort of on the nose about the theme of the movie, but I don't mind that.
Non tech nitpick: biscuit joining a box made out of mdf seems like massie overkill when plain old wood glue would have absolutely sufficed.
> Abrams and the writers were planning from the outset to do that many seasons and wrote a story bible outlining all the lore and mythology referenced throughout the writing.

"lore and mythology referenced" is not the same as having a plot outline.
Insider trading is about theft of intellectual property not fairness: i.e these individuals were stealing from Netflix. It's just that corporate lobbyists have convinced the government to take up the fight for then.

In my opinion it should be a civil matter.
What software are you talking about? (I'm genuinely just curious)
Yes and no. Of course, a homemade module like this will be way less polished than a RealSense camera. But on the other hand, it'll be more flexible and possibly tailored to your problem. So a homemade module might actually have better performance.
> If you trade the stock of your current or former employer (especially before earnings calls) and yield unrealistic gains you're going to get flagged and someone is going to manually review your shit.

There are a lot more sophisticated methods of insider trading. Just for starters, get someone else who has no apparent insider status to make the trades for you. It doesn't take a genius to come up with strategies like burying your insider trades in a much larger number of regular trades to make the profits less conspicuous, or getting fake blog posts written that essentially say to do exactly what the inside trader is planning to do thus creating a plausible explanation besides insider knowledge for an agents strategy.

It's like money laundering: the methods you see on TV are the simple versions that are easy for an audience to understand, they're not what people who have actually taken the time to come up with a strategy do.
Indeed, especially with this renewed push for SteamOS.

But I suspect it would open them for lots of abuse if it were anything standardized, probably attracting the more dubious subgroup within open-core software or whatnot.
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A situation will inevitably arise where you’ll be unable to support a new platform in a reasonable amount of time because implementing support for that platform yourself in wgpu would be a significant undertaking and/or distraction. Progress from the community on supporting that platform in wgpu will lag because either you might be the only stakeholder interested in that platform and/or modifying wgpu to support that platform may require significant internal restructuring to support the platform in a non-hacky way or it would slow down or increase the complexity of the other main platforms. This is a hypothetical situation but it’s likely it will eventually happen.

Maintaining a fork of wgpu simply for your own project will also likely be more effort than necessary since wgpu is a more general API than bevy requires.

The core issue is that bevy uses a subset of wgpu so your own focused and limited abstraction layer will almost always be easier to implement and maintain. Some call this “the rule of least power” https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/leastPower.html

The meta-core issue is that you and the wgpu team aren’t 100% aligned on your goals. Maybe you’re aligned on 80% but the 20% will eventually come back to haunt you.
I wonder why escape dquotes with another dquote instead of a backslash or something?
I feel the same. The convenience will likely outweigh the security concerns in the not too distant future.

What I would like is some middle step - that instead of allowing open access to accounts, I get to choose how the data is summarised and presented. e.g. just show total income and outgoings, fortnightly, over the last 6 months. Things like that.

Yes, I could export the transactions, do some Excel hand waving and make a report, then make a PDF and send it, then they would do data entry into their system summarising what they read. But automating that data sharing step would be fantastic.

I am in the process of applying for a home loan at the moment, and the amount of documentation is significant. If I were able to automate 80% of it in a fairly anonymised data way, that would be really useful.
Fuck the cloud. Offer 256 and 512GB iPhones and up and give a feature set to entirely and permanently disable cloud function. Save that, and I'll throw my iPhone in the God damn trash. I'll use a raspberry Pi or flip phone if I have to do so.
I remember using amazon for the first time ~15 years ago or so, and I was shocked at how bad the search was. I couldn't believe this was the top shopping site on the web..
There are numbers attached. FAANG saw growth of X%, which is above/below expected growth which analysts projected at Y%. There's an entire industry that's dedicated to calculating Y, it's not a back-of-the-envelope calculation that took a couple hours or a weekend. If X is > than Y, buy shares and sell them after. If X is < Y, short them instead. You can also gamble on their competition's stock rising/falling on the news if they're also publicly traded.
Is this even true? As far as I know sharing information with random people while drink is not a crime.
Isn't that no greater risk than the status quo, though?

Apple already has all these photos uploaded to their servers and knows the keys as iCloud Photos isn't end-to-end encrypted, so if a government can coerce them into cooperating with running scans like that, this new system doesn't seem to make any difference.

(If the argument is that they can be coerced into changing the new system to scan non-uploaded photos and reporting them outside of the iCloud Photos upload process... that's a threat that applies just as much to every phone. It's an argument for not trusting any OS that you didn't compile from source yourself.)

That is to say, it takes this away from the threat the article is presenting as "governments could sneakily use Apple's system to find dissidents despite Apple's best intentions" and into "governments could use the law to make Apple do things".
The process you are describing is ["regulatory capture"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture) It isn't Canada specific. It is the rule for everyone, for all people, and for all times. The people with the most incentive to corrupt a corporate governing body are the corporations that are being governed themselves. No one else cares as much as they do.
Check out Luxonis’ offerings.

https://www.luxonis.com/
I moved away from digital ocean 2 years ago, it is one of the worst "cheap" cloud provider, well not cheap anymore, they use their pseudo notoriety to inflate the price of their new products, i'm looking at you managed databases
> When Warren Buffet bought financial stocks in 2008-2009 the deals were done in such a way he could not lose money easily, or at least had a much lower chance than any ordinary investor.

Isn't one of his great sayings "be greedy when others are fearful" ?

IIRC the market didn't have much lower to go in 2008-2009 so if he bought at (or close enough) to "the bottom" then he wasn't really taking on much risk anyway.

Did it myself last year when COVID started and the market plummeted. Went on a shopping spree with some spare cash I had, lots of decent shares being effectively sold at a discount, all you had to do was "be greedy when others were fearful" ... pick something up at a 20%+ discount and then just sit and wait (and be prepared to wait a few months to a year). And with COVID it was pretty clear that as long as it wasn't an airline or hospitality stock, the odds would be in your favour.
Focus LTD – Last 8 hours (#2 product of the day on PH)
But sending you an SMS is a lot more security than no 2FA at all, right?

I am aware of attacks that state/very sophisticated actors can use to intercept SMS messages but that's a serious edge case for a normal person, right?
This is enough to turn me off, even if these reviews are mostly from fraudsters who the AI cutoff. Hosting on a platform that attracts this type of user increases my risk. Either due to being cutoff myself or stuff like bad IP ranges, excessive ID verification.

I feel sorry for DO, they've built a great product but servicing the bottom end of the market seems harder and less rewarding than experienced by major or niche cloud providers.
You can use an iPhone without ever logging into iCloud. You can even install MDM profiles to prevent it.
If they were white like the Congress would the SEC have cared?
Real talk, a Raspberry Pi phone could be amazing. A $150 (or similarly low cost) hackable phone with a near-guaranteed solid community around it - I’d buy that.

One of my big disappointments is that canonical decided to go super-premium with their attempt at phones. I wish Firefox OS had done better (the f0x phone in particular was incredibly cool) but they never managed to get the sort of community traction they needed.
Does bad UI make more money?

Craiglist is another example, horrible UI, successful site.

Amazon, terrible UI, makes billions.

Maybe making things harder to find makes people spend more money?

Even here on HN, abysmal layout and lack of features but successful forum.
Its an antivaxxer site.

VAERS is already full of dodgy data because its all self reported, "Open VAERS" is even worse.
> Someone being inconvienced is something you think should affect people's conscience?

"Inconvienced"? "Inconvienced"?!?

People have been threatened, physically attacked, and sometimes even killed for books they've written. OP seems to be claiming to have written a fairly controversial book, which so far has generated at least threats. And now Google is associating that book with other people, because their fucking algorithm has more of a hard-on to get a picture, any picture, onto their "knowledge" card than to get shit right.

People could DIE here... And you come blithering about "inconvienced". Are you for fucking real?
The trades beat the market though.
I have a lot of old books from this era that are often obsolete, but I hesitate to part with, knowing there often isn't an eBook alternative available. Hopefully a lot more authors can release their old books in the future.
Dark City’s changes, like most of the time a studio interferes with a creator’s vision, is all about profitability. It’s too risky financially to make a film that does not have wide appeal. It’s nothing personal, just business. And when they test these films they take any criticism rather harshly. They simply don’t have the time or the foresight to find out if people will like it after a little bit.
You can use an MCU as a controller. Here's an example.

https://youtu.be/m8rK9gU30v4

The problem is that you can't make every controller with an MCU, and you can't always make a competitive controller with an MCU.

There are already controller ICs that are configurable. In fact, modern controllers are a mix of analog and digital hardware. They do everything an MCU would do in that situation, but faster, less invasively, and with less power. Often, they do more than an MCU because they're not slowed down by an instruction cycle.

See my comment before last for an example of a software-configurable hardware controller.

Condition monitoring is a thing, and it's done with MCUs, DSPs, and FPGAs. But controllers sit on the non-isolated side of the gate driver, where they have basically no physical access to any useful signals. That's why condition monitoring is separate.

The lookup table idea is used for motor control. It's called a firing angle table. But that's a slower application.
Sure. In the context of Lynch's work things that happen without sense are often intra-textual in his work or hint at some interior sense that is obscure to the characters, audience. Why do characters (dead!) from Twin Peaks show up in Mulholland Drive? Well, that _might_ be touched on in Twin Peaks season 3 or maybe it isn't. Kinda up to you.

Seems to me that's Lynch's point. In daily life we're all willing to accept on some level that we need to make sense of things ourselves so why should we expect art to be direct?
I doubt it, considering they give up customers' data when the government requests it for 150,000 users/accounts a year[1]. Not only do they choose to give data when requested, they have to comply with court orders, as well.

Also, governments care about much more than just CSAM. They care about terrorism, drug manufacturing, drug and human trafficking, organized crime, gangs, fraud etc.

This speculation only makes sense if Apple intends to use their CSAM detection and reporting system to detect and report on those other things, as well.

Governments won't like that either, because during investigations and discovery, they'll want all of the customer's data that could be evidence of crimes. These detection and reporting systems, as implemented and by themselves, are only useful for flagging suspicious people. They're no good for complying with warrants or subpeonas.

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html
> Apple's approach creates a possibility of slowing down the politics already trying to move against E2EE data.

This is "appeasement" or "Danegeld", and we all know how that works out in the end
How?

I'd love to be convinced that this mechanism could be easily extended to any content at any time without it being totally obvious to the rest of us that it's being used that way.
I was going to mention HFT. How is it a level playing field when they are in the picture? Paying top dollar just to be closer and closer to the exchanges to get the fastest, "best price", when really, they have info before anyone else.

Also, what about dark pools?

Contrary to my username, which I just get a kick out of, I don't actually work on wall street or anything, but I've always felt the stock market was rigged for the elite. I think it is very likely that they have info before normal retail investors have any idea.
I'd guess his friends bragged about their trades to someone who disclosed it directly or indirectly to the authorities.
3 millions in profit and only just a $72,875 fine, what a joke
Not sure why this site is being posted as some legitimate source of reviews.

Trustpilot is known for basically review extortion by doing SEO for "[company name] reviews" search terms and shadow profile pages. Angry customers, spammers, possibly even competitors go on the pages and can write anything. Then they do sales calls to these businesses to give them the tools to "remove spam" or pay off customers to clean up the review page. Nothing about their business model is actually conducive to an honest collection of reviews.

They also have a business relationship with Google so Google is a beneficiary of this racket...

As someone else pointed out in the comments here, just look at the "reviews" for Apple.com.

They're kinda like Yelp, except the only people who go to them are people searching "business name + reviews", or business owners being extorted.
Just for starters, get someone else who has no apparent insider status to make the trades for you.

they already do that. sometimes the info is passed through many ppl and still get caught.
> Mondrian painting are the most beautiful, calming pieces of art I know of (just look at Composition C (No. III) with Red, Yellow and Blue)

And it sold for $50 million, which is the stupid part here. The value is not in the piece itself. We're getting a bit distracted talking about paintings though.

> Think harder levels in video games, rules in sports and games etc.

The equivalent here would be a nearly impossible game. One that doesn't tell you the goal or the controls. And you randomly jump from level 1 to level 400 to level 33.

And then some silly pretentious person says "Well why does the game need to be linear?" "You know just like real life you have to figure out the controls!" "It's not actually meant to be played" "The challenge is figuring out what's going on"

That'd be stupid. Is there a niche of people that would like it? Probably.

> You seem to be using the word "stupid" to mean something like "non-obvious". That isn't what "stupid" means.

Stupid isn't a great word for this, I just used it to follow the person I was responding to.

"Extremely Pretentious", maybe? "Ridiculous"?
The first mRNA-based HIV vaccine is about to start human trials
That makes sense! It got a lot of traction, so I modeled my post after it but then ended up having to post the links in a comment :-(
Unlike what you wrote, "It's 15%", it is not 15%.
For video conference calls, where it's mostly an extra bonus? Yes.

RealSense was used for industrial operations, I personally was looking into them for packing items in transport containers (specific to the factory involved). Poor quality of depth information would mean jams involving robot capable of goring through industrial enclosures, printers, and maintenance engineers.
Doesn't Intuit use some read-only mechanism, allowing TurboTax to import your 1099 data? I hope it's read-only. Curious how it works.