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> iCloud Photos can be used on Windows, for example. This scanning only applies to iOS devices. You could use iCloud Photos and not be subject to the scanning.

That's great for the <0.001% of people who use iCloud Photos without an iPhone. Everyone else is SOL.

>Nothing about what they're doing is contradictory with privacy beyond what they're already doing. The only reason they're even implementing it this way is because they do care about privacy. They could just not encrypt and scan on the server like Google, Microsoft, Dropbox, Box.com and more.

False dichotomy. Apple doesn't have to do either of these things.
Thunder Bay have its very own mobile carrier, which is quite a feat for a town of 100k people.

https://www.tbaytel.net
Tangerine recently launched 2FA but it is SMS based only.
>People who do it are just complete idiots.

or maybe they underestimate the determination of feds

the govt is very good at tracking this stuff.
The small banks are almost always 10 years ahead of the big banks on apis and open systems.
I don't think anyone is arguing that regulation can't and has never been used to stifle competition. It's fine to be skeptical but that can't be a reason to keep the status quo.

What would a solution look like for you? Would it be that screen-scraping be banned and open banking APIs be encouraged but not mandated? Or mandated within X years for existing banks or within X years of establishing a new bank? Something else?
> Are ISO standards ever updated?

Yes, ISO standards are updated as regularly as it makes sense for standards to change (obviously they wouldn't really be standards if they were updated more often).

Wikipedia says ISO 8601 was first published in 1988, with updates in 1991, 2000, 2004, and 2019.

The C language is another example. The latest stable revision (C17) is ISO/IEC 9899:2018.

> Is there any chance we might see an ISO 8601 date variant which is meant for filenames?

Hardly.
You have clearly misunderstood my position as you have replied to 2 of my comments already. You seem to have an "Apple vs the world" mentality when my point is entirely about holding Apple accountable to their own marketing. You sound like a bizarre Apple apologist and I'm tired of trying to explain myself to you when all you want to do is explain to me why Apple is better than everybody when I do not care and also fundamentally disagree.

If you think Apple's approach is the best you're allowed to think that. I disagree.
> Apple's solution on this requires client and server communication to flag an image

Well of course it does, would be a very pointless surveillance system if it scanned for stuff and then threw away the result.

I've also read the technical papers and all other info put out by Apple so far and my takeaway is that the system is generic, it's not designed specifically for images but can be used with any old fingerprint and arbitrary data can be uploaded in the "security vouchers".

It does not take much imagination to see how it could be used to mass-surveil E2EE communications, hook it into Siri's intent system, add a bunch of banned intents and throw the message into the voucher. If a threshold of bad intents is reached a reviewer will check your messages to verify that you actually had some bad intent before dispatching a patrol to your location.
One possibility is that they'd like to go E2EE with all iCloud data, including photos, and this lets them do that without the politics (DC level) falling out against them.
I have a 2 small websites running on digital ocean VPS's and use their S3 service (DO Spaces) and really enjoy digital ocean! It's very straight forward and I know I'm not going to get slapped with an insane bill like I might on AWS. Overall, great experience for personal projects!
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Optionals would have been a way to solve this problem
They should embrace this reality and rename it to grumbleclub.
Requiring all banks provide an api to get your data out. The alternative is that 3rd party services ask for your actual bank login details and they log in as you to parse the banks html to get your details out.
What we need to see is daily dead count up to 28 days after being vaccinated
Lots of these reviews are spurious, but I did have a very negative experience trying to use Digital Ocean despite not being a fraudster. They locked me out of my account with no warning, before I even had a chance to spin up a droplet or do much of anything. This happened twice with two different accounts using two different emails, so I gave up. To this day I'm not sure why it happened.
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Good point. So what's your idea, code gen from a schema? I don't really get it as a user.
I was born in Thunder Bay. :) Maybe Fort Frances would have been a better example, basically the cell and internet in Fort Frances was non-existent/didn't work 90% of the time till the province forced Tbay Tel & Shaw to service the region correctly, and we paid the same prices as folks in Tbay, and I'm sure it made little to no economic sense to be servicing that far up north at that time, but I'm sure glad they did.
Trustpilot is pay to play, so I wouldn't give them too much credibility.

They are also a proxy for Google revenues as they are one of only a handful of providers for reviews that show up on Google results. So you have to pay Trustpilot to get reviews to show up on your organic search engine results and Truspilot then goes and pays that to Google to be one of the review providers... and then Trustpilot also gives paying customers a lot of leeway to remove bad reviews.

My guess is that DO refused to pay Trustpilot and so a lot of the spam reviews don't get removed... and that's how this racket works.
> but there are no guarantees it will import correctly.

What do you mean, there are "no guarantees"? You are in charge! You know what data you're dumping, you can see if it imports well. You can tailor your use case.

That's not the same as getting a CSV from some dump, where you have limited (if any) control over the behavior.
Many of these trades aren't really inside information, like buying stock in the vaccine companies shortly before government deals to bulk-purchase vaccines. Any careful observer would know the rough timing of those deals.

Just the same, Congresspeople should be restricted from dealing in individual stocks and making trades that are going to look expensive. They have to put their money somewhere, but they could be restricted to index funds.

Or they could have trading windows, like corporate execs do, limiting their ability to profit on insider knowledge.
I'm absolutely not. How is this your interpretation? I have nothing.
> you still need to imagine a scenario where Apple is deliberately complicit

Which is very easy to imagine. All I have to do is imagine a national security letter.
Now do congress
This is how the KGB, Stasi, and other secret police organizations work. It's a way to extra-judicially monitor and control the population. This should give you pause for thought. Law enforcement that the public can trust is a big deal. Our government already bends the laws quite a bit to suppress dissent, we shouldn't enable them to do more of this.

It's a lot more straight-forward if the police investigate crimes reported to them by citizens. That's what they are supposedly there for, right?
Small claims courts have very limited powers though. They cannot impose any sanction except a small amount of remuneration.
Is it annoying...yes. Does it take more than 2 minutes to remove the pinned Edge and change the different default file types...no.

C'mon...Microsoft is trying to get you to use what they view as a superior product. It could certainly be A LOT worse.
We clearly are - we didn't go to the Olympics, don't have free massages at work or even free first class travel to Hawaii like Googlers do - no unlimited external validation, etc and I make as much as a new grad at other companies. I have literally nothing to show for my hard work. Nothing.
Yes, in fact in two different ways.

1. Firefox uses wgpu for implementing WebGPU.
2. Applications on wgpu can be compiled in wasm for the web and ran in Firefox Nightly.

This is harmed by the fact WebGPU API is still not stable. Hopefully, not for long!
Just trade mirrored stocks on blockchain. Easy
Interesting, but in what circumstance does this actually look good?

In the Jet Set Radio HD and Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- examples, I get it. But the really thick one with the robot only reminds me of activity books for very young children, which are used with those dull safety scissors.

I'm failing to come up with some circumstance in which I'd actually want something to look that way.
Thinkpads have served me pretty well, mostly for Linux though I do dual boot. A bit pricey new, but lots of options in the used market since businesses buy new ones all the time. Lenovo has had some controversy, but never with the Thinkpad line afaik and frankly at this point it’s hard to find a manufacturer without some history of controversy.
I believe he’s saying that adding this flavor of open banking regulation, on top of the others, further entrenches the incumbents, meaning the situation is not identical as future unwinding of these defenses will have more work to do. In addition, the “open banking” would be implemented in a less than ideal way from the perspective of consumers and squander an opportunity to meaningfully improve retail banking and third party retail financial tools. So the situation would not be as patly identical as you present it.
I'm another one with nothing but good experiences with DO. again, nothing major, but hosting a handful of sites for a handful clients of mine has been nothing but smooth and profitable
Google cache:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KtpP-u...
> In the context of accomplishing a certain task, the accuracy of some information is crucial and the accuracy of other information is not. For instance, if I'm looking to buy a book about Andrea's experience, I care that...

This totally disregards that many people search for stuff without any specific "task" in mind at all, and even more so that in controversial contexts like this, probably quite a lot of people with the explicit intent not to contribute to the author's happiness or cash box.

> Yes, Google should continue working and improving and getting to as high an accuracy as possible, but it's never going to be 100%.

What Google desperately needs to work and improve on, far more than mere accuracy, is some goddarn freaking humility: When you know you're not 100% sure to be presenting accurate results, stop pompously calling them "knowledge".

Try, for a change, not to be evil.
How do you know he isn't?
I don't think it's unreasonable. Let's say you're usually getting paid on the 21st, server bill on the 22nd - now you switch jobs and get paid on the 28th. Is it unreasonable to ask for a week long payment extension, one-off, to bridge the gap? I grew up living welfare payment to welfare payment and we've had services cut off for this kind of thing. A little kindness goes a long way.
Yeah, I also have no intuition about this and fail to grasp the problem. When the author talked of rendering a slightly larger mesh to a white texture I just assumed that was it, but apparently not. I assume much of the complexity is to do with where in the pipeline this issue is being handled (i.e. just in shaders).
It's funny that HN's automated title curation has made your post sound nonsensical. HN auto-strips 'How' and 'How to' from titles, but you can usually get it to go back by manually editing it.
When is any member of the US government going to get charged for insider trading?
The planning is there. The second phase started on august 18th and encompasses sharing your info with different parties (consensually). Next phase is actually hiring services and more interesting stuff.
Of course reproducibility isn't necessary. There's a whole subset of sciences (often called the historical sciences) where reproduction is generally impossible because of the arrow of time. You can't replicate evolving humans again, as an example.

Nonetheless, reproducibility is a really nice property. You have to be incredibly careful with your theory if it can't be justified.
What's this higher reason? Isn't the point to crank out business code?
If you are interested in Postgres FDWs, please check out Steampipe (https://steampipe.io). It's an open source project with a Go-based plugin model (similar to Terraform) to instantly query cloud services (AWS, GCP, GitHub, Slack, etc) using SQL. TBH, we've been completely shocked how far we can push this model querying real-time against APIs.

We're bullish on the ELT use case and think of virtual tables as "Data Rainbows" - structured, ephemeral access to cloud data. I spoke about this concept for YOW Data (https://youtu.be/2BNzIU5SFaw?t=183). Still structuring our thoughts here, so feedback and ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Disclaimers: Steampipe is open source. I'm a lead on the project. I can't stand listening to my own talk.
> it doesn't seem like making $3m off Netflix stock trades over a couple of years is particularly alarming on the surface

It can actually be harder to make money off of insider information than it sounds. The market doesn't always react in the precise way you might expect. As a result, inside traders usually make large sums of money one of two ways:

1) With single, huge bets placed on huge news that shocks the stock price.

2) With many, medium bets placed around regular earnings reports.

In the first case: If someone never trades options and then suddenly places a single, large, highly-leveraged trade that happens to pay out handsomely, that's an easy red flag to spot.

In the second case: If someone is pattern trading in the right general direction around most earnings releases and they happen to work for the company (can be as simple as a public LinkedIn search) then it's obviously a red flag.

The encrypted messaging app is a red herring. The SEC isn't eavesdropping on their comms. They're getting one or more of the conspirators to flip on the others in exchange for reduced sentences. One of them gladly gave up the messages as part of a bargain.
Disclosure: Former DigitalOcean employee.

But Trustpilot is basically just a Web 2.0 Better Business Bureau, where companies are basically incentivized to send them traffic in order to get their score increased. If you hover over the overall rating, it notes that the reviews aren't the sole decider, it's also "whether the company sends people to review it". A certain read of that might imply that it means they punish people for sending artificial reviews, but Trustpilot actually does the opposite and strongly encourages businesses to entice people to provide reviews. Their entire business-oriented product is ways to send people solicitations to write reviews on their website.
They offer a lot more than just VPS services.
But compared to the likes of AWS, Azure and GCP their pricing structure is simple and predictable.
That coupled with the straightforward management interface, team management & access control systems make it a very inexpensive and approachable solution.
It just has a really low barrier of entry, and its partially why I chose them for some projects with my current employer. There isn't enough rope in the management UI to hang yourself with, and I can handover the lot to my replacement even if they're not particularly clued up on system administration.

So to answer your question, I see DO as offering a subset of what AWS/Azure/GCP do, with the cost and complexity savings to reflect that. So those larger cloud providers are what I consider the higher end.
The AI ones look like some sort of inbred robots
Are you claiming that the US government didn't invest in the development and operation of the US telegraph network?

https://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/telegraph.htm
I use DO for my personal projects - they've got a perfectly fine API, costs are low, everything works like it says on the tin, most tools work well with DO (terraform, ansible) and they have an interesting documentation culture with lots of tutorials.

I was quite impressed with the migration approach, lead-time on notification of migration and self-service on-your-own-time migration options when being shifted to new servers (which required a cold-migration).
Sure, you're totally right.

But right now all that data is available to Apple.

If they wanted to they could just generate a set of keys, replicate one of your iCloud devices, and send all your iMessages to a 3rd party, etc.

If CSAM scanning is coming, show me a better solution. I don't think there's a world ahead of us that doesn't include it for all platform-hosted photos.
I manually enter all of my transactions, but for correcting mistakes or for automatic payments, linking to my bank accounts is still very useful.

Also, some accounts update faster than others for some reason. Usually YNAB will import them the same day.

Plaid doesn't post transactions, but it does have my credentials which I said I would not share with anyone when I opened my bank account. Those credentials do allow posting transactions, and while it's not likely that anything will happen, if something does, I'm theoretically responsible. At the moment, I'm willing to take that risk.
You can't manage employees. You can only manage agreements.
They still have to report to tape. You can’t really hide exchange listed stock trades.
The search engine for amazon.com is awful too. It's can be painful trying to get the results you want to come up. The horrid filter deserves a special mention.
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>It's like you people have never had to write ingestion pipelines for CSVs coming from randos.

That's because this is not what this thread is about.

The comment you're responding to is not about CSVs coming from "randos". It's for the case where that rando is you, so you can make sure the problems you mention don't happen on the generation side of CSVs.
Interesting. How far removed were you from regulated activities ? Did your firm and/or role have a retail facing element or only institutional ?

Most places I know of would not only have the sort of induction training you imply, but regular refreshers for anyone involved in regulated or at-risk activities.
Yeah PSD2 in Europe has been live for a bit and it’s magic.
It could be something for the local US embassy. I knew some people in the foreign service that worked there once
Allowing non-Teslas to charge at the Tesla network is no different than Tesla opening a +1 factory (virtually, the influx of non-Teslas). Tesla, even now, has two completed factories producing Teslas, and two about to go into production in 6 months.
Tesla operates the chargers at a profit (or should do so soon). Accordingly, the additional cars charging, will spur provision of additional charger sites.

As a user of the Tesla network since 2016, the availability of more charging options leads to, at least, the following network effects:

* reduced need to go 'out of your way' to find a charger;

* reduced likelihood that a car runs out of charge before reaching the next charger;

* better attention to the upkeep of the charger sites and the repair of the chargers (all chargers, not just Teslas' -- competition); and

* fewer chargers under-utilized or over-utilized -- as it becomes easier to 'right size' many discrete units, rather than just a few dozen.
Exactly this. No one is going to seek out a third party review site to post about how good or average a product or service is.
It's a matter of comparing growth expectations from analysts with actual numbers. If the actual user growth is higher than the average analyst expectation, you would buy stock/call options just before earnings; otherwise you'd short the stock or buy puts.
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Basically the default with reviews is spam and difficult customers... Trustpilot's business models and incentives are basically to get people to pay them to remove these spam reviews.

Apple is basically a good benchmark. Basically if you can get 2.2 / 5 on Trustpilot you're at Apple tier service, and anything above that means you've either paid off the negative reviews or paid off Trustpilot.

Source: I'm on the receiving end of a lot of Trustpilot sales calls.
The full list[0] of terms banned in the US is in the official Citizen Lab repo. There isn't a single number on that list, so no, 1488 isn't censored.

>in communist states the anti-communist words are censored, and in democratic states, it’s the anti-democratic ones

I guess we can add to that list of anti-communist words things as 人权 (human rights) and 新聞自由 (Freedom of the press), because those are banned by Apple for engravings in China too[1].

Then look at the words banned in the US, for comparison. None of those are "anti-democratic" or even related to politics, it is all just vulgarity-related words, such as words referring to genitalia or expletives.

To be fair, I have to revise my earlier statement about "8964" being the most egregious example. I posted that comment before I noticed 人权 (human rights) on that list.

0. https://github.com/citizenlab/chat-censorship/blob/master/ap...

1. https://github.com/citizenlab/chat-censorship/blob/master/ap...
He trades like he codes. He deserves prison for his coding ability if nothing else. He introduced more bugs at Netflix than any engineer in history.
You’re right: it would be a kindness for them to offer this. Not offering doesn’t make them an “absolute joke of a company”.
> the cloud is someone else's computer.

So by your logic, if I use a post office box, that means the postal service has the right to open all my packages?
Can you share the systems that provide read only API access please? I've tried to find services like them numerous times over the years but have failed at piercing the cloud of opaqueness that seems to surround banking.
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I don't need a library to work with CSV in any language. That alone is a deal breaker is plenty of situations, no matter how widespread the format becomes.
They're too busy designing even bigger puppy-kicking machines.
We won't be doing software only releases or on prem software for PlanetScale. We do have an option to provision into your own cloud account so that the data lives inside your environment and you get all the PlanetScale magic.
It is a bit telling and depressing that while many countries in EU now have a marked date where cars with internal combustion engines will be phased out and made illegal, there are no counties that have yet to set a date where they will do the same to power plants. Even in countries where the green party is part of the government (like Sweden), they see fossil fueled power plants as a critical part of their future strategy for the energy grid.

The picture of Europe is unlikely to change much. The predictions I hear is of an increase in construction of both renewables and fossil fueled power plants, and a more unstable price curve depending on weather. A lot of brown-orange that occasionally turn green when the wind is strong and quite dark when it isn't. In theory this should produce the cheapest energy, through I can't say that has been my experience so far. Relying on more energy trading depending on where energy is being produced at the moment seem to also increase transport costs, which for the end user here can be around 50% of the total price.
To me this feels like a lot of people have egos that are too big and they can't handle being wrong or change their mind when new info doesn't agree with what they already know. It's good that we notice this abuse of power but noticing the issue won't fix what amounts to deeply human problems. The focus should be on the root.
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I don't think it's merely small librarys. Last I checked localization in Elm was a pain, and I'm sure there are numerous other features missing.