skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to know that I've tried, and continue, to try this, but apparently it seems like my addictions are almost certainly tied to my inability to create relationships like the ones needed to get hired like this.

Loner-ism isn't exactly the best trait for landing contract jobs, or for sales in general...just in case you were perhaps wondering.

I had a fair amount of success on the Upwork platform until some real dickweek in New Jersey destoryed my JSS score because I wouldn't violate federal law and allow them to dictate the exact hours I was to work as a 1099 IC.

Worse, I feel, is that Upwork agreed with them (of course because they have the money) about this situation that could not be more plainly written on the IRS website.

I don't know exactly how you landed the contracts you did in order to pay the bills and such, but I don't seem to have any skill with that, so while I really appreciate the brainstorming everyone is doing, people should know that I'll never give up trying to better my life and make a living doing what I love.
it seems pretty simple to me: if you believe that you've learned something through your job that you wouldn't know otherwise, that may have a material effect on the movement of your job's stock price, and you tell someone about it and they trade on it, you've opened up an exposure for yourself.
At the point where it is submitted for a human visual check, your privacy has already been violated.
Interesting story, I can imagine you were pretty worried at first. What brokerage do you use to configure that type of automated order execution?
I think there are at least two categories. One is bad because its minimalist in some sense, like HN and Craigslist. The other is bad because it's optimized to push you to do something, not for your enjoyment. Design choices that make you buy more or watch whatever are being pushed are not the same as those that maximize usability. It's not all evil, I think there needs to be some way to get people out of their rut and experience new things. But most successful site are in full exploitation mode and optimized to take your money or attention, not to allow you to use them more easily.
Illegal exceptions
A better way to learn Vim
> this will create too many false positives. Too many false positives make the algorithm useless

Apple can (and will) run a second algorithm server side to filter out further false positives.

> If someone with even more motivation and the means to put those images onto your device via social engineering, exploits or maybe even features

Such an attacker could just plant CSAM directly. The hash collision has no bearing on it. If, however, it is hash collision you're worried about, they'd be caught during the manual review.
Thank you very much for your insightful and kind words...they really do inspire me.
It sounds to me like they're saying that if you got vaccinated early on, the vaccine may be less effective at this point so you have an increased risk of severe disease. Most likely they are comparing with recently vaccinated people.
The Perlis-Thompson Principle
> extremely old content

Why do you assume it’s extremely old?
Worse than that plaid places the liability on you so that when their systems get hacked and you lose money it's your fault at your expense for giving them access.
If you wanna talk about baffling movies (or just a fun story) check out The Terror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Qo-bntEZc
>but this began with gang affiliation lists.

An old coworker of mine was on a gang registry because of people he associated with when he was a teenager. He was in his late 20's-early 30's when we worked together. Really nice guy, super hard working, spent his free time gaming or hanging out with his girlfriend, got really into his puppy and being a dog owner. Hadn't been around gangsters for at least a decade.

He'd regularly get pulled over and hassled by cops just because when they scanned his plate he'd show up as being on the gang registry. Ended up losing his license for several months because his friend who was his passenger one time had a very small amount of weed in a bag in his pocket when he got pulled over.

Pretty much any time cops are around or even whenever he drives, there's always a chance he's going to get pulled over and harassed randomly.

Not because of anything he ever did, just because he chose the wrong friends when he was young.
Sadly, the website doesn't work with NetPositive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetPositive
That's not happening in the UK, I don't think it's that difficult to conform to - especially not compared to the financial compliance stuff you're already dealing with as a bank! At the end of the day it's just 'use this API instead of rolling your own', really.

The reason I've soured on it is that it's not that bloody open at all. It should be called 'InteroperableBanking' or something.
Others should point out that these breaches were happening even with people working from the office.
Knuth stopped including the "sequential access" stuff just as it came back to usefulness :)
98% of it is at 15%. Except for a minority of exceptions it is 15%.

Let’s recall what you wrote: “It’s a huge fat 30% margin”. Now that is certainly bullshit, isn’t it?
I use Dark Reader extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadp...

Works pretty well for 99% of sites.
TrustPilot appears to have looked at all the negative parts of Yelp and just explicitly embraced that as their business model rather than pretending to be neutral.

I default to assuming that anything which mentions TrustPilot in its marketing is a scam of some sort.
Off topic but: watching cryptocurrencies move before recent legislation news (infrastructure bill) hit any public source confirmed to me that DC is the insider trading capital of the country. You dont even need to look hard...like Pelosi's husband buying Amazon calls right before they scored a large cloud computing govt contract. That was absurd.
I don't see them agreeing with you at all. I see you saying "the lists are fine", whereas they are saying "the lists are not fine, but would be ok if these things were true (but they're not atm)". Personally, I don't think it's enough. I think someone being known to be on the terror watch list is likely to cause them all sorts of problems; and anyone can be put on the list for pretty much any reason.
I was recently at The Maritime Museum in Astoria, OR. They had a selection of enlightenment era maps of the world and North America specifically. Most of them were indecipherable.
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Why would they not want to use a password vault? I imagine it's more desirable of it's hosted onsite.
never gonna happen. company i work for has csv files from tests on products they conducted almost two decades ago. they went to a proprietary solution for a few years and that company went bankrupt and we can no longer open certain files because the license was restricted to Sun servers. we've learned the hard way that open systems even if sub optimal are usually the right choice especially when you're trying to store/archive data.

we've resorted to csv files + readme + json files in git for version control.
Not necessarily steganography. For example if the image has drastically lowered contrast, the lowres image will look like a false positive, but it will not be.
Cool! I like numbers, too. How about this: NYC = 8.8 million people [0], U.S. death rate is currently 8.997 per 1000 [1], which works out to 216 people dying per day in NYC. The current 4 week average for covid deaths in NYC is 5 per day [2]. Hospitalizations are increasing, the 28 day average of 70 patients has increased to 88 in the last 7 days.

5 out of 200+ deaths per day and around 100 beds taken by covid patients doesn't sound like a crisis or justification for this executive order. Maybe I'm missing something?

I also found it interesting that the per-capita deaths this year and last don't show an increase over the prior/predicted line on the graph. I assume this is because the baby boomer generation is getting older.

None of this runs counter to the numbers you presented, but does seem to show that this pandemic is not killing people or putting them in the hospital at a rate anywhere close to what it was doing last year. It's predicted that this will continue to affect people less as it becomes endemic, like the other coronaviruses that circulate and don't bother anyone much [3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyc

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/deat...

[2] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page

[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/how-we-l...
> Why replace it just to make it "official"?

The original sign barely had enough space to fit the I-5 logo over to the left. The “fake” (and I use that term loosely) had 5 & 110 crammed next to each other and 101 way over on the right. The “official” sign spread out the choice of 3 freeways evenly, increasing readability.
18 years ago when working for a shipping company a lot of customers complained about the pain of setting up an address book again, so to help our salespeople entice them to give us their business I wrote some code so if you entered the username and password for one of the other companies it navigated inside that account and pulled all the addresses out. No one I spoke to had ever seen such magical wizardry before and I felt pretty thrilled. We never stored the username and password but I still wondered if we could somehow get into trouble. It amazes me so many people were so happy to use it. Many years later, I’ve faced multiple websites offering Plaid’s help to retrieve data (even Google Pay offers to log into your bank account) but I always refuse.
> this miracle technology that will be ready "any day now".

Which hyperloop projects are promised to be ready any day now? Infrastructure projects are usually announced years in advance, and more often than not run into delay. I'm not aware of a firm date for any public ready hyperloop systems.
It’s worse than that. I assume Plaid doesn’t scrape bank sites and rely on 3rd parties to bypass the EULAs on bank sites.
> The big telecom lobbying argument vs CRTC about how urban markets need to subsidize rural infrastructure costs is not something 95% of canadians like to hear, but it kinda makes sense

For some groups (especially reservations where their location to practice independent governance is government mandated) I can absolutely sympathize - but for most of the rest of rural Canada - uh why? Urban centers like Toronto and Vancouver are already paying property taxes far exceeding rural areas - with the residents paying those taxes also being hit by bigger income tax proportions due to the higher wages in the cities.

There is no allowance for rural Canadians to get subsidized access to live operas and plays - choosing to live in a rural area comes with a general acceptance that those sorts of live performances are always going to be inconvenient and expensive since you'll need to travel to the city to get them. Why are we treating internet significantly different? If you choose to live in the middle of nowhere you can pay the actual cost for a company to maintain a line to your cabin in the woods while enjoying the scenery you're immersed in.

On Monday I've got a hookup guy coming to my place to switch our condo over from Telus to Novus - this will drop our price from 100G/$80 to 300G/$50 along with removing data limits and throttling and probably actually getting closer to the advertised rate (we often get about 15-20 down from Telus right now - I've heard much better things about Novus).

Part of the reason Novus can do this is indeed the fact that it doesn't offer service outside of very dense urban areas - and I'm personally quite okay with that.
If Apple really didn’t care about privacy they’d end e2ee and scan on the server side like Google and Microsoft.

> Because most companies don't give a shit about privacy? And they will cave at even the slightest government pressure to do so. Honestly it's probably easier for them that way (but worse for the consumer).

Most people don’t care. I’m giving you solutions and you’re taking about convenience how hard it is. Plugging in your phone is trivial. I assume you’re going to stick with iCloud even despite this “privacy” issue? If not, what are you switching to?
At what cost are they providing this service though? They make a ridiculous amount of money doing so. Shouldn't the exchanges have offered the best price, and provided liquidity, in the first place?

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis painted HFT in a pretty bad way. I have read criticisms of the book, but it's hard to separate out bias from the criticism.

There's also all the heat on Robinhood about selling order flow, which I'm surprised was even news to regular investors. It's great they eliminated fees for normal trades, and I also understand most major brokerages sell order flow as well (and still charged for trades for a long time). I read that Fidelity is the only major player that doesn't sell order flow.

Do you have some sources that someone could learn more about this, ones that don't have a vested interest in painting it in a positive way?

Also, I'm still wondering, considering dark pools [1], and the inside information that would come along with that, since those trades wouldn't hit public markets, how the stock markets can be considered a fair place to trade?

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/050614/introdu...
Distributed, Asynchronous Git Syncing with NNCP
non-tech loves to black box tech that tech wants to open source
So either we take this approach, or end up with a worse one, like pure on-cloud scanning with no transparency whatsoever.

With cloud computing, I can choose my cloud provider and I can upload encrypted files. On device scanning is evil because it's move to create a computing architecture entirely outside the user's control.
> Asking nonsensical questions online probably not gonna change anything.

True, true. As ever, though, the devil is in the details; and as so often, the details are matters of definition: What exactly is a "nonsensical question"?

To many of us, it's a question like: "Did you claim your panel?"
> the price we pay to afford the top-notch.

So, usually when people say this about sturgeon's law type stuff, it's because we genuinely don't know how to determine what's crap and what's not overall. For example, if we're talking about 90% of academic papers are crap, ok, it's true, but we pay the cost because we don't apriori which 10% will be the good ones.

The issue is that in academics, we actually have a pretty good idea which programs produce the best and most impactful work. Now it doesn't seem like a cost we have to pay, but rather a conscious decision not to cut out the crap (or to keep funding the crap).

I think the ideal outcome is that the culture and resources of all programs are approximately the same, and each produces 90% crap, and 10% good stuff.
This brings back memories. I was a huge fan of the old pkmud. It had gameplay that very much anticipated today's battle royales. The various players would get teleported randomly to locations in the DIKU MUD world and then scramble to kill MOBs and collect gear to better murder the other players. Looks like it's still around[1], and for some reason my handle is an illegal name. Fascinating! Sadly, like most MUDs, the player base is nonexistent.

Most of my time though was on a deeper SillyMUD derived PK MUD called Forbidden Lands. It was neat because the focus wasn't on murder, it was just an option. So the politics and mores around killing got quite interesting.

Edit: Still KASE.

[1] http://pkmud.net/
This makes no sense if you tug on it just a little bit. Suppose a stock is trading at $100/sh and via analyzing these signals leading up to earnings next week, “most people” could correctly predict that it will pop to $105 after earnings. “Most people” would then logically be willing to bid at least $104.50 (and probably closer if they were more certain), meaning as soon as the information was out to most people, this $5/sh opportunity would be arbitraged away.

There are entire firms trying to squeak pennies per share out of the market. To think that some backlog of data that most people could plainly interpret would lead to a pop after earnings is very difficult to believe.
> A metaphor or analogy greatly oversimplifies reality and will lead you to make terrible decisions.

I think I disagree with this. Metaphors and analogies provide interesting ways to illustrate principles, and good decisions are often rooted in good principles.

Attempting to model human behavior as a one dimensional line? Yeah, not good. But remembering a person is more than the moment you meet them in? Great advice.
I might have a different perspective than most, but I think csv as a raw access method is far better than any structured format.

The contract on what is transfered or how it's mapped in your csv is developer to developer and not in code.

This is a problem and also a benefit.

As long as both systems are designed to read and write the csv correctly(there in also the problem of verification), csv works flawlessly and retains its simplicity.
I've been waiting half a decade for modules
Has anybody done an objective comparison between AMP vs a good adblocker (e.g. PiHole) w.r.t. how much bandwidth they save? I'd expect adblockers are as effective if not more.
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I think it's just a case of being first is what matters for network effects. I forget who said it, but someone made the wise observation that beating an incumbent requires you to be not 2x or 3x better but 10x better.

This seems to show up at a lot of companies. There's more money in dominating a new or emerging market than in improving the quality where you are already #1, because customers probably put up with your bullshit.
Yes, Senator, but those breaches weren't as breachy as this one.
> No matter how far you take graphics, eventually, the farthest you can get is text.

Interesting point of view.
While others have contributed valid points, I think there is another key point here - Netflix stock price is (or was) strongly correlated with that quarter's subscriber growth.

In other words, this might be a method that only worked with Netflix stock in that timeframe where sub growth and stock price is strongly correclated.
Boston Dynamics: Inside the lab: How does Atlas work?
You have got to be kidding me. What's the pitch? Spyware? Send the returned JSON data to the Chinese?
You can just directly observe how productive your teammates are, why bother using IQ as a proxy.

And it's not like OP gave his co-workers IQ tests.
So is this product about the actual DB or the devex/ interface. Seems the real insight is in the latter. But the implementation is likely tied to MySQL. Would be cool to use with database of your choice, including existing managed dbs.
That's even worse - so now apple is deciding whether to report something even if it matches the data provided by the government. It's not their role to judge the contents, only whether the match is correct or not, otherwise even with actual CSAM content, are they going to be making judgement calls? What if the system matches loli content which I imagine is in that database but legal in places? Are they going to then get the user's location(!!!!) To see whether it's legal there or not, or....guess? Or what? Because the only way to make this system work is to report every match and then let actual law enforcement figure out if it's illegal or not.

So yeah, the entire system is fucked and shouldn't exist. Apple is not law enforcement and them saying "we'll just prescreen every submission" is actually worse, not better.
but half the time the headline is "X Company beats expectations, stock slides anyway".... unless these are super outliers, it seems like the effect on the stock can be random
Map shows where cryptocurrency is taking off around the world
They are probably not doing anything illegal, sure you break the banks terms of service but you the user willingly gives the login credentials to the third party.
You don't always have that option, rarely does someone say "Hey, I have a plan to steal unlimited amounts of money, do you think we should steal $1M or $100M"

Besides, unless you're already wealthy it's harder to hide the theft of huge sums of money.
I had brain zaps with escitalopram, but not very bad. I went off over the course of 2-3 weeks.
In my view, Apple is not going to take the risk of changing their mind and not implementing this new scanning feature in order to test the hypothesis that you can satisfy both the people who want to stop CSAM and the people who don't want their files scanned. And also, Apple or any other company announcing they will not scan or give up any user data means that criminals, foolish or not, will take notice and start uploading CSAM to their servers. If they get away with it, they've found their new home. That's why regulation against this kind of data exists. Possessing CSAM is still a felony.

Nobody is arguing about the legality of CSAM itself. It's an issue that is not popular to discuss, and of course being on the wrong side of it results in near-universal, justifiable derision. Stopping its spread is absolutely the right thing to do.

So at the point that companies will always be held liable for storing it, they will have to put up countermeasures of some kind or find themselves sued out of existence. Server-side scanning is one method, and Apple's on-device scanning is another.

There are certainly ways that Apple can go too far with whatever it happens to come up with as its solution to stopping CSAM, but there is still seems to have been a line behind which nobody particularly cares how the detection is implemented and life continues as usual. If Apple had chosen not to cross that line, maybe many of the arguments being made here would never have been brought up at all.
A lot of what we call "art" now means just "pleasant picture". I could see AI "art" competing on price with stock pictures and cheap illustrations for throwaway/placeholder usecases, or when uniqueness is preferred.

It's already happening with social media profile pictures for instances. Next up could be the filler artworks in hotel rooms.
It's funny to complain about CSV when JSON is also a minefield: http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php

CSV is fine .. usually
Somehow there are a bunch of competitors to choose from.
I am trying to say it's not possible to tell with certainty from a lowres picture that you are looking at false positive. For example low contrast CSAM imposed on a document could trigger NeuralHash match but the lowres image will look like a false positive.
A lot of the reviews are…suspicious to say the least. Have used DO for ~3 years without any major complaints. There was once a small window of time in which a site I host was down for ~20 mins, but apart from that was robust and good value. No reasons to jump ship here.
I've wondered what it would be like to write a thin language that compiles to Go and mainly serves to introduce a reasonable type system on top, while benefitting from its performance and garbage-collection. Could prevent null dereferencing, among other things
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This works for me:

"Google Search Page" -> Setting (icon, upper right) -> "Dark Theme: Off/On" (Last Entry in the drop down menu)