skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prepaid doesn’t require a social security number. And postpaid plans with poor credit already require a deposit. It’s been like this for decades.
Holy smokes, that is shady and scary.
> This is all hypothetical.

Exactly. However, people don't seem to have an issue when hypothesizing that CSAM detection is good actually, because Apple might implement E2EE, despite no evidence of such intentions.

For some reason, though, people take issue when others hypothesize that CSAM detection is bad actually, because Apple might expand it further and violate users' privacy even more. And there's actually precedent for this hypothesis, given Apple's actions here and their own words[1]:

> This program is ambitious, and protecting children is an important responsibility. These efforts will evolve and expand over time.

[1] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
What about something tedious and ubiquitous, such as swapping between camel and snake case?
the gulf states are a weird place to be. For the most part it really does have a complete fakeness to it. Being there feels exactly like what it is, a bunch of autocratic new money building itself status symbols. However I would call it more 20th century than 21st century, because all the aesthetics are like someone watched to many Western sci-fi movies of the 60s, 70s and 80s like Blade Runner and then decided to build exactly that because it looked cool, weirdly retro-futuristic.

It's also often weird in a way that it tries to blend local and traditional culture with its material excess, but in a way you would expect from someone at the other end of the world who doesn't actually know anything about it.
With the latest expansion, you can spend favors to do it. As Bohemia, I managed to get my heir on the thrones of 4 other countries.
>I bet most people could review that data before the earnings call and guess the movement of the stock enough to make money.

If "most people" could do this, "most people" would.
> Listen, it's fine if people enjoy nonlinear storytelling to make it an "experience" or a canvas with a few straight lines painted on it. But it is stupid, to follow your quote.

Why?

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)

> If you're using devices to make a story more difficult to follow, just for the sake of making it more difficult to follow for the "challenge", then that's stupid.

Why?

Other things use devices to make them more challenging, and this is generally accepted as entertaining. Think harder levels in video games, rules in sports and games etc.

Why should stories be any different?

And it should be noted there are different levels to this. For example, Shakespeare tells one story on the surface, but if that is all you understand then you miss the glory of Shakespeare: his use of literary devices to tell other, hidden stories underneath what you think you are reading.

You seem to be using the word "stupid" to mean something like "non-obvious". That isn't what "stupid" means.
I am really struggling with whether or not this is satire.
I’ve always thought that’s because the stock has already moved before earnings. So the day after earnings is just any other day for the big players.

It’d be interesting to look at correlation of a rolling average with earnings call metrics.
For ages I would just dump json files in a browser and let it auto-pretty print it for a first look.

A while back I discovered https://dadroit.com/ which is small (in feature set) but perfectly formed (nicely designed and extremely fast, even on huge files).
> I started writing a nil pointer

It still boggles my mind that Go decided to force programmers to worry about nil pointers.
> The most egregious example imo was the one banning engraving "8964" (literally just a 4-digit number)

I have not found the full list for EU/USA but I suspect that 1488 might be censored in those regions.

Looking at the other examples it seems to me that in communist states the anti-communist words are censored, and in democratic states, it’s the anti-democratic ones. In the communist state, the state provides the naughty list, while in the democratic states, the demos does, but in the end both systems censor in their own ways the expression of the symbols of the most feared opposition movements
I get a different result "Unicode uses between 8 and 32 bits per character" https://imgur.com/a/hxmrMz3
Presumably the system is novel enough that a very similar proposal which lacked one important insight (using perceptual hashes to turn image similarity problems into set intersection problems) was accepted to USENIX this year: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/presentat...
To be fair, YNAB is rather explicit about how it connects to your accounts and also actively recommends against doing so in favor of manually entering your transactions. My experience with connecting the two is that I still need to manually validate every transaction because on occasion Plaid is either slow or just misses entries entirely.

Also in the case of YNAB, Plaid is not posting transactions on your accounts. It's a screen scraping service transferring account data.
It is rational if the punishment for insider trading stays relatively constant but the benefit increases with money traded - which it probably does.
I'd love to be a privacy purist on this, but the fact is that there is not going to be any going back on CSAM content scanning of images in iCloud.

So either we take this approach, or end up with a worse one, like pure on-cloud scanning with no transparency whatsoever.

I read the technical paper today, and this solution is super clever, well considered, and checks just about every box a crypto-solution-phile would want. I don't know how it gets better than this. (Technical note: Apple's solution on this requires client and server communication to flag an image, which is part of the reason it's totally off if you turn off iCloud Photo).

If this opens the door to Apple offering E2EE on all photos in iCloud (which it could), then this ends up being a big win over the status quo, in my opinion. And even if not, there are far, far worse alternatives.

[Edited for spelling].
>If we suggest that Apple "knows" about CSAM on their network, we must also accept that Apple "knows" about many other crimes in which the devices they are sell are used in the planning and execution of those crimes. Why are they only focused on CSAM if they'd also have legal exposure in these other crimes simply for being a hardware and service provider?

It's not knowledge of a crime. Apple is committing a crime by possessing and distributing CSAM.

>Lastly, to suggest that Apple "conspires" to transmit this content is wholly inaccurate. Conspiracy implies two or more parties are in explicit agreement to commit a crime.

But that is exactly what they're doing. They are agreeing to possess and deliver images of which they know a portion are CSAM.
It’s less about being under qualified, but more like not qualified period, on paper at least. Especially in senior level roles, I don’t see why they wouldn’t just go with someone with more relevant experience, plenty of which I’m sure exist.
For some reason most reviews on trustpilot are negative for pretty much all companies I interact with. I think it's just where people go to complain...
Can/will this be used in Firefox at some point?
Anyone with experience operating on DO want to comment on this? They have great marketing and seem like they offer a nice developer experience, but reviews like this are pretty bad…
This is funny because I absolutely think DO is one of the top 2 "small" cloud infra providers and none of those reviews have changed my mind, maybe I'm struck with a bit of "it wouldn't happen to me" syndrome.

Does anyone have anything good to say about TrustPilot? How does it's business model (and the incentives it produces) differ from Yelp?
It’s the same thing Instagram has been doing for a while now.
How a human looking at low res CSAM matching collision picture that looks "innocent" will be able to tell for sure it is a false positive? Can they know with certainty that it is a false positive and not a manipulated real image? It seems to me that they would have to report these anyway.
This “fee” is just a vendor abusing their position of power,

If you pay me to write code, and you want to run it on your PC, there’s no reason we should be having to pay a third party to allow this.
That being the case, why do it client side at all, when presumably every claim they make is verifiable?
IMO the risk is that the reaction will be viewed amongst the general population as an overreaction, leading to it being ignored on the next go around. Many people are going to listen to what Apple says, look at their piles of technical documentation, see the word CSAM, and conclude that the opposing side is crazy.
Great artists are often misunderstood, many who are misunderstood are not great artists - The Sphinx :-)
Can someone break down this paragraph for me? My reading comprehension is good, but I'm worried I may be reading into this too much:

"The vaccine is still believed to help prevent severe illness in those who do become infected, though some Israeli data suggests the possibility of an increased risk of severe disease among those who received early vaccinations. The number of deaths in Israel has climbed in the past month as the infection rate increased."

Are they subtly broaching the subject of Antibody Dependant Enhancement? Does this paragraph signal that ADE is no longer a conspiracy theory to be out down and instead is now a serious subject worth considering?

The "early vaccinations" and "increased risk of severe disease" in the samesentence is highly concerning, although it lacks a true context.
Which immediately suggests the question, who removed the post? I'm guessing Facebook, and they conveniently omitted that fact from the report, lest it be known that content like this was in the top 20.
Lets not forget Fortnite itself is a blatant copy of PubG. This is nothing new from Epic.
Ten years from now we will read a leaked document stating that US authorities requested FISA Courts warrants (or similar) and made Apple scan for things other than csam. It already happened.
Court orders are easier than hacks once you iron out the legal opinions.
I guess you're talking to me. I'm not arguing for screen scraping. I'm stating my experience as a Canadian that our oligopolies use legislation like this as a way to discourage competition, under the guise of helping users. And they rely on people like you to talk about how great it is that we're all getting a made in Canada open banking solution when what we'll really get is something that makes new entry impossible and locks users in to the big 5 banks. Look at our vibrant telecommunications sector for a similar example.

Edit: I see this is a losing battle, the comments responding to the parent seem to imply that he is championing open banking against a group that disagree with it. And the replies to me think that I don't want open banking. Enjoy your discussion
I imagine at least some of the bad reviews are there because DO serve the absolute bottom end of the market and with that comes a specific kind of difficult customer.
> to, pretending like the corporations are extracting oil and natural gas for the hell of it and not because we're all buying these products to support our lifestyles.

Do you really think it's a coincidence that the products sold to you are not environmentally-friendly/sustainable/whatever? It's not because consumers demand them... Consumers just want something cheap... But consumers aren't paying for externalities upfront... neither are corps... No one pays. Thus, cheaper. You offer two comparable products but one is cheaper - people choose the cheaper one! On top of that, our world and economy is built on these natural resources. Imagine if oil became $0 or $1000/barrel. It'd wreck certain parts of the economy either way - there is a heavy investment and lobbying infrastructure built upon maintaining the status quo.

You really are using the personal responsibility framework to a high extent. Corps are the biggest issue. Most issues of CO2 generators and other such things - people are very happy to use their replacements because there is very little difference in quality of life (sometimes it's even improved). The things people most want that create CO2 and there's no way around it ever are very low contributors to CO2 overall. You could easily wipe out over half of CO2 emissions in USA by just converting everything to renewable energy resources. (electric cars + electricity production + using heat pumps)
Yes, it will be a definite red flag if there is no clear CEO in the company.

However, nothing says these titles have to map in any way to actual responsibilities inside the company. Just make someone CEO on paper, at random if you need to, and disregard the title internally.
Thanks! That's the kind of perspective I was looking for.
I like this one:

> They lost thousands of dollars because they couldn’t reset my password without my dads Photo ID because I used his credit card in the past (we got the same name I’ll show you my ID I just legally can’t talk to my dad so I can’t get that ID or billing info)

Seems like most of them are.. kinda suspicious users.
Why are outlines so expensive? The article assumes we all know.
Seems like there isn't really any substance to most of the negative reviews. I've never used Trustpilot before but after seeing this it doesn't look like something I would rely on.
I’ve had good experience with do for small projects. I have not used it for anything major. There are of course horror stories kicking around for every cloud provider, the medicine for each is just some variant of “have backups outside of that cloud” (except for cost overruns, but dos pricing seems more predictable than some other providers)
Google's Top Engineers Abandons Company, Reveals Big Tech Rewrote Algorithms
You could look at it a dozen different ways, depending on your sense-making framework:

* God did it (makes sense- God does cataclysmic stuff)

* Nature did it (makes sense- biology is a jerk and we haven't mastered it yet)

* Humans did it by mistake (makes sense- we make huge errors all the time)

* etc
Since it’s speculation at this point, I’d say we deal with it if and when it happens. I also don’t see how this doesn’t apply even worse to doing cloud side scanning, like companies otherwise do. Is that out of control? Is there any evidence of that?
Yes. The trend is definitely towards alternate frontends for these services.

Use nitter.net
I used them for small, basic stuff 10 years ago and liked it fine. Not an exciting data point, but one for the pile.
I'm from the UK and can confirm: open banking has massively helped startups. My local credit union now underwrites based on open banking data, I have a neat budgeting app, I can see all my accounts in one place, and best of all, I can approve or revoke credentials at will. Nobody gets anything but read access. It is mind blowing to me that there are people stuck using screen scraping.
Better friends than the people the evening news decides to feature.
Entity trading is not going to obfuscate things that much. If you trade as an entity you probably have to provide an obscene amount of information to your trading platform like who are the stakeholders of the entity and who are the traders.

Not saying that SEC doesn't have sophisticated tools but I think in most cases they don't need that. Their power lies in their regulatory ability to collect personal information of who trades, when and how much.
It sounds like the perl and pain of being a low-cost service provider.

I’m not sure I’ve had a bad interaction with Digital Ocean, and their service offering keeps getting better.

Review sites are certainly where people go to complain, but i’m also very suspicious now a days of people gaming reviews.
Yeah this happened to some political activist recently.
pretty sure they claw it all back, then fine you, then you pay your lawyers, then they maybe throw you in jail.
But wasn't it his friends though? I would imagine they were friends who didn't work there, so how would it find them then?
> The one we have is based on DARPA’s.

I know that. My point is to point out that government funding was not the key to the internet. The two keys to the internet are computers and wires (going back to the telegraphy system).

> Then DARPA contribution was literally to work out how to connect separate networks together into a practical wide area network.

That was also invented several times. They were often called "gateways" at the time.
Taking the other side of this argument for a second..

Doesn't insider trading just move expected profits from the wide and distributed network of people betting on information gathered through personal networks, and towards the concentrated group who can code the fastest trading algorithms?

I would like someone to suggest reasons why we should favour the coders over the people with friends.

I guess a more fundamental difference (in defence of insider trading regulations) could be an insider trade may be able to be put on in larger size, whilst market movements around news events may move the market with lower volumes.
Seems like there are two classes of complaints:

1) People receive spam from Digital Ocean. They run their own mail servers, but can't handle spam, and this is Digital Ocean's problem. (I stopped running my own mail server because of spam, but I don't blame DO for that.)

2) Fraudsters are prevented from signing up. I am sure VPS providers have a ton of people that don't pay for their service, so blocking them at signup time is probably mandatory. From some of the complaints, it sounds like people have their payment declined, DO contacts them, they still don't have money, and then DO cuts them off. That seems totally reasonable to me. I don't think a VPS provider could make money without some sort of strict account termination policy and anti-fraud analysis before signup. It's bad customer service, but if you can't pay your bill, you're a burden, not a customer. Them's the breaks.
I'd be willing to bet they get the entire archive if there's an offending image.
47k vs 1.9M, meaning it's apparently 40x easier to get on one than the other.
IQ and intelligence are related but not equal. If work performance ~ intelligence ~ IQ, I don’t think it’s fair to say literally
I've heard of this, going back a year or two. The sheriff's target the households presented by the algorithms with the intention of fining, arresting, and otherwise legally harassing the targeted families in an attempt to drive them out of town.

Selective enforcement of laws is a problem, and there are plenty of laws to selectively enforce.
Go back to China you un-American piece of shit.
I signed up to Digital Ocean this year for personal use and while I haven't deployed anything to 'production', I have found everything about it to be quite good.

Having said that I am not a paying customer right now.
upvote, just for driving the point home - with parenthesis
Yeah, the write the laws and exempt themselves.
There's no difference between TSV and CSV but the separator, most good libraries allow you to use any character you wish as the separator.

Here's the RFC for CSV - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4180
In fact, my biology teacher taught us the importance of drawings over photographs. It was in the mid-90s, so the point wasn't technical limitations.

That's because a good drawing will show all the important parts but none of the unnecessary details. For example the drawing of a jaw will show every detail of the teeth and bones, but not the background, supports, blemishes and minor damage that are a result of handling and not relevant to the anatomy.

We were taught a few techniques for drawing accurate representations, and after a few hours, even me and my abysmal artistic skills managed to do something decent.

All that to say that with proper training, people could do incredibly accurate representations of what they saw, most likely better than early day photographs.
So a few things. First, I, like many here read your title and took a cursory look at your website, and thought you were literally making an alternative AWS console, which would be a bad idea for many reasons.

But I just looked at your site again, and you're completely misrepresenting yourself by calling yourself an alternative UI for AWS. Youre more like a Kubernetes PaaS on AWS.

There are many similar products, so I don't see a clear differentiation and your product doesn't very clean, but you could maybe possibly have something there.

But your main problem is you're completely mis-selling yourself (or perhaps you're not completely sure what you're building).
At what point does this become clear violation of antitrust?
Wow, I just assumed Plaid was part of some kind of interbank consortium. I can’t believe a service that big can be based on that model. It’s interesting how HF trading can be so cutting edge while consumer banking is 15-20 years behind.
I've been operating a fairly active messageboard off them for nearly 3 years now, so far I've not had a single outage, and their AI abuse system hasn't decided to bestow its wrath on me yet.

I've also hosted about a dozen client sites of varying sizes with them over the last few years, no issues from any of those either.
This.

As others mentioned, the whole point of an effort towards OpenBanking is that services like Plaid literally store your username/password in their system and impersonate you to do whatever they do. Any software dev worth their salt would instinctively know this is a big security no-no, so to have this happen with your banking credentials of all things and on such a large scale seems insane to me.

An effort to implement OpenBanking is akin to working towards Android-style granular permissions instead of just granting root access to any third party who wants to do something on your behalf.
Use fixed width files instead... along with a good old COBOL copybook. Nothing beats parsing fixed width records performance-wise. You can auto-generate staging and persistence tables, ETL jobs and quality control with just the copybook as input.
A lot of religious people I know would just say that god had his reasons and that's good enough. You don't need to understand why, the very core of religion is to believe that god "acts in misterious ways" and if something happened then it's because god wanted it to happen. Maybe those people have sinned. Maybe that's god's way to teach people a lesson. Or maybe it's something entirely else and we just don't know yet - you just need to trust that god knows what they are doing.

Really, it's as deep/shallow as this, not much else to it.
Why does anyone even assume that a bad actor would need to apply pressure?

These databases are unauditable by design -- all they'd need to do is hand Apple their own database of "CSAM fingerprints collected by our own local law enforcement that are more relevant in this region" (filled with political images of course), and ask Apple to apply their standard CSAM reporting rules.

That's it... Tyranny complete.
I run a small site with them and I have nothing to complain. It's cheap and easy.

I have some experience with the Oracle cloud and I find it unnecessarily complicated (as all things Oracle tend to be).
I wouldn't call it a blatant copy. It brought quite a few new mechanics to the genre that PubG did not have (which is what the Among Us Devs wished Fortnite would have done in imposters).

If you are talking about the BR genre, PubG is not the first to develop a Battle Royale game.
How would they know it is a false positive and not a CSAM image concealed in a document image that NeuralHash was able to "see"? It will be impossible to tell from a lowres picture with certainty.
> this twitter person

Randall Munro illustrated several of his tweets with drawings from his not-entirely-unknown Web comic, so having to resort to a phrase like "this twitter person" feels rather weird.