skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Storj Labs Inc. will also make available, monthly, a "warrant canary" in the form of a cryptographically signed
message containing the following:

>- a declaration that, up to that point, no warrants have been served, nor have any searches or seizures
taken place

>- a cut and paste headline from a major news source, establishing date

>Special note should be taken if these messages ever cease being updated, or are removed from this page.

>The current message is here:

...and then it goes blank.
has anyone tried HybridAuth for php? it seems like they support over 40 authentication providers [0]

[0] https://hybridauth.github.io/providers.html
>>SW still doesn't have an automated system that "heals" the route network

They do, it is commercial program from the 90's they have customized, when more than 300 cancellations hit that system it fell over and could not recover. It also requires human operators to read the crew changes over the telephone so every crew member has to call into a call center to get new assignments. No online portal or mobile app.
You may well be right. Personally, I dislike writing python because it lacks static types and all too often I end up triggering runtime exceptions, especially when integrating with third-party code. Do you suppose scientists/etc are more tolerant of runtime errors, at least while writing the code?
Not tested, but should be predictable. Each instrinsic maps to one instruction. Instruction latencies according to uops.info:

vmovdqa64 zmm, m512 ; latency<=12
vpbroadcastq zmm, r64 ; latency<=5
vpcmpeqq k, zmm, zmm ; latency=3
kmovb r32, k ; latency<=3

The code is branchless. It will take the same number of cycles regardless of input. This is why it is `maybe_faster`. The faster version from the article may be faster for http/https because of short-circuiting behavior, but it would be slower for other protocols due to multiple branching.

Aside from having greater throughput per instruction, being branchless means you will not have any branch prediction misses which negatively affect performance.

The vectorized version would be a significant improvement if there are many (more than 6) small strings to compare, but for this example the difference is probably minor.
From someone who doesn’t share the same religion, this really comes off as you telling me we need to treat your story better than other stories. If I was amenable to that argument I likely would already be an adherent of your religion. As I’m not they’re both on the same category for me.
Some banks will let you create new accounts through their mobile app or online banking app. Even for new customers (some banks have no physical presence).

And most banks that I'm aware of will let existing customers create new accounts with distinct routing/account numbers online.
Amongst other complications, this seems like a great example of where decentralisation / extreme techno-libertarianism greatly falls short. Creating a government-less financial system is enabling corruption in an instance when traditional finance would likely do quite well in freezing assets of an alleged criminal.
The first interesting thing I'm told is that real biological neurons operate as booleans in the real world, whereas in computer land I'm told it is preferable to use float neurons. I suppose that you could chain biology neurons together in groups to achieve float-like behavior.

So that's just one small example that we don't need AGI to be a model of the real human brain, with synapses and blood-brain barriers and everything. Rather, we just need one system to do n number of tasks at roughly the same level as a human for it to be "general". Maybe it's not AGI, but it also is not a hardcoded robotic arm that can only work with square objects of a certain dimension.

If you had a robot that was pretrained in a virtual world, assembled in the real world, and then it begins testing and observing and resolving its own physical capabilities (moving arms and legs to stand and jump and backflip)... and then it also had a vision system to scan for threats and objectives... and then it also could resolve text and voice prompts to learn its next objective ("go get my favorite beer can from the fridge")... and the robot knows to ask you more questions to learn what your favorite beer is and also it knows how to preserve its own life in case the dog attacks it or the fridge topples over on it... then I think you have an extremely useful tool that will change the world, regardless of if it is labeled as AGI or not.
And that your allocation isn’t at the end of a page.
There must be some level of something to the idea that you can't be ordered to commit a crime, and so can't be ordered to lie, aka fraud, perjury, etc.
Tangential: check out FreshRSS (https://www.freshrss.org/), a self-hosted RSS reader.
I think he had two cons going on at the same time. The article doens't make it very clear but he also programmed their checkout page to direct shipping fees to his bank account instead of the companies. That is the reference to Office Space.
If it was a glitch, I'd expect that they'd have fixed it by now to avoid the implications and potentially lose customers over it. Surely over the course of the month+ that it's been missing, they would have noticed it or had it brought to their attention?
> I really wonder if most people are just worthlessly incompetent at forms of communication other than face-to-face interactions.

I think a large number of people are worthlessly incompetent at communicating effectively period. Face-to-face is what most humans are good at, so if you are bad at that, you will usually be even worse at other forms
If you read the judgement, it simply turned on the application of standard Virginia product liability law - nothing in the case turned on what category of product an EHR is.

As far as I am aware, Virginia product liability law does not treat medical devices specially - they are subject to the same fundamental principles as any other product. Can you cite any sources to the contrary?
If I had a personal servant I wouldn’t be in the store in the first place.
I’d argue distortion isn’t the ideal word. We are in a tough situation and strong narrative framing is needed to get through it. One narrative is different than another. It’s not so useful to call one distorted and the other not. Rather, which is more productive?
The only thing that allowed this in the first place is counterparty risk, the very problem that bitcoin actually solves. People will have to learn this the hard way, unfortunately.
just make a function at that point??
> The injunction against removing it wouldn't compel them to update it, though, right?

In the US the government can take over parts of your facility, and that could mean installing whatever equipment they want or even setting up camp and running ongoing operations on location. They'd have no problem updating the canary of a company who refused to keep doing it themselves.

I doubt most business owners would risk losing everything on top of prison time though. The best we can probably hope for is that they'd decide to simply close shop like these guys did: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/lavabit-encrypted-emai...
We had been driving this country on fear and ignorance for a long time before that. You might be recalling a brief period of post Cold War dotcom boom, but even that was marked by a deep divisiveness fomented by the 24 hour news cycle and a disdain for bipartisanship.

The TSA is the result of a brief moment of unity where we decided we feared someone else more than each other. Eliminating it might save money and simplify travel, but it won't touch the fear and ignorance.

Whatever optimism we had died during Vietnam, if not long before that.
Judges in the United States also don't like compelling speech. So compelling a private entity to repeatedly update a warrant canary is unlikely to be legal.

I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that this is the stated legal opinion of the lawyers at the EFF.
Premium card users are also subsidized by basic card users.
Imagine you are a 5 year old child, and the judge is your parent. You think that this argument would work for them?

Trying to logic bomb your way out of this is just asking for a summary judgement against you. It doesn't matter if it's not logically consistent, most rulings aren't! They will simply ignore this argument.

The counter to the "compelled speech" argument is that the government is not the one that forced you to start doing warrant canaries! You started doing warrant canaries, the gov't wouldn't ask for a remedy of you putting up continued canaries. You put the onus on lying on yourself, and if you don't do it you'll just be charged with revealing the facts.

Government demanding you to compel speech is not what would happen.
That also loses line breaks, as well as requiring significantly more steps for a single copy-paste.
It’s a full moon tonight SBF— can’t miss it!
Revolut and Monzo do virtual debit cards. They're pretty handy to have, and have helped me dodge spurious charges in the past.
Higher education really is failing everyone these days
> They really have no incentive to do so.

Other than, you know, doing the entire thing they are designed to do. Some people do, in fact, care about civil liberties.
That’s a great point, I agree.
Thanks for the extra details!

> I am curious when the day will come when phishers spoof the oAuth though.

Not sure what you mean by this?
> It's always felt like engineers thinking they're outsmarting a much more mature legal system with humans built-in to slap away foolish gotchas.

And then the engineers, unsatisfied with the messy world of human intervention, create a system without humans, where the "code is the contract" (ethereum). Then rapidly abandon that tenet at the first inconvenience and return to human discretion (DAO fork).
The Magic of mRNA Will Push Medical Advances for Everyone
Many companies even use third-party support staff, per ProPublica. It's outsourcing and penny-pinching all the way down, and the people getting screwed are the customers and the employees.

https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-customer-service...
It's not a 'logic bomb'. US law sets a high bar for prior restraint, an even higher one for compelled speech, and has never compelled false speech as far as I'm aware.

And no, most rulings are, in fact, logically consistent.
Mummy – web server written in Nim that returns to the ancient ways of threads
How does a Web request happen.
Warrant canaries need restated and re-signed regularly, daily in this case. That is what makes them canaries as opposed to something like a transparency report.

The government probably can NOT compel you to re-sign and update an expired canary, at least according to the lawyers at the EFF.
> "manufactured by robots from local resources or asteroid mining."

I feel like this just creates the new problems of operating, powering, and maintaining the robots, plus all the difficulties associated with mining asteroids and refining the mined materials somewhere (presumably somewhere that's not Earth's surface, which means we still need to generate power somewhere off Earth for this to work).
I dislike the phrasing here. The proper design of a warrant canary is to actively publish new messages on some time period. No one should have actively pulled the canary, they just didn't publish a new message.

This distinction, from my understanding, is important for legal reasons.
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After the Musk transaction completed, at $44 Billion, they had a $19.66 Billion stake. That comes out to 44%. Ignoring the fact that even if they had only $100 million, they would've had just as much access to financial data as Elon himself, I guarantee at a 44% stake they had very intimate details of the financial health of Twitter before the transaction and still do after the transaction
+1 for cleaning as you go while cooking.

When my wife cooks, the kitchen looks like a crime scene when she's done.

It's cleaner than when I started when I cook.
Interesting. I’m GBA too. What are our roads made of?
Well here's a metric that's getting worse.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/219643/gini-coefficient-...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/US_Gini_...
Now I'm raging because I can't remember the name of it, but there is a theory claiming that generations are cyclical with 4 different cohorts, from the heros to the lazy, and etc. I'm sure someone here will no what I'm vaguely talking about :)

Edit: Strauss–Howe generational theory
Everyone is an "alleged criminal" until proven guilty in a court of law.

Systems that enable the freezing of assets of alleged criminals are fail-deadly, because they enable universal systemwide veto of any participant or transaction by whoever can exercise the ability to freeze funds.

If you don't like fail-safe systems like cryptocurrency, you can of course keep your money in a normal, regulated bank, where it is "safe" (except from point-and-click seizure, civil asset forfeiture, bank errors, bank discretion, unfounded/imaginary tax warrants, malicious prosecution, etc).
Back when more people smoked you'd see smokers congregate and chat while smoking, often smoke breaks would be coordinated. It still happens, but less often because fewer smoke, especially in professional environments.

That said it's pretty rare I ever see a single smoker off by themselves, unless they've gone out of their way to be alone.
Tell HN: Google Cloud lets anyone add you to a project without your permission
Recently, a company in Kenya (which I have never heard or nor have any association with) added me to their Google Cloud project without my permission. At first, I thought I had mistakenly accepted an invite to their project. However, I swore that wasn’t the case. To test my theory, I tried creating an empty project and invited my other Google account to it. I discovered that Google Cloud lets you add ANY individual or company email (even at companies you aren't affiliated with) to a project without getting their permission or notifying them. Google doesn’t even send an email asking you to accept the invitation. It just adds you automatically without telling you. The end result is you can quite literally just type in any Google Cloud account (including accounts at companies you don't work at) and associate it with your project without them ever knowing.

The worst part is that you can’t leave the project after you’re added. Google requires the project owner remove you. They provide no way to remove yourself. I’ve tried contacting the company that added me but they’ve not responded to my requests.

I also tried contacting Google support and they’ve been less than helpful. At first, they thought that my account was hacked. I pointed out that this was not due to a hack, but due to Google’s faulty invite system. They responded back and said they didn’t see any association between my email and the project. So they listed the case as resolved and said they couldn’t discuss any further details about the project. This is despite the fact the unwanted project still appears on my GCP dashboard. I suspect they didn’t see any association because they were just checking the projects owned by my account and not checking projects I’ve been added to.

This whole situation seems like a recipe for unwanted spam since you can be added to projects without permission and can’t ever remove yourself. My biggest fear is if that company uses the project to do something malicious then my account might be banned by association. This could also be used in other ways. E.G. you could flood a competing startup's cloud dashboard with hundreds of bogus projects. You could even use it to get someone in trouble by adding them to a project that's doing illegal stuff (e.g. hosting illegal content). If this was limited to adding people within your GCP/GSuite this would be a minor issue because I doubt your coworker is going to use GCP to spam you / get you in trouble. However, the ability to add anyone and everyone outside of your GCP/GSuite makes this a huge issue in terms of spam / safety. Overall, this is a major oversight on Google’s side and is a huge security, privacy, and spam risk.

To date, I’ve still been unable to get any help from Google to resolve this issue. If there’s any Googlers willing to help, I would be extremely grateful.
What is the justification for being able to change the terms after the votes have taken place?
Some of the loans are backed by Tesla stock and have triggers to require Musk to turn over the collateral if its (TSLA) value drops below a certain number. I recall seeing that number being $100/share
I would take odds that the current supreme court would rule the government forcing you to continue to publish the canary was compelled speech in violation of the 1st amendment.

NSL are already on shaky legal ground in the first place with a good part of the court looking for ways to curb them. Which is why when push comes to shove the government often drops challenges to their authority instead of allowing it to get up to the Supreme Court.

They, like common thugs, exist because of the threat and the fact that most people lack the resources to fight them so they just give in
FSD was offered as an upgrade to EA(Enhanced Autopilot) in 2016.[1] The driver in the comment explained that he has a 2018 model and he was discussing his experience with FSD on a road trip that occurred in August through October of this year.

>"Enhanced Autopilot(EA) was announced later in 2016 as an extra-cost option that used a new hardware suite developed by Tesla; the key distinguishing feature for EA, "Navigate on Autopilot", which uses the new hardware suite to guide the vehicle on controlled-access roads, from on-ramp to off-ramp, was delayed until 2018. At the same time that EA was introduced, Tesla also offered Full Self-Driving(FSD) as an upgrade option to EA in 2016, which would extend machine-guided driving capabilities to local roads.[21] FSD beta testing started in October 2020."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Autopilot
If compelling this speech is a First Amendment violation, wouldn't the prohibition on outright saying you got the warrant also be a First Amendment violation?
Forgive my oversimplification - the financial system has many more methods than just freezing though. Tracking, reversing, and limiting international movements come to mind.

My point is that while I agree with the risks you imply with traditional finance, the crypto we have today has not fixed the issues in traditional finance and has introduced many new ones. Hard to calculate but it feels like a net loss in my book.

Feels like a far cry from the “fail safe” you mention. Yeah it’s a fail safe from a government intervening in your financial affairs, but it’s also a fail safe from them protecting you by intervening in others. It’s the opposite of collective action. It’s every human for themself. This is not an improvement.
Well drywalls are pre-cut plaster blocks in a standard sized steel frame. It’s already pretty close to replaceable panels when you think about it. You then mud and paint for it to look good.
The Pros/Cons of Vaccines is a topic ripe for discussion as the debate in the past year and a half showed. Between walking the ever-lasting fine line between eradicating diseases like Malaria, and not indoctrinating humans, messing our biology, and playing God- it is going to be a heated topic in the coming years.

Archived link: https://archive.vn/wZA8u
Concrete case: you are the owner of an encrypted chat app, let's say "WhatsSignalGram".

Tomorrow, the government is asking you to capture messages of some users that are planning a terrorist attack.

By default your app is not capturing these messages, but technically you could do it with a specific update.
The lawyers already challenged the decision, they confirmed the request cannot be avoided.

You end up pushing a backdoor targeting specific users ("a law enforcement custom update").

Court is explicitly asking you to not disclose the existence of this special update.

As a business owner, why would you reveal it ?

You'll go to jail (or struggle in court at least) for few years, have a horrible reputation and end up poor because your company is going to lose all its user base :/

This sounds like an insane decision.

The users, upon learning you got backdoored are going to go away, because the competitors "Telegram", "WhatsApp", etc, they will not have removed their canary or they will simply not have claimed anything :)

Perhaps on paper the law cannot force you, but if you don't comply you are cutting the branch you are sitting on.

The alternative is just to leave the warrant canary and live happily after.

Perhaps you even made the world better after all and actually prevented an attack.
Maybe people simply have different spending habits.
Personally I try to stay away from "pay as you go" businesses. Moreover, I try to pay for the year upfront if I can help it.

Purely psycologicaly I think it's an attempt to take control of your future, you know? Reducing uncertainty is more valuable then many things...
"The best way to predict the future is to make it" and all that.

Like, if I'm not sure whether I'll need it and how much of it I'll need, there is something wrong and I'm not gonna buy it at all.
That had nothing to do with plumbers.

They stink (and solutions to stop them stinking don’t work reliably), and they plug up plumbing with crystalized urine unless you also do things that don’t work reliably.

shrug
I evaluated this a while back. Cool idea but limited application in a corporate environment. But for personal use, why not?

Someone needs to open a document for the canary token to trigger. Even the smallest company with M365 gets MSIP (formerly Azure Information Protection), if you classify your docs right, only people who own or have been shared the document can decrypt it and even without a good classification, you get logs of any M365 document being opened, so why can't I just have a regular but public doc everywhere and monitor when it gets opened from external IPs, user agents,etc....

I struggled to show value for this. Honehashes are more interesting for me: https://github.com/EmpireProject/Empire/blob/master/data/mod...
> Imagine you are a 5 year old child, and the judge is your parent. You think that this argument would work for them?

Parents aren't bound by the US constitution.
I've found the quality of my inputs to be extremely important if I want to sustain any sort of writing habit. It's hard for me to write frequently if I'm not reading frequently. It almost has to be books, not necessarily related to the sort of things I write, but it's like the act of reading plants seeds for new thoughts and ideas that eventually grow and form into text.
That’s funny. Do you have kids? That picture is quite cute but reality is different.
For the shower I have a slate with a pencil, intended for scuba divers. Works great.
It's 61%, a waxing gibbous moon. The full moon is on the 6th. Maybe that's the problem. Superstition is a harsh mistress.
It depends on what the subject is.

Keeping it as simple as possible, we take Fact A. If we're talking about a specific fact (in this case, Fact A) then to state Fact A and assert its validity/soundness/truth etc is not to lie.

If the subject is not Fact A, but Fact A is is given to support a certain other position/fact with regards to the subject and you know that to say Fact A without Fact B (C, D…) will give a misleading impression about the subject then you are, indeed, lying.
Nice. Perfect for QA. Will give it a go!
HoneyHash
I trust you are aware that a very very small portion of aviation fuel burned is leaded (mostly just small general aviation aircraft)
My system is to inspect the dining table and kitchen 30 minutes after dinner, and if it's not all clean, the kids lose computer time. LOL.