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Let's establish here that this is reputation and possibly life-ending defamation. The man became suicidal after all.

If I were to write a book with such a claim about you, completely made up, and you'd report this to the book store. Then yes, I very much expect the book store to remove the book. Nobody needs to sue anybody, this only happened as Google could not make up its mind.

Which means that even if you believe they have no responsibility, they're still in the wrong. You can't remove it 5 times and keep letting it resurface. Take a stance and stick with it.
Government investigations pursue lots of avenues unlikely to be fruitful. It's basic due diligence to check all the boxes; you don't say "standard procedure is to issue a warrant, but we'll make an exception to our process in this case because their website suggests it won't get any data, plus they hired an auditor."
> I'm a paying customer, yet I have never given them any PII.

By nature, every VPN gets at least the IP you are connecting from and the IPs (and almost always also hostnames) you are connecting to. I'd consider that PII.
> You probably don't believe a library or book store should be sued if they sell a book with defamatory content

I do, but the deeper question is why don't you?

If there were lies written about you, verifiable, provable lies, then you don't feel like you have the right to ask the library to remove that book?
> It’s 2023 - if a VPN is how you’re doing your privacy you’re probably doing it wrong.

I'm honestly interested, how could one 'do privacy' the right way then?
That could all change in a few months. We saw locally runnable, open source image generation catch up quick.
Can someone share any relevant experience with this? Best would be if you did it properly under supervision of clinical professional, or if you are a professional here, by any chance. Doesn’t matter if it’s US or not.
I love the solvespace ui, yes it's weird and different but it works well and is internally consistent, except when a gtk dialog jumps out at you, that is jarring and breaks the flow.

I guess my point is. the obviously gtk bits of solvespace are it's worst parts, if I were a better ui programmer one of my goals would be to get rid of all the modal windows in solvespace, make them in line and operate like the rest of the native widgets.
ah yes, notoriously-anonymous physical mail
Which still is by all means a externalized watchdog, which in addition is deactivated, if its not properly implemented and still working. So the philosophy itself is brokken by the programers and the users are used as sensor to find out wether the program executed properly.

A proper implementation would be, that windows for example during the installation could "starve" the process in a API or somewhere else into a internal timeout and expect that error to come up, to proof worthiness.
"Above this altitude is known as the 'death zone', because there isn't enough oxygen for human life."

whooper swan casually floats by
> but there's always a chance they might be recording some data or lying.

As mentioned in another comment, at least they would have to be lying + the external companies who've done the third-party audits would have to be lying too (including companies like Cure53).
If you take a lift to a distance of 100 km and drop it, it will fall immediately reaching the ground in less than 10 minutes. Gravity remains strong.

Satellites and space stations are always in free fall. The thing that keeps them in "space" is the velocity with which they were originally launched to orbit the Earth as centripetal force becomes the weight of the satellite, which slows down such falling process. Seeing it with cold eyes, they employ all the energy at a first for to lift the weight of that falling object.

If a geostationary satellite has to stay over the same region of the planet, it has to be sent much much far away, until its orbital velocity become synchronized with the Earth's rotation. And even like that, keeps being in free fall due Earth's gravity.

I mean, what we see in cartoons or sci-movies about to send a rocket absolutely vertical and cut engines, or a spaceship joining over a planet and conserve the same orbital position, could be done only with anti-gravitational engines. A small liquid fuel could not maintain them in place.
> Hungarian notation but as a suffix

Yeah, but only when it adds to the readability. I avoid mentioning Hungarian notation because I don't like it either. I think many criticisms still apply, so I suggest the use case before, where you have the same data passing through multiple types. There may be other good use cases, but I am not sure what those are. This is why my general rule, is "most important words first", I think that technically covers this use case.
Tourism is just a story.

Upper/cermonial classes exlst all over the world.

Conspicious consumption and conspicuous leisure serve a purpose - you want to be like me then do what I say. Its a method of control.
The original “pre-training” Is what’s expensive. The “fine-tuning” (also training that it modifies network weights) for instruction following or other tasks costs the thousand dollar range.
Show HN: 'Get Even' mini number game
A sibling to "Find The Prime".

Find the hidden number "2" by clicking on the tiles to reveal what's behind.

To fill the tile grid, we give each row and column a unique random integer in the range 1–7. We add the numbers and take off one, then find that entry in the list of prime numbers (2,3,5,7,11,...).

For example, a tile with indexes (3,4) hides the 3 + 4 - 1 = 6th prime, i.e. 13.

These might be fun for young mathematicians.
You'd need every government to agree not to peer with them, otherwise you'd just route to whoever has agreed to peer. You might get shit latency, but it'd still work.

Getting everyone to agree not to peer seems like a rather tall order.
setup a free tier then a $40-$200 tier and enterprise.

the free tier is your marketing costs.

the $40-$200 pays for the free tier. so if 5%-10% move up to paid tier then figure out what $2-$10 your cost is use that as your free tier.

the enterprise is where the money is and that's all negotiation. and in the beginning the answer is yes as long as it's bringing in money.
None? Any VPN provider _will_ be subject to law enforcement in their jurisdiction.
- "If you are against the ruling in this case, are you also opposed to DMCA takedowns?"

Yes, and yes; and triply-yes if it's a DMCA theory that alleges that linking to a page containing allegedly infringing material also constitutes infringement.
I hope it's good enough to finally ditch 1Password.
In case you hadn’t seen this story, which I believe fits a similar bill, here is the case of the Cyberbunker. This took place in the Netherlands.

Darknet Diaries has an (excellent, as always) episode about it. If it wasn’t that podcast it might have been Malicious Life.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/the-cold-war-b...
I should clarify. Since I was at the airport, I compared it to Best Buy's ONLINE price, not the store price. My mistake, it didn't occur to me that those might be different, but it does speak well for the vending machines!
They also have vouchers you can buy from Amazon, which I find a nice alternative to sending cash in an envelope.
This makes sense since they are leasing domain names to you and not selling them to you.

You don’t own your Domain on the ICANN internet - and yes, that sucks.
This is an often repeated myth, from the creator:

>"Yes I did" [create it for Reddit] There's some conspiracy theory going around that I actually created it for Digg. So, here's what happened. I posted it on Reddit, Digg, and a couple forums that I frequent at the same time. The server actually ended up going down and the Reddit post got spammed with "It doesn't work!!". So, I deleted the thread, corrected the problems, and posted it again the next day. I didn't bother deleting the Digg thread; that's why it has a timestamp one day before the Reddit one. I'll try to update this with links to whatever proof I have, but I don't have time right now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9tlwi/im_the_imgur_gu...
> Once again this shows the huge disconnect between the government authorities and the tech industry.

Authorities have to follow their process and collect evidence, or document the absence of discovered evidence. They can’t simply read the website, shrug their shoulders, and decide not to investigate a key part of a criminal case because the website says the company won’t have the data.

They are obligated to explore the possibility of data existing and to document the fact that it could not be found. Assuming the evidence doesn’t exist isn’t an option. They have to document it.

I know Mullvad is generally trusted by the community, but you also have to remember that several VPN companies have claimed to not keep logs but were later found to have data useful to criminal cases.

I think the real disconnect is in the comments from people who think this is the government being dumb. They’re not, they’re just doing their job correctly.
Uncritical support of the government court system boot is less sane than defending a search engine resisting censorship

Also, what about the rights of its other citizens to get information?
This trend has been previously described as "enshittification":
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/

HN thread on the above article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34480479
It's because the Soviet Union defeated the Nazis, resulting in very strong communist influence during the reconstruction era.
Tumblr tried that. No NSFW voluntary tagging nor automated detection is ever perfect, so many advertisers treat it as all-or-nothing.
If I'd been trying to get Google to do something for 15 years and they kept undoing it I'd believe Google wasn't acting in good faith either.
As others have said, scheduling no-fly zones on multiple locations (Starship will crash land near Hawaii), but also things like "we only have so much super chilled liquid oxygen and it's going to be boiling off".

Tim Dodd's stream said a few minutes ago that once they get within 45 minutes of launch, they are either launching today or not for two more days, because by that point if you try to unload all the fuel and oxygen too much boils away and you need to bring in truckloads of it more for the next attempt.

Space is hard.
I used GNU make to manage a data pipeline with a large number of (mostly Python) scripts written by a team. It had to process lots of data using many steps.

Make worked very well for this use case. It easily auto-generated dependencies, ran tests, and supported parallel execution. In a tiny fraction of a second it determined what needed to be done, and only did that.

We created a small collection that we released as open source software. You can get it here:
https://github.com/david-a-wheeler/make-booster

I think a lot of hate on make is due to poor use. If your makefile is complex, refactor it. Auto-generate dependencies (it only takes a few lines in GNU make). And don't use recursive make, that way lies madness. I also think GNU make is the wiser tool; POSIX make lacks too much in many cases.
Maybe not in the US.

> We argued they had no reason to expect to find what they were looking for and any seizures would therefore be illegal under Swedish law.

If this line is to be believed then the police would have been committing a crime by proceeding.
No, a MK Ultra reboot.
1. You apologize for your actions, not for the way they were taken. "I'm sorry for what I did", instead of "I'm sorry for how you interpreted what I said".

2. You don't belittle the feelings of others using words like "I'm sorry my rallying cry seemed insensitive" instead of "I'm sorry that my rallying cry was insensitive".

3. You attempt to make amends.
> it is important to consider the potential harm caused by certain links, such as revenge pornography, which can be extremely damaging to individuals.

Information does not cause damage, people do. Surely the onus must be on the people who use the information to cause damage? For example, those in the article who chose to not do business with the Montrealer because of the invalid information they leveraged. They caused the damage claimed in court. Why is Google responsible for their poor judgement?

> are you also opposed to DMCA takedowns?

If you stand by takedowns, why prefer removal of a link over the source material? Surely once the actual content goes away so too will the link? If the content is still out there, it will still be found, if not by Google, by some other means.
At some point when stymied in my career I thought of getting an MBA. I plunked down (while pulling shifts in an exhausting job) with a 20 dollar GMAT prep book and studied for three months. Got 760 out of 800, first try. No fancy tutoring.
This after in high school I never got high grades, because I learn best independently.
This in a sense is the American model, which believes in redemption at any stage. The SAT, GMAT, etc are a great meritocratic leveler.
The European model rarely includes such tests, preferring a much more conformist system which prioritizes early tracking.

I didn't go for the MBA in the end, mainly because it was not really my dream.

The main drawback of the US system is that the main limiter is financial, rather than social.
So you’re suggesting that law enforcement take someone at their word?

I understand that some people are more less clued in than others, but your snarkiness really misplaced.

The VPN industry is notoriously shady, and that’s not just code for “fights for users’ rights against law enforcement”.
Why dbt Labs acquired Transform
I agree.

It's like instruct = Gain cosistentcy, lose creativity.
Base = No consistency (really), but creative.

Could a model be trained or positioned to be in the middle of these two?
"lawfully gained at the time".

So, theft under color of law.
Google isn’t able to censor the Internet. They could remove all links to anything Microsoft, MS would still be on the Internet.

If you truly believe that delisting someone is “censoring the Internet” then they’re also censoring me when they don’t list my homepage on queries for “very cool dudes.”
My qualms with:
Windows: - Still relatively-susceptible to malware (these days ransomware is the main concern). - Windows 10 and 11 have ads and lots of tracking ("if it's free, you're the product!"). - It likes to restart to install updates without my permission. Always get bitten by running VMs on a Windows computer (excluding Windows Server of course).
macOS: - Doesn't support DisplayPort daisy-chaining at all. - Expect UI bugs starting with OS X 10.10 Yosemite when they started rewriting Objective-C code in Swift. - "most advanced operating system in the world" but can't adjust volume of speakers on external displays (brightness too). - No NVIDIA support, which means no CUDA support, so anyone who needs CUDA will be SSH'ing into a Linux box with an NVIDIA GPU attached to it. Almost forgot! macOS does not support display scaling AT ALL on 1440p monitors. They used to, when their displays were literally 1440p, but now it’s 4K or bust. You used to be able to mod a conf to enable it anyway, but that only works with Intel based Macs.
Linux: - Probably my most-frustrating point is that "everyone" talks about how "rock-solid" and great their Linux experience is when that has NEVER been the case for me in 13 years of regularly using desktop and server linux distros. - Proton makes running Windows/DirectX games on Linux a breeze, and I do agree. It's a step in the right direction and it looks like many games "just work"... of course the one game I play (Dead By Daylight) doesn't work... although this seems to be on the developer of the game, rather than Proton or Linux. - Font smoothing. Last I read, you have to do a bunch of things to get basic font-smoothing (e.g. ClearType on Windows). Less of an issue now that I have a 4K display, but I am surprised the big DEs like GNOME and KDE never seemed to integrate it. Maybe I am missing something with how difficult it might be? - Random stupid stuff. Lately it's that Debian and Debian-based distros are packaging Python packages that do not follow PIP naming guidelines, which breaks installing other Python packages globally. You can get around it with a Python virtual env, which you should probably be using anyway, but I consider it a massive oversight that this was allowed to happen. You get PLENTY of notice before a PIP goes from "proposal" to "this will break your shit". - I feel like so much dev time is spent making distros, which is a lot of wasted effort. The value of having "niche-but-popular" distros like MX Linux, Manjaro and EndeavourOS seems very low versus getting something like font-smoothing standardized. I realize those are two different "focus areas" though. - Of course I have to mention the lack of native app support. Adobe CC, MS Office, little companion apps for hardware like mice, keyboards, etc.
Show HN: Lade – automatically load secrets from your preferred vault as env vars
Hey,

I have created Lade to help me manage the secrets from different vaults with - hopefully - a greater user experience than the current approaches.

Based on the shell command you are submitting, Lade will fetch the required secrets from Infisical, 1Password, Vault or Doppler and inject them in the environment variables with your desired name. It will also clear them once the command is over to avoid any leak. It is especially powerful with Terraform where you need to prefix some secrets or when you need to share those secrets "dependencies" with other teammates.

Currently, Lade acts like a wrapper of the CLIs, and I wait on having more feedback before switching to the "native" APIs. I am curious to hear what you think and see whether it might be useful for you.

Feedback warmly welcomed on https://github.com/zifeo/lade.
I didn't vote for that. I just wanna live and let live.
Earlier Supply Chain Attack Led to 3CX Intrusion
I mean, just don't put a return address on it, and drop it off in a random post office box.
I might be nitpicking but this seems false - there are 2 pairs.

1. pair:
m = 2
n = 4

2. pair:
m = 4
n = 2

In this context (named values n,m) order does seem to matter.
Haha so a......grandfather.... clause?
SCITT is still nascent. Sigstore is operating and in use by multiple ecosystems. On the principle of "rough consensus and running code", SCITT is not the leader.

> and logs it in Google's provided append only log

This is false. The entire sigstore effort is under the OpenSSF and the production systems are operated by volunteers from multiple companies.
I was just thinking that if this was in the US then the law enforcement officers would have gone "smash and grab" on the company property anyways.
data retention laws have already been proposed, if not even enacted in some EU countries.
Police got a warrant and went to service it, Mullvad explained why it was pointless, police agreed and left without further incident. It's not "a huge disconnect", it's the system working exactly as I'd hope for.