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601.
by chaps 3y ago
Hmmm. Personally when the non-disambiguated wikipedia page of a specific word starts with, "$WORD is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labor." and includes a photo of a physically mutilated othe
602.
by chaps 3y ago
Maybe don't casually call something slavery when it clearly isn't.
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by chaps 3y ago
Palantir offers a LOT of services to government orgs. So it's probably something akin to packaging more than one product in one.
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by chaps 3y ago
My theory's that it's to ensure backwards compatibility with ooooold hosts.
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by chaps 3y ago
Yes, it is a very useful tool. Used to do very similar when I worked as a sysadmin in larger infrastructures that largely get managed over ssh. A surprisingly large number of infrastructures have keys setup for individual sysadmins across a
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by chaps 3y ago
"does the job perfectly" Um. I work with PDFs a LOT and.. nah PDFtk is pretty weak. It doesn't even do OCR! This looks like a wonderful tool that solves a lot of problems that existing tools don't typically put together.
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by chaps 3y ago
Words are weird, aren't they.
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by chaps 3y ago
The article is about "semi-autonomous", not "autonomous" driving. And looking up the history of driving automation, where "semi-autonomous" was a car driving on a track -- yeah, sounds about right and fully wit
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by chaps 3y ago
It makes more sense if you think about it as, "it's in the last state that you put it in, and from here its state is up to it.".
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by chaps 3y ago
Difference is that what the author wrote is a fair bit more portable since it doesn't require the use of a separate terminal xlient. Sure, konsole is lightweight and relatively portable, but doing it in a shell this way would work rega
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by chaps 3y ago
"Human Rights Watch solicited cases of any type of online censorship and of any type of viewpoint related to Israel and Palestine. Of the 1,050 cases reviewed for this report, 1,049 cases documented involved examples of online censorsh
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by chaps 3y ago
To be honest it's a strange thing to rot13. I get why OP did it, but I'm really not sure the benefit outweighs the negatives or that it accomplished what it was supposed to. Those aren't exactly spoilers in the same way as vi
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by chaps 3y ago
I think of "technical debt" in the same way that I do construction scaffolding: it's essential, but if you focus only on your scaffolding then you won't build the building you're trying to build. If you never take t
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by chaps 3y ago
Heh. Years ago I had a call with Comcast's CISO about them setting up a bug bounty program after I informed them about a leak of exposed information (sysadmin's home dir, with ssh keys and more). They told me that if they setup a
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by chaps 3y ago
Do you?
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by chaps 3y ago
You'd think so, right? At least when I was researching all of this last year, absolutely no accuracy testing had been done in Chicagoland.
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by chaps 3y ago
"Teaching empathy" won't do a thing and'll just be mocked and memed. We need to start at a lower fundamental. An easy first step would be to increase accessibility to court documents so that journalists and researchers h
618.
by chaps 3y ago
It's very much a political issue over a practical issue. The EM program has been around since the 80s, but the pandemic caused its use to explode -- largely to reduce the spread of COVID in/out of jails.
619.
by chaps 3y ago
Maybe not, but [without going into it on HN], we could have done much more. For the texts article, we took a much more aggressive approach to pseudonyms to avoid something like that happening again. Hope you're doing well.
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by chaps 3y ago
Very, very much yes. Criminal courts really, really aren't a good place to address technical matters. For example, ankle electronic monitoring (obviously) doesn't work well in faraday-cage like apartment complexes. And yet time an
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by chaps 3y ago
Inflationary cosmology leans a lot on the existence of magnet monopoles.
622.
by chaps 3y ago
Absolutely wonderful. Thank you for sharing.
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by chaps 3y ago
This is a common problem, especially for "crime" datasets and very emblematic of the kind of data capturing processes for each reported "crime" (really, they're some of the worst datasets because of the extent of im
624.
by chaps 3y ago
Anytime!
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by chaps 3y ago
One of the most productive things I've seen is to request for "data sufficient to show" rather than describing the data you're looking for. That way you have a bit more wiggle room in the space of interpretation. Another
626.
by chaps 3y ago
I mean, sure? I'm very much saying this for police datasets, where for example, a "crime" database might not include homicide information. And no, I don't think it's fair to say that the amount of pounds of recycled
627.
by chaps 3y ago
Just be VERY careful when using any of these open data sets. Datasets will undoubtedly be filtered by some unwritten criteria. It's best to use these datasets as a sanity check for some things, with follow-up FOIA requests for the seri
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by chaps 3y ago
Ah, Mr. Kettle, I see you've met my friend, Mr. Pot!
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by chaps 3y ago
It's part of a broader objective because many of these projects are fueled by both private organizations and public for-profit organizations. Yes, this is indeed part of a broader objective to sell more of this technology. Lots of ARPA
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by chaps 3y ago
Yes, and many of those DMVs share those photos with upstream agencies, which reduces the problem.

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