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by m3047 4mo ago
A decade or so ago I participated in a (data-centric) hackathon having to do with water shortages in California. The acknowledged problem was data, or lack thereof. Most of the groups whistled past the graveyard and presented woulda-coulda
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by m3047 4mo ago
From the person who brought us Dark Breakfast!
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by m3047 4mo ago
One of the things which is unaccounted for in both printing and lighting is florescence.
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by m3047 4mo ago
The way this is done (has been done) is printing with custom colors. Standard printing is done with CMYK (three colors and black). Purportedly high-end printers (I don't care if the printer is gold plated and diamond studded, if the dr
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by m3047 4mo ago
Reading a little further on this person's site: "Reality drifts when systems stop learning from feedback." A little drier on the dopamine rush.
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by m3047 4mo ago
Some of this isn't new, like the printer example. However I recently bought a Canon inkjet printer because it purportedly had good linux support (spoiler: it's actually ok!). Even though MacOS drivers and software were available,
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by m3047 4mo ago
So we're shaving yaks here but instability undermines nonrepudiability. Mr. Nobody might welcome deniability in the appropriate circumstances...
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by m3047 4mo ago
Ah, the 1960s.
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by m3047 4mo ago
At least on my systems there's also /dev/udp...
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by m3047 4mo ago
I respect that you recognize that the sample you were given for investigation may not be representative of your community in all respects. Does the Census Bureau publish statistics on the people they have to send interviewers for? Just aski
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by m3047 4mo ago
Interesting article, but I don't fully agree that it means what people seem to think it means. Note that the author says "People who were using Census data to actually reconstruct records could no longer do so. Demographers admitt
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by m3047 4mo ago
This is nowhere near household level but is it good enough for horseshoes or hand grenades? I did this almost 20 years ago. I could combine this with aerial and streetview, ALPRs, DMV data, smartphone telemetry... http://athena.m
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by m3047 4mo ago
Display / imaging as a "big data" problem[0] is turtles all the way down. If we separate "creating something to display" and "displaying something" and call that the "display processor divide" an
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by m3047 4mo ago
I saw here on HN maybe a couple of months ago a post where someone had basically created a "color space" for breakfast foods... oh sweet, I found it: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026&
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by m3047 4mo ago
I split my network(s) into subnets (sharing the same wire, not to be confused with the actual subnets which don't share the same wire) which correspond to routability policies. This in turn involves firewall rules, routing table entrie
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by m3047 4mo ago
It not "definitely" but rather "definitely possible" that cameras could be used for safety, or that the police could work for the citizenry. But they don't. They're inclined not to share info, including that th
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by m3047 4mo ago
Kind of moot if, when the police allegedly call you to report finding your stolen car, they use misleading caller ID and don't leave a message.
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by m3047 5mo ago
I tend to let Feynman, Fermi, and Bayes guide my inquiries generally in that order. Part of the process is generating good questions; another part of the process is generating good actionable questions (tailored to the moment). Questions
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by m3047 5mo ago
This is funny. I've had an unbelievable string of bad doctors / clinics... almost as though something is wrong with medical care around here. Couple of years ago the latest doctor who I fired started talking colonoscopies. I asked
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by m3047 5mo ago
In the US DMCA provides "frigate harbor" for the the British consul, etc., etc. IF they've managed to get you to install the "app" instead of utilizing something preinstalled on the phone (a uh errr... web browser?)
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by m3047 5mo ago
I get (ab|l)users will do stupid. I appreciate the argument that WebSerial is not those other things; until it isn't and it's a victim of its own success. Now the driver maintainer at the OS level has to consider that their driver
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by m3047 5mo ago
Bert Hubert makes an argument based on Palantir: it's not simply the software. It's like a million dollar a day marine crane which comes with a crew. To put it another way, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce licenses are a tax compared
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by m3047 5mo ago
I don't know if you read the full post at http://consulting.m3047.net/dubai-letters/voter-id-industry-... I will take a certain level of incompetence over outsourcing adjudication (and the priors for that, data) t
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by m3047 5mo ago
If I can light a cigar and talk like Columbo for a minute, the thing I can't get out of my mind is that a competent professional would do something like this: FILL IN THE BLANKS: ___-XXX-XX09 [don't know] XXX-_X_-3X4X [don
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by m3047 5mo ago
I believe that the staff are competent professionals. I don't believe that it's possible for Brawndo swigging morons to operate a single signon service for the United States federal government for multiple years, over multiple pre
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by m3047 5mo ago
This validation is for a specific purpose. In fact, and oddly enough, the federal govt (in its manifestation as the Post Office [0]) wants to validate my STATE id, not my federal ID. I think there's a barcode that they scan after valid
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by m3047 5mo ago
Can't. Need to print out a doc to take with me so the gubmint can validate my gubmint ID. They won't do it without the doc. They won't give me the doc because they don't like my phone.
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by m3047 5mo ago
CISA said “there is no indication that any sensitive data was compromised as a result of the incident.” Oh wow. Except for those secrets.
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Tell HN: The Threat to US Citizen's ID / Voting Is Private Services
2 points by m3047 5mo ago|8 comments
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List of Consumer Reporting Companies [pdf](files.consumerfinance.gov)
1 points by m3047 5mo ago|1 comments

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