skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's wonderful if the crime is something clear-cut like murder. We can generally all agree that it is unethical and worthy of punishment.

What if it's something we can't quite agree on, or tyranny of the majority? Joe McCarthy happened once, and he didn't give a shit about ex post facto. Presuming someone like him will never come along again is a road to pain and suffering.

Spend ten minutes reading about what Crypto-Judaism is and why it is even a thing. Then look at abuse of power (I've known 2 people who have had LEOs as stalkers). A big part of warrant law is the premise that you don't give people information they don't need 'just because'. Very similar to the computing concept of Principle of Least Power. They prove they need it, you give it to them, but not a moment before, because who knows what they'll get up to.
This is also the reason why bolting lifetimes on to C++ is not really feasible while still being able to call the resulting language C++.
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Veto is going to be dismantled sooner or later. There are plans to scrap veto for tax policy. Furthermore if there will be no veto and the citizens would dislike the new legislation there will be new EU army to keep people in check.
>What if the crime is ‘handed out pamphlets opposing the leader?’

That has been a crime in many places at various times in the past. The non-existence of a DNA database did nothing to prevent the existence of totalitarian governments, and would likely do nothing to promote them.

That's the thing about totalitarians. They don't care about the facts, if they want to get you they'll get you regardless of what the DNA says, in its absence they'll just come up with something else like the bumps found on your skull or distance between your eyes or the volume at which your voice has been measured praising the leader.

Why would a totalitarian system rely on DNA evidence when they can just go "our local comrade commissar has decreed that you are guilty and thus you are" and in regimes where there has to at least be a semblance of a show trial, they would just make up or cover up DNA-related findings to suit their whims.

Saying that DNA is dangerous because it may be used against someone in the future in some hypothetical situation is like saying "a list of person's names MUST NEVER be compiled because in the future a totalitarian leader may decide he doesn't like anyone whose name ends in a -ez or -stein."
DVD region locking isn't much of a "technical control". There are 8 regions, because that's the number of bits in a byte. The region lock is a single byte that specifies which regions are intended to read the disc. On the honor system, a DVD player is supposed to read this byte, check the bit for its region, and refuse to play the disc if the bit is unset.

The only "control" here is that it's assumed you don't have a copy of the DVD spec and don't realize what the lock consists of. Ignoring it suffices to bypass it.
The only glitch was screwing over someone who wouldn't stay quiet.
For a particularly high-demand technical engineering position maybe. For other things… well, Facebook pays folks in the Philippines something like $2/hour to get PTSD while screening posts for the worst content the worst humans are able to generate (beheadings for example). Where would you expect fact-checking to fit in?
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Is that your interpretation? Mine is the opposite: "At this point nothing is trustworthy".

Just saying that humans have an extremely poor track record at compromising information for political gain. Anything would be better at this point, you can't get any worse.
We started to. Then we got caught up in the spat with the US. And now China. I’d say we’re out. :(
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At the moment I write this, the #1 item on the HN front page is a BuzzFeed News investigative piece[1], "One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI".

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This is interesting. I self-identify in the symbolic/abstract side of things and really struggle with how difficult it is when dealing with the real/physical/touchable camp. I've especially struggled with superiors who are in the latter group which tracks with what you say here. And as another point of anecdata I've personally been meandering my way into the leadership/management turf over recent years.
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I would gladly donate my DNA to be tested to find criminals. I signed up to 23andMe years ago just for fun, but if that data can be used to help someone who was hurt by someone genetically related to me, I am all for it.

Reading the reactions here makes me feel crazy, as if their intention is to make me feel manipulated or otherwise bad. It is really interesting to me how many people are fearful of dystopian futures that could play out instead of excited to actually potentially help identify a serial killer.
Somewhat related, I've often thought of getting a few buddies together, finding a smallish roundabout, and doing a DOS on it for an hour or two...
I'm using zstd with my kafka implementation and it works great. v2.1 is required. We're using librdkafka, which works, but I believe we had to compile it in to get that and idempotent producer.
Oh I didn't know about the cheese. You have just made my wife and I very excited!

We have noticed a few things (kiwi fruit for example), becoming a lot cheaper lately(heck lopia had 12 for 600 yen last month!)
Same in Oregon.
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They should learn to code.
My intuition agrees. The threshold of features that OP is looking for amounts to "multiple devices all crammed into one". That is going to lead to a compromised workflow - there's more to configure on your end and you'll lose track of it in a digital sense instead of a physical one. Like with the actual Swiss Army Knife, most of the end result is likely to be unsatisfying as a professional tool.

For ordinary tasks, a consumer device that can SSH in, and ideally do some USB, probably is the right thing. Last week I put together a $50 vest-pocket writing kit with a smartphone stand and a folding Bluetooth keyboard(iClever brand, if you care). And in just a week of use, I've already had multiple strangers remark "I want that" - I can easily imagine using it for coding and sysadmin too. The real limits to client computing these days mostly revolve around operating system and I/O, and you do want to have lots of ports...but mostly on your desktops and servers.
Everyone ignore the fact that leaked documents layer out a plan by US Intel agencies to discredit Assange and WL via tactics just like this, these are now the leaks we're looking for apparently.

RT has some of the best coverage of some things around, and this constant talking as of it is putins right hand in media form is grounded in tribalism and not in careful evaluation of the facts.
I've given it a test drive and highly approve. It is very polished.

Kinda spendy, though.
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I think that’s a different question you’re answering though. For sure, continued automation is 100% the modus operandi. I wouldn’t be surprised if in the future IT departments don’t really exist anymore.

But even with “off-the-shelf stuff”, your site reliability engineers would still be using Kubernetes as the primary language to communicate. Or I guess you could go all cutting edge and go one layer up with Istio instead. In that case then, Kubernetes is still there hiding underneath.
...or the value of the work.
I was thinking the same. This is peak Vice for me: https://youtu.be/Yknrg-63674
Fingerprinting is inaccurate.

DNA tests are inaccurate.

Witness statements are inaccurate.

Confessions are inaccurate.

Thanks to deepfakes, video is inaccurate.

Someone steals your car, eyewitnesses claim they saw them in possession of it, their fingerprints are in it, their hair is in it, a gas station security camera recorded them in it, cops found them in it, and they confessed.

"Your honor that evidence is, in order, a stress-induced misrecognition, a flawed analysis, pseudoscience, tampered with, a setup, and coerced."

What remains?
"News is supposed to be objective."

News should strive for objectivity. But all news organizations need to make decisions. What do they include or omit from a story? What do they think is necessary to explain versus what the audience will already know? How do you present complex issues without veering into technical jargon most readers can't understand? Which photo and headline do they choose to go with the story?

These are subjective decisions all journalists and editors need to make.
Hunter does this. it is built on top of CMake
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It's also clear that simply fulfilling a demand does not mean that we shouldn't be aware of what needs changing, and indeed some things which are demanded in society should not be fulfilled. It seems disingenuous to paint these small number of companies as simple mediators between demand and supply when they're the ones supplying. It's also the case that the tastes and preferences of consumers are influenced heavily by advertising and certain amenities which are today only possible through these polluting businesses.

The majority of various populations has demanded truly grotesque things throughout human history, including but not limited to mass murder and injustice. I am skeptical of the argument that the ones (i) manufacturing this 'consent' (ii) agreeing to supply it (fully aware of the mechanisms through which the desire is produced) are innocent.

Consider this: if the only way to prevent such large scale pollution is to modify the desires of the demand side (an idea which I see no reason to be the case anyway), it could also be justified for a government to force such companies to conduct mass-advertising showing just how harmful the effects of production are.

I'm yet to see a realistic proposal for coordinating a reduction in demand, and I am yet to be convinced that the individualization of the problem is helpful to the goal of an eco-sustainable society. On the other hand, if your goal is to prioritize the ability to make profits (no matter how harmful) then you could continue to appeal to solutions which have consistently failed to gain traction on a national or international scale (such as "consumers demanding less" or boycotting).
They simply will not own a self driving car.

If they do, it will be theirs, not doing random shit for who knows who.
> In the US, it is already illegal for genetic information to be used as a qualification for employment.

No.

In the US, it is currently illegal for genetic information to be used as a qualification for employment.

Your DNA never changes. Once it's on record it's on record. This isn't like prohibition where as long as you quit before the law comes into effect you are safe.

If there is ever a future time you can be punished for your DNA, the only people who can possibly be 'grandfathered' in are the ones who've avoided submitting their DNA in the first place. Everyone else can be punished after the fact.
Here are a couple more. While both of these do involve state laws, one of which looks to have lower limits than the Federal law, the act itself appears to be purchasing pseudoephedrine for on-label use without knowingly skirting legal limits.

https://reason.com/blog/2014/07/28/one-box-of-sudafed-over-t...

http://reason.com/blog/2009/09/30/put-down-the-cold-pills-gr...
In my opinion this is bang on.
Millions of itty-bitty little classes that do so little themselves that they rely on eighteen other itty-bitty dependency-injected "services" are the bane of our industry.

They make it impossible to see how the code is really structured and works, hide state and data flow in the composition (which is where all the bugs then go to lurk), and make it harder to refactor anything without spending days changing all the tests.

For some reason people who are fond of this style seldom use real implementations to test their code, even if those things do no actual I/O, preferring instead to have masses of brittle mock set-up, such that all the tests really prove is that your mental model of how the rest of your code actually works is broken, as you watch the system fail in production in ways that seem surprising to you.

You'll then probably think you should do something about these failures and jump to the other extreme, writing brittle end-to-end tests that are very hard to actually diagnose failures in.

Sigh.
Indeed, this is one of the comments:

'Disappointed to see the lack of mention of hackaday projects https://hackaday.io/project/5971-python-powered-scientific-i... and https://hackaday.io/project/6490-a-versatile-labtool from which this has been adapted.

Schematics, firmware, and the linux app(already on Debian as ‘seelablet’ before this project) have not been acknowledged either, and given that FOSSASIA used a project which was past the manufacturing stages, and used finished versions of SEELab-jr as their starting point, an ‘alumni’ tag for the original developers is appalling.

OSHW sometimes feels like a massive blunder in the absence of credit where due. 15 prototypes worth of development history prior to PSLab can be viewed at https://csparkresearch.in/expeyes-dev and the above linked projects.'
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Nothing. Linear types are being added to GHC and could be used to implement this feature. But libraries would need to be upgraded to offer them.
is there an additional thing that would make people stick around even if that other company built the feature?

Seeing a feature that can make a big difference to people is a great place to start, if you can plan a road map that will help you to grow your user base, is even better.
> Why would a Canadian politician care about this? You don't buy Canadian distribution rights from Canada or from any Canadian entity. You buy them from the copyright holder.

Because the Canadian company paid for exclusive access to that content within Canada for the purpose of making profit. This generates tax revenue and employment and increases the value fo the company for the shareholders, things politicians care about to various degrees.
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Part of that success was a mandate back in the earlier days of the company that all development and systems administration assets be designed with the presumption that they may be converted into a customer accessible frameworks one day.
The intent is to encourage you to consider the relative incidence rates of various misfortunes. Police ineptitude and the prosecutor's fallacy are vastly more common in this world than serial killers are. You seem eager to screw over your cousin, but it could just as well be you who is screwed over.
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This set of ideas is probably most easily commercialized as a USB-C dongle with a fuckload of ports (including display inputs) that you can then connect to any laptop you want. For bonus points, the dongle could include port-testing functionality, and a webserver, so you plug it in, browse to http://dongle, and see that your Ethernet port is fucked.
Plus it consumes server resources and bandwidth.

And some scrape so aggressively that it's like being DDOS'd.
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When I left MS in late 00s, he was still in Bing. From what I heard Bing, ironically, _still_ doesn't use anything Azure and builds its own cloud infrastructure. :-) Exchange runs its own bespoke stuff, too. I suppose much like Google Search, Gmail and Ads don't use GCP, but worse, because at least Google has one offering internally and one externally, whereas MS has multiple.
Perhaps we need some kind of make8 tool to check for best practices and prevent us writing these magic make files.
Compare this to Steve Jobs second turn at Apple, in the same short format:

1. Realize Windows has won the PC war.

2. Improve the Mac by calling Next the Mac. Grow the Mac's market share year after year.

3. Concentrate on the next big thing. Ipod, Iphone, Ipad, etc

What does that give us? The question why Microsoft is unable to integrate their mobile OS strategically into their Cloud, in order to grow both.

(The Mac's growth is also due to iPod and the iOS devices.)
Can't people still choose though? In that sense there’s no “must”. Those who want to watch Canadian cultural content can freely do so, and the same is valid for those who prefer Netflix.

Why shouldn’t everyone in the world have the choice of watching American tv?