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You can in some circumstances depending on the crime and age of offense. What can you convince a judge to do is all I know.

My home town had a deputy that wanted to be a sheriff or had won the position. However, they had a minor record.

Parents filed statutory rape charges because he was 18 and she was 17. They just didn’t like him and they were eventually married later. Still, he carried they charge for 20 years.

The sealing or removal was made public notice and of course everyone talks.

In the grand scheme of things it was his wife and the age difference issue was amended in law. Because people recognize kids don’t magically not socialize on 18.
I can't figure out what made you decide to post this to HN. The author of this app has obviously been having a great time. Why the sour grapes? What are you so mad about?
This is true. I don't think parent poster means it should still illegal. Just try to remove the "profit part".
These solid silver pans also look like they could be made to last for a hundred or so years:
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I think the general guideline is, don't provide your hosting provider with incentives to enforce their terms of service against you, to the point where you're denied any further business from them.
I think it is reasonable to discontinue service if you don't like a customer.[0] But what if AWS's utility provider said we aren't going to power your datacenters because we like Parler? That seems wrong to me. I think it's reasonable to allow companies to terminate service but they should give a reasonable time frame (e.g. 3-6 months) to migrate to a new platform.

[0]: Certainly I think this in cases where you have a personal relationship with the customer/client, e.g. as a lawyer. It is less clear in the case where the service provided requires no real customer interaction as in AWS, where the services are all provided transparently, with no knowledge of who the customer is. But I don't want to get hung up on this issue.
I’m the maintainer or a project that does some of that. It’s called Aether (https://getaether.net). User-customisable moderation and grassroots content delivery in particular, with less emphasis on total Tor-like anonymity, though we do still provide some.
I see your point now, but your comment above (MLK's quote) comes across as saying the opposite.

It sounds like it's saying that Trump et al are okay, they're just exercising their right to speak, and if people are violent in return then we should punish those violent offenders.

But I suppose in reality you're saying the tech companies are okay, they're just exercising their right to police their own platforms, and if people are violent in return then we should punish those violent offenders.
Did you read the article? The article is specifically talking about cases where experts are incorrect within their field of expertise and then cited as a source of truth in published papers.

The question of the article isn't really a boolean, it clearly shows some experts are real and some aren't and asks the more important question -- how do we discern when the institutionalized "expert" in an area is really an expert?
If you read his argument as less about the power virus effect and more about the uselessness of AVX512 for most general-purpose integer code, and accordingly about the opportunity cost of developing and fabricating AVX512 for clients who really will not use it, then, unfortunately, he's right.

The quote "I'd much rather see that transistor budget used on other things that are much more relevant," in particular, is the key to the argument. Because that seems to be basically exactly what the Apple M1 does, and look what people are saying about it.
I certainly agree that it doesn't hold up to scrutiny. To suggest that setting up a honeypot to have fringe elements actively expose their views in what they deem as a safe environment is not outside of what security agency may do is a bit of stretch

It's a interesting thought to entertain but Parler is most likely not this.
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Society needs to have something between jaywalking and attempted murder.

Right now if you fish without a permit in the wrong place you're a felon and you will never be able to get a decent job for the rest of your life. The entire reason the American criminal justice system is like this, at its core is to punish minority groups.

I don't ever see this changing, and it's a big part of why I want to make an exit by 40. I imagine if I do decide to have a family it would be in a more civilized country
The government subsidy is a point of criticism for "free-market" proponents. It's fair to point out that fossil fuels, and especially coal, have long benefitted from being able to externalize pollution costs. This is not consistent with an efficient market, since the extra costs of coal are borne by everyone regardless of whether they benefit.
Unfortunately, you can't use Steam Guard without a phone number.
Larry Niven's Ringworld series has a protagonist named Louis Wu who is addicted to a "tasp" that is pretty much a direct connection to the brain that provides stimulus. I fear that we'll end up with that as VR/AR get better and better. Combine that with Musk's neural stuff...
as implied in a cousin comment, I don't think this applies if they're currently incarcerated. at least at the federal level, the BOP should have records of who was sentenced with firearms or other violent sentencing modifiers in order to properly segregate them from non-violent offenders. that wouldn't work for the idea of purging their records, but for the OP argument, it ought to work reasonably well. for the rare cases where it doesn't, some burden could be put on the inmate to collect and submit their documents for approval, the same as if they were filing an appeal.
The "dark web"?
Some of it had been seen. The folks plotting criminal stuff weren't especially good at keeping it hidden.
Token counterpoint so they don't just appear to be stooges in America's culture wars...but I really don't believe either of Merkel or Macron is truly interested in anything but a totally sanitized and nerfed internet.

The good news is we are seeing a new reality - internet "power" is useless. Your pithy, massively-upvoted comment on reddit doesn't move the needle anymore. This was the real lesson of the Capitol riots...keyboard warriors will need to get out of their chairs.
I agree, and I'm glad people are taking steps to move away from that :)
I think Facebook should be broken up but I havent heard any good ideas yet regarding how to somehow regulate social networks.

Beyond hate speech, I dont see any reason to limit what people can say. Somehow limiting how the network connects people, or how content propagates, seems like the key. Only FB has done the social experiments at scale to know how to engineer this, which is faintly ironic.
Fortunately, the problem you're talking about has already been solved with the concept of federation. If the social media system is a protocol and not a company, then society can chase down individual bad actors, and blame them for their own crimes, instead of blaming you.
Junior engineers and PMs need the software to have a skeletal structure on which they can hang their features. This skeletal structure has to be put together by the lead engineer and lead PM. Usually I see both PMs and engineers churning with bad design when such a clarifying structure is missing or ill-defined or has become broken due to hard pivots in pursuit of business/product-market fit.
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Section 230(b):

It is the policy of the United States-
(1) to promote the continued development of the Internet and other interactive computer services and other interactive media;
(2) to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet and other interactive computer services, unfettered by Federal or State regulation;
(3) to encourage the development of technologies which maximize user control over what information is received by individuals, families, and schools who use the Internet and other interactive computer services;
...

Up until now, a Laissez-faire regulatory approach seemed to achieve these goals, but it's hardly fair to call what exists at this point a "vibrant and competitive free market" which "maximizes user control over what information is receives by individuals". Especially if a cartel of tech platforms can completely stamp out individuals' ability to listen to the speech of people they want access to. Regulation is needed now.
Incitement to riot/insurrection isn't "mean words."
I don't dispute that, I was trying to present a somewhat simplified view of this in a succinct comment.

To me, the most interesting aspects of classification were that the title, content, and classification level itself don't necessarily share levels.
I had written a toy social network a few years back the past which had these features - It worked very much like an encrypted version of usenet.

This is probably my bias as an engineer showing, but the technology doesn't seem like the hard part-

I always understood that having an resilient network means people will use it to post some bad things, but I don't know if I really internalized the scope of that until later.

I had originally envisioned it might be useful in oppressive countries, where people needed a way to communicate - Recent events have shown how dangerous that can feel when you're in the midst of people who feel like that describes them.

As another HN post pointed out, there are two natural audiences for such networks - Idealists, and those who can't get away with stuff on other networks.. And the second is going to be far more common. That will influence the culture, and help to drive other "good" people away from the service, amplifying the effect.

Even if you have user-selectable moderators (Which I had, similar to the request the author makes), without a huge war-chest to hire a large team of default moderators, you'll never be able to keep up. The default experience for the average user will be terrible.

Over and over, I ran into issues like that - It's relatively easy to built the technological network, but managing the social network aspect is an unsolved problem.
>The President of the United States has the same venue for disseminating information as his predecessors: White House press conferences.

Pretty much. The President has had access to the bully pulpit for over a hundred years. The decision to rely so heavily on Twitter instead of traditional channels is a strategic failure of the Trump administration. Normalizing this and ceding control of presidential communications to private parties might be a lasting legacy and mistake.
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To both: Why? It’s still a thing on a rocket.

If anything, it’s easier to spot than an ICBM. Amateurs make a thing of finding it: https://gizmodo.com/amateur-satellite-trackers-found-the-arm...
I would’t be surprised to hear most of the worlds population lives in an area ideal for solar power. I’m thinking SE Asia and Africa. But also, 18 million people live in greater Los Angeles alone, so a good portion of the US population and certainly a large portion of central and south America would be good candidates as well for solar.
They just didn't convince enough people
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Is getting records expunged not a option in your case or in many case? My understanding is that at least most non-violent offences could be expunged or sealed after N years of completing your sentence. I'm certainly not an expert so it would be interesting to know how that process can or can not apply.
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Can you please explain how they were enabling the terrorists? Did the congresspeople get the Capitol Police to stand down? Even if they did, that is a separate thing from throwing out votes.

The country could have terrorist acts every day and still have democracy. Our congresspeople could have their meetings in an underground bunker, wear body armor all the time, and travel in armored vehicles, and it would still be democracy. Democracy means the people decide who has power.

Terrorists can use violence and may change some people minds, but they cannot destroy our democracy. Democracy exists in the minds of US voters.
To some degree, this is on us as well - for our failing to hold a reasonable PotUS accountable for bad Gov behavior, in a meaningful consistent way.
Well my experience talking to all the local bike shops in my area is that they actually have less inventory to sell than previous years, compounded with the problem of increased demand.

My local shop that is a Trek Dealer said last October that they were only just starting to get the bikes that they ordered back in February (pre-pandemic). Meaning that their standard inventory for summer never arrived. I just talked to this shop again this weekend because I was in there for ski service (like many bike shops in the Rocky Mountains, they are ski shops in the winter and bike shops in the summer), and the guy showed me their list of pending orders. They are expecting an order of bikes from Trek by the end of January that will complete the order they placed LAST APRIL. So at least for Trek, that is how far behind they are.

I have also visited 2 different dealers that sell Specialized ("Specialized" is the brand name). One of them (the smaller one) told me that they have $100,000 worth of bikes and accessories on order and have been waiting for over 5 months on them to arrive with no update on any changes.

The other Specialized Dealer is a big dealer in this area and they only have one bike in stock, a Peter Sagan edition Race Bike priced around $10k and 2 child sized bikes. They said they are still waiting for their orders from April to arrive.

One good sign was from a local shop that sells Santa Cruz Mountain Bikes. They apparently are only about 2 months behind. But that shop has still struggled to keep bikes in stock. So their demo fleet for people to take up to the ski resort (for downhill mountain biking) last summer was all previous model-year bikes because they couldn't set aside bikes for their demo fleet because they were selling as fast as they arrived. In fact he told me that they have been selling bikes off a waiting list for people 4-5 states away who are driving 12-24 straight hours to pick up bikes because this shop has been able to keep some in stock.
A team at MIT made an ionic wind glider a couple of years back that flew across a room.

https://news.mit.edu/2018/first-ionic-wind-plane-no-moving-p...
Depends on what the data is and if the aggregators can understand it.

You could have the model where the silo produces encrypted blobs and the end client can read it. (What's stored and connected is nothing but encrypted blobs)
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Yeah; I've seen this done elsewhere and facepalmed.

Actually, I've seen this done -worse- elsewhere, where they were actually encrypting the password, using a symmetric key. So if you sniffed the traffic and never loaded the website, I guess, you'd not know the actual password...but you wouldn't need it; it as as good as for the purposes of logging in. If you did load the website, you could still determine what the plaintext password was.

It was really irritating, since I had to figure out what the encryption scheme of a backend app was doing (when I only had access to the frontend code, and the datastore).
The press conferences require you to go through "the press". If big tech censors press they don't like, then the press conferences will only include journalists approved by big tech.
> Does that make further mitigation efforts worthless?

Mitigation efforts are certainly worthwhile, but there are significant diminishing returns.

I would guess that 80/20 rule applies to mitigation efforts just as much as anything else. The vast majority of protection is provided by a fairly minimal set of precautions.

I think we see this borne out in the data. The places with the strictest lockdowns are doing better than the places with fewer restrictions. However, the numbers aren't so night and day different as to suggest that those additional lockdowns have been worth the price.

One thing I've wondered is how many "odd" social customs in various cultures (no singing / dancing, face coverings, etc.) could actually be explained by past epidemics. We've certainly adopted many of those restrictions in short order.
The call to end prisons, police funding, and prison funding is partially to solve this exact problem.

I don't think ANYONE should be able to request a federal background check. I don't think background checks should be allowed for employment or housing. Same as credit checks.

A person is either safe enough to be in society, or not. There should NEVER be an in between state. And before you say anything:

1. Yes I am fine with previously convicted murderers living in the same building as me. Teaching my children. And being my co-worker. I want to be able to trust the "justice" system to allow people back into society when they're able to.

2. Yes I'm fine with sexual predators living in the same building as me. Teaching my children. And being my co-worker. For the same aforementioned reasons.

3. Yes. I'm fine with any person with any crime history that the courts and various other medical institutions have deemed that they can be a normal citizen to do what they want.

For the group of people that "maybe they're safe but we're not sure but we don't want to keep them in prison". Then you need to give them a very good stipend and let them live in relative peace. Also, don't limit their housing. Housing limits should never be done. Think of this situation as a "disability payment", because it is a state induced disability.

What someone did in the past shouldn't matter to anyone if that person has been rehabilitated.
Honestly the only works that I have seen that comes close is the Modernist Cuisine, a lot of effort went into the why and how of cooking and the culinary arts.
I was able to sign up recently with a throwaway e-mail address and made up phone number. But I was also surprised it asked for it.
Hacker News needs a black bar across the top while this assault on Free Speech continues. First they came for the Trump supporters, I said nothing...
I do something similar, sometimes even riding to work and back without ever going inside.
I stopped using Steam because it was too annoying. Not sure what all they get up to for their anticheat crap, but something I do with my network/machine apparently sets them off.

Fighting with bullshit like this is not what I'm looking for when I want a game, so screw it, if a game needs Steam, I don't need the game.
I got mad lucky in college, I was in a parking lot arrested for possession (was smoking) it was a tiny amount like a keyfob worth.

It was reduced to a parking fine that I had to pay in court. That could have destroyed me (permanent label) if that was bigger.

This was like 8-10 years ago. I am asian if it matters.
Yes, this was my immediate thought too. I love writing Haskell, but Rust has become my daily driver, both at work (Cloudflare) and personal projects. It gives me the excellent type system, better domain modelling, great ecosystem (serde, actix-web, rayon, reqwest, diesel, tokio) and performance.

I've basically traded away some nice abstractions (functors, monoids etc) for the ability to debug error messages more easily, and not have to convince people to learn/support an obscure language. Good deal IMO.
Flywheel energy storage anyone?

https://youtu.be/_QLEERYS5C8
There are different types of moderation, personally I find with platforms offering tools to their users to define the type of content they want to see, sure that can and will end with people in echo chambers of their own making but that is preferred to Platform level moderation where the platform chooses what is allowed and no allows ending with the entire platform being one ideological echo chamber instead if just user silo's with in the platform

Reddit used to be an example of this, it allowed communities to create their own rules enforced by their own moderation with very limited rules at the platform level (i.e illegal speech was banned), over the years however due to social pressure on Advertisers, reddit has started shifting more and more of those moderation from the community level to the Platform level, and IMO it is having a negative effect on the site as whole.

In the end Platforms should build TOOLS for moderation but not actually do the moderation themselves
Forget about "hiring", "secure jobs" and "paychecks": you sound like a contractor, not an employee. Either hire on with a consulting firm or open your own.
> Hate speech is not protected.

Yes it is. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that hate speech is legally protected free speech under the First Amendment. The most recent Supreme Court case on the issue was in 2017, when the justices unanimously reaffirmed that there is effectively no "hate speech" exception to the free speech rights protected by the First Amendment. [1]

> Say unimaginably hateful shit, see how fast it takes to get punched in the mouth. Simple as that.

This is incredibly dangerous and short-sighted. I can tell you've likely never been in a fight, or very, very few.

People who think this way need to be very fucking careful with their rhetoric here, because while they think they might be the Billy Badass who'll set the world 'right', there's a lot of other Billy Badasses out there who might just jerk a knot in their ass, either temporarily or permanently.

You might want to take a more reasonable approach and figure out why someone feels the way they feel first.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_in_the_United_Stat...
What's more, they have a pressing reason to not do it. The entire iOS devices ecosystem brings clients exclusively to the AppStore and its apps. They also have a network effect for purchasing more simply for device/OS interoperability (think iPhone + Watch). By allowing the installation of a general purpose OS they are giving up a chunk of the profit from those apps and they cut down their own user base, thus making the ecosystem slightly less valuable as a whole.

One option would be to allow the installation of an alternative OS only after the device is out of support at least for an image win but this might not justify the effort.

I hope this gets regulated in the future so manufacturers are forced to remove any locks preventing the installation of 3rd party software (even make resources available for developers) the moment they stop providing "adequate" support.
Some doctors refuse treatment to anti-vaxxers now.
Haven't the press switched away from at least one of his conferences? I think it would be interesting for him to try to hold a press conference to see if the broadcast media would even carry it
> Solar didn't magically just appear on the market at a lower price point than carbon-based resources though

You are ignoring the entire point of the post you are replying to.

Extracting coal and burning it has massive external costs. Massive health costs to the workers and even people just living near coal extraction. Massive devaluation of land near the coal mines. Huge issues with non-carbon solution. That's all before the concerns about climate change. Few people were compensated for the massive destruction of wealth/ health & quality of life in the region. In many places the companies extracted every ounce of coal then when the lawsuits started pouring in, the company went belly up.

Once you take into account all the costs outside the costs of acquiring the land and extracting the coal, coal is vastly more expensive.
>> The answer is yes - yes it is too much to ask for

How can that be so when we have websites like Wikipedia, or Openstreemap?