skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most US states have some form of expungement law which allows past criminal records to be cleared. It's mostly intended to help ex-cons with reintegration, because it can be so difficult to get employment (and in many cases voting rights, public services, housing, etc) with a criminal history. Basically criminal records are a major part of the "cycle of criminality" that causes recidivism because former criminals are unable to support themselves by means other than crime (can't get a job, etc), and so expungement policies are expected to have a positive impact on both crime and social welfare. The details all vary from state to state, often there's a limit on how severe of an offense can be expunged, it has to be a certain time in the past, and typically the records are not really "expunged" but removed from public reports---law enforcement and judges can often still see them, as well as federal background checks, and sometimes anyone can ask for a court order to unseal. The expungement itself usually requires a court order, so the court makes a judgment whether or not expungement serves the public interest (i.e. will allow the person to contribute more fully to society). There are a lot of law firms like that that specialize in expungement because there are many people with criminal records and in most cases the process is a pretty straightforward paperwork exercise, so you can make a steady profit stream with a few paralegals preparing form letters.

It becomes a different matter for people who are charged with crimes and otherwise in court, as courts have rules about what criminal history can or cannot be introduced in the court. There's a general principle that a jury shouldn't know about a person's unrelated previous convictions, since it will bias them towards the person being a criminal despite not actually being evidence relevant to the case in question. But I think there are plenty of exceptions, i.e. if the person has been convicted for pretty much the same crime before it can usually be introduced by the prosecution as circumstantial evidence that they apparently have the skills/means/motivation to commit such a crime. But you can't just tell the jury that they have a rap sheet a mile long. I'm not a lawyer and only know so much about this but I believe that usually pretty much the same rules apply to witnesses. You can bring up that a witness has a criminal record if it's somehow directly relevant to their testimony (i.e. they have lied to a court in the past) but you can't just tell the jury that they have a criminal record to try to ruin their reputation. Although it usually fails in practice, the justice system is at least theoretically built around the principle that people can and do change, and so prior criminality shouldn't be held against them if it isn't somehow contributory to the current situation.
The fascinating takeaway is the failure of "command". It is something we all see every day in companies large and small(ish). And it rarely is the fault of "some idiot" - it is just that one person cannot attend to all the issues.

Which tends to suggest not to look for better generals, but to push the decisions downwards and "outwards" (ie transparency - so that everyone has access to all data used to make decisions)
Forgot to add (1994), right?
I wonder how much it costs to improve the working conditions to basic hygiene? Anyone has any idea? I want to compare it to the top executive salary and see how much of a pay cut they will have to take
Cambridge Quantum Computing applies Category Theory to development of quantum computing algorithms. Recent paper by Bob Coecke: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05327. Look up more papers by Bob Coecke and co-authors on Arxiv.

Cambridge Quantum Computing and Honeywell Quantum Solutions recently merged to form Quantinuum. I work on the hardware side at Quantinuum. I don't actually use or apply Category Theory on a day to day basis but I know it is useful.
December 2020:

> Fauci Predicts U.S. Could See Signs Of Herd Immunity By Late March Or Early April

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/1...

> "I would say 50% would have to get vaccinated before you start to see an impact," Fauci said. "But I would say 75 to 85% would have to get vaccinated if you want to have that blanket of herd immunity."

Talking about herd immunity doesn't make sense unless the vaccine prevented transmission.

Then, May 2021:

> Masks off? Fauci confirms ‘extremely low’ risk of transmission, infection for vaccinated

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/dr-fauci-confirms-extreme...
Infection-conferred immunity is inferior to vaccine-conferred immunity.
> In such high numbers that you need dedicated anti suicide infrastructure?

Let’s be honest here, it’s a bit of net. “Dedicated anti suicide infrastructure” Jesus Christ pull the other one.

I’m curious how many people would have to commit suicide before you’d splash out on some nets? I think one would do it for me…
I want there to be world peace and all dogs to be happy and I think that is reasonable, but I also understand that it is not likely to happen. To be honest I feel that is pretty similar.

If someone wants to get paid for something, it needs to be explicitly charged for. Can always set up a patreon or something and only give it to backers or whatever. If they give something away for free I think it is a stretch to expect to be paid for it just because someone else finds it useful.
I remember when asked about what to say to the American people about the pandemic who are scared. His response was to lash out. It was such a easy slam dunk question, I was almost inspired to create a you tube video asking people to remix it and answer the question like a president.
Won't help if the finder of the floppies has a Mac. I have a bunch of old floppy disks, but from what I've read online, you can't even hook a USB floppy drive to a Mac anymore. All that code is gone from the OS.
I would be willing to pay extra for Apple devices made here in America.

All American engineering and design, all American manufacturing. I think it's a real possibility; Apple has deep pockets and the ability to plan ahead and is the perfect company to bring manufacturing to the 21st century thanks to innovation and automation.
You want to use C anyhow as you want to make sure you have control over the code that is output.

For example the following code you know what the assembly is going to be.

strcmp(char* a, char* b);

strcmp(str1,str2);

If you do the above as a template you can run into some weird issues that you may not be expecting. So while tedious, you would need to make your own wscmp. You also have to be very careful so that you don't pull in ANY libraries. Since your code needs to be 100 % independent and do the loading itself.

C++ exceptions are implemented at the OS level in windows. C++ exceptions using SEH, while there's also VEH and unhandled exceptions. You can easily use SEH for your shell code, it's just not documented well. But sadly you have to manually set this up by having something like

SetExceptionHandler(curAddr,Handler) // Where curaddr can be found by doing something like call $+5 so you remain position independent.
> Sega deserved to be punished, but these VPN twits have clearly committed a crime

I think the rest of the sentence makes it clear the author didn't intend to support defacement as punishment.
I am sympathetic to this point, but many of the older people are the professors, ostensibly the reason for students being there in the first place.
What exactly are you arguing here? I’m saying things are so bad that they KEEP making the news.

Furthermore, I’m saying that last time this happened we were promised that they didn’t know and that this would never happen again.

Yet, here we are with proof that things have not actually changed in any meaningful sense and the worlds largest company has a giant human rights problem at the core of their supply chain and there is no way they can claim ignorance this time. They are looking the other way on purpose..
Curious. How does freezing layers save you memory? Does it save compute time much?

I understand the frozen layers do not need gradients to be stored?
Myanmar military reverts to strategy of massacres, burnings
>Nobody writes “January 01, 2022”

Lots of people do. I certainly do. Like, you can literally put "January 01" into a search engine and see the results you get.
there should be an application layer protocol and corresponding browser that only transmits things that do not require a large corporation for the creation and maintenance of the software that is used to display those things. why would i describe it that way instead of some other way? because that is really the core of the issue. we can focus on making the web simpler for the sake of user experience but what really matters is whether a new web would have many smaller organizations maintaining browsers or just one huge company maintaining the browser that 99% of people use. in the former case, browsers are subject to a market and would therefore be faster, safer, better maintained and conform to the preferences of the user, ie open source and no spyware. in the latter case the browser is only good if you are lucky, the well-being of a single company has a disproportionate impact on the ability of people to browse the web and their browser will probably spy on you.

javascript was created because we didnt know how the web would be used. now that the web is part of everyones lives and we know basically how we use it and what role it plays, what reason is there for this giant lumbering mess that is javascript that needs an army of people to interpret and is the source of countless security problems?
When 100% of the population was dry tinder hospitals were under strain X.

Now we have 1/10th that by your estimate. Why wouldn't we be under significantly less strain?
> > Robert W Malone is one of the inventors of mRNA vaccines, according to wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Malone

> > His last tweets: "Pfizer, Moderna Vaccines ‘Dramatically Increase’ Heart Attack Risk, Renowned Cardiologist Warns"

> Malone received criticism for propagating COVID-19 misinformation, including making unsupported claims about the alleged toxicity of spike proteins generated by some COVID-19 vaccines;[2][12][4][24] using interviews on mass media to popularize self-medication with ivermectin;[25] and tweeting a study by others questioning vaccine safety that was later retracted.[2] He said LinkedIn suspended his account over what he claimed were posts he had made questioning the efficacy of some COVID-19 vaccines.[26] Malone has also claimed that the Pfizer–BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines could worsen COVID-19 infections.[1]

I wonder why people get off track so far at some points. Same with AIDS french researcher whose name escapes me at the moment.
this was my thought too. but now you need an ALTER CONSTRAINT NON ENFORCING or something like that so that the "constraints" can be present declaratively but don't actually get used.

which then looks a whole lot like you're just introducing macros into SQL where you have some symbolic keywords that expand out into pre-fabricated ON clauses.
Why does everything list CDU as a catch-all for centre-right then? It's even on the wiki.
They're a relatively well-known company, currently owned by LogMeIn, though that seems like it will be changing. It's definitely not some solo person's side project or anything. They're one of the most well-known names (whether good or bad) in the password manager category.

While they have had security trouble in the past- they're big enough that it's not surprising at all to me that many people, including those on HN, are their customers.

I would also not be surprised if they lose a chunk of tech-savvy customers over this- as they should.
They are also tremendously slow

When you're only reading 1.44 megs of data, speed isn't that big a deal.
> Income tax generates tax revenue just as well

Income tax generates tax revenue. Whether it's "just as well" as other forms of taxing is debatable. In at least some countries, wealth is taxed less than labour, which increases a class distinction. Less income taxes in favour of other taxes may redress that balance.

Or it may not - economists and ouija boards can give you predictions.
> It’s a waste of everyone’s time and money.

Isn't incarcerating a person who's not a danger to others and who's crime had no harmful outcomes a waste of everyone's time and money?

> 6 months does not sound like the disproportionate punishment many make it out to be

I encourage you to learn about the conditions in prisons. Imprisoned persons are frequently subject to physical and sexual violence at the hands of guards and other incarcerated people. These are inhumane conditions to subject anyone to, mass murderer and copyright-infringer alike.
Fine, the following page shows their net profits from 2006 - 2020.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266194/net-income-of-pha...

This shows three years of Phizer netting in the neighborhood of 20 billion. This year they've hit 20 billion net in the first nine months. Let's see in a couple of weeks by how much they've blown away their previous record of 22 billion.

Ultimately, is there any reason to pretend these profits have nothing to do with the vaccine?
"common"
The latter. An ISP - within the guard rails set by GDPR and other privacy laws - can store customer data for their own purposes. But the government won’t require them to do so.
> So perhaps living up to the stereotype of manliness is not the most important thing in the world.

I think some things are being conflated here. There is the stereotype of manliness, conforming to which requires you to do or have interest in stereotypically manly things (sports, cars, home improvement, working outside, being tough, being reticent to show emotion). But there's also failure to conform to adultness -- being able to call a cab, order food, pay bills, manage finances, maintain steady employment.

It sounds that Swartz, though not stereotypically manly, was also not stereotypically adult. The former's not a problem -- I'm not manly either, I say as I cuddle my pet rabbit -- but failure to be an adult can cause issues (at least for those without such indulgent friends and family as Swartz had).
In that case (using the article's analogies), you are receiving a gift (GPL/FOSS software), and choosing to give them a gift as well (money). Both transactions are 100% no strings attached.
* George Washington was dealing with smallpox which kills 20—30 % of those infected.

* Quarantines have been used since the middle ages and they were used against people showing symptoms or groups of people likely to have the disease. We haven't had quarantines with covid. We've shut down society as a whole.
You can install VirtualBox and pass the USB floppy device through to any OS that can read it.
> If you are knowledgeable about precision manufacturing and supply lines, you'll know that it is not that simple.

They have 200 BILLION dollars CASH on hand. It might not be "simple" but it's certainly not impossible when you're richer than Croesus.
A better headline would be "MO Governor makes a fool of himself repeatedly". I would feel safe betting money on the reporter's continued freedom - the more important question is how much the paper will need to spend on legal defense before it gets thrown out. Which I suspect is actually the point, unless Parson really is that dumb.
That’s not true. It’s perfectly reasonable to keep some operational logs for debugging purposes for a few hours or even days.
Can we stop comparing low wage workers with slavery? Slavery is much worse, at least how it was practiced in North America. It was more than low wages and and economically exploitative relationship, it was a different set of laws & rights for an ethnic group.

Slaves had severe legal restrictions on movement, education, religion, marriage, and participating in commerce. Slaves also had very limited legal protections against bodily harm caused by their masters. This is an inherently different type of relationship than someone working in a Foxconn factory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_codes
Post-hoc, ergo propter hoc. 75 year olds have a tendency to die, a plurality from cardiovascular failure (pre-covid).
Idiocracy imagines a future so dumb that Idiocracy is the acme of political satire for the Jen Psakis of the world.
We are if you want to be. Just stop talking about him and ignore people that do.
> Even USING and NATURAL are just syntactic sugar that depends on the structure of the table, not on any underlying constraints.

Similar to how JOIN FOREIGN would depend on the structure of the data model, defined by tables, foreign keys, etc.

> So, what you have proposed, "allowing a user to drop the referential integrity check if desired, but keeping the relationship definition" would be a massive change to tons of SQL tools out there as it's a huge new feature, for some minor syntactic sugar. Ain't gonna happen.

Why would it be a problem from the tools perspective if the foreign key wasn't actually enforced if the DBA insists on temporarily disabling the enforcement of the FK? If the tool would e.g. be used to insert a row, and the DB would accept it, even though it would violate the FK, what do you suggest would be the problem from the tools perspective?

This is also not a new idea. It's already implemented in MSSQL, see WITH NOCHECK.
We are literally in a comment section of a set of very specific reports detailing the exact problems in the conditions. This is not some hypothetical where we need to “wait for the statistics to compare how many standard deviations about the median these workers are”.

There is very clearly a big problem here. That isn’t click bait.
I also remember plenty of floppies that I’ve written data to not even surviving the 30 minute cycle to college back in the 90s.

I think stray magnetic fields were more of a problem back then. Fridge magnets, magnetic clasps on wallets and bags, magnetic clasps on notebooks and binders, etc. There were lots of hidden opportunities for corruption.

These days, nobody worries about the mag stripe on their credit card getting wiped. But it was an active concern back then.
Trying to get a prosecution against a cop is almost impossible. For starters, the primary body you must report a crime by a cop to is the police station where he works, as generally they will have jurisdiction over the issue. And they are going to laugh you out of the station. What's your next move? Go to the prosecutor and complain? ROFL.

Believe me, I've tried all of these avenues. I should scan the letters I've received from these agencies, they're hilarious. Basically they'll come back and say that they have a policy of not investigating crimes by their officers and officers from other jurisdictions. I've even taken this through the courts. If the crime was committed as part of an investigation into a suspected crime, then the courts ruled that it is acceptable and not actionable.

The news articles you see where the cops actually got indicted are the million-to-ones. Even Kim Foxx (State's Attorney for Cook County - i.e. Chicago) has stated in interviews that even if she gets an indictment against a cop, getting a conviction is almost impossible.
This would be a disaster for a lot of people.
I wish it just had a "group by all the stuff I selected without aggregation" shortcut
https://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/iphone-12-pro-max.htm
> America's nukes got hacked literally the same month they proudly announced that they had modernized away from floppies.

You're conflating two entirely different things. US nukes were not hacked, that's a massive exaggeration.

"Shaylyn Hynes, a DOE spokesperson, said that an ongoing investigation into the hack has found that the perpetrators did not get into critical defense systems."

"They found suspicious activity in networks belonging to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories in New Mexico and Washington, the Office of Secure Transportation at NNSA, and the Richland Field Office of the DOE."

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/17/nuclear-agency-hack...
Sber also has an open-source version of GPT-3 for Russian.

Sber is a state-owned Russian bank which is a pretty funny detail given that a lot of banks can't even built a decent mobile app.
Something using Bright Lines would be my first thought.
> If we look at existing laws, it should be. Depicting an underage person even when the actor is an adult is illegal, I think, in every country. So adult actress portraying a minor is illegal. So why not pixels depicting young girls should be illegal?

Due to that pesky First Amendment, this is not illegal in the USA. The USA bans child pornography under the rubric that producing or even viewing it implicates the perpetrator in the abuse of a child. If no actual child abuse is taking place, they can't ban it.

Cartoon images and the like may be banned if they depict an actual minor.
The Omicron curve in South Africa looks like a Bell curve and is in the process of dropping as fast as it rose. Without vaccines or boosters.

Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/28/omicron-is-not...

"Omicron is “not the same disease we were seeing a year ago” and high Covid death rates in the UK are “now history”, a leading immunologist has said."
I can't see how #3 scales under any write load unless you have no joins.|

Well, unless each node has a complete copy of the data?
Can't you use an alias in a group by?
One can only speculate but I can't imagine how many companies will avoid investing in security here, because they think that the secrets in their git repos and S3 buckets are perfectly safe, and they allow some people to skip 2FA because it's too inconvenient for them, and some people have root access on AWS because it's easier, etc. Maybe even giving the job to people who don't have much experience in the field and are still learning how to set up things in the cloud.

A publicly accessible S3 bucket suggests that someone mistakenly thought it was private, even by obscurity.
I worked on an air-defense system upgrade (ground and airborne radar integration) 1981-1986 where we installed 8" floppy drives. At the time they were being installed, they were already obsolete. The backstory on this includes (A) The goal is to have the system be operational at least 20 years. (B) the procurement cycle is about 10 years long from "we need this" to "it's operational". You want to decide on your hardware at about year 3 in the procurement process. (C) You know your hardware won't be supported by commercial vendors for this length of time, so you need to develop an Integrated Logistics Plan (ILP) that includes complete troubleshooting, maintenance and repair processes (manuals written from scratch). We were replacing card readers with 8" floppy drives. Wee! The systems described here far outlived the planned-for 20 years being operational.
To me Idiocracy is a disgusting classist assault on the poor. Whenever I hear someone praise it my opinion of them drops like an aeroplane with a broken wing.
Essentially yes. That technique is not exclusive to ruDALL-E; large models often freeze early layers and train lower layers only due to VRAM constraints.