skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Colorado Senate concerning Assembly Bill 99 which will auto-erase the records of non-violent offenders

Being able to expunge records helps, but if you really want to help people with criminal records re-enter the workforce, you have to fix business liability insurance. Insurers often the ones forcing the issue in hiring practices by rate increase or by clauses that will not cover an ex-offender. A rate increase for a 200 employee company will cost what hiring 3-4 people costs, so everyone wants to help until they find out what the hidden costs are. In Indiana we fixed this, and it is much easier to hire people with records, and did more to help expunging records.

Removing records does not help much when asked "have you ever been convicted" and get caught telling less than the truth. The lie itself is often considered moral turpitude by the employer. Laws that make it ok to lie, never work as expected for anyone.
> You won't boot them off the internet by chasing them from every provider, because they'll find one who doesn't care, or do it themselves.

Yeah, Gab is also using Cloudflare and it seems that as long as Gab takes down illegal content (CP, copyright infringement, etc) Cloudflare won't do anything.

I expect Kiwifarms to also do the same and Cloudflare will not do anything else.
>> All of the things you complain about happen on the business side of the table.

> Are you sure about that?

> here's the head of the UAW being placed on leave for fraud:

Corporate executives commit fraud and malfeasance all the time on a scale commensurate with their greater power and wealth. They rarely face serious consequences for it. The Wells Fargo fake accounts scandal broke over 5 years ago and hasn't resulted in criminal charges for anyone. Purdue Pharma essentially murdered tens of thousands of people, and the end result for the Sackler family will be that they won't get to keep all of the billions they made off of it. And, of course, the 2008 financial crash. I could go on.
If you think about it, isn't buying insurance pretty similar (especially if you pay extra for really rare insurance policies, like lightning strike insurance).

You're essentially making a bet with your insurance company that xxxx will happen. Just like with the lottery, the expected monetary value of insurance is always negative (it has to be, otherwise the insurance company won't make money), but the utility value of that insurance is different for each person.

E.g. for me, insurance on a phone doesn't make sense, since I easily buy a another cheap phone if mine breaks. But for somebody with less money, those few hundred dollars might have a much higher utility.
> girl was at all times the lawful owner of the goat. The goat was not legally sold.

The complaint leaves this far from settled.

> why police need to not play cowboy

They got a warrant [1].

> if your car is stolen and you see it in somebody's garage, the police are NOT just going to grab it and hand it back to you

I have recovered my phone from someone’s house with the help of police. They coöperated and in exchange I didn’t press charges. Had they not, I would have pressed, they’d have been arrested and sure, a court would have been involved. To the extent the police acted outside their authority, it was in not arresting.

[1] https://dig.abclocal.go.com/kgo/PDF/2022-08-31-Complaint.pdf page 9
(Long time member, but anon for this one, sry)

I'll bite. True story.

This company hired a young guy. Extremely likable dude. (100% female, if that matters) HR loves him, not likes, loves him. Undenyably charming chap. He's hired in a technical position despite having no real education in IT or Computer Science, nor any previous experience.

Turns out he was involved in a fairly recent murder case, did pre-arrest and out on bail. Never mentioned any of it on his CV/application. Things only suface when his trial and subsequent post conviction jailtime comes up.

So, he hired a few other guys to break in and rob an elderly person, who had under his charms confided in him she had a safe full of shinies. Not just hired, he drove them to the site to commit the robbery. They end up killing the eldery woman during the breakin/robbery. The safe turned out to be a fancifull story the granny told the guy.

Murder wasn't solved, but his hired hands start balckmailing him, threathning to rat him out (he was a waiter in a place the elderly woman fequented, where he charmed her). As the blackmail progresses, he sees no way out and walks to the police to cut a deal.

Trial happens, he gets convicted with a light sentence because of ''çooperation'', and after not too long here he is back at the company. HR sends out feelers to the employees (it's a small company of around 50 employees), but it is clear they're still 100% charmed and the whole thing is just to see who would quit once they hired him back so they can prepare.

Now for the kicker: While he was at the company before the trial, and before the company had any idea of his past, he had pitched a SaaS market platform scheme for 'services to the elderly', involving a full database of sensitive info on elderly persons living alone at home.

After his (very) short jail sentence, he is hired back by the company on the same scheme.

Now I've always been an open minded person. I think people can change (infrequently mind you, but possible). But there seem to be too many notes here to not call it a symphony. I have worked with charming psychopaths in the past as has anyone who has been in this business for some time, and you do get better at spotting certain things.

Your thoughts?
Thank you for this. Captures my feelings perfectly as well. You're right about those hugs, hah! I don't think I ever even noticed before, looking back on memories that are now a decade old. Never self-promoting indeed!
What is the point that you're trying to make here?

I'm sure we've all experienced situations where we realize that the work we're being paid to do is futile and will never reach achieve it's intended purpose. It's really demoralizing but the thing to remember in that situation is that you're still getting paid.

Would you rather be an aeronautical engineer who gets paid and doesn't launch of a rocket, or an aeronautical engineer who doesn't get paid and doesn't launch a rocket?
Other forks have done it.

They've already chosen, no?
They offered to make the other party whole.

If they were careless and a wild animal killed the goat, theyd not of unconditionally committed a crime, theyd only need to make the other party whole.
Why do people always think that things from the past are simply not real.

“They”(us in the future) could say the exact same thing about all the things that are real in our current lives.

All these mythical creatures (soon to be extinct)

Having such a surplus of fresh water.

At a certain point they will just deny Dubai was created
> The findings were somewhat lackluster: it found that the psychedelic was only marginally better than traditional treatments at relieving depression.

Err, what? What could possibly be lackluster about that? A one time (or few times) treatment does marginally better than a daily pill? Even if taken at face value, that's a spectacular result.
That might be right.

I took it in the spirit of climate change advocates who tend to argue for immediate radical change. Underlying those arguments is a belief that we will not be able to address problems as they arise in the future.

I think we will. I believe in the power of human ingenuity to respond to constraints of the environment. That’s what I took it to mean; the ability to solve unsolved problems when the need arises.
Money's one thing. Quality of life for that money is another.

My statutory minimum holiday allowance is 20 days[0], plus public holidays, plus sick leave[1], plus extra leave for things like weddings and funerals, plus parents get 3 years parental leave[2].

[0] my actual paid holiday allowance is higher than that

[1] for example, I opened a tin of tomatoes badly during the pandemic, and gouged out a 2 mm x 2 mm x 20 mm region of skin on my finger, bleeding profusely. I got a paid week off work for it to heal.

[2] Not sure the details, looks like it changed recently, but I think at least some of that is paid leave, between €(300+150) and €(1800+900) per month.
I think you're forgetting we're talking about felons. I'm an underdog who is now a full-time software developer (thanks to the Underdogs & Rick ;) and trust me if I could be a doctor <insert career> that would take a felon I'd be happy to try. But here in America, it's not that easy. Especially when you have laws that flat out bar you. So though you might be right for your average citizen but once you get to our end it's not the same. Coding really is the best route for us felons. And thats from experiance.
That centers race a bit much. There weren't black people in medieval Europe, but nor were there white people. We're projecting contemporary racial categories onto a past where they didn't exist. The question of whether there were black people in Europe is akin to asking what did people there think of the USSR.

That said, yes, people we'd currently code as black existed in Europe, though disproportionately in entrepots in the Mediterranean. If you proceed to e.g. Elizabethan England, most people wouldn't have been confused by the sight of a black person (cf Othello), though they'd likely be something of a curiousity (though still not considered black in the contemporary sense).
An analogy that may resonate with readers here is that targeting zero fraud is like targeting 100% uptime in a computer system. You evaluate the business trade-offs and decide how many 9s of non-fraud are appropriate, knowing that (1) each additional 9 is more expensive than the last but only gives you 1/10 of the benefit, and therefore (2) infinity 9s (equivalent to zero fraud/100% uptime) is a useless aspiration for all practical purposes.
Now that you mention it, I have to admit obviousness is not the distinction between Succession and Dragon. I guess the dragon characters just seem dull to me, and I don't really care about what they are up to.
My family have a lot of computers for various reasons.

One of them is a HP laptop from 2003 or so, running Windows XP and Ubuntu.

It still works just fine, and often is lifesaver when more recent laptops just break for no reason.

That thing from 2003 just keep working happily, refusing to die no matter what.
Indeed, while I don't want to diminish the cost and disruption of walking out of a job, it's much less likely to have long repercussions in industry than academia. In all of the industry jobs that I've never held, nobody has ever asked me for a letter of recommendation, and I don't think any of my employers have even checked my references. Also, changing jobs in industry without the blessing of your current employer, even after a brief tenure, raises no eyebrows.

The situation is even worse for grad students, who leave empty-handed if they walk out. I had a great advisor, but I also heard horror stories from friends.
It’s not so much that it’s explicit strategy. It’s more that tech companies look for high performers, and the H1B situation creates high performers through extortion. The companies are happy to take advantage of it.
IT seems to be stuck in an endless loop of package management/versioning/install problems.
> Unions may or may not have bankrupted companies

there is no "may or may not".. Unions DID bankrupt several companies.

It is odd you wrote what you did because how many times has the US government ever have to intervene in a corporation due to mob involvement?

"FEDS AGREE TO REDUCE OVERSIGHT OF ONCE-MOB-CORRUPTED TEAMSTERS UNION"

the Department of Justice has a nice site on unions and organized crime

https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ocgs/infiltrated-labor-unio...

As i said, there is a line between "too powerful unions" and "too powerful companies".

You tell us, how much violence did teamsters and their MOB inflict?

where's mr Hoffa?
It is uniform enough in the sense that I don't experience the discrimination people experience due to being non-white, or poor, or gay. Maybe I experience discrimination as a white man, so far I haven't been aware of it, and if I were able to decode it as such, that would be a valid intersectional study. I posit for example that were I to live in say, Japan, I would experience discrimination due to my race. That the article seems to address mostly western if not american academia is valid, imo. That it "demonizes" white men? Way less so.
SpaceX could absolutely launch a mars mission with their existing rocket platforms and launch infrastructure.

It would be tedious launching little pieces of a larger ship and assembling them in orbit but it could absolutely be done.

Instead of doing that they're choosing to build better, bigger rockets, and more infrastructure to make the eventual launches to mars more cost-effective and substantial.
Please post peer reviewed papers and not sensationalist articles. You’ll quickly see how wrong you are
Just a heads up, the issue was likely grub, grub had a breaking change for certain EFI devices. You can check arch news etc for more info. I had to chroot and fix my laptop the other day cause it was stuck boot looping after I upgraded.
If you're doing $70/hr in the UK at CISO level you're way under some of your competitors.

Heck Pentesters charge more than that and they're 50%+ cheaper in the UK than the US.

My hourly rate in the UK as an Big-4 Infosec consultant 15+ years ago was way more than that and I wasn't doing CISO work. Partners (who were the kind of people doing that kind of work) were 10x your rate back then.
I agree with everything you say here. I was unaware that people have taken it so seriously as to feel compelled to learn to code. I agree with you, its being marketed everywhere.

And you are spot on about the other options (for employment) not being discussed. I think plumbing and HVAC (here in Florida HVAC techs are in constant demand) are reasonable options to pursue for many folks getting out but you dont see it discussed as much.

Obviously the allure of a high salary is one of the reasons people talk about coding more but the consistent demand for the less discussed skills should be factored in. Its damn near a sure bet you can find work if you learn HVAC or plumbing. In all transparency I only have seen and heard of the demand second hand, I dont know for certain. Ive never done either of those trades.

and no offense taken. Nonetheless thank you for explaining further.
25-35$ per hour, im in EU so this is the maximum I can get away with
It's a big complex project that legislators decreed should re-use ancient engines and structural components from the shuttle - a project that was the world's first space-faring barrel of pork, infamous for its operating expenditures.

One of the arguments for doing so was that the engines were "proven."

checks news story

Oh hey, it's the engines that are causing these delays.

NASA has been so over-budget on the project, they had to commit accounting fraud to try and cover it up.
The mission of Artemis is to land a woman and a person of color on the moon. It is a federally funded affirmative action program.
oh im so sorry, i think its a bug if you make a account straight up without trying out by clicking "try without signup" this happens, fix as of now would be just to logout by clicking on the account icon on the side

im so sorry, i apologize for this, i'm working on it, and will be fixed as soon as possible, thankyou so much letting me know
Face information sampling in super-recognizers
Scoped destruction is awesome in general, and I agree that it is superior to defer.

I think one case where defer might be nicer is for things that are not strictly memory, e.g. inserting some element into a container and removing it after the function finishes (or setting a flag and restoring it).

This can be done with a guard object in RAII languages, but it's a bit unintuitive. Defer makes it very clear what is going on.
If they do then the Earth already qualifies as hostile to human life
That's correct. And at the time they first "tried" to back out, the goat had not been sold. At that point, everybody was on notice that the goat was not for sale. No valid sale could have occurred after that first attempt. It's not that they "tried" to back out. They did back out. And the only available remedy for that was money damages, not random extraducial confiscation of property.

By the way, on top of that, California law explicitly gives minors the right to back out of major sales even after they are concluded. So in fact they couldn't even have gotten money damages.
> That leaves the former Silicon Valley star a step closer to serving prison time.

Don't appeals usually occur _from_ prison? Why was she not immediately incarcerated after the guilty verdict?
DBOS: A database-oriented operating system
Fine, use another word then. The FBI interfered in an election, call it censorship or not. That's the issue, not the specific semantics you're worried about.
I had a similar education starting around 25 years ago, and my experience is different than yours. Very few of the courses I took have been directly helpful, and the ones that were indirectly helpful were very indirectly helpful.

The most helpful one was a "software engineering" course, but mostly it was c++ development in a Unix environment. The part that was directly helpful was the shell scripting, not the basics of it since I was already running Linux and knew my way around a command prompt, but the professor would demonstrate things live in class, and he was a serious pro. I was just blown away at some of the stuff he knew, he could basically operate in a shell environment at the speed of thought. I'm still not like that, but I learned some stuff.

CS 101, like you, I already knew. "Basic Computer Games" from when I was a 7 pretty much covered that.

Discrete math helped a little, I mean I already knew most of it, but it helped. Stats helped a little, the first stats class we had to take. The second was all proofs, never used any of it. Never used any of the other math, linear algebra, three semesters of calc, differential equations, and a graduate level combinatorics class that broke my brain. Never used a single bit of it.

Compilers, we wrote our own compiler, helped a tiny bit indirectly. It made PL/SQL error message make more sense, I don't remember why. Operating systems, we wrote our own operating system, don't know any way that that helped. Graphics, never used it. Two semesters of assembly, never used it.

Algorithms, the first day of class we had a substitute whose accent I couldn't understand and he spent the whole class writing proofs on the blackboard and I thought, "I am so fucked". The actual class turned out to be just things like "count how many times this for loop will execute", total waste of time. One extreme to the other.

Didn't take a database course, worked with databases most of my career. That would have helped.

You could fit the parts of the courses that I've used into a 3 month boot camp pretty easily. But that's not the point of a CS degree to employers, the point of a CS degree to employers is that if someone can figure out vector calc and differential equations, they can figure out what the bug is with your CRUD app. It's just an expensive workaround for an IQ test in an environment where employers aren't allowed to give IQ tests. And also, if they can stick around for 4 years to get a degree without flaking out, maybe they'll stick around for a few years on the job.
Which back-end programming languages do you find are most commonly required by clients who pay good rates? I'm particularly interested in the relative popularity of statically typed frameworks such as Spring Boot and ASP.Net vs Rails, Django and Laravel where serious money is at stake.
I did something like this a long time ago, and installing clang, gcc or ghc took FOREVER. I think I spent a whole day trying to install qmk just because various things required compiling. Granted my computer is old (MBP 2012).

I'm not sure it is worth the trouble. Can someone explain to me why I shouldn't just "trust" that the homebrew developers and maintainers know what they are doing and just have it installed in the default location? I get the theoretically I'm more susceptible to accidentally running a script that requires sudo, but are they any other downsides?
I doubt you can find much statistical evidence of casino legalization lowering the murder rate in cities.
> People seem to think everyone being a programmer is needed otherwise humanity will fall.

Programming is truly fun for a very select group of people. (I count myself as one of those( But even then, as a job it is almost always miserable in some form.

I encourage people to check it out if its for them, I dont think they should be gaslit into becoming programmers.
It was definitely notable enough for liberal outlets like Politico to take note: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/04/public-hea...

See also: https://www.upworthy.com/public-health-experts-defend-antira... (“More than 1200 public health experts, infectious disease professionals, and community stakeholders have signed onto an open letter explaining why they support anti-racism protests happening across the country despite the potential risk of coronavirus spread.”)
Some scams in my country have been ongoing for years cause the amount of the scam is one unit below what you can report to the right authorities. You can report to the police too but that is useless.
See, this gets to me. Do you have a license to operate a motor vehicle? That little card is supposed to indicate that you are capable of safely operating a motor vehicle. If you cannot do that; you should not have that little card. You shouldn't be relying on the car to help you. It's not your fault though. The government deemed you responsible enough to operate a vehicle and that was probably a mistake. They do it to thousands of people. Probably over half of those little cards were issued to people who shouldn't have them.

I personally think we should make different classes of drivers. Drivers licenses for people like you who can only operate vehicles under 3,000lbs with max driving assists and at most 200 horsepower. And another class of unrestricted responsible drivers for people who actually want to get where they are going in a safe, cost efficient, and time efficient manner. People who respect that they are operating a piece of heavy machinery at great speed in close proximity to other human beings with places they're trying to go, and who take that responsibility seriously.
> The same as VR, which is to say... none at all?

VAC is not yet solved for VR, and while it can be mitigated it's still significant cause of eye strain.
The whole circularity of this structure actually bring Atlantis and it's rings to mind, and also we must remember that the Sahara had a much different climate not that long ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period
Ask HN: What Is Meditation?
I have difficulty understanding what it is. Everyone advises me to do this, but there are too many interpretations that contradict each other. I give up and ask the HN community to find this answer.
https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/04/01/maximalist.html

"In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism", Vitalik Buterin
I'm not sure how what I wrote sounds like that, because if I wanted to write that, I would have. It's a lot simpler, for one.

It's a difficult concept, rhetorical charity, especially in today's climate of flinging the most reprehensible accusation in our repertoire at the slightest provocation.

As I said before, a lot of the excesses of "wokeness" is projected overcompensation for private shame about bigoted feelings.
Isn’t it expected utility that matters, not expected value? From that standpoint taking $1 million guaranteed is rational unless you already have high net worth.