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If someone is charged with and found innocent of a crime, you can't just remove that record. If someone else later finds an account of them being accused, they need a way to credibly assert that they were found innocent. Alternately if they are convicted and served their sentence, they might need to prove that in the future.

Sometimes people are unfairly ostracized for their past, but I think a policy of deleting records will do more harm than good.


Or in the case of, down the road, repeating an offense. The judge sees you had an issue in the past, was good for a while, then repeated, suggesting an event or something has happened or that the individual has lost their motivation to stay reformed. Sentencing to time for the crime but then also being able to assist the individual in finding help to get them back on track. We have the systems in place to do this, we just don’t.

Also, when applying for a loan, being a sex offender shouldn’t matter. When applying for a mortgage across the street from an elementary school, it should.

The only way to have a system like that is to keep records, permanently, but decision making is limited.


> Also, when applying for a loan, being a sex offender shouldn’t matter. When applying for a mortgage across the street from an elementary school, it should.

Should it though? You can buy a piece of real estate without living there, e.g. because it's a rental property, or maybe the school is announced to be shutting down even though it hasn't yet. And in general this should have nothing to do with the bank; why should they care that somebody wants to buy a house they're not allowed to be in?

Stop trying to get corporations to be the police. They're stupendously bad at it and it deprives people of the recourse they would have if the government was making the same mistake directly.


Yeah I agree, a corporation should not only not care, they should be actively prevented from being allowed to make discriminations base on anything outside of whether they can pay or not. If they sense a potential other problem, at worst it should be reported to police or some other governmental authority, it simply isn't their business otherwise.

To me any other viewpoint inevitably leads to abuse of one group or class or subset of society or another. If they are legally allowed to discriminate in some ways, they will seek to discriminate in others, both in trying to influence law changes to their benefit and in skirting the law when it is convenient and profitable.


There should be ways for a corporation to vet based on severity of the role to match the severity of the candidate, backgrounds included. Cases like, you wouldn’t want to hire a CFO who has been convicted of fraud. Likewise you wouldn’t want a president who’s been convicted of crimes either.

But if you don’t need access to sensitive information, you aren’t dealing with corporate funds or accounting, just a cog in the machine, I don’t think it should matter.

The issue is now, even the smallest issue from years ago is flagged by an AI, which in turn rejects you from a downstream workflow, which doesn’t put you in the hiring managers lap.


>Also, when applying for a loan, being a sex offender shouldn’t matter. When applying for a mortgage across the street from an elementary school, it should.

I'm not sure we can write that much more COBOL.


Nobody is found innocent in UK courts.

You are found Guilty or confirmed you continue to be Not Guilty.

In Scotland there was also the verdict "not proven" but that's no longer the case for new trials


> If someone else later finds an account of them being accused, they need a way to credibly assert that they were found innocent.

At the heart of Western criminal law is the principle: You are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

Western systems do not formally declare someone "innocent".

A trial can result in two outcomes: Guilty or Not Guilty (acquittal). Note that the latter does not mean the person was proven innocent.


> If someone is charged with and found innocent of a crime, you can't just remove that record. If someone else later finds an account of them being accused, they need a way to credibly assert that they were found innocent.

Couldn't they just point to the court system's computer showing zero convictions? If it shows guilty verdicts then showing none is already proof there are none.


1.7x more is not the same as 1.7x as many.


It's a lost cause. "It's two times faster!"


Some TypeScript features are only available through JSDoc. The one I encounter most often is `@deprecated`.


What do you mean? Jsdoc has it

https://jsdoc.app/tags-deprecated


I think he’s saying that only JSDoc has it. Vanilla TS doesn’t.


Isn't that what I said?


There's a Kingdom Hearts joke in there somewhere, but I don't know enough of the lore to make it.


I tried on my own but couldn't beat Claude for punch:

"Disney putting their characters into something called Sora with a confusing roadmap and lore nobody fully understands. We've come full circle"


We're all suffering from the curse of dimensionality.


In-band signaling can never be secure. Doesn't anyone remember the Captain Crunch whistle?


The search deals were already not exclusive. The real impact will be the other businesses (especially GenAI) where Google will be barred from having exclusivity clauses in its contracts.

-update- CNBC has fixed their headline.


GenAI is a bubble, an inflated nothingburger that DOJ ate like a chocolate muffin.


I don't think that blueflow is being obtuse at all. If you assert that genes have an intended way of working, then the questions

> How do we know how things are intended to work? (Intended by whom?)

are very salient. Your reply talking about

> …a specific receptor in the body is not working properly.

just raises the same question again. What does it mean for something in our biology to be working "properly"? Who is deciding what is "proper"?


> …as intended.

Genes and biology in general do not have "intended" purposes.


Genes are what define the instructions guiding biological development and so could be considered to be what defines the intention. With Morris syndrome, factors prevent the genetic instructions from guiding development as defined by the genes. With Morris syndrome, the lack of androgen receptors leads to the genetic sexual development, as guided by the genes, of a male to be suppressed. Swyer syndrome also commonly arises from spontaneous mutations (not being passed from parental genetic material) and can have malignant consequences. A large percentage of those with the condition develop gonadoblastoma.


Who felt this intention? God?


I'm referring to how genes modulate development according to their set of instructions. The way that these genetic instructions are set to be executed can be considered their intention. I'm being liberal in my use of the word "intention" here, but I don't think your absurdist take on my wording was in good faith, so to speak, or constructive.


The state of the universe (including biological facts) has no intentions, i don't know what you are trying to say here or what else you would mean when you say "Intention". It sounds like the sayings of someone who believes in an higher order of things.


Once again, this absurdist interpretation of what I spelled out, based on taking one word out of context, is in bad faith.


Like, you started this subthread contesting neallindsay's (and mine) understanding[1] of "Intention", so this is on you.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44714148


Unicode support in Ruby has been great since the beginning.


It's a bit weirder than that, in my opinion. Ruby didn't really gain "unicode support" in the sense we mean it today until 1.9.

Before that, Ruby did "support encodings" in a sense, but a lot of the APIs were byte oriented. It was awkward in general.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180331093051/http://graysoftin...


No, it was not great during 1.x times. But it has been fairly good since 2.0


So for at least 12 years then. 2.0 was released in 2013.


Only if you count 1.9.2 as the beginning. What is being talked about is Unicode by default and maybe Unicode tooling (i.e. can correctly iterate over emojis and not just bytes)


right it was the python string transition i was talking about


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