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Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons

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vidluther
·há 3 meses·discuss
how is this different than cmux or soloterm? or just having my own panes within iTerm?

I guess I need to learn/use tmux and see the benefits.. considering I work locally and can leave my iterm open for days I still haven't caught on to why it's so cool.
vidluther
·há 3 meses·discuss
good catch, I think the classifier saw the "distribution" in the sentence and assumed it was drug related. I could probably run each sentence against an ai model to classify things..

probably run it against something small like haiku and not cost me an arm and a leg.
vidluther
·há 3 meses·discuss
I'm exposing the database that I use to build the site now as well.

https://pardonned.com/pardonned.db
vidluther
·há 3 meses·discuss
I don't know what SPARQL is.. so no :)
vidluther
·há 3 meses·discuss
are you asking me? if so.. I don't think I understand your question.
vidluther
·há 3 meses·discuss
I'm thinking of exposing the sqlite db, and now possibly this JSON file as well.. I can take both during the build process and throw them up on CF. Great idea, thank you.
vidluther
·há 3 meses·discuss
It's a play on Donald Trump, after watching a Liz Oyer video linking a very plausible pardon for sale scheme, I wanted to initially build a site that showcased pardons just by Trump, but I realized that would be partisan and not as useful.
vidluther
·há 3 meses·discuss
Interesting story, but I do not see her name in the list of pardons and commutations on the source website twice.

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-presiden...

She only shows up here

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-grants-president-don...
vidluther
·há 3 meses·discuss
correct.
vidluther
·há 3 meses·discuss
not sure why you think it's intentional. But, created a github issue, and will work on that today/tonight.. yay GLM 5.1 :)

https://github.com/vidluther/pardonned/issues/23
vidluther
·há 3 meses·discuss
that is in the works. Working on making sure the data of the pardons is correct first.
vidluther
·há 3 meses·discuss
i am calculating it if it's available in the sentence details. If the sentence details don't have a fine or restitution then we can't calculate it.
vidluther
·há 3 meses·discuss
Hmm, I see the issue.. The DOJ website lists all of Obama's as once, so I need to modify the parser.. https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-bar...

Compare that to the other list. https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-recipients
vidluther
·há 3 meses·discuss
@nonameiguess I agree on the pardon buying, the reason why I started looking into building this was because of a video by Liz Oyer, who pointed out all the restitution and fines that were being forgiven under Trump.

That's kind of how I came upon the name for the site, I wanted to see if there is any truth to the rumors that people are selling and buying pardons. In order to investigate that, we needed a set of data to start from, in a manner that was easily queryable as opposed to what's on the DOJ website.
vidluther
·há 3 meses·discuss
I did not know that. Thanks for the lesson.
vidluther
·há 3 meses·discuss
Thanks for the heads up on that.. there's a lot of massaging/cross checking that still needs to be done. Right now the numbers are based purely on what the sentence is described on the DOJ website.

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-grants-president-don...

cmd-f trevor milton .. if the text for the sentence column doesn't say anything about a fine or restitution the system is not going to be able to figure that out.

The numbers for the prison time reduced is also technically incorrect, Ross Ulbricht, Rod Blagojevich and many others had already served many years in prison, so technically we should not count that as time reduced.
vidluther
·há 3 meses·discuss
A bunch of mass commutations have occurred under Obama, Biden, and most recently under Trump, I'm working on a comparison tool, so we can visualize the change in number of pardons by president, further breakdown of composition is an interesting idea as well.
vidluther
·há 3 meses·discuss
That disclaimer is there for now to make it clear that we're not showing that data yet. I need to figure out how to show the mass commutations done by Biden as well.

Working on a comparison tool, so we can see # of pardons over admins, it seems the number of pardons has been going up each administration.
vidluther
·há 3 meses·discuss
So this was the first time (i think) anyone got a preemptive pardon, the actual warrant on the DOJ website says what it says.. https://www.justice.gov/pardon/media/1385756/dl?inline

Will have to crunch through the offenses in the db and see if anything else like this shows up.
vidluther
·há 4 meses·discuss
Location: India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: N Technologies: AWS, Linux, NodeJS (Express, NestJS, Typescript, Javascript, React, NextJS, Supabase, MongoDB, Prisma) Résumé/CV: https://luther.io Email: [email protected]