skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the rest of the court found the the excessive punishment protection of the eighth amendment was applied to the states through the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment as an essential right and therefore a component of “liberty” as used in the due process clause.

Thomas disagrees with this fairly conventional incorporation argument and the idea of the protection as a fundamental right, but feels instead that a protection against excessive fines is part of the “privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States”. This distinction isn't merely semantic, though the end result in the present case is the same: under the majority view, the prohibition against excessive fines is a limitation on state government in all cases; in Thomas's view, it would not be a limit if the target of the state action were not a US citizen, since noncitizens necessarily do not enjoy the privileges and immunities of citizens.

All of the justices view it as excessive punishment, Thomas just thinks only US citizens are protected by the federal Constitution against excessive punishment by state governments, whereas the majority thinks states are Constitutionally prohibited from inflicting excessive punishment on people.
My impression after reading your answers in this thread - you're trying really hard to come up with a use case for blockchain. You didn't start with the goal to create a good publishing platform and naturally get to blockchain as the best solution. And this shows in your product, on your website and in the language you use here.

And this is obviously speculation, but I really don't think your product will be used by any significant number of people. They just won't have a good enough reason to.
It does happen, but it's rare. You have to be a true spammer or phisher to get shut down, and we've found that Google is a lot more lenient with G Suite accounts than regular gmail.com accounts.
Too Much Structure in Software Development?
I'm baffled by the desire to impose huge overhead and structure in software engineering for the purpose of "making errors evident at compile time rather than at runtime." This sounds great in theory but the practice has gotten ridiculous in my humble opinion. AngularJS is a wonderful language but now we are recommended to move to Angular - javascript moves to typescript etc... I hate typescript & I hate Angular now. Classes forced onto javascript! Man that was one of the beautiful things about javascript - just use prototype inheritance.
So this post eliminates a lot of detail - so I'd love other perspectives. BUT I also want to stop the insanity of structure - we have gone too far in this direction.
the thing about dead reckoning is that anything less then perfect tends to have degraded usefulness after a while unless supplemented with some outside data to reference again.

Now thing about a soldier underground who might be subjected to explosions nearby, shooting, being shot at, having to dive for cover and these are all things that are going to screw up any inertial guidance system which is why the suggestions of paint or something make a whole lot of sense.
That's what I do after spending time in Finland.
The funny thing is, everyone else in the pool looks at me like I'm crazy for showering and using soap before I get in the pool, they just get themselves wet in their swimming trunks before going in.
Here are some great notes from her talk with Peter Attia:
https://podcastnotes.org/2018/07/03/attia-patrick/

(Disclosure, I'm part of the podcastnotes team)
What sort of monthly subscription fee would you be willing to pay for a subscription hub? :-)
To those that want to support the Institute for Justice, they are a 501(c)3 non-profit accepting donations [1].

It's my favorite charity, whose missions include protection of private property, economic liberty, and the first amendment; and their results speak for themselves.

[1] https://ij.org/about-us
If that were my service, I'd be pretty embarrassed by the number of unhappy users who have commented on the blog posts about cancellation[1] and refunds[2]. Doesn't seem like a good look.

[1] https://www.gmass.co/blog/how-to-cancel-your-paid-gmail-mail...

[2] https://www.gmass.co/blog/request-a-refund/
Yes, it's hard not to think that the subtext here is a kind of quietism in service to the status quo.
> The car is potentially proceeds of crime

The car was reliably documented as being purchased from his father's life insurance proceeds. There was no question of it being potentially purchased by illegal means.

Far more importantly, the entire question is irrelevant: we have standardized maximum fines and the burden of proof for very good reasons. Civil forfeiture skips both, making a mockery of the justice system for profit.

Those who believe current punishments for a given crime insufficient should seek to alter the law, whereas exorbitant forfeiture devalues the entire purpose - it serves neither as effective discouragement (being utterly arbitrary and unrelated to criminal magnitude) nor to rehabilitate (rather, the reverse, as departing inmates' tendencies to return will only be exacerbated by forfeiture-induced poverty).
>They are at fault because they choose to pay youtube to be placed in front of videos designed for pedos.

See, this is factually incorrect. Companies are paying Youtube to place their ads in front of viewers that are most likely to convert/in their target audience. A company generally doesn't say "Place my video in front of youtuber X,Y,Z."
ya but if you raise an extra 100M, that most likely is an up-round, which means the value of employee's equity has increased

example: as an employee you own 10% of the company. The 10% is worth $10. After company raises a 100M round and dilution has occurred, you own 1% of the company, but that 1% is now worth $50

who is being treated unfairly? I don't quite understand
First thing you should do when thinking about a new idea is to research if it already exists. Spoiler: there are tons of services doing that.

With that said, the fact that you were not aware means they are all failing at reaching their target market.
In the context of this particular case, it sounds like the ruling by the majority protects non-citizens from having their property taken by the police, while Justice Thomas’s concurrence would not.

In my opinion, not having your property taken unfairly by the police is more of a basic right everyone should enjoy, rather than a special right afforded to citizens like voting.
Your article puts it very clearly, I enjoyed reading it.
I don't think that's entirely true. I think the idea that the only way to "win" in business is by pushing others aside is incorrect. This thinking assumes that the economy is a zero sum game and there's plenty of reason to question that assumption. There are certainly elements in the economy that take value from others without creating any value in the process, but there are also people / companies that get wealthy by creating value, then capturing some of that value themselves.

Even at the most level of the most fundamental unit of the economy -- the worker -- being a team player is just as important as being a good individual contributor. For most jobs, "fit" is a huge factor in hiring.
Treehouse’s abandonmnent of the 4-day work week suspiciously coincided with their taking on a Series B round of funding. I’m implying they were pressured to drop it by investors. This was followed by significant layoffs.

Furthermore, no formal analysis was done of the Treehouse experience.

Nothing conclusive can be inferred from the Treehouse experience until/unless they release data and a rigid analysis is done.
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Makes you wonder about outdoor swimming pools (which would equally include water parks) that use chlorine. Given UV breaks it down, it would explain why outdoor pools that use chlorine, tend to have higher levels to counter the increased loss.

Which makes you wonder about exposure, whilst out in the open, the levels of chlorine gas given off would be higher. So a sunny calm day, may well be the case of higher exposure levels than a shaded indoor pool. Equally indoor pools that are exposed to UV sources would theoretically be the worst offenders in chlorine exposure.
> it’s like it’s blindly mimicking something without knowing what it’s doing

If it's not, that should be the definition for machine learning.
Nonsense. The rich do not have larger families, just the opposite. "Our entire economical system" subsidizes and incentives high birthrates among the poor and low ones among the educated and successful.[0]

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
> The commission consists of one commissioner per country

However they don't work for the country.

I guess the closest analogy for the U.S. would be the white house - but where the president is elected by the electoral college (in the E.U it's by the council, although that's just a rubber stamp based on the party who gets the highest number of votes in the equivelent of House vote)

However instead of the president choosing heads of department himself, he gets to choose from 28 people sent from each countries.

The "U.S. Senate" equivalent is the council, where every country gets 1 vote, regardless of size.

To get things passed through the Council, a double majority needs to happen - both a number (55% of countries I think) and a population (countries representing 65% of the population). This ensures that small countries can't gang up on large ones, and vice versa.

Imagine the U.S. senate, where you need 55 votes to pass, and that can't just be from states like Wyoming and Vermont, but would have to include at least a couple of states like California or Florida.

Then to pass into law, it also has to pass through the MEPs, who represent the voters of the EU (rather than the governments), in a roughly proportional manner.
To flip this around, if you replaced systemd with the old rc init in e.g. Fedora today, you could make the exact same argument:

> The problem with [old init] is that it's replaced systems that met people's needs [systemd] with a single system [old init] that many people consider to be worse.
>
> Perhaps there are some niche environments that [old init] is needed, and that's great -- but why break things for everyone else?

So the argument is kind of meaningless without a tie-breaker of some kind; perhaps popularity vote.

I think you're under the impression that your views of systemd's relative suitability are held by the majority of users, but I believe that is incorrect.
Some people prefer to contemplate and accept. Some people prefer to fight hard until the end. Who are we to decide how people are supposed to live, or die?
TLDR;

The trial court ruled that seizing the Land Rover constituted an excessive fine under the 8th ammendment, so was not protected.

The state supreme court ruled that the US supreme court had never said that the 8th amendment applies to state governments.

The US supreme court just said "Ok, now it does"

Now state trial court judges can use the 8th amendment to deny civil forfeiture attempts. It also now serves as a basis to appeal civil forfeiture rulings.

While this seems like a positive ruling, all it does is extend the rules that cover the federal government to the states. Given the abuses of the federal governement, I don't see much hope for this ruling changing anything.
$1000? $5 should be enough.
NextJS
Once Distinct by Race and Class, Cities Are Fragmenting
> That only helps if you assume the laptop is fully powered off when it is stolen. If it's on or merely in "sleep" mode, disk encryption doesn't help.

If you have disk encryption you probably also have sleep mode lock the computer. So they still don't have access.
Link to the opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/17-1091_5536.pdf

Based on one very quick reading of the case, my understanding is:

1. Defendant ("D") purchased a $42,000 Land Rover using funds from a life estate policy covering the life of his now-deceased father.

2. D sells $225 worth of heroin to undercover cops. Ends up paying ~$1200 in fines, one year on house arrest, 5 years probation

3. Max penalty in Indiana for his crimes is $10,000

4. Cops seize his Land Rover, arguing it was used in the performance of selling heroin.

5. He sues the State of Indiana, arguing that the seizure is an excessive fine.

6. Trial Court and Appellate Court rule in D's favor. Indiana Supreme Court reverses. D appeals to US Supreme Court.

7. Supreme Court rules that the 8th amendment protects against excessive fines, and that because the rule against excessive fines is part of our national history and tradition, the 14th Amendment makes that part of the 8th amendment apply to the states. Further, excessive fines can be used for silencing political enemies and income generation, rather than being a legitimate part of the process of "retribution and rehabilitation" that we want the justice system to provide. When a State's actions benefit the State, the Court will carefully scrutinize those actions.

8. State of Indiana tried to argue that while "excessive fines" are part of the 8th amendment, it does not apply specifically to civil in rem forfeitures (aka property seizure).

Supreme Court cites a case clarifying the way the analysis is done--only the broad category of "excessive fines" is reviewed, rather than picking out very specific instances of fines, like property seizure.

9. This was a unanimous decision. Technically it was 7-0 with 2 concurring opinions. The two concurrences were Gorsuch and Thomas, who both agreed with the outcome, but said that a different part of the 14th amendment (privileges and immunities) is what should be used, rather than what the other 7 relied on (the due process clause).

10. The case was remanded to Indiana Courts for rulings consistent with this opinion. The Supreme Court answered only whether excessive fines, barred to the US government by the 8th amendment, also applied to the States through the 14th amendment. It did not answer whether the seizure of the Land Rover was actually excessive. Indiana will (get a chance) to decide that.

Based on my reading, it appears that the avenue for property seizure is based upon fines defined by statute. To perform a civil asset seizure, a person must be convicted of a crime. If they are convicted of a crime, the seizure must not constitute an excessive fine. Is this how others interpreted the ruling?
It wasn’t even a fork. They mirrored a binary he’d released as a test build because it was more bug-free than the prior official build. He’s upset because he didn’t like that.
Ex-Floridian here. I spent my formative years there. No amount of research could have prepared you for our hostility towards bikers. In my youth we'd actively try to mess with (shout at, drive obnoxiously close to, etc..) bicyclers for having the arrogance to (a) exist, and (b) use our roads.

If we saw a biker out and about, it was pretty much guaranteed that they'd get a finger as I rocketed by in my car. This was just a thing that everyone did. I don't know why we were so self-righteous and angry about road usage.

As what is surely punishment for my past sins, I now commute via bicycle every day now. Even in a 'bike friendly' city like Seattle, I still get cars that play the "I'm gunna clip you!" scare game that I used to do to others as a teenager. Young me was a huge moron.
I mean -- I could give you literally dozens of "facts"

Facts are good. We can corroborate facts. Non-facts can eventually be debunked.

its not hysteria, and I am skeptical of anyone who denies abuse. As a victim of abuse, I really can't stand people who say such things.

As a victim of abuse, I still think everyone should exercise their skepticism, and not just victims and the outraged. If you advocate for skepticism, then you should not object to fair skepticism being directed at you as well. There is a great power in strong emotions and outrage, and with great power, comes great responsibility. Transparency is paramount. The best way forward is to avoid hysteria, and to go forward rationally.
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Roads need to be redesigned so that going fast feels dangerous. Until then, there's no way to enforce it enough to actually change driver behavior. The US loves its wide roads that you can feel comfortable doing 80 on... until it starts to build narrow little shared streets people won't slow down.
...and lastly, please have your parents pick you up at 5pm at the latest.
This amounts to arguing about definitions and it doesn't seem like the article proposes anything of real substance.

In the introduction to The Utopia Reader, a compendium of utopian and dystopian literature, the following definitions are given:

* Utopianism—social dreaming

* Utopia—a nonexistent society described in detail and normally located in time and space

* Eutopia or positive utopia—a utopia that the author intended a contemporaneous reader to view as considerably better than the society in which the reader lived

* Dystopia or negative utopia—a utopia that the author intended a contemporaneous reader to view as considerably worse than the society in which the reader lived

* Utopian satire—a utopia that the author intended a contemporaneous reader to view as a criticism of the existing society

* Anti-utopia—a utopia that the author intended a contemporaneous reader to view as a criticism of utopianism or of some particular eutopia

* Critical utopia—a utopia that the author intended a contemporaneous reader to view as better than contemporary society but with difficult problems that the described society may or may not be able to solve, and which takes a critical view of the utopian genre

Given that utopias are speculative explorations of possible futures and societies, it seems hard to reconcile that with questioning whether reality is a utopia or a dystopia, as the author does here. That just doesn't type check, and then the article is more about the author telling us about various things he considers dystopian.

For a more interesting take on the concept of utopia, I highly recommend the Fun Theory sequence on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/K4aGvLnHvYgX9pZHS/the-fun-th...
Hooray for KASAN!
> I believe the article clarifies that this system (much like its sibling, DNA database mining) is used to narrow the search space so that traditional (and comparatively more expensive) sleuthing can find the evidence needed for a conviction.

Which is exactly the problem. The system spits out a list of 25 names, 20 of them have an alibi and only one of the remaining five had the capacity to commit the crime. So you've got your man, all you have to do is dig up some evidence. Unless the true perpetrator wasn't on the original list to begin with, or fabricated an alibi, in which case you're attempting to convict an innocent person. Which huge databases are ideal for doing because it's very easy to use selection bias to raise the apparent probability of random events.

It's like the reverse pyramid scheme. You choose a stock and send brochures to a million people telling half it will go up and half it will go down. Then it goes up or down and next week you send brochures to the half million people you sent the accurate prediction to last week, telling half of them that a different stock will go up and the other half that it will go down. By the end of ten weeks you have about a thousand people who think you can predict the market when all you've really done is to start with a large pool.

"99.9% accurate" in a city of two million means that 99.95% of the matches are false positives.

You can't start with a list of names and then look for evidence it was them. You have to start with the evidence and see who it points to.
That's way, way harder.
Current form of Capitalism is only a century old and it's ridden with abusive practice. It will be stretch to say its successful. We are already seeing impacts of profit seeking on Environment and Society.
I see a bunch of confusion here.

This case did not involve "civil forfeiture" but "criminal forfeiture" since the property was being seized as part of a criminal conviction:

https://www.justice.gov/afp/types-federal-forfeiture
No, I can't remember that for more than maybe 1 -2 sites that I use every day. I got more than two financial accounts and two emails. Totally infeasible. That not even taking stupid password requirements into account (15 chars max or some shit)
I'm not sure how common it is, but I've seen/heard of on multiple occasions a kid needing to pee in a department store and the parent saying something like "just go over there", with "over there" being somewhere on the floor where employees can't see.

Luckily this isn't a majorly normal thing, but it does happen from time to time.
Yes you are getting me now. The additional info I would give you is that many MAPS dont even think about the sexual component explicitly, focusing their fantasies more on a romantic relationship, and those that do think of sex would vehemently argue that the relationship or encounter they are imagining is consensual, even if that is legally impossible. Violent, forced rape fantasies among this population are much more rare than society would have you believe. Unfortunately even in academia much of the research that would show this likewise gets suppressed due to our moral biases against anything related to this category.

So in other words, there are plenty of pedophiles who are disgusted by the act of raping children, which largely contradicts society's preconceived notions about pedophiles. There are also many otherwise normal people with varying pedophillic inclinations. It's clearly a spectrum, just like the Kinsey scale, but more complicated and multivariate. Some people can only form attractions to people their age, some people can form attractions to adults and minors, some people can ONLY form attractions to minors, and the age and gender requirements vary widely from person to person. I wouldn't be surprised at all if it turned out that a double digit percent of the general population has at least a slight inclination towards this stuff, but the research that needs to be done to figure all of that out will never get done with the current social climate.

People in general don't realize that many pedophiles know they are pedophiles as early as age 11 (let that sink in, and imagine growing up like that), and we know almost nothing about their early experiences and inclinations during childhood and teen years largely because they are too terrified to reveal themselves. Do pedophiles like even younger children when they are age 11? Do they like a particular age their entire life? All of these are open questions that academia and our society are frankly too scared to address.
They talk about dichloramine and trichloramine which are the products of chlorine reaction with ammonia, but also any amino acid - which means it can come as well from reactions with any part of our body it gets in contact with, like almost 2 sq. meters of our skin. How did they rule out all those other sources?
>It's difficult to go looking for niches without guidance or some direction on what to look for. And when you do find the online ones, you may find that it's hard to shake the incumbents loose because (a) the niche is tiny and (b) the market is already satisfied with the current producers.

Still much much easier than finding a 1 in million unicorn idea and getting VC and getting users.

Judging from number of successful companies in both categories, it's several orders of magnitude easier (which is obvious).
>aliens

I really hate that usage of the word.
Because Kotlin is like Swift http://nilhcem.com/swift-is-like-kotlin
Yes, backup your data somewhere else.

(1) Gitlab/Github for source code (almost free)

(2) automysqlbackup (or similar) to an S3 bucket for your database (very cheap) using S3FS

(3) Make sure you have a way to reproduce your entire server environment using fabric, ansible, chef, puppet (or Docker images) that is also in source control

If you have PROD code, this is normally called DR (Disaster Recovery)