skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Civil asset forfeiture gets a lot of well-deserved comparisons to highwaymen-behavior and outright armed robbery under the shield of law. However, let's get a bit more kafkaesque. Civil Forfeiture is generally connected to at least some sort of due process that ends up in court, if challenged. But in a huge number of cases - the DHS Inspector General released a scathing report a few months ago that indicate $1.2-2.8 billion dollars worth of property and cash was forfeited administratively, not civilly, between 2014 and 2018. This covers only DHS, as DOJ-affiliated agencies also have authority to do this, albeit under a different law. The IG report is here: https://www.oversight.gov/report/dhs/dhs-inconsistently-impl...

Administrative forfeiture actions do not end up in court, it's possible that you may not even realize that your property was seized or for what reason, or if you are aware, you may have been given instructions to challenge/claim the property that was essentially gibberish. You might try to reach the relevant agency, send in your claim/petition and hear nothing back. However, most insidiously, it was apparently not uncommon for the agency, after having determined that the owner of the property was innocent and the cash or property should be returned, nevertheless use waivers and other tactics to cause enough of a hassle so that they can negotiate a settlement for a portion of whatever was in question, usually cash. At this point, DHS already refers to the petitioner as "innocent owner". They just want a cut of money that they had no legal claim to anymore, and essentially purely through the fact that they are able to hold onto it and there's no meaningful judicial review of a great deal of administrative actions, you may have to pay a... bribe? Ransom? Either way, your property is held hostage until you pay up although the agency you are dealing with have already decided that you are innocent.

How the federal system of civil/admin forfeiture interplays with the state version is also quite interesting, because the federal equitable sharing program effectively acts as a backdoor to any state-level reform of the practice by not only funnelling money directly to police departments but also task forces or other similar ad hoc interagency entities that really don't have all of the characteristics of a formal police department. Last year the DOJ half of the operation divvied out $320 million to police departments and task forces, keeping the majority of the money they seized for themselves of course. All this really adds up to the simple notion that if you really want to get started with defunding the police, merely stopping them from being able to seek forfeiture in cases where no corresponding criminal charges can be brought with the evidence available. This simple act of stopping literal modern highwaymen would effectively cut $320 million into police budgets across the country. Unfortunately, permanent change requires congressional action so, no breaths were held in anticipation of actual substantive changes on the legal side.
Might as well move them to Alpha Centauri terms so you can legally kill them too.
This is pretty neat. Is anyone familiar with the limitations of expansion cards? Like, would it be possible to put a flash drive + an x86 CPU and have the SNES pull from a frame buffer so you can play Crysis on it?
but I run a boostrapped business that would never be possible if it wasn't for Clojure (and specifically ClojureScript).

Something doesn't sound right.
Not sure I'd be citing that group. Their methodology is suprisingly opaque.
Two classic examples (Cartesian vs polar coordinates, frequency vs time domain) are mentioned in other comments.

I would certainly add "looking at values vs looking at differences" and "looking at the generator vs looking at what's generated" (which the top level story is an example of).

It may take a little squinting, but we can see the common mathematical practice of reducing one problem to an example of another as an instance of this. There are also tweakier math examples where treating something as topology or something makes it easy to solve.
They're trying to improve that but it impinges on member state sovereignty so it has to be delegated by them. It will take time.
is this really the case though? it seems state law results in a ton of balkanization in the USA aswell.

bigger barriers to doing business is probably cultural moreso then rules themselves.
I think that's correct. Facebook even said:

> There will be no change to the privacy controls or the services Facebook offers to people in the UK

> Facebook’s UK users will remain subject to UK privacy law, which for now tracks the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Presumably this move in preparation for when that stops being the case.
I can explicitly have my phone ready and as I am removing it from my pocket with touchid. Even with the newer faster faceid, I have remove it first and look at it. The explicitness of touchid is preferable to me too.
I imagine it must be. I needed to replace my iPhone 8 and bought an SE2 instead of the Mini because they still haven't brought back TouchID. I was really expecting TouchID to come back in the 12 line-up, especially after the iPad refresh brought it back, but I think COVID messed up their plans and it got cut. We'll see what next year brings, all I know is no TouchID and I'm not buying it, and I'm not the only person I know who feels this way.
In the current proposal, the whole function body can act as a guarded block. So for simple cleanup strategies that are bound to functions, you wouldn't need this.
> Robots.txt that put other search engines at a disadvantage aren't the norm, they're, just like in the early years

It's not just robots.txt, it's also cloudflare and IP-based throttling. And it is very, very commonplace: http://gigablast.com/blog.html
Depends on the air-pressure in the lungs. If you inflate them from a scuba tank, possibly. If you take a breath and then jump in the water, no.
Scientists Develop Artificial Retina Using Silk
I don't know, Austin Mann took some amazing photos in his previous camera reviews, but this time I'm not so impressed. The saturation in the fall tree and water shots is just somehow weirdly off the charts and the night photos look almost like impressionist paintings (nonetheless a great achievement with such a small sensor).

His photos from Rwanda with the iPhone 7 just looked so much more natural and "real" [1].

[1] http://austinmann.com/trek/iphone-7-camera-review-rwanda
Compete or die. I have 2 computers that can't run Firefox at a usable speed. No way to figure out the problem.

My fresh computer works fine.

And I'm currently using the Android app. It's buggy, but it could be Facebook or the Google keyboard. Chrome has different problems. Duck duck go has been my newest install. I still need to transfer over.
"Facebook’s UK users will remain subject to UK privacy law, which for now tracks the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)."
Yeah, I believe NuBank uses Datomic heavily, which is part of the reason they acquired Cognitect
Excellent point! I'll bet that city has record low unemployment.
Can You Spit and Own a Smart Phone? This Covid-19 Test Is for You
But the bootloader is already open as far as I know, the real issue is drivers.

You probably can't force them to write the drivers for other OS, but you could presumably force them to document the hardware.
VLC already supports Youtube URLs via an included lua script[1]. You can feed the URL as an argument or open it from a VLC window with Ctrl+n, which is equivalent to using the menu for "Media > Open Network Stream...". It's failing me at the moment, though. Perhaps the script needs updating.

It's a valid argument to perhaps modify the script to use youtube-dl when available, since it might be more reliable. Merging the 2 projects doesn't make sense when one can just optionally depend on the other.

If you're looking for a video player that uses youtube-dl to support Youtube URLs, mpv[2] does that. Just feed it Youtube URLs as arguments to make your playlist. You can also pass in the option --no-video to just play the sound of the youtube video. You can probably pass in options to mpv to play all the videos of a Youtube playlist URL, too.

> Maybe a more generic question is why aren't there more integrations of the form x in y while both are open source and would clearly improve the user experience?

Because it's work. If you see something is lacking in open source, it's because nobody has wanted it badly enough to do the work themselves. And even if somebody did, choosing to share their work is another matter.

[1] https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-3.0/-/blob/d590d61de4...

[2] https://mpv.io/
It doesn't seem like they address the main issues, like AI. I doubt you can treat the absence of major attributes of an open-world game, like car chases, as a bug. They're cleverly focusing on minor glitches and bugs in their talk.
The camera is acceptable but not great. TBH the main thing blocking me from getting one to use as a daily driver is lack of MMS support
I've been working for startups in Copenhagen ("the most livable city in the world") for a few years now, and every young tech company I know of have extremely diverse developer teams (it's not uncommon to be in the minority as a local). People absolutely do want to move here, including Americans. As for the language, the working language is English, and for better or worse people do live here for years without learning the language.
This should be the top response to this post.
1. It's incredibly naive to think that the sole purpose of regulations is to protect powerful businesses. If you think that's the case, what would you describe the purpose of, say, worker safety regulations is? Food inspectors?

2. Of course they further political aims. Anything that has to do with law is political, by definition. This statement makes regulations sound scary and sinister, but actually imparts no information to the discussion.

A world without regulations won't be some libertarian paradise. It'll be an authoritarian dystopia, where the powerful can do what they please, and you will have zero proactive recourse against them, and very limited reactive recourse.

PS. Consider that a rule, or even aversion against regulation is itself a regulation. Which absolutely has side effects[1] that protect powerful businesses, and is pursued for personal and political aims.

[1] Very obvious ones, actually.
Why not just "United States"? England would be the most populous state and Northern Ireland and Wales could duke it out with Mississippi and Alabama :-p

I'm assuming that Scotland would not want any part of this, that's why I'm not including it.
AWS SES just blocked our account due to high number of bounces :(
Any credible sources? Andy Ngo is a propagandist for atomwaffen and heavily edits what he releases to strip it of context and present a narrative that is often directly contrary to the truth.
We seem to be nearing peak big tech which does conflict a bit with the nation state system but looking at technology today it does seem to be a temporary phenomenon with light at the end of the tunnel. Decentralized protocols that operate at the internet layer above the interference of nation states are being built and deployed today and while they are still in their infancy they have a clear path to providing a neutral, private, and reliable platform for people from around the world to work together, build together, and coordinate more easily without any big corporations or authoritarian governments corrupting the systems.

Facebook/Twitter will be turned into a protocol within 10 years that anyone can use. Permissionless systems like the internet always win over centralized systems over time. Big tech will eventually be remembered the same way as we remember AOL.

The future is bright and I'm fairly optimistic. I will enjoy living in a post-nation state driven world where humanity works together as a whole towards our common goals.
Your situation is atypical. So condoms may not be a good solution for you. But for society in general, condoms are the best solution. No amount of condomless masturbation can keep you safe but still be able to casually fuck random strangers at will for funsies.

But having condoms and learning how to use them properly allows people to engage in almost normal casual fuckery because we are convinced there is absolutely no other means whatsoever to get our sexual and emotional needs met and consider such to be more important than actual safety.

Though I do like your stat that 20 feet is better than 6. That fits with my firsthand observations and at least introduces a little science to a discussion that tends to lack real science.
Yes, that's also my understanding, but EU GDPR refers to data being inside and outside the territory of the EU.

So, transferring your data between the EU and UK will mean you are (now) crossing a data border. That's a change.

I understand that GDPR will immediately split into EU GDPR, and UK GDPR.
My app respects the users privacy. There is no tracking, no analytics, no data sharing with third parties. It’s not a privacy product, if this was unclear.

And yes, part of answering these questions is an honest assessment whether I and Apple agree on what it means to respect a user’s privacy.
Import for Degiro / Binck ( Europe - Belgium) would be awesome.

I thought about it the last day and if you'd have a chrome extension that i can modify or something else... :)

I'd appreciate an access code to try it out fyi ( nico_subscribe at hotmail dot com)
>My hypothesis is that in those who are introduced to Gacha games, you will see an increase in other 'addictive' behavior, because the content they see will whittle away at their resistance to other addictive behaviors.

I understand what pattern you're going for, but I don't think the study would show that. The number of people that play gacha games is small conjugated to the number of people that smoke, drink, gamble etc. Chances are that you'd likely see the reverse - doing those things could increase your likelihood of playing gacha games (or well, spending money on them - it's entirely possible to play most of these games as virtually free).
seeing the same thing

Edit: oops thought it was a text post
Works fine for me (iOS)
So now I can swap one of my terminal tabs for yet another browser tab where I can only run AWS commands. Great.
It's the EU moving towards socialism.
Interesting technical article about API design, product debt and the complexity of payments.
> It's incredibly naive to think that the sole purpose of regulations is to protect powerful businesses.

I listed two other example purposes in my comment alone! So obviously I don't think this.

> Of course they further political aims.

Did you miss the rest of the sentence? I said specifically ...even if those are not actually in the interests of any consumers.
Obviously even simple cloth masks help: notice how they get wet when you wear them? That moisture is your exhaled water droplets, the carriers of virusses, that don't end up in other people's faces!

Also, do you think surgeons wear masks for fashion reasons?

The mask discussion is absurd. A totally minor inconvenience vs. decreased virus exhaling, how can this be a topic for discussion?
How to Hack Your Grades
The title is no more deceptive for using an expansion chip than a game like Mario Kart is deceptive for calling itself an SNES game even though it also used an expansion chip.

Almost any popular SNES game you can think of came with extra technology included in the cartridge and commercials often bragged about it, like the SuperFX chip used by Star Fox.

Heck if it weren't for expansion chips, you wouldn't even be able to play Super Mario World or Zelda, since the SNES had no persistent storage, all save games were stored physically on the cartridge itself.
Your cell phone company sells it to whoever wants it.
Thank you for this service. Although I have not used it, I have used something similar in the past. They really help with reducing spam.
I'll take your word for the telegram app. I prefer signal to telegram. Any benefit of the telegram desktop app seems like a marginal one when the signal one works and signal do encryption well, properly and honestly. (Maybe telegram are catching up to this now, not sure, Moxie has always been solid and has forced the entire feature set of messaging to end-to-end encryption for which he's going straight to heaven).

My own irc client I wrote when learning C and then re-wrote learning GTK+ is better than any of them in terms of doing what I want non-bloated as a client. But it doesn't quite match the whole signal thing somehow. :)

Signal is excellent software. Game changing stuff. Telegram (indirectly), Whatsapp (directly) owe signal a great debt. The reverse doesn't seem to be true.

End to end ecryption for the masses is a huge, huge win that Moxie can take a vast amount of credit for making happen, then improving and increasing. So there's a little hero-worship for Moxie, a man with whom politically I probably have very, very little in common. It's a good feeling when you can do that.
Because they haven't bought Viacom yet, so they need something to do while CBS ruins Star Trek without them.
lol whoops yeah that would definitely solve the problem. I wasn't familiar with `CUDA_LAUNCH_BLOCKING` but `torch.cuda.synchronizes` does work.
It's not a good idea. That's also why it's very important to provide updates that do not disable functionality important for the user. That way you don't force users to choose between security or functionality.

Mozilla still does not allow non-store extensions on their new firefox. Until they're back I have to keep old Firefox around. ...which sucks.
Given that I have to provide food and drink for 5 people two/three times per day means "grabbing something quick" is right out. Both on weight/carrying capacity ... and on price. This is not happening and I don't see how it is a serious suggestion.

This is not about "allow[ing] the possibility of not living with a car", all your suggestions increase costs, some increase them a lot. And sure, with unlimited money, I understand that the center of a big city is more luxurious than the suburbs or countryside, this is not controversial. You get to drop the car, which is about 500 dollar per month. But you spend double that on the equivalent apartment (I don't mean equal sized to what you get in the suburbs, I mean the MINIMUM apartment for 5 people)

So yes, costs will need to be comparable, as a basic condition. So using something between a convenience store and a "agent" supermarket is not a serious option, nor is fulfilling every meal by "grabbing something quick", not just from a weight/carrying perspective but from a financial perspective. Making the choice simply based on which is the closest is not a reasonable option either. The problem with a family of 5 is that every cost you have when you are single multiplies by a factor of 3-4, and I'm sure it'll be 5 by the time the kids really get past puberty.

Furthermore, you haven't answered my original question: just simply how to carry it. I assure you a 2-3 day supply of soda for a family of 5 weighs minimum 6kg, and 12kg is better (even that is 3-4 days at best). Carrying this onto public transport, over the sidewalk and/or into an apartment block is supremely uncomfortable. Your suggestions change nothing except making it expensive as well.

Let's take an example: 1 day breakfast + lunchbox + dinner for 2 adults and 3 kids. Take 2 bottles of soda (3kg), 2 cartons of milk (3kg), breakfast cereal (750g), 2 full size breads (750g), something to put on there (700g), vegetables (1.5kg), meat (500-750g), potatoes (2kg), and general supplies (2kg). This is three bags of groceries weighing 15kg. I assure you it definitely won't last 3 days.

How do I comfortably carry this on public transport, and sidewalk, and up a flight of stairs, and you say to carry it on the way home, so in combination with what I carry to work (let's say 5kg) ?

Going once a week, with, say 3 people, carrying something like 20-40kg of groceries, seems vastly more comfortable, attractive, cheaper, easier and faster to me.
Tramp will run whatever commands you want to run on remote server if you're running commands with `M-!`

I use it for work sometimes, that + vterm and ssh makes for a fairly pleasant remote editing experience in emacs. LSP even works over tramp (kinda)
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That's a pretty slow start, Hopefully it will ramp up quickly.
I count two “for the moment”s, two “no immediate changes”s and five “at this time” weasel word qualifiers in the thirteen answers they provide in this FAQ.

I know an acquired company cannot ever say with any certainty or conviction “things won’t change!”, so it’s kinda as honest as I suspect legal has allowed them to be.

If I were responsible for a fleet of Neverware devices, I’d be immediately fast tracking investigations into suitable alternatives and migration plans.
Algorithms Behaving Badly: 2020 Edition
I'm not trying to be that guy, but NuGet.org is littered with bad packages, and it's hard to see, at a glance, what packages are commercial, trials, or open source. Some packages are not even .NET packages.

The default search scoring could also benefit from some work as old, unmaintained, packages often show up on the first page.

I wish there was a way to filter by license, open-source, and/or source-code-package.

I've been a .net guy ever since C# was called COOL and I even went to Redmond back in the days as part of the early adopter program. I'm worried about the adoption and I think it's mainly because of the perceived low quality when it comes to browsing NuGet.org

Compared to npmjs.org, NuGet.org could be soooo much better.
Thanks, appreciate it. Kind of like an eyeball?
Okay, what does it mean “residency”? In the UK there’s no address registry where you declare your address.

EU citizen works in the UK for 2 years then goes to Turkey for a vacation but likes the place so much, decides to stay for longer when still remote working for the same London company.Also connects through VPN because the Turks love banning websites.

Where this person residence is? Are the UK, USA, EU or Turkish rules apply? How FB would know about it?

That’s not an extreme scenario BTW, it happens all the time.
Cloud Storage Public Datasets
Lol, enough friction to prevent overcrowding but not a string of difficult obstacles that will lead to your failure.
3.57 million people left New York City this year to live out their lives in comfort someplace else, and then 3.5 million people hungry for opportunity arrived to take their place. I hope to see similar results in San Francisco.
i tried to negotiate being month to month at my manhattan apt at the same rate and my land lord wouldn't accommodate me. Now the apt has been unrented for a few months and they're asking for a 10% drop in rent and probably won't get it for a long long time. happily commenting from hawaii
I strangely have always read it as some designed-in-SF "Fleet Week" reference. Only after reading your post did I make the "fleeting" connection to gone-after-24-hours Stories.
I'm not suggesting that people don't travel - my personal opinion is quite the opposite - I'm only saying that it's more common than people think and part of my statement to that was a personal anecdote in agreement with the OP because I've experienced nearly the exact phenomenon they described.

I would not call that "implying the norm".

Regardless, CAF needs to be abolished and I wish the crowd that cares so much about the Constitution would care about Amendments that aren't the 2nd and 1st.