skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like in Sweden you can only strip the value of asset (value in Swedish Krona, I imagine) related to the crime directly not the asset class itself.

A guess at why it's like that would be - people flow value of drugs/illicit goods, rarely holding the value for long. This means the prosecutor wants to set an amount for "all drug deals they can convict for" and then try to seize that value.

Clearly before crypto the only thing that would wildly fluctuate vs the country's currency is stocks. No one's doing drug deals in stocks so the law was written in value. If they did seize things like stocks it's clear they had a process to sell the liquid asset (they tried to sell the BTC), but they couldn't get their ducks in order to sell it, haha.

I'm sure there's going to be a change to the law to seize the asset as a whole instead of pegging it to some particular value.
I can't find any mention of RSV causing loss of smell or taste. In fact, it seems that a lot of information out there indicates that loss of taste or smell is sort of a hallmark of vivid as it is not something that happens with other viruses. Is loss of taste or smell actually rather common?
What would happened if the value had dropped in that time?
But why? People prefer the freedom to a minor risk. When lockdowns stop, people don't stay in their home bubble, but go out and meet with people. Why? Because they weren't at home because they were afraid of the corona, but because they were forced by their governments. Looking at the current happenings in europe, sooner or later a critical mass will be reached somewhere, and some (political) heads will fall.

In general yes, closing people up inside, in separate rooms, giving them only the needed amount of calories, forbidding every even mildly dangerous sport, and of course driving and cycling, would save many lives. But who wants to live in a world like that?
The thing about Logitech (at least on Windows) is that it installs the updater as a device driver. So you cannot easily even block its internet access via firewall rules unless you define one for rundll32.exe

If you want to know more about it, just google "Logitech Download Assistant". There should be a device for it in your Device Manager and an LDA.exe process running.
I used to be the IT guy for a trade-show company, I felt pretty good about that one.

Then I made gears, we did a lot of repair parts, saved a lot of old machines from the junk heap in that job, so another plus.

It'll be interesting to see what I end up doing next.
Now that you mention it, I'm not sure if I've heard platypi or platypuses more.
Because you are physically able to do the work. You might be able to get it approved in some areas and you might not. Some people with IBS go almost unnoticed while others it can be debilitating. You can't blanket the disorder as a disability because its a case by case basis.
But this isn't smoke, this is a photo of smoke. And as I said, the raging fires all of us can see in plain view go mostly unchecked. Where there is a photo of smoke, there may be fire, but where there is obviously a huge blazing fire, there surely is fire.
No it doesn't. The last year and a half is proof that masks played no significant role in reduction of infections. Bringing all kinds of studies doesn't prove anything since we effectively had the chance to witnesss the biggest study of all. Sure, it might stop some droplets. But a mask can never be as effective as a condom in stopping the virus. It s common sense. You can still infect or get infected. And that s the issue.
So, who's going to enforce the gov't follow through? I don't know the intricacies of Sweden's gov't separation of powers and what not, but what kind of recourse is available to force the gov't to do this?
This guy was _the shit_.

I read Lies My Teacher Told Me many moons ago, and it was great because it was so eye-opening, an easy read, and the guy the just seemed like a real one.

He was in the early battles against the white supremacist texas education officials.
So why did Fort Detrick shut down in 2019?
No Land for the Thirty Meter Telescope on La Palma (Canary Islands)
The courts/police don't have to pay back any interest made when they seize cash do they? Or appreciated value of products/cars/whatever seized? Seems like a pretty obvious thing to me in this case that any profits made were made after seizure and have nothing to do with the original owner?
I don't know what's the best way of dealing with it, but what I do know is that what's Australia's doing is a recipe of what to avoid doing. Whatever's the way forward, it can't be arresting people for being outside, tagging people's homes like they're lepers or something and building concentration camps for the forced relocation of the sick.
Put the product on one side of the body for days/weeks. For example if you have put the product on the left hand skin, use the symmetric right hand skin as a reference. After applying the product for several days/weeks, stop the product for a few days, before you compare the 2 patches.
Funny how money can speak.

Tech workers are protesting now, while they did not when Apple was shown to use child and slave labor abroad.
"tagging people's homes like they're lepers or something and building concentration camps for the forced relocation of the sick"

Are you sure you want to compare the current policy to building concentration camps?
You give them the full BTC in return even if you have to buy the coins again. If the value goes up, you cash it out and return what the BTC was valued at the time of seizure and pocket the rest.

See, I can play cops and robbers too. However, growing up I thought it was two distinct groups. The cops on one side, and the robbers on the other. As an adult, I see it was just two descriptions of the same group.
https://twitter.com/RCAFDM/status/1427978204803964936
What is the "true rate"? You could say it's whatever you need to charge to keep the lights on and rent paid based on however many hours a week you expect to be performing maintenance. You could say it's what people feel is fair for skilled labor. You could say it's what people historically pay for the service. But we are talking about bike shops going from selling things and selling services to just selling services, so it's really what you need to charge per hour to keep the lights on.

So if the "true" rate ends up being more than the market will bear, and you dont have alternate income, you close down.

So it isn't really a situation where one thing had an artificially inflated price and the other an artificially deflated price, more like the way bike shops as we know them work is to have diverse income streams, and removing an important one means that the business model as we understand it ceases to function.
If the government considers the value in crytocurrency for sentences, it will have a hard time justifying that you must pay your capital gain the the fiat currency of the country and not in the crytocurrency in which it was made.
We in the West eradicated entire ecosystems in order to get rid of Malaria. Eradication is only controversial when most of the victims are in the third world.

Some people's attitude is that these people (poor, far away, 'wrong' skin colour, etc.) might as well die for our beloved Nature.
Creating a novel on-device scanning mechanism and claiming that is somehow more privacy is a lie, and therefore shady.

Using that novel on-device scanning capability to secretly report people to authorities, that's beyond shady.

Claiming that the novel hashing algorithm is verifiable by third parties, but simultaneously suing any third parties that try to analyze the actual code running (without being subject to Apple NDA), is mega shady.

Secretly reporting people to authorities based on unverifiable novel image hashing algorithms and only image "derivatives", whatever that means, that's ultra shady.

Pretending that people are somehow "misunderstanding" if they are alarmed by this unprecedented, unverifiable scanning and secret snitching mechanism being run over their private photos, that's extra ultra mega shady, but typical of Apple.

Look at this shitshow explanation. When have you ever seen Apple being so terrible at explaining a feature? None of this smells right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQUO1DSwYN0
A quick word on test attributes and why we still don't have a more rapid test than PCR.

Tests for disease rely on two numbers:

1. "sensitivity" - the proportion of people with COVID who get a positive test

2. "specificity" - the proportion of people without COVID who get a negative test.

COVID, despite the media attention, is a rare disease compared to the number of people tested. Say we have 10,000 people tested for COVID at the airport. We have 99% sensitivity and 99% specificity. And we know 100 people have COVID (1% prevalence) in this group. Our test would find 99/100 of the positive cases. But it would also find an additional 99 false positives! It also misses one true positive case. Which would be disasterous for the quarantine measures in place in Australia and NZ. In short, even a gold standard rapid test is not enough, although at 99% specificity and sensitivity it would be somewhat useful.

This is a lot less intuitive than it looks. The companies pushing rapid antigen tests at the start of the pandemic would have know better, but they chose to lie to the public about this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity
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Yep, classy dame, Gail.
Is it an interesting question? That prosecutor’s department in that country booked the value in fiat at the time and didn't have a mechanism for booking the value in the asset.

People have been saying they have their own nexus currencies for the whole last decade, and others spent too much time ignoring that in. Now it bit Sweden in the ass, for now.
Does anyone understand the legal logic behind such a risky decision? I mean, if they confiscate an asset, why wouldn't they just hold onto it until the legal process is settled?

If it was a car that they confiscated, would they still have the car or would they also need to buy the car today? I am honestly curious as to how this makes any legal sense.
My interpretation of the article is that the court recognized the proceeds in terms of Swedish Kroner at the time that the BTC were seized, so was unable to account for the increasing value of BTC in terms of Kroner - they had not legally seized ~$1.7m, they had legally seized $137,000, and so had to pay back the difference.

From the article - "The lesson to be learned from this is to keep the value in bitcoin, that the profit from the crime should be 36 bitcoin, regardless of what value the bitcoin has at the time".
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If only we could compare the success levels of the two funding scenes...
A less cynical view is that it keeps the military industrial complex healthy and robust in case an urgent need (e.g. WWII) arises. I'd much prefer to just hand cash to Raytheon for that and not have them shoot anyone though....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_exper....
They've been working on getting a lower bound as recently as 2013! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25167384/
Thank you. I am the author of the post, and appreciate your comments, and I agree with them.

I have to say that it indeed wasn't my intention to show how to get to the query - that is a form of tutorial that would be great to write too, agreed, and maybe I should have. What I wanted to write is just comparing the results of the two approaches.

Having said that, yes, again, I agree, a tutorial on describing how to get that data would be great too, and maybe I should write it, maybe someone else should. I agree that it is not trivial at all how to get to the query (and that is a particularly tricky query, certainly not what I would begin with).

Thank you again for your comment, it made me think and mull over the whole thing more. I will talk tomorrow with the lead of the Wikidata team, and I will bring these (and many other points that were mentioned in the last few days) with me. It will take a while, but I hope we can improve the situation.
Thousands of COVID cases is a small bit of danger, but there are many other things to worry about, and some pockets of the world are already "over" worrying about COVID. People mostly irrationally respond to fear and panic, I doubt whether we can accurately predict what the future mindset will be on various threats.
> Neither does the US in an overwhelming majority of airspace under 10,000’MSL.

You are of course correct. But that's getting into the finer details of the FARs, and there's only so much comment space here. We could also talk about aircraft which don't have an electrical system. ;) I did mention that not everyone in the US was equipped, which seemed sufficient.

> “See and avoid” is the law in VMC, not “sense and avoid”.

"Sense-and-avoid" actually is the the correct term in this case. This is part of how the FAA wants to integrate commercial drones into the NAS. The idea is that future drones will have an ADS-B receiver and maneuver to avoid known traffic.

See the section on "detect and avoid" strategies here: https://www.faa.gov/uas/research_development/information_pap...

Though again, as mentioned... there are a good number of aircraft are not equipped, so this doesn't cover all possible cases.
This is why I like Linux, the mouse driver just asks for root and adds the firewall exemption itself.
I had to answer in a bit of a roundabout way to avoid being mistakenly thought to be saying things I'm not saying. It's tough these days.
>We still don't know enough about mosquitos to the point that we could "surgically" remove specifically those that bite humans.

We know enough to do just that - surgical removal is exactly what the gene drive solutions do. Even if we didn't, mosquitos are minor compared to the species being killed merely for profit.

>Imagine if some alien race was like: "we need to kill all humans", and then proceed and eradicate all the apes and monkeys as well?

I'd be a bit more concerned about the human part. I don't think I'll be available to care about the apes and monkeys. (Besides, the aliens are just being thorough and rational, and decided to make sure that we don't get evolved again. +1 for the alien team).
Make tuples of (line_content, file, line_number) then sort by line_content, throw out all the singletons, then sort by (file, line_number) and you will get contiguous stretches of lines that are duplicated.
Just make him pay income tax on the current value.
My wife and kid wanted cruiser style single speed bikes...what you'd call a toy. And I'm not hung up in that word, it is what it is. But they bike a couple miles a day going to and from school. They sit all day in the sun and rain and just keep ticking away. They were both less than 200, and honestly, I don't see what would be gained in spending more given the criteria, other than perhaps appeasing 'bikesnobs'(is that a thing? I was thinking of something like beer snobs).

Sure it's not a race bike, or mountain bike, but they still work just fine for transportation.
seems absurd. if you seized someone's ferrari and that ferrari became more valuable would you give them back the difference?
There are plenty of Wikidata users who have learned some SPARQL without being programmers.
It's not that the police liquidated the BTC, it's that the argument that was made in court was for the current cash value of the BTC. Instead of arguing that the value of the crime was 36 bitcoin the prosecutor argued that if was $137000 which was equivalent at the time.

One interesting consequence is that the drug dealer would have had to pay the difference if bitcoin had dropped in value instead of rising.
It's a cool idea, but without specific examples, it's hard to evaluate the validity of it. And without them, it's guilty of doing exactly what it accuses others of doing: polluting the mindscape with ideas that most people find difficult to verify.
> Because crypto transactions, which are recorded on the blockchain, are untraceable by governments and other central authorities like banks

Erm, no, that's not how the blockchain transactions work. you can see everything. It's an open ledger.
Wikidata's API doesn't require registration, credentials, etc.
If you steal potatoes, the government considers the value of the potatoes when sentencing you.

That doesn’t mean that when you make a profit selling potatoes that you can pay your taxes in potatoes.
So in layman's terms, we just redefine the surface of the black hole until the equations work? (I'm sure I'm wrong, but maybe this'll help kick off the discussion)
in this case if i were sweden i would say we "lost" the $1.6
I think decreasing parking and providing a central lane for cars to pass makes a lot of sense. Segregating cycle traffic creates dangerous intersections.
Note, that's the Persian Gulf. I initially thought it a bold move to do a joint exercise in the Gulf of Mexico.
How so? One is a graphing calculator, the other is intended to be a console.

I'm not disputing that the TI-89 runs games, but the P/ECE definitely seems more similar. Am I missing something?
> the battles were bloody and the corpses piled on high.

Quite literally at times. Guadalcanal WWII:

> Enemy bodies were (literally) piling up so rapidly that he — or other Marines, depending on the story — had to vacate their defensive positions to knock over the growing wall of flesh so they could reestablish clear fields of fire.
What people really mean in these cases is redacted not untraceable.
It's a personal taste thing I think. I've never been a fan of small mice myself.

For me, something like the Logitech Performance MX was the peak in terms of mouse comfort, allowing a natural palm grip. It had a couple of useful extra buttons by the thumb, and a few other controls I never used that weren't intrusive. I swore by those things for years and had them on every PC I used regularly.

More recent Logitech models have added a second wheel by the thumb for horizontal scrolling, which I do like. Sadly they also come with a long list of regressions. They try to be too clever with the main scroll wheel. They've added other controls that are easy to trigger unintentionally. Most importantly, the sensors really seem to struggle with some common surface types, something that was never an issue for me with the earlier models.

Somehow the shape for the later models has never quite matched the Performance MX generation either. For me they are mostly either too small for a comfortable palm grip or using some strange spiral effect that makes the middle part too high for comfort in prolonged use. I wonder if the spiral ones are meant to fit the claw grip popular with serious gamers. And the models like the MX Master that were supposed to be an improved Performance MX style somehow never quite fit either, though I struggle to put my finger on why that was.

I still use Logitech mice for most things, because they seem to be the best of a bad bunch for me at the moment. But I'd throw them all out in an instant if I could have the one I actually liked back again.
The virus is in animal hosts already, so it probably won't be eradicated. Even if it wasn't in animals, there are countries with principles of freedom where some 10-30% won't listen to a lockdown. It's unlikely those countries will all change their foundational cultural principles. I don't think technology is the only factor, think of looseness and tightness of cultural behavior, think of self-regard vs regard for others. These things matter, it's not all about grocery delivery and Zoom meetings. Especially for the meat-packers who make the groceries in factories, and the healthcare workers who need to go in to the physical clinic, etc.
Janet Woodcock's failure at the FDA in the opioid epidemic
Samsung Demos In-Memory Processing for HBM2, GDDR6, DDR4, and LPDDR5X
To me the most outstanding question is: are these bitcoin clean?

Does a random country’s random procedural gracing make the crypto magically clean again?

It was seized, and now its not! So the crypto is clean now! It doesn't matter if you respect that country! Or even that a municipalities civil asset forfeiture process!

To me this has been a big hole in Elliptic and Chainanalysis’ business, along with other merchants and exchanges that try to trace crypto origins to determine if the account should be frozen or not.

I’m open to opinions on this, but my current thought is that attempting any crypto AML/KYC is a joke, but its great snake oil to sell to exchanges and government agencies. I think crypto accelerates and illuminates the folly of transaction whitelisting/blacklisting.
Aren't something like 98% of criminal cases pled out before trial, and the majority of those that go to trial end in a guilty verdict?

If you find yourself in a suit before a jury you're likely to have a bad time.
Prosecution based on evidence provided by closed source and closed hardware based devices should never have been admitted in courts of laws in the first place.
This is a potentially cool article that I'm straining to read because of all the science-ese. Like this is some of the most dense, strained, and non-intuitive English I have read in a while -- and I have a background in science. I want to like the paper but I just hate this style of writing.

Anyway the punchline is:

> Grizzly bears sampled within an area represented by a given language family were significantly similar to those sampled within that language family (P = 0.001) and significantly divergent to those sampled outside the language family (P = 0.001). This spatial co-occurrence suggests that grizzly bear and human groups have been shaped by the landscape in similar ways, creating a convergence of grizzly bear genetic and human linguistic diversity.

What I guess they're saying is that they've found pockets in the landscape where languages had time to evolve (relatively unmixed with other languages) and bears had time to evolve (relatively unmixed with other bear species.)

Anyway, I don't want to take away from the hard work of these researchers, who for all I know are reading this comment thread. But I will say the way they have written the paper makes me not want to read beyond the abstract (I tried.) For the intrepid one who wants to break this paper down, I'd be curious to know how much more there is.
I believe the premise is that close contact with nature may lead to species-hopping viruses transmitting to us. Combine that with bats like to live on human structures, double whammy. Bats are highly social and create breeding-grounds for tons of pathogens.
This is a common enough occurrence that you probably want to learn how to spot bad setups, where-ever they might be. I think the key is to discern Value vs Vanity. You want to be on value-add projects (those producing revenue, or reducing risk, increasing speed, or reducing cost) but not on Vanity projects.

The trouble is that differentiating Vanity vs Innovation is hard. You can discern them though, in two ways I think:

1. By the level of motivation of low-level workers (true innovation is exciting) while underfunded vanity projects are soul crushing

2. By the seeming intentions of senior management -- are they more focused on the stated goal or on press/buzz?

I do not have sufficient n-value to come up with hard and fast rules but i'd love to hear others' thoughts
In the US if the court really wants to I think it can start tossing government officials in prison for defying court orders for contempt of court. That's a fairly common feature of European courts and their descendants AFAIK. It's a very bad sign when that starts happening though, it's the system starting to fall apart.