skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the case of lobbying you can go look on a website and see who took money from whom when you’re choosing who to vote for.

The money that comes from lobbying is also limited and pays for reelection, the candidate doesn’t get to use it for personal expenses.

There are clearly problems with the system, but yelling no! it’s exactly the same as taking bribes isn’t helpful.
I have a laptop from 2k15 with Arch and secure boot. Since Arch doesn't have anything signed you can't even load the LiveISO without disabling secure boot, but what I was able to do was to sign everything myself + have the MS secure boot keys (or whatever they are called). This would allow me to dual boot with Win + Linux both using secure boot, which is nice to know for a certain game that insist on an overly restrictive anti-cheat.
What defense area? I've done a ton of random aerospace stuff and usually end up using STM or NXP. All the critical systems have been some horrifying PPC or Sparc derivative.
Good point, and I assume this is why Google has taken this approach. That said, the more location data points you have, the more accurate the location (larger sample size, time proximity data - GPS is accurate always, SSID/BSSIDs can be out of date.
this is more or less the main idea of the GDPR

it attempted to turn people's personal data from a balance sheet asset into a liability

with varying success
I grew up in NYC, when big parts of it were still affordable. That was a time when people migrated there without assuming an impoverished lifestyle and locals didn’t get priced out. It breaks my heart that we now accept that big cities are for the rich or the masochistic. There was a lot of magic in my childhood, that will now become a thing of the past, unfortunately.

You should read about Vienna, which is a relatively large city that’s bucking the trend.
> You can have just as much fun at the TGI Friday's at your local strip mall as you can at the hippest restaurant no one else has ever heard of in Brooklyn. It's just a matter of who you spend that time with, and how you perceive that time, in the Stoic tradition.

It's not just about restaurants. I'm not going to be able to go to concerts or events. There will be no specialized stores. Even in the example you gave, many of these chains are absolutely terrible now. Going to a local place means better food. It's not all pretense.

As the saying goes: It's hard to have fun with dogshit in your mouth.
Which part of "at the beginning" did you miss?
A lot of Zig happened in between trips to Spicy Village (true story, rc w17).
What is the point of this?

Why do we have to keep reimplementing the current system using crypto, an even worse system that a regular database can do without the scams and speculation that crypto harbours.
Hypothetically, let us assume Trump had gone through the effort to declassify these documents explicitly. Would he have been successful? What authority would anyone have to stop him? Would there be any legal grounds to charge after leaving office?
It's true that fun and interesting cities would still command some kind of premium under more liberal permitting regimes, but that's not an excuse to be amplifying it artificially with policy.
> Elections are largely monopolized by older people who mostly tend to be homeowners.

This doesn't explain the constant increase in property tax levies being passed in Washington State.
Great - good luck and most of all, have fun!
https://www.bnymellon.com/content/dam/bnymellon/documents/pd... has a good review of several countries laws
over covid my battery went flat a couple of times

I ended up using a multimeter but an app would have been more convenient
An analysis of the LetMeSpy breach – maia arson crimew
Sure it can be. You can have some bare minimum of housing available in the boondocks which is cheap and accessible to all, and then have much more desirable housing which may be a good investment if the region is up and coming.
FAQ: The “Snake Fight” Portion of Your Thesis Defense
Will try this setup and report back if I can manage to make it work.

If this proves to be decisive I’ll invite you to the wedding . Ha.
> I'm somewhat curious what the data is on how many people use the "emergency call from locked screen" feature.

Way back when cell phones were rare, the intention was that in an emergency you could make a call on someone else's phone, even if they were incapacitated. For example, a vehicle accident that left the phone owner unconscious while other passengers were OK.

In the modern age, where the US has 1.16 cell connections per person [1] the chances of needing to use someone else's phone are of course much reduced.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...
Hell, even the New Testament was vehemently political at the time. Jesus was a political figure executed for political crimes. People like him popped up all the time and were quickly put down. The “Kingdom of Heaven” was not intended to be an abstract place, it was supposed to be a real kingdom to rival the Romans. When Jesus died he said “God why have you forsaken me” because Jesus expected to be the king of this kingdom, not to die naked at the hands of the Romans.

All of Christianity that came later (introduced by Paul) watered down this hardcore power politics story into an abstract “spiritual” story. But the reality stands for itself if you just peek beneath the surface.
Show HN: New Beautiful Desktop and Web UI/Monitoring for Apache Kafka+Kinesis
Hey folks,

I'm super excited to announce the release of a new UI for Apache Kafka, Confluent, Redpanda and Kinesis that focuses on Teams and Data Mesh. (Note: the desktop version is also very popular with individual developers!)

Why is this important? Because providing a solution that can be used by both IT and business (non-technical) users is essential when building applications that process business data.

Of course, we are mainly developers working on Kadeck. So you won't miss any of the features you need to troubleshoot and monitor Kafka and your applications. In fact, we have put a lot of effort into making Kadeck the best UI for Apache Kafka on the market. This includes enterprise features such as fine-grained rights management, topic organisation with data owners, labels and topic (API) documentation, teams and roles as well as LDAP/AD connectivity, data policies and masking, audit log and much more.

I hope you enjoy using Kadeck - either the free version or the Professional/Enterprise version - and please let me know your feedback. I always love to hear about your specific use case!

Have a great day,
Ben
California is one of the worst affected states for housing, and yet

> they paid for the right kind of ID, or navigated an impenetrable web of underpaid bureaucrats

Pretty much everyone starts driving around 16-18 and has a driver's license

> manage to get off work on election day

CA is an early voting state where ballots are mailed to you ~1 month in advance. You can drop them off at your convenience at one of the numerous drop-off locations.

Really, CA makes it as easy to vote as possible including same-day registration. There is no excuse for young people to not vote, except for their apathy.
Why the f@#k on Android can't the user stop Apps from 1. Running at start up 2. Running in the background. At a minimum why aren't these user granted permissions?

This would stop a great deal of the apps that hover up data like this.

Google is complicit here. Change my mind.
Somewhat tangential, but I started to read Baudolino by Umberto Eco last night, and the first chapter at least takes place during the (it seems) the last siege of Constantinople. So far it has been a wonderful read.
In a functioning built environment more walking should result in exactly 0 more pedestrian deaths, but alas it's the people who are to blame for killing each other.
> Reject all platforms that are not fully open, and reject all devices that come with any amount of closed software or firmware.

I wish we could, but they truly have us by the balls. It is nigh impossible to participate in society without using proprietary software.
So on this theory, will millennials turn to Tories, just a little later than their parents? Since they will be inheriting the properties their parents own soon enough.
> and miss their ability to go throw their weight around in person at the capitol.

Remote workers in the financial sector are 14% less likely to commit fraud or other crimes.

In-person workers are ~15% more likely to commit crimes.

The bad apples want you back into the office to bully you into going along with their crimes.
This is a wholly imaginary problem.
GPs gatekeep a most referrals, it's often virtually impossible to get any substantial treatment or surgery unless referred by a GP. Furthermore, for NHS treatments, it has to be a referral from an NHS GP, so you can't simply pay for a private GP to check something out.

Or, you can just wait for it to become bad enough that you go directly from A&E to inpatient care.
I went to a public university and they determined which mathematics class you started in by your ACT/SAT or AP test scores. I guess I'm just struggling to see why a programming course would be any different, or why a placement test would be prohibited when they're already using the standardized test scores as a placement test of sorts. Unless things have changed in the last five years.
That’s also the set castigating young people who want to live in expensive cities. Prudence dictates you must live far far away. Why are you even thinking of living in New York City, you fool?! Why live in a cesspool like you goof!! It’s become a culture war, too.
Yes, but can it collect large amounts of personal data about you?
Well, it's complicated.

The model can't just work on arbitrary image sizes because the model was trained with a fixed number of input and output neurons. For example, 512x512 is Stable Diffusion's "native size." However, there are tricks to work around this.

Diffusion models work by predicting image noise, which is then subtracted from the image iteratively until you get a result that matches the prompt. Stable Diffusion specifically has the following architectural features:

- A Variational Autoencoder (VAE) layer that encodes the 512x512 input into a 128x128 latent space[0]

- Three cross-attention blocks that take the encoded text prompt and input latent-space image, and output a downscaled image to the next layer

- A simpler downscaling block that just has a linear and convolutional layer

- Skip connections between the last four downscaling blocks and corresponding upscaling blocks that do the opposite, in the opposite order (e.g. simple upscale, then three cross-attention blocks).

- The aforementioned opposite blocks (upscale + cross-attn upscale)

- VAE decoder that goes from latent space back to a 512x512 output

At the end of this process you get what the combined model thinks is noise in the image according to the prompt you gave it. You then subtract the noise and repeat for a certain number of iterations until done. So obviously, if you wanted a smaller image, you could crop the input and output at each iteration so that the model can only draw in the 'center'.

Larger images are a bit trickier, you have to feed the image through in halves and then merge the noise predictions together before subtracting. This of course has limitations: since the model is looking at only half the image, there's nothing to steer the overall process, so it will draw things that look locally coherent but make no sense globally[1].

I suspect - as in, I'm totally guessing here - that we might be able to fix that by also running the diffusion process on a downscaled version of the image and then scaling the noise prediction back up to average with the other outputs. As far as I'm aware no SD frontends do this. But if that worked you could build up a resolution pyramid of models at different sizes taking fragments of the image and working together to denoise the image. If you were training from scratch you could even add scale and position information to the condition vector so the model can learn what image features should exist at what sizes.

[0] Think of this like if every pixel of the latent-space image was, instead of RGB, four different channels worth of information about the distribution of pixels in the color-space image. This compresses the image so that the U-Net part of the model can be architecturally simpler - in fact, lots of machine learning research is finding new ways to compress data into a smaller amount of input neurons.

[1] Moreso than diffusion models normally do
I don't know why you need to clarify that you are a taxpayer.
But I would argue that in person work creates more waste. Between commuting and real estate. It might be easier for a remote worker to not work, but it should be easy for a manager to notice their employee isn't working.
> You see that even with HS1 and HS2, where instead of focusing on lines towards London it'd have been better to strengthen the triangle of Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester, and pour money into effectively creating a bigger "third city". Then maybe link Birmingham, and purposefully delay any links to London.

Sabotaging London won't make the rest of the UK better - it will just mean less tax money available to subsidise the rest of the country. If you stop companies from expanding in London they won't go to Sheffield or Birmingham - they'll go to Amsterdam or Frankfurt or Paris.

> But even on a more local level, I wish instead of spending in the centre of London, focus shifted to bypassing the centre. E.g. I live in Croydon. Croydon has rail towards multiple towns around London, but anything not on the main lines in towards London doesn't have commuter level rail services running on them, or in some cases have no passenger trains at all.

They're trying that up to a point. Stratford has worked pretty well, and they're going to apply the same playbook at Old Oak Common. Croydon might be next on the list. But of course at the rate the UK builds anything that wil be what, 2060 before anything is done.
Perhaps more importantly, Very Important People don't want to leave a record of their conversations.
> But the fact remains that a hand or a heart or a lung can be removed or replaced without loss of self. A brain can't.

Here's a related observation that tipped me a bit away from thinking about my body as the meatsack carrying my brain: cutting off a hand doesn't cut off the experience or sensation of having a hand. (E.g. people with missing limbs have phantom pain.)

Lots of emotions are at least partly "embodied". People feel love in the chest. Fear in the stomach.

Not sure about anybody else, but I feel frustration in my elbows. I strongly suspect that if my arms were removed, I would still feel frustration in my elbows. I don't think removing my physical arms would remove all the ways "having arms" is baked into my experience. Even if an external physicalist account accurately places those phenomena "in the brain" and not "in the arms", that's not really all that relevant to an internal account of someone actually having the experience.

As I see it, a human's brain-from-the-inside (mind? soul?) is "body-shaped" in a lot of ways. When I hear warnings against "reducing ourselves to a bunch of 'computers", I read them as prompts to recognize this. As warnings against recognizing and engaging with *only* the parts of one's experience that can fit into an "abstract reasoner" model.
Reddit mods are calling for an ‘affordable return’ for third-party apps
Yuval Noah Harari had a good quote on wheat farming in Sapiens

Think for a moment about the Agricultural Revolution from the viewpoint of wheat. Ten thousand years ago wheat was just a wild grass, one of many, confined to a small range in the Middle East. Suddenly, within just a few short millennia, it was growing all over the world. According to the basic evolutionary criteria of survival and reproduction, wheat has become one of the most successful plants in the history of the earth. In areas such as the Great Plains of North America, where not a single wheat stalk grew 10,000 years ago, you can today walk for hundreds upon hundreds of miles without encountering any other plant. Worldwide, wheat covers about 870,000 square miles of the globe’s surface, almost ten times the size of Britain. How did this grass turn from insignificant to ubiquitous? Wheat did it by manipulating Homo sapiens to its advantage. This ape had been living a fairly comfortable life hunting and gathering until about 10,000 years ago, but then began to invest more and more effort in cultivating wheat. Within a couple of millennia, humans in many parts of the world were doing little from dawn to dusk other than taking care of wheat plants. It wasn’t easy. Wheat demanded a lot of them. Wheat didn’t like rocks and pebbles, so Sapiens broke their backs clearing fields. Wheat didn’t like sharing its space, water and nutrients with other plants, so men and women laboured long days weeding under the scorching sun. Wheat got sick, so Sapiens had to keep a watch out for worms and blight. Wheat was attacked by rabbits and locust swarms, so the farmers built fences and stood guard over the fields. Wheat was thirsty, so humans dug irrigation canals or lugged heavy buckets from the well to water it. Sapiens even collected animal faeces to nourish the ground in which wheat grew.
I looked at multiple messages on that website and the pattern seems to be triple letters are for single letters and abbreviations. My theory is because if you get a letter wrong in a word and "possible" becomes "possifle" then it is still intelligible, but if "u five one four" means u-boat 514 and you get the U wrong, then it could end up as A514 and mean something airplane 514, so to be safe the letter u gets transmitted thrice.
I suspect that all the location data stuff is to prevent someone pirating the app and building/selling their own hardware.

Sure, the Chinese manufacturer is a factory making gadgets on the other side of the world - they have no real avenue to monetize your location data. They likely don't even know your name.

Hence, my suspicion is this is all a complex way to stop someone else making a 'compatible' device and selling it without developing their own app. Thats why the app checks the mac address is valid, and uploads location data so the manufacturer can see if one device is in two locations at once, confirming piracy must have occurred.
I've had my iPhone call 911 twice.

Once I was tucking to pick up speed and I must have accidentally held the side button down in my pocket. I didn't notice anything had happened until I got a call back asking if I was okay. (I did hear the countdown alarm that plays, but misattributed it to a snowmobile or other equipment at the ski resort.)

The second time I was also skiing and did actually fall. I was unhurt but I guess going fast enough to trigger the call. Unfortunately I couldn't get myself situated enough (gloves, zippered pocket, super steep hill) to cancel before the call went through.

The dispatchers were great in both cases. Asked me a few questions to make sure nobody in the area needed help and nothing else happened.
> from incompetent previous users

Never seen this before. But in my area there are only self-service pumps except for few Shell pumps.
English is my first language (I don't say native as no one is born speaking a language).

In English, I sound Australian in Australia but in Scotland sound like a Scot.

My Spanish accent is pretty good, Latinos say I sound like a person from Spain. People from Spain say I sound like a news reader.

My Portuguese accent is a lot dicier because I have learnt it from more people from many different regions of Brazil. I believe I could clean it up.

You could put all this down to moving around as a child but really I have simply just attempted very hard to imitate the sounds I am hearing and have refused to be satisfied with less than the phoneme I am hearing.
"No, because the point is that you get to know who sold them the RAM chips that went into the device, because the RAM chip vendor digitally signed the sale of those chips to them, and their repair job "consumes" that item in their own digital inventory to convert one manifest (representing all the parts in a phone with bad RAM) into another manifest (representing all the parts in a phone with good RAM.) The provenance of the replaced RAM chips "travels within" the provenance of the repaired phone. It's a tree of component sourcing, not just a log of repairs."

Which they only do if they are already trustworthy. I don't trust them. At any point in the chain, a vendor/manufacturer can put whatever garbage they want on the chain because the chain can't interact with the real world, and for that reason, blockchain solves absolutely nothing in the space of supply-chain management.
The purpose of real estate development is to make real estate more valuable.

So if you have laws restricting that development you need to look further than just "real-estate investors don't want development."

Even ones not doing the development benefit financially - landlords love being able to raise the rents cause other people in the area built a bunch of new shit.

The better off - and therefore more politically-connected - you are as a homeowner, the more you care about "I don't want the wrong people living next to me" compared to "I need to maximize short-term property values." (And the long-term property values trends clearly shows that cities with more development, that more people want to move to, are where you find ROI.)
How about forcing public markets to bucket trades within say 2 second windows, executing best matches at the end of each period. Low friction and reduces value of millisecond latency advantages.
> This tool is ideal for those of us who work on legacy projects and want a high level view of the project structure to make it easier to get a feel of the project.

Which is anyone more than few months into any project developed by multiple people.

I continue to be amazed at how our entire field claims to consider code readability paramount, and yet invests approximately zero effort into making codebases legible.
This is one example where I wish the HN title better represented the content.

"Nobody predicted the AI revolution, except for the 352 experts who were asked to predict it."
Generally yes (former State U employee, and spouse of State U employee). On the other hand, salaried workers aren't required to report their hours.

Unless the state wants to pay them overtime.
I am so sick of this I have resorted to putting almost all my apps on an old iPad (iOS being the lesser of two evils) connected to its own isolated guest network. My Android phone only has apps needed for leaving the house.
I expected a dispute with the camera/printer manufacturer.
You'd have to uproot how the western world works to get us back to how we evolved to be healthy and survive on this planet. Finding time to get your 8 miles of walking a day in would be hard enough. We probably spend way too much time thinking a day as well with the 8 hour day. Think about how often a white collar worker does nothing but sit all day and gets home exhausted from the mental drain and stress: that can't be very healthy and is really far off from early modern human behavior as well. Stuff like a deadline you are stressing over is a very modern concept too, probably takes years off your life but what do you know we live by them and pretend like we are being productive and healthy while burning the wick at both ends.

By the time you actually get the time to live like how you are supposed to live, you are old, in retirement, fragile from a lifetime of inactivity, and can't make up for your years lost of good physical health that you had to spend at a desk growing lethargic instead.
The state knows, they buy the laundered version of this data from Palantir and the like.