skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Neither Breonna nor her boyfriend committed any crimes

What?! Have you read the warrant?! Dude was literally talking on a prison phone with someone in jail about their drug operation!

https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Breonna-Taylor...

Officer Tatum has debunked a lot of your claims.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GoOFJF0PpU

I really hate Barnes, but even he did a good analysis on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xugKbUNUz0

Breonna Taylor was likely involved in the drug operations. There were drugs and money seen ins stakeouts funneling through that very house. Had any drugs or money not been moved out, we would even be having this conversation.

I personally know a woman who did Grubhub/Doordash in Louisville. No one liked delivering to that particular neighborhood. She's a school teacher and said everyone in that city knew how bad that part of town is.

Stop spreading clear and blatant lies!
Very well presented, the README.md looks great.
If anything exists to read and use this data it probably won’t be all that exciting to bring back legacy humans.
I also loved that it was adamant about having specific, defined states with no customization. The issue is todo, in progress, done, delivered, accepted… that’s it. Custom issue states are a special kind of hell in JIRA.
I’m not sure about this one, but I recently installed LibreNMS (an open source nms) on my home network and it does a decent job keeping track of traffic on my ubiquiti edgerouter. It uses snmp so should work with most routers, I imagine. I specifically set it up to tell me when I use more than a certain amount of data in a day to avoid data caps. It was a bit fiddly to set up, but kind of fun.
We accidentally burned through 200GB of proxy bandwidth in 6 hours
> The design goals of the Internet you're referring to are about networks not going offline, a global routing table with individual entries for every user is not sustainable.

With a bit of a redesign it would be. Most mesh networks tackle this problem. In the worst case, a routing table entry for every human in the world is only 8 billion entries, which would fit in RAM on a typical server today. And every optimization you do dramatically reduces that number (eg. make users who have similar network configs and peers have neighbouring addresses, allowing you to coalesce potentially millions of users into a single route)
> However if one doesn't speak the language natively, text is far preferable because I can quickly translate. Can’t translate some long voice message.

I'm in a similar situation. www.turboscribe.ai works well at a great price.
Yes it is heartless, because it's talking about complete dissolution of communities and swaths of the country due to corporate decisions that are all made under certain regulatory regimes and strategic policies of foreign nations (in many cases enemies). Look at H1B, I've never seen a good justification for it based on working in many large corporations, there's absolutely no reason we can't be finding actual citizens that could fill these jobs and build their careers.
>and it's faster for you to read than hear.

Actually it isn't. I struggle with auditory processing, and routinely mishear things.

If I want to refer to something from an audio message a second time while I'm responding, audio messages are impossible to easily reference. Asynchronous audio messages are awful.

Empathy is also understanding that different people have different preferences, often driven by physiological differences. If my friends were dyslexic or blind or struggled to type, I would be open to voice memos for that reason, but they are all very proficient typists.

A written document inherently allows you to process it at your own pace. A voice memo cannot do that.
Surviving life as a designer in an early stage startup – how's it going for you?
I've been working with early-stage startups for quite a few years as a Ux/Ui/product designer and I've started writing a series of articles around some of the challenges and how I've learned to work around them - the aim would be to create a useful resource for more junior designers and others who are struggling with early-stage startup life.

I'd love to hear some of your experiences as well, so we can make this a more valuable series for anyone starting out and struggling - what are your hacks, and workarounds - how do you cope? if you are more junior - what areas are you struggling with? what would be helpful for you if we covered it?

This is the first article in the series: https://openmeter.io/blog/designing-a-product-from-zero-to-one

Thanks for any feedback & thoughts!
Yea, in same boat and I'm wondering if there is big contingent of devs out there that bristle at Docker. Biggest issue I run into writing my lab software is finding decent enough container registry but now I just endorse free tier of Vultr CR.
> What a load of whinging.

Aka 'facts you don't like'.

> You do get the same benefits

Nope. Definitively, categorically, obviously not.

> Americans abroad can collect social security

Social Security eligibility depends on having paid into the system for a certain number of quarters, and some countries do not have Social Security agreements with the U.S.

> and medicare benefits

Medicare does not cover healthcare costs outside of the U.S.

Expats would have to return to the U.S. to use any Medicare benefits, and even then Americans face issues.

> your children can apply to US universities on equal footing with US residents.

On equal footing?? No. And again you need to be in America to take advantage of that.

U.S. universities often treat students living abroad as international students when assessing financial aid or admissions. Access to loans, scholarships, financial aid can be more difficult because of residency status, financial circumstances etc.

Besides all of which, why wouldn't I be equal to other citizens when applying for college? If I were in US college I'd be paying US taxes.

> The US has tax treaties with almost every country

FEIE and FTC help reduce the tax burden, but they require detailed reporting. Complex U.S. tax forms means costly & time-consuming filings - even if no taxes are owed - on top of any weird interactions with the local tax code.

And, not all foreign taxes are deductible. Foreign investment income, pensions, Social Security-equivalent benefits, etc, aren't always fully excluded.

> you absolutely do not "pay full price" to the IRS unless you're too lazy to deduct the taxes you're paying in your local jurisdiction.

That simple is it? Just navigate the US tax code, and all the interactions of it with the country you're in, every year, and let's not even talk about setting up a company. Simple, lol.

... Have you ever been through this process yourself? Did you ever even pay an accountant to do it?
The pricing page shows the smallest plan is $12,000 a year. Given the lack of any screenshots or workflow info, I'm not going to reach out to their sales and demo this. It's way too much money for a complete unknown.
Does it? Or is it just shifting responsibility?

It's a kind of narcissistic wound to accept that we make bad decisions.

To learn to let go such regret is a big achievement for our further life.
The board gathers around the monthly cloud vendor bill and wonder why they need to raise a new round just to pay it off.
this is the stuff folks
It’s also just simply not python. It’s a separate language with a confusingly close syntax to python, but quite different semantics.
The referenced "researcher/guru" Sidney Dekker wrote a whole book titled Drift Into Failure. "Accidents come from relationships, not broken parts."

"Safety may not at all be the result of decisions that were or were not made, but rather an underlying stochastic variation that hinges on a host of other factors, many not easily within the control of those who engage in fine-tuning processes. Empirical success, in other words, is no proof of safety. Past success does not guarantee future safety. Murphy's law is wrong: everything that can go wrong usually goes right, and then we draw the wrong conclusion."

"Why, in hindsight, do all all these other parts (in the regulations, the manufacturer, the airline, the maintenance facility, the technician, the pilots) appear suddenly "broken" now? How is it that a maintenance program which, in concert with other programs like it never revealed any fatigue failures or fatigue damage after 95 million flight hours, suddenly became "deficient"? Why did none of these deficiencies strike anybody as deficiencies at the time?"

The central idea is not to (stop at) discovering what mistakes were made, but to understand why they didn't seem like mistakes to the individuals making them, and what suppressed the influence of anyone who might have warned otherwise.
Not to mention how flawed the current search tool really is. If you search for something, page 1 shows results from page 7 to some infinite number. But click on that large number, and you find out that the last page was page 3.
Network visualization tools have generally been a solution in search of a problem for me. At both work and home, my network is very stable and unchanging.
I don't think you'd have to consider migration all the data from Pivotal, but lets assume 10% just in case? Lets say that's 100TB in total (on disk), which you could host with 10x storage boxes from Hetzner, 24 EUR each per month, so 240 EUR in total, which includes 10 unmetered connections (1 per box).
Corpulent healthy people and muscular athletes may be classified as obese because of B.M.I., even though they aren’t necessarily ill or even fat

this is very few people. the vast majority of ppl with obese BMIs are in fact fat. This is just the reality.
Knowing how people in the US are, this article could be published everywhere, on billboards, even tattooed on Doctors foreheads. The damage is done.

Pregnant people and young kids will still avoid peanuts and nuts like the plague, no matter what health officials say. So, this will continue to get worse.
Playing devil’s advocate here, I do have some doubts about the future dynamics between open source and database systems. Andy Pavlo mentioned in his CMU DB course that nowadays new database companies are either fully closed-source or only open a small portion of non-essential code.

If you think about it, databases are arguably a more critical piece of IT infrastructure than cybersecurity products. Yet, while cybersecurity companies are thriving with many company valuations exceeding $10 billion, database companies—especially those embracing open source—struggle to achieve similar commercial success. The few database companies that do reach high valuations are typically based on closed-source products, while those adopting open-source models often face significant challenges in becoming profitable.

It's also worth noting that many companies in the database space have recently changed their licenses around open source or source availability. If major players like MongoDB, ElasticSearch, and Redis are all making these tough decisions to build sustainable businesses, it might not be fair to simply blame corporate greed. Without adequate returns on investment, venture funding for database development could dry up, which would ultimately stifle innovation in this crucial sector.
If you'd really lost a significant amount of weight before, you'd know that exercise does not lead to weight loss. You wouldn't suggest it as a solution to anything.

Exercise is an important adjunct to weight loss. Just for the purposes of feeling good, you need your body's emergency response to the loss of caloric reserves to not include cutting muscle to lower your basal metabolic rate. The only way to do that is consistent exercise. It is critical to healthy loss of significant amounts of weight. But it isn't the cause.

So if you wanted to show off how superior you are to everyone with lives that require them to spend time on stuff other than losing weight, if you knew what you were talking about you'd say something like "imagine taking drugs instead of eating less." In addition to being cruel and mocking, your comment indicated a clear lack of understanding how the body even works.
The biological purpose of regretting past actions is to avoid them in the future, though.
My issue is i regret rather non-issues. Which makes it difficult to avoid because A. they're often small, stupid things that are difficult to avoid imo. And B. i'm sure i'd just find something else. The small things are objectively not reasons to be obsessing and regretting.. yet i do. So i think it's a problem in my frame of mind, not the action in focus.
Occam's Razor definitely applies here.

"The simplest explanation is usually the best one."

Conspiracy theories are a logical reasoning black hole.

I personally feel it's generally best to avoid the mental Spaghettification.
money leading to drugs, riskier behavior, suicide, etc.
db-to-sqlite: exporting tables or queries from any SQL database to SQLite
This comment is going to be heavily downvoted, and it will be a tremendously discouraging phase of my life.

But read on for what it taught me about B2B marketing.
> and efficient

citation needed

https://xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc6121.html#session
Announcing Online Passport Renewal
Yes this exactly. Another really simple way to do this, is to use alternating leading and trailing zero counts in the hash in your nested G-trees. Simple, and pretty effective.
I took a couple stabs at this long ago (even before there was a Typescript for inspiration). The first attempt was to add types to the syntax of R, but that would have required a lot more time than I had. Properly catching errors is a massive undertaking requiring a lot of background I don't have. The second attempt was to add syntax for types to R and then compile the code to another language. That's easy to do, but really boring, so I wasn't able to stick with it. It comes with the advantages of static typing and R code that runs very fast. I gave up and went with embedding R inside a statically typed language. Very happy with my choice.

Good luck to the authors of this. I believe it solves an important problem for R package authors and others wanting to write bigger programs. It's hard to argue with the benefits of static typing for this type of work.
I am an atheist but it's preposterous to dismiss the fact that a vast number of people find healing in organized or individualized religion. Or to suggest that the sole purpose of religion is exploitation for profit.
US goes big with first interest rate cut in four years
Walmart Plans Instant Bank Payments, Cutting Out Card Networks
My whole life is regret and I found the article very insightful. I heard a religious quote that I wish I could remember: it's better to earn gold along the way by investing in relationships than to bet it all on a gold mine.

As a hacker trying to win the internet lottery since.. 1992-ish, I put all of my eggs in one basket most of the time, and I've been part of at least a dozen ventures that all failed. It's like flipping a coin and getting tails 30 times in a row, which feels like 1 in a billion odds of losing to this extent. My best years were invested in techs like C++ that nobody even uses anymore, and I wouldn't use because they don't provide enough leverage. I only have the smallest bandwidth now to get anything at all done, and 90% of that is a waste of time due to conceptual flaws in languages, frameworks, operating systems, hardware, etc. In a very real sense, my most impactful choices were in the beginning, but I chose poorly or lost, so now it's too expensive to get back the sunk cost that I've invested. Making it ever-harder to keep going. Sometimes it feels like regret is all I have.

Unfortunately the winners usually don't have this experience. They don't have the gumption to lose for a lifetime. So they don't go through the same healing and growth process. Vanishingly few wealthy people can step back and use their money for social wellness altruistically.

Meanwhile some of us stumble onto concepts like duality and see through the matrix. We grok that there's no way to opt out of reincarnation. Then we look around and wonder why everyone is acting so strangely, having strong attachments to materialism in the 3D. The more we have, the more we cling to our ego and accomplishments, eventually living in fear of losing it all. While the people with nothing are more likely to lose their risk aversion and live in service to others.

Which means that the wealthy and powerful often live in a fear-based reality, while the poor often live in a love-based reality. Which works out well for the rich, while the poor suffer under systems of control they have little say in.

Zen Buddhism and Taoism touch on the idea that life is suffering, and suffering comes from attachments. So something that helps me is to go into situations knowing that I'll likely fail, but trying anyway, without expectation of outcome or regret.

So that one day if/when the win comes, I don't waste it like so many others. And maybe, just maybe, we can change the world.
https://archive.today/KSnXc

Walmart FedNow instant payment public comments: https://www.federalreserve.gov/SECRS/2019/December/20191227/... [pdf; 2019]
Ask HN: Recruiters, how many hours after a job posting is too late to apply?
Tech recruiter, I've got a question for ya:

I'll see a job posting I'm interested in on LinkedIn and will go about my day for a few hours, only to find after I've returned that over 100 people have applied.

I'm assuming at a certain point, it becomes a pain to go through 100s to 1000s of resumes, so you pick a cut off point.

What is the cut off point?

Is it really required to jump on the role the minute its posted?

What can we do to help optimize our job applications to at least get eyes on it?
National freak out levels quantification problems notwithstanding,

If a platoon of American CIA agents went around the US executing 'bad people' (definition problems notwithstanding),

That would be bad.
No, but I do have a smaller lower jaw and wear a night guard because I do sometimes clench and grind (depending on stress levels, caffeine intake, etc). This might cause excessive wear. My mother also suffers from bruxism.
This might be a case where "judging by their works" comes into play. Grouping by semantics is not a good idea.
I asked Bill Gates why there are still so many hungry children
Out of curiosity: what kind of philosophy do you like? Are you open to any psychoanalytic or marxist methods, if executed with enough scientific rigor? Honest question. I'm guessing basically all of HN agrees with you, so no offense intended!

TBF, AFAIR Sokal was criticizing Literary Criticism, not philosophy. I guess she does invoke a few science fiction stories here so the line is blurred, but its clearly instrumental. Namely for this purpose:

Haraway uses the cyborg metaphor to explain how fundamental contradictions in feminist theory and identity should be conjoined, rather than resolved, similar to the fusion of machine and organism in cyborgs. The manifesto is also an important feminist critique of capitalism by revealing how men have exploited women's reproduction labor, providing a barrier for women to reach full equality in the labor market.

Which IMO is far from meaning-free! Also in her defense, literally all of the linked criticisms are about one book, Primate Visions. The first one isn't a criticism at all if you actually click the link, other than in the Kantian (non-pejorative) sense. The second one is by a primatologist who's offended and seems... well, I guess I'd have to read the book, but I'm dubious of the claims that Harroway endorses "relativism" or that "Marxism and feminism are never in doubt". The third one appears to be inaccessible / in Japanese (??) so no comments there.

Sorry, I've been a die hard fan of her for the past 30 minutes, as you can probably tell! So I'm more than a bit biased.
cool downvote - why lol
Both OVH and Hetzner offers unmetered connections for their dedicated servers, only had good experience with both so far (besides when one of OVH's data centers burned down, but hoping that was a exceptional situation)
Yes via sidelink: https://www.abiresearch.com/blogs/2022/11/08/5g-sidelink/

Not used everywhere, but seen as something that would be rolled out for critical communications, natural disasters, etc.
Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Free OpenStreetMap Vector Tile Hosting
Hi HN,

After 9 years of running my own OpenStreetMap tile server infra for MapHub (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11389989), I’ve open-sourced it and launched OpenFreeMap — offering free, unlimited map tile hosting.

OpenFreeMap provides free map hosting for websites and apps with no limits, no registration, no API keys, and no cookies. It’s also fully open-source: see the code at https://github.com/hyperknot/openfreemap and the styles at https://github.com/hyperknot/openfreemap-styles.

Why?

Using OpenStreetMap data usually requires paying for hosting or dealing with complex self-hosting. I wanted to make it easy and accessible for everyone.

How does it work?

Tiles are served directly from Btrfs partition images containing 300 million hard-linked files, avoiding the overhead of a tile server and leveraging Linux kernel file caching.

Key components:

- Tile Generation: Planetiler (https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler)

- Hosting: Nginx serving tiles from Btrfs images on dedicated Hetzner servers.

- No Cloud Services: Optimized file serving on dedicated hardware.

How is it free and unlimited?

With enough donations and subscriptions, I hope to cover bandwidth costs.

Looking forward to your feedback!
COVID is still a thing, and we are indeed in strange times.
Sounds like vapourware. ;)
sadly the wayback machine version is also paywalled and archive.is seems to be outright blocked from crawling.
Fed unveils oversized rate cut (0.5%)
Oh, if only it were that powerful! Their best result produced 94 nanowatts per square centimeter, or 0.94 milliwatts per square meter.
Phabricator? OK, how about…

Redmine:

- https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/repository/svn/show...

- https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Download

RequestTracker:

- https://github.com/bestpractical/rt

- https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/releases

A bit like Phabricator, these are almost frameworks that can do a ticketing UI.

// But really, probably something mentioned elsewhere in the thread, Taiga:

- https://community.taiga.io/t/taiga-30min-setup/170
It seems to me that the authors are pretty cautious.

They don't claim "we found a scalable way to violate the second law of thermodynamics", but instead make very specific claims about what they measured, and that they produced 94 nano-Watts per square centimeter. They don't even mention entropy.

This feels more like they know exactly how unbelievable their results sound, and that they are very careful to not overstate anything.
good summary from the article:

"When modern medicine issues recommendations based on good scientific studies, it shines. Conversely, when doctors rule by opinion and edict, we have an embarrassing track record. Unfortunately, medical dogma may be more prevalent today than in the past because intolerance for different opinions is on the rise, in medicine as throughout society."
You're missing the point, I believe intentionally. You can't get away from IPv4 as long as you have users who can't access IPv6-only servers. All your users and potential users can access IPv4-only servers.
> It's important to remember that the government and even a single agency (like the NSA) is just as chaotic, disconnected, and full of competing entities as any big tech company has (if not worse).

And yet even as early as 2003 they were taking a copy of every single bit that ran over the AT&T backbone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A). It's amazing how effective these "chaotic, disconnected, and full of competing entities" can be. We're entirely dependent on whistleblowers willing to risk their lives and freedom to learn about what they're doing to us.