skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would you use it for small/medium sized projects?

Depends what your requirements are - what's the problem you're trying to solve? The size doesn't matter. If may want to instrument a 3 line script and ignore a massive app. It's fine either way.

> What was the most annoying part about setting it up?

That's going to be highly dependent on which part of opentelemetry you use and how. It's a protocol with lots of possible uses and implementations. You'll need to be more specific with what you're expecting to send, from where, and to what system.

In general, if you need it, it works. But what I'm mostly trying to say is that you'll need to do some more research and info gathering on your own to ask questions that others can answer. This one is at the level of "what's your opinion on cars?"
Exactly-once semantics of what specifically? Or do you mean at-least-once ?
The economics only really work if you're also a co-working space, and now everyone works at home ...
Noisebridge came pretty close to going under too. At one point the landlord was asking for an increase in rent to something like 20k/mo before backing down.
The US also has forced conscription. It hasn't been used since the 70s, but the legal/constitutional ability of the government to do so is pretty much undisputed (although there is some surprisingly recent controversy about the male only aspect).

The rights being discussed in the article sounds like rights nominal protected by Russian law. So really the question is 'do rights the government grant you count, if that government ignores them?'. In a properly functioning liberal democracy, the answer is 'yes, because there is a co-equal branch of the government (the judiciary) that will not ignore them'. In a country where all aperatasus of the government agree not to respect those rights, then all you have is paper.
I would love to say this cynicism is unwarranted but it’s nigh impossible to make that case. What transit America is building is either grossly overpriced compared to peer nations, the wrong type of transit, or both.

Compare Seattle Link to the Vancouver sky train for one example. Or the 2nd ave subway in New York. Or all of the transit we’ve built in the middle of literal freeways (LA, DC, SF). And why oh why are we building light rail everywhere when regional or heavy rail would be a better fit? It’s tough to be optimistic.
> As far as I know the US is the only country with enumerated rights for citizens.

I appreciate that you prefaced this with a disclaimer about your ignorance, but it has a weird tone of American exceptionalism to it, and it’s not even close to true. There are quite a lot of countries with “bills of rights”. There’s even a Wikipedia article that attempts to enumerate them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_rights
Do people then have any rights in the US? Because conscription is one of the powers the Constitution explicitly grants to the Congress.

The historical background is that serving in the military is what able-bodied male citizens do in a republic. Conscription is not supposed to be something that the government does but what the citizens do by the virtue of being citizens. If there is no conscription, you don't have a republic in the traditional sense, because warfare is no longer a public matter.
You need intense love to use a mac without (real) games, or Linux without (meaningful) GUI. Windows has both, so it doesn't require devotion to use.
ASMBLY in Austin is doing well. Lots of machines/space/people.

https://asmbly.org
100%. The worst time to ask someone if they'd recommend a surgery is in recovery. There's a reason surgeons tend to handwave away the pain management aspects of recovery during consultation.
How many of those 25000 are between ghost cities?
Went to a Yatai in Fukuoka this last summer, was pretty neat. Though it's also kind of intimidating, especially compared to a lot of Japanese restaurants where there's some kind of screen to order from at the front or at a table, and often there's an English translation even.
Wow, now that I need reading glasses these are easier than when I was a kid
Shameless promotion of a blog post I made a few years ago connecting 2-adic numbers with computationally fast exponentiation: https://kevinventullo.com/2020/12/21/2-adic-logarithms-and-f...
11-12% drop in 2023 so far this year, according to the article. That would put it around 5.6, which is close to 2016 levels.
Yes, but that's only a problem with the runtime implementation.

I remember a number of people pushing Adobe to transform the runtime into an open standard. Then every browser would have been allowed to create their own implementations that actually fit with their security model.
> Rust's type system encodes more information than most languages, and so you can offload more work to it.

I suspect at least one of the developers would argue with you as I have listened to his rants. :)

Rust is a remarkably poor match to implementing Flash because Flash has lots of object orientation with child and parent pointers--which Rust really hates.

> Rust also attracts good developers in general, moreso than the average language certainly.

I suspect this is way more relevant.
What it's like to stay on Ozempic for years
TLDR:

- The objectives and scope of the report: The report aims to address the questions of global tax evasion and the effects of recent policies, using new data and research conducted by the EU Tax Observatory and its partners. The report focuses on the issues of international tax evasion and competition by multinational companies and wealthy individuals, and their consequences for government revenue, inequality, and globalization.

- The main findings of the report: The report establishes six new findings on the dynamic of global tax evasion and international tax competition, such as the reduction of offshore tax evasion by wealthy individuals, the persistence of profit shifting by multinationals, the weakening of the global minimum tax, the emergence of new forms of tax competition, the low effective tax rates of billionaires, and the revenue potential of a global minimum tax on billionaires.

- The recommendations of the report: The report makes six recommendations to address the issues identified in the report, such as reforming the global minimum corporate tax, introducing a new global minimum tax for billionaires, taxing wealthy emigrants, implementing unilateral measures to collect tax
deficits, creating a global asset registry, and strengthening anti-abuse rules.

- The role and vision of the EU Tax Observatory: The EU Tax Observatory is a research laboratory hosted at the Paris School of Economics that conducts research on taxation with a focus on international tax issues. Its goal is to generate new knowledge, formulate proposals, and contribute to a more informed democratic debate. It also aims to become an IPCC for taxation, providing rigorous and global analysis of different policy options.
Possibly you're not seeing the answers you're given as compelling because of your perspective. I can speak from an Islamic perspective and say that sexual relationships are considered immoral outside of marriage, so a man and woman cannot create a family and have kids unless they get married.
The makerspace I am a member of(Freeside Atlanta) manages to survive by the skin of its teeth by moving to a new and bigger space right before the pandemic shutdown and seem to be growing ever since.
I wonder if it's that the people go who to these places tend to like to build for themselves and tinker rather than build with a customer in mind (nothing wrong with that), and similar people run the spaces in a similar way, so they're run more like hobbies than businesses.
I don't know. Most people on HN are in some dimension, at least, qualified for FAANG or better. I have 6 yoe with quite a bit of impact and I've crossed many domains. I've received quite a few offers over the past year but I've also received my fair share of rejections. I just go through the rejections (it's like dating, and heck I've been through rejection there too).

I leetcode daily and have a system design study group. I'm honest in interviews, whether that be about a bad decision I've made or a good one. If an interviewer doesn't want me after I've been honest with them, it probably wasn't a good fit anyway.
None. Ghost cities are a myth spread by those who can't comprehend what decent urban planning looks like.
And for things like transferring data to and from S3 within AWS you use an S3 gateway endpoint so data stays within AWS’s network
It depends. In some cases I believe they certainly do. One of the reasons cited for the demise of Alitalia was the development of Italy's high speed train network, which is very good and quite extensive.

I think speed is important, it does get tiring to sit on a train for 8 or 10 hours compared to a 1.75 hour flight. However, it is certainly one factor and how it compares to other modes of transport will depend on the person and situation.
Might be worth searching for:

- TechShop and it's fall - I remember one person arguing hackerspaces may be better run as a nonprofit model.

- The rise of small-scale maker capabilities within public institutions like libraries. I considered signing up for a maker space last year and it made more sense to pay for a second library that happened to have a good maker lab.

- The rise of cheaper or more accessible prototype manufacturing (e.g. pcbway , sendcutsend, etc.).

- The other threads trying to save spaces, like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32245086 (2022)
Not really good. I quit my FAANG job just before the layoffs started (If only I had known...) to pursue a SaaS project. I was the top performer in the team back then. I recently reached out to my manager about getting back into the team but the hiring freeze is still very much ongoing and going to last atleast 6 more months based on his feedback.
You can’t really take a high-speed train in the US.

Cars do ok against slow trains but a lot of people will fly when in other countries the same distance is quick enough by train.
I'm not sure how that line could be drawn. If a person does something that most would consider evil, but does it for reasons they honestly believed in which side is right?

Some of the Nazis may have honestly believed that Jewish people were the cause of Germany's economic problems, but I don't think many would claim they were anything less than evil.
India also has something called "Fundamental Rights" that are enumerated and clearly laid out. But they can be suspended during statutory emergencies.
You may want to include some kind of time factor into your suffering assessment.

Like, what if some "thing" has very complex behaviours as per your existing items, but their external signalling rate is so slow that it takes hours for them to start displaying their reactions?

(note - that's just an exaggerated thing to convey the idea)
> Nobody wants a 300mph train to go through their neighborhood

And yet somehow, that's what the rest of the world is trying to build, through neighborhoods.

Le me guess, American Exceptionalism once more, eh?

> The trains will be expensive. Any craft travelling at 300mph will necessarily be expensive.

Checked out the cost of Airbus and Boeing's most recent offerings?
I mean, not over the wire, but an average developer can definitely grok either protocol pretty quickly. IP is connectionless and fairly simple. TCP requires a more complicated state machine, and has more extensions if you want to implement the entire thing. IPv6 makes both more complicated. But the actual functionality is limited, so there's not a lot of complexity outside of "Did they turn on option 1? Do a thing. Did they turn on option 2? Do another thing. Is option 2 on but option 3 off? Do another thing."

It's not like implementing transport encryption and multiplexing and congestion control and etc etc etc. I doubt many people in the world actually know how to implement QUIC. I implemented tcp/ip as a teenager when I was bored over summer break.
Medicine is technology.
Oh, totally! However when I was travelling around Japan, especially in smaller towns, restaurants and shops were very accommodating as I took my time to use Google Translate. Very lovely people!
Many artists in general were probably not very successful and/or otherwise had a lot of hardships in their lifetimes. Some of them became more recognized later. They're the ones you've heard of.
Formulation and resolutions of the red sky paradox (2021)
One of the biggest causes of lack of realism is the audience. People know right away that “shuttle” means “post-Apollo spaceship”, and they don’t know enough about them to understand why it makes no sense to take it to the moon.
Er... I own one and it is maybe 10% more to insure than my previous Subaru.
You got a stat for this?
This is extremely overblown...
Honestly? It’s impossible to say due to lack of data.

Homicides are well tracked. They’re either up or down. It varies by locale.

Petty theft and similar isn’t tracked. Everyone in a city knows the police can not and will not do anything about it. Small crimes simply are not reported. It’s a waste of time. The only data we have is anecdata.

If someone uses stats to claim non-violent crime is down they’re full of shit. They don’t know. If someone says it’s up they’re relying on anecdotes. So maybe true, maybe false.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics. :(
I went to one in Birmingham a couple of times but it was boring and the people who used it were tedious and condescending. Not sure what I was expecting but it wasn't that.
You can eliminate the stops with station loops, but that's Advanced Magic. Ironically, the vast emptiness of North America would actually work in favor of these little lovelies much better than in Europe or Asia.
How do you think the work is getting done now? Are currently employed developers so much faster with GenAI that you need fewer? Are product managers just doing implementation themselves with Copilot?
Hackerdojo isn't a Hackerspace in the early 2010's meaning of the word anymore. They converted to a more startup incubator kind of place (and so I stopped going).

From their website, looks like they're doing quite well!

(for those who remember a previous incarnation of the space, with my partner and some friends we painted the 2 Dinos mural)
You have to be extremely skeptical of anyone who claims they are doing something for the good of humanity but then gates their tech behind a patent.
These days, Ticketmaster would probably be the ones selling the tickets to the FTC hearings to begin with.
Oh dang, that's neat! Thank you!
Wow. While women may not "need" men, men live longer when they are in a healthy long term relationship. Typically this is heterosexual marriage, but if you can find a buddy who will do the stuff that a wife will do when your body decays, good for you.

My mom outlived my father by a few years. My grandmothers both outlived their husbands. This is well known pattern.

"men going their own way" may lead to more lonely, sick, unhappy men.
So, basically just like baking a cake
Any sanely designed covert transparent proxy software will automatically stop proxying when the certificate expires.

I wonder why this didn't.
How expensive is it to produce? Is it overwritable?
Yeah, that was the original sin of the CAHSR project. They drew some lines on surface freight rail lines and said "we'll build it here". But they actually cannot build it "there", they have to build it over or under "there", which gets extremely expensive. Foamers never got this, HSR is more like a new freeway than the Southern Pacific.

In Europe, it seems like HSR stations are often in greenfield locations outside of town. In California it became some hypothetical "downtown revitalization" scheme. But Bakersfield etc really should want better local public transit.
Suffering can produce some awesome art.

Sometimes I wonder if part of the reason for the US having far more success in exporting media worldwide compared to (Western) Europe is the relatively greater amount of suffering caused by libertarian-ish capitalism and oppression of minorities. Certainly it's hard to see American hip hop being the same kind of thing -- and thus achieving the same kind of sales -- without those two factors.
China is becoming a data black hole, says short seller Aandahl
How is that possible, just given the sheer cost difference? Or is most of your insurance policy covering liability (for if you hit other people), as opposed to the risk of damage to your own car?
Trying the same test (downloading Control Ultimate Edition) from the Brisbane server at ~3pm rather than the dead of night gives the same download rate too. ~50MB/s.

---

After bumping the NBN connection speed up to 1000/50, and confirming that was effective (eg through speedtest.net), I've retried the download of Control Ultimate Edition.

Downloads from the Brisbane server are still mostly around 50MB/s, though the peak download rate was 72.7MB/s (very briefly).

Downloads from the Sydney server were mostly around 20MB/s, with a brief peak up to 43.7MB/s.

Downloads from the Melbourne server were mostly around 10MB/s, with a peak of 17.1MB/s. Seems like some kind of artificial restriction is in place now, though it could turn out to be something else (tcp buffer config of some sort maybe?).

Anyway, it seems like the local server (Brisbane) is now easily the fastest download for me, so I'll be using that from here on. Might as well drop the NBN connection back down to 400/50 as well, as there doesn't currently seem to be an advantage using the higher 1000/50 plan.
Take this for what it's worth, but a recruiter that I know has told me that a lot of companies in California are now reaching out to recruiters to hire out of state for the obvious reason - lesser pay. Something to ponder. If you're really desperate maybe look into other regions.
denhac is alive and well! We had our 15th anniversary party earlier this month and recently crossed 350 members. We're entirely volunteer run with no paid employees.

I currently serve as vice-chair of the board. I joined right before COVID and my focus has been helping get policies and processes in place to continue to help us scale. We've seen pretty rapid growth post COVID and are seeing ~10 new members a month.

Happy to answer any questions (when I wake up).

Be sure to stop and say hi If you're ever in Denver, CO!

https://denhac.org/
How many people actually have theft on their insurance? My car was stolen so of course I called insurance right after the police (who didn’t show up for six hours). But the insurance company just said, “You don’t have theft on your policy, but okay we noted it’s no longer in your possession.” Maybe that would show up in stats? Not sure.
I'm working on bringing Flash to iOS via browser proxy^0. Basically, what we do is run the browser on the server and stream the viewport to your regular mobile browser (ie, Safari). Then we use Ruffle injected into the remote page.

Basically it's a "monkey patch" to give you extensions-like capabilities but on mobile devices!

0: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox/issues/424
There's something so adorable and poignant about your "little man" emulating Hulk for your woman
Strace command line flags I love
They kind of came to be when the Bush financial meltdown happend. Unemployment was getting high in the late 00's. People were trying to develop new skills or build cottage industries. It feels like there is less of a hustle with all that now.

Plus makerspaces were just difficult to make viable and really you are probably better off spending that time on any other endeavor.

A group of us out here tried starting one in West Michigan and it sputtered along for a while. Financials and interest were never able to balance out. The Geek Group out here did a little "better" but the owners and volunteers there basically burned themselves out constantly. Then the founder got nailed for bitcoin crimes and that was the end.
Interesting, I always associated Poe with Baltimore.
Agree about the “paper-thin” part, because laws only mean something if they are supported by institutions and people. But I don’t think we can say the executive branch was “almost” overthrown. That’s hyperbole.
iPod – The script that started everything
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_podcasting#Pushing_...
Sector67 is still healthy! They have a smart, incredibly dedicated and frugal BDFL who got them through some lean times.

I think in general it only works if there is a strong community / third place thing going. I always saw that as their biggest offering--a way to get out of the house without drinking or spending money. The making / hacking thing is just something to enjoy together.
We use LX Studio extensively for the LED visuals at our immersive audio venue in San Francisco, Envelop SF (http://envelop.us). It's been rock solid for 7 years. Highly recommended.
I am just wondering if it would be better and cheaper to buy an Threadripper 7980X 64 Core for Server than EPYC. You get higher single core performance. Specifically for those workload where bandwidth isn't an issue.

Something like StackExchange [1] could fit all their 9 server into 1 ( or 2 with one for redundancy ) without any degraded performance.

[1] https://stackexchange.com/performance
Agreed, though there's other intimidating aspects too. It was hard for my wife and I to even decide on a stall, between a lot of them filling up fast + some ambiguity of lines (because you need to leave space for pedestrians) and it also felt a bit harder to gauge whether each one was the kind of food we wanted from the outside.
Happy to hear it helped!
Which is a shame. Because car travel in the US is still wildly more expensive than high-speed rail in other countries, while being a vastly inferior form of transportation.
This actually isn’t at all relevant to what I’m talking about.

I’m talking about who holds responsibility for the actions taken with the virtual machines that Microsoft sells.

If I buy a VM from Microsoft and run a scam on it, Microsoft didn’t have control of that action. They don’t make my scam website or sell the data I collected. I’m the one responsible for scamming people, not Microsoft.

We can go down the hypothetical rabbit holes on whether Microsoft is running an incredibly sophisticated operation to memory dump all their customers’ VMs to try and steal data, but that’s basically beside the point.
I installed that on a housemate's PC and waited for his reaction in the next couple days... But it never came. And so I forgot about it.

I moved out. It must have been a couple months later (we were and still are good friends), we're out somewhere and the first thing he says to me "did you install a BSOD screensaver on my computer?!?" And I suddenly remembered, realized it had been months and started laughing.

What's hilarious is he never tried pressing anything or moving the mouse.. since, being a developer, he knew that was pointless. He'd sit down, see the BSOD, (often swear,) then just press the hard reset button. In true evil fashion, I think I set it to a long interval, like 2 hours, so it only activated if he walked away but left it running.

I do still feel a bit bad about it. But only a bit. :)
Well - I am in a unique position to help so I feel obliged to do so
How do y'all get excited for EVs?

I know my next car will need to be an EV, but I just can't get excited for any of them. They all go fast in a straight line, are heavy and look like overweight SUV style. Otherwise, they seem eeringly similar. Any sort of sound and feel is "generated".

I don't want to get a non-EV vehicle anymore, but the thought of shelling out money for one of these uniform soapboxes...
I know I can just get the cheapest one because in terms of motors etc. it's all more or less the same. But then, I'd rather get somehow excited for a product I am going to buy.
Can I refer back to your prior response and ask you to update us all regarding your current position in light of this bit?
https://foulab.org/ is alive and well!