skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tinkering with junk to develop an interest in real electrical engineering: Totally resonates. Personal recollection from 1983-84 or so follows.

We had a broken black-and-white TV that was mined out for parts (tubes, resistors, capacitors etc) but the front shell with the CRT, high voltage anode connector and deflection coils remained.

How do we make this light up again with teenager-accessible loose parts? What can generate the necessary voltage? Oh, how about this car ignition coil. How to tickle the coil into generating this voltage, i.e. pulse its primary input? How about this "vibrator" from an ancient tube car radio (a mechanical chopper for turning DC into AC).

But how do we rectify multiple kilovolts? No suitable stack-of-diodes rectifier stick on hand. Oh well, resort to the original HV rectifier tube from the TV. But need to power its (directly heated cathode) filament. Cop-out: Do it with a battery or two.

Voila, bright spot on the CRT.

Can we make it move? Well sure, just apply a suitable voltage (trial and error!) 60Hz AC waveform to the horizontal deflection coil. Voila, a line.

What about the Y axis? Well, we can amplify a microphone with a stereo amplifier and drive the vertical deflection coil with the speaker output. Amplitude? Trial and error (volume control). This was getting pretty cool! Except that it was like seeing the waveform wrapped around a cylinder, seen from the side, because of the full sinusoid horizontal pattern. Which looked really neat, but...

I can crank up the horizontal deflection by increasing the voltage (I did have a VARIC based adjustable power supply - homemade of course) until only the linear-ish part of the sinewave remained onscreen. From there it was a straightforward matter of an RC phase shift to drive one of the control grids (found by trial and error by applying small DC voltages to various pins until the beam was blanked) to blank out the right-to-left direction.

And we had a sort of homemade oscilloscope.

This was cool in so many ways but only because the technological underpinnings were still relevant at the time. Nowadays it would be as ancient as dabbling with atmospheric steam engines. Which I'm sure someone, somewhere is still doing. As an extreme niche hobby without a clear track into a profitable career.
> Wow. Unfortunately I imagine we'll see a lot more of that sort of thing as more and more women are unable to access safe/legal/well-regulated abortion clinics.

IIRC, all that stuff was done in an actual licensed abortion clinic.

Also you have a weird kind of argument that seems to pivot on the false assumption that the issue is how gruesome the act is, not the act itself.
Oh, man, McZee. That creepy, purple, Hypnotoad-eyed waste of corporate imagination. Could it get more 90s than that?

...Apparently there was an expansion pack featuring PBS literacy icon, Ghostwriter! So yes, it could and did get more 90s than that.
> Ah yes, the obligatory "we don't have a responsibility, that's just a BP invention from the 90s". It's always the evil bigcorps, of course.

They didn't say that.

> How would you, then, unscientifically solve climate change if we aren't supposed to take individual action to bring our own footprint to net zero, encourage others to do the same, and bring about societal change using market pressure and all that?

The individual action here is minor. Market pressure can work but only in certain circumstances. They already suggested working on political sentiment, since laws can do a lot here to tax or force certain methods.

> But if the "you" in this sentence is being made to feel good for the wrong reasons, isn't that dishonest? Shouldn't we be looking at what is actually effective use of your money [...]

I'm pretty sure the person you're responding to is also an advocate for effective use of money, specifically by focusing on the wider changes and not focusing much on the carbon footprint concept.

But you don't have to spend all your money on improving the world as much as possible.
> Over 50s effect of vaccination on hospitalization.

This sort of population-level data is bogus. The data is usually fudged in some way, for example by making it difficult to get counted as "vaccinated" after infection.

The source you quoted (at the end of '21) claimed a factor of 18x to 52x difference in hospitalization rate, but the current data has that down to a factor of 2.7x to 3.8x:

https://app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrIjoiMTgwMzZlZWYtN2E0Ny0...

Did the vaccine really lose that much in potency? Do the boosters work at all? That data can't tell us and this is why we need trials.

> Over 50s effect of vaccination on hospitalization. If it is protecting older people against hospitalization then we can expect it to protect younger people from severe effects too.

We may expect that, but we can't know. We do know that the infection risk is massively lower in the younger age groups. We also know the risk for Myocarditis after vaccination is massively higher in the younger age groups, particularly in males. We don't know why that is, however. Remember, we're not just looking for a risk reduction for one particular disease that many people already had anyway, we're looking for a net benefit of further administrations.

> So why would some of us be so vehemently anti-vax?

All irrelevant to the lack of scientific data. For you to cough up some "business insider" article tells me you haven't exactly followed the relevant publications (or lack thereof) either.
I'm not sure what sex has to do with it.

The pro-life position is that human life is so precious that preserving the human life of the fetus it is more important than any right the mother may have. There is no logical reason this argument would stop after birth - the mother (and presumably father as well) should maintain this obligation of preserving the life of their child by any means that don't require them to give up their own life.

Being legally required to, say, donate blood for their child should be a no-brainer, if you bleieve that the preservation of your child's life should be a legal requirement that trumps any other right you may have (except your own right to life). Donating their organs to their child after death should also be an obvious legal requirement.
Like everyone else said, it's easy. We had 2 people who didn't speak perfect English and one could understand us, just struggled speaking it, and another just straight up didn't speak or understand English.

Went to the witchcraft and sorcery museum and the girl who was working the counter spoke perfect English and even sounded American and she said to us "Oh Americans, where ya from?!" and we told her and she goes "Oh cool, I'm American too!" and we followed up "Oh cool where you from?" she said Colorado, then laughed and said nah she's Icelandic but loved pulling that joke on Americans.
You may not find them compelling, but your analogy fails to account for them nevertheless.

> The ability or non ability to alternatively source organs doesn't logically lead to a change in consequence.

But your analogy doesn't capture the responsibility of the donor for willfully creating the circumstances in which the recipient needs a kidney. Moreover, abortion is a procedure which actively kills a child which would likely otherwise live (without intervention); your analogy supposes a person who would naturally die without intervention. I'm sure we could contort your analogy to make it account for these things, but doing so would exhaust its utility.
> permissionless NFT sale is illegal and criminal because it cannot be KYC’d,

Correct. The technology must be changed or you accept that you're evading the law.

Blockchain advocates have long claimed that blockchain would destroy the state. They never seem to have thought about what the state might do in response to threats to its power.
New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone location data tracking
The easiest way to do this is to use shiv[0] if you don't mind asking people to have Python itself installed; if you want a truly "one file bundle" you should use PyInstaller[1] (which bundles a Python interpreter)

[0]: https://shiv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[1]: https://pyinstaller.org/en/stable/
It is just an example. Simplification is a useful didactic/communication tool.

Project I normally work on span tens to thousands of people but they are usually very complex to give as examples without spending some more time thinking how to best explain it.
I utterly and etirely fail to see how javascript is evenly remotely required to render a blog.. If your blog requires javascript to simply show content, you're building a browser inside the browser and need to stop.
This is very squarely pointed at protestants.
Ugh, get off my lawn!

But yeah I've seen this too, this is where it turns from hostile to truly evil.
Azure has an excellent product support, at least compared to GCP.
Here's a tour of the late Grant Imahara's workshop. He worked on robotics and, I believe, props in there?

He's got a pretty significant amount of capability -- "CNC mills, laser cutters, lathes, paints, electronics, work tables, and, of course, multiple 3D printers" -- built into a space that looks closer to a 1-car garage than a 2-car garage.

edit: here's the actual link https://youtu.be/hsCSTO8SaQU
I'm not sure if it was via my personal website or just my GitHub profile, but I got my current job at Canonical due to the CTO there reaching out about my GoAWK project (https://github.com/benhoyt/goawk). I get regular recruitment emails because I have my CV/resume online: most of them are very low-effort, but 1 in 20 or something are interesting emails where the recruiter has actually looked at my website and will tailor it personally. I also just enjoy technical writing, and get joy out of sharing it on HN. So it's "worth it" for me.
So, the abstract says:

> Light hydrocarbon olefin and paraffin gas mixtures are produced during natural gas or petrochemical processing.

You seem to be a bit more knowledgeable about the subject matter, so - can you tell use what exactly are those gas mixtures used for? What industrial process will benefit from these energy savings and transport safety?
See also this https://github.com/karthink/elfeed-tube
When I got my first shot, I was interested in the half life of the mRNA, because I understand how mRNA works and the concept of "how long is the spike protein being made vs how long I feel adverse effects from the shot" amused me.

I got my first shot in April 2021. What I found at the time was that manufacturers mostly did not provide that info, or when they did, it was vaguely given (usually described as "a couple weeks"). There are a multitude of potential reasons: They didn't know (unlikely), the PR people asked didn't know, it was different for different shot brands, it is probably variable person to person, and the most important one in my opinion, they were aware that it was a stupidly politicized issue and didn't feel that the specific info of "how long" would be useful to the community and un-useful to the vaccine skeptic community, and were very confident that an mRNA based solution would be 100% degraded "eventually" just because of how cells work.
>DigitalOcean / Linode / Hetzner / OVS

Some people prefer to pay for providers whose datacenters have fire protection.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fire-destroys-ovh...
Browsers can copy and store, but republishing is a totally different matter.
California went big on rooftop solar. Now that's a problem for landfills
Even using conda to manage reqs is an absolute nightmare. Did a subreq get updated? Did the author of the library pin that subreq? No? Have fun hunting down which library needs to be downgraded manually
Ahh. Thanks for that context. I thought they were just format shifting.
The problem is that when you put this stuff on a timer, someone has to decide what time it is. Why is 10 weeks ok, but 12 weeks not?

People are going to have different opinions, and societal norms and beliefs shape that. If I walked up to you and cut off your head, I’d be arrested and called a savage killer. If I was in the army and called in an artillery strike that fit the rules of engagement and killed 500 people, I might be lauded as a hero.

Abortion is a tough issue as it touches on so many issues. When does a mother’s life outweigh the child’s? When does the child outweigh the mother? When does the mental health of the mother outweigh the life of the child? When does the ability to support the child factor apply? Should a woman be able to use abortion as “free” birth control?

Different people will answer those questions differently based on their beliefs and perspective.
Back in high school in the late 90s, I bought a pallet of Tektronix 4211 terminals [1] for about $40 from a local place that resold old computer junk. All in total there were about 10 of the terminal base units and three, for the time, extremely large 21" monitors. I figured this came from an engineering firm, since these terminals also came with some digitizer pads.

I thought they were X-Terminals and was very disappointed that I couldn't get them do anything beyond being text terminals. It was only recently that I discovered that they were actually intended to be used with this proprietary graphics protocol.

[1] Exactly like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/1994._Sh...
Show HN: A simple Twitter-feed-style web RSS reader provided as a container
Take a look at this one:

https://www.sciencealert.com/fruits-vegetables-before-domest...
Sure, but you represent what is likely to be a very, very small percentage of readers. There are a lot of people on HN that have that same orientation toward content. But, as with so many things, they're on the periphery of the zeitgeist because they're technologists for the most part.

Most blog readers don't share your perspective, and, unless a creator's audience skews very heavily toward a group that does, it would be hard to say the incentives are aligned in the direction that makes a tangible difference for them to support RSS for their posts.
This is still hella intrusive and creepy, and if somebody tried this with me I'd make them wish I had just ghosted them.

> Don’t just onboard them, onboard their social circle. If it’s a family, set up a dinner for them (delivered to their home, out at a local restaurant, whatever they prefer) to celebrate the new job together. Send company swag to give to family and friends. Record videos from team members welcoming them. Basically help everyone get excited about the change. In a ‘normal’ office environment, you’d be inviting them to happy hours, etc. Recreate that virtually as needed.

If somebody pulls this, put them on blast. Name names. Show no mercy.
If you are ever in London, this place is amazing:
https://www.postalmuseum.org/visit-us/what-to-expect/mail-ra...
https://hledger.org/investments.html#what-about-lots-
RSS is not dead because it covers an use case for which there is no replacement. The attempt to kill RSS didn't consist in creating a better RSS, it consisted in walled gardens. The use case of providing structured updates for a web site has no better replacement than RSS right now. Some walled gardens like twitter feeds are the closest replacement and they are not nearly the same.

But the article gets it wrong IMO (except for the last point). The main people to blame about this situation is not the incentives, nor the companies who tried to created the walled gardens. Even if there were incentives, RSS would not improve. As long as web makers don't treat it as a first class citizen, RSS will keep being an "optional" thing that requires separate extensions, programs, etc, it is just not going to be massively used if using it isn't super obvious. It's the browser makers' fault (Mozilla, I'm looking at you). RSS was treated almost like an annoyance. Firefox only provided an icon and "live bookmarks" thing with a really poor UX and then removed it because not many people used it (meanwhile we have Pocket shipped by default...). Google, they never had interest in competing with their own walled garden.

And that's how we ended with the current horrible state of the web, where every website asks you to subscribe via email to their wonderful newsletter. If we only had a technology that would allow websites to provide content that users can read asynchronously and doesn't involve filling their mailboxes...something like a newsletter RSS...maybe then we would not need to place a stupid JS popup in every fucking website in the world and we would let people easily subscribe to a newsletter RSS.

Unfortunately, browser makers are too busy with things like webassembly, because making the JS popups faster is way more important than fixing the basic interaction with the web.
They clearly mean using pip on its own, presumably by `pip freeze > requirements.txt`
Do Go programmers also not like capitalization? Just a tease, I noticed the readme and your comment don't have any Capitalized Letters. Well, the readme has a few but you know what I mean.
Is that such a big issue when binary packages are available from pretty much every package manager out there?
Prior discussions with comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16398830 - 88 points by signa11 on Feb 17, 2018 (12 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2344837 - 89 points by jashkenas on March 19, 2011 (20 comments)
I used to be skeptical of the skeptics, thought they were paranoid to worry about 'big tech' snooping and tracking our lives. Turns out it is not big tech but 'big govt' that I should've been worried about. We are in danger of turning into a surveillance state
People who want a national no-excuse ban like in Louisiana believe bad health outcomes are God's will, so getting their desired outcome leaves suffering people for dead. We'll hear about how the casualties were "no angels" just like we hear in other situations now.

The desired outcome is to change the culture by making it too dangerous to wait to raise kids or reproduce at all without the resources to medevac to treat a complication.
This is the most mature implementation I've seen so far. I'd be very interested in helping getting file encryption and integrations work through PRs.
Snap Brings Snapchat to the Web
> My favorite feature is "video-sync=display-resample". This gives you perfect frame pacing by synchronizing the video to vertical refresh …

Does that mean video in 23.976 frames per second will be sped up and play at 30?
Don't forget Anaconda because you're on windows and have no idea how to compile random packages that are really C++ code with Python bindings!
Poetry requires pip in the way that `go mod` requires `go get`, i.e. Poetry allows one to operate at a higher level of abstraction, where it's harder to make mistakes and generally easier to manage your dependency tree.
Using the term “transsexual” is even more concerning. Are you anti trans? It’s difficult to read this as anything other than an indirect attack on trans people
> I hate how it forces to you create a module everytime.

This affected me recently, so I have sympathy for the author. Trying to upgrade an older project I had to the module system meant trying to find out how to import modules which don't have reachable URLs and were only on the GOPATH. At I hate how it forces to you create a module everytime. some point programming in Go stopped being for fun.
FirmwareBleed: The industry fails to adopt Return Stack Buffer mitigations in S
I don’t think there’s any way you can define $66k as upper middle class. That is below the statewide median.
I have successfully ordered and received parts from McMaster-Carr as an individual.

I'm not sure if this is a super variable experience or if it has changed over time (I first ordered from them in 2020).
I'm hoping artificial wombs will settle the autonomy debate.
Yeah this seems so strange a thing to do. Maybe they're personalized/ruggedized in some nice way?
> I don’t really think that it does

Either the quote is poorly chosen or reading this article is not worth the time.
Hex grids are the dual of triangle grids, right? Does the approach here also apply to triangle grids?
Nim operates in the same space as Go, but with a syntax very much in the spirit of Python.

https://nim-lang.org/
My neighbors are observant Jews. They obey lots of rules and check in the uruv before leaving their homes when applicable.

They don’t make me follow their rules. But they are still subject to civil laws.
It's live now! Really looking forward to seeing the list grow.

Also, cool product. I'll have to try it out!
If medical insurance companies had to pay for every claim submitted by a doctor regardless of medical necessity or the availability of more cost-effective treatments then insurance premiums would be much higher for everyone. Would that be better? Healthcare already consumes about a fifth of our GDP. The reality is that resources are limited and demand is effectively infinite, so inevitably there has to be some level of rationing.
i work out 6 hours a day. in my occupation.

hearing unhealthy people threaten me with disease just doesn't carry water.

also i dont go anywhere except back and forth from jobsite to house, i dont interact with many people, and i live in a rural area.
Yeah, I don't see the point in trying to resurrect a dead standard that isn't very efficient or widely supported. Backwards compatibility is important, but sixels aren't even that well supported nowadays†, so there's not much to be compatible with. Better to just push for new de facto standards for images in the terminal; trying to resurrect sixels is an exercise in retrocomputing.

† xterm and iTerm2 are the only widely-used terminal emulators nowadays that support sixels. Few Linux users use plain old xterm nowadays due to lack of desktop integration, and iTerm2 is not the OS default terminal (and it supports a better image format anyway). Also note that no popular Windows terminal emulators (conhost.exe, conemu, Microsoft Terminal) support sixels at all.
There absolutely is such a thing as natural human rights. Some are known since ancient times, some have been discovered more recently, and some are probably not well known or understood yet. But there are certain rights that humans and other beings musg have for any society to function well in an objective sense.

Most religions trample on most of the rights that we now understand to be fundamental, so theocraies are something to be despised and feared.

To be very clear: religious belief and practice, as long as it is not imposed on non-believers, is not a problem. The imposition of your religious beliefs on others - theocracy - is the problem.
"nothing has been able to reestablish in the harsh conditions"

AFAIK the main factor in those "harsh conditions" is sheep farming. Sheep on Iceland are kept pretty much without any fences. They will eat saplings and small tees. There is an amazing photo somewhere of a little island in a river that's in essence covered in forest. Everything around it is mostly moss as you call out.

Another factor, especially on the Rejkyanes peninsula towards the airport is that this is also a very young part of the island. It's mostly still lava rock. This isn't representative of other parts of Iceland.

Source: visited 5 times and travelled the island extensively.=