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DISCLAIMER: Described for entertainment value only. Some details omitted. Don't try this at home!

That energy transfer makes an “interesting” party trick.

Get the step up/down winding transformer from an old CRT TV. Get rid of other components*, and wire it with a 9 volt battery on one side, and connect the other with + to conducting surface on three sides of a box with - to the three opposing sides. Put a switch on the underside that opens the circuit.

To pick up a box generally requires touching two opposite sides. Opening the circuit dumps the field into the person picking it up who gets a momentary jolt.

It's enough to run through multiple people: hold hands in a ring of 2 - 10 people, and have two people at ends of the ring each press an opposite side of the box and pick it up, the whole ring gets the jolt!

As a grade school science experiment, have the experiment display say something along the lines of "Guess the weight" so people pick up the box and get a surprise.

For more about retro transformer circuits, see:

https://hackaday.com/2016/07/04/retrotechtacular-dc-to-dc-co...

This is sort of a single vibe (the switch opening) of a vibrator-transformer-rectifier transformer, to collapse the magnetic field that dumps into the still "closed" side through the person picking it up. No rectifier since it's not AC, it's just C. So the same principle, without the rest of the parts.

* WARNING: Don't look up the rest of the owl. Don't build this. Don't try this. Don't let anyone touch this.
Micro Men is worth a watch if you're interested in 80s British home computing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM
Entertaining and informative read. Main takeaways for me from an end user POV:

- Be inherently less trustworthy of more unique TLDs where this kind of takeover seems more likely due to less care being taken during any switchover.

- Don't use any "TLS/SSL Certificate Authorities/resellers that support WHOIS-based ownership verification."
[2023]

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36064971
Why is Greenville SC in the red, but Greensboro NC in the Green. Both in south, both similar size cities.

This is pretty fascinating showing how prices are skewed to what the local market will withstand. For max profits. If I'm reading this correctly.
Let's say I have a voltage source of 48V, and I want to limit current in my system to 4.5A, precisely, and with overheating protection. I could be wrong but I don't think the led-driver and voltage regulator solutions would fall in this range. Also, a heatsink would not be required if the duration in which the current needs limiting is small.
> > But as a sovereign state they get to decide for themselves.

> Not really no. The results of the court case prove that.

To be fair, none of the states that are part of the EU _are_ sovereign states, because there is a high authority over them. Admittedly, that's debatable, because they can choose to leave the EU (as was seen by Brexit), but unless they do, they're not in complete control.
And a lot of shops in London accept Euros and Dollars.

You can accept anything you like, however if you are running a shop then good luck working it out with HMRC if you take Pokémon cards as payment.
You want to build your own ORM, sockets, SPA, Queue handler, Scheduler, Container, Auth etc? That seems like a massive waste reinventing the wheel
For reasons not important hear I purchase my SSL certificates and barely have any legitimating business documents. If Dunn & Bradstreet calls I hang up...

It took me 3 years of getting SSL certs from the same company through a convoluted process before I tried a different company. My domain has been with the same registrar since private citizens could register DNS names. That relationship meant nothing when trying to prove that I'm me and I own the domain name.

I went back to the original company because I could verify myself through their process.

My only point is that human relationships is the best form of verifying integrity. I think this provides everyone the opportunity to gain trust and the ability to prejudge people based on association alone.
This is going to become navel gazing really fast.

“Art with game tropes” implies that “regular games” aren’t art. Which I disagree with. We may not have gotten Shakespeare yet, but writing was an artistic medium before him just as games are one before its version of him.

And whether a particular piece of software is a game is also not clearly defined. This has been a big argument several time, see the one over Gone Home and walking simulators.

Others later down argue over Minecraft and “a win state, fail state, and scoring systems”. Minecraft did not have any of these for a long time, but it would be unconvincing to say that it only become a game after it gained them.
If you were wondering what this is all about have a look here first:

https://kubeblocks.io/docs/preview/user_docs/overview/introd...

Basically Kubeblocks aims to be a universal operator for databases on k8s and they claim they already support ca. 30 db-like projects with a unified API.

I wonder if anybody here is using it in production and can comment on it?
Show HN: Project 3124
> Who wants to know their engagement ring was half price?

I mean...a ton of people. My fiancee and I just purchased her ring together and it was pretty much a silent agreement from both sides that lab grown was the way to go (confirmed out loud of course). The stone we ended up getting was about 1/10 the cost the closest natural we could find, and both of us agreed that there are way better ways to spend that money with everything else in the future.

Many people also love jewelry but would rather not have something worth a brand new car on their hand.
Europe has opened a door to a universal wallet
Micro Men (2009) is also a fun movie: it's a dramatised version of the Sinclair vs Acorn story.
I've been using Bruno for a couple weeks on a project, and one thing that I've been enjoying is that I can save all the request configuration in files right next to the source, so they are part of the repository. I tried looking to see if you could do that with Yaak but just looking through the documentation, I didn't see any mention of it.
> NYT is the premier digital news outlet. Why should a principal SWE there get paid less than a senior SWE working on Google News, for instance?

Because it’s a different job at a different company?

I get that if you have leverage you may want to exert it (either individually or through a union) to get higher pay, but the argument that 2 different companies should pay the same amount seems ridiculous. Go get the job at the higher paying company if that’s what you want.
Cash means they need to have a (timed) safe and hire a company to securely pick up the takings, which adds a lot of cost, plus having cash makes you a target for robbery. You can do it without, but that only increases the chance of robbery.

Retailes charge a fee for digital payments because the payment provider charges them a fee, for example 25 cents + a percentage per transaction, + the cost or lease of the payment terminal and / or software; if it's small purchases like a drink or takeaway food, that's a significant percentage. Second, small retailers / sellers may prefer cash, because cash is untaxed as long as you don't log / report all your transactions.

Basically, it's a mixed bag. Cash means you can avoid taxes if you don't digitally log / report all your sales, but it means you're a higher risk for robbery.
Although the U.S. does have an abundance of fast food chains, I find these types of reductionist comments unhelpful. If you look at a map of a metropolitan area in Europe, you’d likely see several McDonald's or other popular fast food chains located fairly close to each other as well.
Why does Taco Bell have an app? What is its purpose?
This makes me sad.

@dang, can you comment on that? I appreciate your integrity.
You're correct - noting that Lets Encrypt supports DNSSEC/NSEC fully.

Unfortunately though, the entire PKI ecosystem is tainted if other CAs do not share the same security posture.
ArgoCD is not synonymous with GitOps (for Kube or in general) nor do they have a monopoly on effective implementation thereof.

I certainly prefer FluxCD, myself.
>ii) Faster ARM chip and better ARM-FPGA fabric, opening up hybrid emulation. Currently the ARM-FPGA layer is a real bottleneck and also the ARM core is a little slow.

I'd hope for replacement with the open standard RISC-V instead, as used in many of the newer FPGA families.
Pretty horrible negligence on the part of .mobi to leave a domain like this to expire.
Why is that an uncomfortable question?

Companies choose what they pay their employees (within the bounds of the law) and that might be influenced by what another company pays similar employees.

Imagine somebody at Google saying, “Sorry we won’t pay you more — just found out they pay less at the NYT.”
This is called "stacked diffs" and it's a good workflow; the issue is that it's annoying to use on GitHub without tooling. The "point A back to master" bit isn't easy/obvious with pull requests.
you're right, i was being cynical. but walterbright makes some comments though, seems like his name pops up on every thread
In the Sims, mortality only applies to adults not toddlers and below, so only a portion of them can die.

How is a Steam achievement a score? A score is a scalar value not a Boolean one. And arguably it is not part of the game but part of Steam. You won't get Steam achievements of any game if you get it from another store. But using the Store achievement definition, Jeremy's games also qualify because they have Steam achievements (most games on Steam do have the achievements even those that fall outside of your definition of game).
Honestly, that time where I had HBO, Netflix and Disney+ at the same time, it still didn't feel like I had even 1000s available, getting them listed and sorted by something relevant (like year of release) was a pain, and it seemed like the same 6 orange-blue shaded poster appeared first in every category.
Page 3 now.
I agree with the programming part. I just started playing with GForth on Android, but I wonder if people know of other options. (IMHO something like Emacs or Factor would be ideal.)
In favour of "hallucination" it's not that much of an anthropomorphization because hallucination in a human context is something quite different - seeing ghosts and the like. If you use it in the context of an LLM everyone knows what you mean. The human terms for making random stuff up would be bullshiting, imagining etc.
None of those were present when Minecraft was first released to the public and wouldn’t be present for years.
Always look on the bright side of Life.

The non-sensicalness of it is just a phase. Remember the Tower of Babel didn't stop humanity.

Here is a link that was posted a few days ago regarding how great things are compared to 200 years ago. Ice cream has only become a common experience in the last 200 years..

https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-condit...
Introduction to DIG and the DIG Network
To also add, I have tried contacting DPD again today, who tell me that Google haven't raised an investigation yet - despite them assuring me they had done so last week Friday.
these tag bits are often used for the GC and there you really don't want to collect all of the tag data together since it would cause false sharing issues
Thanks for the clarification, that's fair enough. But I hope you do look into upstreaming, maybe even just by opening an Issue to guage community interest. Like the pre-existing checkpoints Issue you linked to, opening some for your functionality might show others what is possible.
> Expanding this abbreviation conveys zero information. It’s a programming language named ML, and if you haven’t heard of it then giving the etymology of the name isn’t going to help.

Honestly kind of shocked to see this type of mentality...wow.
I'm not sure where the derision is coming from. It seems like they made an assumption about something they have experience with, got a bunch of feedback, changed their behavior, then took the time to write about their journey for the rest of us.

The author is engaging with everyone in good faith. This kind of openness and willingness to change would be applauded.
Yeah, I used to live down the street from that Taco Bell. Two 3 soft taco combo meals and cinnamon twists was like $40 before I moved.

It was nuts.
Long term archival is successive short/middle term archival.

I think I read this quote on Tim Bray's blog[0], but I am not sure anymore. This is now my approach, my short/middle term archival is designed to be easily transferred to the next short/middle term store on a regular basis. I started with 500GB drives, now I am at 14TB.

[0]: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/
Creating an ambiguous business environment is unfortunately a recurring pattern with the EU.

A few years ago we had some fierce debates on HN about EU measures like the GDPR. Some claimed the regulations were excellent and compliance was easy if you weren't doing anything wrong. Some were more cautious and thought the length and frequent ambiguity of the regulations meant it couldn't be that simple. The strident defenders of the GDPR as lightweight regulation that should cause no significant costs or problems for honest businesses might like to read Mario Draghi's assessment of it from his report this week.
Pretty much every game (including Jeremy's) on Steam has Steam achievements
TLDR

> While this has been interesting to document and research, we are a little exasperated. Something-something-hopefully-an-LLM-will-solve-all-of-these-problems-something-something.
Getting protectors that come with an alignment frame and running a hot shower to pull dust from the air was life-changing for me.
XML is a great generic framework for markup languages. When you aren't doing markup, XML is terrible. However, JSON fits the role.

The opposite problem exists in Minecraft chat message formatting - they used JSON for markup, when it should have been XML.
Great tools.

I always use RSSHub Radar , Your tools support more website than RSSHub Radar

Detection of /feed could be added, most wordpres supported sites have this suffix
Neat, I didn't realize that would skip drop()!
Needing new features like wayland support? Better DE integration? Distros removing old versions? What an odd question.
It's just below "$299" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExaAYIKsDBI> among the greatest moments of console marketing.

(The single greatest moment isn't one moment, but turning an obscure technical description into "blast processing". <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bun8tA_ksZw>)
Working title, "Syntax Era" :)
It's about 1 in 12 or 8% of men and 1 in 200 women, but I agree. Pay special attention to the accessibility of your visual communication. Avoid red/green/yellow, and try to use color _and_ pattern if possible.
M-Disc is a digital optical medium for archival storage. Not indestructible but more resilient to degradation than the typical BD/DVD-R.
This is the first thing I looked for on the website, FYI - any indication of what the long term plan for Yaak is. It might be worthwhile to put a note of "cloud sync coming soon" or something, or maybe I'm an outlier and it doesn't matter.
that seems like a bigger lift than just deciding to help fix the bug

“be the change” or some such
> I'm glad the option exists, but don't make it the fucking default!

I very intentionally made it the default. It is one of ripgrep's (along with other tools like ack and ag) most important innovations.

What you say is absolutely a cost. But it's a cost worth paying because it improves the user experience so much for tons of folks. Other than perf, the defaults are by far the most critical difference between ripgrep and typical POSIX grep programs. So if the defaults were the same as grep, it would be removing the most visible innovation!

This default is half the reason of ripgrep's being in the first place. The docs are very clear and upfront about this. It's not reasonable for me to change the tool just because some users won't understand what they're installing. That's absurd.

And of course, changing how it works now would be a massive breaking change that would confuse and piss off way more users. So guess what. It is never ever never going to happen.
These days people use "RCE" for local code execution.
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That voltage spike only applies to flyback converter. Your typical buck/boost converter doesn't do that - the current waveform is a sawtooth, and voltage ripple is designed to be in the mV range.
I don't disagree that it was not really sustainable outside that small-ish timeframe of mid-90s to mid-00s. The change for the worse was perhaps an unavoidable change for the worse. And there are things that changed for the worse that neither you nor me talked about. For example, I really miss how online gaming worked back in the early 2000s (no matter how janky it was), qhen there was no real monetary incentive of companies trying to keep people playing on their online platforms.

Maybe the fact that I recognize that the way things changed were unavoidable fuels my general disdain internet culture nowadays, and my skepticism to tech innovations in a broader sense. Oh well.
> Perhaps a new source control management tool could have first class support for higher level concepts than just commits and branches, or perhaps that would be even worse to use.

You should check out jj, sapling, or mercurial.
In Europe, Germany is well known for having many places that still don't take cards to this day.
Cut my teeth on one of these back in the 80's.. it was a wonderful mystery to explore. BASIC keywords, learning Logo, the mad sounds of loading and saving. Stepping up from the Spectrum to an Amiga 500 was like disembarking a dusty coal cart and hopping into a luxury sports car. I can still remember the clean smell of warm electronics.

We've come so far, and yet all these advancements are so far beyond most people's reach. Instead of unleashing creative freedom, all the supercomputing devices in our pockets do is enable people to work for free for Meta, Google, etc. Sit there and swipe the glowing screen, peasant.
> In four decades we went from zero, to infinite possibilities and then (de-facto) to zero again, even as the planet is drowning in oceans of smartphone electronic waste.

However, there are far more people being creative and generating "things" with a computer now than when the ZX was available. They may not be programming directly but are using spreadsheets, music generation software, graphics packages, video editors etc. to do things they value more.
They had me at the loading sounds.

I often crack open my ZXPlecturm app to play those wonderful loading sounds. Chills.
I agree with you. People treat art and video games are exclusive things when they are actually not.
> Why not "why not" comments? Not why "not comments"

Or you know, you could have just used a hyphen instead of clickbaiting.
Reading Fred Durst and Casio watches in the same sentence is the most Millennial thing I heard today. Frost my tips and plug me back in the Matrix.
Data Enrichment Tools Examples
While this is very nice what I need is my computer to take voice commands, read content in various formats and structure, and take dictation for all of my apps. I need this in my phone too. I can do this now but I have to use a bunch of different tools that don't work seamless together. I need the Voice and Conversational User Interface that is built into the operating system.
Wow! Highly entertaining and scary at the same time. Sometimes ijust wish i was clueless about all those open barn doors.
Way, way back, when I was in fifth grade, my dad (who was part owner of a car repair shop) brought an ignition coil (the old kind, that was connected to a distributor for the spark plugs) into the classroom, and I guess a 12-volt car battery. All 25 of us students held hands in a large circle and got the jolt. this was part of the teacher's ongoing study of electricity, which also involved winding wire around a hollow cardboard cylinder to make a magnetizer/de-magnetizer tube.
It is not just technology, but people, and culture, and mindsets, and more. I started in the local BBS arena and from there all the stages till now.

And even something similar from the technological side is done, catching a critical, and big enough, and diverse community may be something short lived, as we live with the rest of internet, that is trying to grab our attention and set our agendas
> I don't really understand why first cities allow private vehicles in general.

Because people of all capabilities need to get to the businesses in the cities. If you're proposing prohibiting private transportation, you first need adequate public transportation, which is expensive and often lacking.

The alternative, where _nobody_ has easy access to the city's businesses, tends to result in the businesses moving out of the city to somewhere else, taking their tax payments with them, often places that are _even harder_ to get to for people who don't have cars... because businesses need customers. If you won't support them (by providing affordable and convenient means for the customers to reach the businesses), they won't wait to die, they will solve the problem themselves.

Only cities which have well-developed public transport networks, and have very popular city centres (to the point of congestion) are even thinking of banning cars from them. The rest of the cities need all the help they can get to fend off financial ruin from e-commerce.
Tulips!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
You mean replacing properties and fields with stringly typed keys?
The fact they're using `eval()` to execute variable assignment... They could've just used the WTF-feature in PHP with double dollar signs. $$var = $itm; would've been equivalent to their eval statement, but with less code and no RCE.
I wrote the snippets in x86 asm because I assumed that more people are familiar with it than ARM. Also I ran them on an x86 processor as well.
A status app for remote teams built with the Toggl API
Why? If you upscale them and introduce new data, especially with AI, then the whole charm and artistic style of that 120x120 BW dithered camera goes out the window and just become crappy BW photos.
It seems to me that human brains do something like LLM hallucination in the first second or two - come up with random guess, often wrong. But then something fact checks it. As in does it make sense, is there any evidence. I gather the new q* / strawberry thing does something like that. Sometimes personally in comments I think something but google it see if I made it up and sometimes I have. I think a secondary fact check phase may be necessary for all neural network type setups.
US Gov Removing Four-Year-Degree Requirements for Cyber Jobs
As a game customer, I see many unoptimized Unity games and no longer buy them.