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Looking at your website - I don't climb, but I used to use chalk for powerlifting - I desperately want to see photos of HANDS! My immediate question was "what is chalk cream", and that makes me want to see the product in use. Does it turn your hands white? Is it powdery? How could a wet cream do the same thing as dry chalk powder? This seems like a really tactile product, so I want photos that help me understand it on a tactile level. The mountain photos are beautiful but don't sell the product. The photos of tubes could be renders for all I know.

You could also try signing up for HARO (Help a Reporter Out) and scanning for outdoors or climbing-related pitch opportunities. A lot of the posts on there are trash but there's the occasional good one.
"what use is it to "feel frustruated" over something that was expected to come"

1) The details were all speculation.
2) There was no other option if you needed more horsepower.
3)_I'm happy with the current Mac Pro, but its going to be phased out of software support before its time, just like the Motorolla.

So it's more about the software support being phased out than new hardware coming out.
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No, it is very different because in practice the pools and exchanges are totally separate entities. With PoS the biggest holders will be exchanges and therefore exchanges will control the cryptocurrency. With PoS there will be clearly less decentralization compared to PoW.
They were even cognizant of the issue to the point where they set up a robo inbox you could forward any suspected phishing emails to and it would reply telling you if it was legit or not. It was something like phishing@paypal.com
Google left China because it discovered it was the victim of a cyberattack from the Chinese government, not really out of any kind of hate of authoritarianism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora

And they returned to the Chinese market several years later.
Ask HN: Have you used Widevine (or similar DRM) for browser media protection?
I have a client that is asking me to implement something like Widevine in order to "protect" their media on their website. They basically want to have the same sort of protection that Netflix has, and just prevent people from "right-click download" video files whenever they want.

Now, I know that this is not perfect and that if people want to, they can find a way to both download the video and strip it of any protection, but that's not important here. The goal is not to prevent it 100%, but rather implement something that is good enough for my client to be happy. I've explained all of this already to the client, but they insist they want something to "protect".

So with that out of the way, is there anyone here on HN that has actually used Widevine (like Shaka Player + Packager) or similar for a website before and could tell me a bit about your experience? If someone know a better alternative than Widevine, I'm also happy to hear about it.
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I think something was borked in the config/sqlite db a few updates ago when the 'native' auth parts were added. I was bitten with the same bug. Nuking the `.config/1Password` directory and re-adding my account seemed to work. Not a great solution, but it's worked fine since.
Ethereum no, but Bitcoin sure, I'm travelling a lot, and I have a lot of payment problems (for example my bank disabled my credit card just because they said that it's not working with some types of contactless recievers, but they can't send a new one to my hotel, just to my home address). Bitcoin always works, although it's not real-time (still faster than sending money to my Revolut account, which takes days).

If a person thinks that fiat payments work well, he hasn't really travelled yet to different cultures.
Can you explain what “sitting on your ass” means? I thought you had to maintain a validator?
Yes and no. Keeping up with the day to day details is something you delegate at some point. PoW is also "just" an investment, with extra steps to set things up.
Except with fiat system we can at least elect who the government is.
Interesting:

> 1Password for Linux also debuts with several features that are coming soon to 1Password for Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android

That should be encouraging for Linux users. It suggests that the Linux version is not just a port that will forever at best follow the other platforms. It can get pretty annoying when you have something that is available on multiple platforms, and your platform tends to always lag the others.
This is not the case. In Ethereum's PoS model, you put value at risk when you sign up to be a validator. You have to lock funds up to play a part in consensus.

This means that if you start acting maliciously, or even just not fulfilling your responsibilities (e.g. you let your computer go offline), then you are punished for it (depending on the severity of your offense, obviously).

Aka, you can't just wait for the money to roll in. You have to run a node, you have to verify blocks, and you have to make sure you're acting in the best interest of the network + keeping things running smoothly.
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I really think this is the single most substantial reason as to why desktop linux has sucked for so long.

I was following your comment until the end - I don't have any probems with Rust but how will that help the situation?
The alu bit is definitely up for debate. Packaging from recycled alu is better for sure for the environment. That being said, it’s a goal we work towards. Short of doing a crowdfunding to finance the startup cost switching to alu is hard for our current order sizes.
Only for ~2 more years. I had a Motorola machine and when they switched to x86, it was useless pretty quickly, far before its time.
Yeah... if anything that seems normal these days? Many young adults are passionate about at least one of those things, whereas for Gen-X (Paul's generational cohort) those were far more underground interests.
The model in the video is this one I think — https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Air+13-Inch+Retina+2...

(Video mentions 2019 model, which is a minor revision based on this)
Reading the abstract, my 'this isn't real science' detector went crazy...

It's something about the fact they explained very basic things (series Vs parallel, battery-free), while also having a lot of words I didn't understand.
Yep! It's a new chain as well - that will eventually consume the old Ethereum PoW chain :)
I wouldn't rather have such a car, it's just the benefits from charging at home are such that I'd still accept it.
In a way it's possibly more efficient without the heat pipe - the cooler is directly over the CPU in this design, and can be quite large due to the way it's packaged (though it has to be thin).

The downside is it's harder to get decent airflow over the fins. The casing is probably designed to direct the airflow, but I'd have to see all parts together to figure out how this works.

EDIT: the lower case appears to have some ducting on it, see this example: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324259489798
If you want to see this in full force, go try to find out from medical organizations whether there are irreversible health effects for gender transition therapies in adolescents.

APA (and WHO, and...) will say no. But you'll see curious notes about recommendations to monitor bone density, and curious usages of auxiliary drugs whose purpose is to combat osteoporosis. Turns out, the therapies are well known to permanently and negatively affect bone density and long term effects-- while assumed to include osteoporosis and more frequent fractures-- are simply unknown.

But the science and statistics cannot be allowed to trump the politics, so you will see no mention of this in complete contravention of traditional Hippocratic responsibilities and medical ethics.
> I think PG is trying to justify some kind of assholish behaviour in his past by reframing it as a virtue.

I wonder how much Bill Gates triggered this write up.
Can someone give a brief summary of what Ethereum is? Is it a crypto that will be merging with some other crypto? How does it relate to Ethereum 2? Are they going to continue being separate cryptos?
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1) it is not speculation that there will be an M1 Mac Pro. Apple clearly says within the next 2 years there will be no more Intel macs for sale.

If you want the software support, wait until the support dies/runs out, and then buy the newest computer at that time, when you need it.

You'll find that apple will drop support for the M1 too in the future. Its day will come when Apple decides the neural engine is too outdated or the architecture is too old and will stop support it as well. That's a fact, not speculation.
PoS has been the goal of Ethereum for a long, long time.

I don't know the technicals of why the migration has been gradual, but the destination has never really been in doubt.
The source says that the new chip for the high-end Macbook Pro would have 8 performance cores and 2 efficiency ones. It's a bit surprising that they'll reduce the efficiency core count to half (although this might get offsetted by the single-core advancements in the new chip)
I believe that it was an unintentional mistake on TeeSpring's end.

Searching for the dummy function uBlock Origin uses for window.ga https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/src/web_access...

This reveals that this has been in uBlock Origin since 2019.
There are lots of participants in the global economy who has money. The idea is that you have enough different people with competing incentives. PoW provides incentive model which separates different actors (pools, exchanges etc) and also at the same time doesn't seem to lead to monopolies.
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Yeah, Graham's definition of 'nerd' seems more like a social class, whereas today, being a 'nerd' is an adjective, and a pretty neutral one at that.
If you don't let the word nerd affect you with bad feelings, the post is pretty OK.

I don't think nerd is a bad thing to say anymore.

Also I can identify me with this personality. Last few years I can find myself turning more into bitterness and I just started realising that the cause is not external.
At some point macOS will no longer provide an Intel version but that is likely years down the road - perhaps 2026 at the earliest? And likely much later.

And third-parties will supply upgrades as the upgradable parts are roughly standard, so the Mac Pro is likely to be a completely usable machine for nearly a decade to come.
MacBook Pro versions will have eight performance cores and two efficacy cores.

Mac Pros will have either 16 performance/4 efficiency, or 32 performance/8 efficiency.
Funny enough, what they recommend as alternative in that email costs 10x as much.
I’ve loaded up some eth into an ethereum based browser and knocked around their web. It’s interesting because the type of site where you normally have to sign in (“banking”, news, etc) you don’t have to sign in because every interaction is predicated through your wallet. It’s as if your username were identical to your public key.

However as a speculative instrument eth and Bitcoin are not my cup of tea.
You can make the same argument about buying MGM.

Looking at Publishers Weekly, I see this:

"An important driver of print book sales last year was the continuing increase in backlist sales, McLean said. Backlist titles accounted for 67% of all print units purchased in 2020, up from 63% the year before. In 2010, backlist accounted for only 54% of all unit sales. "
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/b...

I think you could make a strong argument for buying a large publisher (or anything really) given a good ROI.
Looks awesome, but please get rid of the modals asking to subscribe to the mailing list. Actually make that all modals.
FWIW Bing Maps (not mentioned in article) is also blurry, or rather because of their rendering preferences it is pixelated. Bing Maps has different and sometimes superior aerial imagery to Google Maps, but not this time.

Baidu Maps astonishingly has no roads at all in Gaza; just a little bit of data about parks. No aerial imagery for the area too. I don't read Chinese so can't tell if they have any explanation.
For those unfamiliar with the W3C:

Working Drafts are essentially just "drafts with stable URLs for review purposes and historical interest".

First Public Working Drafts also have consequences under the W3C Patent Policy, primarily starting a timer under which any participant of the group has to say they wish to exclude any patents they hold from the W3C royalty-free grant.
Great. Now you just need to find an economic and clean way to make large amounts of hydrogen. Nuclear power is probably the best option given that you can use it as a source high process heat source.
No, they can't enlighten you. They've bought into a cult, and if they started considering the fundamental question of how this is better than fiat currency, the cognitive dissonance would hurt.
We do this kind of weird dance in which we create subsidies to incentivize desirable behavior and then when it works and we get more of the desirable behavior we complain about the handouts.

I understand that democracy implies multiple constituencies, not all of which agree on the need for any particular policy (and so arguments about the necessity of specific subsidies are reasonable and inevitable), but it's always worth remembering that we offer these subsidies because we want to encourage the behavior that's tied to the them. It's not an accident or a secret handout.

It's quid pro quo.
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gopass [1] is a 100% compatible pass implementation that has some collaboration features added.

However, I primarily use it for the `gopass search` output. This is where `pass` really sucks for those who copy-paste.

[1] https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass
Any easy to follow tutorials on how this Pos system will work?
Yeah I do that, I call them parallel tax regimes or elections

Still other companies doing dutch sandwiches are reported as having one
> Why are we putting the requirement on website authors, and not browser vendors?

Because the website authors are the ones misbehaving. Why would the browser vendors pay the price?

I'm in complete support for punishing any abuse of market position from the browser vendors too, but that's not the answer you seek. Anyway, the correct course of action is to punish the website authors further for using those anti-patterns.
Is the word "geek" no longer used for what you are describing? Although there a lot of overlap, I thought nerd referred to strong interests in academic subjects and geek referred to niche cultural subjects.
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The title suggests PoS for ETH is 100x more efficient than PoW whereas the article actually estimates PoW to be 2000x more efficient.
Yeah, but obviously the "stuff" has led to a Red Queen problem, with the outcome being incredible waste of electricity and computing resources (compared to PoS or having a less competitive eth mining industry)
I have traveled to different countries.

Fiat works, and works well. You're advised to keep some cash on hand, but it works multiple orders of ↑↑↑ [1] better than bitcoin

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number
I have it too and it's great but it doesn't get security updates anymore so we're in an awkward spot because their latest fleet doesn't have a good upgrade value prop for 2XL owners besides security patches.

Their short support window really made me reconsider my next choice and they no longer offer free full res photo backups which is a shame.
Oh the amount of extensions that do one thing that can be much easier and cleaner to be integrated via userscripts is staggering!

Its all the little things that add up, and I hate that mobile Firefox update disabled Tampermonkey.

Talk about planned regressions. Pardon my French, but fuck Mozilla and their recommended extensions program.
I agree with that, though if I'm TeeSpring, I'd fix it anyway. It's silly to throw out incoming business. I assume the same thing would happen if there were a brief GA outage.
User complaints do drive regulatory scrutiny, and Google will point to a lack of user complaints to try to justify its behavior.
What are the attack vectors on PoS. With PoW you need 51% of the mining power to take over the system, which is very labor intensive to set up.

With PoS could you take over all coins by buying 51% of the existing coins? So if the market cap of ETH is 200BB spend 100BB to double your money?
We tried it and moved away from it. A few reasons - one is IDE support, which has been mentioned in this thread. The other was release configuration. At the time we were working on it, it was more difficult than it should have been to use env variables at runtime (rather than build time).

I'm used to the Spring Boot approach - start with having different Spring profiles for different environments, and then let your secrets come in via env vars, but doing this via Distillery at the time required some hackery - they wanted you to build a QA build and a prod build, which didn't make much sense. Maybe it's better now, but that turned me off a lot to using it.
No it doesnt. Having hard time/budget/whatever constraints does.

Otherwise, theoretically you can "overwork" i.e. (work more than standard 40 hour weeks or some standard of work hours) whatever without compromise
When the Revolution comes, first thing we should do is shoot all the marketers.

They probably sold us the Revolution in the first place.
Are you asking Hamas to walk out into the desert and build a base there? This is equivalent to the Revolutionary War-era Brits telling the colonists to fight fairly instead of hiding in the woods. Fighting fair is for fair fights. In unfair fights, people use the tactics available to them. If Hamas were to build a purely military base, it would be leveled and everyone on it would be dead within two days. One might suspect at that point that they weren't seriously trying.

It is not the Palestinians' job to submit quietly to gradual but violent displacement by an occupying outside force. It is also not the Palestinians' job to make a big show of getting murdered in an open field with honor. Those are not the requirements for a people to be defended from ethnic cleansing.
That's not true for professional mirrorless/DSLRs, which on the high end often use other cards like CFast, XQD, or CF. And as mentioned, many readers for those cards also integrate SD readers.

The vast majority of people these days just use their phones for cameras, and don't use point-and-shoots or other things with full-size SD cards.

So really SD cards cater to just the mid-range camera market, where people use mirrorless/DSLRs but not high-end versions that often use faster cards.

I don't think it's a good idea for Apple to make everyone's laptops bulkier so a small minority of people can avoid using a $17 adapter like this:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NW8RPYN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
Anyone can mine Bitcoin, the rich are the only people in control of Ethereum transactions.

Unforseen? This has been known before the miners eliminated the soft cap on EIP 669.
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In a well functioning democratic society, the money printing is ultimately under democratic control. Don't lie.
Exactly my thoughts as well. Almost all fierce nerd traits PG describes are signs typically seen in Asperger/ASD/Gifted. I recognise myself in the article, as well as a number of my friends/colleagues who are all diagnosed with one or more of the above.
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I've been traveling all over the world for the last ten years. I've never had any serious problems paying for anything with good old fashioned credit/debit cards. Even getting cash in the local currency is trivial with ATMs.
It is probably because competition is so commonly attributed to physical athletics. Physical strength or stamina exhibited on the playing field is competition.

Spelling bee competitors are seen positively, but also almost as a joke compared to quarterbacks. Mathlete? A joke in popular culture.

There is some evidence that this is changing, but there is also a lot of bad art. The Social Network, and Steve Jobs the film portray fierce nerds that basically no one wants to know.

The actual people?

Zuck and Dorsey just got through extracting maximum advertising value from the heart of US democracy.

Bezos hasn't done fierce nerds any favors with his squeezing of the lowest paid people in his organization.

Bill Gates' reputation is headed downhill right now faster than ever before.

Tim Cook has real potential. But the jury is still out. We do not know the calculus involved in compromising privacy values in China.

It is going to take a lot more well-known, rich, fierce nerds that also manage to round out their personality before we see mainstream positive portrayal and following of competitiveness in intellectual exercises.
No more security updates from Google though. That'll force me to upgrade sooner that I would like. LineageOS is an option but I'm not sure how secure it is.
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Here's a comparison of PoS and PoW by Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum): https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/11/06/pos2020.html

Obviously he's biased in favor of PoS for various reasons, but I think it's a worthy read.
No, but we are solidly in the consolidate and undercut competition phase. The issues arise in the use monopoly power to extract large profit phase.
Really not sure what they are trying to get at here, but their "usable energy" is on the pico-watt to micro-watt scale. It looks more and more like one of those "free energy" type devices.

Edit: Yes I understand that there is energy in RF signals, I am just questioning the actual practicality and claim that they can get usable energy from this. For a 200 mW (23 dBm) WiFi transmitter the free space loss at about 6 inches is 23 dB at which point you would have the same 0 dBm input that they used in the experiment. I have not included any antenna gain as they did not include the antenna gain from their microstrip patch antenna in their experiment, just the 0 dBm power input number.
I wonder how much of these "subsidies" are actually tax abatements as opposed to a handout? I am familiar with the Kansas City area: the chart shows Amazon getting $20M for their distribution center in WYCO/KCK whereas they only got $1.8M for their distribution center in Edgerton. Property taxes alone could explain such a massive difference (WYCO property tax rates are ridiculous) and the distribution center is in a commercial/freight zone whereas the one in Edgerton used to be open farmland (though close to an intermodal hub).

And yes, in an ideal world, businesses would pay for things themselves without handouts or tax breaks but pretty much every state and many localities pour millions and billions into public sector financing of private businesses in the name of bringing good jobs to the area. Can't really blame the politicians: if they didn't give these handouts on the Kansas side of the state line I'm sure Missouri would have been willing to lure Amazon over to that side. Amazon is just taking what they can get, same as every other company. The only way to reform this is to ban the practice nationwide -- buy getting politicians who pull down millions in lobbyist and corporate donations to bite the hands that are feeding them.
Possibly, but why?
To clarify further: the HN title says 100x whereas the article title says 2000x

Update: it's been fixed
there's a lot more to the "nerd" archetype than just technology.

I'd probably go as far as saying that technology (or at least practical technical skills) has become far less relevant as a 'nerd' marker.

Many of the self identifying 'nerds' I meet might be avid technophiles, but it's not like most of them know how to code better than anybody else (or at all in many cases).