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Ask HN: Is Ethereum 2.0 10k transactions/sec too good to be true? (Visa is 1.6k)
[1] https://www.blockchain-council.org/cryptocurrency/top-cryptocurrencies-with-their-high-transaction-speeds/?utm_source=pocket_mylist

[2] Comparison with Visa
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/BITCOIN-AND-ETHEREUM-VS-VISA-AND-PAYPAL-TRANSACTIONS-PER-SECOND_tbl2_330585021
Agreed.

While reading this, I was thinking "This is so important that you'll wake all these people up in the middle of the night, but you only have a single ISP? No backup ISP with automated failover?"
For most cases that's true. Still, Wither explosions and the Ender Dragon can destroy obsidian. That's why most people kill the Wither using the Bedrock located on the Nether roof.

Still, no material is free from destruction using glitches
and some technical users remove entire chunks of obsidian/bedrock to make their farms more efficient.
Square Root of Any Number Mentally and Instantly – Cool Math Trick – [video]
Ecologically sustainable changes will happen when it's cheap and/or comfortable to do, period.

Increasing the costs of carbon-based choices will just lead to civil unrest. I think this is already part of where recent problems in the US are coming from.

Carbon taxes and similar solutions implicitly assume that the individual making the carbon-positive choice is the one who should bear the cost. I feel a bit like it's you have decades of individuals and groups insulating themselves from real costs, through deception and ignorance, and then us deciding to pass those costs onto those who can't or don't want it anyway. Socialized risk, capitalized gain all over again.

You might say that nature is going to extract those costs one way or another, but this is one case where I think the moral responsibility is in spreading those costs out in ways that can be borne realistically.

Better for the average person worldwide to make the sustainable choices cheaper rather than increase the costs of the unsustainable choices, because then that's implicitly just increasing costs for everything in many situations.
Meanwhile California is busy decommissioning Diablo plant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant

I don’t see a path forward without Nuclear. Europe and China has done better in this area than US. There is a bunch of fear mongering in liberal California circles about Nuclear. Well informed and technically minded people I know in Bay Area all support Nuclear power.

Frankly the media has done an awful job of fear mongering with the term “Nuclear” and “Radiation”.
Per-capita is irrelevant. Total CO2 is the problem. The US is on the right trajectory, and all signs point towards de-carbonization intensifying with technology maturing as we speak (EVs, offshore wind, solar price plummeting, new homes being better insulated + heat pumps).
GT:NH does hit a lot of good points, but overshoots by quite a bit. My best experience in minecraft was from making my own GT5U kitchen sink pack with GT-based modified recipes.
An electric toothbrush and floss. Brushing with a regular toothbrush doesn’t give me the clean/fresh feeling my electric toothbrush does. The model I have was maybe $25 or $30.

Using the electric toothbrush and flossing before bed every night, I feel like in my morning my mouth actually still feels fine. Of course I would never start my day without brushing, but my mouth doesn’t feel icky when I wake up in the morning. Sorry if that’s TMI.
There's a paywalled WSJ article that mentions it but there's websites floating around that hint towards Carpigiani being an approved vendor now in addition to Taylor.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mcdonalds-customers-scream-and-...

https://www.carpigiani.com/en/news/mcdonaldsaward2017

https://coolersinc.com/2020/02/21/mcdonalds-shake-machines/

Somewhat ironically though, Carpigiani just hired a Taylor executive to handle their McDonalds account:

https://www.foodserviceequipmentjournal.com/carpigiani-scoop...

For new franchisees I assume that they have more flexibility, but existing ones would have to weigh the cost of upgrade vs the cost of having the Taylor machines down all the time.
Some that come to mind.

__Health__

Melatonin. There is no other way for me to go to bed and this knocks me right out (I use 0.2 - 0.4 milligrams).

Sleep mask (no more waking up because a stray light hits my eye)

I'd say sleep earplugs but I have a sound in my ear, but otherwise earplugs

Mosquito repellent scent (for sleep as well).

Silicon earplugs when going out, I never thought I'd get ear/hearing damage because I didn't go out a lot. I was wrong. They protected my ears after I noticed I got some ear damage.

A dumbbell (used at times between breaks to move a bit)

__Other__

Fuet (another HN'er once posted this as such at some thread years ago I can't remember, and I agree). It's a sausage and IMO too good as a snack.

LG 4K monitor for about $350

Moving labels. Got a bunch of moving labels for a few bucks, and slap them whenever I need to label something. Apparently, I tend to label my external HD's mostly and a few boxes that have specific items in them (e.g. only USB cables or power cables, etc.).

Not a purchase but a lifehack and since I see many responses are about cables I guess it's relevant ;-) Instead of spinning your cables in a circle, spin them in a figure 8 (two circles). Somehow it's harder for them to get weirdly tangled when you store them like that. See: https://youtu.be/buVUvnM_AzU?t=104 (I don't use the other life hacks :P)
I've had the Tushy bidet for a couple years now and it's great! Overall it has made me feel a lot more hygienic and I only use a small amount of TP to dry off now.
You should look up DNA barcoding. We don't have an 84% barcode match with pigs.
A headlamp. Allows me to hike in the evening or night. Super useful to hike in the winter when it gets dark early. It never crossed my mind that hiking in the night was a thing but it's pretty cool and I now do it all the time.

Then maybe my commute bicycle that I bought for $200 and that I've been using almost daily for 15 years. So much better than a car or public transportation (at least where I live).

Then we're getting a bit specialized, but as a guitar player, a Yamaha THR (amplifier for playing at home). Tried many solutions and settled for this many years ago.
For the clueless like me, it has nothing to do with baby food (https://www.gerbergear.com/en-us/shop/multi-tools/all-multi-...)
You.... you know Covid happened outside of USA too, right?
Israel and Sweden both have about 10 million people. They both also have had around 1 million vivid infections. But Israel has had less than half as many deaths from covid as Sweden.
They've told us what they do today.
What mechanism stops people from forging the original vaccine cards?

In Canada you can receive up to $20,000 in fines for falsifying this information, so you really have to want to avoid the shots badly if you wanted to go down that route.

But the reality is, most places that aren't medical or international border facilities, that would require proof of vaccination simply don't have the ability to verify any of the current certificates. Including the original CDC cards from the US.

The website and domain whois info don't say who these people are, and don't ever mention they are in any way connected to the CDC. It looks like all they do is take the hand-written parts of your original cards and plug them into their template that may or may not be using the CDC logo and identity legally.
Based on my understanding of the UK's drinking culture: it wouldn't be the most surprising thing ever
I've been thinking of it the same way since I learned that helium is a non-renewable fossil resource. Once it's gone, it's gone.
> Correct, it is not an individual choice. It is an individual action.

Every world government has passed a law, rigorously enforced, that says each person can drive no more than 20 miles a week. dleslie drives 20 miles a week. Has dleslie performed an individual action to address climate change?
Hey if the ends justify the means.

I’ll show myself out.
So, a governor is essentially letting people submit private information about other people, and are potentially storing it somewhere. On top of that, the main landing page and submit forms have no indication that it's satire at all. Yes, I see the about page does, but most alarmists aren't going to dig much further than the landing and submit pages.

So what was the end goal of this site? To add people to a mailing list they don't want to be on? To make some people on social media spread a lie? Fear mongering?
I love and still use WinAmp and do not use any streaming -- but what changed is how people listen, thanks to iTunes and iPods etc and then Spotify. Everything is based on playlists and artist selection leaning away from albums/releases. It changed how people load up music, introduced a huge rise in 'random' playing that was way different than previous era of CDs where you'd pick an album and play it, or listen to radio and DJs are selecting things (perhaps the 'DJ' selecting has just been replaced/attempted to be duplicated locally by software I guess). The way people listen changed. Not a fan of it at all, but that's where the 'unsolved'ness comes from. IMO the way people listen became even more passive and lazy and the huge portion of the market that just streams whatever puts little to no effort into their music (read: people who 'like all kinds of music') and that's what's just fine by Spotify.
Bareroot native trees and fabric pots.

A watering can.

Now I collect seeds and nurse baby trees to plant out. It takes hardly any time from day to day, and I always have something to look forward to. It's the only activity I've found that perfectly embodies the "think global, act local" ethos.
Can imagine train traces particularly being tricky. Might have to build a separate routing graph of just train lines and filter out any traces that match that too strongly - though I don't think people mapping train lines in OSM work too hard to get train lines' routeability right...
I think what you mean is that you don't control the iCloud Photos client, Apple does. Your photos are scanned by the iCloud Photos "client" (which is built into the OS) before uploading them to the cloud.

Would it be any different if Dropbox was scanning files before it uploaded them rather than afterwards? It already computes hashes of your files on your device so that it doesn't have to re-upload existing content, so I honestly don't understand the objection to doing image scanning on your device before uploading your content.
Application Consistency in Kubernetes
you're talking about the DPI scaling between the TV and a laptop monitor? I agree it's annoying. I've solved it in two ways - I got a second 43" "montior", the other is I just keep my laptop closed. I feel you though.
> to make those other policy changes from the San Bernardino case would require large investment from the company employees and would be externally visible.

To that point - I generally think that engineers at ostensibly-privacy-minded companies like Apple are competent, well-intentioned, and good canaries. If I were to open Twitter and see a lot of people "seeking new opportunities" from Apple's security team and not able to give their reasons? It's very possible that a backdoor was built contrary to public statements, and they could not condone the discrepancy.

But here, not only is the list of hashes editable with merely a configuration change, but it is fundamentally a list of hashes that is designed to be secret and non-auditable and supplied by a non-auditable supply chain. In fact, the proponents of this program would argue "don't give the Apple engineers and product managers access to the hash list, nor access to whether test images are matched by the hash list, because it could be used for nefarious purposes if they themselves are perpetrators."

So at any time a photograph commonly used to criticize a regime or commemorate a specific event could be added to the list, and there would be literally no way a well-intentioned engineer even inside Apple could even know about it. This isn't just a technology that could be applied with technical effort to make a backdoor, it's a deployed backdoor that opens up all our devices to supply chain attacks, plain and simple. A state level actor would simply need to convince someone at NCMEC to insert something into the un-auditable hash list (whose source images are never to be looked at in totality by design), then compromise any person or computer in the law enforcement-side reporting pipeline to exfiltrate the identity of anyone with the images in question. That's absurdly dangerous.
Isn't this called "having a job"?
Citizen can organize too. Government can try to prevent that but there are much more citizen then government people. Citizens has strength in number.

>Assuming many people even learn about your arrest -

Thats why I argue for citizen to surveil the government too to level the playing field.
https://archive.is/djeab
Sadly its not just notifications. As much as we blame the device for demanding our attention, we also give it our attention as well by pulling it out to surf twitter or facebook in any idle moment. Even for people who aren't obsesively checking their phones, it almost becomes an act of mental exertion to NOT check your phone. If there was some mode that was like "Will act as a dumb phone, if you want smart phone functionality press this button and wait 10 minutes" MAYBE that would solve the problem.
Two year old UK virtual events startup reaches a $7.75B valuation
Premium sedans are much better sell to the richer stratum of the society, though.

And once you hook them, your chances of a major breakthrough are much better.

All the world-changing technical developments had to be marketed to the rich people first. Railway, electricity, airplanes, computers.
Some idea is better than nothing but having a pricing link with zero substance does really really erk especially when your trying to market yourself here as a viable Algolia alternative. They at least give some price points.
TLDR:

> With modern engineering standards, there is no doubt that hydrogen could be made a safe lifting gas.

Disadvantages of hydrogen:

* burns (but only with sufficient oxygen, eg a mixture of air and 4% up to 75% hydrogen)

Advantages of hydrogen:

* lifts 8% more than helium (per volume). Not a huge difference, but not trivial for an airship

* costs 98.5% less than helium (!) (Airships have crashed because helium was too expensive to vent: safety valves on the USS Shenandoah were capped, 14 crew members lost their lives.)

> Airships are too slow for human travel

Too slow for transportation, maybe. But leisure travel? Imagine a one week air safari from Kilimandjaro and the Serengeti to Kruger Park. It could be awesome.

Edit to add:

(Leisure air travel/Safari is my own pipe dream. The article suggests cargo):

> If airships were to make a major comeback, it would be in cargo service.

> Cargo airships would need to be big—bigger than the Hindenburg. [...] ”’the lift-to-drag ratio, a critical parameter in aircraft performance, gets better as the airship gets bigger)

> Ginormous airships require a lot of lifting gas—perhaps a million cubic meters

> FAA has discouraged the return of the airship in the use case that makes the most sense
Apple has said multiple times that accounts are not shut off with any automated system, that portion of the process is handled by humans.
I can’t explain exactly why or how but I feel like this would have an inherent weakness that we are not able to comprehend yet. It would greatly reduce the threshold for cryptographic collisions as the human brain is not good at telling two images apart on the pixel level like a hashing algo would be.
I got one called "Worx ZipSnip Cordless".

Pretty happy with it.
> 3) We (academics) could try to judge research by how many people read the work in question and get something out of it. Maybe we need a system for recording readers’ ratings of philosophical articles.

> 5) We could continue the status quo. Almost everyone just keeps ignoring almost all academic writing.

The philosophy is weird.. in both CS and physics, having your paper read is very important. People pay a lot of attention (sometimes too much attention) to personal "number of citations" and "impact factor" of the journals/conferences where one gets published. And seeing the number of citations of your paper grow gives you a nice fuzzy feeling that what you are doing is not useless.

And thinking about, this makes a lot of sense -- over my grad student carrer, I have looked at thousands of papers, and fully read/understood at least a hundred. At the same time, I have produced less than a dozen papers myself. Even with a "long tail" distribution, this means that I should expect hundreds of readers for any paper, and at least a few citations.
I don't know about Europe, but in the US a lot of this relates to the fundamental inefficiency of the suburbs.

In NYC already, paying smoeone on an e-bike to deliver 10 meals in one short trip is way better, but why stop there. There is no reason we cannot bring back the old pneumatic tube delivery systems of yore (and expand them according to 100-year-old sci-fi too).

Conversely, none of that could ever be possible in the suburbs, and your doomed to waste your life in traffic in pay a poor immigrant to do so on your behalf.
You have to admit that those unconvinced people doing that equation are unbelievably selfish, as they are certainly not including the cost of spreading COVID to an immunocompromised person in that last term.

The question being asked is "would you take a vaccine to save a neighbor's life?" and these people are answering no.
One last try, after that I'll stop since you are all over these submissions defending Apple here.

Take traditional mail. That is not opened, it is, usually, not read. Nor is content checked. It can, and is, opened in case of warrants (let's ignore totalitarian regimes here). What Google is doing when it comes to photos, as was Apple before, is opening every envelope containing photos to check wether or not it was CP. Already bad enough because they still opened your mail. You could avoid that by just using another mail carrier, so.

What Apple is doing now is checking you photos before you put them in the envelope. In case they find too many stuff they don't like they open all your other photo albums. And they tell authorities. Without any means for you to prevent that. It's like the postal service looking at your mail before they pick it up.

All that without oversight by courts. Without proper legal and investigative proceedings. Heck, even without any law, currently, forcing them to do that.

The more recent incidents where that or similar things happened were:

- the USSR

- the DDR with the Stasi

- Nazi Germany

- Western allies during WW2 through dedicated censorship bureaus

All of those were historically deemed unacceptable, maybe necessary for the greater good so. Now a private entity, with a global reach, does the same thing in principle. Even with the technical capabilities to do it on a much larger scale, and more thoroughly. And because of Apple being private is, for some reason, ok for you.

Not sure if further discussion woth you has a point, I'll just leave it at that.
I personally used to keep about a $20K balance in my checking account, and I was actually surprised by how much a difference it can make to invest that. If you have an investment with an expected annual return of 5%, that's a $1K / year that you are missing out on.

We've also seen users who needed to keep much larger amounts of money in their account for relatively long periods of time, because they were shopping around for a house or trying to buy a new car.
> No matter where I go I am expected to work my ass off.
> ...
> But then that's "leaving money on the table", and we just can't have that...

Sounds to me like you expect to not have to "work your ass off", but also maximize your pay. I just don't see why you would expect these things to be compatible. There are plenty of opportunities to work 30-hour weeks, if that's what you want. But you're not gonna be making FAANG-level comp -- for good reason: you're giving you employer less, so they give you less in return. If you and I worked at the same company, and you were putting out half the output as me, then I would expect to get twice the comp as you. You're trying to bypass this -- produce half the output as me but still get the same pay. I just don't see why you think that's justified.

If you want to work 30 hours, then take one of the many jobs that accommodate that (hmu if you legitimately can't find one) and accept the pay cut. If you don't want to make that sacrifice, that's on you.

That's my $.02, anyway.
I never thought of Apple as a beacon of hope, but I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that perhaps they could succeed at giving non-technical people the majority of their digital rights. Build systems that are secure from everybody-but-Apple, use top-down control to police bad actors, and allow privacy/security/freedom to flourish within their walled garden.

Sticking government spyware onto people's phones is a direct repudiation of this philosophy. I'm not surprised this would happen eventually, but I am surprised it has happened this quickly. It has been what, a mere 5 years since the San Bernardino affair? The authoritarian delusion is a strong siren call, but I had expected it to result in ever more App Store restrictions and perhaps a few breaks where the government compelled signing trojan horse targeted updates - not a full rejection of the very idea of user privacy by placing a government agent in every phone.

With this development, Free Software is once again the only option if you'd like to preserve your own digital rights. Its story for mobile historically kind of sucks (Android with varying amount of bad bits stripped out), but that is changing with things like PinePhone. IMO inexpensive devices are a necessity to get iterations into many people's hands, as opposed to the waterfall-feeling model of OpenMoko (etc).
It's an interface wrought in the era of 720K floppies where there was a limit to how much hierarchy you would need to plow through to get somewhere.
Thought exercise: poof these businesses vanish. What do all these people start doing to support their families? You think they care about you "getting exercise" when they can't feed their children?
The difference is that it's often one-on-one work doing unskilled, sometimes humiliating jobs for very low pay with no hope of a promotion or career, no benefits, etc.

It's perhaps the indignity and the massive disparity in income that seem distasteful in the richest countries on earth.
> opens cardboard boxes [...] cuts strings

How does that work? I looked it up and it doesn't seem like it has a knife. (Not that you'd want something that sharp in your pocket unprotected anyway.)
I’m not convinced that’s true, and if they are they’re heavily curated, and come from a small enough pool that I see regular repeats. I’d expect at least _something_ interesting to pop up if these were truly raw model outputs.
Good post—just wanted to say that on HN, you need to put a line between each of your bullet points or else they will collapse into one paragraph as yours did.
That’s a false dichotomy. Being a president is tangentially related to exceptional intelligence.

A better example would be Brian May (of Queen). No correlation between academic credentials and artistic career. There, if the article were about black holes and May had an opinion, I would expect the reporter to cite his PhD, making it a (potentially) informed opinion.
well now they can argue everyone in the industry already scans locally on device for illegal content, not a huge step

a few years from now: "it's been such a success we're going to do it everywhere for everything now"