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Show HN: Blockchain Explorer Detector – Auto-detect and open the right explorer
I've created a tool that automatically detects the blockchain network of a given address and redirects you to the appropriate blockchain explorer: https://usdtqrtool.com/detect-blockchain-explorer

As someone who frequently works with multiple blockchain networks (primarily Ethereum and Solana), I found myself constantly switching between different blockchain explorers. The process of Googling the correct explorer URL and then inputting the address was time-consuming and tedious.

This tool aims to streamline that process. Simply input any blockchain address, and it will automatically open the corresponding explorer page. Currently supported networks include:

- Ethereum

- Binance Smart Chain

- Bitcoin

- Tron

- Cardano

- Solana

Key features:

- One-click exploration for addresses across multiple networks

- Time-saving for developers and users working with multiple blockchains

- Simple, clean interface

In addition to the Blockchain Explorer Detector, the website offers other useful USDT tools:

- [USDT QR Code Generator](https://usdtqrtool.com): Generate QR codes for USDT addresses for easy transfers.

- [USDT Converter](https://usdtqrtool.com/usdt-converter): Convert and calculate USDT to other currencies easily.

- [Random Coin Generator](https://usdtqrtool.com/random-coin): Generate random cryptocurrency addresses and private keys.

- [Top 100 Crypto Exchanges](https://usdtqrtool.com/top-crypto-exchanges): View information on the top 100 cryptocurrency exchanges.

- [USDT QR Code API](https://usdtqrtool.com/api-docs): API documentation for displaying USDT QR codes in terminal.

All these tools are free and designed to provide a comprehensive online toolkit for USDT users.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, or ideas for improvement. What other features would make these tools more useful for you?
I think the author means "vaccinated". They mean that they've been made resistant to buyer's remorse.
Yep. But I can work practically everywhere with my laptop (I'm a mobile app dev and ocassional back-end dev).

No question PC is still #1 for upgradibility. If I'm an avid gamer or a video editor, then yes definitely will use PC, instead.
"What You Can Change and What You Can't" by Martin Seligman
I've never heard any expert in nuclear weapons suggest that Russian nukes don't work, especially the ones that have been modernized since the fall of the SU, which is all the ones attached to ICBMs and SLBMs. Until a few years ago, US nuke experts regularly inspected Russian nukes and Russian nuke delivery systems. If Russian nukes don't work, it seems likely that the inspectors would have been able to tell, e.g., through gamma-ray spectrography.

The ICBMs and SLBMs to "deliver" the nukes are more expensive and harder to develop them the nukes themselves, and Russia routinely tests those.

"harder to develop": London, not having had as much money to spend on nukes as the US and USSR had, gets its SLBMs (along with the launch tubes) from the US (whereas they make their own nukes and SLBM-carrying subs) and a few minutes of searching finds no signs of them ever developing an ICBM. (In fact, they might never have had ICBMs: they certainly don't now.)
Thanks - I will check it out.

The trailer looks a bit generic and definitely has a bit different vibe than Im used to (me not knowing French does not help at all :) ). Also the Count after transformation seems to have a different style - feels not as distinguished as old school actors in previous movies.
But maybe it will be exactly what this story needs.
https://x.com/ItaiYanai/status/1842787938175697232
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=agbo...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/burning-truth-...
I’ve been getting legal mails for the entire process since I had like 0.000000000003 cents in a wallet called blockfolio that was acquired by FTX which was pretty funny to follow
This is a bad understanding. First of all, it's much harder to develop a successful fully closed platform than an open one. If Google though they could build an iPhone, they would have. So the legal incentive is completely irrelevant here: with or without it, companies prefer to build closed platforms; with or without it, companies can't do it because it's too hard for them.
Show HN: I built this as a high school student to learn SQL with realistic data
Reminded me of the Google Realtime API, killed by google 6 years ago.
https://developers.google.com/google-apps/realtime/overview

This one is open source, thus hopefully a safer choice.
Isn't this a self solving conundrum really? If google dies because of being completely useless, then no one has incentive to keep generating clickbait and fake content anymore do they?
how about llama3.2 vision? should it get better performance?
But the consumer mind goes like “whatever, my backyard garden looks fine, my lawn looks green, my kids will be fine, besides whatever I throw away helps some third world poor person make a living, so win win, not my problem…”
Sure, having less padding increases I/O efficiency. I was just commenting on the author's apparent confusion as to why the padding is there in the first place.

Here is the full(er) quote:

Postgres will happily add padding to the underlying data in order to make sure it is properly aligned at the physical layer. Having the data aligned ensures faster access time when retrieving pages from disk.

This might be misunderstood as "Postgres adds padding to speed-up disk I/O", which is the opposite of what actually happens. Padding slows-down I/O but speeds-up the CPU processing afterwards.

SQLite made the opposite tradeoff.
Until you bring the online services side into the picture.

A typical app depends on both OS APIs and remote service APIs.

Keeping the latter stable and supported is harder. Especially when there are third party services and frameworks involved, which there inevitably are.

And whereas no-longer-fixable bugs in an app might be work-aroundable, merely annoying, or outright irrelevant to some use cases, bugs in a service/framework can easily be security stuff that can take down your whole business or land you in regulatory hot water.
> I don't actually care about the book. I don't understand why people care about the book. I care about keeping pains in the ass out of my life

That is a yes to my question, then. You do not know what the book is about but you do know the Correct Feelings that others should have about it.

You’ve clarified that you do not lie to strangers because you need them to feel a particular way about Ayn Rand. It seems that you have voluntarily posted in the book thread, unprompted, that you lie to strangers about something arbitrary as a test to suss out who will and will not be adequately deferential to you.

It is an odd thing to post and then vociferously defend, and it reminds me of a post I saw, “People willingly share things online that you couldn’t waterboard out of me”. That being said, I don’t think anyone is clutching pearls here unless you define literally any criticism at all as such.

You must forgive me for pointing out that it seems like Atlas Shrugged is actually your favorite book. It is simply everything you said before and after our initial interaction that made it seem that way, and you have made it clear that it provides you a crucial value that no other book does, after all .
No, the competition is explicitly based around CheerpX: an X86 virtualization technology built on top of WebAssembly
This runs with a Geforce GTX 1060. By a quick search it's 120 W. Maybe it's only the peak power consumption but it's still a lot. Do commercial products, if there are any, consume that much power?
WALDO: Whereabouts Ascertainment for Low-Lying Detectable Objects

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41723311
"Where's my new server gone? ... oh, it's hanging out in us-east-1, damnsit."
Amazon is not a traditional retails, it's a marketplace. Walmart buys stock, puts it on sale, gets data and makes decisions upon that. Amazon just skips the expensive first 2 steps by taking data from other retailers on their platform.
Also, "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl
> not only should KYC not be mandatory, KYC should be illegal. MoneyGram should not be permitted to collect its customers' personally identifiable information. That's because breaches like this are a national security vulnerability. Privacy is the foundation of civil defense

Personal opinion: that's a pipe dream and it's never going to happen. Moving money is an extremely vital part of modern economies, and importantly, of underground ones.

You mention Hizbollah - without KYC they would have been able to more easily receive donations from sympathisers and use those funds to buy stuff from everywhere. Their surveillance by Israeili services wasn't online surveillance, because the group has already been burned by advanced Israeli cybersecurity attacks. They were using pagers ffs, do you really think their members were tracked and surveilled online?

And the same would apply for stuff like criminal regimes evading sanctions even more, cartels laundering their money, financial scams like Wirecard proliferating even more.

Look at the crypto space that promised to change that - outside of the absurd lack of practicality, it led to millions of scams, money laundering operations, North Korea abusing it to fund itself, and the like.
I'm not interested in cutting-edge smartphones anymore. Not sure what's the advantage because my use cases are pretty minimalists:

Whatsapp, email, social medias, online shopping, mobile banking, and a little bit of photo editing.

On the other side, cutting edge PC is a way more attractive thing cause it allows you to play 3D-intensive games on max setting, for example.
The Rise and Fall of Nations
looking at individual investments is fallacious, need to look always at your entire portfolio (i.e. not just winning lottery tickets)
This is a civil case in the US though
This might not be insightful, but I think we need to adapt.

Search and Internet is dead. It will be. There is no going back with AI. We must to learn how to deal with. You too should rethink how to approach the Internet, how to surf it.

If search is dead, are there any solutions to it? I use more RSS source now, because this is human created content. I navigate more to "word of mouth".
Because more and more energy-intensive industries are shutting down their factories in Germany.

Those require a large amount of baseload energy.
"wobbly" means that it moves unsteadily so it cannot be an attribute of a floor. It's the table the one that wobbles if the tips of the legs are coplanar and the floor is not a plane.

Your point of the extent of deformation the floor can have for the theorem to hold is valid though.
> The Los Angeles case began after three employees who identify as “Caucasian” claimed in a lawsuit that Cognizant made a practice of giving preference to South Asians in employment decisions. The plaintiffs alleged they were terminated after being “benched” with no work for five weeks and then replaced by “visa-ready” workers from India set to be deployed to US projects and assignments.

This is apparently a NASDAQ traded company with a market cap of nearly $38 billion (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CTSH/). It looks like they've placed H-1B holders at Bay Area employers ranging from Google, Meta and Apple to PG&E, Kaiser Permanente and Walmart.

I get that this company may be exploiting loopholes in the visa system or acting in unethical ways to import workers. But assuming those workers are legally able to work in America, is it really illegal to replace existing workers with cheaper ones? Isn't that a freedom employers have? How could that be considered discrimination based on ethnicity? That seems like a judgment based on the outcomes (equity) rather than evidence of discrimination based on race (as opposed to the cost of labor).

The lawsuit itself seems to be making a case based on "disparate impact" rather than clear evidence of discrimination:
“Cognizant has used policies and practices related to hiring, promotion, and termination of individuals that have had a disparate impact on the basis of national origin and race (harming those who are not of South Asian race or Indian national origin) that are neither job-related for the positions at issue nor consistent with business necessity”.
Good observation. The updates are as much HOT-updates as possible. I wasn't familiar with BRIN-indexes before, so I have to look into that.

At first glance our solution follows a similar approach, let me elaborate:

- no index columns are updated ever, only inserted

- all tables are partitioned based on date (partition range is 1 month)

- for some tables there is another layer of partitioning (3 sub-partitions, based on one specific column)

- finding an appropriate fillfactor is important to improve the speed of UPDATE statements (HOT-updates)

- standard vacuum / auto vacuum settings work great for us so far.

- to improve ANALYZE performance, set column statistics of value-only columns to 0.
Here are hardware recommendations from another similar (and well established) project: [1] [2]. Even though they don't recommend Reolink cameras, I have both Amcrest and Reolink cameras working well with Frigate for more than a year now.

[1] https://docs.frigate.video/frigate/hardware

[2] https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate
There are drones with shaped charges.
Loading a more detailed version of an image as you zoom in is different from what a progressive JPEG does.

Loading a Progressive JPEG means you still unconditionally load the entire file, you just are able to show a low detail version before it is fully loaded. The last time I saw a progressive JPEG actually take time to load was when I had dialup.
Will we discover one day that we shouldnt have consumed the equivalent of jugs of green tea in a pill? I'm having trouble braining the internet saying short term L Theanine consumption "generally recognized as safe" but green tea (with all its chemicals) and supplements have been harmful.

https://www.sysrevpharm.org/articles/adverse-effects-of-gree...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29078257/
An app I built as a high school student to learn SQL with realistic data
The first iPhone ran iPhone OS 1.0
And here some info on recent developments:

https://africanarguments.org/2022/07/agbogbloshie-a-year-aft...
I just wonder how much does professional image comes into play. I can't imagine US troops using drones which are basically a bunch of PCBs screwed together and mounted to a sheet of laser cut carbon fiber, even if those things are technically the most cost effective way to build a drone.
The overwhelming majority use ARM Macs these days
Really interesting. Looking over their github, seems that at its core is a CRDT JSON structure with encryption and permissions built in. Storage, transport and auth are agnostic, but they offer some flavors (sqlite, websockets, clerk, react, nodejs). We're interested in svelte and rust support for now. Looks like the local-first space is gaining traction. Probably this is the most interesting execution so far.
They surely do not use this usage data, no way :)
> Coal contains a few tens to a few hundreds of Bq/kg

Presumably these are from very long-lived isotopes, so will continue to emit at this rate for the forseeable future.

In contrast, the fission products (from Chernobyl) tend to have short half lives of the order of a few days, giving a short burst of radiation. Caesium 137 looks to be the most troublesome isotope in the long term (with a half life of 30 years). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Relative_is...
That's a lot of specific engineering just to protect the helicopter. Or you can just spend that engineering effort and money on replacing the helicopters with more advanced drones.
Well your drone would need to fly faster than an f35 to catch up, maneuver more effectively than an f35 to hit a defending f35 and have a sufficiently complex sensor array to track and defeat the f35 autonomously.

We have many drones much cheaper than an f35 that can do this already. They're called AIM-9, AIM-120, Meteor. Or if you're Russian they're called R77, or R73.

These are, of course, anti-aircraft missiles.
I bet they somehow analyze it to learn something. And then they use that knowledge to make money.
They don't have to be overpaying. It was a win win. The way I read it the county got more money this way than if they held it.

They they sold the stake ultimately worth 17 million, but they got their rights back, which they resold for 16 million. As long as they sold their stake for 1 million or more, they are in the green.
Okay fair enough. But as a developer it grinds my gears when I work hard on something and like a moth to flame I get asked to open source it (so others can copy my hard work)
> largely depends on the economy …

Unfortunately, it depends on the mentality. My well off friends often pay good money up front to buy the latest and hold onto a device(smartphone, laptop, sometimes tablets etc.) for 5-7 years.

My less well off or broke friends show the opposite, they often go out of their way to take debt(contracts, installments, pay later etc.) and continue upgrading to latest phone/watch/tablet/fitness tracker every year. It feels like that there is some kind of overcompensation combined with FOMO involved.

I don’t want to generalise this, but I had known probably a sub three figure people from my childhood and have seen this same behavior repeated always.

One of my friend in marketing told me that, people buy dreams, and hope that a new dream will help them forget the nightmares/problems, hence all adverts often include happy smiling beautiful people or conveys some form of freedom, prestige, social status …

Just a thought.
Great to see you launch this! I know you've put a lot of work into it and I've found it fine going through the samples. (Disclaimer: family member of the OP)

Bit of feedback: It would be a little easier to jump into the Learning mode if it defaulted with more UI space.
I really do not see how Android should be opened up more.
I can install 3 different app stores in 3 minutes.
More than the drone for sure, and you'd run out of old heli engines pretty fast.
Seafood Paella...
SAE has a coding standard in the works for Rust in safety critical systems.

https://standardsworks.sae.org/standards-committees/safer-ru...
Talking to users on reddit
Pointer Compression in V8 · V8
My apologies, then. I misread the post.

Thanks for the correction.
I would think unless her opponents were incompetent they would have made copies of all that when there was a chance she would be appointed. Maybe even before that, if they keep an enemies list.
You’re comparing a bureaucrat to Feynman? Absurd.
Cross Validated Stack Exchange.
I think a Japanese robot should be either way cuter or much more terrifying.
Here’s a chart of Germany’s energy mix over the last 30 years:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?time...

Looks like coal usage for electricity production indeed only went up for ~3 years around 2011, probably we can consider that a mere blip within the downward trend.

Wind and solar indeed seem to pick up what nuclear used to bring to the energy mix. Gas usage is only slightly up over 30 years, which doesn’t look like it’s directly substituting nuclear — but surely it could have gone down had nuclear be kept around?

(Personally, I wish politics would have pushed harder against coal and simply ignored nuclear for a couple more decades. But political feasibility is important ofc, and I don’t know how hard of a sell that would have been in 2010.)
It should be "inoculated against" but the meaning is clear.

A vaccine inoculates you against a disease by a physical mechanism: that is, it prevents you from getting that disease (to a greater or lesser degree).

Metaphorically being inoculated against something means it can no longer hurt you. For instance, maybe by not owning a car you're inoculated against vehicle depreciation. Or by wearing the same simple but quality outfit every day you're inoculated against the vagaries of fashion.
Which OVH storage class were you using? Theres a slow (io) and a fast (highperf) one.
Too late to edit, I meant “bog standard” and not “big standard”
Thanks, it looks more like fantasy than fiction - I always liked that Count is embeded is real historic events despite me being fantasy fan and almost never reading historic fiction. But somehow in Counts case it seems essential (and that's way anime adaptation was my least favorite).

Anyway I will check it out.
Maybe this project?
https://beacondb.net/
Note: If your floor is wobbly- DROP, COVER, and HOLD ON.
HHGG is strange. I absolutely loved it when I read it for the first time (in my thirties).

Then at some point I decided to re-read the whole thing and it was decidedly underwhelming. A let down even.

Has anyone else experienced that?
The schema is organized by how we need to query it which is mostly by fetching all measurements for an entire day or month. Querying statistics on those metrics is not often needed, maybe a few times per week or day, so we do that in Snowflake if necessary. Or create a specialized streaming data flow when it the stats are queried more often.
Linus Torvalds? Maybe I’m the wrong age but that was one of the bigger names when I was starting my tech career

Edit: you’ve got luminaries like Stallman too, who didn’t have the rich family but did get the university they worked at to cover their living expenses. An uncomfortable amount of leaders in the Free Software and Open Source communities openly advocate for people to give away their time and effort for free, while living on the largesse of others
What about something that doesn't even require WebAssembly and is faster? https://bellard.org/jslinux/
In short: FUBAR, the military expression, stands for "fucked up beyond all recognition"
Different kind of standards. MISRA is a coding guidelines standard, ISO 26262 is a functional safety standard, it concerns the whole system, including processes and the tools used (here is where the certification from Ferrocene and HighTec step in). There is overlap, but they mostly do different things.
While that's true, if you have a good understanding of bankruptcy law, and a reasonable understanding of what assets FTX owned you could make a reasonable guess of how much money the eventual bankruptcy would pay out. Since the administrators publicly published what assets there were quite early on I think it's fair to say $270k always looked like a good deal.
Ok I’ll bite, higher hashrate (bitcoin) means it’s more secure from attacks.

So it’s not being burned, it has a purpose here.
That's super helpful. I will get this fixed soon :)
Microsoft also “incentivized” OEMs to not install competing browsers by threatening to remove their OEM licensing. Didn’t Google do something similar?
Yeah fun to read, but jesus "redacted in full: perhaps <insane made up bullshit>" every second entry
The past weeks at work have been spent replacing libraries that were picked in less than 15 minutes.

Was this cost effective for the company?
They could preinstall a bunch of competitors and you'd choose the ones you keep at first startup (like Microsoft had to do with browser). This would allow fairer competition for competing stores.

Also they need to make sure the playstore is not required for the phone to work correctly which I'm not sure is the case on stock Androids currently.
Article title: Monday, October 7, 2024
My experience is that by default it's like that game where you fold some paper, draw just up to the fold, pass the paper to the next player and they continue, and then you unfold it and see what came out: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/782/166/960...

With editing or lots of regeneration it can still work, of course.

(That said, I last tried this with the original ChatGPT…)