skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure it's fair but my understanding is that Libera chat is the biggest network still going, with about 45k users. [1]

Relatively that's not widely used. Back when I used IRC you'd see that many people disconnect from the network during a netsplit if you were a network admin. Honestly if 45k people for the top network is widely used it's just... kinda sad really.

With modern resources you could probably get the the entire top 100 public networks running off a single machine. Look at Undernet, EFNet, DALNet! Those places used to have 100k users each on a slow day, they're barely reaching 10k now.

User counts have halved since I last looked, and have been decimated (literal usage of the word, nice) since the days I actively used IRC. I'll accept that maybe today is a bad day for stats or something, but it doesn't look like there's many good days left.

For clarity's sake I am still in the IRC demographic[2], but that's no use if no bugger else is using it. I'd love to get back into it if there's anywhere not-a-dead-software-support-channel to hang out but every time this comes up the usage stats just get smaller and smaller.

For what it's worth I rarely use Discord and dislike that back-and-forth knowledge for software communities is now locked away behind some rando company's sign-up form. If I ever set up a new community it'll have to be forum based I think.

[1] https://netsplit.de/networks/top100.php

[2] Literally my entire career was born in IRC. Wanted to make an IRC bot, figured that out, some other stuff happened, was seen as a tech type, asked to help admin a network I frequented, learned how to admin a Linux box, time passes, got a job doing sysadmin work.

I do miss IRC, made a whole bunch of internet friends on it and it took me down a career path I only sometimes regret.
Cider in Japan is often just some kind of soda.

Unless it’s a restaurant run by Aussies, then you unknowingly get drunk, and risk a DUI because you live in the middle of bumfuck no where and driving home is the only option.
> Sanitize when rendering the HTML, all other paths lead to hell

I didn't mean mangle user input when storing. I mean you can do that if you want to parse it and store it as a semantic subset to deliver to the devices that can't render HTML (yes they exist), but I digress.

You can sanitize any piece of HTML to a meaningful subset when rendering (well, before render, if you are doing on the server-side) with virtually any language by choosing among many solid libraries.
Not to be pendantic but I guess since we are talking about science and data, that article suggests to me that people do intend to do things to maximize happiness, but that they’re not very good at it, not that they originally seek out to not maximize happiness. There are some in things in there that could imply it but it doesn’t seem to go there.
snikket is the best there is that I have ever found.
Note that Samsung has abandoned FinFET for this process, and has moved to Gate-All-Around (GAA). TSMC is not yet ready to move to GAA, but will at 2nm.

I'm not sure how this changes the geometry, or the relevance of "3nm."

"The next-generation 3nm chips will be built on the Gate-All-Around (GAA) technology, which Samsung said will allow up to 45 percent area reduction while providing 30 percent higher performance and 50 percent lower power consumption, compared with the existing FinFET process."
Juuls use a silica wick which, while possible to absorb something as thick as Vit A the vaporization process would happen too quickly for the pod to perform properly. You'd have to wait 10+ minutes between puffs and the vapor production would suffer greatly. You would immediately know something was wrong.

Concentrate cartridges use a ceramic stone with a heating element inside or encased. This ceramic greatly reduces the flow rate and allows slower vaporization of the concentrate.

I ran a vape shop for years I am more than happy to discuss safety of vaping but won't participate in whataboutism.
If anything, I'd expect Safari share to grow since competition might kick Apple to improve their browser to be a true equivalent or better competitior to Chrome.
A very recent one for me is that a lack of electrolytes is not a likely cause for cramps. The current science is still up in the air and the conclusion at the moment is "we still don't really know"

https://www.painscience.com/articles/cramps-spasms-twitches-...
One advantage of nuclear over renewables that doesn't get talked about as much is its portability. Most of the US's solar/wind potential is in the middle whereas most of the demand is on the coasts. Nuclear, like fossil fuels, can be built relatively close to cities and industrial centers where it is needed whereas industrial scale renewable generation need massive amount of new transmission lines (high costs and NIMBYism) to add the necessary capacity.
1) No Windows release afaik. But please correct me if I am wrong -- I don't see a Win download on their page from a quick look on my phone.

2) I did use it on Ubuntu sometime in college (around 2016 for class) and I just didn't like the feel of Libre. OpenOffice still had a lot of feature parity with Excel without buying Excel, so I got that instead.
There's no evidence that Nicotine itself is harmful, only addictive.
I'm from Europe too, and growing up I was told to not swim for 3 hours after lunch or I could literally die...
IRC also supports anarchism with + channels that simply have no modes and no ops (also no topic which is slightly annoying) but then you are kinda at the mercy of the network admins to stop the spammers (as well as liberal use of /ignore to ignore spammers).
Also some channels just give every non-spammer ops, which kinda also solves the power corrupts issue.
Are you implying they're much less terrible? I am not sure your point. Ultimately not consuming nicotine is good and any form of nicotine consumption is very bad, with combustible cigarettes being far worse than vaping.

I like to say that vaping is slightly less terrible than combustible cigarettes because it is very clear that you. should. not vape. unless. you. smoke. cigarettes.
The idea that you "decide" to indulge in something unhealthy for you, and it was a free decision and companies had nothing to do with it, is a complete joke. We know humans are biased, we know we evolved to like fats more than salad and sugar more than water, we know advertisers influence us, we know companies spend tens of thousands of people's work and billions on advertising and that vastly outpowers a single person's ability to "choose freely", we know companies wilfully mislead and take advantage of our social nature (look at that respectable admirable sports star associated with our product! Look at the work of Edward Bernays and 'Torches for Freedom' getting women to start smoking cigarettes by associating them with the women's liberation movements) and take advantage of our judgement of colour and contrast and intensity (the same product in a cheap box looks less desirable than it in a bright stylish box - and both product, box and brands might be the same company behind the scenes), and our human decision fatigue and temptation for convenience by putting sweets near checkouts. We know companies specifically target children for their suggestibility with methods like adding toys to cereal boxes, advertising during Saturday morning cartoons or loot boxes in games. We know companies lobby for regulations which help them or hurt their competitors. We know society is organised so the big get bigger - McDonalds can outspend a startup Salad bar by millions to one. We know companies pay scientists to lie about the safety and efficacy of their products, and to hide results that say the opposite.

To then whine that fighting back is 'facist' or to suggest that you're so smart you are magically not influenced by any of this is an embarassment. Companies are permitted to operate in society by the collective will of the people, not by divine right. And the people collectively see that a company is taking the piss, they can change the arrangement to improve it. Saying "company, your behaviour is hurting people's collective health, you need to pay some more taxes to cover it" is one way of doing that. If the company then passes the tax increase to you in the form of higer prices, instead of lower profits, that's up to them.

The very framing of it as "sin tax" as if it's a personal failing and not a deliberate corporate abuse of our biological desires and limits, is a kind of victim blaming that anyone "immune to advertising" oughtn't be falling for.
A lot of snarky and petty comments here I must say. Regardless of how the performance improvement was achieved I think it was quite interesting to see that you could convert a big chunks of C code to Go code with minimal effort and still get good performance.

I think too many here read the story as some kind of competition between Go and C, when it should be more read as how well the conversion process went. For anyone interested in going down this route, surely this is useful information.

We don’t have unlimited time in this industry and thus if something like this can be done with minimal effort while retaining expected performance , then I would say that we s a good thing.

Stop nitpicking as if the author tried to have final word on which language is faster.
Windows has a shell, it's called explorer.exe :)
yeah, and we should ban cars because a bunch of people drowned while boating. Vehicle deaths are vehicle deaths after all.
That would make my afternoon operations handovers much more exciting haha especially with slick view transitions haha.
Deno has a built-in repl

https://deno.land/manual/tools/repl
It could be that 10 different heirloom crops have been displaced by 10 different GMO varieties (perhaps each optimized for water usage, pest tolerance, nutrition depending on regional needs).

I don't know if this is what actually happened, but it's certainly not true that the existence of GMO crops will by definition significantly decrease overall biodiversity.
These are the mainstream e-cigs. Vape shops pushing disposables is still a big market. There will be no new cigarette companies. As long as you continue the whack-a-mole against new entrants your customer base is protected.

Altria surely didn’t want Juul to get regulated out of existence. But the rest of the majors did.
R.L. Stine and Ghostwriters (2012)
They've had Windows builds for as long I can remember. https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/dl/win-x86_64/7.3.4/en-US...
I know right? I wish they would just focus on making money instead of making products people might use and gain benefit from.
Hotels in the US often have washers and dryers but yeah, they won't be in your room.
The opposite seems true right now, with Apple deciding to improve its proprietary ecosystems (app store, swift, etc.) and letting WebKit stagnate. There's a lot that Gecko and Blink can handle but Safari struggles with, seemingly by design. Apple doesn't want a strong web-based ecosystem because that means their competitors can use it too, vs the iOS/macOS only stuff.

If they wanted to, they could switch Safari to Blink just like everyone else did, but still keep adding features on top of it (privacy, iCloud integration, whatever), the same way Microsoft does.

No user asks for a different layout engine, that's corporations fighting with different values and priorities. The differentiating features for users are layers above that and arguably held back by renderer differentiation.
Money paid through medicare and medicaid for treatment of the poor and elderly who develop cancer or COPD due to smoking, presumably.
There should be a windows release, its on the downloads page.
> In English, "viola" is the name of a stringed instrument.

Or a flower.
What other books are of the same caliber that HN would recommend?
https://archive.ph/J5JqF
I've used web, android and desktop clients without problems, other than the android notifications. I'm using it as a private chat server; I haven't tried out federation since I was setting it up. I can't see an issue on the bug tracker though.
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The fact is that currently Github's limitation does not preclude committing & collaboration, just paid features (sponsoring, copilot). For the time being Microsoft lawyers are OK with it, but not sure for how long.
And nicotine is nowhere near the addictivity of opiates. Sharing both under the same label is just a frame to make marijuana look better.
https://www.hnreplies.com/ can email you when you get a reply.
sad but very very normal, unfortunately.

Talking about companies eschewing ethics to get at the money: newspapers are companies.
It's a simplistic view allright, but then so is yours. Not all Russians are kremlin-dwelling villains, and not all westerners are post-colonial finger-waggers.

What Github does is no doubt for business and regulatory reasons, but also moral: after decades of downright malicious behavior on the international stage (not to mention the preceding 70 years of pure evil), Russia finally sunk so low in the world's esteem that doing business with or within Russia has now become "not done"; it's seen as enabling evil to continue. Even businesses that are not affected by the sanctions now hesitate to do business there (shipping, for example).

It's unjust for ordinary Russians to get caught under these sanctions, and is perilously close to collective punishment, but Russia simply, finally went too far.
We use Quill, too, we only need rudimentary features, though.

Its maintenance status is... questionable, although my information is out of date (see last paragraph).

* Github: https://github.com/quilljs/quill/
* It's latest release was 2019-09-09 – which is _ages_ in term of a JS library.
* There's tons of open issues, the maintainer was (or still is) rather quiet.
* It's pretty much a one-man-show.
Although now that I look at it, the last few months a second contributor appeared.
* Apparently there is a v2 in the works, but nobody know when it is due nor what its status is.
* There were issue that asked whether the project was abandoned. The issues went unanswered, and then were deleted.

To be fair: development seems to have picked up again. There were sporadic commits at the end of 2021, and I now see that there are a few this year, too.
... also lightning strikes hitting the ground somewhere in the area. That can induce large voltage differences between the power grounds on the buildings. The voltage difference might be large enough to arc across any isolation provided by the physical network implementation.
> Eleven scientists are working on a secret project. They wish to lock
up the documents in a cabinet so that the cabinet can be opened if
and only if six or more of the scientists are present. What is the
smallest number of locks needed? What is the smallest number of
keys to the locks each scientist must carry?

> it is not hard to show that the minimal solution uses 462
locks and 252 keys per scientist

Probably obvious to most on HN but the answer didn't jump out at me immediately: 11! / 5!6! = 462
The Google Play Store shows you an approximate number of installs. Check out some apps and multiply it with the price, then you have a rough estimate what people made with the app.
>1) No Windows release afaik. But please correct me if I am wrong -- I don't see a Win download on their page from a quick look on my phone.

It's been available for Windows for years. The first option on the drop-down menus says "Windows (64-bit)"[0]. 90% of their 10 million worldwide users in 2011 were on Windows machines[1].

[0]https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#Users_and_deployme...
Friend of mine stood in line and got the iPhone 4 on day 1 of release. I remember being in awe of it. Imo, took years for Samsung and other Android smartphones to catch up visually.

> the Porsche 911 of smartphone

Not a car buff. Would you mind unpacking this analogy?
where on earth did you get 1k from? it was a few dozen people:

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+died+from+va...

also, vitamin e acetate was used to cut black/grey market cannabis vape products, not nicotine. nic juice is so cheap to produce that there's no reason to cut, vitamin e acetate is probably more expensive.

i quit an 8 year smoking habit the first day i purchased a vape. it's depressing and frustrating to see this option removed for others.
Every generation seems to think natural language programming is a good idea and comes up with all sorts of ways of trying to do it. They then flail around for a few years before gradually finding out why it sucks and won't work. The space goes dead for a while until the next generation comes along and thinks they spotted a gap in the market.

Why will it be different this time?
> The current fentanyl epidemic in drug decriminalized Seattle is an example of how messed up decriminalization can get.

Not going to get into a long conversation about it beyond just saying that this is a statement that needs a lot of qualifiers and shouldn't just be taken completely at face value. There are significant debates about what is fueling some of Seattle's current problems, and whatever people's ultimate opinions on who is right and wrong about those debates -- the debates do exist and should be taken somewhat seriously.

ISeattle's drug policies obviously have some effect on the rest of the city because of course crime policy will have some effect on a city in some kind of direction, but it's just a hugely complicated topic, and stuff like "a rise in property and violent crime" very clearly have multiple inputs playing into them and pretty obviously aren't solely the result of drug policy in a single city.
I'm surprised that network via DHCP isn't coming up automatically. Perhaps FreeBSD supports that and the author just didn't use it?

(I used FreeBSD a looong time ago, and am vaguely thinking of trying again one day, so it would be interesting to know.)
It is still generally harder to make serious money from apps but possible.

Also, games are very different than Apps. People are more willing to spend money on entertainment than apps. Some exceptions are dating, health, finance though.

Back in 2014 and 2015, I launched an app on windows phone and android respectively. They both made a few thousand within a couple of months. I discontinued them, but mostly because the competition on Android was too much and I was unsure about the product strategy going forward. Fast-forward years later, and several of those competitors also shut down, leaving room for other apps in that space to grow and take more marketshare. I really think you have to just keep at it.

I actually think Apps were difficult to make money from years ago but that was because several factors such as competition, consumer spending habits, lack of incentives from iOS/play stores.

Now, I think things are a bit different:

1. Fewer apps as the tech sector has shifted to more cutting edge tech like crypto, etc.

2. Quality of apps have gone up

3. In-App purchases are very common as are Subscription models

4. People are more willing to spend on IAP and have gotten used to subscriptions

5. Stores have reduced taxes to %15 in some cases

6. People are using fewer apps these days, no more app explosion.

But basically, you're app has to be high-quality and useful. Also, the main drivers for app installs are still the app stores themselves, so you have to optimize for the app store. Look into ASO ( app store optimization ). Also, expect to take a long-time to build up your audience. I'm attempting to launch a new app now, and going through this process.

Regarding ios vs android, it's easier to make revenue on iOS for sure, but again, if your app is high-quality and useful i'm not sure it makes a big difference.
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So worse or better? Your comment is unclear.
1000 deaths (which briefly googling suggests is less than the number that die from lighting strikes annually), is in no way comparable to the nearly half a million from cigarette related health issues[0].

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...)
I wish it would just go out of business entirely, but I'm afraid Google doesn't care what either of us wishes.
You could try Akita Software: https://www.akitasoftware.com/ who exists in this space, but anecdotally devs I've spoken to who have tested that solution haven't loved it (find it hard/unintuitive to use). I assume a full investment (Data warehouse + datadog and alerting framework) would be overkill for your use case?

This problem is something I've spent some time thinking through/working on addressing, because it does feel like there should be something easy & low cost for devs to use, a mixpanel for API usage as it were. If you'd want to talk about it offline, drop me a message. Best of luck!
Reminds me of people at work who blindly download and run github repos.
It's the interaction of JS with HTML and CSS, combined with the expectation that all browsers will implement everything in ways that are functionally identical. Current "web platform" specs are in the form of algorithms/pseudocode rather than descriptions of desired behavior.
Lex Clips titled this "Steve Jobs was an a*hole", but I feel it is more illuminating to highlight Tony's classification of an a*hole as either motivated by ego (destructive) or motivated by mission (constructive). Constructive a*holes exhibit unrelenting attention to detail and service to mission, without bullying or demeaning others. “Steve Jobs was an asshole with a purpose.” Tony is a great storyteller here with his story about plastic to glass on the iPhone.
This doesn't seem to be true, could you help me see what I'm missing?

USDC has been audited yearly since 2018 as part of Circle's financial statements, with years 2020 and 2021 publicly available with the SEC: https://www.circle.com/blog/how-to-build-trust-usdc-audits-a...

Circle also does monthly attestations - independent, signed reviews by third party accountants - on USDC holdings. Those are available here: https://www.circle.com/en/usdc#transparency

I looked and the April '22 attestation seemed fine.

Even the FT article seems to walk back its claims about changes in the attestations as worrying, seems like their source actually is more concerned about digital currencies in general:

> “The problem to me isn’t the specifics of any one attestation, it’s the fundamental workings of these kinds of systems,” said Grey.
I think it’s effective. I have an email list where I somehow got random contacts through a form of a popular content hosting platform where they didn’t combat against spam emails nor verifying them.

When I send newsletters, those email addresses will mark my emails as spam although they aren’t. That makes my email provider lock my account if there is enough reports of spam to the point where I had to remove many emails from my list that I had no clue otherwise.

Majority of those emails were gmail accounts. Thus I think about my experience every time I mark an email as spam.

I assume the spam you’re talking about however will just cycle through reputable email providers to get into your primary inbox since the filters are hit and miss.
Super interesting, do you think the traffic difference is anything to do with your app and marketing, or do you think it's to do with the size of the android market compared to iOS?
The two most important budgets for a chip design are power and area. Transistor density is only one of the important metrics you would need to evaluate budgets on a given node. Smaller transistors are typically more power efficient at high frequencies, but small feature size makes it harder to prevent current leakage, and each node handles that to varying degrees of success.

This is also a new physical layout of transistor (gate all around) compared to fin-fet previously, so we can expect those other calculations like speed and efficiency to work differently on this node.