skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Address != user and we both know it's trivial to generate as many addresses as you want.

Here's another chart:

https://etherscan.io/chart/active-address

All time high is 1m addresses actually used in any 24 hour period, which is a significant outlier. The average is closer to 400k-500k.

And another:

https://etherscan.io/chart/tx

1.7m ATH daily transactions with the average being around 1m. I'm not exactly a statistician but a simple breakdown could be 500k people doing two transactions per day. Factoring in adoption is likely heavily weighted towards individual users (in the DAU sense) transacting with multiple addresses I think it's safe to assume the mapping between active addresses and users is some fraction - 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, etc.

Being conservative and favoring Ethereum in this 250k DAUs for total on-chain activity encompassing all activity across the entire platform.

You can look at cheap and "high" traffic sidechains, L2s, etc and pretty quickly determine that the number of DAUs across the entire ecosystem is in the low single digit millions at best. To be really fair let's say it's 10m - that's .02% of internet users daily.

Even if we use your total addresses and assume each address is a user 210m users across the 5b people on the internet represents an adoption rate of 4.2% of internet users ever transacting with the network across the seven years of existence.

In my original comment I said 99% of internet users wouldn't notice if it all disappeared. Looking at the numbers I think this was charitable.

So yeah, abysmal.
With a French Press, you don't have to buy and throw away a constant stream of paper filters.
Why is SMS type texting not prevalent outside the US? I keep seeing arguments about how everyone uses whatsapp or wechat or what ever, But why? Is the SMS service not there for some reason? Is it perceived as less safe to give out your phone number? Do many people have data only devices with out a number?
> But no new features. The major goals of Snow Leopard were to improve performance and reduce its memory footprint (by removing a lot of PPC code). What was nice about it, and what my point was, Apple had 2 years for bug fixes.

But there were major features, but they were not user facing. Snow Leopard introduced Grand Central Dispatch, improvements to Objective-C, things like that are major changes, more significant than simply changing the way the UI looks.

High Sierra introduced APFS, a major major change. Sierra was probably a better release as far as no new features, they fixed the USB stack they broke in El Capitan.

Mountain Lion introduced iCloud related stuff like notifications I think.

The releases that you believe are stable because of no new features, actually have major new features, but the guys writing the low level code are more talented than the guys writing the UI code, that's why those releases are more stable.
I'm concerned that someone might take my previous statement and assume this means all blood donations are safe -- they're not. Without a bunch of steps in place they're horrifyingly risky, and our screening technology is not good enough. I'll explain more in a moment.

To answer your direct question, in Toronto there was a doctor who wanted to open a pay-for-plasma clinic like they have in the US. In Canada, blood donations are not paid for which is one of the core reasons the supply is considered to be safer than other first world countries. The regulators shut it down and stopped him, not because of cleaning the plasma from the blood, but for policy reasons.

Back to the point about safe blood... Being a person who is allowed to donate blood is not related to this cleaning process but statistics about risk and also related to costs. So this is part of why there are no plasma clinics in Canada.

The blood donation is tested, but the tests don't catch everything. Really horrible diseases can test negative, which is why the process to donate blood includes an interview to categorize a high risk donor. This is why they don't let you donate blood when you have been living in europe for many years, have tattoos, multiple sexual partners, or had male-with-male sex. A lot of people hear about this and are totally outraged and jump to assumptions that the blood donation system is stuck in some anti-gay-rights 1900s puritan mindset, but that's not what's going on.

People regularly walk into blood donor clinics, lie about their high risk factors because they want to "prove a point", the tests for things like HIV can't always catch it all the time (especially in early stages; stages where there are no symptoms), and one blood donation could actually make it to several other people (like a baby, a motorcycle accident victim, and a surgery patient). It happens regularly enough that your nation's blood supply has a "lookback/traceback" program where they have 10-100 people who sit there all day working on cases and sending letters to people who received bad blood, and it can even come up 5+ years later when someone who donated blood in 2015 just got a diagnosis in 2020, all those people in the "bloodline" get notified, banned from the system, and advised to get tested too.

Doctors depend on multiple layers of checks to keep the blood supply clean, one of them is a statistical layer, one is a testing layer, one is the processing to keep the blood clean/safe, another is policy. Please don't interpret my point about plasma being highly cleanable to mean that all blood components in general can be safely received from the homeless.
s/developers/people/ here and you've hit on the main fraud of most Western legal systems. Essentially no private individual can stand up to a corporation that wants to bring the full weight of millions of dollars against them in the form of legal resources. Even borderline ethical tactics like burying the opposition in paperwork are far more effective when the other side is literally 1 guy.

We need some kind of real, actual tort reform here that does allow individuals to take on corporations. Corporations won't like that, of course, but this is a "too damn bad" type scenario in my mind. The big, practical question in my mind is "How do you do something like this without running up against Citizens United?". I think we may have capitalism'ed ourselves into a corner here.
A Real Practical Use for Blockchain
We need to think of #blockchain as the next #cloud compute infrastructure and less as a currency or proof of ownership system.
That would be one of the maintainers of the Linux graphics subsystem. He has almost 4000 Linux kernel commits on his resume, so you're in for quite some work.

Also the patch that was committed (which was the third version) was reviewed by two other developers and acked by two more. That will add about 1700 more commits to your endeavor.
> The choices of Billionaires are bewildering :-)

No more bewildering than the choices of us end-users:
"Should I spend 4 hrs today improving myself and those around me, or 4 hrs on TikTok watching the latest dance moves?
I had a few run-ins with fellow academics that went something like what you describe.

My main take away from the experiences (plural!) is that the most practical definition of “academic ethics” turns out to be “Never criticize the work of someone who is more famous than you.”
do you plan on a paid white label option?
We call it corruption here in Eastern Europe. Call a spade a spade.
The best part is watching them rationalizing it by mental gymnastic as suggested parody accounts are equivalent to “identity theft”.
ActivityPub doesn't encompasse authentication or authorization.

Here is the spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

It explicitly defers auth to be implementation-specific: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#authorization
SSL is hardly minimal
Use an iphone and don’t give the app any permissions.
I didn't downvote you, but I'm guessing you're being downvoted because the answer is just "grep -c", which counts matches instead of printing them, and I discovered that in about ten seconds by googling "grep count matches". (I actually didn't know about that option, though! I'd have reflexively used "grep | wc -l" to count matched lines, because I know that wc is what you use to count things.)
So very true. It is _us_ who changed and choose for the easy web experience. The cool, hard / exclusive part is still around.
Federal prosecutors charge ex-CEOs of MoviePass
Outside the us carriers continued to charge for sms
Isn't an invention just an implementation of an idea. I also don't understand why many accepy patents except for software
Or as few as two cats, depending on the breed.
Many C++ developers have walked that path, never to be seen again.
you don't have to reject cartesian dualism to doubt that you can reduce the quality of artworks or research to 'metrics' or 'ranked measurement'. you just have to not be a complete idiot. hierarchy definitely does not imply ranked measurement
No, they're not. GATs are used internally in the compiler to implement async methods, but there is absolutely no need for them to be in the language for that (just like generators are used to implement await but are not part of the (stable) language). GATs may or may not be useful, but IMO the actual real-world use cases are pretty weak.
This isn't about acceptable or law - it's basic company risk management.
No. I don't know how hckrnews picks and chooses what it shows, but it doesn't show _all_ posts. If you look at new in HN you'll see pretty quickly that there are too many posts to show all of them.
I would say it's a related, but much simpler problem. Often, codebases will have some sort of command (sometimes in a Makefile, or similar) to run the tests, which you can use to track down where the tests live. Failing that, tests are often found in files, functions, and directories containing the string 'test' in their names. Simple use of shell tools can accomplish the task of looking for those things in a semi-automated way.
> Yes. When you use Solid, you only need to login to your Identity Provider.

Maybe I'm not understanding your direction here, but I'm specifically looking for an Identity Provider service to auth ActivityPub service users.
Someone commented on that page: "Just use Rust, you stupid corporate normies." which seems a bit odd considering the different goals. The 'big deal' here seems to be formal verification, not just "something that is not C" which is what people appear to assume here.

Something I suspect they focus on here is the boot ROM or the SEP RtOS, which is small enough to warrant this kind of scrutiny.
I think that people should be free to express any view and to criticise any person. That doesn't mean that I think people should be able to say whatever they want in whatever way they want. I think we should be able to stop people from harassing, impersonating, shouting excessively, etc. Those things seem in opposition of those goals the hope of reaching of which is the reason I support freedom of speech in the first place. No, it would be silly in my view to support both freedom of speech and unlimited speech in all ways in all circumstances.
The YouTube shorts really piss me off, because, afaik there’s no way to seek (and some of them are a bit long for a “short”), at least from what I’ve seen in the mobile UI. It may be behind a gesture or something though.
I think people first moved away from SMS because it cost extra to send them, while messaging apps were virtually free. Then messaging apps beat SMS on features, you can send photos, videos, files, read receipts, works across platforms, etc.
I mean most people don’t realize that as a country we spend $14.5k per student (top 5 globally). With average class sizes at ~20 students, we spend ~$290k per class per year.

The average teacher’s salary is $55k that leaving ~$235k.

Avg office leases are $35/sqft per year and classrooms are ~1k sqft so that’s only $35k.

Making the core cost of teacher + classroom $90k/yr

So somehow we’re burning $200k per class per year on administration, transportation, facility management, curriculums, and extracurriculars.

I can see not wanting to expand the current wasteful system.
Ask HN: How to Go Back Home
Working in tech industry, been 10 years. Ended up in tech by accident, supposed to be a teacher. Started coding one summer in college, rest is history.

Big city, good company, good position, good salary. Though there is one thing: don't want to be here. Not unhappiness, just lack of happiness, just apathy.

Want to go back to my country, return to my hometown, return home. This is not new, been feeling like this for the last 3 years.

Don't want to work remotely, don't want to work in tech at all. Want to go back to teaching.

Two problems:
1 - How to stop feeling like a disappointment?
2 - How to justify a 95% income drop from my current job to a average teacher salary in my 3rd world country?

Any advice much appreciated. Cheers.
It truly is the Abe Simpson meme. I wonder if it was a joke?
This is happening and happening fast.

I'm not sure saying all the other paltforms are copying TikTok is correct.

It's more that TikTok is the natural evolution of of technology that all media platforms are heading towards.

- Lower the cost of media production and publishing until its basically free
- Lower the cost of distribution by using an algorithm
- Lower the cost of moderation by using crowd-sourcing and algorithms (if even that)

The results are pretty scary.

Political discourse is in free fall. My hypothesis is that a big part of the US political dysfunction is due to the populace consuming the "news" on Twitter and Facebook as a series of low-quality or downright fake posts. It's all hot takes, no meaningful discourse.

Entertainment is in a tidal shift. Netflix is trying the high volume, cheap production, let the algorithm sort it out, but will still eventually lose to YouTube. On a positive note, independents are making better cooking "shows" on YouTube than Food Network or Netflix ever produced.

Old newspapers and Hollywood had a lot of problems of their own. But there were also big advantages of the professionalism, editorialization and quality control they offered.

The question is if we'll find a healthy balance by some combination of the platforms and their users trying to do the right thing.
The article talks about "copyright infringement", but maybe that's just bad reporting.
One of the reasons, at least here in the UK, is that for a long time you only got so many SMS messages in your phone contract. MMS was also awful for a long time. WhatsApp solved both those problems, and most importantly was on every device possible.
Yes, it is shadow banning. The URL was https://nos.nl/artikel/2451465-twitteraccount-eindhovens-dag... not the translated URL.
C++ sorta has the equivalent of this feature in the form of nested templates. C++ is kind of popular and rust wants to be a direct replacement.

Next step: template template parameters!
When Scooby-Doo took the mask off the troll, he was just the old caretaker, Nathan Myhrvold.
You're thinking macro, I'm thinking micro. I don't care of the grand scheme of things like standing armies etc, I care to have the means to live or survive long enough to anything survivable (so not planet destroying asteroid or full scale atomic war, but local disruptions, civil war etc)

Guns and non perishable food aren't enough and they're not a warranty either, but they're a good start and better than nothing.
He could be the Pope or the President, he said something ignorant and/or demonstrably incorrect and got called out. He's wrong, and if you believe what he said to be true, then you are wrong too. Facts are a thing, and they matter.
That's the copycat behavior. It's forced engagement analytics. You either care (and it's boosted for some people) or you don't (and it's devalued for some people).

All in the pursuit of perpetual doomscrolling.
at 1:12 the narrator says "in this IKEA."

https://youtu.be/cPT6GlMWEjU?t=69

So...
We'll need to have better validation in place for sure, that's a good suggestion though. It's tricky to moderate for bots while not limiting a user's freedom of expression. Maybe in the future, we can have some kind of voting system where if more than x number of verified platforms voted against a Soul account for bot activity, we will ban that user entirely from Soul.
Similar to pwg, I have not borrowed software for upwards of 30 years. There are great open source and free alternatives to most commercial software intended for personal use.

I could envision one day that people may need to borrow movies and/or music if and when the streaming services revert back to the cable-tv models from the days of yore and/or if streaming services start taking away content people have paid for from their purchased catalogue and/or if too many movies or songs get cancelled.
> It was not possible to compile it with something different than Windows 2000

How does software get that bad?
Do they send worse images than an Android would send over MMS? Because even on Android I wouldn’t send pictures over MMS because they’ll be scaled down.
In 2014 IKEA backtracks on legal take down of fan site for furniture hackers :

https://www.dezeen.com/2014/06/19/ikea-backs-down-in-legal-k...
Yeah that's a trick. They take it off the market and then relist which resets the clock. They do this so buyers won't assume there is something wrong with the property due to the price changes.
also if you get trace amounts of formaldehyde out the smokestack it isn't going to last more than a few hours in the environment. every living thing produces formaldehyde
Depends on what the use case is. I rely on a classic shared Webhost with classical LAMP stack (with a few additions I don’t use like nodejs,python), mail server and so on. The Webhost takes care of certificates, system security and so on.
I absolutely love AdaCore, last employer (~6 years ago) worked heavily with Ada and AdaCore, the support from them was just mind-blowing, sounds like a advertisement i know, but not often have i seen something like it..well maybe from SGI and DEC..longlong time ago.
related "Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33416498
I have been happy with Ubuntu Budgie - https://ubuntubudgie.org/
I wish there was a funnier way of putting it but the more famous you get the more weird people you attract and the weirder they get. It takes quite a bit of getting used (to if at all)
Okay, interesting! I want to be in control of all those things(OS, Networks(nat included), packages).
I roll my own packages using poudriere that I then distribute using FreeBSDs binary package management system... to my jails. XD

That way I get a coherent well configured system everywhere.
Hmm not sure if I'm getting this right, do you mean white labelling Soul's authentication? To allow for rebranding?
JFYI, you still have a CLI man-preview utility, which basically converts man page to PDF format.
Yeah basically if the day comes when you need these, you will just naturally use them and it will work and you will never think anything of it.

Whereas I stumbled upon a use for these ~4 years ago and was just mad that what I naturally wanted to do didn't work =)

But yeah in certain programming domains, probably most, it just doesn't come up.
You think Xi's "Security" department isn't getting started on ripping open iOS?
So they hastily, after one week, laid off 50% of their staff, but it took just one weekend to realize that some of those people are needed? I guess they were really missed at Twitter, but this is not exactly the sign of a well run company.
The Art of the Long Goodbye
They should ride it out. Great publicity. You can't buy this kind of marketing.
Use the web version, not the app
> I am so glad it does. [...]

I completely reject preserving backwards compatibility for the sake of application bugs.

Why should Microsoft produce a hack for a particular piece of software? That software might be used by a 10s, 100s, 1000s of people for a certain amount of time, whereas Windows itself impacts billions of people daily and will continue to do so for decades to come.

At some point the programmers, PMs, and maybe even the bug tracker behind these hacks will move on. Institutional knowledge is rarely forever. A newer generation of developers, PM, etc, will have to waste time understanding the bug, and deciding to support it or not. Possibly without ever knowing if the software in question has moved on itself, or is even in use anymore.

Say what you want about Apple, but rarely the words "badly aged" or "crufty" are used to describe their ecosystems. They are the stunning definition of darwinism at its finest.
Isn't "just" attempting to read multiple times basically how AccurateRip is itself populated, as that is how EAC works?
That was an X not a Y, and there've been pictures of at least two others. One was at an apartment and another was in a ditch near some sort of vehicle repair shop.

I don't have time now, but the 10 figure came from a report with official sources. I suspect it was pretty close to right.

I don't know how it compares to gas car fires, which are also not uncommon after submersion in saltwater. Often the reason is the same too, the low voltage battery sometimes catches fire.
Amusement is probably the most defensive psychological posture one can take in the face of propaganda and authoritarian displays of might. It challenges the believability of these messages and the facades required to uphold them.

Without such a challenge, these messages would be taken seriously to some extent, which works to create an illusion of threats where they don’t exist… which is what the propaganda is here to do.
I assume the 'hire to fire' metrics are for engineering; not warehouse. Two different labor pools. I assumed the warehouse attrition rates were due to the work being taxing (and audited). It pays well but you can get much more relaxed atmospheres for not much less $$ if you look.
How would Musk know (within a week) whether the team is shit and expensive?
I once used cygwin to accidentally create files with binary data as their file name that couldn't be deleted in the windows file explorer. I wrote another cygwin program that deleted these files.

The only difference between me and the author of this blog post is that I didn't upload my program to the internet where people could ridicule it for its simplicity.
Fast Design
Find reposts on YouTube or Instagram.

By definition if you sign into the TikTok app and service and interact with *anything* you're part of the machine.

Of course with my solution you're part of the Google or Meta machine instead.
Yes, I've read the stabilization thread and I'm aware of your stance. :P Whether or not it's exposed, the mechanism still needs to exist in the compiler, and enough library authors are clamoring to use it that I think the argument in favor of exposing them is stronger than you're giving it credit for.

You mention generators, but a lot of people are clamoring for those as well, and I fully expect them to be exposed to end-users someday.
Those are significantly worse, because they do not ambiguously state what @user@site does. This is such a minor thing to be up in arms about, aesthetically it looks fine and immediately communicates what it is.
I'm only just finishing up season 2 now. Should I keep going?
Same. There's no need to censor Christians either.
direct air capture has been demonstrated by a variety of methods, including the literally oldest human industrial chemical process, lime burning. i've done the calculations, it's not such a bfd, even with lime

yes, it requires an incredible amount of energy

guess what solar panels give you
Imo, Who can win at a court is meaningful only to entities who can afford and/or spare the $$$ for lawyers and actually go to court.
The promo images for the Encode Plus emphasize watch usage - you just put your wrist near the lock. Still not as convenient as eg. face recognition but it's intended for someone who has bought into the whole Apple ecosystem.