skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Visible supernovas are rare, but there was one in 1987. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A

Here is the Wikipedia page for the star that died over 30 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanduleak_-69_202

You can see meteors all the time. A bit of trivia I read somewhere is that your spot on the earth is facing more "into the wind" the later it gets after midnight, so that's when it's best to look for them.

Usually meteors are just streaks of light, but once I went partway up a mountain for a forecasted meteor shower and I saw one just like people render it for an illustration (except much smaller because of the distance) - you could see it was a white hot fireball, shading to red, shading to blue, with a long bluish tail.
If that were the case Apple couldn’t have maintained a huge performance lead in smartphone CPUs for half a decade.
Interesting, since this didn't happen after the Surface debut but did happen after the Macbook debut. Of course the processors are better now.
This is dumb. If any site does this to me I'll immediately move to a competitor or just stop using it entirely.
Also, dc was the math engine for the old RSA in five lines of perl. http://www.cypherspace.org/rsa/pureperl.html
Clearly a powerful tool.
I agree it's frustrating. I'm a Software Safety PEng that does alot of compliance and standards work, and safety validation. My company is good about delineating between engineering and developers... But very few orgs outside of safety critical industries care at all
“This is the way” was his text for the tweet. It’s a repeated line on The Mandalorian.
"here are 5 things I don't use"

<lists things that lots of scripts use, which this person probably uses without knowing they've used them e.g. if they ever run ./configure>
>SCA—Strong Customer Authentication: something in addition to a credit card number, e.g. your bank account password, a mobile push notification, a SMS code.

I've run into this a few times and it has made me very hesitant. You're effectively being asked to log into your own bank account from a link on a third party website or, even worse, an app.

It makes me uneasy, because I feel like a malicious site or app could intercept this and access the account directly. Or do some other kind of trickery that I cannot foresee.
> Western European salary is taxed for around 40%

You'll only get that tax rate at very high salaries and it's also of course marginal.
In the UK the first 12k (~$17k) is entirely tax free for example. After that it's 20% up until you have earned 50k (~$70k). Only after that does the 40% tax kick in. So on a $75k salary, only $5k will be taxed at 40%.

For a $75k salary you would be paying just over 16% tax and 9% national insurance (i.e. pension) in the UK.

When I first started working as a SWE in the UK I worked out that my average tax rate was actually slightly lower than if I earned the same in California. If I was earning 2-3x more then the higher European taxes start to kick in.
Is anybody aware of any serious research Yugabyte vs Postgres?

Yugabyte appears to an application as essentially Postgres 11.2 with all psql features (even the row / column level security mechanisms) but, apparently, handles replication and sharding automagically (is it DHT, similar to Cassandra)?

Are there any serious technical comparisons with some conclusions, without marketing bs?
Irvine Man Arrested Alleging He Fraudulently $5M in Covid PPP Loans
Or 'Mother of Learning'.
If it was that easy Exynos wouldn’t already lag the A14 so badly.

It should gain maybe 15% in a smaller process, but has a lot farther to go.
That won’t work as visitors from many other time zones still need to see it.
> What learning can be taken from this?

That being stupidly outrageous is a great marketing strategy considering we're still all discussing a branding document from 2009. The gravitational pull of Pepsi is real! :)
“This is the way” is a mantra of the Mandalorians.
This style is also called in a derogative way "humans of flat".

It's quite controversial in the design world. Critique of it can also be a bad career move, so people are a bit hush about it.
> Nobody should work overtime for free.

> Just never work for a company for free.

Screw you, buddy, I'll do what I want to!

(Okay, my aggressive tone is a joke, but I do actually mean the underlying point. I've worked for free many times, for at least two totally different reasons in different situations, and I'll do it again, and it's ridiculous to say that people should "never" do this. Different people have different goals.)
Usually you drop indexes before load, then recreate after.
I'm curious, what happens if you already have it engaged on a supported road, but then the car transitions to a road where autosteer doesn't work? Does the car come to a stop, blast an alarm, or just veer off the road?
You can argue that, and I might agree with it, but it's not regulated as such.
That cheap Canon 50mm lens is great.
I use a Canon 5D mk something and carry a 28mm, a 50mm, and a 100mm, all of them ƒ/2.0 or 1.8.

For a lot of shots I want the specific look of ƒ/2.0 on a decent prime lens. I don't actually want an aperture wider than that.
From my perspective, it’s a great way to mentor and facilitate knowledge transfer. It’s also great for working through coding roadblocks. It’s a useful tool, nothing more. Theres no mandate to use it at the office, it’s up to individual developers to use it appropriately and managers to facilitate it.
That article seems to just be a sequence of innuendos and insinuations meant to surround Sesame Street with unsavory associations without ever actually providing evidence of them. Seriously, they're arguing that Sesame Street is responsible for advertisers copying their format and failing to teach long-form critical thinking to pre-schoolers.
There is a "I’ll sleep later, I really need to use this site right now →" button, by the way.
In the absence of legitimate health concerns preventing one from safely receiving the vaccines, it's increasingly unreasonable and arguably unethical to opt-out of taking the vaccines.
Quintin Jones Is Not Innocent. But He Doesn’t Deserve to Die
Startup ideas that were thought stupid and became successful
What startups were thought to be based on stupid ideas but turned out to be successful? Any example of founders having insights that the startup community could not see initially?
Here's a good selection of Corporate Memphis, for your reference.

https://www.are.na/claire-l-evans/corporate-memphis

The 80s Memphis style was like Bauhaus but with more formica, but this new style is more of an attempt to make rapacious startups funded by vulture capital/rapacious megacorps intent on destroying the fabric of society (delete as appropriate) feel like warm, fuzzy friends. Hello fellow humans, aren't we all friendly, human and fun, etc.
I guess the question to ask is: if you gave the kids a desk and a room of their own by itself, would academic performance improve? Or would academic performance improve more if you raised the parents out of poverty?
Philip Glass scored an animation for Sesame Street.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWwOzEDGss

I blame this for my interest in modern classical. I can't imagine them doing something so progressive today. But that's because they had a captive audience in the 70's.
Yeah, but as pointed out above, the system took 2K, so that left the user with 3.5K.
Super useful observation that the metrics are the addiction.

> Metrics are an addictive drug. Twitter is literally an incremental game.

This comes up in the Nir Eyal "Hooked" model, but Eyal spends chapters outlining it, where the author here captures it as the main thing. Watch the number go up, get little hits of dopamine. It's gambling, trading/investing, SEO, literally anything with an 1/f distribution. (http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/1/f_noise)

I'd wonder if you could drive engagement on an app by spacing out the arrival of user alerts and feedback so they only reached the user with a delay/period that was hidden, but detectable in the same sense of anticipation music creates. Seems like an unethical experiment, and probably hidden in the annals of FAANG companies.
I saw a few reports on Blind of people getting put on PIP within six months. Makes more sense now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Open_proxies
Not only do they not care, sources for quality counterfeits are actually a bit of a passed around community secret because gw is pretty quick to have them shut down. The counterfeits are quite a bit cheaper than gw for acceptable quality.
My guess is because for those services you listed, ads explicitly stop the experience and make you watch ads to continue to be able to use the service normally.

If I watch a Youtube video and it gets interrupted by an ad, I am stuck until it is over and cannot consume my content. Same with Spotify. So understandably, people would be willing to pay for the premium tier. I, myself, pay for premium on those services to not deal with ads, as they steal my time and interrupt my normal usage of those services.

With FB, ads aren't interrupting the experience. They are just there, but you are welcome to completely ignore them and proceed consuming your content. I wouldn't pay premium to get rid of FB ads, even if it was just $1/mo. Especially given that, more than once, I got genuinely useful ads that helped me with making a good purchasing decision (the final decision came down to me doing my independent research before buying, but the ads pointed me towards the type of stuff I was looking for). So I don't gain much by getting rid of FB ads (as they are non-interruptive), while potentially losing out on some stuff.

I think the last bit I mentioned is kind of the key to FB strategy. They don't want to offer the "no-ads" premium tier, because they don't want to pose their ads as an annoyance you have to pay to get rid of, they want to pose them as a value add. Not trying to argue whether it is indeed a value add for users or not, just theorizing how FB product team sees it and tries to pose it.

P.S. I don't work in ads or anything even tangentially related. And neither do I have a stake in FB or any other ad-related business. Just describing my genuine user experience.
> That's a fallacy, no one goes to work at Wendy for the love of it.

I don't know, there are a lot of jobs that are worse than Wendy's out there. "Love" is a strong word, but the same forces are at play.
For healthy, young people, I can see many of them making a not-irrational judgement that with the reports of blood-clot side effects above the population expectancy [from AZ’s vaccine], coupled with a lack of full authorization for any of them, to conclude that waiting is reasonable for them. I support what I believe is their right to make that choice particularly in advance of a full approval for use.

(I’m fully vaccinated as of today, just as context for what I said above. I came to a different [and I believe rational] calculation of my own risk-balance of complications from the vaccine versus fading the COVID risk unvaccinated for me and my family/colleagues and signed up for the very first shot I could get, a 75 minute drive away.)
It does. But you can apply for an exemption.
Don't most of consumer Linux laptops just get pirated windows installed on them?
Having done work in a variety of contexts from Game Engine development to working in Unity, what you are describing is only true for the most trivial of projects. Larger projects (especially AAA) have so much customization of the engines and pushing of their boundaries that they require just as much technical expertise as engine development for many of the required tasks.

There are advantages and disadvantages for using these engines. They soften the "getting started" part of game dev for newer people, but for complicated projects it tends to be kicking the can down the road for dealing with deeper issues.

You'd be hard pressed to squeeze good perf out Unity while fully using the HDRP and not understanding the ins and outs of the pipeline.
You don't pay for having a server running. You only pay for storage and data read during queries.

No server fees and no fees when autoscaling up for heavy computations.
what a very strange message to vote down. You can see any number of pre breakup publicity videos touting their contribution to society on Youtube and any history of the Bell system will discuss this topic. The topic itself is not in any way controversial.
> I don't get paid anywhere near FAANG salary, but I bet I get paid more per hour than most game devs.

If you don't get paid anywhere near FAANG salary then you're probably making the same as what you could make as a game developer...
This might be useful imagery for mockery but it's far from accurate. That, and I mean, mockery is wrong in any meaningful discourse.
>The first Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms to feature Qualcomm Technologies’ new internally designed CPUs are expected to sample in the second half of 2022 and will be designed for high-performance ultraportable laptops

So they will have enginering samples by the end of next year ? When I said soon I sort of meant in the two year period, in the long run Intel is likely to catch up on the process as well - but devices shipping in the next 2 years will be underperforming compared to Apple M processors.
I hate everything about this. Every step in this process is about making money and nothing else.
Presumably, if they put it before a review board, that board would have found that correcting people's misunderstanding of the facts of topic X is not unethical. Regardless of what one thinks of public "debunking" generally, the position of most in academia seems to be that telling people their news sources are not sound science, is not unethical.
Compare to HN's sentiment the last time this was posted!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11777562
>under Eugene Wigner, no less

So you could say he was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_friend
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(2020)

My favorite mention in the article is a previous bug where selecting a STAR route with exactly 14 waypoints caused the system to freeze and go blank.
The packet-processing BPF programs are less tightly bound to Linux kernel APIs than you might think. Even in Linux, there has been motivation to make the APIs more generic to support different kernel hooks for packets, in particular XDP which doesn't operate on the standard internal packet buffer representation (skbuff).
The myth that drugs make you more creative is, well, a myth.

I've had a few content-producing startups and I can tell you that there was literally no correlation between the amount/quality of the art produced and whether the person making it was a drug-addict or not (everybody was treated equally at my place).

If you want to know the secret behind creative genius, it is, as in other things, hard work and dedication. No substitute for that.
Example app: NuGet for .NET on Linux and MacOS, from Microsoft: https://github.com/NuGet/Announcements/issues/56

It used SSL/TLS and S/MIME roots to verify code signing and timestamping responses. When Symantec, which was removed for TLS trust, was also removed for S/MIME, NuGet broke, because it was no longer able to verify the TSA signature.

As covered in https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/10504 , this then led some Linux distros, notably Debian/Ubuntu, to re-add Symantec.

Any application using the ca-certificates package thus end up trusting CAs that Mozilla does not trust, despite being derived from the Mozilla Root Store.

So the news is already out there, this was just a reminder to folks to not do silly things like Microsoft did.
CO673/CS794: Optimization for Data Science
There's plenty of good UI/UX outside of GNOME. Personally I find the UI/UX in KDE to be better than Windows and macOS's desktop managers. Each to their own and all that though.
The author explains it well IMO. Mentally computing an appropriate response to present to another human takes energy. The more different that human than you, the more energy. There'll be some outliers that are inordinately drained by pairing.

I agree that if someone can't talk about why they're feeling stressed by their work environment then it's a deeper issue than just a personal one. I would point to leaders whose lack of understanding of higher order truths about humans, like that humans are different and space needs to be permanently held for those differences to be surfaced and coalesced, can cause their well intended questioning to come across as personal attack, thereby incentivizing the team member to stay quiet.

Trust is the end state of solving a communication problem. But it's a systemic quality and needs to be cultivated from the system as a whole, not any one member.
"Never tell me the odds?" :) I wish you the very best of luck.
Show HN: I wrote a book about creating your own React
> and how bad that must be for my body.

For what is worth, at prescription doses they are not bad for your body at all.
I'm excited to share that Foundations of High-Performance React Applications is out! While it's not a full-length book it's still my first complete book and a full-length one is coming.

I have a long background in performance optimization and web development. I set out to document for people how they could build high performance React programs but quickly realized it would be much easier to do that if the reader understood how React worked internally. So by studying the React source and other resources I was able to come up with a simple version of React that could demonstrate the important performance related parts without needing to get buried in unrelated details. In the book you'll be able to build your own working "React" and gain an understanding of high-performance React programming. I hope you find it useful and I'd love any feedback!

The book is available under CC-BY and can also be read online for free.

[0] https://code.thomashintz.org/foundations-high-performance-re...
So, whenever you see someone debunking on Twitter, be sure to reply to that with a link to this study. :)
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. If I paid $8/month to every author that I like enough to buy most of their books, that'd easily end up at $500+/month, and maybe $1,000/month. Compare that to buying all their books (even in hardcover), which is around $1,000 per year.

Plus I have no interest in reading things a chapter at a time. I read one book or series from start to finish at a time. I don't like jumping back and forth between many different novels.
But why would you do that from you home IP and not rent a server somewhere?
Look at Chinese Android phones: They get away with slapping an unresponsive and confusing shell onto their phones and still sell millions.

I wouldn't be surprised if this will happen for Laptops soon as well, with custom in-house DEs. Imagine that Chinese OEMs will be happy to get rid of Windows.
I don't think i'm leaving anything out. It was my account (which now has had password changes and MFA set up), but I don't understand how there weren't red flags on the Austrian IP address login and the sudden spike in usage. I realize (now) that CloudWatch exists, but not sure why this isn't standard.

I was at fault for the double post of the support case, but that was a simple error on my part due to not thinking the first went through.

Once access was made, we were completely unaware of their existence until I saw the charges and asked our devs about it. They said they didn't have any knowledge or access to these new instances.

I appreciate the advice, will upgrade the support and try again.
I work with people who seemed to have watched Silicon Valley's Hooli and thought "wow what a great company, I want to work at a place like that!"
Time is an excellent filter of quality.

Back when I was a kid my mom had a box of 7" vinyl records she gave me. For every Elton John or Hendrix she had, there were dozens of absolute garbage records. People often make the claim that music was better back then. No, it has just been filtered for you.

For books I tend to do the same as you. I have a finite amount of time on this planet and so little time to read in the first place. I usually reach for something older than 20 years.
Is this a problem with processors, or with Chrome?

Even on Intel MacBooks, battery life while using Safari is far better than while using Chrome.
Instagram apologises for ‘technical issue’ that removed Sheikh Jarrah posts
> multi cultural inclusive visual banality

> It lets companies look diverse

> Not sure what skin color to use? Make them blue

Seeing cartoon SVGs of brown people really hits a nerve for some people. IMO if you walk around the Bay Area the racial distribution is more or less the same as these graphics, so there's really nothing to complain about in that regard. Go buy Russian software if you don't like it.
>As long as I have to DuckDuck to find the button for creating a new folder in Nautilus

Lol. Hyperbole or brain damage?
> Our information diet is only as useful as is relevant in future

I think there are situations where ephemerous knowledge is useful. For example, knowing about a security vulnerability: its profitability is much higher before the issue gets fixed, which can happen anytime (be it two hours or two years).

Another example: imagine you know insert-influential-billonaire is going to tweet about insert-trendy-currency, this information is completely irrelevant for the future, but you can certainly use it to make money.

It's worth mentioning these two examples, however, can provide longer-lasting knowledge as a by-product too.
Reading 100Gb from disk costs $0.50? this is absolutely incredible to me, how has this become acceptable to the industry?
I agree. Why compare game developers to FAANG at all? When deciding if it’s worth it, the main thing I want to know is how it stacks up to an average software job.
You’re probably one of about 100 people in the world who set their device time to UTC. I don’t think it’s reasonable for any designer to cater for this use case.
No, because second hand markets influence the first hand price.
Isn't "the mRNA technology" decades old at this point? Yes, this might be the first wide spread human deployment, but they've been researching the technique in animals for over thirty years.

What's the bar for when a technology is no longer "new"?
yugabyte is multi-raft i believe
I've had 3 jobs since college. First one I unintentionally negotiated the internship although did not negotiate the later full time conversion. 2nd/3rd jobs both were negotiated. 2nd job was around 20% increase while 3rd job was 17ish percent. I only had offers from 3 places for the 2nd/3rd job. So 2/3 were successful negotiations. The 17ish percent was also an easy negotiation as I basically just said the current offer number wasn't enough to make me leave my current role and the recruiter immediately jumped to that so they had a 2nd offer ready as a backup. The last company I couldn't get them to budge at all although to there credit they were near the top end of the pay band data I found in levels for the role. The companies were 1 small startup (first one) and then 3 big N type companies. I think startups tend to be negotiation friendly and have poorly defined pay bands anyway. big N is sorta used to them for candidates negotiating with multiple offers (or vs there current role).
Take the social dynamics and mechanisms which have caused class clowns to seek attention from groups since time immemorial, and gamify it with a feedback mechanism which will dole out little hits of dopamine periodically for the rest of the day/week whenever you check the device and the number has gone up

There's nothing profound about addiction but it's no less real and momentous in the life of afflicted for that
Samsung's custom cores haven't been competitive with Qualcomm so far, much less Apple.

You only have to look at comparisons between the Surface Pro X and the M1 Macbook Air to see how far behind Qualcomm is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhESSZIXvCA
Crefl: Runtime library and compiler plug-in to support reflection in C