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SpaceX ships Starship’s 200th upgraded Raptor enginehttps://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starship-200th-upgraded-raptor-engine/A day after revealing the completion of the 200th Falcon upper stage and Merlin Vacuum engine, SpaceX has announced that it also...Nov 6, 2022 2:09 AM
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NASA Leaders to Participate in Annual Global Climate Conferencehttp://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-leaders-to-participate-in-annual-global-climate-conferenceNASA will participate in the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, which begins Sunday, Nov. 6, and runs through Friday, Nov. 18. The COP27 summit brings together countries from around the world to increase ambition by implementing existing goals and strengthening commitments to solutions thNov 4, 2022 7:19 PM
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I am a quite good bad programmerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33450102I find somethings actually strange. Per se, checking my quality as a developer with job interview questions I will receive a not so high grade. I would say between 5 to 7 out of 10. Not brilliant. But as a developer I think I am actually really good.I never "studied" computer science in a regular way, but I am in the industry more than 20 years. I started as a hacker, reverse engineering, assembly code, moved to C and C++ and now web development in Node.JS, Go (golang) and Rust and Vanilla JS. Touched of course Python and Arduino and Raspberry PI.I find it that my code and overall look as much better (if I can be a bit non modest for a second) than other developers even seniors.- My code is highly readable with good comments and other can take over my code responsibility quite easily- My code runs (and also complies) faster than other - I understands the usage of Hash / Map instead of searching arrays and many other small things that actually enhance the code performance- I know how toNov 3, 2022 12:40 PM
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Netflix’s ad-supported plan is finally herehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cdbe16f2444ec9c070244918f4723&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2022%2F11%2F03%2Fnetflixs-ad-supported-plan-is-finally-here%2F&c=15499596662893801347&mkt=en-usToday’s a big day for Netflix as it’s now launching its new ad-supported plan, “Basic with Ads,” to subscribers in the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Australia, Japan, Korea and Brazil. The ...Nov 3, 2022 9:00 AM
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Changing URLs for SEO reasons: When is it OK?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d1370e5a94de2af0582f0427e2eb1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsearchengineland.com%2Fchange-url-seo-389209&c=5813162236104295425&mkt=en-usPersonally, I change outdated, harmful or lengthy web addresses (a.k.a., URLs) when updating existing content quite often. Why? Let me explain. What did Google’s John Mueller say about changing URLs ...Nov 2, 2022 11:00 PM
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Ex-deputy Zach Wester drug-planting victims to share in nearly $1 million settlementhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8ceb716ed14d6b9022463212d6b0fc&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fex-deputy-zach-wester-drug-100021108.html&c=4181254768905996610&mkt=en-usAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The victims of Zach Wester, the ex-North Florida deputy convicted of planting drugs on innocent drivers, will share in a nearly $1 ...Nov 2, 2022 3:00 AM
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Launch HN: SimpleHash (YC W22) – API to query digital assetshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33423759Hi HN! We’re Alex Kilkka and Olly Wilson, co-founders of SimpleHash (https://www.simplehash.com). We allow developers to fetch comprehensive NFT / digital asset data from many blockchains at once.Using our API, developers don’t have to worry about how different chains like Ethereum, Solana, and Flow implement digital assets under the hood. We collect, standardize, and cache all this information for you, so you can retrieve it in a single request.There has been a lot of controversy and hype around NFTs, but we’re focused on solving the technical challenges that our customers (software developers working with digital assets) deal with on a day-to-day basis. We don’t hold, transfer, mint or issue any form of crypto or digital asset ourselves–instead we aim to be the most comprehensive data provider for people who need to programmatically access this kind of information and media.Working with digital asset data is harder than other kinds of blockchain data. For a given item, you typically Nov 1, 2022 4:49 PM
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Ask HN: How would you design an alternative Twitterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33419574So much talk about Twitter alternatives in recent days, including people migrating to Mastodon and even Jack Dorsey announcing his new decentralized social media platform.I was thinking, if I was to build a new micro-blogging aka Twitter alternative, what technological choices would I make to get it quickly off the ground but allow for scale?What database technology or approach would you go for?Would you build a (mobile first) web application first or would you start straight away with a native iOS/Android app (maybe Flutter)?Would you go for a centralised or decentralized approach? If the latter, how would you decentralize it without sacrificing the "public town square" effect that Twitter currently has but is clearly lacking with the fragmentation of Mastodon?To answer my own question, I would probably build a centralized platform like Twitter is now, probably opt for a fast NoSQL database like Google's Firestore in Datastore mode and to keep things simple I would probably even make Nov 1, 2022 11:09 AM
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Ask HN: How can responsible engineers shape the future of Twitter?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33407396(my first Ask HN attempt failed because I had included a URL, which, I shouldn't have)These general thoughts came to me as part of a small thread on the Logseq community [1] but a variety of follow-up thoughts came to me, which I thought would share with one of the communities that I connect the most with (I might be wrong but that's how we learn).I began to ask myself what does a civilised and modern world look like, with this transactions occurring in it. To see, mainly how we can adapt to this new world of Elon leading Twitter with its high potential and many risks as well.A number of things change, now that Elon is running Twitter. First off, that's horrible news for many. I hope Twitter HR (who should be under a lot of pressure right now) are doing a good job, handling the logistics there.In terms of Twitter product management teams though, I think they can get inspired by serious conversations in the community as to what features they will now put forward and to what degree, willOct 31, 2022 3:41 PM
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14 Black Woman Make History Climbing To The Top Of Mt. Kilimanjarohttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMic0FVX3lxTE01bWNuc3ZiZ1ljc1Q4RjVIdVFlTlJsUFhSZkt5V25tVEhGS21XTGdqbmppVkpMbFQyNjU0eHp2V205eWZ1MVNGeUR4c083MVJQM3VVWGpYblhaUjJuX1dSZVRqM05MR2lMQ1R3RExDelZMN2M?oc=514 Black Woman Make History Climbing To The Top Of Mt. Kilimanjaro MadameNoireOct 30, 2022 7:00 AM
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When Light Tells a Building’s Story: What is Architectural Lighting?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cbd7723c544be8f176bf3a05d8e68&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.archdaily.com%2F990976%2Fwhen-light-tells-a-buildings-story-what-is-architectural-lighting&c=8192222536666870862&mkt=en-usLighting plays a crucial role in architecture: to allow users to see, safely inhabit spaces, and carry out their daily activities. But its power has long exceeded these basic functions, primarily ...Oct 27, 2022 6:30 PM
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Launch HN: Paigo (YC S22) – Measure and bill SaaS customers based on usagehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33333584Hey HN! Daniel here, I’m a software engineer and hobbyist hacker. I’m joined by my cofounder Matt. We’re building Paigo (https://paigo.tech). We make it easy for SaaS businesses to bill customers based on usage.To get your hands dirty a bit we have a stateless and signupless demo you can try out: https://hn.paigo.tech/ and a video of me walking through the system in a bit more detail: https://youtu.be/T6J1Yh8GhdU.The idea of our platform is fairly straightforward: You give us read-only access to your SaaS backend and based on tenant metadata for your infrastructure, we measure, persist, and aggregate SaaS tenant usage data to give a clear picture of per-client usage. We can measure metrics like API requests, Compute time, Data Storage, Transaction Volumes and many more. Some common scenarios would be: an ML platform could use Paigo to track processed input files for customers, a Data platform could use Paigo to determine the data size customers have consumed, and an API company can useOct 25, 2022 5:27 PM
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Ask HN: Do you see there being a future job role for generating AI prompts?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33330050I wonder sometimes if the tastemakers of the future will be prompt-engineers.Let's use Netflix as an example: my assumption is right now the majority non-personnel costs for netflix are licensing, production, and network-related costs. In the future, I could see them using the same infrastructure to generate bespoke series and movies for user's prompts. In the ToS it will specify the product of those prompts belongs to Netflix, and the users will trade and show off their prompts with friends on Netflix's social interface. This eliminates a lot of the cost in focus grouping, casting, actors, editors, production, licensing, royalties if any.In the new AI netflix, new tastemakers emerge, people who are known for having the best prompts, and with 0 cost of licensing or production Netflix has a never ending stream of -exactly- what the users want. Knowledge of what the user wants to see is a big part of what Netflix is concerned about in this current day.So, with this example in mind, I go Oct 25, 2022 1:16 PM
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Student Groups Host Event with Palestinian Activist Mohammed El-Kurd, Drawing Protest from Pro-Israel Studentshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d37e1d03548cba6f5fcb8811ff3f7&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecrimson.com%2Farticle%2F2022%2F10%2F25%2Fpsc-speaker-protest%2F&c=9530099387909957727&mkt=en-usHarvard student organizations hosted a Monday discussion on divestment and youth activism with Black Lives Matter organizer Marcus McDonald and Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd — who drew protest ...Oct 24, 2022 5:00 PM
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Another batch of Starlink satellites launch from Cape Canaveralhttps://spaceflightnow.com/2022/10/20/falcon-9-starlink-4-36-live-coverage/Fifty-four Starlink internet satellites fastened to a Falcon 9 rocket blasted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral, continuing SpaceX’s deployments for a broadband network reaching into an ever-expanding market linking rural households, ships, commercial airplanes, and Ukrainian military forces in their fight against Russia.Oct 20, 2022 4:13 PM
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Verified Account from on Bahariterra vs Havkhizara – Qasuriyyah Warhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33275688It was August of year 2022 and we were fighting against Havkhizara in Bahariterra’s PecanVista Mountain range. Havkhizara is a racist, white supremacist and hate group based mainly in the United States and Canada. Havkhizara launches attacks on people in the Islamic Republic of the Bahariterra Islands as well as in mainland North America where they attack Bahariterran Americans in Ohio and Virginia where the bulk of Bahariterran immigrant communities in the USA are living. Havkhizara had been launching deadly terrorist attacks against Muslims from Bahariterra wherever they lived an many Americans volunteered to help the Bahariterran Government fight them. So, in the Bahariterran military, in early August of 2022, I fought Havkhizara in the Bahariterra Islands where they had killed my little brother. I was angry and I wanted revenge. I fought mainly in the coastal plains where all the big cities were but on this particular August day, it was unusually cold, and while that still means itOct 20, 2022 2:55 PM
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Tell HN: iSQi sharing your personal details with 3rd party, assumed opt-inhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33272862Sometime ago I passed an exam by iSQI on Testing, mainly because many employers require it.Some days ago, I got an idiotic email from them, saying they were going to "upgrade" me to a "blockchain certificate" that would be "tamper proof" (Im not kidding, these were their actual words).The catch: They would automatically create an account for me on something called SkillShare, and if I wanted to opt out, I would have to contact them.So they automatically "enrolled" me into some stupid "blockchain" scheme, and want me to contact them to opt out. Want to bet the opt out link itself contains tracking/spyware links and wouldnt even open on my Iphone?Some choice cuts from their email:" Your digital badge will be block-chain secured ensuring that your certification status can only be used by you, including for employer verification that your certification is valid. During these times of digital insecurity, a forgery-proof digital badge provides the greatest protection and modern form of your Oct 20, 2022 10:54 AM
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Starlink taking preorders for high-speed private jet broadband servicehttps://spacenews.com/starlink-taking-preorders-for-high-speed-private-jet-broadband-service/SpaceX started accepting preorders Tuesday from high-flying private jet owners willing to pay a hefty price to receive high-speed Starlink services in the air.Oct 19, 2022 9:57 PM
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Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote working rainbow?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33259351Saying the following feels like heresy and whenever I say it, fellow software engineers look at me as if I just asked them if there are GOTOs in Javascript.I used to love going to the office. Discussing our team's latest Python problems over a coffee. Looking over at their screen and then asking them why they look like they want to beat someone over the head with their keyboard repeatedly. Guessing people's emotions in a heated Retro from their body language. Grabbing dinner with a few colleagues after a long workshop meeting in the evening and then realizing that, aside from all the differences we might have about static typing in programming languages, we all like the same exotic progressive metal bands.Many of these things that made my job much more than slaving at a digital conveyor belt seem to be gone these days. And the worst thing for me is that I feel few people relate. On the contrary, many are screaming in outrage if asked to come to the office even for a single day a week aOct 19, 2022 8:50 AM
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The Sims 5 is in early development, has cool new build modehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d111d784146b3a91246c82c370308&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.polygon.com%2F23404750%2Fsims-5-project-rene-announcement%2F&c=16101679808730728631&mkt=en-usAfter eight years of The Sims 4 and its expansions, fans have started to wonder what’s next for the classic life simulator franchise. On Tuesday, The Sims developer Maxis unveiled a very early look at ...Oct 17, 2022 10:29 PM
