MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DidYaWipe | 2025-04-23 04:10:23+00:00
I really wanted to like Supabase, and decided to adopt it as the back end for a mobile app I'm building. So... I was invested to some extent.

But I had to abandon it after wasting weeks trying to do simple things. The biggest problem is the lack of documentation. Fundamental parts of the system are undocumented, like the User table. There's no doc on how the columns function, so I couldn't determine why a user is marked as "confirmed" (presumably through E-mail or other validation) immediately upon insertion to the table.

There's also no full documentation of client-library syntax. For example the Swift library: There are a few examples of queries, but no full documentation on how to do joins (for example).

And just try to use your own certificates; something that I've been doing for years during iPhone-app development was impossible with Supabase.

And why? Because these simple scenarios appear to be distant outliers for Supabase. It's as if nobody has ever brought them up before; and even if they have, nobody has been able to answer the first questions about them.

If you're not building a single-page Web app that just lets people browse a database, Supabase doesn't seem to envision your application.

So I went back to a plain Deno back-end, which is what I was building before trying Supabase. In the amount of time I wasted trying to scrounge up documentation and fruitlessly asking questions in forums and Discord, I was able to learn and implement authorization, and then get back to work building a product.

Maybe all this money will let the Supabase team hire some people to document their product.
by protocolture | 2025-04-23 04:12:00+00:00
>With the end of the Ice Age and its consequences, plenty of civilizations may have disappeared in deep waters.

Yeah possibly.

But the current "fan favourite" capital of Atlantis is well above water.

IIRC there were stone age artefacts recovered from Doggerland. Which, also IIRC, was likely caused by a big ice shelf impacting the ocean at the end of the ice age. But to imply that a technological superpower with massive amounts of land disappeared without a trace is kind of bs.
by elktown | 2025-04-23 04:12:06+00:00
Welcome to the travelling SRE Circus! We travel to the smallest of villages! Our attractions are plenty, our maintainers are few, so please sign the waiver presented to you!

/ Greetings disillusioned dev once excited by the potential simplifications the “cloud” could bring, but all I got was a Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas level binge in bloat and this T-shirt.
by FloorEgg | 2025-04-23 04:13:17+00:00
So I read up on what you are saying and some of Hancock's past work, and I see how the theory could be seen as diminishing the accomplishments of indigenous cultures or denying their own capacity for innovation.

Prior to today, I hadn't read any of Graham Hancock's work and have no attachment to him or his theory.

I was under the impression that the younger dryas impact hypothesis was accepted by Geology (I actually learned from this thread that it's not). If one is to assume that the younger dryas was caused by cataclysmic meteorite impacts, then the idea that an ancient civilization was wiped out in said cataclysm seems plausible and triggered my curiosity.

Given that the impact hypothesis hasn't reached the burden of proof, then I am not sure what to make of it.

That said, I don't appreciate any implication that just because someone is interested in evidence of undiscovered pre younger dryas civilizations they are racist. Not speaking of Hancock specifically, but I would appreciate being able to have a conversation about the evidence without feeling like someone is implying I am racist because I am interested in it. (Keep in mind I wasn't the one who brought up Hancock)
by andsoitis | 2025-04-23 04:13:27+00:00
Shiny. Unsolicited advice. visionOS is a distraction for the Godot team (whether or not you believe visionOS is a dead end or not). I would recommend focusing on high impact domains while Godot competitors like Unreal and Unity diffuse their attention.

If you officially support visionOS, it now requires all product and engineering innovation to take it into account, slowing down velocity for very little gain, if any.
by Agentlien | 2025-04-23 04:14:56+00:00
I find it interesting that fluid dynamics models struggle more than weather. Intuitively, my view of weather is that it looks a lot like fluid dynamics and seems quite chaotic. Is this wrong or is it just the vast amount of recorded weather data which helps?

edit: I realised just after posting that you only mentioned climate models. It was another poster who said there were successes using ML for meteorology.
by franciscop | 2025-04-23 04:15:31+00:00
- Oh sorry, my friend bought it 2nd or 3rd hand after another individual had an accident and I understood they were not in Japan (some repair parts were 3rd party), but I searched and it seems you are right! I'll correct it.

- We tried a few times to recover the account but had some trouble with CS and the particular account, so ended up giving on that. It didn't help that he visits the country from time to time and we'd need to migrate the account each time.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-04-23 04:17:22+00:00
I am not a native speaker, but the two words do not sound even remotely the same.

How does this mistake happen so often? Can you explain people's thought process a bit? Is it just: "Something something 'seg...' ... ah I know, I will simply use another random word that starts with the same 3 letters and doesn't make sense in this phrase!"?

Also this is the first time I see it.
by clacker-o-matic | 2025-04-23 04:18:28+00:00
Hackclub just launched shipwrecked which is a hackathon that will take place on an island in the Boston bay from august 8-11.

There are 130 spots at this hackathon and in order to get one you need to work on 4 projects over the summer and try to get at least one of them to go viral (top of hn being on of of the ways) as well as work on those projects for at least 60 hours.

Hackclub has done a bunch of other incredible hackathons in years past like [trail](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufMUJ9D1fi8) (30 teens hike the pacific crest trail with hardware they made themselves), [boreal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiG3fYq3xUU) train hackathon across Canada (sadly cut short because of wild fires in Jasper so they didn't get to traverse the whole length just the first half), and the latest one [Juice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiDWvGPl0z0) where 100 teenagers worked on their games for 100 hours each and then opened a gaming cafe in Shanghai!

If you are a teenager (or middleschooler) or know one then have them signup (or signup yourself) at https://shipwrecked.hackclub.com and then join the slack community (best bit of hc ^-^) at https://hackclub.com/slack
by bcoates | 2025-04-23 04:19:01+00:00
There's something I'm fundamentally missing here--if the standard basis and the Berenstain basis describe exactly the same set of polynomials of degree n, then surely the polynomial of degree n that minimizes the mean square error is singular (and independent of the basis--the error is the samples vs the approximation, the coefficients/basis are not involved) so both the standard basis and Berenstain basis solution are the same (pathological, overfitted, oscillating) curve?

Like I understand how the standard basis is pathological because the higher degree powers diverge like mad so given "reasonable" components the Berenstain basis is more likely to give "reasonable" curves but if you're already maximizing I don't understand how you arrive at a different curve.

What am I missing?
by eesmith | 2025-04-23 04:19:08+00:00
What number are you using for advertising revenue?

If "Investment bank Evercore ISI estimates Apple will have a $30 billion ad business by 2026" is correct, then $30 billion/$391 Billion is over 7%.

If we go by the 2022 publication number (so likely from 2021) of $4 billion then yes, that's about 1%.

I can't find concrete numbers. https://www.emarketer.com/chart/260183/apple-ad-revenues-wor... has 10 billion in ad revenue for 2024, which would put it at 3% last year.

https://www.investors.com/news/technology/apple-stock-advert... says "he sees Apple's global ad revenue hitting $19 billion by 2026" which would be 5%.
by beeflet | 2025-04-23 04:21:26+00:00
Yeah but in android or something this would be just another "quick settings tile" like the "flashlight" or "night light" or "battery saving mode". You could call it "overcharge mode" or "extra battery mode", and like the "night light" mode it would get disabled once you reach a full charge, so you don't have to dig into settings to turn it off again.
by DidYaWipe | 2025-04-23 04:22:17+00:00
Totally agree. I read all kinds of articles and posts and asked for opinions and explanations, to see if I should use Supabase to build a back end for a mobile app.

In the end I jumped into it wholeheartedly, mainly because I wanted a canned solution for authorization and user-confirmation. But soon I came up against obstacles I had easily overcome with plain Deno already, but were seemingly insurmountable with Supabase.

When one basic use-case after another turned out to be almost wholly undocumented and unexplored by the Supabase docs and community, I concluded that Supabase is really only suited for people building Web back-ends that let people browse a database.

As an application back-end, its marquee features don't add value or are basically irrelevant... as far as I can see. The rest of it is incomplete and/or undocumented, with client libraries being an example.
by ab5tract | 2025-04-23 04:26:01+00:00
Even in the face of the new evidence of structures miles below the pyramids, we have to have this debate?

Or the chamber that was “theorized” by crackpots, included into Assassins Creed based on said “crackpots”, and then revealed to actually exist by sonography?

I think it’s far more sycophantic to insist that the ancient Egyptians were “primitive” rather than “advanced” when it was built, but hey, I’m against the grain and thus a crackpot.
by lucb1e | 2025-04-23 04:28:18+00:00
Depends what you call tiny. I've only found one "tiny" phone (that is, a normal smartphone size ten years ago) with a modern chipset (so I don't need to replace it in <=3 years) and that's the Jelly Max... but it's only purchasable directly from China and their warranty page is broken so I don't want to throw my coins into a slot machine. Can't find even a single other model, no matter the price. Xperia 5 V comes close but is only available second hand; Xperia 10 VI has a pretty slow SoC. Everything else is a size that people amusedly called "phablet", or was literally a tablet

Phones are definitely usable as desktops nowadays, especially if you stick it in a cardboard and can actually see (make use of) most of the pixels on the screen. People just haven't gotten used to it yet. They're not slow either, and for some workloads apparently very fast: I recently also noticed my phone is faster at certain ffmpeg codecs than my laptop!
by DidYaWipe | 2025-04-23 04:28:22+00:00
"Business logic gets pushed into your front end because where else do you run it unless you make an API wrapper."

Exactly. This is one of the things I never understood about Supabase's messaging: The highly-touted, auto-generated "RESTful API" to your database seems pointless. Why would I hard-code query logic into my client application? If my DB structure changes, I have to force new app versions on every platform because I didn't insulate back-end changes with an API.

Why would anyone do this?
by intended | 2025-04-23 04:28:36+00:00
I believe you would be right. The structural case is made in Network Propaganda. One of the authors has another paper/article (1) that summarizes this and supports your point. I don’t see any sustainable future for America, or any other nation, unless this market is rebuilt.

To argue the case - while there is definitely an aspect of choice, opt-in matters less if your options are limited.

1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
by thot_experiment | 2025-04-23 04:30:44+00:00
Airgapped. It really makes threat modelling so so soooo much easier. It's temporal so if I were being attacked by a state level actor exfiltration is possible but this specific application I either have the data live and no internet, or internet and no data. I also have some lesser stuff that I allow on-prem w/ internet and just trust the firewall, but absolutely no way am I doing any sensitive data storage or inference in the cloud.

Since people will be curious, one lesser thing I used this for is a diary/assistant and it's nice to have the peace of mind that I can dump my inner most thoughts without any concern for oversharing.
by anscg | 2025-04-23 04:31:17+00:00
hackclub hackathons are absolutely worth it, they were life-changing and transformative experiences, not just coding competitions. the goal isn't winning prizes but creating meaningful memories and building awesome projects that last forever

if you're a teenager (middle or highschooler), don't overthink, just apply!!

see you in #shipwrecked (join the slack)
by lubujackson | 2025-04-23 04:31:54+00:00
Strongly disagree. Translation is like taking a 3D object and trying to convey it in 2D. You can be overly descriptive and accurate but lose all sense of flow. You can try to capture the flow of things but then lose the precision of meaning. Or you can approximate both to make the translation as strong as possible on both front, then get slammed from both sides.

Sometimes translators can highlight a less considered aspect of the work, like when you hear a great cover song that makes you appreciate the original that much more.

I understand the ideal of the perfectly translated thing, by definitionally it can't exist. I suggest going to a library and read the first page of 5+ translations (let's say, Don Quixote) and you will have a pretty clear sense of what the original text must have conveyed as well as several conflicting voices, some of which you will hate and others you may even appreciate. But you can never hear the original through a translation so it might as well be one that is interesting in its own right.
by _blk | 2025-04-23 04:33:07+00:00
Hehe, Google used to be cool when I studied but now it's just advertising and zero customer contact. But sure, business (or maybe big corp) fits now where it used to be more of a startup enterprise back in the late 2000. We worked with them on a project in 2018 and given the hard hiring processes they at least used to have, I was surprised to find that even inexperienced interns did better than what we got back. I'm sure it was a one-off case but the after-taste is still bitter. On the Grok side, I think of Tesla self driving. They've been doing AI for a long time. I used to own one and they never got to what they promised (self driving by the end of 2019) but it was really good for my taste. I still think of it as the best car I ever owned even though I went back to a gas guzzler when moving to the US. But hey, only 13mpg and it still uses less electricity than a Tesla;)
by davidelettieri | 2025-04-23 04:34:39+00:00
Our team used polyglot notebooks https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotne...

Using C# as main language this allowed us to have runbooks using code shared as nuget package and so being able to interact with our own APIs and applications as any other code that runs in production.

Not the best experience to review but it worked for us.
by FloorEgg | 2025-04-23 04:34:52+00:00
Okay, I get it. You really don't like Hancock and you think he's racist.

I was trying to have a dialog about the actual evidence of the theory that the Richat structure could have been home to an advanced civilization that was wiped out in a flood ~12-13,000 years ago.

Here is what interests me:

- What evidence supports the theory, what evidence falsifies the theory

- If it's inconclusive, what kind of evidence would we need to find to either prove of falsify, and where would we look for it.

Because you have dragged in Hancock and his "people" (whatever that means) into this, I find it really hard to have a constructive dialog with you about the actual evidence and theory. Do you have any interest in setting aside the big fat red herring?

Here goes my best effort:

"There are tons of people in the field right now developing the science and pursuing the truth."

There are tons of people pursuing archeological excavations of the Richat structure? If not, then what novel theories are the archeology community pursuing?

"Scientific Curiosity should never involve insisting something exists without evidence or any intention of looking for it."

I am not doing that, and you are responding to me. I am asking about a theory and what evidence proves or disproves it. All science starts with observations and theories. My intention was to have a respectful dialog about the topic of the article, hoping I might learn something.
by protocolture | 2025-04-23 04:36:48+00:00
What gets my goat, quite substantially, is that I love bad history/archeology in terms of fiction.

Like Howard and Lovecraft among others, loved this sort of stuff. "What if theres an entire missing age where heroes roamed around doing cool shit" yeah bro what if that shit rules.

They formed a lot of their worldview based on books that were already being discredited in their time. But its still amazing fiction.

The problem largely seems that people cant let it live in fiction.

>then the idea that an ancient civilization was wiped out in said cataclysm seems plausible and triggered my curiosity.

Yeah thats how they get you. It activates the neurons. That said, it would have had to atomise a lot of their society to prevent detection.

>That said, I don't appreciate any implication that just because someone is interested in evidence of undiscovered pre younger dryas civilizations they are racist.

The problem is that, since around the 1950s we have had pretty much perfect knowledge of the planet. Small notes of our understanding can change but we have been almost everywhere and done almost everything. Its really sad but its a fact.

There are really 2 strands of archaeology denial.

1. "I really wish there was more to explore, so I am going to make it up\become heavily invested in a made up history"

2. "I dont think those people could have discovered stacking rocks without help"

1. Can be fine in fiction, but 2. is just gross tbh. And terribly, the people in group 1, are largely basing their understanding on work done by group 2. Its hard to overstate how frequently racist nonsense is bubbling just underneath this.

So while yeah, you might resent the implication by some commenters that you are in some way racist, the fault lies largely with the fact that you are standing, possibly blindfolded, in a big crowd thats like 99% racist by volume. It might be rude to assume, but its also generally a fairly accurate assumption that tends to work without issue.

Something to keep in mind. A lot of YDIH people end up as "Mud Flooders" people whose ur-conspiracy involves the entire planet being covered in 20 meters of mud during the YD. These people then spin off everything in that manner. Flat earth, tartaria, etc etc. Its quite a slippery brain slope.
by skissane | 2025-04-23 04:36:55+00:00
It would definitely attract some people. An old friend of mine (from our Catholic high school), who almost never goes to Mass, told me he’d be willing to venture back if it were in Latin, just for the experience. We started looking into it, we were going to go together, but lost interest in the idea when we realised there weren’t any convenient to attend. I don’t know how common that attitude is, but I’m sure he’s not the only person like that.

And the fact is, if Latin doesn’t attract many ordinary people, will anything else? Catholicism (and Christianity more broadly) is full of grand evangelistic plans to “get people back to church”, the vast majority of which produce very little results. If anything, niche offerings such as Latin masses or Anglican Use or Eastern Catholicism at least have a bit of a ”it’s different” factor to draw people in with.
by iterateoften | 2025-04-23 04:37:26+00:00
I thought this was the St John’s Illuminated Bible a much more comprehensive and awe inspiring work out of the St John’s abbey in Minnesota.

https://saintjohnsbible.org/

Its a beautiful and modern interpretation of how an illuminated work would be done today. Even has Jesus wearing jeans.

Each bible is commissioned and done by hand, so a bit more than a $35 book the link is referring to.
by andsoitis | 2025-04-23 04:38:01+00:00
Apple has more to gain than does Godot. Money and headsets cannot faithfully account for additional complexity and coordination tax. Nevermind potential constraints on other platform expressions of the game engine.

What you want to do is first decide whether it is strategically valuable to be on this platform. If it is important, then you want to make sure there’s ROI in approach. Doing things in reverse, I.e. seeing whether there’s a cost-effective path to support another platform before deciding whether to support is is misguided in my opinion.

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
by 999900000999 | 2025-04-23 04:42:32+00:00
It looks like Apple put their own people on this one.

If they want to maintain this, the Godot foundation needs to be extremely clear about that. You're talking about an extremely niche platform that will require tons of ongoing maintenance.

I would have hoped Apple also spent time working on the general engine and maybe tackling some bugs. Maybe they did maybe they didn't.
by keyle | 2025-04-23 04:44:21+00:00
It should probably be a plugin of some sort rather than built in the engine. It's a very small use case scenario and the devices are expensive and rare.

Like the comments said there are also concerns about maintaining it in the long term.

Having made games in Godot, I'm quite excited by the prospect of making the games within vision OS and playing them in a virtual 3D space. But Apple has only shown its vision for it and the future prospects are very uncertain due to the economic climate and affordability.
by GregDavidson | 2025-04-23 04:45:27+00:00
The biggest difference between now and the 1990s is in the reduction of abject poverty worldwide. Death and disability from food shortage was extremely common in many countries. A huge improvement in the 1990s over the 1980s is that I could own my own computer (I bought a Sun-2 with Solaris) instead of having everything I created owned by the institution which owned the computer I needed. Today's consumer products, though, are a mixed bag. As an example, I wish I could buy a microwave oven as good as my first one. It was larger, had a temperature probe that could be used instead of time and it used a small internal metal wheel to distribute the microwaves evenly throughout the oven instead of wasting space for the silly rotating platter.

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
by doctorpangloss | 2025-04-23 04:46:21+00:00
> The lights don't work without the App.

I've owned a lot of VanMoofs. You absolutely do not need to use the app to interact with the lights, they are automatic. If the bike is misconfigured, it takes about 30 seconds to reset its preferences with a physical button accessible from the exterior, since the SX2.

Your friend may have bought a broken VanMoof.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-04-23 04:47:26+00:00
Actually, in terms of capabilities, org-babel is among the most capable, if it is not the most capable, systems for literate programming. I have used it to great effect when learning from computer programming books. I can now go back to those literate programs, and understand again much faster, than originally when reading the books. The literate part of it answers my "silly" questions, that come from not remembering 100% of the reasoning or my own thoughts. That said, there is of course a learning curve, and people unwilling to learn something like that are better off not going that route.