skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides the pricing, the other painful thing about Firebase are the storage rules. Given I understand you want to give maximum control to frontend developers without having a backend, the fact that I need to reimplement them if I switch serverless is an absolute pain. What are your plan regarding this aspect. Where are we going to implement the business logic?
UMD was a way to do AMD (which died years ago), CommonJS or script tags (also dead for modules).

These days you'd just add the right bit to commonJS to say this is an ES6 module.
That's a good idea, but, since the panel is not about a person, I cannot claim it as a person, but must do it as someone who represents an entity.
However, to do that, I must provide some sort of documentation that the company exists (because, people apparently, cannot make things, only companies can)
I think Buddhism comes close to this.
So are you saying there is no way to get a database dump of firebase, so you have to query both your old and new databases (and deal with all the resulting consistency issues) for a transition period unless your service wants downtime?
Which is why it's a non-sequitur. Any well-adjusted adult with a modicum of common sense can see through such claims. Cults and conspiracies flourished long before FB's existence, as they will after. Removing such content just validates it in their minds — it must be true that's why "the corporations" insist on covering it up!

Most of the west has learnt that we should not penalise drug addicts. We treat the underlying problems that brought about their habitual use. The need to self-medicate disappears.

Like the war on drugs failed, so too shall the war on misinformation. The solution is tending for the human condition that leads one to not only believe, but want to believe, in these fantasies.
Same, except on Mojave. Keeping fingers crossed that 10.16 will continue supporting 2012.
So a multi-chamber diesel. Why should more chambers be more efficient than the single chamber diesel engine? Because per revolution you get double self-ignitions, at the cost of more room and more gas moving around. Hmm, not bad. Bad reminds me on the Wankel. Only better in theory.
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So I guess YouTube should just shut down?
Perhaps that is the point. If we can understand it, it's not intelligence. We're trying to make computers do things we can't understand, and if we do, we've reached our goal.

Until then we have Machine Learning or gradient descent or whatever else.
Yeah, I'm just lying here in my bed waiting to get rich... maybe I will be lucky one day...
Interesting. I haven’t seen a log shipping mobile sync solution in quite some time. Sybase SQL Remote did log shipping for SQL Anywhere over email or messaging. This tech predated WiFi, never mind HTTP/JSON.

There is little information about the client side data store other than the fluent Query Builder API. Is it IndexedDB? How does it handle primary key generation? Can the client sync a subset of the DB or do you expect to have a dedicated cloud PostgreSQL instance for every client?
https://xkcd.com/488/
Hymen: Facts and Conceptions (2012) [pdf]
They do have RSS. Unfortunately it's truncated at /interviews/rss.xml
Press ⌘+R in System Preferences – Software Update (really)
Here are two:

MIT Cheetah: https://biomimetics.mit.edu/

Unitree/laikago: http://www.unitree.cc/
Either you're overestimating how most people consume news media, or i'm underestimating it.

Unless you think the fact that journalists are more often depressed and/or anxious make their reporting more "hysterical". In this case you might be onto something.
It’s a map from a ‘WeakRef’ to a value. So if you have an object reference, you can associate a value with that object. But not the other way round
It's only true if a handful of apps do it, but if everyone starts to do it then you end up with a scenario where RAM isn't enough for every application.

And also from an end user perspective, not everyone has a powerful dev machine.
> if you can add graphql as well

We are strongly considering it, for the reasons you mention. In the meantime though, we do already offer "graph like" fetching: https://supabase.io/docs/library/get#query-foreign-tables (which you can also use over curl).

> how are you doing conflict resolution

Our realtime library listens to the replication functionality of Postgres. Basically its an Elixir server that listens to the logical decoding and converts the byte stream into JSON. You can connect to this via websockets, but we are also building server-side connectors (like sending to a webhook, kafka, log etc). Great for CDC use cases

For the client side conflict resolution - we haven't built conflict resolution into the client libraries yet. It's tough challenge, and we want to make sure we prioritise some of the urgent tasks (auth)
Where is the Safari 13.1.1 changelog? Thanks.
Playing devil's advocate, how are we sure excess deaths are due to covid and not the lockdowns instead? (Suicides, cancelled surgeries, etc.)
Wow, I thought I created this thread in my sleep. This is exactly what we do at Nhost (https://nhost.io) too.

I usually explains Nhost as Google Firebase, but:

- SQL (PostgreSQL)

- GraphQL (Hasura)

- 100% open source

After being both delighted and frustrated about Firebase I decided that something must be done. The developer experience on Firebase is awesome but the tech and the lock-in effect is super bad.

This was the stack I wanted:

- Hosted service

- SQL database

- GraphQL API

- Subscription (real time)

- Authentication fully integrated with users in the database

- Storage also fully integrated with S3 support.

- 100% open source.

And that's exactly what Nhost provides.

Seeing other services like Superbase, 8base, Firebase (maybe we should change name to Nbase) is super cool. I think we all can help developers at all stages to build better apps faster. Very exciting! Good luck all!
Firebase has backups to cloud storage, there is no problem obtaining a dump of your data, but that's only one part of a migration
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Well, he was also the guy that wiped the hole planet just to remove one home directory ;)
I have to admit Ive been tempted by a figaro hobby car for 15 years. Replacement suspension, power steering, rear discs, swapped powertrain, low profile roll bars. Itd make no sense from performance, safety, utility, effort, or cost perspective. But I already own a bunch of 70-90s japanese vehicles... and a fun to drive pretty looking micra would be a blast.
Right now we're free! But we welcome contributions: https://github.com/sponsors/supabase

See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23319978
The paper & final models don't to justice for detailed outputs though, but this is still a great model for datasets with no annotations per se.
What's an fb?
If you use a tool like the Serverless Framework, you can "cobble together the moving parts" and store it into GitHub and make it easily deployable into the cloud. Putting together pieces is what software development is. If you are used to OOP this is even more relevant as the entire idea of OOP is to create discrete pieces of code and compile them together.

PHP for example used to be a "big patchwork" of seperate files working together, but the right tooling came along to think of it as "a unified system". Same thing with Serverless and the Serverless Framework
Did anyone face any issues installing the update? I have been lucky till now as I have never faced issue while updating. But then I read news reports that say people faced issues and macbooks were bricked while updating. So I thought from now on I would wait few days before I update.
Blogging !== note-taking, but you could definitely make the argument that a blog post is semantically a public note.

Apple, Fox, Shell, Target...any of these generic words ring a bell?

I’m sure there was no malicious intent, and it’s very possible that these two products will coexist without any further issue.

But as evidenced in this very thread there is the potential for confusion, which is the whole point of trademarks, and the reason why I’d have an easier time incorporating “Apple Surfboards“ than I would “Apple Keyboards”.
Where are you getting 50+ GB console updates?
> person who buy ads

Fundamental difference:
person who buys adds --> Google gets money
person who uploads videos --> Google gives money

It's pretty clear to me what the antithesis is here.
Sorry to over-simplify, but yes, imho this matters.
Not true, 1 was considered prime
quite recently https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/why-isnt...
Out of Nowhere: Spacetime from causality: causal set theory
Sure. I should have written "rc-servo". But in this context it was not ambiguous and the point stands - anything that uses rc-servos is a dead end. Personally I'm also skeptical of series elastic actuators - it seems like a half-assed solution where the proper solution is to embrace full direct-drive digital control of electrical <-> force conversion.
Still having a (at least one of the multiple different) kernel panic during sleep:

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff801e29169c): Sleep transition timed out after 180 seconds while calling power state change callbacks. Suspected bundle: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily. Thread 0x2754.

Ever since moving to a brand new 16" MBP there isn't a day that passes wihout me being welcomed by the crash report dialog…
thought parse died a while ago with fb?
Will this update unbrick my iMac that 10.15.1 bricked?
Visualize all your NLP metrics to decide which ML algorithms to choose from
Which is why I was only impressed by UNIX until I started digging into Xerox PARC work, and its influences on Apple Lisa/Mac and ETHZ Oberon derived OSes.

The few UNIX variants that I actually still find interesting was the NeWS approach, NeXTSTEP and its descendants.
Video of white woman calling police on black man in Central Park draws outrage
Though this is a troubling outcome, the questions asked seem a little vague for the times. Basically everyone will "feel down" or "feel nervous" given the risk facing them and their loved ones.

I feel nervous every time I go to the grocery store, but it would need to be causing problems in my life to be clinical anxiety.
I think they’re referring to games. A good example? CoD Modern Warfare (the recent one) _always_ seems to have 50GB updates. It is rather annoying, even with fast internet.
I would caution against using any sort of chemicals, try to exhaust all other options first. You don't want the sort of problem where you feel unlike your own self without some substance, not to mention that most of them basically reduce you to a zombie.

Sleepwalking through life isn't my idea of living.
Yep, the use of JS here is a solution in search of a (first world) problem. You have some content you want to share with people, along with a smattering of organization via navigation, categories and tags, some local search and possibly commenting.
It doesn't parallelize just "any" expression though. Only blocking functions, such as those working with IO. Similarly, in JS for example you would use callbacks to avoid blocking. In Yatta you don't have to explicitly worry about callbacks, Promises or alike, because they are hidden into the runtime itself.

If you want to parallelize a computation, you can use function async, providing it a lambda, and then yes, Yatta can parallelize that as well (given that there are no other dependencies on it). But this is an explicit thing in control of the programmer.
Interesting. So Gehlen was not the Nazi super spy he made the CIA believe. East Germans and Russians fooled him as they liked.
I disagree that cloud would be cheaper on average. Unless the burstiness is very, very bursty. And even in that case, you are going to need a lot of special stuff in place in the cloud to handle huge bursts since few cloud service actually scale automatically.
Two zero day flaws in iOS Mail threaten billions of iPhone and iPad
If you can observe GC from content then site behaviour will start to depend on the specifics of one GC implementation. Not only will this be a disaster for cross-browser interop, it will prevent that single engine improving its GC design going forward because doing so will break working sites.

Note that this is somewhat different from a language like Lua where it isn't necessary for all existing script to work with every new iteration of the runtime without any changes.

The fact that implementation details like GC timing have remained behind the veil of abstraction is one of the only reasons that JS engines have managed to evolve from being relatively slow interpreters to highly optimised JIT compilers.
If it’s a rumor why are you repeating it.

Your are spreading false narratives. Stop.
Covid 19 App for social distancing
Ryan Singer of Basecamp about brainstorming and innovating remotely
That's actually the opposite of what Sublime HQ produces. It's heavy, ugly, and pretty slow (it's based on Eclipse, so there's that). It might work but it's not enjoyable.
Where are the models that predict how many people will have long term disabilities due to COVID-19?
Looks great. Gone give a try.
Sometimes it would be nice if you could pay extra to get better customer service. Especially when your income depends on it. In a case like this, I'd much rather pay the $50 to Google to make sure this gets fixed, than to the blackmailer.

Of course that might create another incentive for Google not to provide any customer service at all until people pay.
Got any credible sources that back that up?

My 2015 13" MBP has been charged 221 times in 4.75 years. It has been plugged in for the vast majority of the time, yet still shows 88% total capacity and will still last 8+ hours doing standard web dev stuff.

My iPhone gets discharged every day, but its capacity is down to 78% after just 2.5 years.
A femtobarn, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_(unit)
femtobarn
If you're earning enough to afford a different, paid, hosting provider, yes you should definitely get it.

But YouTube is still a platform you must be on if you care about expanding your viewership.
Show HN: User-friendly database builder for Humanitarian Ops, other markets?
We've been successful in building a user-friendly platform for collecting, managing, and analyzing data, focusing on customers in humanitarian and development operations. It's widely used by the international community in the Syrian crisis, and now for monitoring of the COVID-19.

It's evolved into quite a general tool, and we're exploring whether we can offer the tool to a broader audience or for different use cases.

* Some key features:

* User-friendly (relational) database and form builder

* Use offline on desktop or mobile, sync upon re-connection

* Very granular user permissions - limit access to
specific records based on a formula

* Import spreadsheet data

* Built-in analysis tools

Would be curious to hear what those outside of the humanitarian world think of the tool and whether it would be useful in your line of work.
“Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don’t pay for the software. Someday they will, though,” [Bill] Gates told an audience at the University of Washington. “And as long as they’re going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.”

Charles Piller, "How Piracy Opens Doors for Windows", *Los Angeles Times8, April 9, 2006

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-09-fi-micro...
I am constantly gobsmacked by how slow point release upgrades are. On Ubuntu, it takes virtually no time and doesn’t interrupt my workflow.
I came to hate this word "divisive", it usually used in a way that means "not enough politically left to my liking". Just leave us alone, we are adults, we can deal with whatever content you throw at us.
It's just another button control available in Delphi's UI library so people use it.

A standard button is a TButton: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sydney/en/Vcl.StdCt...

A button with a glyph is a TBitBtn (bit meaning bitmap): http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sydney/en/Vcl.Butto...
Still not really my point. Leibowitz is a good example. Certainly she knows how to use a camera, but she is mostly famous because of her subject matter: celebrities. She took John Lennon’s photo five hours before he was killed.
> Not a bad risk/reward ratio.

Hard to tell since you haven’t defined any particular reward. Keep in mind the risk/reward ratio for a particular investment would be the same regardless of the percentage it made up of the larger portfolio.
does anyone know if using this tool to generate a music video of famous pictures singing a song would violate any copyrights? it seems like a fun exercise.
Details of the story from anonymous "insider": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23306781
Yes, I meant 18th century AD, around 1770.
If you use Mongo, you could easily use just `@ladjs/api` package from the Lad framework https://lad.js.org. Deploying is simple, and you don't have vendor lock-in.

This is a simple example of a `GET /v1/account` API request controller: https://github.com/ladjs/lad.sh/blob/4d0a5b5ff822d07e855bbe1...

If you use SQL, you can submit a PR with `knex` and `bookshelf` option and I would gladly accept it.
Europe eclipses China in electric vehicle investment
> Of course, comedy and ridicule can also be deployed to reaffirm the status quo. But I've always found subversive humor more intellectually engaging

The pattern of 20th-century British comedy has definitely been a three-way cycle between:

- traditional "music hall", often leaning on stereotypes

- intellectual absurdism (Monty Python, Goon Show, Goodies)

- "alternative comedy"/satire: Ben Elton, Spitting Image, and much of the 80s political material
Nbase sounds cool to my ears :) Good luck to you!
No, that is not what they say.

They say that because the number of people that are actually positive is low, the number of false positives may be high when compared to the actual number of positives.

This does not mean it’s wrong 50% of the time, it’s a statistical trick.
Strictly speaking, those are inverse femtobarns, the nonsensical unit for accumulated number of collisions that particle physicists use.
Building Generation Addon for Blender
Some of the CDs I bought to rebuild came with `.mp3` downloads on Amazon. I thought "Oh sure, I'll download these since some of these disks are taking over a week anyway I can listen to these in the meantime."

I went to download an album and was immediately greeted by a popup saying I could only authorize three devices or something and asking which device I was downloading for. Well... I'm downloading from a laptop but I'm going to mostly be listening from a phone, how do I even authorize either device?

Fifteen minutes of reading later I closed the tab and waited for the disks to arrive in the mail, since I can do whatever I damn well please with my ripped .FLAC files.
Deep discharge & Heat are common accelerators of swelling. Avoiding going to <10% battery and running aggressive heat dissipation will always help prolong the life.

My favorite is Macs Fan Control[0] for removing heat. 40' the fan is spinning mid range speed and by 50' it's full 6500 rpm.

It's the least I can do =/

[0]https://crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control
It's not that rc-servos are not sexy. It't that they suck. For a number of specific reasons well listed in other posts here.

RC-servos are very cheap and very easy to use, so there are many projects using them. But there is no way to make a good robot out of them. It's a local maximum.
I'm still on High Sierra... I wonder if there are really good reasons to upgrade to Mojave? (I only know about disadvantages about upgrading to Catalina.)
“The only reason we have an application is because the original developers wrote it in COBOL. Refactoring it to the realities of the world today is blasphemy!”
I am a strong believer that Firebase model is the way forward. Huge fan of Firebase but it is scary to have no proper alternatives. Yes, sure you can have a similar setup with AWS or bespoke implementation but they are not in the same spirit.

Very glad to see people working on alternatives.

IMHO though, what makes Firebase special is the glue they use: Account management and libraries come for free so you can start thinkering on the interesting parts. Firebase is not just Firestore, it is a set of tools that work together seamlessly.

When this is achieved, your own product feels mature as if you are working on implementing a product on top of FB or other established platform and everything "boring" is handled by someone else.

In my mind, Firebase is a very flexible CMS with sane defaults.
> ...and it maintains a local DNS cache, then it'll go further. But without that...

Nextdns has a cache boost option now which sets TTLs to a minimum of 5mins. If the client is complaint (respects the TTLs), then that should help further.
Couldn't find the info on the website, does the JS shown in the samples run in the client's browser?
If so, I'd be coupling my client code to the implementation details of my server side DB. Nope, no thanks. Too many scars to fall for that again.
So just give me priority support when I need it. Let me choose to use the free robot support or pay for a human to answer my call. Be upfront, that the human might not resolve the issue, but at least look at it and give me a non-automated answer to my problem.
Ok, playing systems-engineer here: we'd call those secondary COVID-19 deaths caused by the either de facto or de jure lock-downs.

Why, oh why, are some people so obsessed with lowering the number of COVID-19 related deaths at every possible opportunity? Its weird.
No. For these motors to do their job at these low speeds you need to know where the windings are relative to the magnets so you can apply a controlled force instantaneously.

Btw, this is true for gimbals too, and good gimbals use sensors.
Funny enough, I looked at my local meetups and the biggest one is run by a woman. It's probably a good idea anyway.
I hope they introduce MFA for the web config console
Is this 2010 advice or 2020?
Obviously Wikipedia didn't exist in 1994; I only gave the link for someone who is actually interested in looking it up today. A paper clearly explaining how to compute π(x) (I was just reading it) had come out in 1985: https://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/1985-44-170/S0025-5718-198...