skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately this is the wrong team. I have worked on several Postgres full stack applications over the past few years, and I really wanted Supabase to work, the idea sounded great. The JavaScript SDK, the documentation for getting started, and the user interface are all horrible/half-baked. Instead of speeding up my development, Supabase lead me to waste hours in confusion. It is easier to roll your own auth and setup your own database than use Supabase unfortunately.

For a product whose whole purpose is to enable developers to move faster, the product misses the mark completely. If I were CEO I would shift all resources to fixing the UI and SDK.

I would guess out of all the people who have signed up, less than 1% have actually made a “working” frontend.
My kids get our old phones, without cellular capabilities. That's basically what an iPod touch is anyway.
We're working to add more sources, port cities are a great one to add to the list. We also don't have any hierarchy between sources at this point, but it's something I'd like to add.
But no I can not identify the flavor
I would not assume that 300 developers are all committing 4 times a day. That seems very high.
> Of course you could just copy the code, but then that increases LOC in my codebase that I'm responsible for.

Once your company is owned by a supply chain attack or by an RCE in one of your dependencies, you will learn that you are in-fact very much responsible for the code in your external dependencies.
2 desktop computers shared with my familly when i was a child.
My first PC was an hp. The graphical chip broke. 6 years.
Next, an asus laptop. Still alive but too heavy to be used as a laptot + battery ko
2016, an asus: very thin, 16go of memory. Still alive but sometimes freezing.
A thinkpad, gift from a previous company.
2 cubes / e-pc
2 raspberry.
When I was a kid, I was looking to buy my first gaming device. I was debating between getting a Nintendo DS and the 4th gen iPod, ultimately deciding on the iPod. This ended up being a great choice as I was able to get more games than I would have been able to on the DS and it opened up a world of being able to text my friends (primarily through Words with Friends at the time).

It's a shame it's being discontinued, it was the perfect first device for children.
> 2007 17" MacBook Pro

>I have Mac OS 10.13

How? Apple officially supports macOS High Sierra (10.13) on Mid 2010 or newer MacBook Pros. Even this patcher [0] to install it on older machines only supports 2008 and newer Macs.

[0] http://dosdude1.com/highsierra/
We can stop at 3rd parties. That's reasonable enough.
I wrote about one of my favorite debugging tools since I’ve had to lean on it heavily the last few days
That's a damned shame, the iPod Touch was a great way to give kids a "phone" without giving them a real phone.
I'll admit I have some recency bias here as I just re-read The Big Short about the '08 financial crash but I think you're probably right on the first point, they got a tip or heard around the proverbial finance industry watercooler that a crackdown was coming and decided to exit. I'm 100% certain they've got something else in the works, probably more opaque for regulators and the public with less risk to Goldman and a higher profit margin if history is to be believed.
I don't have a definitive answer, but I'd venture that that's is something that can be addressed by your pitch, how high you are aiming, etc...

Someone who wants to build niche business software vs "the next Facebook" is a good example. The first case has clients outlined, a good estimation of revenue, competition, etc... The second is more abstract but aims higher. Success (albeit highly unlikely) means billions in revenues.
I think Diet Coke is close to perfection while Coke Zero is just bad.
Effective altruism and the current funding situation
I have a similarly spec'ed mini ITX desktop from the same proc generation-- it's an i3 instead of an i5 mobile proc but roughly the same capabilities. I'm sure it sips a bit more power than the laptop but it works fine as a home server.

I'm always a bit surprised by that old machine. It has a slightly above mid-range GPU from that time period and the thing can still play newer games-- at 720p, with low to mid settings without much of an issue. It's certainly not setting any records but for a 10 year old machine... it just tells me that we reached a point some years ago where hardware capabilities were just fine for a wide range oF normal activities, and that unless someone is using a machine for gaming, large data sets, or compiling lots of code then they'd probably ne just fine with a reasonably spec'ed 10 year old system.

Most of the time that I'm called on to deal with a supposedly aging 3-year old computer for a family member that's slowed down a bit it has nothing to do with the hardware getting old. Most of the time it's accumulated crap running on startup combined with having purchased the computer that had the highest # attached to storage (ooh 2TB I'll never use!) instead of a snappy 512GB SSD.
Our daughter first had two generations of iPod Touch. However, one big downside is that the screen is tiny compared with other devices. About a year ago or so, she switched to an old iPhone 6s without a SIM card and it's fine for Facetiming/messaging with her grandparents and photos.
That term gets used way too often and way too loosely. At some level, everything is a Ponzi Scheme. I think "pump and dump" is more accurately descriptive. And you never know: YC suppressing bad press on HN and promoting good press could be considered market manipulation.
My SEO traffic collapsed so I built a SaaS
Same. My first play thru I just allotted a large space into which to extend assembly lines if needed, then I brought their outputs back to a central spine from which I could siphon them off for input into subsequent assembly lines. I think this really helped me "feel" the concept of backpressure.
With severe throttling it might become an energy efficient but slow chip when needed.
> "α-Linolenic acid (ALA), (from Greek linon, meaning flax), is an n−3, or omega-3, essential fatty acid. ALA is found in many seeds and oils, including flaxseed, walnuts, chia, hemp, and many common vegetable oils." (wiki1)

> "Mammals are unable to synthesize the essential omega−3 fatty acid ALA and can only obtain it through diet. However, they can use ALA, when available, to form EPA and DHA, by creating additional double bonds along its carbon chain (desaturation) and extending it (elongation)." (wiki2)

There's a claim that the latter biochemical process (ALA -> EPA, DHA) is negatively impacted as humans age. Is this really true? Who knows, this is the supplement industry we're talking about here. Known for peddling things like shark cartilage as a cure for cancer, etc. (I'm biased: I was a QA lab analyst for a supplement outfit for a while and ended up getting fired over refusing to doctor lead content tests so that bulk imported chinese herbs would pass tests. The company didn't want to hold up production of the hottest latest fad, at the time).
- Cinch - Snap windows

- SizeUp - Quick resize apps

- Itsycal - Minimal taskbar calendar

- Alfred - Quick launcher
> the ideas of separate tools deployed and updated independently are not bogus

No, but the idea that you should do that because you have a big team is bogus. There are good reasons to break some applications up into services, and this is the least compelling one.
Sure, but then you have that background concern about them accidentally dialing 911.
What exactly do you want them to release? You can still use an original iPod from 2001 if you want.
60x4x8x5x48 = $460,800/year full time salary+overhead?

I'm not sure that's right.
Not over the past 10 years...
Ask HN: What are the worst tech companies to work for?
Discussions about the tech job market on HN/CSC often revolve around FAANG and other non-FAANG but desirable companies to look for. I'd like to know about the flip side. What are the worst tech companies to work for? Keep in mind that the meaning of "worst" is relative. For some, a company with a higher pay but a toxic work environment is the worst. For others, it's the contrary (i.e. a company with a sane environment but shitty pay).

Name and shame.
I mean if Steve was around he would remind you all that as far as Apple is concerned the iPhone is the best iPod they ever made.
I wonder if plastic components work for that use case?
> What has helped me is knowing that I am doing all of this for myself, and because it's fun and interesting to _me_.

Thank you for articulating it this way. It's too easy for nihilism to bleed over into hobbies and pastimes.
Cool!

It might be nice if easy-to-use distributions like conda adopt this and give us a 1GB all-in-one-binary to run whatever I want. A large binary is fine as long as it is mmap-ed and doesn't waste memory.
> but they are usualy OK in longer horizon.

This is not true.
Note that the people wanting to go back to the office have one. Often a very nice one, with a gatekeeper. The horde, on the other hand, doesn’t always have a desk to call their own let alone an office, gatekeeper, …

Power trips and lack of empathy sum up (senior) management far too often. The head shed exists to run the company. Other managers exist as conduits or team facilitators. If the grunts don’t grunt contentedly, there’s no company.
I wouldn't worry, if that was the intent, I think it backfired ;-)
For me, the feature that beats all of those combined is simply being able to carry all my music around for free. Now I have to either constantly swap it around and filter it, or pay through the nose to stream it.
So guilty of this....
1st thought "I should just learn this new skill so I can do it myself"
2nd thought "That will take days/weeks... learn enough to hire it out"
3rd thought "I'm glad I went with 2nd thought"
> I don't think PKWARE feels bad because ZSTD is a homage to ZIP.

Is zstd actually an homage to zip?

I'm not saying that it definitely isn't, but the only connection I know of myself is that they both begin with the letter Z, and the letter Z has a long association with data compression that goes back before the zip format / pkzip program.

The LZ77, LZ78[1], and LZW[2] algorithms all predate the zip format. As do two very old, obsolete Unix compression programs: "pack"[3], which is uses a ".z" suffix for compressed files, and "compress"[4], which uses a ".Z" suffix for compressed files.

In those algorithm names, the L and Z stand for Lempel and Ziv, respectively. But interestingly, the Unix "pack" program uses a ".z" suffix even though its algorithm is just Huffman (not one of the Lempel-Ziv family of algorithms), so the letter Z somehow came to signify data compression more generally.

Rough timeline of letter Z in data compression:

1977: LZ77

1978: LZ78

1982 or earlier: Unix "pack" (.z)

1984: LZW

1985: Unix "compress" (.Z)

1989: PKZIP

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ77_and_LZ78

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel-Ziv-Welch

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pack_(compression)

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compress
They fly over my house most days when they are practising (I live about 5 miles from Scampton. where they are currently based). Can you do actual green? I've never seen it, but I suppose so, given it is just dye in the exhaust.

Way back when my Dad was still alive, the whole family used to chant "I'm paying for that!" (via tax), which is what Dad (as a bomber pilot) used to say whenever the little tiny Hawk fighters came over.
There's a lot of people in line before Andrew and his daughters.

After Chuck and Bill comes Bill's three kids, George, Charlotte, and Louis.

Then comes Harry, who isn't so much a "pariah" as "tired of being hounded by the tabloids". There are certainly a lot of people who don't like his wife, but he is a man of duty (having served in the military -- for real, not just putting on a pretty coat), and if called on would serve as monarch.

It's wildly unlikely that it would get that far. If it did, it would only be after such an extraordinary tragedy that it's hard to conceive of how people would react.
This is kind of a rebrand of the 12900K so it didn't cost much to develop. They have P class and H class processors for laptops that you could actually use on your lap.
They don't lie. They mislead.
Organizing around software components is such an idiotic idea.

Good luck changing your design or making end-to-end features when you have teams protecting "their" part of the software.

You've just made sure that any significant change to the system requires coordinating many different teams, making it at least one order more difficult than before, and a lot more bureaucratic.
What is binding the technicians to stay at "just above median salary"? Why wouldn't they be able to negotiate? If they can generate so much profit by employing capital, why can't they go to another financier and start their own companies?

This is not some philosophical puzzle of pirates sharing a treasury. There are tons of other choices for everyone involved, and none of them have to lead to such extreme concentration.
That’s a fair criticism - I like to think a blockchain is akin to a shared computer we all have access to (via programs/contracts) which makes it really convenient to use blockchains in such ways. Besides, the perpetual machine properties of a blockchain allow code to exist independent of an individual creator/entity - exgrasia cannot go the way of club penguin for instance.
I think it depends on the platform. Like Reddit for example, bot accounts are very easy to create (or you just buy used accounts). I wouldn't be surprised if on the most popular subreddits that half of the comments are bot generated.
I’ve been self hosting it for the past couple of months. It is a really nice product. Allows one to get fully fledged app with backend running extremely quickly, just drop a front end in. There’s still some annoyances with it though - Work still needs to be done to enable backend communication over services using SSL - it’s currently unencrypted by default. I was able to get SSL working with some minor changes to sources and configuration but it really should be encrypted by default.

The defaults don’t seem super sane either, by default an anonymous user can read your entire public database schema via OpenAPI (which is turned on by default as well), including any RPC’s. That alongside the fact that Postgres grants RPC execute to public by default means that if someone isn’t paying attention they can easily expose execute permissions to the outside world on functions in their public schema to unauthenticated users, and tell them exactly what functions are exposed!

The current response from Supabase is to ensure the API gateway you use authenticates users first - which isn’t really a solution IMO, for multiple reasons. I ended up spending some time figuring out how to revoke the appropriate database permissions from the anonymous role in Postgres, but it shouldn’t be like that. Anon role should start with nothing and the end user should very explicitly be turning on what unauthenticated users can access.
Ref final note:

Exactly. I have quite a few friends who regularly fly/travel to these scenic ocean/river systems, but will absolve themselves of concern because they're using some 'reef safe' sunscreen when they dip in to the water. Greenhouse gas emissions are always someone else's fault. Industry, diesel trucks, etc etc.

They're also the same folks that attack Airbnb and gentrification at home, but are the first to jump on to the Airbnb moneyed expat lifestyle when traveling.

At this point, it's not even worth the time to debate.
>In fact, I recently paid for my parent's hospital bills and did it happily.

Yes and I recently paid thousands of dollars for my wife's hospital bill, would you like a cookie? That's how it's supposed to work: you voluntarily decide to help your loved ones and the payment is made.

How it isn't supposed to work is that the elderly make a moral judgement that the youth are less deserving of investment than themselves, and involuntarily they extract that money from the youth without their consent. I have no problem with a society where you voluntarily pay your parent's hospital bill, in fact you can do that in most any country already. Congratulations, your goal is already achieved.

>we end up paying for things we don't like regardless of our opinions

In this case you seem to mean we are made to pay for others without our consent.

>I think healthcare should be a priority..

Maybe I think hookers should be a priority; sex is correlated with good health. You wouldn't mind if I took a couple hundred from you for my health would you?
SQLite, has to be one of my favorite databases. It's always improving and the story behind it's creation is really quite something.
"If you want to know what Perfect Dark is, just do a search for it (I used Yahoo and got tons of hits, and the game's not even out yet)"

Feels like getting out of a time-machine :)
Too soon. The iPod would be the perfect companion for an Apple Watch once there is a bit more energy available in the battery of the watch.

Instead of selling the watch as an add-on to the phone, the watch could be the central device and the screen of the iPod could be brought out when the voice assistants come to their rare limits.

There is no need for a phone when better screens are available most of the times (e.g. at the desk, the car or the tv).
This is great news. I have an old iPod touch that i kept because it had no trade-in value. Can't wait for it to be worth something in about a decade or however long it takes for these electronics to become 'vintage'. Also, if anyone wants to pay $$$ for a 2012 Macbook Air..
What about an iPhone without a sim card ? camera will be way better anyway
the dream of transparently/automagically swapping local calls for RPC is decades long now

but you can't. Once you go RPC you hit the CAP theorem and need to deal with the reality of running a distributed system. Erlang is the only mainstream-ish production ready language I know of that attempts to solve this. And it is still very much caveat emptor. This is also where you might also bring up nondeterministic latency characteristics.
For the last 2 years I’ve been using an iPod touch as my “downtime” device. I usually put my iPhone away in a drawer from early evening until I’m ready to start work the next day. I found this impossible to stick to until I got an iPod touch, because in the evenings and mornings I often need to manage things like HomeKit devices or other Apple ecosystem things like Reminders. I don’t have any distracting or time-sucking apps on the iPod touch, and the screen is small and fiddly, so I barely use it except for a few seconds here and there for something practical. The difference in stress levels and mindset has been huge. I can’t recommend highly enough separating your phone usage into ‘social/work/news/comms’ and ‘practical/home/calm’ categories, on different physical devices.

I have tried using the new iOS Focus and Downtime features to make my iPhone work a similar way (hide all the time-sucking apps at certain times of day etc), but having a dedicated device for the purpose is much simpler and much more effective.
Surface of revolution is 'okay', 'solid' would mean its interior is completely filled. What you're describing is an active area of research in numerical analysis (adjacent to my own MS thesis topic, buckling of shells).

> That allows you to model varying wall thickness

That's mentioned in the first chapter of this book [0].

[0] The Finite Element Analysis of Shells – Fundamentals, Chapelle & Bathe

EDIT: I'm aware it is not a surface, but the notion is closer than that of a solid of revolution.
I'd pay to be in your situation - at least you have the hardware and it's still perfectly usable.
It's essentially an iPhone 7 without a SIM. Just buy one of those. I'm assuming it would cost less than a new iPod touch and it prevents old iPhones from becoming e-waste.
That's used for Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood, so the restriction to genuine devices has some rationale behind it. It's not quite about checking an identity for login purposes, so much as checking that an actual human being is operating the device, via e.g. biometrics or physically poking in a PIN. (As a CAPTCHA replacement.) The precise key you use ought not to matter for that purpose, it could even be "enrolled" on the spot.
most new businesses in the US are still bootstrapped, usually through a combination of family (non-)wealth, non-professional investment, (small) bank loans, supplier credit, and plain ol' hard labor. most of those will be small businesses, but many will grow to mid-sized businesses. most will not be software businesses.

software doesn't have an investment problem. in fact, it's a maturing industry where all the big money that investors can squeeze out has mostly been squeezed out. that's where the lack of interest in the sector lies, not some missing middle investment. investors are looking for bigger opportunities because the risks have risen, but there's such a glut of money looking for return that we have risky sideshows like crypto/nft's seeing billions pouring into it irrationally just because it could be big.

what is actually happening in relation to the middle is the hollowing out of the real middle class, where family wealth and non-professional investment is going to zero and becoming untenable for starting a new business, and economic rents overwhelm even those where it's available. the problem is that we're becoming feudal, and fewer people managing bigger pots of money is less efficient and less dynamic.
I'm with you. Some of those are really inspired, but Zapp is not Java. If anything, Hermes is Java - HUGE fan of bureaucracy and design by committee.

Zapp is HTML. Not a real programming language. Bloated. And somehow you keep finding it everywhere, even in places you really don't want to see him.
Youtube's recommendation system was at its best when it relied on the tag-based system.
I'm familiar with the industrial advantages...I'd had assumed that intellectual/engineering man hours would be easier to come by, but perhaps that was also limited in scale as well...or maybe it's a cultural thing that needs to get developed in a hypothetical Japanese equivalent of MIT/Harvard business school that did not yet exist...
I much prefer Deno's approach of using arbitrary ES modules hosted on the internet for composition, and was hoping CF Workers would move towards the same.

But here it looks like they're straying further from this approach in favor of another proprietary solution.
When I was a child cod liver was a staple. My mom would spread it on a piece of bread. It's creamy and oily enough to not need any butter. Even as a fairly picky child, I always found it delicious and could go through countless of these sandwiches each day if she'd let me. So if someone is interested in trying liver for vitamin A, this might be a good one to try taste-wise.

The only caveat is, when looking into it a few years ago I read some horror stories about worms being not-too-uncommonly found in cod and cod liver. I'm not sure how regular it is to find these in a can of the stuff, but as a vegetarian of over ten years who was considering incorporating cod liver for Vitamin A specifically, the worm eek factor on top of the fish-eating was enough to dissuade me from trying it again.
it's `bzip3 -e -j 6`. you need a space.
If they don’t give a shit about the blowback from violating treaty relations and invading a neighbour, knocking off a western business leader isn’t on their list.
If you're looking for something like superbase but with a more end-to-end typesafety approach + optimistic updates, check out Thin Backend https://thin.dev/ It takes a bit more of a higher level approach to database operations than superbase, which allows us to do things like optimistic updates that are hard to do in other tools.