skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you're correct. I had in mind the 2022 date of the update. It also looks like you've updated the article again today! Thanks
This isn't fair feedback. You have to be more specific about the "lock in". Supabase itself is just managed Postgres and can be self-hosted. The entire point is that everything they offer is open source and easily found elsewhere.

I can imagine they fall short in some aspects from that ideal and I would love to know your experience but even with your first sentence this is just a pretty damning write off.

Disclaimer: I'm NOT a Supabase employee, just a happy user.
Sometimes it's hard to play this game if you have family to worry about.
If you want a number accompanied by a scientific publication, the best you get is 21: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95973-w

IBM has gone through 2 generations of chips since then.
"It could be fixed relatively easily with a standard".

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

This is the start of crypto "regulation".
Microsoft-backed Self-driving Startup expands to Vancouver
> There are fusion reactions that result in larger atoms

Do you mean “smaller”? I thought the defining characteristic was that the atomic number was increasing.

> B-P fusion results in 3 alphas, so it's fusion-fission.

You’re saying the “fission” part comes because one of the inputs, Boron-11, is larger than the outputs, the alphas?
Have you considered publishing pricing for larger databases? It would be interesting to know whether the offering would be useful at sizes not covered by the listed tiers.

edit: given the headline feature of infinite PITR capability, knowing the price tag could be quite important. Especially if purging old data isn’t supported (is it?)
All the handwringing about how horrible bad things will happen when these lasers are out there.....can we please just have a nice, happy, optimistic article about the great future which awaits us??
It sounds like this is killing/replacing Rewind
That's a different case... but I that is fantastic use of prosecutorial
discretion.
This is honestly some rather bizarre proof of him being an engineer. It reads like fan letter that uses tweets as the sole evidence. This quote is gold:

> One of the core takeaways I got from him about himself was that he was an engineer more than anything else (career wise), and I agree with that.

I don't really care if he's a "real" engineer or not, but this actually makes me think he likely isn't if that's as good as it gets.
Can't agree, at least Lenovo is trying:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/25/24081225/lenovo-thinkpad-...

Dell on the other hand...
or one of these… https://xkcd.com/466/
HN is also full of non-technical people who start companies and can't wait to cut out the technical humans (the most expensive part of their startups) entirely.
Why are you loath to say it?
You should watch Gangs of New York. It highlights how the original white anglo saxon Protestant population of americans had the same fears as you mentioned with catholic italian and irishmen coming in and changing the culture of the country.

It turns out, everyones kids assimilate into american culture just fine. Today you can’t tell whether a kid came from an anglo or irish or italian background. In some parts of the US that is already true for latinos, who are now the dominant population in many american cities, and whose youth population engaged with the same things as any other american youth population today.
Bruh you’re screaming about TikTok on a news about freakin steel factories.

That ain’t normal. That’s a hypocritical vendetta.
Privilege absolutely exists. And overuse of the term privilege absolutely dilutes the impact of the concept, imo.

But people are going to attach themselves to a term they like, that's just human nature, unfortunately. So I think it's best to just be like, "yeah, this term is going to get bandied about, let's make sure not to get too attached to every instance it is used."
I have to use Gmail at work and we are definitely paying for this crap.

We're actually looking at replacing Google Workspace with Fastmail or some alternatives.

We'll only miss Google Sheet but we'll still have to use some of their development tools and services (due to Android being completely closed – no way you can publish apps without Google Play Services these times).
When did it settle in at 15GB?
Nonsense. And also I find it rather amusing that technologists so passionately predict exponential innovation in all areas of science except for sustainability. If you want to find the truth, it's best to discount propaganda from banks like JPMorgan Chase. Blaming the government for slowing economic growth instead of corporations, in this age of unrestrained late stage crony capitalism and neoliberalism, is not a great look either.

What I see coming is that the powers that be will crash the global economy and ignite more proxy wars in the next 6 months before the US presidential election to throw it and cement minority rule for as many more years as possible. That looks like sewing suspicion around such basic American values as democracy. Because we're all struggling so hard just to survive that we turn on each other instead of the owner class which funds most tech companies and even HN itself.

I can't really blame them, as they have the power. This is all just a big game to them, as they dip into our money supply to ratchet up their fortunes at perhaps 1% per day whenever they need money, through stock market algorithmic trading which we don't have access to.

So it makes little sense to talk about societal investment when over 50% of Americans no longer have any disposable income to speak of. Regulatory capture has sunk what was once our retirement and social safety net into a $30+ trillion national debt paid as treasury yield to the same wealthy financiers who are buying up over 40% of US homes through private equity groups to convert us to a renter society.

It would cost next to nothing to convert to a solar grid-tie infrastructure amortized over a decade, with positive dividends paid back to all of us after that. But they won't even give us nothing to spend, they just keep us perpetually in debt so we can't improve our situation at even the most basic level.

https://www.tiktok.com/@r4ultra/video/7350811129926536478

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/21/how-wall-street-bought-singl...
> and SD cards aren't really that reliable, nor can they be used as long-term offline storage.

It would be very nice if there was storage that was more durable & reliable than current tech. As opposed to just bigger & cheaper.

Eg. that glass-based storage Microsoft is working on. If that makes it to market, even a few dozen GB per media, write-once, would be very tempting.

I don't need ever-increasing # of TBs. I need [whatever I have stored] to not disappear randomly. Hell, in this aspect even floppies in early 80s out-did current day flash storage.

Yeah I know good backup procedures protect against data loss. But that doesn't make random-failing-storage-without-warning any less pita.
> America is exceptional at it, possibly the best in the world.

Is the US actually better at absorbing immigrants than Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand? I’m unconvinced.
CSS in React Server Components
"Analytics and optimization" is where all the nefariousness goes down IMO, even if it's "for the user". When a site predicts things for a user, some users are delighted by the UX while others are put off by being spied on. So even in the "to improve our UX" case, it's up to the tracked to decide if it's nefarious or not - if they consent or not. It makes more sense to always prompt when using them.

Also, I'm seeing headlines like "Are Internet Cookies About To Crumble?" (not really, but you know how tech media is!) but I wonder how much longer cookies are even going to be relevant.

When's the last time you did this:

document.cookie = "username=John Smith; expires=Thu, 18 Dec 2013 12:00:00 UTC; path=/";

For most modern developers, the answer is never! They're not really used in modern development by us. Apparently about 40% of websites use cookies, and it's almost always for ad re-targeting - the only reason they make you auth again after clearing is really to auth you with the cookie, your auth with the site is usually just HTTP requests and doesn't require cookies.

TLDR I think they're going away anyway, they're passe and it makes too much sense for Google to obsolete competitors by suddenly dropping them. GDPR calling out cookies is like the American law that bans "magic mushrooms" - they should have been more specific in identifying a specific unlawful behavior.

Upvoted for the good info btw (it just didn't do anything lol) thanks for sharing
Worth remembering that Inbox was created by the Sparrow acquisition. Google hasn't innovated by itself in a long time.
But in this case it seems to be referring to the database itself, and the ability to scale to and from zero resources on demand.
BB gun — that's as in "ball bearing" — also known as "airsoft".

In this example, crossfire would require someone to walk into an airsoft combat area without any eye protection and for someone in that game to not realise and shoot them anyway. In the face.

Stray BB bullets don't go very far. They're not rifled, and they have fairly low muzzle energy compared to real weapons — I've shot myself with one at zero range, and even on bare skin it stings rather than penetrates.
There's a vast difference between a technical fork and a meaningful fork.
Robot flying cars would still be awful. The car noise and pollution is already insufferable, now bring it overhead. And the fallout of an accident are already grotesque, now multiply this by 9,81.

Flying cars are a fetish: because they are futuristic technology, therefore they are desirable. That is the motive force behind them.
All that's broken of our AI software engineer
Pretty sure that fits with what I said. But whatever.
(Neon PM) instant branching in a development workflow because it's like git but for your database. You can develop or test against an exact copy of production without the risks of testing on production. Autoscaling is useful if the load on your datbase varies (you can save money, even if your app isn't serving millions of users).
Seriously? I'm as critical of Elon as anyone, but SpaceX is knocking it out of the park. Falcon is arguably the most reliable launcher ever created, and one of the most affordable. There's simply no contest. SpaceX could sit on their laurels for a decade and the rest of the worldwide space industry might catch up. But Starship will give them a further advantage that might last a century.
Disclaimer work at AWS.

> Postgres was a "it exists" database back in the early 2000's.

If we're really nitpicking it's not saying Postgres is the most popular database since the early 2000's. If you base it of off install counts as the metric, I would assume the statement is true since I'd think it's either Postgres or MySQL today.
Google Edgewood Arsenal and the BZ munition.

Long story short - just like with gay bombs and all these other sorts of Cold War esoterica - is that humans are really complicated, and war is even more complicated. Turns out making people gay or psychotic - even if the chemicals did work at doing this, which is dubious given their tenuous understanding of what "gay" or "psychosis" was - doesn't actually reduce their warfighting capability. Sometimes, it even made a tenable tactical situation much worse.

Now, when it came to making people think they were going crazy, that's where these substances really started to find some traction, but that wasn't a military application. More the territory of the CIA headshrinkers.
Someone who has a lot of ssd speed insight here:

1. problems are mostly thermal for external devices, ie if you have an enclosure that is not good for dissipating heat, and the device consumes Watts of power... it is unlikely you will see sustained performance

2. Not all USBC interfaces are alike, and getting USB2, USB3, USB Super Speed or USBC performance will vary based on

a. the usb cable construction / performance spec,

b. the usb-c cable orientation in the socket (yes they are symmetric, but not physically sometimes),

c. the port you plug into,

d. the orientation of the usb-c cable in the socket.

If you are a person who desires more texture:

1. the real speed limit is how many lanes of PCI/CXL are extended to the controller on the USB bus, the controller on the device,

2. and the raw performance of the nand device, ie how many addressable bits are available per cycle &/or the amount of real-time recovery in LDPC that is successful in single pass ... ie optimization of throughput.
I've been using Gmail since its start and I don't remember it ever having a good client.
Congrats Supabase folks! I wish you every success.

I paid $20/mo for a while because of the free tier storage cutoff (500 MB), but have since stopped. I wish you had a $5/mo tier for "small projects" folks who need a database larger than that.

For example, Cloudflare's Workers Paid is $5 for D1 databases up to 10GB, with 5GB included and 75¢GB after. I know this is comparing apples and oranges to some degree and that your business model may be incompatible with this use case, which is absolutely fair.
We've turned off logging & tracing on a bunch of our high volume routes. Ideally I'd prefer we still sample them, at like 0.1% or what not, to give us some indicator, some chance of seeing anomalies. It just seems easier to gather & use this information than it is to go develop a suite of metrics that can register all issues.

OpenTelemetry recently ish gained Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP), which allows some runtime control over things generating telemetry. The ability to stay fairly low but then scale up as needed sounds tempting, but gee it also sends shivers down my spine thinking of having such a elastic demands on one's telemetry infrastructure, as engineers turn telemetry up as problems are occuring. https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/opamp/

The idea of having a local circular buffer sounds excellent to me. Being able to run local queries & aggregate would be sweet. Are there any open otel issues discussing these ideas?
Seems increasingly clear that we're already past peak Apple

Losing the China market, abandoning the Apple Car, doing nothing on AI and following Zuckerberg in the boondoggle that is the Metaverse is going to be too much for even Apple to turn round. History will not be kind to Tim Cook's stewardship
Can’t he just be straightforward about it?
(neon product)

hey all, i've only been with neon for a very short time but i'm super excited to be here because i believe neon can deliver an amazing developer experience that databases have been lacking. while we are simply postgres on top the neon platform is something special that unlocks a lot of new possibilities.

this ga is simply marking readiness for the platform and the team that has been building it. there's a lot more to do going forward.

as we're looking forward, post-GA, i'd love to hear what you think neon needs to focus on next. here's what i'm seeing so far:
- improved gh actions integration
- more extensions
- better developer extension support
- autoscaling communications
- metrics / logs integrations

what else?
Is your rational for this proposed party split that it's "big government" and therefore Republicans wouldn't like it and Democrats would?
I really love how this article is paced in real time from the first person as a learning adventure. Even down to the search terms used and the inner monologue. This is my absolute favorite kind of tutorial because you're not just being taught to fish, you're being shown how go about sourcing the parts to built your own fishing machinery.
InstantMesh: Efficient 3D Mesh Generation from a Single Image
I think I may have been taking it too literally.

I read "writer feeds incoherent sentence into a tool", when it was probably an exaggeration.

The multi-lingual thing is also a good point.
Re: from scratch, this one won’t disappoint you: https://web.archive.org/web/20130111175418/http://www.holmea...
Actually, IPv6 is! Just that you are not using it doesn't mean half of the internet isn't using IPv6 right now.
>There are only parking space with charging available for 2 cars in a 4km radius in my neighborhood. Charging that is anyway not cost effective.

I wonder if the two things are related. There are hundreds of EV chargers within 4km of where I live and on average they are 20-50% cheaper than charging at home (with the exception of fast chargers, which are pretty expensive).
As a viewer I disagree, I would much rather sit and wait 60 seconds in the beginning than to start watching something just for my stream to randomly be stopped for an ad.

Since it's live, it isn't like the video will just pick back up where you were. I realize ads could still play during, but if we could make it only in the beginning (or the streamer could say, I am taking a break and trigger an ad, that would be better.
God forbid we judge a man on the content of his character.
Hey HN, I’m one of the authors of Sirji, an open-source AI software development agent (implemented as a VS Code extension).

I’ve been collating feedback from our early users and this post is about all that’s (currently) broken.

While most of these issues are unique to Sirji, a few are also common to other AI agents.

Some are easy fixes while a few others might be quite hard to get right.
How is it unwritten when we are just reading written words on these laws?
There's a difference between something being "European" and something having started in Europe. Linux is not a private enterprise with an HQ in Europe so just because it started in Europe in the past, doesn't mean it's European today.

Especially when the guy who started it all is now a US citizen living and working on the Linux kernel from the US with most of the funding for the contributions coming from US companies. So shouldn't it be American now?
After working in tech (and providing tech support and tutoring), this seems like a typical non-tech-savvy user behavior: Just do what is familiar.

So they got a good deal on a car. It's a car and it drives, and you fill it with gas. It already works, the effort to learn and use the car for more potential is (probably) not worth it to the owner.

You could see the same pattern with people who use office applications on a daily basis but don't bother learning functionality (or even shortcuts).

Yet I am not trying to push the "users are dumb" stereotype, because everyone has their own blind spots in knowledge.
I was actually trying to make a larger point about how the entire concept of leadership is a scam, even "technical leadership". People are clever, or charismatic, or whatever, but leadership describes nothing in particular. It's pure propaganda, and we should all feel bad when we use it as if it were a real concept (and I'm guilty of this myself). Here, you've defined "technical leadership" as basically just "being a software engineer". We are eating from the trashcan of ideology.
First sentence of the article has "boost sluggish computer sales" in it. And you can read Apple's earnings report yourself to confirm that.

So I am not very sure about "selling like hotcakes".
The lack of governance and oversight is the desired outcome.
The only reason Emacs people actually write it out is because it's so easy and natural.

I saw it and said: ooh, what's that, looks intense? And then I actually looked at the first couple and went ooooh, type in double quotes, jump back and paste (C-a then C-y), select the whole thing (C-a C-SPC C-e), etc etc till the end. Except without really "saying anything" in my head, cos it's just muscle memory, you do it all the time, it's like walking.
Bruh you’re screaming about TikTok on a news about freakin steel factories. That ain’t normal.
Do darts get more accurate throughout a game? Seems like a strange analogy for iteration.

Maybe Battleship is a better fit for what the author is trying to convey.
There's no such thing as free; when you don't pay for something, you're the product.
Not even talking about upgrades - I'm saying that people buy the lowest configuration available - because it's cheaper and good enough. ie there was a time when the M1 was still available new, although the M2 was out - for many people it made sense to go with the cheaper M1.
Why not just read something else that doesn't require such hoops.
There's also Revanced Twitch on Android which has no ads.
They're just completely different projects that are not comparable. The Webb telescope had no choice but to work.

The SpaceX team has a choice, and they choose "fail fast". There's a gradient that SpaceX can sit on for their development, and for a suite of companies owned by Musk, people would like to see less fail fast and often.
Meh. My website server is IPv6-only (out of necessity; my IPv4 is CGNATed) and Cloudflare handles the IPv4 for me.

If IPv6 is truly useless you wouldn't be able to visit my site at all, since Cloudflare is unable to make contact with the origin server.
It's Complicated: modern economic thought, Ceteris Paribus and complex models
This seems like a generic advert for a generic email product, that's only posted here because it says "Google is bad". I don't disagree with the sentiment, but let's face it, if this company got the same level of traction as Google, we'd be talking about how they're now the bad guys and how do we migrate away from them.
Neat idea, but the stability and assurance of RDS is pretty compelling and migrating databases is pretty much the worst in my experience, even big services like Azure can have unexpected database issues that burn time and money.

Also, custom postgres implementations are a bit scary from a performance tuning perspective.
A Web OS
Hard work is no guarantee. Hardest job I ever had was as a teacher and you don't get paid shyte.
Renewable Energy Discovery Island (simulation software)
Yes, no argument there. Many shows were shot on film and it made a big difference even back in the SDTV days, because electronic cameras just weren't any good. It wasn't only about resolution. There were electronic cameras with great horizontal resolution, but the look was still very "cheap" with blown highlights, muddy colors etc.

Another famous example is Friends, also shot on 35mm film. It has the advantage over Star The Next Generation is that the props in Friends are actual, real life things, so if we now see the fine details of something, we just sea a teapot a little better. While the prop in Star Trek has a higher risk of looking like that duct taped PVC pipe it is rather than the SciFi ray gun it portrays.
Not wrong, but I get an annual allowance that I lose if I elect not to use it. This has the unintended side effect of causing me to care way too much about the annual macbook pro release.
around 14000 workers. I would have expected this to hit front page.
You will smile, when get know, on many such planes (honesty, not all) Parachutes added because they cannot pass safety regulations :)
I used Gmail for almost 18 years, but recently I switched to an email with my own domain and now use Apple Mail to read and send emails. It's not perfect, but Gmail was wearing me out. Even though I was paying for One, I was still being shown ads, which I find unacceptable.
Or just (2*N-N)/N.
Yup, i rarely have to update the commit link to that script. They seem to focus on taking down extensions that get popular rather than actually changing their obfuscation method.
They can still send you to a debt collector if you don't "properly" cancel by sending them a smoke signal at 3:42pm on a sunny day with easterly winds.

They did it to me, luckily I was able to get it removed.
Putting this on Microsoft GitHub is bound to get this project booted from the platform. Will we learn our lesson this time?