desertraven

Hi all, I'm in a bit of a bind. I have a production system using Hasura, that suddenly has gone down.

All requests to my hasura cloud instance are failing. I can't even hit the /healthz endpoint.

Support is saying this is an issue on my end, not theirs. It obviously isn't since I get no response from any of the endpoints using Postman/Insomnia.

So how can I migrate really quick?

Assume every politician and public representative is violently kept in line. If this were public knowledge, what would be the ideal outcome?

Hi. I was just looking at the post regarding the Vesuvius Challenge - scanning old scrolls for readable text.

I'm wondering if this is possible for notebooks. I often use pen and paper and fill small notebooks up quite quickly. I'd prefer not to scan/OCR every page individually.

Are there any methods that could potentially scan the notebook as a whole and parse the text inside? Maybe if using a special pen?

Any thoughts?

At one time, my awkward encounters felt fundamental to me. Though I've come to observe awkwardness in the wild, without my being implicated at the centre (phewph). People just having friendly, but awkward, encounters.

Often when I touch on this topic in company, people will talk about their own difficulties with interacting with fellow humans.

In a way, the awkwardness seems very natural. It would be almost unnatural if we were all completely open and at ease when interacting with one another.

Perhaps social media has a part to play here, or maybe it's the same as it ever was?

Even 20 years ago today, the world was very different in terms of technology. Obviously many of the same ideas were around, but the rate of improvement and invention still seems staggering in such a time.

My biggest concern is that as the bar for discovering technology gets higher, it may get withheld from the public. Feel free to share your concerns too.

I often see discussions here about the growing body of research regarding plant communication. Just witnessing a tree, or walking in a forest can give a sense of wonder at these life forms. So if we were to let our imaginations run free for a moment, what is the potential of their experience?

Wasn't sure where to ask this, so here I am.

Hasura recently upped their cloud prices big time, to the point where if I had to pay the current prices, I wouldn't be using the service.

The prices only apply to new projects it seems, but I'm obviously concerned about my existing ones.

Are there any precedents for companies staying true to old pricing models?

I'm wondering whether to begin the migration away from Hasura, or to rest assured that my pricing will never change. I'd prefer not to be doing a hectic migration on some kind of deadline.

Thanks!

Mainly referring to increasing walled gardens, advertising, authoritarianism, and complexity of the web stack. Can we start from scratch? Simpler devices, open standards - a device and web environment that can't be bent to government and advertisers?

Is there any merit/benefit to starting again? Is it possible to expect less from our devices and technology, and revert to a more low-tech, open ecosystem.

The idea is half-baked for sure. I just see a lot of negative sentiment here on HN about the trajectory of the internet and technology in general. And yet it is the one community ripe to solve it.

Not looking for anything concrete. Just general thoughts.

Hi guys,

I'm interested in learning more about trackpads, with a view to add one to an electronics project. Rather than buying a trackpad and hooking it up to an arduino to see if it meets requirements, I figured I'd use the Mac trackpad I already have.

I really just want to see what the shape of the incoming data is, pipe it to a file, and process it later on (at least that's what I'll be doing in my electronics project).

Is it possible to do this with a mac trackpad? Just log the incoming data (time-series coordinates I imagine), throw it in a file.

Thanks!

I often use the playlist radio feature, which is good. However, if I'm just listening to the playlist and I get to the end, it'll start playing the "recommended" songs in the list at the bottom. I find this algorithm to be superior to radio.

When I look at the songs in playlist radio vs the songs in playlist recommended, there's rarely overlap.

Seems strange that these two features aren't using the same algorithm. Any experiences? Or maybe a dev could chime in?

Many people seem to have an intuition that in democratic countries there are small groups of anonymous, powerful people who decide on the path forward (eg. deep state)

Yes there is lobbying, but is there any proof of more concentrated groups of people deciding what goes?

Given the horrific lengths gone to attain power, it seems naive to assume this has left western democracies untouched.

Setting aside proclivities to particular fields, eg. interested in computers, so study computer science.

I'm wondering which degrees develop well-balanced, clear thinking, and satisfied students?

Which degrees equip one to live a good life? Or is this an unrealistic expectation from institutions of education?

Is it some kind of geopolitical game? Is it aliens? Is it software bugs?

It was in the spotlight for a time, but now not so.