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Post by gavinray »

seyz wrote: post #387
gavinray wrote: post #3

I wrote a guide on connecting Hasura + Forest admin for no-code SaaS apps + admin backends: "14. Connect Forest Admin to Hasura & Postgres" http://hasura-forest-admin.surge.sh/#/?id=_14-connect-forest... For Heroku specifically you need to make sure that the client attempting to connect does it over SSL, so set SSL mode if possible (many clients will do this by-default). To get the connection string for pasting into…

Thank you very much for this article, that's awesome!

Oh snap, the founder of Forest Admin!

Glad you liked the post, I've been using Forest on both realworld SaaS platforms and small side-startups since early 2017. Really cool to watch how much you've evolved since then.

Also, Louis S. is amazing! I've sent two emails to you guys over the years, Louis answered both of them within a day.

Throwback to 2017 UI ;)

https://i.imgur.com/KT9Wtlx.png

Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Post by XCSme »

dvt wrote: post #238
hnick wrote: post #108

VR. It seems just about ready, but still a little too expensive. While good games are obviously already there, I'm more curious about work. Would an infinite desktop with an appropriate interface beat the reliable old 2x24" screen setup I have? I think it could.

> While good games are obviously already there, I'm more curious about work. Good games are most definitely not there. The consensus is that Alyx is really the only worthwhile VR title. Just about everything else is gimmicky and trite. VR still has a long way to go.

I play Eleven Table Tennis (as the table tennis clubs were closed due covid). That game is the best simulation game you can play today. The physics are very close to reality, so close that in-game and IRL skills are immediately transferable. The biggest issues of the game that I encounter are not with the game itself, but with the tracking limitations of the Rift S inside-out tracking.

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Post by XCSme »

treelovinhippie wrote: post #458
Aeolun wrote: post #410

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I’m really curious how my 100kloc enterprise app would work in Svelte, but my hunch is it just wouldn’t be possible to build. Svelte always seems really cool in these toy examples, but I want to see a significant app built with it instead.

Yeah that's a common myth. Svelte isn't some fringe alternative JS framework. It performs exactly the same functions and same structure as any React/Vue app, but does so with far less code and runs far faster since it's a compiler. You're not going to find many brand-name companies using it because the PM decision-makers at large enterprises are always going to be many years behind and going with the "safe" JS framew…

"as any React/Vue app" From my experience, and what I heard from others, a lot of devs prefer React over Vue even though Vue syntax is cleaner and allows for shorter code. React just feels more robust when the app grows large enough compared to Vue. Note that we're not talking only about the library itself and its syntax, but also the ecosystem and support around it.

That being said, I think Svelte -> Vue comparison might be even more imbalanced than Vue -> React.

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Post by aeternum »

nwallin wrote: post #453
aeternum wrote: post #330

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Chimps have us beat when it comes to short-term visual memory (Humans can't even come close). Mantis shrimp have us beat when it comes to quickly detecting colors since they have twelve photoreceptors vs. our three. Insects have us beat when it comes to anything in the UV spectrum (we're completely blind to it). Many insects also cannot move their eyes but are still have to use vision for collision detection and navi…

Humans have visual processing which converts the signals from our three types of cones into tens to hundreds of millions of shades of color. Mantis shrimp don't have this processing. Mantis shrimp can only see 12 shades. Human color detection is about six orders of magnitude greater than mantis shrimp's.

Right, but the theory is that they have us beat when it comes to speed since they are directly sensing the colors whereas we are doing a bunch of post-processing.

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Post by andrewnc »

bionhoward wrote: post #185

Ubuntu, ParrotOS, Kali Julia Lang is fun For devops, Pulumi/CDK I watch graph dbs but they all suck or are too expensive or have insane licenses (Neo4j, RedisGraph) Differentiable programming, Zygote, Jax, PyTorch, TF/Keras Optimal transport (sliced fused gromov-wasserstein) AGI, levin, solomonoff, hutter, schmidhuber, friston Ramda is amazing George Church’s publications im also super interested in molecular program…

As a optimal transport lover working on differential programming, I approve this message. :)

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Post by seyz »

gavinray wrote: post #611
seyz wrote: post #387

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you very much for this article, that's awesome!

Oh snap, the founder of Forest Admin! Glad you liked the post, I've been using Forest on both realworld SaaS platforms and small side-startups since early 2017. Really cool to watch how much you've evolved since then. Also, Louis S. is amazing! I've sent two emails to you guys over the years, Louis answered both of them within a day. Throwback to 2017 UI ;) https://i.imgur.com/KT9Wtlx.png

This comment is epic, thank you very much :-) I'm sure Louis will be super happy to read this as well.

See you soon!

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Post by slow_donkey »

asattarmd wrote: post #529
autosage wrote: post #51

Materialize https://materialize.io/ Incremental update/materialization of database views with joins and aggregates is super interesting. It enables listening to data changes, not just on a row level, but on a view level. It's an approach that may completely solve the problem of cache invalidation of relational data. Imagine a memcache server, except it now also guaranties consistency. In addition, being able to liste…

Doesn't Hasura or Postgraphile do this better? They give a GraphQL API over Postgres with support for subscriptions, along with authentication, authorization etc.

You could shoehorn hasura for this usecase but those tools are primarily intended for frontend clients to subscribe to a schema you expose.

Change data capture allows you to stream database changes to a message bus or stream which has much better support for backend service requirements. Example: if a downstream service goes down, how would it retrieve the missed events from Hasura? Using Kafka or a buffered message bus, you'd be able to replay events to the service.

Nevermind having to support websockets in all your services :/

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