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I would add your GitHub org in the "community" link of your site/blog. I was trying to get to the code from there and couldn't find a link.

I'll be looking forward to playing around with this. thanks...
You can use the built-in event system to achieve what you were trying to do. Its really straighforward to use
I've enjoyed writing short (mostly ghost) stories for friends and family over the last number of years, but I've never considered going for something like 50K words (and as a runner, I did appreciate the analogy!) until now. Thank you for sharing this!

This might be a bit tangential, but over the last few months I've been working on a collaborative writing project called Storylocks (https://www.storylocks.com) to make writing practice more fun and be able to riff on other writers' ideas. Excited to see more applications in the creative writing space coming out of the woodwork!
I can't upgrade IntelliJ any more, because it's trying to write to privileged file locations that I (the owner of the computer) no longer have access to. Believe me, I've tried to work around this, macOS has it locked down completely.
Why would using a compute shader mean mesh data is sent every frame? Compute skinning is mostly the same as doing it in the vertex shader but you don't have to skin again for the different passes, instead you store to some GPU memory (so up the tradeoff is extra memory bandwidth on the GPU). No extra CPU/GPU traffic should be used here.
> That sounds like open source to me, I bet they're just being really conservative about saying "open source" because people there's been so much backlash at MongoDB/Cockroach/etc for similar restrictions.

Open Source has a very defined meaning. Please read up on the history of open source and source available licenses before saying it is all the same.

We've been defending it against a number of attacks and we will probably do it again, so please don't get on the wrong side of history ;-)

Note: this is not a criticism of Timescale. I can see what they did and respectfully did not pretend it was Open Source. Compared to a proprietary license their license opens a llt of possibilities.
There is file OEM.h that gives a hint how porting worked.
Enemy of the People
Nice to see guys from Hasura here! The product is pretty slick.

I scratch my head on this problem for quite a while. I would love things like database-to-GraphQL or even Datalog solutions.

But eventually, I found I still need to add another web endpoint on top of it to fix all the authorization logic, making things equally verbose like typical Web applications, defeating the purpose of using database-to-GraphQL solutions.

Having RBAC is Okayish for a lot of applications, but also not feasible for others. Usually ABAC or more expressive authorization rules are needed.

Do you have any thoughts on more expressive/powerful ways to tackle this issue?
Considering (IIRC) asking about the weather is what they show on the TV ads, they should've made sure their city selection logic returns the answer that most people would find acceptable..
You can disable SIP in recovery mode.
This doesn't apply to Chicago for some reason. Siri got it right here. We must live far from any local London city.
> is software which operates hardware, like steering of the stepper motors of a robot, or the firmware of a washing machine. Functional languages are (rightfully) immediately dismissed for these kinds of problems

Given that there is literally a version of Haskell (https://clash-lang.org/) designed for programming FPGAs and ASICs I don't thin the dismissal is rightful. I've used Clash to program FPGAs with computer vision algorithms.
> provides some protection.

That's security, not privacy...
An important clarification is that Azure, Digital Ocean, Rackspace (Object Rocket), Alibaba Cloud -- which all support managed TimescaleDB today -- only offer the Apache-2 version of TimescaleDB.

Many of the more advanced features of TimescaleDB, including this distributed options, is released under the Timescale License.

All code under the Timescale License is also source available and people are free to use, incorporate into their commercial SaaS services, distribute, etc. with the primary limitation being if you are offering TimescaleDB as a hosted DBaaS (like RDS, Azure Postgres, etc.)

Instead, Timescale Cloud is the place to get TimescaleDB advanced features as a fully managed DBaaS.

https://www.timescale.com/products/features
The set of possible operating systems to consider does not contain two items.
If you take a long-term perspective; console and mobile are going away, you can't have a computer that you cannot produce on.

That leaves Windows on Intel and Linux on ARM. That is two platforms to support, not that hard really!

And really long-term Windows on Intel is going to go away too because of energy prices.

Another thing to consider is that CPUs and GPUs are not improving that much, so the engine you build now will probably last very long, if it's made well probably forever!
Show HN: A Rust-Powered CLI for macOS's “Night Shift”
Can someone please summarize what it does because I couldn't figure out from website? It says its "on Postgres", is it a flavor of PG? or it sits on top of multiple PG instances.
Not generally, but if there's a thread you just don't want to see, there's a "hide" link among the links underneath the thread title. Just search for hide on the page and it'll be the first result.
> A salesman from the cell company comes to the maker of electric busses/trucks/LSEVs and says "resales of cells is strictly, strictly, strictly forbidden," and that they will unleash all torts imaginable if they found out.

Because what invariably happens is the automaker rebins the cells based on their own QA and sells the crappy cells as automotive grade instead of sending back to the manufacturer. Next thing you know, Joe Hacker's total electric conversion uses all the imperfect cells in one poorly balanced battery and burns down a city block. I don't know if it has resulted in anything dramatic like that yet but most of the surplus cells I've bought on eBay that looked like they came from automotive stock were subtly out of spec, enough to be dangerous in high power/capacity configurations.

> In comparison, 18650 cells can be easily found in retail at under 125% of the wholesale price in China.

China doesn't have much in the way of consumer protections or a tort system that's as accessible to the general public as in the US/EU.
I assume it triggers just on location, not in context of a time zone. I think Siri just hears tell me something about "location" and then just defaults to nearest.
Reminds me of the terrible delay I faced after having Sophos installed on my Mac.

Having to wait 5-10 seconds for a new terminal tab as Sophos churns (checking autoccomplete scripts, rbenv, etc) was infuriating. Oddly, there was fate sharing with Internet interception, so there was a good chance the browser was getting dragged down too, and vice versa.

Convincing corporate IT of how bad the problem was was maddening. Based on what this author says, 10.15 on rural internet sounds like hell.
A Dutch grandmother was busted for violating GDPR by posting grandchild photo
Yes, that's probably true. Still vocal minorities tends to wield outsized power by virtue of being vocal.
Indeed. Some work has actually been done to try to quantify how important various types of human prior knowledge are for learning video games: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.10217.pdf
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If non-Indiana-carrots started to cost $40/lb, you bet some local farmers would switch to carrots. Right now they have existing investments and benefits of scale, but the right incentives switches that.

> our food supply is highly distributed.

I meant this in the sense of diversity if firms, not geographically. We've certainly seen consolidation with some of the bigger agri-conglomerates, and the trends are worrying, but we are nowhere near monopolization of the industry as a whole.

From Wikipedia:

> The 2012 US Census of Agriculture indicates that 5.06 percent of US farms are corporate farms. These include family corporations (4.51 percent) and non-family corporations (0.55 percent). Of the family farm corporations, 98 percent are small corporations, with 10 or fewer stockholders. Of the non-family farm corporations, 90 percent are small corporations, with 10 or fewer stockholders. Non-family corporate farms account for 1.36 percent of US farmland area. Family farms (including family corporate farms) account for 96.7 percent of US farms and 89 percent of US farmland area;[17] a USDA study estimated that family farms accounted for 85 percent of US gross farm income in 2011.

There are plenty of issues with our food supply system. But I don't think we need to worry about monopolies raising prices unilaterally. The OP thought we needed price controls to keep food costs low. I don't think this in the case. The problems are instead on the poverty side of the equation. Who has the money to pay for our (generally pretty cheap) food? The are too many that are food insecure, not because groceries are expensive, but because they are in poverty.
I absolutely agree, but it’s a personal preference thing.

Years ago I had this argument with a coworker, and I tried to take the position that the Windows curve is better for games. He politely disagreed, I implied that he was a casual gamer, and he gently told me of the year his Quake III team won the world championship. We spent the next while watching demo videos of him doing 360 noscopes with the rail gun against a target in the air.

I handily lost that disagreement.
The FAA and ICAO regulation for flights above 18,000 feet is that you need to have enough fuel to reach your destination, an appropriate alternate airport, and cruise for an additional 45 minutes. I doubt they ran out of fuel after 3 attempts to land at the original destination airport.
Ask HN: Is there anything you can do against Play store 1 star review attack?
I've built an app in a highly competitive market, and everytime my app rise to +4 stars, we get around 5 to 7 1 star reviews the same day - It's always a variant of the 2 same messages: "Beware, this app is a scam" - "the developer hacks your data"

I always "report as spam" on the Play store, but Google has never removed any of the reviews. I'm kinda desperate, it takes a lot of time to get genuine reviews, and only one attack of the kind to crash below the 3.5 mark

And ofc, as the review system is different on Apple, my rating on the App store is 4.5, which I'm really happy about

Any tricks against 1 star reviews attack ? Is there anything to do or should I just accept it ?

Original question on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/reactnative/comments/goludt/is_there_anything_you_can_do_against_play_store_1/
For their threat model, they could be right - they could be successfully defending against school network surveillance and/or censorship.
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Switch to Linux then.
This is completely insane. I am so glad I decided years ago to leave closed operating systems behind.

This design seems to cement the trend at Apple to position their products as consumer appliances, not platforms useful for development.
IMO In colloquial English six times cheaper means 1/6th the price. What a phrase means is very much dependent on how the speaker and the listener interpret it.
If it checks with Apple servers every time you execute a new binary, what happens if you don't have an Internet connection? Are you just unable to run new code?
At least 10.14 is supported for now.

It's really frustrating to see Apple make all these poor decisions and they almost never are willing to admit their mistakes and go back. In the rare case when they do (e.g. butterfly keyboard, Mac Pro), it takes them years to turn around.
>The decline of polymathy, then, suggests a broader crisis. For Burke, it is a crisis of too much information. The seventeenth century was a “golden age of polymaths”, as explorers found new regions, the scientific method flourished, and the postal service and the proliferation of journals allowed scholars to trade ideas. But those same forces led to “information overload”.

I believe it's not just information overload, it's also the amount of entertainment in conjunction with incentives and overall people's education. I also venture to say there may be other variables at play like eating habits, some of which are known to provoke (mental) illnesses, etc.

It's a tough problem to solve.
Zak McKracken: The FM Towns version is the only one with 256 colours.
Hacker News is an American site, specifically a Silicon Valley site. If you went to a British site, they would be talking about things from a British context. All are welcome, but it’s a bit ridiculous to complain that every conversation on the internet doesn’t support multiple currencies.
Requiring Mac OS to build binaries is unfortunately an Apple restriction. Apple has a large number of both technical and legal barriers allowing cross compiling.
"It is not just digital assistants, but so many other things like Google maps, e-commerce sites, address auto-completes etc seem to assume that I want the North American one with a population of 300k that no one knows about, not the one that everyone has heard of with a population of 9 million."

You realize these do this largely based upon actual usage, right? That it turns out that a significant percentage of people are actually more interested in London, Ontario.

London Ontario has a significant military plant. An international airport. At 400,000 people, and being the hub for SW Ontario, is hardly a city "no one has heard about". I know of a number of organizations that have branch operations in London, Ontario as it's a major manufacturing city. It has a large university. It is clearly leagues below London, England, but the hilarious haughtiness by UKers about London, Ontario (always a sort of weird defensiveness and inferiority complex) does not correlate with actual reality.

Ergo, a lot of people, over time, actually are more interested in London, Ontario, among users.
Isn’t one of the key premises of UBI is that ever-increasing will (arguably, has) lead to a massive economic surplus that would then be redistributed via some mechanism(s)?
Damn, I too have noticed that when developing in compiled languages (C, C++, Go, Rust, what have you) the first execution after a recompile is always noticeably delayed. I thought it was odd but didn’t bother digging into it. This must be why! (Can’t recall having this problem with scripting languages, but maybe subsequent modifications don’t trigger a notarization check? Edit: Yeah TFA does mention this.)
Naughty Dog uses new Twitter feature to block Last of Us Part II spoilers
This, really.

I'm not sure if you're delivering that line straight, or sarcastically, but this is actually an important problem I've had to explain to to my doctor. I initially started a year ago on an ADD medication that worked very well, but only if taken every day. It takes about two weeks of utterly consistent usage to reach proper effectiveness, after which it's very good at what it does. If you miss a single day, it flushes out of your system and you have to start the two weeks again.

This makes it fucking useless for treating ADD, because ADD (among other things) makes it very hard to maintain consistent schedules, so those two weeks are more like 6 weeks, because you keep missing a dosage. Once you make it to the effective stage, better avoid going out on the town because if you get a hangover and sleep late you can't take it in the afternoon or it'll fuck with your sleep and now you've reset the clock.

When it comes to exercise, god damn is exercise boring for me. I can physically exercise for a long time, but mentally I can do it for about 10 minutes before I'm out of focus and ready to build statues out of paperclips just to have something to do. Yes, I've tried audiobooks.

I can see exercise working very well as a force multiplier a correctly managed medication, allowing people to keep their dosage low enough to avoid side effects while still getting the benefits.

However, asking people to exercise their way out of ADD is kinda like asking them to exercise out of depression. You need something else to get the momentum of the process rolling first, or the "static friction" of the condition is going to prevent the exercise from happening in the first place.
Who did write GORILLAS.BAS?
For having used both Unity and Unreal, Unreal does crash often.

Unreal can also become very frustrating very fast if you are going for anything different than a standard fps or third person game, and I percieve it as being extremely bloated compared to Unity.
The force of Unity lies it its modularity and flexibility, in my opinion.
And not a single one would spy on you, stalk you, sell your conversation or try and sell you some crappy item based on your voice let alone sell your photo as theirs... Real life is not filled with pervasive and creepy stalking nor does it require you to accept an ever changing contract just for the privilege of being outside..,
that's a strange KPI to tout.
Why would anyone trust that Facebook isn’t already doing things like this?
Local jargon. In the states a body shop* is a company where they are sending people to do work and charging a commission on hours worked. They could do some project consulting too (clearly some people cost more than others and some payments are structured around milestones or even efficacy) but essentially at the end of the day revenue is roughly proportionate to headcount.

Some firms using this model are, due to pretentious courtesy, not described this way (e.g. law firms, landscaping firms, and other such service industries).

By contrast large employers like Walmart or GM aren't considered body shops as their revenue is not proportionate to headcount, and in fact improving productivity helps their model.

* it's a joke name as "body shop"s original (and continued) meaning is a company that repairs dents in a car's "body" (the non-engine parts).
110M year-old nodosaur is the best-preserved fossil of its kind (2017)
I am not sure what this is supposed to prove. Obviously, there were tons of games that weren't on Steam before that. You should compare apples to apples, i.e. games that got accepted in the past to games that would get accepted in the past.
I understand the purpose of notarization but I feel like they could've come up with a much better solution to this. A network call __everytime__ someone runs an executable is not acceptable. But for the cases where the user is offline, Apple must keep a list of notarized apps on the machine...
cf my disaster in Italy when I got off the train at Venezia Miestra (basically an industrial estate at the wrong end of a road bridge) instead of Venezia St Lucia (the bit with the canals and architecture).
I meant all in terms of mathematical models. I think I did not forget any case. In R^3 you have p-forms for p=0,1,2,3 and vector fields; those are respectively cases (1), (5), (8), (2), (4) above. Of course each "case" may have several different physical interpretations that are modeled by the same mathematical object.
I find it amusing you seem sad because one hyped term was used, only to go on to prefix the word statistics with "big".
Statistics was comfortable with large quantities since inception.
Yes, but migrating to PostgreSQL.
You should know by now:

Apple is the Father, Apple is the Mother.

After Apple has re-invented or re-written the MSFT playbook of the 90s, nothing surprises me anymore.

Yet I cling to these machines, that take away the freedom to do with my hardware as I please. It's odd.
That's awesome. Lead from the front. He does it becomes he loves it and knows what he is doing. I really admire those kinds of leaders.
I don't know if this is true but I don't see why it would be absurd. The man is pretty much an absolute gaming and coding legend and from what I've read about him, he's genuinely interested about code and tech so if that's true I find that actually pretty awesome.

Absurd would be if he had to just stick to management and bureaucracy just because he has a few billions on his bank account. You do you Tim!
Would you trust Siri or any assistant to book a flight for you?
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Google Assistant failed on me recently trying to set a timer. It correctly understood my "set timer for three-and-a-half minutes" request, says it's setting a timer for 3am instead and proceeds to actually set a timer for 30 seconds. How is there that much disconnect between the stages of the query?!

Screenshot: https://twitter.com/R1CH_TL/status/1252232170237640706/photo...
The article says "One way to solve the delays is to disable your internet connection" so I assume it just doesn't bother with notarization when you do that.
That depends on when the pilots became aware that the gear was not down. If thier first indication was touchdown, then ya, taking off again isn't going to happen. But remember that these aircraft don't always respond instantly. Perhaps the pilots were aware some time before touchdown. They could have touched down half way through an attempted an abort, only just grazing the ground.
I've been forced to update to this pile of shit because latest iOS requires latest Xcode which in turn requires Catalina. It's a nightmare.

First off the new apps (music, podcasts, etc) are terrible. They killed off iTunes but replaced it with much worse. These apps don't behave like standard macOS apps, the UI is full of inconsistencies and is just so empty. This website has nice examples of the failures of modern Mac OS: https://annoying.technology

For some reason after updating the "new updates" badge was stuck on the system preferences icon (and even on the preference pane itself) despite no updates being available. I ended up having to delete a plist and reboot to fix it, apparently a common issue.

The Mail app will now randomly play the "new mail" sound. I can't confirm it for sure but I'm assuming it's treating read, existing mails when they are moved to the trash/archive or newly created drafts. They screwed up the mail app, a problem that has been solved for decades. WTF? The worst is that I see no major changes in there, so why touch the mail client in the first place if you're not even going to give me additional features in exchange?

Xcode was stuck upgrading in the App Store. It would start the process and never make any progress. Cancelling it had no effect. Rebooting cancelled it but the second attempt, while making progress, ended up failing with a generic error message with no actual information. Logs are useless because they're being spammed by all the background processes even during normal operation making it impossible to find anything. Finally the third attempt succeeded.

1Password now takes 5 more seconds to unlock my password database. Somehow this disgrace of an OS slowed down the password hashing process by an order of magnitude.

Switching screen resolutions or connecting to an external screen takes a good 10 seconds of flickering and frozen UI before everything starts working again. This is now actually worse than both Windows and Linux. I dread moving the laptop or touching the USB-C cable (also because USB-C is so brittle) when it's connected to an external monitor out of fear that it'll disconnect/reconnect and I end up in a 30-second cycle of flickering.

I upgraded a couple of days ago, so those are not early bugs. Apple had a year to fix all of this. The Xcode thing might be an isolated issue but there's no excuse for the general performance penalty or the stuck update badge which has many hits on search engines suggesting it's a widespread issue.
... Can you elaborate? I use IntelliJ on a daily basis on Catalina, and I have zero issues updating it.
> Why in the world would you get a completely different answer to a very simple question based solely on which device answers your question?

Because the phone has location services enabled and the pod does not? Just a guess but they are certainly operating under different contexts.