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Ask HN: How to Improve Linux Bluetooth / BlueZ?
Bluetooth in Linux is one of the few things that doesn't work well enough for day to day usage. Wifi used to be this way but it got better.

I don't have the time or expertise to help code this but can I donate?

I'm sure the people working on BlueZ are a competent group and I don't want say anything to discourage them. In fact thank you so much for all the work you have put in. But it seems like it still needs work, how can we help you out?

I can't find a link to donate at http://www.bluez.org.
> if you're programing for your day job and your side project involves more programming, you will burn out.

Then as stated in the article, only work on the side project for an hour a day over 365 days. Time is on your side and it's OK if it takes a year to get to an MVP. Look at Stardew Valley, for example.

> better yet you will need a very easy day job that doesn't use up the bulk of your daily creativity and problem solving stamina. Yes, it is a finite resource.

This is a fair point. That being said you can always focus on side projects that aren't related to the day job (and in some cases that might have to be the case contractually.) For example I'm a DevOp by day, but my business is moving into VR.
I think this link https://github.com/marp-team/marp is more relevant since this was the preview app and the ecosystem is now much more extended.
I see what you there.

The title has been fixed, I noticed that too, and I'm always advocating for removing artificial barriers such as HN limit on titles. When truncating a title HN could for example show the complete one onmouseover or use some JS to expand the title.
I’m always amazed and appalled at just how bad most people I’ve met are with basic probabilities. Now that’s just my anecdote, but I think your ratio would strongly favor the casinos, which I guess explains why the casinos exist and thrive in the first place.
The article mentions that the binary size of the listbox example is significantly different. Well, we used to say that Delphi 1 is totally wasteful as the default empty project compiled into 39kB .exe, obviously full of bloat ;)

Edit: 39kB was nothing even in the 1995. But there was other more significant issue: if you went for all the database and line of bussines suport libraries you ended up with application that used more 3.5" floppy disks than contemporary Windows 3.1, one for your application and 7 additional for the redistribuable frameworks ;)
Embarcadero tools and ides, are super expensive
considering that most developer tools are either free (visual studio developer is free for individuals), or way cheaper (jetbrains)

I really dont know who their target customer is, but then again, when I look around, I find tools like windev (PC-Soft) and Clarion (softvelocity) have a loyal following

Except of course that embarcadero, is way more expensive

Free-pascal is cute and probably productive, but there are way more intellectually and technically interesting options, even tcl/tk in my opinion is better intellectual and technical investment of time compare to free-pascal
This seems really suspicious to me since in the article they clearly stated that their electricity usage was much lower than the previous owner, who was running some kind of server farm there.

Of course someone needed to pay, but it seems wrong to pay extra for electricity they are not using to pay lip service for supporting a for-profit company who had locked in the plan with an earlier contract.
Of all the crummy talking points defending Amazon in this situation, the most odious is the idea that regular working New Yorkers lost an opportunity to get good jobs and upgrade their livelihoods. Amazon has an established record of being terrible to its workforce, and any fool knows that the workers in Amazon HQ2 aren’t going to be regular joes in Queens. At best, ordinary New Yorkers had a shot at serving HQ2 executives their coffee or delivering their food. Even then, their rents would be spiking due to gentrification and their businesses would be threatened by Amazon’s unique flair for vertical integration. And don’t even start with the tax-positive arguments. Amazon doesn’t pay taxes. Have a look at their federal returns.
Thanks for the question! Our advantage would be the much lower fees and the mobile accessibility. We have found that our system's usability is also much more efficient in terms of monthly income and liquidity issues :)
I have a weird feeling these days, that improvements didn't happen at the right place and that old GUI paradigms were just right and that if you knew how to leverage what a computer can do (mind you you could do sml and prolog back in the days) you wouldn't much fancier presentation..
"No politician will back nuclear. If there's an accident, they'll be run out of town. Not worth the risk."

I would not be so pessimistic (or optimistic, depending on one's stance on this issue).

One does not have to look far in our current political landscape or in the history books to find plenty of examples of politicians doing stupid, unpopular, or even criminal things, that one could argue they should have avoided like the plague before they even started.

When or if those things fail, if the politicians get caught, or if there's some public outcry, it rarely lasts. The news media has a very limited attention span, and when the story is no longer in the media people tend to forget about it. Not only do most people tend to have a poor memory of political events and poor knowledge of history, but protest movements also rarely last long. Many "disgraced" politicians have managed to make a comeback in politics, and be rather popular, if that's what they chose to do.

The government-corporate partnership is also a revolving door where actors frequently move to highly desirable positions from one to the other. It's quite common for politicians to leave politics and get hired in lucrative positions in the companies they regulated, assigned contracts to, or passed legislation on, and for industry execs or lobbyists to get jobs in politics, after which they go back lucrative jobs in the company they left. Companies have many other ways of rewarding politicians who are on their side.

There's every likelihood that politicians who assigned multi-billion-dollar contracts to corporations will be very well taken care of, even in the event of some sort of political firestorm over their decision. Though politicians tend to also be quite adept at covering their asses and pushing the buck to someone else. "I wasn't told". "I didn't know." "I wasn't the one making the decisions." You can't open the papers these days without seeing those words come out of some politician's mouth.

There are few real consequences except in the case of truly egregious crimes, and even then they tend to be not so bad for white-collar crimes. Not to mention that the politicians tend to have top notch legal teams to keep them out of jail -- that's when they're deemed to not be acting in an official capacity, when they effectively can't be sued at all... and good luck suing the federal government.

Of course, in the case of a truly major nuclear disaster, such lawsuits may actually be successful. But if the risk of such a disaster with modern designs really is so low, then these politicians have nothing to worry about, do they?
American culture influence is certainly growing over places like India and China, but the UK? Have you got any articles on that? I don't live in the UK, so curious to know.
This is very cool. Analyzing your own games is the single best way to improve your play.
The original poster is a college student looking for a side project to do in their spare time. It's not defeatism to suggest that they should probably look for side project ideas first in low-competition areas rather than in very competitive areas where multiple teams of experienced people have already failed.

Of course if they have a specific insight into a business that has failed ten times that they think is a major differentiator, then of course they should investigate that first. But then they wouldn't be posting on a forum for business ideas :)
Upvoters, what's the real headline behind the clickbait?
A 13-year-old girl reportedly makes over $1,000 a day creating ASMR videos
Just don't let it become an excuse.

Put another way, your life might be complicated, but more improvement does require digging a bit deeper than the status quo, so it's still up to you to find or make time/energy to work on things.

I'm in no place to tell you how much time or how to manage it, but you do get out of your time what you put in, and there isn't a shortcut for that.
I started working a company with this kind of attitude. I had them not only adjust the contract to only protect their existing IP from theft by me, but also had the General Manager sign a letter stating I was able to continue working on my side business.

Most businesses need you more than you need them. Choose wisely and negotiate.
One approach is to find something badly done and do it well. My first successful startup was an app that had 20k downloads, with a Facebook community of 200k members, all very active. The creator of the app wasn't focused on making it a startup; they just showcased a minimum effort HTML5 app. I created a nice proper app, and did some e-commerce around the theme (healthy food).

A second approach is to travel. You'd be surprised how different things are in other countries. I got the idea of selling coffee from Australia, where great coffee is common and Starbucks was "tourist level". Australia also has a lot of mental health apps, which I'm working on now.

My first app was also heavily localised for non-urban Malaysians. There are plenty of keto recipe alternatives for Western food e.g. bacon and eggs. But Malaysia it's a lot harder because the culture is heavily rice based, so a keto recipe app is much more valuable.

So, you can also do subsets of a problem. Like Facebook and Harvard, Amazon and books, Apple and MP3 players.
The funds are used for conservation and before the ownership and incentive system was in place, there was no value placed on the animals that were already hunted and killed. This is outrage porn, plain and simple.

> Note: Dilys Roe, a researcher with the IUCN, confirmed that "we do believe it is an effective program." In a briefing paper on trophy hunting, the organization warned of potential negative impacts from poorly managed programs but praised the Pakistani effort, stating that it has "led to the recovery and substantial increase of markhor populations."]
Most non-novice craps players I know know the odds fairly well. (The odds on a craps table are actually not that terrible for the player, among casino pit games.) And a "hot" craps table is a tremendously enjoyable place to spend an hour or two.

(It's Roulette, particularly American Roulette, that has some of the most dreadful odds for the player.)

"Hot" meaning the players are [temporarily] on a winning streak.
Additionally, most people's budgets are not robust enough where entertainment costs can even be factored in, especially those who are most vulnerable to gambling.

The bulk of my budget goes to rent, car, and food :(
> Are you aware of how long it takes drugs, for example, to get from the patent stage to the commercialization stage?

Patent law already handles this providing pharma patents additional protection time for regulatory delays.
Is Markdown really the best tool for this job? I love markdown as much as the next person, but it was designed for writing, not for slides. Maybe I'm naive, but it feels designing your own markup language for slideshows would make a lot more sense.
I think they are talking about the cells themselves. Black cells have higher light absorption than blue cells (which are reflecting blue light) but I can't speak for their efficiency (and I should note that absorbed light that doesn't generate electricity generates heat which is bad for PV efficiency.)
Maybe this is an issue that could garner bipartisan support, even if for different motivations? Instead of trying to bring back coal, we should be trying to reinvigorate the nuclear power industry. Maybe even turn some of those coal miners in to Uranium miners :)
So the advice isn't for everyone. Is that your point? That's a poor point.
> We rarely operate on ranges, but we operate on offsets all the time.

I would disagree with that assertion. Maybe it was true historically, but just look at how often ranges are used today - the fact that many languages have an abstraction for them in the core library is a testament to that.

I would also argue that having ranges (and underlying iterators) as opaque abstractions is preferable to conflating them with indices. Then you can have your cake and eat it too - the elements are counted naturally, but if you have an iterator to the first element, you can deal with 0-based offsets just as naturally.
This is phenomenal. Great set of base elements, styles, etc. Great job, team!
"Nuclear energy is the most certain future source" -John McCarthy

FAQ:

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/nuclear-faq.html
That article misrepresents what the Illinois tax credit is. It only applies to the portion of the income tax that the employer pays.

Basically the state law allows employers who create new jobs to not have to pay their portion of the employment tax for a few years, and that tax credit applies to every company.

I'm pretty happy with the way Illinois and Chicago played their cards with Amazon, we were basically like "We've got a lot of great shit, and if you come here you can take advantage of this tax credit." We didn't offer Amazon any special treatment.
Why can't the business suffer losses instead of everyone pay subsidies?
> 1.5 hours at the gym? Do you construct the equipment whilst there?

I usually spend 1-2 hours every day in the gym. It's usually ~15 mins warming up, ~20-25 mins lifting, ~20 mins of some type of HIIT, ~20 mins of some endurance or sprint training (depending on the cycle), ~20 mins of skill work (olympic lifting or gymnastics), ~10-15 mins of stretching/rolling out.

That's not an obnoxious timeframe.
Which symbols did you have in mind? Variable name sigils like $ and @?
That's what I do as well. My most productive hours are in the morning, so that's why I give them to my personal-job rather than my professional-job.
That sounds good. So long as founders are aware of all the implications, then there's nothing wrong with any particular arrangement. I would be careful about a structure potentially disincentivizing growing a business faster, though. One really simple consideration that requires no tweaks on the current agreement I think is just setting a higher valuation cap, that's still around where if one was to raise additional capital due to rapid growth, they would expect to raise at. For example, on a company worth $3 million perhaps the cap should be more like $8 million. Alternatively, change the terms so that the equity basis cannot be greater than the invested amount at the valuation, which I think is the intuition most founders would have, while still providing substantial upside and downside protection to investors—who get both a loan-like repayment multiple, and in the event of a rapidly growing startup, a normal seed-valuation-based level of equity. Having the downside protection of the return-cap re-payment, as well as an equity conversion of potentially multiple times a normal seed valuations on the upside, seems to be inherently bad terms to me. Of course, if it's the only capital you can get, and you'll die without the capital, it's better than nothing. But, there's a lot of offerings out there, as well as the option to not raise, so I'd be concerned as a limited partner that the only entrepreneurs willing to accept such terms were self selected in an unfavorable way, and thus despite the aggressive terms would quite likely still receive poor returns as an investor.

There's also seems like there may be a bit of contradiction of messaging here. The messaging is like, "Take this capital, grow a business at your own pace and pay us back a multiple of what we give you as you can.", yet in the case that a company is doing very well and growing fast, and can utilize more capital or sell, instead of having normal equity terms on invested capital, the agreement turns around and says, "Oh, and by the way, we own a huge multiple of the investment as equity now." This seems highly inconsistent to me, as if you're really expecting the majority of your returns to come from these 3-5x return caps being paid off from earnings, why would you have a provision to take such an aggressive equity stake in the companies that end up doing particularly well and go on to raise or sell? Like, it seems to me such terms suggests you expect to make the majority of your returns from equity, which is not what's being communicated. I could also be over-estimating your interest in startups that may ever go on to raise more capital or sell, but I think there's so much uncertainty in starting a company, that it's not really reasonable for a founder to know if at some point in the next few years that the best thing for the business might be to raise or sell, as it depends on the state of the company and the market. This agreement as currently drafted, without proper high-cap or other considerations mentioned above, could too easily disrupt future optimizing for the best outcome for a business.
I don't want to tell you what the right trade offs are between, say, living in Phoenix or Dallas or Charleston and living in NY or SF.

But at some point people want to start families and buy a house and that starts to take precedence over being in a cool area. The only issue is jobs -- can they work remote, can they find a local employer, can they work for themselves?

So there is a huge demand for higher paying jobs in lower cost areas compared to the demand for higher paying jobs in higher cost areas. You personally may think it unbearable to live in Scottsdale, AZ or Minneapolis, MN, but most people find it pleasant enough and will pull the trigger as soon as they can find a job that pays even 2/3 of what they are earning in SF or NY.

Another data point is the taxes.

This might be also interesting (pdf warning):
https://www.edelman.com/sites/g/files/aatuss191/files/2019-0...
“Safer, modern” plants in the US, the UK, and China are being scrapped because they’re not affordable.

Solar, wind, and storage are already cheaper than nuclear. So why build nuclear?
NYC generates about 10% of US GDP, already houses Amazon, Google, and every other global player. We have our fingers in everything already. We don’t need to play this kind of needy urban development three-card monty nonsense to continue kicking ass economically all day and night long.
I was just reading the other day that SFO is rapidly approaching mandatory slot control, several years earlier than expected. I forgot where I read it but here's some info on the FAA site: https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/at...

SFO has given up on building another runway, which means the only way to grow is with larger airplanes. Some other large US airports are also likely to reach maximum movements in the next decade, and I imagine the same is true globally.

And then on top of that California appears to be backing away from HSR. The biggest cost (legally, politically, financially) for HSR was land acquisition, the same reason SFO canned plans for an additional runway, and the same reason it's not feasible to expand metropolitan highways. Because traffic will only get worse, making OAK and SJC increasingly less attractive to those living on the peninsula, I'm guessing that SFO will see more A380 service than less.

Not that it would make any difference for A380 viability, but it's understandable why Airbus, Emirates, and some others held fast to the promise of the A380 for so long.

A week ago HN user Xixi linked to an article, https://leehamnews.com/2015/12/11/bjorns-corner-twins-or-qua..., arguing that the 4-engined A380 is actually more fuel efficient and less costly to maintain than comparable 2-engined aircraft like the 777 because 2-engined aircraft need overpowered engines. According to this argument what really killed the A380 was exactly what Emirates was upset about: no manufacturer was willing to sell an engine upgrade, so the A380 would be stuck with older generation engines while both contemporary and new model aircraft benefit from newer engines. I guess the engine manufacturers' calculus is largely concerned with volume, but it's also a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.

After reading that article I wasn't surprised when, perusing the Wikipedia pages for the new A220 (Bombardier CS300), Embraer E-Jet E2, Russian Irku MC-21, and Mitsubishi Regional Jet, I discovered that all the new planes at the small end of the market--a market that both Boeing and Airbus turned away from just a few years ago--are sporting a variant of Pratt & Whitney's new geared turbofan. It seems like in today's environment it's the engine that makes or breaks the plane.
American visas are notoriously difficult too. If you're not American or something like Singapore which has good immigration laws with the US, you'll have a hard time. There's also other downsides like poor healthcare and vacation time, but some companies can make competitive offers for that.
hahahahaha. this is a typical mistake of melting the person and the advice/writing/work. it’s a big mistake imho. a lot of people that did do questionable things (not sure that Peter is one of them though) produced great works of art or generated ideas that are at the foundation of the fabric of our society.
judge the ideas and the work on their own merits.
Realtors know they are responsible for representations so they are very careful about limiting their knowledge of the property to exactly what the owners have stated on the listing. Playing dumb is really important to being a listing broker.
Making ones own small batch riscv run is in the the price range of a good used Nissan Leaf to a new 3 Series. That is for delivered silicon.

Fpga implementations start at $5.

Individuals “waste” both of those amounts of money all the time.
Please point to where I said anything about right or allowed.
I think they solve the power problem by bringing a nuclear reactor as the main power source.
To back who you are replying to. My story might be interesting.

Small niche software doesn't suck : if you love that niche, if you can create something that that niche loves and that what you create is difficult for others to replicate.

I have small business with small client base that will forever remain small. ~ 140 clients. A couple of staff members now days.

Cost of acquisition is high. I need to retain a client for 2 years to achieve ROI. That bit is hard work. But you structure things accordingly. From the clients perspective, changing competitors products is very disruptive so I need to make sure I create something that makes it worth their while. The product itself and its capabilities compared to competitors, where the product is headed, support etc around that product and whether or not their is a genuine need for the product.

Making good money. Now bringing home more than market salary, but only after many years of sitting under so probably not at net break even just yet. In a few years all going well I'll sell out and will live very comfortably in retirement off what I expect to be able to sell for.

Fairly happy with my lifestyle. Flexible and generally a little less hours than full time. Can be pressured/stressful at times but no more than I remember when I worked for others.

I'll never be Peter Thiel wealthy but I am on track to achieve my financial goals.
Bezos was really pissed about all the union saber rattling in NY, there was really no doubt it would eventually be unionized at a great loss to his operation, Bezos says "No thanks, chumps"