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I'm not sure why everyone here is so concerned about the fact Google collects data, but doesn't actually sell it? Google might connect ads and your data anonymously, or use algorithms applied to your data for their services, but they've never been shown to actually give your data to anyone, nor to abuse it in any way.

Compare this to how lazy other companies have been with data breaches (Apple, Sony, Equifax, a ton of others), or companies that will actually sell your data (phone providers, credit card providers, various discount cards, etc..), I don't see why Google is always targeted.

When I had a Hotmail account back in the day, it got hacked (and I've always had strong passwords). Gmail has never been hacked. Windows has ads and spyware throughout Windows 10, Google shows you ads when you search for something. Yet MS gets a pass these days, people forget about Apple's weak account security in the past not to mention apps abusing permissions, but Google is constantly demonised.

I don't get it. Of all the tech products I've had over the years, the Google ones have been the best, the most secure, the most useful. They collect more data, but as far as I've seen, they also protect it the most.
Cruise will be a tech provider like Waymo. Tesla is the only company that has an end to end product from software to hardware..think Apple.
When an experimental project is made core to the company's traditional business, the experimental project is usually slowed down. The fewer dependencies between GM cars and Cruise, the better.
Learning a problem is harder 3 years later isn’t unusual in software world. All the autonomous car companies said this is harder. Waymo has no driverless cars anywhere and there are quotes saying it would be ready.

Also, Elon always promised hardware upgrade if needed.
Yes, it should be bottled made available as cheaply as possible branded in two different flavors Google Privacy In A Can™[0] and Google Privacy On The Go™[0]:

"So right away, let us cast aside the technological protocols, that are usually referred to as “the internet”, that of which was built upon that make accessing or publishing information public between two or more machines…

Because talking about such things would require most internet users to cast aside social constructs they willingly suspend on a daily basis upon engaging with such technology/services (without any care to understand for oneself, one might add) and then demand collectively in retrospect to have their cries pacified while continuing to use such services (of which, most for free).

Yup, let us look past all that and believe (because that’s all we can do for ourselves) that institutions/organizations/companies/governments, that all consist of our fellow human beings in all of our qualities and flaws, can provide for the individual that which he chooses not to do for himself, to a satisfactory level in which his desires are forever coddled and placated."

[0] We will give access to our preferred government bulk data buyers on the grounds of National Security.
There's been activity porting the Android Java components to Fuschia.

I have no inside information (not a Googler) but that leads me to believe that if Fuschia becomes the next mobile OS from Google it will support both.

So same goes for Android I would assume. Why does an OS need to have a single stack? You can write desktop apps in a zillion different languages and Frameworks after all.
Will it matter?

How much of it will actually be spent on stuff? How much of it will be spent in court fighting people over nothing in order to do things?
Sweet! Thank you. :)
If you're even slightly surprised by this you weren't paying attention when Google bought the Revolv smart home ecosystem then took it out back and shot it. All the customers got when their expensive smart home devices shut down was a "Thanks for playing, here's a coupon for saving when you buy a Nest because we just turned off all your shit".

Google is a company with severe ADHD. Consumers expect home appliances to operate for decades. That is not a good mixture. If the whole "internet of things" trend dies out and people stop buying, you bet your ass Google will happily shut Nest's servers down and leave every single one of their customers out in the cold. They've already done it.

I've got friends with home automation systems from the early 80s. They work flawlessly. You think any service or device Google sells will be functioning in twenty years? Thirty?

Call me when IBM is offering a smart hub.
There's more to it than that - this is a subduction zone without the usual surface markers of one, caused by splits between layers of a tectonic plate.
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What they are saying at MS Build is 4.8 will be supported "forever" because there is too much code depending on .NET Framework, but new feature development is going into .NET Core 3+. By the time they reach .NET 5, they will have unified .NET Core, .NET Standard and Xamarin. They are skipping version "4" to avoid confusion with the second .NET Framework 4.8.

I took "forever" to mean that they would still be issuing security patches to 4.8, for example. Given all that I don't know why you're insisting on phrasing it like that. There is only one future, sure. But you seem to be making it sound like 4.8 has a planned obsolescence date or something and Microsoft is saying the exact opposite.
Wow, I agree. Lately I've noticed search sometimes just pops in websites just because I visited it from a previous search, relevancy be damned! and it suuuuuucks.
Because I believe many of the responses are irrational, and not expressing what the actual underlying feelings are of the commenters.

People are upset that there is a reduction in the openness of things, which I understand. People are upset that their personal projects and home hacks will stop working, which I understand.

They should just state that though, and not the "That's it I'm never buying Nest again" type of angry response.

If you want to hack your home, there are many open source alternatives.
I believe the kind of Google Assistant integration you would need to replicate this kind of access is impossible in publicly available APIs currently.

Google has much more integration capabilities, but they seem to be this far "invite only", you can't request it.
There's a chance that in the future, Android will just be a legacy environment within Fuchsia. Fuchsia's main UI framework will be Flutter.
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I don't mean to be cynical, but the answer may be 'whichever language wins'.

Maybe Google wants to support Dart because its built in-house, while simultaneously supporting Kotlin because it is so well loved by developers. Just a guess.
This sounds like bad luck to me, but who knows. I use a pair of over-ear noise canceling bt headphones, and they sound just fine. I wouldn't call them amazing, but I'm not sure I can tell the difference between them and any other sub $100 headphones.

One catch that I noticed: there are two profiles I can connect to my desktop with. One is simple audio streaming (a2dp maybe?) and sounds fine. The other (hsp?) supports microphone input and the sound degrades quite noticeably. Maybe you're connecting via this second mechanism?
I hope your's isn't.
Musk has his head in the clouds. While this is good for his long-term plans to do the impossible, it means you can never believe him on progress or dates until you can touch the product.
Very much agree -- this is a good chance to step back and ask how software practices can improve. It feels like we are a long way from optimal.
The smart thing to do is to approach it from both sides. Of course, only people's postings are visible to you. You wouldn't know if they read 100 listings and reached out to several of them.
Never listen to experts! They think they can advise us on what to do, just because they happen to have deep knowledge and relevant experience with the issues at hand. How arrogant of them! </sarcasm>
To make this an interesting comment you have to address the trade off between using PCs and Office software and whatever Larry sets up to store and share files and Google's stuff, and then make a convincing argument that Larry is better than Google.
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When I saw this had 400+ upvotes, I kind of rolled my eyes and thought, Wow, HN will upvote the absolute worst idea if it’s an implausible-enough hack. But having actually read your explanation and FAQ, I have to admit every upvote is well earned, including mine. That is really concise and entertaining prose, and the feat is well done. Bravo.
What do you mean Tesla is the most transparent player? They absolutely never showed anything else than slides and a 2 minute video.
That's probably the least transparent from all the big players. You can go to Mountain View and see cars running right now. Or go to Phoenix and get into a Waymo car.

Again you got ahead of yourself with the Tesla hype.
But then I have to charge it.

I know, I know—of course you have to charge it, no crap, but this is why Bluetooth will never be a replacement for me. It's too much extra complication in my life. I just want a pair of headphones that I can throw into my pocket and will never need to be charged and will work with all my devices without any additional adapters.
All the brands you just listed are not examples of "buy it for life" engineering.

I dunno about the shoes but Snap On isn't really great quality anymore. The Chinese have closed the gap. Fluke, Honda and to a greater extent Toyota are all steadily moving toward more disposable products.

The cheap Chinese kitchen stuff you mentioned is actually the most durable item because in order to stand up to occasional abuse without being damaged it needs to be so overbuild that it can last lifetimes. That's simply a function of the design requirements, not any particular manufacturer's attitude though.
I don't quite get what people expect... do they think that once google creates something, they are obligated to continue it indefinitely? That seems like an unreasonable expectation.
There seems to be a trend of people making a lot of money designing/building stuff that erodes privacy and ethics and then leaving the company where they made that money and talking about privacy and ethics. Take for example Justin Rosenstein who invented the Like button.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/fa...
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I'm not sure where the OP is coming from because any halfway decent LED driver will accept a wide range of voltages, far more than the fluctuations seen on public lines.
For those who didn't (or can't) read the article, the question being posed is--can they resist committing to additional recurring expenses in the face of a one-time windfall, not can they resist imposing a windfall profits tax on IPOs.
I wonder if it's time to re-evaluate the concept of "not invented here". Services that exist at another company's pleasure aren't a platform to build a business on. This is effectively a type a single sourcing. There are no contractual obligations to you on the part of the service provider, and tremendous leverage to undermine you if you ever get big enough to get noticed.
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Adding on to this - the self-driving car space is pretty small (in terms of companies with realistic self-driving aspirations) and there's a good amount of movement of employees between companies. While it's hard to make judgements from the reported numbers, the consensus in the space is definitely that the leaders are Waymo followed by Cruise.
I would worry about ANY company that is completely reliant on any other one company. You should never get in that situation.
I was in the same boat as you. Loved Android, didn't mind sharing all my data with Google. Worked with startup colleagues on google cloud.

And then came Google ban bots. 24 hours ago they deleted one of my friend's account because of a keyword picked up in his reviews on app store (Apparently the bot thought he was being compensated for reviews which goes against their TOS), some of gsuite users had all accounts frozen and everything deleted because one of their dev had multi-login.

Some were suspended for credit card denials in their billing (falls under financial fraud). Then "Youtube heroes" where people could flag each others videos.

I really wanted to try out their new ML products but the console is insisting on me adding my credit card and I am so paranoid about getting my account blocked/deleted by Google if for any reason the credit card charge is rejected.

I give two shits on a popsicle about NSA snooping on me. I am more worried about google taking away chrome,search, gmail, android.. how did even get here where google controls essentially the whole of internet.
as someone who originally wanted to push Dart backend dev coming from Node and seeing the potential of Dart on the backend, I congratulate you on achieving what I couldn't with Fukiya (probably dont know it, it was my attempt at an Express/Sinatra style framework for dart). Glad someone did it. I will now be using Angel if I do any Dart backend dev.
I wish newer mouse has been as reliable. Even standard Microsoft USB Mouse failed me after a year or two, multiple times already.

On the other hand, my first mouse, a cheap OKER branded, lasted me 10 years before clicks start not registering.
> Not sure how they're going to achieve that. LEDs produce 37 to 120 lumens/watt, HPS and LPS produce 50 to 160 lumens/watt. The sodium lamps lose out only because they are omnidirectional and a mirror is required to aim their light down, so some of the light is blocked by the lamp itself. But overall LEDs don't save 50%.

I did a quick search and found their RFI [1]. They are reducing electricity consumption by 50% because they are replacing 40+ year old light fixtures that have 70+ year old wiring:

> In the 1950s, the City installed new lighting infrastructure citywide; utilizing mercury vapor lamps. In the 1970s, the City performed a system-wide lighting upgrade; replacing the mercury vapor fixtures with high-pressure sodium fixtures. This project was only a lamp head upgrade; the City retained the 1950s era electrical poles, wiring, and infrastructure. Over the years as underground wiring has failed, City crews have often replaced underground wiring with aerial wiring. In 2009, using available federal funding, the City replaced high-pressure sodium streetlight fixtures with more energy efficient ceramic metal halide fixtures along Western Avenue and Lake Shore Drive. That fixture replacement undertaking did not include upgrading the electrical infrastructure.

[1] http://chicagoinfrastructure.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/...
I'm a native dev that is aggressively against the JS-based hybrid frameworks, and I will do every project in Xamarin from now on after working in it for a greenfield project. It's the best option out there until Kotlin Native gets legs.
I have never had problems logging in. I use my ProtonMail credentials in Firefox, Chrome, and Brave, and FaceId on the iPhone. Zero issues in over a year of using it.

Have you tried contacting their support team?
That’s rich coming from him.
Wow I hate these so much. Unable to select text in a recipe app, scrolling inertia on Mac is different (and no scroll bars?!), trackpad back/forward gestures are apparently hijacked, and those are problems I found from just browsing simple demos for 30 seconds. I really hope this goes into the Google dumpster quickly.
I reckon I'll need a couple million to retire in the next several decades. As I'm still pretty young I have a personal pension liability of a couple million dollars.

My point here, what's the practical impact of this number? It's a scary number that's thrown out a lot, but is this number going to break the budget, or will pension spending as a fraction of the total budget be fairly stable?
I call them retina burners.

A new supermarket by me installed all LEDs for the parking lot, and used warm white ones. You wouldn't even be able to tell they aren't incandescent without looking. I really hope more word gets out to not use "bright white" LEDs for outdoor lighting.
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They didn't create the ecosystem, they bought it. They didn't want it, they wanted everyone to be in their ecosystem instead.
I hacked up an existing (shitty) webchat client I had around to do this: https://github.com/Qu4Z/chattr-nojs

It still uses CSS so as not to be ugly, colour-code messages by user, and to position the "Enter message" box below the chat history, but I hope it gets the basic idea across. It should continue to work if you disable styling.
Came here to say this. Ecto is solid. Also, the results come back as elixir structs and not bloated objects so it’s much faster than ORMs in many other languages. Additionally, the functional approach makes everything much less magical.

Changesets can take a little while to grok, but they work.
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Can anyone comment on the reliability/availability of these pods?
Wow! That is even more aggressive than I would have guessed, and I’m cynical.

Do they have actual business customers that agree to those terms?
I'm using a Nest with Homebridge to expose it to Homekit. Didn't want to purchase one due to the reliance on the cloud and lack of Homekit support.

After months of waffling I gave in and got one. I also regret that decision now too. Last Nest purchase I will ever make.
I guess all I can do is say that 20 years of good behavior is enough to convince the state to release you for first degree murder, and most people seem to feel ok about that. I'd suggest that most people probably don't know their spouses or best friends for 20 years before trusting them, either. And you could declare bankruptcy twice in that time and still have pretty good credit. So as a society we seem to have accepted that 20 years is actually a pretty long track record. Not sure why our standards for infosec should be higher than any of those things.
> The difference was that the early optical mice required a special mousepad for them to work

Yeah, the article mentions this too.

Why was this such a big deal? Just include the pad with the mouse. Using a pad is nice anyway. It's not like you'd be carrying the mouse around with you, given that laptops weren't much of a thing yet.
What are you playing devils advocate against? OP wasn't saying it was a bad business decision by google, he was just saying it sucks for the 1800 people using his thing.

Are you saying those 1800 people can't be upset about the lost functionality because they don't effect Google's bottom line?

I don't understand how your comment follows from the GP
Would you mind sharing some of the reasons why it didn't end up taking off?
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Just to be clear: is this confirmed to mean that Alexa will no longer integrate with Nest?
I have personally set up a linkedin account (of basically me in 20 years), I use it to look up people when I dont want to know I am looking them up. I have personally had about 30 invitations to speak at conferences, job offers or people asking for career advice. I find it hilarious everytime, and often consider seeing how far I could go with accepting to speak at a conference, and the demands I could make.
Any ZigBee thermostats should work with Alexa and HomeKit
Questions I won't get answers to, but about which I'm curious anyway:

1. How many end-users are affected?

2. How many devs are affected?

3. What is the annual transaction volume that is affected?

Depending on the magnitude of the answers to these questions, I can see turning this API off being either a good thing or a bad thing. If hundreds of users are affected, well. Sad, but sometimes unpopular things get turned off. If hundreds of thousands of users are affected, this is an eyebrow-raising decision.

Developers are also important, but less so than users. It would be nice to keep the lights on just to let people tinker, but that same openness creates security risks and costs money. Many on this site praise Apple when they make restrictive decisions that harm devs, as long as those decisions are justified in terms of end-user privacy and security.

I think the transaction volume question gets at the heart of the issue, at least for me. If there is a lot of economic activity here, that's a signal that user needs might not be accounted for in this decision, or at least are not its primary driver. On the other hand, if only $1M or $2M per year is changing hands in the affected part of the ecosystem, well . . . again, nothing lasts forever.
There is a difference between actual experts and academic title profiteers.
They are rubbing their hands because they see these high taxes on individuals as the bonanza of their low corporate tax policy.
The problem is that people hate paying taxes more than companies do.

I have many friends that work in late stage startups who are planning to move to secondary offices in Seattle or Austin just to escape an eventual California taxation once they can convert their options because of an IPO or an acquisition.

This by itself it's not a big problem, but California is so damn expensive that it starts looking pretty unattractive to future prospective entrepreneurs that can opt for other less expensive states to run their business.
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For all of the criticism that Tesla gets for a incremental approach - they still have the best semi-autonomous car in actual production and a difficult but obvious path to full autonomy.

These guys could completely flame out without ever getting anything of value out into the market.
I got the terms from _Software Requirements and Specifications_, which is a fun, if fluffy and meandering, read. I only skimmed the paper you linked but it seems to be a more thorough treatment than the book was.

https://www.amazon.com/Software-Requirements-Specifications-...
I think his point was that it is hard to keep a company going making just the hardware. The margins are low, and customers only have to pay you once, to get the hardware.

It is hard to make a lasting business off that, which is why everyone wants to do subscription services.
> Didn't find it added more value than other formal methods with less scope and ambition

For my own future reference, can you list a few other formal methods?
Personally, I'd expect moving in either direction between management and development would be difficult. I've +15 years as a developer, but 0 as a manager. Id need a fair amount of training and some stumbling to be effective as a manager (of developers). And I just started a new job as a dev with a track to management to replace my manager when he retires.

Frankly, at times, it scares me. I've several years to prepare, though.
These services aren't Google's business model of Ads.
Nothing electrically that impacts waterproofing, but if the headphone jack straddles the front and back covers mechnical sealing will be harder. I think USB should actually be more difficult to waterproof, since there's more spaces for drops of water to stick vs a "hole", the pins are closer to make shorting easier, and there's higher voltages being passed over the pins when charging. The only thing I can think of is that surface tension of water would prevent droplets from forming in a tiny dense USB-C port and not so in a 3.5mm jack, but that's a bit of a stretch.
I wonder, did you perhaps not read the linked article? If so I must have misinterpeted you.

By my reading, its author seems to share your frustration and wrote the post to answer your question.
> These terms will survive termination or expiration of the Agreement.

Is this legal?
Forgive me because I actually don't know if it could be?
Why in the hell was this comment flagged, and why can't I vouch for it?
What can systemd do better than GRND_NONBLOCK in the non-x86_64 case?