skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those aren't problems of Bluetooth, those are problems of device implementations. The BT protocol makes it possible to manage pairings, un-pairings, and re-pairings, in any which way that makes good sense for the user. But a lot of device manufacturers don't spend the time to read even the most basic parts of the spec necessary to manage connections.

For example, a lot of re-pairing issues come about from the device resetting its own device ID. Some rare devices do this on every soft-power-cycle. A good many devices do it on recovering from power-failure (e.g. dead battery). At that point, the device is basically a completely different "device". The best devices keep their device ID in non-volatile memory so they can recover from power failure without resetting their device ID.

Having built a few BT devices as a hobbyist, it's not really that hard to make a good pairing experience. You just have to... think things through and not do the most bare minimum work.
Which would mean that it could hit any Chinese company within days and companies from other nations within weeks/months. I doubt the US government will put a ban on South Korean manufacturers but I'm not sure if Samsung wants to take that risk.
Terror Attack at the Giza Pyramids Injures 16
Coming from a company that promised an API to post to G+, did nothing for years and then shut the entire service down.

Background: I was the author of a mildly popular Google Buzz client.
There are multiple legs for a suit to stand on, either against Google or the claimants. Bonus points if you registered the works with the corresponding IP department in your country (I think it's the Library of Congress in the US)

Talk to a lawyer

It seems people on the internet try to solve everything with buttons and emails and forget there's a world out there with laws and rights and everything else
Ask HN: Alternative to Google Services?
I am heavily invested in Google Services, both on desktop and mobile.

The current restrictions placed on Android devices have made clear that this reliance is very risky. I do not like being played as a pawn on third parties conflicts.

I would like to replace my use of Google services with alternatives. Specifically, by order of importance:

- GMail

- Google Maps

- Youtube

- Play Store

What are my options?

For mobile, I would consider continuing to use Android as base OS, since it seems restricting use of it wouldn't be feasible.

Replacing Google as search engine was very easy in Chrome: https://duckduckgo.com/install?t=h_

I will try the same on my Android phone later.
Customstarmap
Beautiful, scientifically verified star maps showing the alignment of the stars in a place and time chosen by you - birthday, first date, engagement, wedding...
Why wouldn't you use their services? Because they had an interim CEO? If that would be a reason a lot of companies would be out, wouldn't they?
The illustrations remind me of Thinking Forth. The book seems to walk you through the implementation of a scripting language all the way from lexing through parsing (manual recursive descent parser, not parser generation), bytecode generation and VM. Seems like a nice read!
The US is by far the most lucrative smartphone market. It's not even close.

Most of the smartphone buyers in China are purchasing phones that the manufacturer makes effectively zero net profit on.

When it comes to phones, Apple earns more in profit than every other competitor globally combined. Apple gets half its enormous profit just from the US market. Apple can afford to lose the entire Chinese market thanks to that fact (then they'd only generate a mere $45b in profit and would still be the world's most profitable company).

For another example, while Google is printing massive profit via mobile search thanks to its Android position in the US and Europe, Baidu is losing money in China and has never been able to expand globally (and never will, they're largely hostage to the Chinese market).

If you're Apple or Google and you can only choose one market to participate in, you choose the US. It's where all the margin is, because US consumers provide the largest-wealthiest market by far. Samsung also still actually sells phones in the US, whereas their market share has been entirely wiped out in China due to nationalism and poor Chinese consumers being unable to afford most of Samsung's phones.
I don't think that is true. Gaming on thin laptops would definitely interest a lot of people.
Intel and Qualcomm Also Bans Huawei, Stops Supply with Immediate Effect
I guess that depends on the situation of the company in question, doesn't it? If there have been financial issues a good number and finance cruncher might be exactly what the company needed to survive.
"Build another open source OS that can run Android app but not Android."

It's not as easy as it may sound like.

There have been attempts:

https://sailfishos.org/wiki/Android_Compatibility

https://github.com/anbox/anbox

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/04/new-project-brings-andro...

ChromeOS Android container approach is probably the best, but isn't fully open source to my knowledge.

That's not to say that a state actor like China couldn't pull it off. It would actually be quite interesting if the outcome of these developments was significant effort into a Linux distro that runs well on multiple devices, and is capable of also running Android apps seamlessly.
The Life and Loves of Anne Lister – “Gentleman Jack”
We made these at work couple years back, I have a nice red leafed plant in it:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nw3yxphorc2h9v1/PHOTO-2019-04-26-1...

The only thing that almost killed it was direct sunlight, I think it got too hot and all the moisture was pulled out to the top.
My Nexus 6P ia still sitting here with a bootloop. Apparently you could get compensated if you're in the US so I'm out of luck.

And the compensation didn't happen until a lawsuit.

At best, I'd consider Google hardware to be disposable. That's how I treat my Chromecast devices that I still use. I'm not buying anything new from them if it costs more than making them disposable.
That’s entirety the point of their Made In China 2025 initiative
So it breaks when you need it the most? Gotcha

"Hey let's make everybody use the unregulated band for a basic function so that we make our phones thinner and we can sell more expensive accessories, how about that"
Since I cannot find it mentioned in the OP nor in the comments: if you want to experiment with SAT, the pysat package might be a pretty good start.

https://github.com/pysathq/pysat

The API is not exactly Pythonic (numpy/scipy/opencv style) but it's loaded with features.
Self driving probably won't really take off until it's clearly safer than human driving. Tesla's iffy autopilot statistics don't really do that yet.
This was my problem at university. It was way too easy for me, and I didn't get challenged until the final thesis project, which then took way too long and essentially failed even though I did get a passing grade. Real-life work does present complex problems though, and I am basically not capable of tackling them, even though I am smart enough to solve them once someone else has divided them into smaller problems.
Ubuntu Java packages are a joke as well and I stopped using them when I was having issues with the OpenJDK-11 package from apt. It turned out the the package wasn't packaging Java 11, but Java 10 instead, with a fake name [0]. I didn't check but they might rely on bad Debian packages just like Docker.

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[0]: https://twitter.com/d53r/status/1055403252286717952
For each example, weren't there viable alternatives lurking around to take advantage of the situation?

I'm not familiar with Palm OS, but Symbian and JM2E both has the iPhone and Android OSs as growing threats. Google hasn't officially stated that it is rebooting Android, and even if they did (and did it right), there isn't a major alternative lurking around the corner...
Yes that's true. There is more information on the github page.

It allows you to access the link manager
it sounds awful but do you actually have any examples of them being up the drain before expansion? I ask because I'm one of these cynical about google support folks.
You can’t steal something that’s not legitimately your property. IP isn’t a justified legal concept, it’s a form of illegitimate regulation used by corporations to cement monopolies and threaten the competition with legistlation
Correct. The President does not set the budget; Congress does. The President works up and releases a budget both as a bargaining tactic and as a means to send signals to Congress as to what his priorities are. However, Congress is under no obligation to follow the President's wishes on the budget, and often departs from the President's proposed budget in many areas.
Huawei is not owned by a communist party. Even google will tell you that much..
Nice idea, but the saccharine voiceover made it impossible to listen to for me.
Essentially, it means that you can extend something by writing _new_ code, in a _new_ file, rather than modifying some code.

For example, a case statement cannot be modified without adding a new case. But something that finds all objects which implement IFoo and uses them can be modified by implementing a new implementer of IFoo. (That's not the only and probably not the best example, but it is an example).

A lot of people don't realize that most (maybe all) of these principles originated on C++ code bases way back, where changing one file in one tiny way could cause massive number of files to need recompiling -- which at the time was very painful due to slow compilers.

They have some good applicability, but I think they're massively over-sold.
That only works for vertical storm drains, no? Could it be installed in outflow pipes as seen in the pictures?

And what about cost?
Scott is always a good read, and rarely not entertaining. The Atlantic’s piece is a bit less snarky, but has other redeeming factors.

It is quite obvious when comparing the two that a journalist’s first instinct is always to call a bunch of experts and incorporate their views. It’s also laudable that the author rejects the easy cynicism of accusing these scientists of individual intentional deception, and instead redirects our scorn onto the publish-or-perish dynamic.
There is nothing specific about green. Chlorophyll A and Chlorophyll B have different absorption spectrums. Depending on the specific combination of those two, the plants can appear in a different colours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophyll#/media/File:Chloro...

There are other pigments that cannot photosynthesise on their own, but can pass the energy to chlorophyll to react, as well. So while green usually means photosynthesis, absence of green does not mean absence thereof.

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss3/pigments.html
> as someone in tech talking to others in tech I'm constantly surprised how optimistic people are

Me too. I can't explain it. Here's one point I try to make (in vain): When people imagine such tech, the level of "just-works" is very high, almost sci-fi high. The car would would perform on a super-human level, making near-perfect split-second life-and-death decisions. There's very little room for software/hardware failures. Where do you, as someone in tech, see anything consumer facing that is even close to that level of polishness? It's <current year>, and I still have to restart my Firefox browser every few hours because it gets bloated [0]. We haven't figured out bluetooth yet [1]. Heck, state-of-the-art CAPTCHAs are using street-signs [2].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/ak18uz/help_insane...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19956512
[2] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/296574/captcha-with...

Of course these are tongue-in-cheek anecdotes, but the points stands, that it seems we just haven't figured out how to make complex code work very well yet.
Recently I switched from Google Fi to AT&T for similar reasons. After I transferred my number out of Google Fi, there was a questionnaire from Google asking why I switched, and interestingly, among all the selections (coverage, price, etc.), there was not an option mentioning customer service.
Additionally the market share of AAA-games is currently decreasing.

People with sensitive hearing can tell the difference if a sound arrives <1ms too late and the sound system needs adjustment.

All my bets are on bubble on this one. Maybe it could be resurrected as a zombie to offer sandboxed streaming for all those crappy mobile apps.
Even patents/copyright are eventually broken.

IP rights are an exchange of temporary protection for ideas and implementation, in order to encourage both innovation and disclosure.
Our coming DNA nightmare, as outlined by a dystopian graphic novel
They already have. This only affects the "International Firmware" editions of Huawei phones/tablets. The Chinese editions of these devices are unaffected because those already use AOSP.
Online shopping is inconvenient, here is why
What other plants are there? Photosynthesis is performed in/by chlorophyll which is green, so it's hard to not be green.

There is a puprle earth hypothesis and Haloarchaea, which is based on witamin A related molecule for photosythesis, but those are not classified as plants.

The current theory for inception of plants is that one cell captured another chlorophyllic one and created symbiotic organism, which later evolved into multicelluar plants. So by definition plants should be green for phototrophy ("feeding on light"), until it would somehow evolved chlorophyllic cells, but ot seems they are older than plantae themselves.

Btw. similar theory exists for mitochondria and eukaryota, that's why we speak of my mitochondrial DNA.
The enterprise support tier for GCP is as good as Azure and AWS top tier in my experience.

With regards to consumer products. It‘s probably not possible to support 2.5b+ users with humans. Voice assistants are getting there though. 5 to 7 years maybe?
At least your friends don't need a whole lot of instruction to join. Inserting pictures is pretty easy. And it's mobile.
I though the same initially, but if you look closely there is a metal assembly that has to be fitted to the concrete pipe, plus the whole thing must be a lot heavier than one would assume from pictures to withstand the water pressure for weeks at a time.
Not workable; freedom of movement among the states has been recognized as a constitutional right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_Unit...
> Being effective with BLE requires deep understanding of the entire stack, and since it is difficult for a single person to have such level of understanding, we get bugs.

Bluetooth or LE? LE with GATT in my experience deals with none of this. At least not on an Apple product, CoreBluetooth hides all of this from me as an iOS or macOS developer.
> Could you mention which twelve kings you're referring to?

Well, I'm obviously not much of a Bible scholar. It might also be that the text differs between the Orthodox bible and English ones.

IIRC Moses put up a camp near Sinai, or maybe it was at one of the many other camps. Kings of the twelve Israelite clans, or whatever they're called in English, brought their gifts to Moses: cattle, gold and silver dinnerware and such. My edition of the Bible gave an elaborate listing of the gifts of the first king, running for a full page at least. And then repeated it eleven more times, with each king having brought the exact same inventory. I've read through all the lists just to see if there's a surprise somewhere—nope!

> The letters to the seven churches at the start of the book

That's not all. The entire thing is considered to be an allusion to contemporary events, deliberately written in a more-or-less opaque style to ensure that the author's life doesn't end abruptly after dissemination. It would indeed show the things that would hopefully soon take place to those able to decipher the number of the beast—but afaik you didn't have to be a Judaist or a Christian to understand the message.

Apparently the genre of apocalyptic revelations was popular at the time, and this book was masqueraded as one of those.
I think this is putting too many different functions into a single command.

uxy ls

This looks like it "tabifies" the output of a given command. Aka it turns the output of the given command into a tab seperated format.

uxy reformat "NAME SIZE"

This seems to collide with the above since "reformat" is not a command which will be tabified. Instead it filters stdin for two columns.

uxy align

This seems to do the same as "column -t".
As a European customer I couldn't care less if Martians were to blame... simply put I won't ever put a penny in Google's pocket if they brick my phone.
I have listened to about 10 Joe Rogan podcasts.

I only got a 4 out of 8.

I’m assuming the longer the audio clips the easier it would be to detect the fake/AI?
The big problem I have is that what happens when that unlock site goes away?

When I bought my Mi4c, it wasn't getting an update I knew was released. When I ran a packet capture, I found it was trying to hit "udate.xiaomi.com" instead of "update.xiaomi.com". I was eventually able to unlock and reflash the phone manually.
A coach driver.
Linux kernel security flaw in RDS
Cow's milk is full of growth hormones and fat, including saturated fat and cholesterol, but I think the worst is probably that it's a cocktail of bovine growth and female hormones.

It is highly allergenic and linked to asthma and acne for example.

Those bovine growth hormones throughout our lives can't be good, making some tissues grow continuously that should not grow past adolescence, like the prostate.

Here is a series of videos on the multiple issues that milk has been linked to, from cancer to more - https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/milk/

As an alternative to plant milk, water in this breakfast also works great, the plant milk doesn't really change that much the flavor.
- GMail -> Protonmail
- GMaps -> Here Maps
- Google Search -> DuckDuckGo
- GCalendar -> Zoho
- GDocs -> Zoho, Microsoft
- GDrive -> OneDrive, Dropbox
- YouTube -> Vimeo, twitch
We certainly don't have true AGI but there has been progress in that general direction eg Deepmind's AlphaZero, StarCraft and this thing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17313937
PlayStore -> Fdroid
Contractual Relationship in IT
Pharmer 0.3.0 adds support for HA Kubernetes 1.13 and 1.14 using cluster API
banter and patches from OpenBSD here: https://opensslrampage.org/
Not really. The parent's suggestion, taken at face value, is to simply isolate the "bad" homeless people from the rest of us. Nowhere is there a suggestion of rehabilitation and reintegration.

Not to mention that I'd expect only the worst cases would require institutionalization. Many with behavioral problems could likely be helped greatly with regular therapy sessions and possibly some medication. No need to put them in an institution for any amount of time.
Construction industry. I'm having an upcoming project with making a web based 3d editor now, and before that I had an open offer for another construction industry 3d app. I also have a close friend who just finished a gig in the same line
That's a very good point. I'm of the opinion that a primary residence is a liability, not an investment, but it's true that I'm in the minority when it comes to the US.
I didn't say you couldn't write games using PowerShell. I said there doesn't seem to be books or docs or blogs about using PowerShell for games, or for really anything other than system automation and system utilities.

I'm sure it's possible to write Eliza or a pong game in PowerShell. These are the kinds of things that introduced kids to programming, and without an easily accessible, included language with the mindshare that they are appropriate for entertainment purposes, less experienced but curious people will gravitate away from it.
I don't know where you work but I generally find that employees do not calculate their own pay, apart from maybe reporting hours they tend to not be involved in the transaction at all, HR does the work and deposits it to the employees bank account.

If we subscribe to the idea that OO should model the real world (I don't) then the HR class is definitely where the work should be done.
That was my first thought too. It sucks and they're completely in the wrong, but this stone-walling sounds like he has triggered their (completely insane) internal fraud procedure.
I've been thinking about it to give a boost to my weight loss after this long winter.

I have a couple of questions if you have a moment, do you feel energized in terms of work in the morning, or feel a bit slugish?

If it goes away the lack of productivity, how long does it take to go away? And do you feel hungry in the late morning at first, how long until you don't feel hungry anymore?

For what I heard so far, intermittent fasting is a great tool in the arsenal, but it's not more important than food choices so I haven't given it a go so far.

Thanks for any insight on your experience, kind regards.
> it's harder to discover channels.

IRC never had any channel discovery, so how does modern breed of group chats make channel discovery harder?

IRC does make a lot of things we now take for granted harder (file/image/video sharing, search, persistent history, mobile support...)
The most fun I have with my smartphone are two iMessage group chats with different friend circles. Hilarious. I just hope no one will ever analyze those...
It's not ominous at all. China can't retaliate in that manner if they want Huawei to remain a functioning business.

The US controls nearly all aspects of the global technology industry. It can rather smash Huawei any time it chooses to, ZTE style, by entirely revoking Huawei's access to critical components (and a lot of markets).

Without China, Apple remains the most profitable company on earth and can safely, entirely abandon China. Taiwan I'll note is not China.

Huawei on the other hand can't survive as is without US technology. They'd lose at least 3/4 of their business and most likely end up in bankruptcy.
It's true. I mean, there are people using freaking bing just because it is the default search engine on Windows.
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3001685/huawei-co...
Apple is also slowly building a backup supply chain in India to handle such retaliation by China.
Your title is about inferences, but your text describes a summary, a descriptive statistic or an aggregation - they are very different problems. It's quite straightforward to "find a top item" regardless of the dataset but I don't know why you would want this automated at all.
Still with a lot of this tech, if someone sat you down for an hour and helped you, the barrier wouldn't be there.
I own and maintain a small retro computing collection, which I've recently put on display in a museum setting in a popular city here in Europe, and one of the most common questions I get from folks paying a visit is: "Why?"

The best answer I can give is, "do you throw old books away when you're done reading them?" .. this always makes people think about it a little, and then I follow up with ".. well throwing away computers is like throwing away old books. Exept it took 10,000 barrels of oil to build the computer, another few thousand barrels of oil to get it to you, probably a few thousand while you used it, and it'll take another few thousand barrels to get rid of it while it rots".

Better to just keep it running and find a user. For every old, archaic, 'outdated' computer that people chuck into the land-fill for the sake of consumerist satisfaction, there are a thousand users who you don't know about who will put that thing to valid use. Find those users, don't throw away the computer.

Old computers never die - their users do!
To clarify if it's not clear - the button switches between three different receivers, Bluetooth or Logitech unifying receivers. Currently I have 2 BT profiles, and 1 Logitech. The mouse works flawlessly
I wonder how much of this is driven by the interview culture of forcing people to write complex solutions from scratch in isolation.