stephenheron

https://ets-connect.co.uk/ < Slightly more information here.

I've had good success in using this: https://github.com/sqliteai/sqlite-vector if you want something a bit more "off the shelf" if you are using SQLite.

We bought Tailwind UI and it was very good and I learned a lot of nice tricks from it.

Real shame, and I fear it is just the start of the impacts of AI on our industry.

Quite disappointing their speech to text models are not open source. Whisper was really good and it was great it was open to play around with. I guess this continues OpenAI's approach of not really being open!

One thing to checkout is perhaps some plugin/module you have might be adding this permission without you knowing about it.

Trying using the 'Merged Manifest' in Android Studio (https://developer.android.com/build/manage-manifests#inspect...) to see if you can see coming from anywhere.

I am glad people are talking about this. I have been feeling like this for the past couple of weeks. It's a difficult thing as I really enjoy coding but it feels like that part of the job will be changing in the future.

I think it's all about being adaptable, being here on HN and thinking about these things will put you ahead of others who simply don't see the change coming. Unfortunately we can't put the AI genie back in the bottle and we just have to be ready to adapt.

I have never applied at Google so I don't know what they are looking for exactly, however I read "Linux Kernel Development" by Robert Love a few years ago and I really enjoyed it. It might be the best technical book I have ever read now that I think about it.

I would encourage people to read the NCSC blog post on this as it goes into technical detail on why the decision was made.

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/a-different-future-for-tel...

A fair few apps are crashing for me. I wonder if it is a similar problem to the Facebook SDK issues a few months ago.

I quite like the Autosport forums: https://forums.autosport.com/forum/2-racing-comments/

Or if you are more into the technical side of things: https://www.f1technical.net/forum/

Some quite interesting stuff around how they might be getting around the background iOS restrictions[1] can be found in the Android source.

Looking at the Apple documentation on background peripheral bluetooth, they state "All service UUIDs contained in the value of the CBAdvertisementDataServiceUUIDsKey advertisement key are placed in a special “overflow” area; they can be discovered only by an iOS device that is explicitly scanning for them"[2]

I wonder if they have managed to reverse engineer this overflow area so it is accessible via Android.

Someone did some looking into this and it seems at least feasible[3]

[1]: https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-Android-BETA/blob/maste...

[2]: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ne...

[3]: https://crownstone.rocks/2018/06/27/ios-advertisements-in-th...

I wonder if they could reduce the power to the Bluetooth chipset to artificially reduce the range?

Might be possible with iOS devices as it's pretty easy to test each of them. Harder to do with the 1000s of Android devices that exist.

Good for them but at the same time it is a shame for non Apple Users.

We use their embed widget quite heavily. Anyone know of any equivalents? I had a quick Google but can't find anything that looks totally equal in feature set.

We picked React Native and while it's not without its problems in general we quite like it. The community around it is pretty good and being able to use a wide range of JS/React packages is really handy.

Hi,

I am developer based in Edinburgh. I would recommend popping along to a few meetups. There is something on nearly every night of the week!

https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/area/62-edinburgh

Thanks, Stephen

I wrote this article so please don't too harsh ;) Crazy to see something I wrote for our company blog on the frontpage of HN this afternoon!

I found this site https://www.useronboard.com/ to be quite a useful resource for looking at the on boarding process.

I had never heard of Kotlin but after looking at the docs I am very impressed. I spend most of my time in the web development world (PHP, Javascript) but I am thinking about starting a small Android project.

I have zero Java knowledge so I wonder if it is feasible to jump straight into using Kotlin or to try and learn some Java first?

I found this video series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ntGDm6hOs) very interesting. It is someone (Casey Muratori) building a game from scratch using C.

The intro videos really opened my eyes to how powerful C is. Being able to directly access memory seems crazy for someone who is just used to dealing with languages that really remove you from the hardware.

Google does have a section within their guidelines on creating "HTML Snapshots". "If a lot of your content is created in JavaScript, you may want to consider using a technology such as a headless browser to create an HTML snapshot." https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/...

If anyone wants to hear more about Persona and lives around the Edinburgh (Scotland) area then please feel free to pop along to a talk that one of the Persona developers is giving. https://edpug2013aug.eventbrite.co.uk/?ref=ecal

Videos seem to be unavailable at the moment.

I just bought a RubyMotion license and I really enjoyed creating my first iPhone App but I don't think I would have started if I knew about this issue.

I really hope that they get around to fixing this problem, it does make me a bit concerned that they are pushing big new features while such a serious issue seems to exists.

Their are two similar sites, one for programming and another for Linux system administration.

http://linuxzoo.net/ and http://progzoo.net

I was really struggling to get my head around regular expressions until I found this site http://rubular.com/.

I found the visual way to shows the matches to be really useful.

http://www.crime-research.org/library/grcdos.pdf I think this is what you are talking about, really interesting read if I remember correctly.

A Javascript redirect has been added to http://extras.thesun.co.uk/sol/breakingnewspage.html.

http://pastebin.com/pWQtngDc (Line 8).