skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll link to an open source project [0] because I don't want to throw mud at any particular company, and it is a cool project to develop for anyone motivated enough.

Having said that, it's a dumb product because the cane is very often beaten up, or misplaced so it's an expectation that it will need replacing every 12-18 months. The additional weight needed for the hardware throws off the natural balance of the cane making it more difficult to use and also interferes with the haptic feedback users depend on from a "dumb" cane. Also, the white cane is relatively cheap ($20-50 USD) - smart canes are usually $1000+, or if the "smarts" come as attachments to an analog cane, they would range $300-500 (my intelligence is 2-3 years old, so it might be higher now), so out of reach to most blind people. None are stand-alone and require synching with the phone, but many users who are tech savvy enough to use one of these already uses a navigation app, so one of the key benefits (GPS navigation) is redundant.

Overall the drawbacks (price, negative impact on usability, natural wear and tear) greatly outweigh the possible benefits.

Everyone in the industry is genuine, there is very little profiteering, and the goal across the board is to improve people's lives, but these products are always from young techies (student or technically advanced blind person) who made an awesome project that should be celebrated. But they should also be one-offs and open-sourced, with the money and effort spent on launching smart canes that will inevitably fail in the market better spent elsewhere.

[0] https://maker.pro/arduino/projects/arduino-smart-cane-for-th...
Hicks has what would otherwise be an impressive ability to say absolutely nothing, even when responding to direct questions. He describes the RH purpose as "a north star", which is about as useful as the real cowboy in City Slickers saying "one thing"; its circus tent level preaching of empty platitudes. He believes going from intern to CEO was something other than luck, which is about the most dangerous position I can imagine. Zero humility, zero self awareness.

He is Elon, if Elon was slightly less crazy and ran only one company.
Agreed, GPT has become too common for a trademark to be approved. It can even be revoked for becoming too common of a word for something, like "escalator" had happen many years ago.

https://www.bentley.edu/news/popular-brands-had-their-tradem...
In russian, you can express anything using just 5 words and their derivative forms.
I see your point, but as a counterpoint, consider that you have two or more distinct data structures, for example several separate linked lists. What if you need to update multiple lists in one atomic operation? With mutexes, you can do this rather easily: either you have one mutex that guards all lists, or you have one mutex for each list and you ensure you always take them in the same order. I would think that qualifies as composing. However, you can't easily compose a lockless algorithm that works on one list to make it work on multiple at the same time.
downvoted you because you provided no reasoning.
How to Create a Modern C Project with CMake and Conan
The funny thing is in on Fedora in 2023 I don't feel like I'm missing out on most software.
This work looks super promising. I am excited to test it out, thank you!
Very astute observation.

Sometimes it feels like the only reason people are “going to bat”/rationalizing/etc. (glorified simping) for corporations/people of wealth or power/etc. is because they have a financial incentive to maintain good publicity else the stock they hold would be in jeopardy.

I know there’s been sock-puppetry on smaller scales; but for things like FAANG/MAANGA/Elon/$latest_bigco_doing_layoffs you have people coming out of the woodwork to sing praises and “ackschtully”s, perhaps because they work there/know people that work there/or have stock in the parties involved.

But other times it might just be a rationalization to preserve ego. F.e. on Blind, outright saying that FAANG et al. Might be overrated is a quick way to get a bunch of Googles and Microsofts to tell you off.
The fact that there is an obvious but incorrect answer that you might spit out if you were just pattern matching is the whole point. It tricks you into being wrong, which "tricks" you into wanting to know why, where before you might not have cared about the answer or the underlying reasoning at all. You think the question just accidentally picked tricky numbers? Or you think the reason that it picked them was just malice towards children?
I find channels more or less mirrors thinking with unix pipes. Writing many tiny "programs" (packages in Go) and chaining them means testing is very simple.
slack is great, we have that too. But it's asynchronous by design. Async communication is great, it's super useful for getting work done. Synchronous communication is important for things like brainstorming, when ideas are half thought out and that's a good thing because it gets gears turning. Slack is too easy to sit there and edit your own words out of existence when maybe those ideas could have been helpful in a group branstorming session.
This would also work great as a non-verbal, non-hands communication device. Currently research is being done in Subvocal Recognition [1] but it's very imprecise and can essentially only get to yes/no answers.

Imagine using this along with something like PalmOS Graffiti [2] + predictive text to send silent messages to people.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocal_recognition

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)
Just please don't try to understand squirrels, we don't want a dolittle situation...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcOb3Dilzjc

Connections, episode 1, "The Trigger Effect".

TL;DW shit gets very, very dicey in a matter of days if the power goes out—and most of our ways of recovering with any speed rely on power so if it goes out for most or all of the world at once, that's extremely bad.

If it hit the wrong time of year, I could easily see a global power outage killing millions in the very first day. Loss of air conditioning and heating could push it into the millions all on their own.
I like Joel on Software's reading lists. Basically tags but only for a very small subset of posts which are very good, hand-curated with purpose.

As for "older posts may still updated", I suggest don't do this, unless your site really is more like a wiki than a blog. It's annoying for readers to have to reread old posts and try to spot the difference, it means they can't bookmark a post they like and send it to friends without fear it might change. It's annoying for you because you will end up obsessively trying to perfect old posts. I prefer the approach of just writing a new post if you think you have a substantial amount of new/different information to add, and then you can also show what changed and why. This also means you can go back through your archives and see how your thoughts have changed over time.
I wonder if these people are trying to use @privaterelay.appleid.com addresses instead of Hide My Email, because that will never work for anything than the associated website.
PARC has been doing government funded research from the beginning (ARPA); after they were semi-spun off from Xerox they were primarily funded the same as SRI: government grants and corporate contracting.
The irony is you can now read the reviews on Amazon and make up your mind if you want to but it, and then go buy it from somewhere else even, quelle horreur, a local bricks and mortar bookshop.
I don't know, I read with `showdead` on and the vast majority of heavily downvoted comments are really bad. Lightly downvoted posts are more of a mixed bag, but honestly I think it's pretty fair overall. Nothing is perfect but this forum gets it right more often than any other popular one that I have spent a long time on.
You have that option though if you really seek it out.
I do quite a lot of tech support for older people and would add that forgetting passwords isn't the only issue, an even larger issue is people not understanding passwords at a conceptual level.

Try as I might, my mother doesn't understand the difference between an iPad device PIN, an Apple ID (rarely needed), her email password on this same device (Google-based in this case) and add a few dozen more.

All she knows is the device in her hand. The abstract model we have where we separate device, service, app, web page, different companies...simply does not exist for her, it does not compute. So even if she'd have the discipline to write down things, it would still not work. She doesn't even grasp what part is asking for what.

There's a reason big consumer services like Google and Facebook have not enforced 2FA: a vast population will severely struggle understanding what the hell it is and what to do.

Even when you do enable 2FA on Google yourself, it runs in "soft mode". It doesn't ask for 2FA for previously trusted devices/locations. Surely for good reasons.
I'm in a townhouse 4k from the centre of one of the big 3 CBDs and can't say I've ever had a problem with inconsiderate neighbours, though it's definitely possible to hear them through the walls from time to time. As for noise, the nearby (<500m) outdoor festival venue has definitely been a source of it a few times but surprisingly we heard nothing from the last few shows, probably something to do with wind direction and stage orientation.
It's vastly quieter than anywhere 4km from the centre of many other big cities around the world would be (Rome in particular comes to mind - I remember almost nothing about the place we stayed in except that there was virtually never a moment's silence, ever, and it was a good 5km from the town centre).
Just in case someone stumbles upon this via Google and wondering what was the outcome. After almost a month of complaining via online chat and over the phone, asking for escalation, Booking.com finally issued a refund. The offered to book another place with a promise to cover the rate difference (about 1/3 of the initial cost). I don't know what actually helped, my stream of complaints, or maybe the fact that I warned them about possible legal actions like ACM ConsuWijzer in the Netherlands which I learned about from this thread or maybe simply this process just takes so long. Due to the lack of transparency BB, it's hard to tell.
I did 4-days-a-week for a few years at a startup. I was as-productive, or potentially moreso (difficult to determine, since I started the job on that schedule). Initially I intended my day off to be flexible, but it was easiest for me and people I worked with, to be off the same day every week. I tried a few things, and Friday worked the best, for consistent 3-day weekends. Wednesday did not work for me, as it broke up my week too much and made it difficult to get into the flow.

I remember having a realization one Tuesday early on, that I "only" had 2 more days until the end of the week, so I better get cracking! This was a striking contrast to the 5-day workweek, in which I would take more breaks and goof off more. Also, with a 2-day weekend, I feel like I spent 1.5 days recovering and doing life errands, and only by Sunday evening did I have any energy for my personal projects, and then of course it's hard to get into anything because I only had a few hours and had to get reasonable sleep before the workweek started the next morning.

With consistent 3-day weekends, I would still need the same 1.5 days to catch up on life, but errands were easier to squeeze in on Fridays, and I would have the same energy for personal side projects...but starting on Saturday evening instead. Now I could get into something for a few hours on Saturday evening, stay up late hacking if I wanted, and spend all Sunday continuing with it. Enough time to make some real progress. The difference in my personal satisfaction between 4- and 5- day weeks was night-and-day.

The common assumption for someone who wants to work 4-day-a-week is that they want to work as little as possible, and 4-days is what they think they can get away with (either socially or salary-wise). Well, I tried 3-day weeks briefly, and it wasn't really that great. 3 days wasn't quite enough to get fully absorbed into my paid work each week, and I felt like (and was treated more like) a part-timer. I also tried 32 hours over 5 days (~6 hours a day, or 3x 8 + 2x 4), and it felt more like an "easier" traditional work schedule, but it didn't leave me the same capacity for my personal endeavors, even though the hours should have been similar. (Maybe because I'm a night owl, so being able to stay up late and sleep in completely changes the tone of the day for me.)

4-days a week with consistent 3-day weekends was definitively the best work schedule I've ever had.
As pure speculation, one could forward to aligned_alloc and still free with ::delete. I haven’t tested this, nor have I looked at the code.
SRI was instrumental in the creation of Disneyland https://www.sri.com/hoi/disneyland/
same. It's legal in my state. Every parking lot I go into the smell is heavy there. People sit it their cars and smoke I guess. I assume people drive high then more frequently. I don't want to share the road with high people. Somehow public intoxication is ok now when it's marijuana which I don't understand. Maybe people misunderstand what legalization means or maybe it's because being high is harder to detect? I don't know.
Aehm. That is what a lot of closed-source applications do on Linux. And Valve does that, too.

The open-source ones are maintained in the packing system and kept lean.
Downvoting is an easier way to express a disagreement than writing a comment thus gets used more often. I am wondering if they should raise the number of points required to access this feature, it should probably be raised each year in fact.

But yeah some things you just can't say on HN without being downvoted: subcriptions are not evil, opt-out telemetry is fine, not everything needs to be open source, etc.
They are certainly working on wrecking it. I already have negativity associated with it from "Open" but being anything but open at this point.
Nah, I'm good. I have all the benefits you cite without having to bother with a safe.

I was just reacting to the somewhat bizarre idea that owning a safe is something we should be expecting people to do for their online stuff.
Never encountered that. Is this because I got lucky in an A/B test or because I have Advanced Protection turned on and only use FIDO keys?
See my comment above. tcmalloc implements the C API as well, including aligned_alloc().
I agree that "in office" culture implicitly values informal, face-to-face interactions that happen "for free" if you are in office. The problem, in an increasingly globalized world, is that it's only "free" for the company - the employee commutes (and buys lunch, etc).

I also find the casual interactions in-office valuable - but I'm not going to "eat" the cost of enabling them for the good of the company. If someone actually offered me an in-office position that took the time I spent enabling those interactions seriously (i.e. compensated me for them) - I would be a lot more receptive to returning!

Instead, companies tend to want it both ways: they want their employees to donate the time to get the benefits of working in-office, then they want to use the same employees lower raw productivity stats to fire them down the line. I'm old enough to recognize such an obvious trap.
"SRI" [1]

[1] https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/cache/file/63774...
> camera -> qr ux flow

You mean the idiotic little tiny yellow popup which only stays on the screen while the QR in view and must be tapped to activate... WTF were they thinking right? (You can add a "QR reader" button to your control center though which functions in a more sane way.)

Anyway yes you can do that, but I wouldn't use iCloud keychain at all because your Apple account, including ICKC, can be fully hijacked using one factor only - the passcode of the device an attacker has. People watch you unlocking in a bar, then grab your phone and run. Google "joanna stern iphone passcode" before moving any precious data into Apple's control.
I’m taking issue with the characterization that we have nothing to lose, which seems to be the implication of GP and the comments agreeing with them.
Ask for Forgiveness, Not Permission
Hard disagree. Anecdotally, everyone in my friend group uses chatGPT/Bing many times a day.
so they use the mountain as a buffer to delay flow until summer ?
Fedora 38 includes the LLVM15 libs to maintain backwards compatibility.

Why is this automatically using a new, incompatible solib, instead of a versioned solib?
This is a big, hard NO.
Bye bye 1P.
That's part of it. The main part is working at the physical location of your choice, usually home, and not having to commute.
The internet brought everyone and their opinion to the table. It used to be that debate was done within smaller circles, and the wayward elements within those were tolerated to a larger degree, but the rest, the outsiders, were never let in.

Now anyone can weigh in on anything that is presented online. You are no longer debating amongst your "clan" but amongst all clans, many of which won't really understand where you're coming from and will invariably disagree.
Social media has created more mental illness in people. It's become normalized to jump to extreme slander like racist or sexist, etc. In my experience over the past 8 years on HN, when I am flippantly called things like that for disagreeing with something, there is usually a wave of nuanced, intellectually honest people who support you in the comments.

My advice is to "post and ghost". HN doesn't show you when someone else commented, so just move on. I personally don't care what non-nuanced thinkers think about me, and I know people who are willing to engage honestly with me will either prove me wrong or disagree without feeling the need to rip me apart. I think the consequences of dissenting are overblown.
I vouched a functionof's comment.
> The worry about telemetry in a product like this is how it's implemented.

Exactly. They are enlarging the attack surface of a security device. For their own benefit. One buffer overflow and there's a backdoor.

That this is happening means their marketing people have more power than their security people. This is a very bad thing for a security company.

Start migrating away from 1Password. Now.
The advisory boards, lobbyists, industry insiders that advise the regulatory agencies are all vested in keeping the apprentice, journeyman, master licensing scheme going as it gate keeps entry into the field. If someone proposed that it should be a skills based test with oral, practical, written portions where you simply had to prove your knowledge instead of spend years and hours in the trade then they would come up with tons of reasons around safety, etc that it would be a bad idea just so they could retain their titles and keep more people out of the field.

Similar to any regulated field like Doctors that have a vested interest in keeping residency spots competitive.
Digital addiction is real. Some decades ago, when people didn't have personal audio players and youtube it was normal for people to sing in the street. Now just look what a pitiful society of consumers we have become. We are giving up our identities for more digital crack.
I think it will be based on availability rather than verification of deletion, but I'm just guessing.
Here here!

As a web developer, I think we've figured out maybe 1% of what the web is good for & capable of. There's still so much possibility, so many options, that any given person can go off & explore & play around with & succeed on. The field has never been more open for, more ready for new exciting possibilities, better set to start changing if we can make a real authentic honest outreach to users, that is a fair shake from tech, & not leaving cloud-giants holding all the cards & us with a couple magic beans.

The doom & gloom look at the macro of what the web is is really sad. It's a constant pity party. The ability to control & shape our information spaces to our liking & pick our paths has never been higher, has only gotten better as more protocols & standards, focused at purer social networking levels than the web medium at large, have arisen.

As a developer, it's been a one way street with us crafting better and better means of web development and deployment every single year, and what we're excitingly starting to see is more genuine & personal involvement not just with creating sites, but with creating interconnection, creating interlink, creating intermedia, not just on one big property, but across many voices. Nostr highlighting the idea of a relay, that who we relay is a vote of amplification, is semi-covert social commentary on picking your traffic, on selecting what gets to get shared out. There's no headier better more promising time than today (and the web continues to be the premier delightful connectable blank slate from with which to experiment & iterate).
Show HN: Get real-time alerts for your eBay searches
TL;DR - I'm looking for people to try out the newest iteration of my side project @ https://www.nerdcrawler.com/ebay to get real-time alerts when new original art, comics, action figures, and more drop on eBay that match your saved search.

——

I've been working on Nerd Crawler (nerdcrawler.com) in my free time for about a year (previous HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31855732) to help solve a problem I had with collecting.

I would miss out on deals or new products because I wasn't constantly refreshing websites waiting for products to drop. Other site monitoring tools existed, but nothing was designed specifically for my two passions: collectibles and original comic art.

So I built it myself, starting with crawling specific original art and toy websites and checking when new products dropped, but one piece of feedback I kept getting from users is to make a version of this for eBay because eBay doesn't support real-time alerts.

Today, I'm sharing this new eBay integration that leverages the eBay API to monitor for new product drops based on a saved search and then sends an email, text, slack, and/or discord message to you. You can try it out at https://www.nerdcrawler.com/ebay

You might be wondering why the product has limited categories to filter with. The long story short is that eBay has a pretty strict limit on the number of API requests you can make per day. To solve for this, Nerd Crawler is targeting niche collectors of original comic art, collectibles, and figures. But, you can use the "All" category + some good keyword and exclusion keyword to create a save search for just about anything on eBay

Looking forward to your feedback to keep making this app better!
Submitted before, but the URL changed (it was split out from a "Notes" page): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18394756
It seems more like the app and driver are mixing their new/delete pairs. That seems like a bug to me. Maybe even an API design issue if it's supposed to happen.
It actually should still work, since fedora38 includes the llvm15 versioned libs.

The only way to make this break is if something is loading random unversioned solibs or whatever the latest one it can find is, and expecting this to work forever.

If it actually used a versioned solib, it would get llvm 15
just like it did before.

This is the whole point of versioned solibs.