skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole point of hearing aids is to be easily forgotten and to last a day without the need to charge. I'm quite sure that with a good computer, profesionnal microphones and some good headphones with a jack you'll have a better solution with lower latency than an iphone and airpods, but that misses the point of hearing aids
I thought that the AirPods were ridiculously overpriced when they came out and wondered why anyone would get them. I’m still kind of on the fence about the usefulness of them, the control, and the fit.

Then I heard rumors about Apple coming out with noise cancelling AirPods about the same time I was getting fed up with my “open office”. As soon as I read the first reviews of the AirPods Pro, I ordered them. I have no regrets. The integration with iOS, noise cancelling, transparency mode, control with the stem, etc is great.

While controlling the volume without having to use Siri would be nice, for me it’s not a big deal, I just use the crown on my Apple Watch.
It’s important to distinguish what most people reading this are likely to consider ‘marketing’ with what actually made these businesses successful.

All of the businesses cited succeeded because they established a differentiated position in the market - GMail because it gave you 10x more storage than was available at the time, and a conversational interface; WhatsApp because it meant that international SMS was now free; Tesla because it sit at the intersection of eco-friendliness and premium design.

Saying that GMail is just about messages, Tesla just about electric cars does a disservice to what actually makes these businesses exceptional. And you do genuinely need that differentiation, otherwise all you have to compete on is price.

I’d be worried that someone reading this would take the idea that all you need is an average business idea and some growth-hackery business tactics like a landing page and Facebook ads, and presto you have a business.

Most businesses do fail because of poor marketing, but not marketing as the HN crowd generally sees it.
Educational hardware implant for making good USB cables bad
Some middle eastern countries, like Qatar, have what amounts to UBI (guaranteed jobs and free basics). It has resulted in what in the west is called the excess and decadence. Without relying on natural resource extraction, I’m not sure it’s sustainable.
Surgeons spend a lot of time studying. Its not like some employers in tech that expect the dev to operate on different kind of patients all day long with 100% productivity and no prior training except what they already knew from school. So information is constantly being uploaded. But developers need to rely on abstractions because the field is constantly changing. After 10 years a framework would be obsolete or undergone major changes. Meanwhile the human evolution won't change much in 10 years although there will be a lot of new research the anatomy stays the same.
I find week numbers very cumbersome to use. Most calendars don't have them by default and most everyday interactions around dates don't involve them. As a result it's a burdensome and unroutined lookup in some arbitrary calendar somewhere just to figure out ballpark distances from current moment. I much prefer date ranges.
Show HN: Deadlinks Documentation Checker
At 52, I was accepted to Yale as a freshman. The students I met surprised me
Kubernetes and Istio on an F16
WHID Injector: An USB Rubberducky / BadUSB on Steroids
How about copy/paste from Stack Overflow? Is that cheating?

Most of the code I write these days is put together like a ransom note but it sure makes it easier to get things done.
There are clips you can find of kids saying it in school to their teacher, and then the teacher freaks out, to the same degree as if they were just called a racial slur, or something of the same magnitude
Author here. I tried to work with kubeflow[1] project this summer, and i got a lot of 404 reading it's documentation, which outranged me a bit. I wrote two functions php script and checked kubeflow site for deadlinks, made a few PR and hopefully fix the situation a bit. During hacktoberfest I made a tool called a deadlinks[2] (I am kinda bad in naming things), and start checking different project documentation for this kind of error (hey guys if you remember me - cheers!). I have discovered that there are (almost) no documentation without such errors. Every single one has it (except hashicorp tools, they are good!).

I start spending more time trying to improve deadlinks, and define use cases. Currently, I am working more on the kubenetes website and deadlinks swinging back and forth, and I think we are ready to be used.

I made simple documentation[3] so you can check examples and how this tool can be integrated into existing ci/cd systems.

How can it be useful for your opensource project/static website?

1. You can check it on broken links during CI.

2. You can apply it to a folder with files or to a server (standalone or ssg powered).

3. If you switching SSG you can check what will be the difference in terms of a number of broken links.

4. It's available as pip package, brew and docker image.

[1] https://kubeflow.org

[2] https://github.com/butuzov/deadlinks

[3] http://deadlinks.readthedocs.io/
>> This is a really provocative and powerful post

Agreed, success can be a lonely journey. That's why it's important to have the right kind of support. Courage is not something that comes from within, it comes from the confidence you gain as a result of feeling nurtured and supported by your peers.

It's important to think of success not as a destination, but as a means to a more meaningful end. Because success gives you the necessary tools and momentum to drive even more positive change in the world. As a successful person who has proven the value of their skills, it's your duty to leverage your past successes to maximize the positive impact that you can have in the world through more successful ventures. It's important to not let that raw innate talent go to waste because it is a rare and precious resource for all of humanity.

You must keep pushing forward knowing that your success is directly correlated with the good of society. At times, it may not seem that way, but if you look at historical evidence, there is a strong correlation between wealth inequality and the well being of society as a whole. As a successful person, you are the product and a symbol of a healthy society and your duty is to continue on this never ending journey to inspire others and to drive positive change in the world.

The best way to help the rest of the world succeed is by furthering your own success.

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world" - Mahatma Gandhi

You need to learn to trust the system which allowed you to succeed in the first place and rest assured that others who share this level of trust and commitment will also succeed.

If you're currently struggling to follow your inner voice and you feel like you need some guidance, don't hesitate to get in touch with me via private messages. My fees are reasonable.
It’s not anonymous in a sense that I’m going to see your linkedin profile. I could have found your profile on my own if I wanted to (that’s what LinkedIn is for in the first place).

What’s important is that I’m not going to see the numbers you entered.

Also, since I’m verifying every registration (in half-automated/half-manual way), and it takes about 20 seconds to do the verification, I cannot possibly remember who I’ve seen and what profiles do they have. (simply because I’m human).

Additionally, what is important is for what purposes you allow me to process your data. And the only purpose for this LinkedIn data is to verify your company name, job title, and location. Once that is done, the data gets removed or disassociated from your account, which means that it can no longer be meaningfully processed (anonymized), and since I don’t have your permission to do any other types of processing—I won’t.

EDIT: So what is anonymous are the salary numbers—and that is what I’m talking about on the landing page.
We hired a guy who 'made cool games'. They weren't really fun, they were buggy, and they were all made with Unity.

We also hired a guy who made simpler Javascript games, but his code looked great an he understood how it all worked.

One is still here, and isn't very useful, the other left for greener pastures as management wanted him to work on only the boring stuff.
Why not, if you bootstrap, it makes total sense.

The other option is to raise money, but then you switch from a developer to manager.
My dad had just one job all his life, for 33 years. While he didn’t become rich, he did enjoy relative peace of mind, pension etc.

Of course everything is relative, but there was a time where companies had a little bit of concern to their employees, however small it was.

Those days are gone. These days, companies don’t even pretend. A very small percentage of people are going to do well, for the vast majority it is just slavery, plain and simple
School wouldn't be too useful if all you learnt was to copy others code.
"try for free" - can't see what the pricing for this is anywhere. Does it require Dropbox plus?
Wired headphones wouldn’t work too well when I just have my cellular watch at the gym....

But even back in the iPod days, I hated wired headphones when I was running or doing anything at the gym.

And how are they “easier to use”? I open the case, they pair to either my iPad or iPhone without a manual pairing process. I put one in my ear, it changes the sound to be monaural from stereo. I also don’t have to go through an unpairing process for it to connect seamlessly to
my watch, iPad, iPhone, or AppleTV.
The Twelve Truths of Machine Learning for the Real World
What kind, specifically?

async/await in C# is a flaming tire fire of hot garbage, it's more a virus than a help.

And why isn't an event driven API preferable?
Agreed. This actually looks useful, something providing actual value to existing (and new) users.

This also looks like it has (viable?) plan for monetising: branded pages for company accounts.
Rab, Mountain Equipment and Montane are good UK brands. I find ME tend to have a more athletic alpinist fit, whereas rab jackets are more voluminous so you can pull them on over everything else e.g. on a belay. Rab Photon Pro is a well known synthetic insulated jacket for Scottish winter conditions. I agree on Acteryx - good but over-priced and becoming the outdoor poseur's garment of choice. You can also get some real bargains for perfectly adequate clothing in Decathlon.
For cold and dry, poor breathability is a fairly serious issue. Moisture will condense out in your clothing which makes things quite uncomfortable. If you wear a membrane like Gore-Tex as an outer shell then the moisture will actually freeze. As a result membranes in such climates are best avoided. Just bring along a light raincoat if it is warm enough that rain is possible.

Source: a life spent in southern Manitoba,Canada.
This depends on your capacity for deep work (I.e. how long can you concentrate). So there are no generalities here.
`If they wanted to handle the certificate error but not the read error, they would have to parse the error message string, which is brittle.`
Aaargh that is my main pain with Go error handling. I try to have an open heart with all the verbose way of living, but this "select by error type" when I want to treat errors really feels awkward
What's a reasonable expectation for durability of these fabrics?

My most recent hydrophobic jackets were Rab (6 years) and Mountain Hard Gear (2 years). While initially awesome, they've both eventually lost their hydrophobic properties. The fabric treatments (NikWax Tech Wash), fastidiously applied, don't work.

Should I just plan on buying a new jacket after X hours of use?
Pretty bullshit. Dude has a type-a personality and made it to the top by a combination of never shutting his mind off and being fine with exploiting others for all their work. I don't think he has a concept of the separation of work and life everyone else does. Does Bezos really think people will find work-harmony working in his warehouse, mindlessly everyday, waiting for their job to be fully automated? Or racking servers day in and day out?
Show HN: I made a simple generator to create UX design exercises to practice
Somehow I read title of book like this. As developer I should market the day I started coding. Like I started coding 17 years ago, I may know some stuff, hire me please.

It's funny how different perspectives we have.
If only http://docopt.org was invented and standardized and widely adopted in the 80s…

> good UNIX programmers know to use getopt(3C) libc function

Well, when writing in C. People don't really use this from other languages.
This can be password protected and have an expiration date. I don't think Dropbox normally has download notifications, and this is possibly more friendly to receivers without a Dropbox account and can be company branded.
I would have thought a scripting language would have been a better choice than unit files. The script engine would take care of verifying the script and starting the processes in the correct order and allowing/restricting access to other components. Thereby negating the need for such directives as After= or PrivateTmp=.
Do you know where this is happening and who exactly is doing it?

Most residential burglaries I hear of are disorganized smash and grab type situations, with desperate people and drug addicts looking for cash, jewelry, lightweight electronics and other things to easily liquidate.
Thanks for sharing this, if you don’t mind to elaborate, what aspects of personality do you think have more weight?
Have you consider partnering with someone who complements those aspects?
Sculpted liquid “crystal within a crystal” for next-gen displays
Antiviral drugs for hepatitis C are very effective, but they come at a steep cost. Just one Sovaldi pill costs $1,000. A full 12-week course of treatment with this drug costs $84,000.

The price of other hepatitis C drugs is also high:

Harvoni costs $94,500 for a 12-week treatment
Mavyret costs $39,600 for a 12-week treatment
Zepatier costs $54,600 for a 12-week treatment
Technivie costs $76,653 for a 12-week treatment

https://www.healthline.com/health/hepatitis-c/treatment-cost...
Not sure exactly where you are in the world but EDZ make excellent merino t-shirts that can be worn day to day. I have 3 of the short sleeve crews and about to get some of the polos.

https://www.edzlayering.com/
That’s... interesting. Could you share a bit about how you arrived at this approach?
My father doesn't even use his $1000+ hearing aids because he says they just amplify everything and don't help.

If Airpods + an iPhone on the table can help him out, like making table conversation more accessible, that would be a big deal. I'll have to look into it.

The point of Airpods + iPhone here is that they are still highly portable, people today already carry both around just for fun. Your desktop PC + mic setup is not.
So I used to listen to Coast to Coast just as entertainment before it turned into a giant infomercial, I now listen to Mysterious Universe which is much better and much more entertaining and definitely worth a listen if you like crazy/paranormal things approached with lots of skepticism and humor, but a semi-regular guest on Coast to Coast claims that the CIA was on Mars ha!

The guest claimed that as part of a CIA project in his teens, he was on mars via teleportation and saw a young Barack Obama there. It's pure unsanity and obviously not fake but it's a hell of a rabbit hole to go down purely for amusement. The sad part is, at least from my impression, the guest really believed that he had been part of these alleged (fantastical) events. Here are some articles about it:

https://www.wired.com/2012/01/obama-mars/

https://www.inverse.com/article/6741-remembering-that-time-t...

The amusing thing is though there are FOIA documents from the CIA that mention Mars as a remote viewing target, for example this one https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-0...

So who knows, maybe the CIA has really had a legitimate interest in Mars at some point, they've taken interest in far stranger things (maybe they took too much of their own drugs from MKUltra).
Did you understand what I wrote? Nuance is exactly what I advocate for. The problem is not people not knowing things, but people thinking they don’t ever need to know more and just rely on the underlying magic.
You need Pro to change the expiration date or set a password.
Right, I always advocate startups to compete with google/amazon. You cannot create hype as a startup, you must ride an existing wave (at least for hard tech).

However, you must start dev before the area is hyped and hit the market at the right time.

Also, you must target areas where the big players cannot and will not compete (for example, multi cloud, edge , privacy).
Remember that you're reading an anectodal accounting of a single person who got rejected while working in a single team. There might be bias there :)
Here is how to format an ISO week date with strftime:

“%G-W%V-%u”

This is in POSIX

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition...

and C99

http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1256.pdf

Python’s documentation explicitly says it only describes the C89 formatting codes and that C99 has more features. https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/datetime.html#strftime-s...
Building a Malaria Classifier from Scratch Using R, R Suite and Keras
Jesus how much did these drugs cost to develop? Are these numbers justified?
When I'm in a new city, I navigate with a GPS for the first few trips around, then I start progressively getting rid of it:

First, I let the unit plot my route, and I study it for a minute before getting under way, but then I put it face-down on the passenger seat and try to navigate from memory. It's right there if I need a hint, though, still tracking.

Some while after that, I'll let the unit plot my route, but then simply turn it off. If I get lost or turned around, I'll pull into a parking lot and turn it back on, get my bearings again, turn it back off, and try again. This adds a bit of pressure to the recall, and really steps up my brain's navigation abilities.

I've found that these few simple steps, and just maybe a dozen trips, make me learn VERY quickly. I'm no longer a tourist, I feel like "I belong here", and that's a big deal for me. Feeling comfortable in a place is important, and knowing my way around is a huge part of that.

----

Related (and reposted from an old comment of mine):

Some time back, I gave my old TomTom to a not-very-technically adept friend. I figured a little introduction was in order, and at first, I asked her to interact with the unit while I did the driving.

The first thing I did was ignore every instruction. A few minutes of https://xkcd.com/1837/ ensued.

Because I wanted to drive home the point, you won't break the machine by ignoring it. If you don't feel like making that turn, just don't make it. The voice in the box will just recalculate, it won't get annoyed, it has infinite patience and can recalculate for as many maneuvers as you feel like missing.

This is a crucial bit of understanding that I think many drivers lack, as they blindly try to follow impossible or unsafe maneuvers like the computer's word must be obeyed absolutely.

This should be part of driver's-ed.
I sometimes wonder whether big corp hire people to lurk in HN comments and make self-employment seem worse than it really is.
And seeing that the Apple Watch is already generating more revenue than the iPods at peak, there are lot of people with a $350 Watch, a $600+ iPhone and AirPods.
Most designers just copy each other, most of the time
I’m pretty sure that there are enough people who would be content with such a simple job of maintaining CRUD app. They get less salary, yes, but also they’ll have much less stress, and can focus their energy on other things.
I suspect the bundled OneDrive in Office365 is hurting them. Dropbox is better, but hard to justify if you already have something that's good enough.
Journalists Should Spend Less Time Studying Twitter, More Time Studying Math
Machine Learning Reproducibility Checklist [pdf]
I'd missed that, thanks.
Some googlers are working on OpenCL source to Vulkan-profile-SPIR-V though: https://github.com/google/clspv
It’s priced based on ability to pay. US it will be 100,000 other countries it will be less.
The SMS needs to be signed on the server-side with the apps private key. Play Services verifies the signature before it passes the OTP key to the app.

https://developers.google.com/identity/sms-retriever/verify
I agree. All the more reason colleges and universities ought not engage in such behavior.
Installing NetBSD is good fun if you have an old Mac laying around: http://p3k.org/netbsd/
Side note: the best way to build Airflow pipelines is through Kedro https://github.com/quantumblacklabs/kedro-airflow.
Thanks! Looks like Firefox Send is the better free tool for now then.
Ask HN: How do you justify taking unpaid vacation as self employed?
I am working from home and my workload steadily picked up over years currently almost reaching my limits working basically full time, some days 08-18 only with few minutes break for lunch.

I always enjoyed working from home for few hours and having much more spare hours than regular employees who have to sit in work no matter, if they have actual work or no.

But since I don't wanna be potentially replaced by competition I haven't taken vacation in years (that was not problem before since I was not that busy and could rest enough every day to have free morning or afternoon) and I don't won't to refuse any projects to miss on money I can't imagine taking vacation, because I'm not gonna lose only vacation expenses, but also similar amount in lost income for every day I would not work.

Oh and I forgot to mention because of my partner company is in China I can't follow even my European holidays (while living in Europe), meaning I worked even on Christmas, yesterday and today and have only few free days during CNY and October golden week (but none of them actually as long as in China since I get anyway more tasks in advance or some Chinese will give tasks to us even during Chinese holidays).

The best case scenario would be if my partner company decreased amount of projects, since I would be perfectly fine even with half money I earn in exchange for saving half of the work hours without me rejecting anything, but that doesn't seem realistic.

So how would you justify taking unpaid vacation with family under such circumstances? As I see it now I will give family vacation, meaning wife and children can enjoy different place (beach) and I will work from hotel room, possibly finding few free hours in early morning or late afternoon and free weekend.
Blockchain Router. What other features to add?
There's also the problem that anyone who knows your address will be able to download your files, whereas most other services either seem to have strong access control or unguessable links.

That said, it's an interesting and novel approach.
1. I have implemented the company browsing feature

2. I have made it available without signup/login (partially—you’ll see companies/locations and how many entries they have each, and be able to navigate to these company pages, but from there to see numbers, you’d need to signup/login).
That is so depressing to read.

US pharma companies are completely out of control, there’s absolutely no reason a 12 week treatment should cost around the mean annual US income. Can’t imagine having to decide to risk my entire financial future to deal with Hep C.