skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the US, so of course "free healthcare" still leaves you with lots of large bills if you actually use any healthcare. Usually one pays for "gap coverage" insurance, running low-hundreds of dollars per person (consider: married couples) to cover things that aren't covered, or are poorly-covered, by Medicare[0] and those still don't mean you aren't going to have a substantial hospital bill if anything goes wrong (as they usually don't cover 100% of a bill, just like normal US health insurance)

[0] Medicare is our insurance program for old people, and I think also kicks in for those who are disabled at younger ages. Medicaid is the name for our HC program for the very poor. People get these mixed up because the names are so similar. Then of course there's our coverage for the active military and their families (Tricare) and VA healthcare coverage for retired military. And programs for other government employees, and their families. By the time you add it all up, a huge percentage of the US population is already covered by government healthcare schemes, actually, which is reflected in our spending enough on publicly-funded healthcare that we should be able to cover everyone with just that money, if our costs were similar to the rest of the OECD. Instead we still have the costs of private insurance and bills to individuals even when covered by healthcare (these can run into the five figures per year, easily, on top of insurance costs) and, for some of the above, huge expenses in addition to the costs of the government portion of the HC program.

[EDIT] Medicare gap coverage tends to run low-hundreds of dollars per person per month, in case that wasn't clear.
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FancyZones and DisplayFusion both have this feature. I think they achieve it by tracking your cursor position and moving the window.
I like this idea! That is, the reimplementation of coreutils (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GNU_Core_Utilities_com...), AKA, the most common Unix/Linux shell commands, in pure Python...

Pros: Makes common commands more transparent and easily approachable/understandable/modifyable by newer/less-experienced programmers and non-C programmers and non-programmer power users/sysadmins/general IT guys...

(Possible con (depending on circumstance): Creates a dependency on Python and its libraries... This wouldn't be a problem for most OS distributions, but might be a problem for a bare-bones or embedded (limited space) and/or super security hardened distro...)

But (that minor possible con for some scenarios aside), I like this idea a whole lot!

Related:

pycoreutils 0.0.6a:

https://pypi.org/project/pycoreutils/

Or, if you prefer Bash instead of Python:

bareutils - coreutils written in pure bash

https://github.com/dylanaraps/bareutils
Ah, thanks! Was wondering why it wasn't working in tmux.
>Do we have to buy power from France or other neighbors in times of high demand? //

We don't need nuclear energy, except we need neighbours to use it for times of high demand??

Why is France selling us (UK and other nearby countries) all this nuclear generated electricity if, as you contend, it's entirely uneconomical and already replaced?
There was a curve. My typing quality went down at first, but as I adjusted I got both faster and more accurate over the next couple of weeks.
Art is in the eye of the beholder ultimately. People been saying the same thing about art since the dawn of art, NFT are just newer so not as accepted as abstract paintings just yet, but eventually it seems we'll end up there.
Virgin Orbit launches their LauncherOne to orbit from a 747 Jumbo Jet. Virgin Galactic aspires to launches people for suborbital tourism on SpaceShipTwo. Different companies.
Indeed, that is why cars are changing to electric and for the user the driving experience is mostly unchanged.
> Thinking poor people like being poor because they value what's really important - friends and family - is ...

I didn’t read that poor people like being poor - I read they have a different value system (and reading into it, the different value system being rooted in being poor). You are injecting something else into the narrative.
> Hard to say if this is good or bad. On the one hand, no one is above the law. But sending presidents to prison for anything short of murder is a really risky proposition, and an extremely slippery slope. There's a reason we've never done it in the US, and it's not for any lack of corruption.

So if you're a corrupt politician, managing to become president should be a "get out of jail free card"?

No the root problem is those people are not investigated often enough and manage to profit from their crimes for decades before being found "unfit for prison life". Any politician should be under scrutiny the day they get voted in. Stasi like but instead of checking the plebs, check those in power.
Many people are just doomed to failure from the start. All that motivational talk and grooming goes to nothing if you came form impoverished background.
For production that makes sense, but "I'd like to run my unit tests before I spend effort fixing this thing" is a valid use case.
> You don’t strictly need one either. I understand why you’ve probably gone with one anyway.

Yup, I agree - it was really just for resetting the account password. I don't really bother validating the email at the moment, so it shouldn't be too hard to just make it optional like HN does.

> What’s your plan for monetisation?

It really depends on how many people start using the app. If they can all fit on a single server including myself, probably not going to monetize it because I plan on using it myself. My original plan was to create a "pro" version that adds functionality for power users (like having offline reader mode). I'm not really interested in going down the ads route, so that seems like the most likely prospect at the moment.
Malthus was refuted by the early 19th century on economic grounds - namely that the pricing system prevents people from over-exploiting scarce resources.

While there has certainly been some poor husbandry of the earth's resources, there have been and continue to be significant efforts to improve resource utilization in environmentally friendly ways - not the least of which is increased costs of basic resources leading to self-imposed limitations by consumers.

Basically, on net, people choose more luxury over more children. They economize when presented with prices that reflect the reality of underlying scarcity. They make choices that often result in improved environmental stewardship, either implicitly or explicitly.
The smallest Docker image to serve static websites
The message that there isn’t much punishment?
Miami mayor acknowledges Big Tech plans could hurt the city's poor
Oh my gosh! I found his Kernel work so inspiring, I, like many others, implemented a version in a hobby project. I was always happy to see his comments when I was reading Lambda the Ultimate, excited to see his always carefully thought out and unique perspective. I'm sad I'll never be able to chat with him directly about his ideas. Learning he was so prolific in other areas isn't surprising, but it is impressive. RIP to a great mind, and best wishes for his family.
Avoiding the Clothes Dryer Is Expensive
Some sort of animations in the page are causing a lag after the first render.
I have the impression that the page is using too many words and images to convey the same thing, but is not precise in nailing what the thing is early enough
Yeah, I remember the rules about "botting", too. I don't know if they changed a lot since I played, but back then they basically amounted to "don't automate your character to farm while idle". In light of the pay-to-avoid-grind system, it didn't take me too long to conclude that the rules were pretty much "don't affect our bottom line, anything else goes".
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2021)
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:

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> There's a reason we've never done it in the US, and it's not for any lack of corruption.

What reason?
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2021)
Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.

Bonsai (YC W16) (https://www.hellobonsai.com) offers freelance contracts, proposals, invoices, etc.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
(Update for Feb/March: Manara, a company in YC's current
batch, has discovered many talented software engineers in the MENA
region, half of whom are women. If this is of interest, see their
launch thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25849054 and this recent story by one of their participants: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26251143.)

Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA
when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option,
include ONSITE.

Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name,
please explain what your company does.

Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.

Searchers: try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/,
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Don't miss these other fine threads:

Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26304048

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26304050
> It doesn't exist.

This has been decided? By who? When? Can you prove this?
Eleos Technologies (https://eleostech.com) | Senior Erlang/Elixir Software Engineer | Permanently Remote (US only) | Full time

Eleos Technologies is a growing 9-year-old company building communication software for truck drivers and field workers. We’re helping a diverse mix of customers—from mom and pop operations to household names—improve how they communicate with their employees by tackling information overload, reducing phone calls, and eliminating obsolete technologies.
Our app is used by thousands of big-rig and small truck drivers, day and night, every day, and we've been on a sustainable growth curve for long enough that we're ready to grow our backend team!

Our driver-facing mobile app does some unique things, including assisting drivers with planning their trips, finding stopovers, managing their electronic duty log, and more. This is all powered by an Erlang/Elixir OTP application, and we're looking for someone who's used this stack in a production setting before, recognizes the advantages of OTP, and would like a key role in a maintaining and extending such a system.

As a remote team (since founding!), we're super lucky to have some great folks who use the ability to work from home to spend more time with their kids, help volunteer at a school, or otherwise be more fulfilled than they would be working from an office. You could join us!

If that sounds fun and rewarding to you, the full description and info about applying are over here: https://eleostech.com/careers/backend-elixir
Grafana Labs | Backend Engineers, Frontend Engineers, Engineering Managers, Senior Backend Engineers | Remote Global | Full-Time | Remote | https://grafana.com/

You know us, we make the dashboard you use to observe your systems. We also do Prometheus, Cortex, Loki, Tempo, a SaaS offering, an Enterprise offering. We're well-funded and have a long list of customers whose brands your family recognise. We're OSS, and CNCF.

And we are hiring globally in full-time remote roles. Note: The entire company has been remote first forever and our founders are on multiple continents, this is not something we're learning - this is who we are.

We need engineers at all levels, wherever you are.

https://grafana.com/about/careers/

The careers page says EMEA/EST timezones but that is misleading as we are actively hiring in APAC (India especially), all of the Americas (inc Central and South America). Senior engineers especially welcome in those areas (to help us grow teams).
See you are disregarding all the luck a person had while being born in the right side of the world. I would say being born in the first world, even if poor, is a huge privilege which large parts of the world can't get. You win that lottery, and you already have a huge leg up. Now I don't want to convert this thread into misery olympics, all sadness is valid if felt genuinely and just because you are privilege in one sense doesn't mean your life is not incredibly hard. But if you think the large amounts of generationally poor, even in the first world, lack perseverance then you don't understand the game.
Coffeebeans Consulting | Multiple Roles | Bengaluru, India - (ONSITE, WFH for now) | Full-time | https://coffeebeans.io

CoffeeBeans Consulting is a fast-growing tech company that offers services and products powered by AI and Big Data.
Technologists at CoffeeBeans work on end to end product features and release them to thousands of users all over the world. We care about the code that we ship. We care if a code manages to clock O(n log n) rather than O(n2).
Our consulting clients, onshore and abroad, offer a dynamic arena for professionals to hone their consulting/coaching/mentoring skills. As Consultants, we play a key role in establishing core Agile practices and making available the latest tech stack. People join us because they want to be a part of an organization where cutting edge technology is played around with. We believe in the innate capability of inspired individuals in managing their own work and ambitions, enabling the leadership to focus on the Company’s vision.

We're currently hiring for multiple roles:

Java Developer - Exp: 3-8 Yrs

Ruby on Rails Developer - Exp: 3-8 Yrs

React Native Developer - Exp: 3-8 Yrs

React Developer - Exp: 4-8 Yrs

Full-Stack (Java/React) - Exp: 4-8 Yrs

Senior QA - Exp: 5-10 Yrs

Send your resume to: sudeep@coffeebeans.io and include "HN: Who is Hiring" in the email subject.
FreeFlyer @ a.i. solutions | Platform Engineer | Full-time | Portland, OR or Lanham, MD | Remote Possible | https://ai-solutions.com/freeflyer-astrodynamic-software/

Hello! We are the team that builds FreeFlyer, a space mission design software tool. We’re hiring for a platform engineer to redesign our development infrastructure.

If you’ve ever played Kerbal Space Program, you know that space is hard! In the real world, space mission designers use FreeFlyer to overcome a variety of challenges when it comes to designing a space mission. By combining a state-of-the-art orbit simulation engine, a user-friendly IDE, and a series of interactive data visualizations, FreeFlyer helps our users plan and operate complex space missions. Our users have trusted FreeFlyer to design and operate 225+ space missions over the last 20 years — many of which were NASA missions!

We’re looking for a platform engineer who is interested in using tools like Terraform and Ansible to deploy infrastructure into cloud environments such as AWS. You’ll be spinning up new infrastructure and automations to support cloud-based, cross-platform build/test pipelines. FreeFlyer needs to be tested in a variety of environments, such as networked clusters, virtual machines, and Docker and you’ll take the lead on designing those processes. There are many opportunities to create internal web apps for the team to improve our capabilities and productivity. You’ll also help research novel ways that space mission design software can run in cloud environments like AWS Batch, ECS, and Lambda.

You’ll have the opportunity to develop new skills and have a tremendous impact on a product that is key to future space missions. You’ll have a lot of support and opportunities for collaboration with our two-pizza-sized development team. Our company, a.i. solutions, supports a variety of NASA customers for space mission design and operations, so you’ll have opportunities to hear about the hard work that goes into planning for success space missions, such as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

If you think space is cool and are interested in a new set of challenges, let us know! Please don’t hesitate to reach out as we’re very open to considering candidates with different backgrounds.

To learn more about the position, please visit the official job description: https://tinyurl.com/freeflyer-platform-engineer

To learn more about the types of problems FreeFlyer uses, please take a look at a series of talks the FreeFlyer team gave at a conference we hosted: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6PnBvxjkMtnL5aB51mvQ...

For any questions about the position, product, or team, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Stefan at: stefan.novak@ai-solutions.com

We hope to hear from you!

(Please note that this job requires U.S. citizenship.)
LifeWeb 360 | Remote (US Timezones) | Full-Time, Remote-first | https://www.lifeweb360.com/

Lead Developer (Full-Stack): https://1871.workable.com/jobs/1560391

Tech Stack: React, Ruby on Rails, AWS

LifeWeb 360’s north star is to awaken our empathetic world. We help people through one of the hardest times of their life - when a loved one is at the end of their life or has died. LifeWeb is a digital space where communities can share memories of a loved one and celebrate their life - stories, photos, and videos that don't remind you that your person died, they remind you how they lived.

Google investee. On Chicago Inno’s list of 21 startups to watch in 2021. Women & Black-led. We can’t wait to meet you!
SEEKING CONTRACT WORK | Web designer & developer

Portfolio: https://www.seanw.org/

Location: Edinburgh, UK

Email: sw@seanw.org

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Is it time for your website or app to get a modern and high performance redesign? I'm a web developer and designer with 10+ years of experience who can deliver custom website and landing page designs that get top page speed scores.

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The best live example of my work is Checkbot for Chrome (https://www.checkbot.io/), a website auditor browser extension that checks sites for SEO, speed and security web problems. The whole project is my own work including the app, fast loading website, graphic design, web best practices guide (https://www.checkbot.io/guide/) and UX.

[ Rated 4.9/5, 30K+ active users, 100s of paying subscribers ]

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I’ve worked with global companies like Just Eat and Triumph Motorcycles, created my own commercially successful web apps and completed a PhD from Edinburgh University so you can rely on me to deliver high-quality results on schedule.

See https://www.seanw.org for my portfolio, client endorsements and more on my background.

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Expertise: Full stack development (JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PHP, Java, OCaml), modern web frameworks (Express, Vue, WordPress, Hugo, Jekyll), cloud hosting (AWS, Google, Heroku, Firebase, Netlify) and website optimisation (page speed, security & SEO).

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Email sw@seanw.org with details about your project so we can arrange a call and work towards a quote. I'll get back to you within one working day.
The only thing that is "spitting into faces of hard working people" is the relentless printing of money by central banks that incentivize speculation over productive work and make bubbles like Bitcoin or GameStop possible in the first place.
k6.io | Go Engineer - k6 open-source developer | REMOTE in Europe
Apply at: https://loadimpacte4.applytojob.com/apply/utlvKOlILJ/Go-Engi... or via email pawel@k6.io

You will be one of four developers and maintainers of k6[0], a modern open-source tool for performance testing, written in Go. k6 was released publicly in early 2017 and has already received over 11,000 stars on GitHub. We have a quickly growing community of users and contributors.

Your responsibilities will be to build new features, maintain the code base and interface with the user community (i.e. review patches :) and potentially evangelize the tool.

Skills required:

We are looking for a person combining strong programming skills with experience in contributing to open-source projects.

Applicants must:

- Have a strong programming background and experience developing applications in Go

- Good technical communication skills

- Understand internet protocols well, primarily IP, TCP, HTTP but also preferably HTTP/2, WebSockets, QUIC, gRPC

- Be familiar with modern development processes and practices. Preferably having recent experience developing large scale applications

k6 is a remote-first company. We accept remote applicants in European time zones.

[0] https://k6.io/
[1] https://github.com/loadimpact/k6
We've been using protobuf as a persistence format without issue?
It would be anonymous if you used something like Zcash. Now the current craze is happening over Ethereum so it's pseudo-anonymous at best. And for sure many governments have tools for linking accounts and transactions together by now.
There is a distinction between a yacht (generally > 35 feet, needs a full crew) and just a boat:

https://www.tessllc.us/whats-the-difference-between-a-yacht-...
Bolt | Software Engineering | https://www.bolt.com

Commerce is moving online faster than ever, and our Engineering team (ex FB/Google/Twitter/Uber) cannot build fast enough to meet demand. We need Data and Mobile Engineers for our 2021 goals.

If up for it, connect with us over a 10min zoom coffee next week to share more: samuel.greinetz@bolt.com
Digivault | London, UK | Full-time | Remote (UK only)

Digivault (https://digivault.com) provides custody for digital assets (Bitcoin, Ethereum, smart-contract tokens). Digivault is part of the Nasdaq listed Diginex group. We're a London based startup focused on clean and simple technical solutions, with an emphasis on security.

We're looking for back-end and front-end developers, a SRE/devops engineer and a blockchain specialist to work on our cold and warm storage systems.

Back-end stack:

- Java 11, Python, (some) Rust, Postgres

Front-end stack:

- Javascript, Typescript, React / Redux although we're looking to migrate our React web platform to Svelte

SRE / Devops engineer:

- Docker, Kubernetes, AWS

- Help scale the platform through automation and tooling, assist clients with technical integration

Blockchain specialist:

- Research new blockchains and help us to add support for new crypto currencies

Please contact jobs at digivault.com
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TaxJar | Engineering, DevOps, QA, Integrations | Remote (US Only) | Full Time | https://taxjar.com/careers

TaxJar is the leading technology solution for busy eCommerce sellers to manage sales tax and trusted by more than 20,000 businesses. We’re solving problems at scale, supporting our growing customer base and creating new solutions in a complex domain with Elixir and Ruby. We deal with large datasets, intricate sales tax rules, and automating complicated processes for thousands of business customers.

We’re actively hiring for the following positions:

* Software Engineers (Elixir / Ruby)
* Integration Engineers (NetSuite / Magento / Acumatica)
* DevOps Engineer
* QA Engineer
* Support Engineer
* Engineering Manager
* Product Managers
* Product Designers

Apply here: https://www.taxjar.com/careers/