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I very much like nnn because it's lightweight, but does it have autojump integration[0]? It's the only single reason I am still using ranger.

Edit: That and the speed. And since I am more proficient with Python, hacking on Ranger is easier.

0: https://github.com/fdw/ranger-autojump
You're quite the optimist.

Or someone less tech savvy but legally savvy figures out that IPv4s are scarce resources, just like, for example, housing, and finds a way to impose their use through regulation in some contexts and to ban their use in other contexts.
Indeed. Compared to the UK and France, the life expectancy and healthcare cost are both worse.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health...
Hackers stole €230k by emptying cashpoints across Europe, say police
Ah yes, that would probably explain your experience. OSX might be UNIX certified, but it differs in radical ways from classic UNIX, like file system hierarchy and installed libraries (how many have something like glib installed system wide?).

It's unfortunate (or is it?) but very much not surprising that a proprietary OS would be a second class citizen in an open source ecosystem, especially when dealing with more strongly libre minded free software people like you can expect in larger numbers for enthusiastic hobby projects.
Sure, but if they stress you out enough with the made up numbers you will be a return customer sooner than you would like.
See also: Stephen Hawking.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/i-would-not-...

> As the Obama administration sought to reform the US healthcare system in 2009, the US Investor’s Business Daily argued that Stephen Hawking “wouldn’t have a chance in the UK, where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless”.

> It was duly pointed out that Hawking was not only born and educated in England, but received more care than most from the nation’s health service. “I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS,” Hawking told the Guardian at the time. “I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.”
Biden Needs a Special Envoy on Covid. Enlist George W. Bush
How I store my files and why you should not rely on fancy tools for backup
I played the game with them, when they were very young. They loved every minute of it - with their uncle performing impromptu dramatization-translations :-)

I am seriously considering playing it again with them this summer :-D
Um, not cost.
from Wikipedia: "Of the Germanic family, English is exceptional in having predominantly SVO order instead of V2, although there are vestiges of the V2 phenomenon."

Romance languages like French and Spanish use SVO so I think it's correct to say English is like them.

An example given by wiki of German sentence structure translated directly to English:

"Before school played the children in the park soccer."
You can use your browser as an offline (temporary) text editor, which I find useful with screen sharing.

Enter this into your browser’s address bar:

data:text/html, <html contenteditable>

https://twitter.com/philshem/status/1420282427969318916?s=20

and with focus

data:text/html, <html style=" max-width: 64ch;margin: auto;font-size: calc(1rem + 1vw);line-height: 1.4;font-family: monospace;padding: calc(1rem + 4vw);"><body contenteditable><script>document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => {document.body.focus()})</script>

https://twitter.com/getflourish/status/1420308275422285830?s...
Or Klisje para klisje
Launch HN: Sane IT; mobile mechanics; chat teams; Zoom events; spas and beauty
Here's the second issue of our new Launch HN format ("Meet the Batch") - previous one was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930562, meta is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27877280.

There are 5 startups in this thread. The order is randomized. Here are direct links.

Odiggo (YC S21) - Connect car owners with mobile mechanics in the Middle East https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996058

Genuity (YC S21) - SaaS for companies to manage IT and buy business software https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996059

DailyBot (YC S21) - Chatbot and toolkit for team collaboration and asynchronous work https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996060

Virtually (YC S20) - Easily manage Zoom events https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996061

Glitzi (YC S21) - At-home beauty and spa services for Latin America https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996062
We are Ahmed Nasser and Ahmed Omar of Odiggo (YC S21). We connect car owners with mobile mechanics in the Middle East. Our mobile app lets you schedule a tire change, an oil change, replacing any car part, or basically any service for your car in minutes. The mechanics come to where your car is.

As a kid I used to wake up very early on Friday to fix or do something to my fathers car, it was like a never ending process. Since then I always had one question, why can't the mechanic come to me? I started my own ecommerce setup during college, and then started an app back in 2014 for car owners to book their regular car service checkup online, but it was a disaster as customers booked but garages would not use any of our tech. Then in 2017 we started a marketplace selling pre-owned cars online, but eventually we pivoted and returned to my old idea, thinking that enough had changed that now it would be possible.

So now users can download Odiggo, add their car information (make-model-year), then find all the services and products that are compatible with their cars in one single app. Not only that, with certain APIs and integrations that we are working on, you (as a car owner) will be able to connect the car to the app to automate the process.

Our average user spends almost 7% of their life in their car. We can at least save them the hassle of going to the mechanic and wasting time and effort. We want to make this service as easy as buying your groceries and be the fastest out there. Looking forward to hearing your comments!
Hey HN, I’m Colum, a co-founder of Genuity (https://www.gogenuity.com) - a SaaS platform for companies to manage IT: things like keeping track of laptops, managing employee support requests, and buying software at wholesale prices. We are trying to solve two major problems: (1) there is no QuickBooks of IT - most IT solutions are costly, hard-to-use enterprise offerings; and (2) lower volume = higher prices. We believe we can fix (1) with better software and (2) with a marketplace with collective buying power - effectively building a community that grows stronger together.

At my previous company we paid full price for all our software, not realizing that larger companies were able to get 50% discounts. We didn’t have a central system to track everything like our assets, contracts, vendor licenses, and support requests. We even had a seven-figure contract auto-renew for a service we were migrating away from because nobody tracked it. Painful!

We have a unique business model designed to align our interests with customers: we charge $29 per company monthly and a small % on all transactions in our marketplace. This means if we can’t save companies money, we won’t make any.

We’d love to hear your feedback and would be thrilled if you would sign up at https://secure.gogenuity.com/users/sign_up/about_you and try it and let us know what you think!
Hi HN — we’re Mauricio and Sergio from DailyBot (https://www.dailybot.com). We provide tools for async work and team collaboration. It's currently a chatbot with support for Slack, MS Teams, G Chat, and Discord and others coming soon. Here's a 2-minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHZnGl4c-9g

We've been working in distributed teams for over 6 years and even for us, async work was still challenging. We faced pains like having too many meetings. overusing calls, and processes that could and should be chat-driven, automated, or optimized. We wanted some sort of chat assistant that we could adapt to our daily workflows. We found a few bots with partial solutions but they didn't care much about privacy and security, and we didn't want to cobble a bunch of different apps together. So we started building a tool for teams like us!

DailyBot adds features that don’t exist in Slack - our goal is to replace many apps/bots you use, all integrated in one and with a web dashboard that combines insights from these add-ons in a simple way. You can use @DailyBot to automate daily stand-ups, periodic team check-ins, give kudos to your teammates, track team morale, and even run a virtual watercooler or random 1:1 coffees across the company. All inside your chat. We also made it customizable so teams can build their own chat commands that respond with predefined texts or with data from their APIs.

We’re building it with security and privacy in mind: we don’t read messages from Slack channels, nor private conversations, except when you tag @dailybot. We use granular scopes and get only the necessary API permissions, we encrypt data in transit and at rest and implement different roles/permissions at the web dashboard. DailyBot is being used mainly by product and engineering teams, to run stand-ups, agile routines and build their own chat commands. We offer a free trial, and seat-based pricing starting at $3/mo/user.

We’d love to hear any ideas on how you would like to see chat assistants evolving, for example: a) a command to send anonymous feedback to a person; or b) a better reminder feature, etc. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback!
I'm Ish, the founder of Virtually https://www.tryvirtually.com/calendar. We're the easiest way to manage Zoom events for private communities.

Managing virtual events for more than a few people is a pain. Either you paste emails from spreadsheets into Google calendar or you rely on internal mailing lists, which get out of date and make calendar invites hard. If you want to do events for subgroups, or send out reminders, or track attendance, it gets worse. We make it all easy, for both one-off and recurring events.

We initially built Virtually as an LMS (Learning Management System) for online bootcamps in YC's S20 batch. However, over the past year we learned that our users love us specifically for managing their events. So we split out our events manager into its own product.

We've got an API that can sync with any database, for example to keep track of rosters or roles, and a Zapier integration is coming. Also, the same technology can be used to send out announcements in a targeted way. This will be a prominent feature in an upcoming release.

Our customers include some top cohort-based programs like Building a Second Brain, Flockjay, and Ali Abdaal's PTYA. Building a Second Brain used us to manage 150 live sessions for 1500 students. Throughout their 5-week program, we facilitated 7900 session joins.
I would love to hear any feedback that the HN community might have for us!
We are Ana and Luis, the founders of Glitzi (https://glitzi.com.mx/). We provide certified beauty and spa services, same day and delivered at home, in Latin America.

In Latam, lack of regulations and licencing means that people struggle to access quality beauty and wellness services. Beauty salons and spas also offer very poor working conditions to professionals, who live mostly off tips or low commissions. As a Latin woman I always thought this was normal, but when I lived abroad I realized that it has more to do with lack of licensing standards. Latin men and women spend significantly more on these types of services than any other region. We deserve better!

Our platform connects customers with vetted, trained independent beauty and spa professionals. We allocate each appointment to the best suited professional in our network according to availability, distance and skills. We also train our professionals based on standardized protocols that we have developed, so we are becoming the quality standard in the industry. Most startups in this space in Latam are SaaS solutions for salons or spas. We believe in empowering who really matters in this space: the customers and the professionals. And it's really both: happy professionals are as important as happy customers.

Some of our best customers are working mothers and business owners who have little time to take care of themselves or go to the spa or salon. 95% of our network of third-party professionals are women who can decide when and how many hours they work at Glitzi, therefore they can continue with their professional careers when they become mothers. Not only that, but they can earn a lot more (as much as 3x more) than in salons or spas.

Comments, questions, and feedback are welcome!
> AI can produce thousands of patents in a single day

This is only a problem if the AI is litigious. Surely an AI with true agency would be keep the patent rights to themselves
That gets updated arbitrarily at random intervals (because who doesn't want filesystem modules updated frequently!?!?!) and then purges logs every 72 hours so when you have a problem you'll never even know what was updated!

I have to run snapd on one of my servers and I hate everything about it.
The question was about how can people be anti-universal healthcare. As you pointed out the group most impacted are those who are poor but not so poor as to be on Medicaid. You also need to exclude ex-military as they have VA benefits. And those over 65 who are on Medicare. That's not a majority or close to it of the population.
Hi Gys, co founder of Liveblocks here!

Our goal is to help companies create collaborative products like Figma or Google Docs with API and guides. Multiplayer infrastructure and conflicts resolutions can be challenging to build in-house and we think it will become a commodity (like logging or analytics systems).

If our marketing video didn't convince you, maybe our examples page and documentation will give you more information.

https://liveblocks.io/examples and https://liveblocks.io/docs
The Mortality Cost of Carbon
Portugal too. Our system is far from perfect (the best medication is sometimes prohibitively expensive for some people who really need it - chronic patients, pensioners) but there are many examples of our national health system investing heavily in particular individuals with little chance for survival.

A recent example is health system paying for Zolgensma, the most expensive medication in the world, leading to millions of expense per year[1][2] on this medication alone for a very small amount of babies.

[1] https://tvi24.iol.pt/sociedade/saude/estado-gastou-4-1-milho...

[2] https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-eyes-arrival-of-world...
But again, the author's theory is that what's being optimized for is to get people to mindlessly click through an Amazon affiliate link and making a purchase. If people are doing that, they clearly aren't doing more searches like you suggest.

"The search results are intentionally bad to make people search more and click on ads" would be a viable conspiracy theory in isolation, but seems to directly conflict with the complaint of the search results driving people to make purchases via the pages that showed up in the organic results.
For the vast vast majority of people, if learning a language is "immersion or bust," their entirely rational response will be bust.

That said, relatively casual language learning isn't likely to yield a lot outside of essentially entertainment value. I had four years of high school French which likely tops the relatively casual bar. On the one hand, I classify my French as pretty terrible. On the other hand, I've traveled to Paris with a friend who doesn't know any French and it makes me realize I actually do have a bit of working knowledge especially when it comes to reading.
What if you get a stroke tomorrow and you can't work anymore?

> In the end, the poor will benefit greatly

"The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members." -Gandhi.
I think there is a market here. "Dumb" search engines, that search exactly the words you type, maybe with advanced features like regex, metadata search, etc... It won't replace Google's guesswork, but sometimes, I just want to grep the internet.

All non-Google engines are all about privacy, which is nice, and almost a requirement if you want to compete with Google, but I'd like to see features that actually improve search too. DDG gets a honorable mention with its bangs and applets.
Of course the losers were pushing it. They were losers because they couldn't compete against a company that controlled pricing and critical infrastructure across multiple strategic sectors - not just oil.

SO's "innovations" were mostly just efforts to game the system. The federal courts took a clear-eyed view on this and did not see it kindly.
I wonder why the redactions are of the Pentagon standard[1]. Was it on purpose?

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/thought-to-be-redacted-classif...
The innovation is the publicity and public image. I’ll get downvotes for it, but it’s the same innovation that Uber, Tesla, GoPro, Facebook, and countless others have rode to billions. Our economy is post-materialism and values public image and publicity greater than innovation and value. If you want to get rich, don’t do something innovative, focus on how you will make a good story to grab free publicity and cement an image as being ‘cool’ and ‘hip.’ Then you don’t ever have to make money or innovate anything. Investors will pour money on you because you’re cool and hip. I’m a little salty about it, but there’s something important there.

One more I just thought of, even if it’s not the same scale: Rap Genius. They took what’s pretty much a weekend project and turned it into a business and careers for themselves. The fawning press at their launch was overwhelming and impressive.

One small counter example: weebly. They made something actually innovative that provided real value to people. Grew quietly and made (by all outward appearances) a fantastic business. But since you didn’t/don’t see tons of gushing press about them, they (again, just by outward appearances) didn’t launch into the stratosphere like they absolutely could and maybe even should have.
Not entirely true any more, unfortunately. Many (Western) Europeans go to countries like Poland, Hungary, Turkey for treatments that are typically not (fully) covered by health insurances, like manydental or laser eye surgery.

There are private clinics specialized on Western European patient with staff speaking fluent English, German etc.
rust and haskell will love each other
If you are actually poor in the US, you qualify for free or highly subsidized healthcare. US has plenty of those social welfare programs, and people online typically are well off enough that they aren’t even aware of them.
>In a way it's a form of feudalism, tying people physically to their employment.

uhh, what? Is employment in general "a form of feudalism" because people depend on it to fund their basic needs?
> And to make it even more annoying, the hospital later changed it's policy on newborns on antibiotics - if they are otherwise healthy they don't need to stay in the NICU anymore.

That sounds like a good policy change thou? Whilst I understand it must've been a grave ordeal to sort it out, I'd try to be glad for the families in similar situations now that wouldn't have to suffer from this any more instead of being annoyed.
> People are exposed on a regular basis to the DMV, the SBA, to Social Security or to Medicare. Then they compare that experience with the avg experience with a commercial insurer, and it does feel like a better experience (of course, if their employer can afford it)

And yet, people will also defend SS and Medicare/Medicaid till the ends of the earth. I personally find the only people that endlessly rag on social services, and to a large extent, government services, are people that have money and usually a lot of it. It's fine to argue for stopping inefficiencies, but to argue that the only way to stop inefficiencies is the complete abolishing of a government service is the peak of a particularly American argument. The argument usually comes from a place of "I have money, why do I have to put up with this, why do I deserve this?", which is an odd position to take. Americans usually carry the view that quality of service should scale with how much money you make or have, but that leads to a perverse view where worse off people, or low wage earners "deserve" the care they get in a dog eat dog world. When you have socialized healthcare options, that mindset comes across as bizarre if also irrelevant. "Deserving" never comes into the discussion aside from the idea that everyone deserves healthcare, which is the starting premise/assumption anyway.

> Worse, there are stories of friends in places like CAN...

> The system in the US is a mess, but those people reason that its the least worst option of the available choices.

The odd thing is, Canadians might criticize the Canadian healthcare system, but I have never met a single Canadian who would suggest the American patchwork is the "least worst option". It's that kind of reasoning that a lot of people from outside the US find nearly delusional.
And importantly, ever since these events, keeping up the workflow described in the post: treating bad diagnostics as bugs, and having some hard-working, dedicated folks just grinding out the improvements. There is a looooong tail here.
Duolingo isn't really intended to get you to B1. And even if it were, it would take more than six months to get there.

A commonly cited statistic is that it takes 360 hours in a classroom to reach B1. Duolingo claims to proceed faster than classroom hours, but there's enough fuzz in that number to suppose that it's closer to 1:1. You just can't realistically do 360 hours of Duolingo in six months.

Duolingo could at best help you reach an A3, and even then you'd have to supplement it with reading and (ideally) conversation. Duolingo plus outside reading and listening could get you to a B1 level in a year if you really put your mind to it.

They even make a podcast available, to help the listening part. I happen to listen to the French one myself, and highly recommend it. The stories are interesting and well produced, and bring stories (and accents) from all around the Francophonie.

Doing it with a personal teacher will always be better than an app, but Duolingo gives a huge jump start on that. For free.
Everything was not free, you just didn't pay directly for it while you were at the hospital.

I don't understand why the word free always gets thrown around for country's with socialized medicine. You are paying for it.
Great picture, but man...that site is Clickbait Central...
We seem to be approaching a point where it could be worthwhile to get a distributed index involved even if it is very slow and inefficient to update.
If this was the intended end state I'd agree with you but it's not. This phase is about derisking and incorporating learnings for future projects.
What Is Digital Transformation? Definition and Strategy
That actually compounds the problem.
Sure, I get it. But I think this is one of those cases, like with identity theft, where you and I are just so used to the status quo that we can't accept how messed up the whole thing is. It feels normal, and we know how to work the system, so it's okay.

If aliens landed they'd think we're really strange.
duolingo is A2 which is very good to continue own to B2
Even though it was supposed to be mostly parody, Monkey Island instills a sense of adventure that few other games have (like King’s Quest).

The semi-open island hopping of MI2 was specially fun. I still wonder if there will be an open-world game like Skyrim or Fallout etc. that is spread across islands instead of an endless landmass.

Too bad LucasArts got gobbled up by the D Demon and Monkey Island will probably never get another revival because it cannibalizes Pirates of the Caribbean.

Unless Ron Gilbert et al. can pull off a Thimbleweed Park with it.. ;)
Not according to comments on this post. Lots of governments in Europe keep records at the city and state level. Unless they are passports.
comprised of humans, which is also salient.