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Unlaunched Healthcare Startup | Python/Typescript | Remote (USA) | Full Time

We believe there is a significant opportunity to improve healthcare quality and cost for employers, employees, and insurance companies; regulatory changes and LLMs mean it is time to build. We think we can provide a better experience for less money, and have multiple positive impacts on society. We have the idea, the funding, and the skills and knowledge to make it happen. We're looking for a few more strong engineers to help us build it.

Responsibilities

- Research, plan, scope, and design solutions to difficult problems while navigating laws, regulations, and standards in money movement and healthcare.

- Produce elegant and simple code that is architected and written for the long haul.

- Speed up overall development efforts.

- Help build a development environment and operational tooling that will be the envy of companies many times our size.

Must Have

- Strong Python or TypeScript skills, or a strong background in another dynamic language.

- A burning desire to get things out the door and in the hands of users.

- Strong communication skills.

Apply at https://www.unlaunchedhealthcarestartup.com/, or reach out to me at njl@njl.us.
I prefer learning from textbooks than online courses, here are my picks (in the order of my first post):

1. Sorry, I do not have a suggestion here. I'm Brazilian and I happened to find an amazing PDF of an obscure book (by a not well known professor). In Portuguese though.

2. "Calculus Made Easy" is my book of choice. Don't dismiss it because of the 'cheap' title, it's a very good book.

3. It's super important to get the intuitions first, and not just the math. So I mostly used two books, both heavily illustrated: "Deep Learning - A Visual Approach" and "Deep Learning Illustrated". Those are way better as an introduction to the field than the 'big names' (Goodfellow/Bengio, Bishop, etc).

Normally if I'm on youtube, it means I'm struggling with something. The statquest channel is amazing, it's the most 'baby steps' explanations I've ever seen. If I find a video on what I want to understand there, I don't waste my time trying other channels anymore.
And if your app got mistakenly taken down the only way to get help is to be famous and complain about it on X?
It's also up to their managers.

Bad managers can destroy or hamper just about anyone's career. I've seen exactly that, many times.

There are a ton of bad managers out there. For some reason, they never seem to have to account for their terrible performance.

I suspect that bad management may just be the single biggest issue in tech (and many other industries), today. Much as everyone wants to rag on managers, good ones can make a huge difference.
I've only heard of candidates getting dropped like that after they've done something horribly inappropriate(like cheat).
Yea looks fishy
I do this all the time:

- I want proper English,
- and Proper SI units,
- and Euro as currency.

So I put myself in Dublin.
some factors:

ease of typing: so regular quotes are better vs backticks (even with a prefix), F-prefix - better than $, requiring Shift

ease of learning: here letter-mnemonic seems easiest: so I-prefix for "interpolation" or E-prefix for "expression" or maybe V-prefix for "variable". Or maybe F for "formatted" is also fine?

familiarity: so F-prefix due to Python?
Can't help that emotivismo(?/emotinginess?emotionality?) is political capital; his antiTrekkie antiMarxist counterpart Thiel does it in spades too [0]

Can't help that the US today has the worst of both worlds: high labor costs AND high rates of absentee ownership (using the less emotional Veblen term)[1]

Most of the required things that you mention have, in turn, hard AND conflicting emotional prereqs (from the actual political operators, not HN commenters)

I quite like his (maybe unintended) implication that technofeudalism ultimately comes from the capitalists wanting to outflank the pesky Labor hivemind using automation/mindless consumption

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotivism

[1] usually diagnosed these days as "shareholder supremacy", but I was thinking that the proclivity towards Abilene paradoxes & their ilk should not be all blamed on actual shareholders, but on the general post-Puritan idea of owning stuff (copyright, etc) without the accompanying emotional burdens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_Paradox#See_also
How do you access the contents of a heap reference from JavaScript in order to “send it to a <canvas> or similar”?
You can use it with ollama too
Title was trimmed to fit into the character limits imposed by HN. I did my best to preserve meaning.
Is that real-time dithering the demo authors implemented though?

It seems like a static image they could use any graphics program to produce...
>the only way to get help is to be famous and complain about it on X?

Not at all.

You can also be famous and complain here. Or be famous and complain on Reddit. And sometimes, if you're really famous, you can complain on Bluesky.
1. Sorry for you

2. Don’t almost all blocks behave that way? Twitter’s always did. Seems Elon, in his infinite social acuity, has confused “block” with “mute?” Vast majority of users want to be able to actually “block” people

3. Baby Jesus cries very easily, he’s a baby
Also, transgender is not a country. The flags don't necessarily represent countries.
That Giant Sucking Sound? It's Climate Change Devouring Your Home's Value
I highly doubt that anything he is doing is a secret to Musk and others, perhaps even to Russian and/or Chinese intelligence.
> Funny thing about sending checks is it's just an account and routing number in a special font on a piece of paper. We don't touch any customer funds.

Oh that’s so cool! I hadn’t even thought about that operational aspect. Very clever: I guess that means you’re an easy, slick option for customers from an awfully long list of banks and neobanks with varying quality of native products.
> I don't want my career and life to evolve by happenstance.

and

> I'm not willing to leave the company because its stock 6x'ed last year.

Those two things, right there, are at complete odds with each other. You're artificially limiting your options because of some magic numbers you can't control look good right now. (Magic numbers which, by the way, have vesting periods and other fixed-time rules precisely to trap people into cycles where they feel they can't leave.)

It's a perfectly valid thing to stay for financial reasons, but that must come with acceptance that sometimes you'll have to roll over and take whatever they decide to dish out. It's also perfectly valid to accept that the ground shifted under your feet and the only reasonable thing is to move to greener pastures. But you can't do both.
Marksmith: GitHub-style Markdown editor for Ruby and Rails
> Current YouTube practice is equivalent to locking up a citizen for "thievery" and "reasons" without providing any evidence of such at any point.

No, it's not even that remotely, and to equate the two shows massive ignorance.

This is like a book publisher of its own accord (without the government forcing them to) deciding that they do not want to publish your book anymore. Unless you have an explicit and enforceable contract with them that says otherwise then they're well within their rights to stop publishing your book.

If you don't like it then don't use their platform, and if you're using YouTube to host things for your business then it would be a really good idea to have a backup host in place that you can direct users to.
that's a good point, yes he grew very annoyed of how bill pay works. The UX is rather lacking. he didn't like not feeling in control of it, was opaque to him, now that i remember.

it's a down side of "set it and forget it". if i remember correctly his bill pay was to pay down a medical bill, over time the details of his balance changed and it became annoyingly obtuse to him on how to change the bill pay settings.
I used to do that too!! I wasn't malicious enough to do anything with them so I would just login to random accounts and poke around and occasionally show my friends by logging into the accounts of people we knew.
> Aside: my personal belief is that the political charge here lies with Unicode having codepoints for such countries, and downstream dependents of Unicode can readily point the finger. Displaying monochrome text of a country abbreviation instead of a flag doesn't seem like it would appease those who don't want the country acknowledged, anyhow; a "missing glyph" type of thing would come closer.

Flags are Political Symbols. ISO Country Codes are not. People rally around flags. Flag color symbolize beliefs/ideals. Flag crests and images contain political messages. ISO Country Codes are just a couple of letters that might (but not necessarily do) reflect a Country Name.

It's generally not just "don't want the country acknowledged", it's "don't want dissidents rallying to that flag". For instance, the parts of China that believe Taiwan is and always shall be a part of China don't have a problem with naming Taiwan as such, they see that as the "province name"; they do have a problem with the national flag of Taiwan, which intentionally represents and symbolizes its independence from China.

I can't blame Microsoft for not wanting to support flags. Politics are hard. Flags can be the hard mode of Political Symbols.

(Also Microsoft's stance is interesting in the way that it came from that Windows 95-era map-based Time Zone picker. The number of lawsuits they had over effectively "single pixel" border disputes was absurd. Flags are way more political than borders.)
Demographics of scientific retractions among highly cited authors
Haha, are you referring to the Chromebook Pixel? How is that relevant to stopping spam calls?

Pixel phone launched in 2016.
On a roadtrip ten years back we chose to navigate by map and compass, and avoid highways.

With sat nav I don't even try to read the exit signs; I just follow the blue line. It takes me 10-20 drives somewhere before I have the muscle memory, and I never made an active mental effort.

Going somewhere by public transportation or foot, e.g. a large homogenic parking lot complex, I consciously make an effort to take mental pictures so I can backtrack or traverse perfectly the second time; in spite of that being mentally challenging, it's still the easiest way I have.

I cannot assemble the hardware that I write code for. This is in spite of having access to both the soldering equipment, the parts and the colleagues who are willing to help me.

At some point all skills become abstract; efficiency is traded for flexibility when you keep doing the same thing for a very long time.

I can still drive a stick shift, but maybe not in 20 years.
Agreed with your theory overall, but wasn’t that lore of “MDR going crazy and killing a neighboring group” revealed in s1 to be fabricated entirely, with each group having their own version of that lore against other groups? E.g., the optics and design group had the exact opposite version of the lore as MDR, down to paintings depicting the events being the exact same, but with swapped badge colors that indicated the aggressor.
Agreed--in fact, science doesn't rely on philosophy at all. If the entire field of philosophy disappeared, science would go on functioning just fine. In fact, science has generally been hindered by philosophy--it's seemingly impossible to discuss scientific methodology without some wanker interjecting "well ackchyually nothing is knowable". Animals with nervous systems were learning from observation before humans invented enough language to epistemologize, and will continue to do so with or without philosophers.

Bayesian epistemology is an attempt to model why science works--it relies on science, not the other way around.
> I think rust was helped by being part of Mozilla and really helped when they got experienced devs (guys who made ruby Bundler) to build the Cargo package manager pre 1.0

That's one of the reasons Rust became as widespread as it is now. However we are talking about a "what if Rust never existed" scenario. I'm confident that kind of scenario we'd be talking about a different-yet-similar language, maybe one that never got invented in our version of reality, as having the same or similar forces that helped that hypothetical language.

My point is that people wanted a successor to C++. So it was going to happen. In our reality it was Rust. But if Rust wasn't created by Greydon then someone else would have created something else to fill that void.

> I think it was far from inevitable that some other language to compete with c++ would have come out anytime soon if rust hadn't been around (and hadn't made good enough choices). It might have happened but decent chances it wouldn't have.

I very much disagree with this assumption. We have D, ObjectiveC, C#, Zig, Go, OCaml and others born out of the need to to iterate and improve on what came before it. But nothing had really caught on in the domain of safety + zero-cost abstractions principle. And particularly not aimed at C++ devs. It's been a contentious point for years -- a void people have been looking to fill. So it was only a matter of time before something caught on.

But this is all hypothetical. Plus if you subscribe to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, then arguably we're both right :D
> In all those years I’ve never met a single really successful learner who made SRS a major part of their studies

I did, but very differently from how most people do it.

Premade decks with single words sucks, yes. But creating your own flashcards with lots of audio and mined sentences from your learning materials accelerates learning better than anything I tried before.

And yes, it requires a lot of immersion / exposure and other things. But when done properly it works really really well.
Interesting. I admit I haven't done it for a while, but I do recall several years ago writing a check out to someone in handwriting (not crayon) and it worked. Might be that recent rules/technology have turned something that used to be true into an urban legend!
It's worse. Anthropic is the one claiming to be a water-enhancing company that you should drink from instead of the posioned well. But they are begging you not to feed them their water.
Welp there it is, I've been replaced by AI.
> Having a checkbook, envelopes and stamps is a basic part of being a functional adult.

I haven't had a checkbook for well over a decade. I seem to function.

> It's not hard or expensive to do, so why on earth would anyone want to pay you to handle basic adulting for them?

It costs money / banks charge for checks. I don't have any use for them (nearly anything I could write a check for can be handled by ACH or card) … so why pay for a service I'm not using?

(The lone check that I did need to write in the last 2 decades, in theory the procedure is "go to bank, ask for check, receive check". The bank managed to screw that up, so it took a bit more than that, but that's par for the course for companies these days.)
I tried UTM - didn't like it, inconsistent, shows a black screen and you don't know what's going on. Use qemu instead.
To be honest I wrote them off when they missed the first eXodus with their waitlist. I thought it was a Google+ moment. Luckily there were multiple exoduses which gave them second chances.
I thought of furries too
You could have looked up Sinevibes, they have a good internet presence.
I want to throw something by you: what if dementia-like diseases can be linked to sleep disorders? Several papers recently have linked CSF flow through the brain during sleep (the glymphatic system), which appears to be “cleaning” the brain of waste, like the plaques seen in Alzheimers. Specifically, what if a disruption of CSF production is being impacted by, say, an imbalance of CSF precursors (like electrolytes) caused by something like a hormonal imbalance or low-grade kidney issues that don’t get picked up by normal tests? This would short-circuit the glymphatic process not allowing the body to create as much CSF as it needs. Then the brain won’t get as much cleaning as it should.

EDIT: sorry, I did not see your later reply saying that you WERE focusing on sleep disruptions! my bad. And, interesting…
I hope that this is eventually applicable to wearable systems. A small face-observing camera under the brim of a hat or something.

Voice is a terrible interface, but a decent input method for natural language inputs. Removing/reducing the privacy and intrusiveness implications would go a long way towards making it an acceptable thing to use when not alone.
Is this… spam?
Even with the now common sci-fi themes I still thought Neuromsncer was a fun read. It's basically the Italian Job or Ocean's 11 and the action of the heist pays off.
I think it’s outrageous that the IRS doesn’t just compute taxes for us. And I think it’s ridiculous US citizens have to file regardless of where they are.
Tana: Put your notes to work with voice and AI
Location: Varna, Bulgaria, EU

Remote: possible

Willing to relocate: possible

Technologies: python, javascript/node/react/web/html/css graphql sql nosql c++ c java sh perl make linux.. dozens other languages and stacks, Prolog to Android to Verilog to assemblers ; databases, flows, reverse engineering, methodology, process, culture, leadership

Resume/CV: https://www.svilendobrev.com/rabota/cv/ (pdf is at the bottom)

Email: az at svilendobrev point com

Site: https://www.svilendobrev.com/rabota/

others: https://www.github.com/svilendobrev ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/svilendobrev

About: Making software for 35+ years.. Seen quite some things.. and attitudes. Been bottom to top, wearing many hats, always hands-on.

Looking for Principal or Staff engineer, architect, CTO, co-founder, team lead.. or very senior programmer. Most interested in mentoring - newbies or not - as a playing trainer, within the team and the project/work, Or consulting / advising, how to do things better, ala Fractional. Or just interesting work with interesting people. Anyway will still code things.. No politics plz.

IMO The interesting part of making software, is the people, while technicals.. are solvable. Probably i will ruin quite some illusions.. because in software making, what's doable, sellable, wanted, and needed, rarely overlap.. But when they do, the dream comes true. Let's find it.

May relocate anywhere to stay with the team, as IMO "remote" does not work for any knowledge-or-culture -building activities.

Have fun
Building games with LLMs to help my kid learn math
When abroad and close to a payment deadline, I can easily see myself paying $7. International express mail is often more expensive and sometimes less reliable.
You are you, here. Think of the statistically average person and what they consider friendly.
Location: Ontario

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Been focusing on AI development, products and design. Getting into DSPy and some harder topics, would love a team to learn with.

Résumé/CV: weloveoov.com

I'm a strong mix of product, development and UX. Email: past.dog0687@fastmail.com
The world is moving on to trade without the US
Email Apnea (2014)
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We are looking for an experienced Software Developer to join our small but mighty startup. Join us in our mission to disrupt the timeless but severely outdated lottery industry and help us spread joy to people’s lives with an exciting product that is tailored to millennials and gen Z. With an “Excellent” rating on TrustPilot, we really live up to our name and are dedicated to building a brand and product experience that makes people’s day.

About the role:
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling our platform. Working closely with the founding team and CTO, you’ll support end-to-end delivery of features, contribute to architectural decisions, and ensure our tech stack supports our growth. This is a hands-on role requiring deep technical expertise and a collaborative mindset. While we work mostly from home, we meet once per week in a co-working office to remind each other we are real-life humans, giving ChatGPT a run for their money. The rest of the week we communicate over Slack and Zoom calls (we don’t overdo it)! If you’re good with GIFS, that’s a huge plus.

Apply at https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4106472043 or send your CV to lisa@daymade.co.uk
https://archive.ph/s2G3p
This is great! Bunch of cool features, especially the LeRobot example. Hope new robotic examples will follow.
I wonder how much of this is driven by the publishers vs audiences.

I have read a lot of blogs and articles from authors and agents about thematic checklists for publishing.

On the flip side, immigration makes up the vast majority of content creation, and the leading edge were using these premises 20-30 years ago when they were more novel
All of them!
> He isn't running for re-election

I see you're an optimist!
Meanwhile, most European countries are now left with nothing but a bank transfer system.

This is mostly fine, but the ability to essentially give somebody cash in-person without actually having the cash would come in handy sometimes.

I know checks can bounce, but I always feel a bit uneasy when I tell people "hey I just send you a transfer I promise, it's friday so it'll probably arrive after the weekend, here's the transfer confirmation PDF that I so totally couldn't forge in 10 minutes."
The article is exactly right. Tech Bros aren't building communities but the people trying to build communities are being suffocated by the same platforms they attempt to use to build them.

So to make it painfully obvious for everyone here, if your first thought is to make:

A Facebook Group

A Discord server

A Subreddit

(Insert other walled garden here)

You aren't solving the problem and you won't get anywhere close because these platforms will shut down your group for ToS/AUP violations before you even get close to enough people to spur any sort of action. If you cannot self-host, find someone who knows how or take this opportunity to learn how.

And, if you honestly need any further evidence of this censorship taking place, X (Twitter) heavily demotes any posts with links to Bluesky and Facebook was just caught not even a few days ago blocking links to Distrowatch. Now this is just the surface, what other stuff have they blocked and we've not heard of because it wasn't a high profile target like Distrowatch?
That + the whole concept must be just uncanny to face in real life as opposed to just being aware of it.

It is one thing to know “my husband goes to work, but there he simply doesn’t remember anything outside of work, and vice versa at home”, and another to see it for yourself and realizing “holy shit, this is actually just another entirely unrelated brand new person occupying the body of the husband i live and raise children with for half a day.”

Not even mentioning all the potential implications that might have crossed her mind after facing it in reality. That person is nothing like my husband in any way, where did that new person come from, were they just born out of nothing? Could they potentially unknowingly get switched with my husband outside of the workplace and what would that mean? What happens to that person if my husband quits the job?
Washington, DC, has had "supercans" for about forty years. But it still has rats, though I suppose many fewer than it might.
The ants in a colony has mostly identical DNA.

So you can think of it as a single organism that has a "distributed" body.

From that perspective, the individual ants correspond to cells or organs, and it becomes both less and more fantastic :)