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Re:Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @09:11PM (#49781899)
I did a small research project based on medical billing challenge data (https://medgis.te0.io/). I tried to correlate the data to PE firms (best effort). As far as I could tell they were just a volume player but not the worst. After talking to people in the industry, theres some real sleezy doctors out there. Some do appointments at hospitals even if not required so they can charge more. There’s more anecdotes. All the incentives are messed up and I’m not sure how to fix without policy changes.
Re:Private Equity Bought America's Essential Services
on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @12:47PM (#48296904)
I think an unintended byproduct of prolonged cheap capital is an environment ripe with antitrust issues. I’m all for capitalism mentality but this feels like a logical extreme and is not good for the long term.
Other examples not mentioned: eggs, kids athletics, I’ve heard stories in fintech services as well
Re:Stelvio: Serverless AWS for Python Devs
on Thursday March 20, 2025 @08:37AM (#43422276)
Not trying to detract from the OP, but to provide a combination I have running in production for 2 years.
- aws cdk (with outputs) - https://github.com/zappa/Zappa - a python script which stitches outputs from cdk into the zappa config - extra python scripts to do a few small things post deployment. Zappa has some bugs that would be tedious to fix vs 100 lines of python.
Our product has the luxury of only being used during stock market hours and really thrives in serverless everything. We use rds serverless (v2) along with lambdas.
Some of our work is heavy and we’ll dynamically spin up an ecs container which has the hallmarks of a normal django app: redis + celery queues. We try to saturate the ecs container resources with this type of setup. After the container is done, it’ll shutdown.
I was super skeptical of this 2 years ago. 4 envs costing ~$2k/month. I would do this setup again if the product warrants windowed usage.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
on Thursday November 07, 2024 @10:08PM (#42083716)
tell that to melvin capital
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @09:43AM (#42063020)
GME was, in my opinion, what occupy wall street should have been. Much more effective even.
Re:Wordpress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing its resources
on Thursday September 26, 2024 @07:46PM (#41664792)
Not this specifically, but I think I’m starting to see a pattern. Redis, elastic, openai, wordpress. Each came to realize that the open source benefit has a glaring issue with their corporate interests.
Re:Advantages of Incompetent Management
on Saturday July 06, 2024 @09:50PM (#40894684)
Let’s not forget the 10% layoff rule just to hire another 10% in the next 6-12 months. Good for everyone, am I right /s?
Re:Neat Parallel Output in Python
on Sunday February 25, 2024 @07:51AM (#39500376)
interesting footer link https://notbyai.fyi/
Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals
on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @07:49PM (#37667537)
I do wonder if Tim Apple would be so bold as to stop selling in the EU for all the rules and regulations that they have been required to follow. It would be amazing to see that play out imo. Like a reverse boycott could happen?
The secondary strategy Timmy could pull is a dumbed down ecosystem in the EU which I’m sure is even worse for everyone. But hey, you’d be able to buy audible books straight in the app. Is it worth it?
Re:Writing JavaScript without a build system
on Friday February 17, 2023 @06:41AM (#34833484)
I resonate with this topic. Checking your own repos on a new computer is one thing… inheriting someone else’s project and running it on your machine in the node ecosystem is very rough.
Anyways, I made a slightly more advanced buildless vue project here: https://github.com/kyleparisi/buildless-vuejs
It has the advantage of using .vue files which I enjoy. Oh and guess what… it has code splitting because you have to define what components the page needs ;).
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show an...
on Monday January 23, 2023 @07:40AM (#34488107)
I used https://acquire.com/ in this case. I looked at maybe 80 companies just from the surface. Then inquired about 15-20 of them for more details. After about a week of thinking, zeplo wouldn’t leave my mind. There was one other close contender but zeplo was more present in my mind and had better metrics.
From there it was letter of intent, due diligence, asset agreement, escrow, and asset transfer. Hopefully this helps.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show an...
on Sunday January 22, 2023 @06:59PM (#34483742)
I acquired a side hustle in late 2022. It’s doing $1k/month. I’ve been enjoying it so far. Basic queues using http as input and http output.
Re:Choosing a Postgres Primary Key
on Friday January 20, 2023 @09:08AM (#34453305)
Disclaimer: not a dba so my terms might not be appropriate
I’ve seen uuid4 which replaces the first 4 bytes with a timestamp. It was mentioned to me that this strategy allows postgres to write at the end of the index instead of arbitrarily on disk. I also presume it means it has some decent sorting.
[inspiration](https://github.com/tvondra/sequential-uuids/blob/master/sequ...)
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Re:Your competitor wrote the RFP you're bidding on
on Thursday April 07, 2022 @08:11AM (#30943384)
This was a reason I left a job. The company I worked for was focused on government RFPs. During the Obama administration there were promises to support small minority and vet owned businesses. The company was failing to win any contract of substance. So one day we bid on a contract to provide dell servers. Out of desperation, the other members of the team decided to go lower than business could allow.
Turns out we finally won something… which we weren’t ‘designed’ to win. Dell came screaming in on the phone asking what the hell we were doing. Dell had written the RFP and ‘partnered’ with a small company to basically win the contract outright. That’s when I learned the system was rigged and it still favored big companies and their selected friends.
Re:Scientists find microplastics in blood for first time
on Sunday March 27, 2022 @04:40PM (#30823886)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwN983PnJoA
Maybe not true anymore.
Re:Scientists find microplastics in blood for first time
on Sunday March 27, 2022 @04:40PM (#30823883)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwN983PnJoA
Perhaps this is dated now according to other comments.
Re:Scientists find microplastics in blood for first time
on Saturday March 26, 2022 @09:29AM (#30811615)
Toothpaste blows my mind. It’s literally plastic in some baking soda type substance. Extra whitening? Larger plastic.
Is TypeScript (node) faster than go?
Re:PyFlow – Visual scripting framework for Python – NodeRED alternative?
on Sunday January 16, 2022 @07:36PM (#29962037)
Having worked on a flow based UI for a few years, I would say it very much depends on your core use case and the “standard library”. Since you’ll probably be making a DSL of sorts, there is a balance of simplicity and flexibility.
It really shines in the ETL area. Configuration and generation would be alright.
You can get an idea of where I got with js at [fluxion.app](https://fluxion.app).
Re:Designing a Dataflow Editor with TypeScript and React
on Friday July 02, 2021 @08:21PM (#27718342)
Love to see other flow based applications. Fluxion (https://fluxion.app) was my baby for a long time.
Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B
on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @09:29PM (#27376150)
Method of Loci
Re:Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
on Thursday May 27, 2021 @09:11AM (#27302648)
Youtuber Michael Reeves enters chat
Re:Why I Built Litestream
on Friday February 12, 2021 @07:09AM (#26112792)
This guy cookies
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Re:Ask HN: Is hydrogen likely to be a major source of power in the nex...
on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @03:31PM (#24570951)
A good friend of mine worked in compressor technology for 10 years. We had the fortune of working together for a few projects before he set off for Denmark to finish R&D of a new compressor for hydrogen fueling stations. He thought it'd only take 2 years. Took more like 5 years with all the certifications required and fine tuning parameters. So it's in use now in the EU.
When he was nearing the end of the project I asked if he thought the future of energy was battery technology or hydrogen or both? He answered both. The energy density of hydrogen is too good to ignore for commercial vehicles (buses, construction, 18 wheelers). The momentum in battery technology and infrastructure for (car) 'limited' range use is going to carry forward.
This friend now makes high end technology based liquor cabinets (chuckle). Probably too much pressure in his last gig.
Re:How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)
on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @02:29PM (#23083152)
I am very impressed with the hidden gems of stripe's landing page. Here's[1] a post I wrote that analyzed the drop down animation they use. I've never seen it anywhere else.