Hacker News: baran1

New comment by baran1 in "CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised"

baran1 — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 07:33:49 +0000

lookup the word censorship

New comment by baran1 in "Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe?"

baran1 — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 15:57:17 +0000

HIPAA is not a joke, employees can be held personally liable for breeches. At Helix we take HIPAA very seriously

New comment by baran1 in "Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news"

baran1 — Fri, 12 May 2023 00:33:26 +0000

fantastic. could you please add a way to filter out a topic/person never want to read about?

New comment by baran1 in "CRDT: Fractional Indexing"

baran1 — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 04:49:22 +0000

How did you got end to end encryption working with CRDTs?

New comment by baran1 in "Consider working on genomics"

baran1 — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 18:49:02 +0000

I started working at a genomics company about a couple of years ago and my experience is very different from the post. Although there might be a handful of bioinformatics tools that are quite old, the ones at the heart of of operations are worked on by teams and reasonably maintained, and although I agree with the headline that there's a lot of work to be done in the area - my perspective is a little different. Although this doesn't apply to all genomics companies, I'm at a company that has a lab, and the software we write makes the lab about 8x more efficient and the next generation of sequencing technology will bring sequencing costs down by about 5x. Meanwhile the science and literature keep pushing further and newer generations of physicians are putting a stronger emphasis on genomic counseling. Thanks in part to the power of viral sequencing data the government is starting to trust laboratories that bring valuable and actionable insights. I think all of those combined with the fact that CRISPR technologies are getting further along puts genomics in a unique position. TLDR; yes genomics is exciting and on the brink of something big, but no it's not a dumpster fire that needs saving. Oh and as a bonus - I get to work with really smart scientists and they are very friendly :)

New comment by baran1 in "Ask HN: Are companies preparing to end Remote?"

baran1 — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 18:18:08 +0000

airbnb?

New comment by baran1 in "Boeing suspends vaccine mandate for U.S. employees"

baran1 — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 04:02:26 +0000

Surge in inputs can be explained by the fact that we’re in a pandemic. Based on the investigation of the VAERS reports, what risks are you talking about?

New comment by baran1 in "A few things I’ve come to believe in my years in music tech"

baran1 — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 22:06:43 +0000

hat soon to be in the ring https://gliss.fun :)

New comment by baran1 in "A few things I’ve come to believe in my years in music tech"

baran1 — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 21:52:59 +0000

are you on any of those?

New comment by baran1 in "A few things I’ve come to believe in my years in music tech"

baran1 — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 21:52:01 +0000

Historically I think licensing has been the biggest hurdle. Nowadays music is moving towards being commodified and licensing is less of an issue. Still to be determined whether or not it's possible to build a community around a fractured space, I'll report back when we launch :)

New comment by baran1 in "A few things I’ve come to believe in my years in music tech"

baran1 — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 21:36:39 +0000

do you just Shazam the songs you like from the local college radio?

New comment by baran1 in "A few things I’ve come to believe in my years in music tech"

baran1 — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 21:31:45 +0000

out of curiosity, how often do you do this? And once you discover something, how do you get it into your music app / playlist?

New comment by baran1 in "A few things I’ve come to believe in my years in music tech"

baran1 — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 20:10:37 +0000

when I learn about an artist or song through a friend, I end up having a mental association between that person and the song/artist which feels good

New comment by baran1 in "Show HN: Download videos, but only the parts you want"

baran1 — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:39:05 +0000

great work!

New comment by baran1 in "Show HN: I wrote a local-first notes app for Mac, with data longevity in mind"

baran1 — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 19:00:41 +0000

1. strangely these days I'm a lot more relieved to see subscriptions over one-time payments because those projects tend to have the funding to update their software.

2. agree, syncing is to a mobile device is required

New comment by baran1 in "In Defense of Richard Stallman"

baran1 — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 11:52:15 +0000

> The word “assaulting” presumes that he applied force or violence, in some unspecified way, but the article itself says no such thing. Only that they had sex.

If someone appears to be having sex with someone that appears to be underage, the older person appears to be sexually assaulting the younger person. This is because a minor cannot legally consent which makes non-consensual sex forceful by definition, hence it is called assault.

In other words: rms was wrong, and now rms is gone.

New comment by baran1 in "Ask HN: What sucks about where you live?"

baran1 — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 17:37:56 +0000

I can help:

Dallas is a city of suburbs, sprawl, and strip malls. Looking for an artisan? That'll be 30 minutes driving please. Driving everywhere means people don't have places to walk. And when you do walk, you're walking amongst dangerous, loud, and smoggy traffic.

There's a race for larger and larger homes in Dallas. Those homes take more energy to cool and heat as the seasons shift, and the larger footprint means the sprawl accelerates.

What do people do with the larger homes? They get lonely in them.

New comment by baran1 in "Show HN: Map of immigration to the U.S. since 1820"

baran1 — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 04:07:40 +0000

Hi, nitpick comment, but the boundaries of the countries on this map are not changing over the course of almost a century.

New comment by baran1 in "Theranos Is Subject of Criminal Probe by U.S"

baran1 — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 05:13:18 +0000

interesting point. enforcement came via government.

New comment by baran1 in "BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major Platforms"

baran1 — Tue, 12 May 2015 23:28:58 +0000

What about Telegram?