<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: brentis</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brentis</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:47:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=brentis" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brentis in "Why do patients leave against medical advice?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because you realize the Drs. are proxies for hospitals and err on the side of hospital stay despite quality of life balance.<p>They follow guardrails closely aligned with insurance and liability too.  Unfortunately.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 22:49:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37838764</link><dc:creator>brentis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37838764</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37838764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brentis in "Is air conditioning making cities hotter?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oddly houses in Dallas are going with white brick and pure black rooftops.  Looks hideous to me and not solving our plight.<p>Some modern neighborhoods are trying living roofs with grass.  Haven't taken off and the grass hasn't survived either.<p>Lastly, other day saw post about leaving grass uncut reduced surface temps notable amount.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 03:54:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37462679</link><dc:creator>brentis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37462679</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37462679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brentis in "Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Came here looking for this angle.  Seeing doctors now feels like talking to someone who has memorized an actuary-like table for the doctor's risk/reward versus patients benefit/outcome as in the past.<p>Have a torn meniscus and given age is dumped into "excise meniscus tear" bucket.  While Dr knows that shortens the path to knee replacement (which he no less pointed out on several occasions).<p>Going to Dr. Now seems like you are a walking revenue center vs. patient in need.<p>(ps. Many current accredited studies suggest repair attempt vs. removal)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 17:03:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36749181</link><dc:creator>brentis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36749181</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36749181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brentis in "Aptos, our modern successor to Calibri"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At least it's not Arial-like.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2023 09:42:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36721658</link><dc:creator>brentis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36721658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36721658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brentis in "Financiers bought up anesthesia practices, then raised prices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>JnJ has a AI based anethesioligist tool which can monitor all patient data and provide exacting levels of care beyond what an anethesioligist can do.<p>Of course... The Drs pushed back and threatened to find alternative drugs and products if JnJ didn't relent from trying to get this tool in hospitals.<p>Suffice it to say.. we don't see any of them in hospitals.</p>
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<p>Seems to make sense.  They have the customer record and can be forward facing dataset for what is usually most critical piece of data for businesses.  A Snowflake or Palantir with Custdb already exposed and integrated in workflow doesn't sound bad to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 22:42:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36158441</link><dc:creator>brentis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36158441</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36158441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brentis in "Show HN: StonksGPT – A Natural Language search tool for Stocks and Finance data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>0 for 5 questions.  I gave up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 22:15:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36158160</link><dc:creator>brentis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36158160</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36158160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brentis in "Show HN: I made CSS Pro, a re-imagined Devtools for web design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Came here to see comments about pricing.  I think inline with others.Expected a nominal 1 time fee.  Probably up to $60.  $30/mo is more than Photoshop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:50:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36150385</link><dc:creator>brentis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36150385</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36150385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brentis in "A raw dump of companies from all over the world by LinkedIn handle"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can we rename to Glengarry leads?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2023 02:21:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35983506</link><dc:creator>brentis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35983506</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35983506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brentis in "Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Back in my old network engineering job at MCI, there was a secret Prism project.  Rumors claimed it was to optically split the fiber without introducing delay for eavesdropping.<p>I'm sure naming is related and glad to see the initiative.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2023 23:41:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35780901</link><dc:creator>brentis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35780901</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35780901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brentis in "Ask HN: Open source LLM for commercial use?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My personal use case is that I'd like to query a bunch of our APIs and amalgamate a response those consumable for humans.<p>I think many of us have the same need and are waiting for open AI plug-in access.<p>Is this the question we are asking yourselves here or are we talking about licensing?</p>
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<p>I had the same experience.  Could see the element which it matched with, beat, pitch, etc.but missed the riff or nuance that made the source song special to me</p>
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<p>Probably something like "limited access" or "authenticated users". Could also include micro segmentation.<p>The basics are pretty straight forward, but every vendor has stretched to include their key capabilities which makes the idea murky.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2022 12:17:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31082103</link><dc:creator>brentis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31082103</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31082103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brentis in "Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He could load up on puts and sell his position.  Pretty sure he does these games read somewhere there was massive Doge purchase weeks prior to his fandom of said coin.<p>With this play, "funding secured" for his Twitter killer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 04:19:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31036577</link><dc:creator>brentis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31036577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31036577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brentis in "We lost 54k GitHub stars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Came here to hopefully see GitHub came to the rescue through a friend of a friend on HN..<p>Unfortunately....not</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 03:43:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31036442</link><dc:creator>brentis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31036442</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31036442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brentis in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No doubt these numbers are twisted and inflated to greatest bidder or friendly institution.  Wonder if someone could pull these numbers and highlight the outliers with some AI or vs. public data</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2022 22:01:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30716338</link><dc:creator>brentis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30716338</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30716338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brentis in "Just Say No to Central Bank Digital Currencies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve followed and been behind crypto for sometime. Over 11 years actually. My first exposure was when I downloaded the mining code in middle of 2011 when the price per coin was around $6. Despite personal missteps to fully capitalize on the opportunity, the notion was something which I stood behind as a way to have a degree of monetary sovereignty free from 3rd party banks participation. As many, I dove into the works and writings of Satoshi to understand who he was as it would have been disingenuous if it was actually built by any individual state. I did have suspicions that one of the NSA authors of How to Make a Mint: The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash was potentially related as he became completely silent about Bitcoin and to date never spoke about despite it being near and dear to his core research.
Regardless, the crypto space evolved and devolved and the government, as always, has used dissent to soften and misalign the uninformed which is very kin to the wholesale “all drugs are bad” narrative. And while I’m sure anyone would find the efficiencies of crypto useful for business, it's always the bad that are highlighted and sensationalized. Ukraine gets nearly $100 million in crypto donations, but the risk that Russia may use to “bypass” sanctions that warrants swift movement of the cryptocurrency bill. Doesn’t it seem the timing of the record inflation due to trillions of dollars injected into the economy seems too coincidental to ignore?<p>This bill will grease the skids for a US crypto, similar to what China has already in service. People who quickly believe everything they hear will get excited, perhaps it is the $10 of “free” US crypto that is offered that helps adoption or the Venmo-like ease it is to send money to/fro. However, its very important to know - your money is will no longer act like it has in the past. It will now be more like “credits” which dynamically increase or decrease in value based on government whims. If the government wants to provide funding to stimulate the economy - magically trillions are distributed to everyone. Even more, they can make those funds disappear or expire if not used in a certain time. What’s worse, is that the notion of negative interest rates could be enacted to where your million dollar nest egg decays over time.<p>The gross inefficiencies of government coupled with their ability to wash away any misstep with trillions of dollars which we are paying for as a hidden tax via devaluation is what at issue and don’t see it going away soon. As I imagine the narrative will move to the USA crypto is the trusted and valid option and others are not secure, valid or even legal; I don’t think cryptos have much runway. The incentive for the US to control the money supply is too great. And if the US is one of the only two governments to warrant taxation of US citizens living abroad then you can be 100% certain they want to cover all their revenue leakage.<p>Until the US Government says to the contrary, Bitcoin and 100’s of other cryptocurrencies future are at risk. And if asking, is there any way to hedge against inflation? I think, metals are probably the answer. Gold, Copper, and even Uranium are all finite resources which similar to notion of BTC require “work” to mine and are done so on a global scale.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2022 04:45:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30636305</link><dc:creator>brentis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30636305</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30636305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brentis in "How to manage software developers without micromanaging"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is so true.  As a PM, it's very arbitrary to set OKRs, when you don't even have the KPIs in place to evaluate what is meaningful.<p>On top of that when you have a vision, roadmap, backlog what are you going to say other than, "yessir, I'll do more better" and will definitely help out more on the distractions or "quick-wins" as you like to refer to them.<p>In a matter of weeks l, it's clear who is moving the needle and think peer review would show this more than management alignment to OKRs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2022 19:12:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30336756</link><dc:creator>brentis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30336756</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30336756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brentis in "Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Built a stock market scanner for my own needs and it has been a culmination of all my skills. Market is pretty saturated, however huge sense of pride which nobody can take from me.<p>On top of that it's what I use to trade.  Hearing the feedback from my subscribers is my gold.  <a href="https://mometic.com" rel="nofollow">https://mometic.com</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:16:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30294913</link><dc:creator>brentis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30294913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30294913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brentis in "Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Onus is on Upwork. They charge a fee on payment and as such are responsible for ensuring payment integrity.  Issue is they could be heavy handed on your future success much like Apps on Apple.  Best of luck.</p>
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