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Article and interspersed visuals were a pleasant learning experience. I'm not caught up on mathematics as much as I'd like to be..

I'd love to have spent more on Alexa, but having trust in the quality and pricing was critical to me so I stopped ordering after they messed it up a few times. I now verify my purchases on the website to ensure the bulk facial tissues (or whatever) are actually the cheapest and most legitimate listing for the brand I want.

Our company was acquired by Amazon in 2017 to help power Alexa's general knowledge / informational answers, and that's pretty much what we did. I only stayed for 15 months after acquisition though.

Not sure how much or if this had influence from Guava at all, but I wanted to share the link since we've been around about 3 years and Guava is both free to track and seemingly a superset, except for explicit streak tracking: guavahealth.com

Streak tracking seemed more of a vanity non-health-related aspect so we've left it out so far.

Computing statistical insights based on arbitrary pairings of lifestyle habits is a big feature for many people

Despite a minor grievance about not making HN mobile friendly sooner, I have extreme respect for long lasting high quality things, and this is one of them.

Happy new year hacker news

I like this. Indeed the fundamental crux of all human discourse: politics, argument, and of course content moderation.

Guava Health is hiring a head of growth and a full stack engineer.

Guava's mission is to empower people to understand and improve their health. We build a health web/app for consumers.

More at guavahealth.com/careers

It's so disheartening to see news like this. I just recently switched to Spotify to try it as my primary music service for the first time, and it has such a fundamental flaw with multiple devices not being supported that it feels like a prank. My family using my home devices interrupts my laptop music and they won't even allow me to pay to fix it, I would need to create a whole new account that doesn't have all my saved settings. My friend who has used spotify a long time said he made a new account in his dog's name to get around this. Really??? On top of that, the radio is still only built for basic short term listeners because it only plays the top 50 songs over and over, even in niche genres like symphonic power metal (as opposed to, say, electronic music as a whole). It's disheartening because our world economy somehow perpetuates so much of the wrong things that are trivial to fix if one genuinely asks "is this a good experience?"

If those were already electronic records, your provider broke federal law by declining and trying to charge you that much. You can submit information blocking reports here: https://www.healthit.gov/topic/information-blocking.

This isn't totally a legal problem, it's also an adherence problem. I'd estimate about half of providers don't know what exactly they are required to do and at what cost. Our company helped patients request their own records and half the time we had to call and talk to the provider about the legal requirements and ask them to comply or reduce the price.

Even before October 6 and the Cures Act, HIPAA law already required very cheap access to your own medical records. It's something like a base maximum cost of $6.50 plus a per-page printing fee but ONLY if you request paper format. HIPAA law directly states that the format requested by the patient MUST be given if readily available. Digital format doesn't require printing.

Ah yes. I phrase this as wanting to duplicate myself many times over. Much to do, little time.

I'm attempting to put a dent into increasing our timelines (longevity) with my current project, Guava. The other way to get more time is to experience more in the same time, and for this we need improved brains and interfaces. I'll be ambitious and put my effort into these things because it will allow me to do more if successful.

Somewhat surprising and very nice to see metal-archives posted here. It seems rare these days to see continual high quality from a single website, but metal-archives has just been solid good for a real long time. Many things have been tainted or destroyed with the maturity of internet business.

More decades, let's go!

Guava Health (Guava) is hiring full-time ONSITE in sunny Santa Barbara. Primarily a creative marketing leader, but always hiring software if it's a great fit.

We're building software and products to help people understand and improve their personal health. We have web, an app, and a physical Emergency Card for your wallet.

I'm co-founder and help build the software. Happy to chat: dylan@

guavahealth.com

Forewarning: this page immediately redirected me to a fraud/malware website pretending to be a google alert.

Hi. I run imgflip.com, a fine purveyor of cat pictures, among others. It serves ~100TB of bandwidth and hundreds of millions of image views per month with total infrastructure cost below 5k per month. I believe Imgflip completely avoids dark patterns because I abhor them and strive to provide positive value to humanity, although I would love for you to share your opinions to the contrary. Imgflip is also 80% profit. It employs several of the techniques you mention, but efficiently, rather than bloated and inefficient like many companies. Curious to hear your take

When Imgflip moved to Cloudflare they did require an enterprise contract if we would use Cloudflare as a CDN (lots of static assets, in our case .jpg and .gif). The contract was a constant price per month as opposed to per-GB like classic CDNs. It's possible contracts are different now though Imgflip has been there a while.

Yea, seemed like "this [neural net generated thing] does not exist" was itself becoming a meme, so of course I had to participate!

Shortcut link to the accompanying article about building the conv net: https://towardsdatascience.com/meme-text-generation-with-a-d...

Really awesome simulation of this problem. I constantly think about how traffic would be optimized once full automation is possible and this is a nice way to play around with the levers the AI would optimize.

As highway-driving AI approaches perfection I'd expect:

- Acceleration/nausea approaches zero

- Number of lane changes approaches zero

- Distance between cars approaches zero (when necessary in crowded areas)

- Maximum speed approaches physical limit

It will be satisfying to watch these happen over time.

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Good tutorial! Wikidata is an awesome initiative for Wikimedia and I would love to see all Wikipedia's structured data powered by wikidata. Wikidata is much easier to interface with than wikipedia infoboxes!

This is a killer library, it worked much better than our previous solution to gif-encoding on the frontend.

shameless plug: If you want to see a fun production use case of the gif.js library, check out https://imgflip.com/images-to-gif

Well hello! I must stay I've stumbled on your site a few times, being in the GIF business. Cool to see so many of these site owners on HN. I also left a reply on a site I run, imgflip.com, somewhere on the page here.

NSFW content is definitely one of the harder challenges when it comes to advertising on user-generated GIFs...

imgflip.com - meme & gif creation/sharing site

Traffic: 2.5M visits/mo, 5.5M pageviews/mo

Revenue: 9K/mo

Cost to run: 1.5K/mo

The heart of the site is the Meme and GIF generators, best on the net if you ask me ;). Pro subscriptions are the biggest source of revenue. I'm not sure I would say "want to sell", but I spend most of my time on a much larger project/team, so I don't give it the attention it deserves. For that reason, I would be glad to see someone (or a team) who wanted to build it out much more.

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