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Launch HN: InpharmD (YC W21) – curated drug information for doctors https://ift.tt/3oqpZQh

Launch HN: InpharmD (YC W21) – curated drug information for doctors Hi HN- My name is Ashish, and I’m the CEO/ co founder of InpharmD ( https://inpharmd.com ). We take questions from doctors and return curated, evidence - based answers. I was a clinical pharmacist offering a remote service from a University for 10 years. Ask us anything, we begged, and our team of pharmacists, residents, and students would look it up, get through the paywalls, and provide the answer. I passed out business cards around local hospitals. They were lost over time. Then I passed out business cards with magnets. They stuck around, but there aren’t that many places in the hospital with the magnetic surfaces. Eventually, people stored our number, but we’d ask so many questions when they called, they couldn’t ask theirs: who are you, where are you calling from, what’s your email, spell it, etc, etc, etc. Often, they’d hang up on us, and I don’t blame them. The average doctor now sees five patients an hour. I re

Show HN: Simple VSCode extension to autocomplete Python with a transformer model https://ift.tt/3iYbBxJ

Show HN: Simple VSCode extension to autocomplete Python with a transformer model We created a simple VSCode plugin to autocomplete Python with a transformer model trained on code from awesome PyTorch list. Github repo: https://ift.tt/3pNn9pS You will need a GPU for it to be responsive. January 29, 2021 at 07:49AM

Show HN: Programming with your own words (in English) https://ift.tt/2NNTDTf

Show HN: Programming with your own words (in English) Hi HN! Fernando here. I am really looking forward to getting some feedback about Hupreter (https://hupreter.com) from you all. I started working on Hupreter a year ago, mostly exploring what was possible. But some time before that, I started playing with NLP (natural language processing) and discovering what was currently possible. At first, I was using it on news articles but then I thought that it might be possible to use this to program in natural languages (like English), instead of programming languages. How cool would it be if you could just tell your computer what to do! Your computer, your phone, or any machine. Most of the work has gone into creating a semantic engine that aims to 'understand' the meaning behind a piece of text. Once that worked, I focused on the second stage which is converting that understanding into instructions in a programming language. I am really happy to put this out there and get some feedb

Launch HN: Arpio (YC W21) – Protect your business from AWS outages & ransomware https://ift.tt/36lpvET

Launch HN: Arpio (YC W21) – Protect your business from AWS outages & ransomware Hello HN! We’re Shaw [sterwill] and Doug [doug_neumann] and today we’re very excited to share Arpio with you ( https://arpio.io ). Arpio is a SaaS that protects AWS environments from downtime by making it easy to recover from outages, ransomware, cyber-attacks, and human error. What that means is that when critical AWS services go down (like the Kinesis outage in November [0]), Arpio can launch identical workloads in a healthy region. Or if a bad actor does bad things in an AWS environment (like Codespaces [1] or Webex Teams [2]), Arpio can quickly restore everything to an alternate AWS account. Our story goes back to the big S3 outage of 2017. In February that year an AWS employee made a typo at the command line, and inadvertently took down much of AWS’s Northern Virginia region. That outage lasted 5 hours, and we were among the thousands of companies impacted. All outages suck, but the timing on this

Slow Streets: A Path to Permanence

Slow Streets: A Path to Permanence By Shannon Hake In locations throughout San Francisco, the Slow Streets Program has shown that minimizing traffic on residential streets allows them to be more safely used as a space for people traveling by foot and by bicycle. Due to the program’s success, the SFMTA is now exploring the possibility of making some of the current temporary Slow Streets permanent, extending their use beyond the COVID-19 emergency.   Slow Streets discourage non-local vehicle access through barricades and signage. Reducing the number of vehicles on Slow Streets provides more space for physically-distanced essential travel and exercise during the COVID-19 emergency. Because of their popularity, community members have indicated a strong interest in a longer-term future for these streets. As such, we are planning ahead so that some Slow Streets can be maintained beyond the public health emergency. In the coming months we’ll be implementing our “Path to Permanence” on t

Launch HN: Axle Health (YC W21) – In-Home Healthcare as a Service https://ift.tt/3pqtPKv

Launch HN: Axle Health (YC W21) – In-Home Healthcare as a Service Hey everyone, We’re Connor and Adam and we’re working on Axle Health ( https://ift.tt/3qXzRTi ). We provide an API for sending health professionals to people’s homes to deliver medical services. For example, a telehealth company can use our service to request an in-home blood draw for their patient. Healthcare has traditionally been delivered in an office or hospital. In recent years, telehealth - providing healthcare remotely, without the need for people to come to a healthcare facility - has taken off as technology has improved, but physical tests are still often needed to make diagnoses, and physical contact is needed to administer treatment. Without physical interaction, telehealth physicians can only handle a subset of common visit reasons. In all other cases they’re required to refer patients to a lab or in-person doctor. As a result of this lack of continuity in the patient’s care journey, most use telehealth plat

Show HN: No-Code OAuth integration plugins for Bubble https://ift.tt/3j1wKqZ

Show HN: No-Code OAuth integration plugins for Bubble We are Sameera & Ralph, co-founders of Pathfix (https://pathfix.com). We have been working very closely with the no-code community for a few months now trying to bring our low-code oauth integration platform to the no-code community, starting with Bubble. Based off of these discussions, we released a few plugins that handle: - Entire oauth process for each provider - End-User authorization - Token management - Relevant API calls The plugins are available for free with the option to whitelabel. Here is the list of all the live plugins available (https://ift.tt/36dxsw4) - SSO Login (with 8 different providers) - Spotify Search API - Twitter connector - Quickbooks (Customer + Invoice) - Slack Thanks so much. We look forward to your feedback! January 27, 2021 at 12:22PM

Fiona Hinze Fills Final Seat on SFMTA Board of Directors

Fiona Hinze Fills Final Seat on SFMTA Board of Directors By Lori Phelan Fiona Hinze, transit accessibility advocate and resident of the Outer Richmond, has joined the SFMTA Board of Directors as the seventh member on the board, filling the final vacancy. Nominated by Mayor Breed in late October, Hinze brings a lifetime of experience advocating for transit access for people with disabilities such as herself. Hinze lives with cerebral palsy and uses an electric wheelchair for mobility. "It is important we have a member on the SFMTA Board who understands the needs of our disability community and the challenges people face getting around our City, whether that's riding Muni or navigating our streets and sidewalks," said Mayor Breed in a press release. "Fiona is a respected and trusted community member and knows how to listen to the needs of people living with disabilities and advocate for change. She will bring an important perspective to the SFMTA Board and I'm

Launch HN: Airbyte (YC W20) – Open-Source ELT (Fivetran/Stitch Alternative) https://ift.tt/2M4ZzGN

Launch HN: Airbyte (YC W20) – Open-Source ELT (Fivetran/Stitch Alternative) Hi HN! Michel here with John, Shrif, Jared, Charles, and Chris. We are building an open-source ELT platform that replicates data from any applications, APIs, databases, etc. into your data warehouses, data lakes or databases: https://airbyte.io . I’ve been in data engineering for 11 years. Before Airbyte, I was the head of integrations at Liveramp, where we built and scaled over 1,000 data ingestion connectors to replicate 100TB worth of data every day. John, on the other end, has already built 3 startups with 2 exits. His latest one didn’t work out, though. He spent almost a year building ETL pipelines for an engineering management platform, but he eventually ran out of money before reaching product-market fit. By late 2019, we had known each other for 7 years, and always wanted to work together. When John’s third startup shut down, it was finally the right timing for both of us. And we knew which problem we w

Launch HN: Aviron (YC W21) – High-Intensity Peloton for Rowing https://ift.tt/3ojdQwB

Launch HN: Aviron (YC W21) – High-Intensity Peloton for Rowing Hey HN! I’m Andy, founder of Aviron ( https://ift.tt/3cbfrC3 ). We make a high-intensity version of Peloton for rowing, with competitive games, live races and strength programs. Our content puts a focus on HIIT (high intensity interval training) due to its physical and cognitive benefits. I feel like sometimes this pisses the hardcore rowers off but I’m not a rower, I’m a tech guy. I also think fitness is important and have been working out all of my adult life. Before Aviron, I worked full time and long hours so I did a lot of my thinking during late night gym sessions. Like many people I avoided the rower because not only did I not enjoy cardio but damn that machine was hard and boring. There was a moment at some point in 2016 when I realized I could do something with this. The connected fitness market in the US at that time was small but growing rapidly. Aviron is a rowing machine because it’s the most efficient and effe

Meet Manny Yekutiel, New Addition to the SFMTA Board of Directors

Meet Manny Yekutiel, New Addition to the SFMTA Board of Directors By Lori Phelan On Tuesday, January 14, Mayor London Breed officially welcomed small-business owner Manny Yekutiel as one of two new members of the SFMTA Board of Directors. The appointment fills the sixth of the seven SFMTA board positions. Yekutiel is currently the owner of  Manny's , a restaurant, bar, coffee shop, political bookstore and civic social gathering space built at the corner of 16th and Valencia in the Mission district. He is also a member of the city's Small Business Commission and board member of the Valencia Corridor Merchants Association. "I'm excited to nominate Manny Yekutiel to serve on the SFMTA Board of Directors," said Mayor Breed in a tweet. "He knows how to bring people together, and I am confident in his ability to bring a fresh perspective to the Board and represent the needs of SF small businesses and residents." In  Mayor Breed's press release  he wa

Show HN: Retrospective on having my “Show HN” on the front-page https://ift.tt/3chGrjk

Show HN: Retrospective on having my “Show HN” on the front-page I was lucky enough to have my site trending on Friday (https://ift.tt/3p909l9). It’s an icon site that lists open source icons. I wanted to share some stats on the results after 3 days. Worth noting was that I submitted it on a Friday morning (at which point I went for a walk and a coffee; eek). - 24,997 page views. I (embarrassingly) didn’t have GA set up when I first submitted it, so this is probably missing a few hundred page views - 21 “feedback” emails (half of which were spam). I assume such a high percentage of these were spam because my Feedback form didn’t require email addresses. - 5 note-worthy emails from people which may result in some sort of collaboration - 10 mailing list subscriber sign ups. Running through MailChimp, and it’s not emphasized at all (eg. just a link in the footer). Purposefully not email-gating people to download, since I want this to be a very developer-centric site, and it feels a bit uns