ryguytilidie

Vitalize | Full-time Engineer | Remote (US, SF in-person preferred)

What we do:

We're a Series A, ~50 person company building the operating system for hospital labor and capacity. Hospitals today manually forecast patient volumes and staff reactively—losing efficiency, increasing costs, and compromising patient care. Vitalize automates demand prediction (leveraging ADT data, historical patterns, and acuity scores to forecast patient census) and real-time staffing optimization.

Traction: $10M ARR < 2 years. Across 30+ hospitals

Who we're looking for: Engineers who learn quickly, reason clearly about hard problems, and thrive in a high-impact environment. If you're interested, email ryan@vitalize.care

Stack: Typescript + Postgres + Effect. Large focus on being able to learn quickly and solve difficult problems

Comp: 160k - 270k + equity

He has a 3 hour conversation with a guest where he talks at lengths about pretty much anything he wants to ask them about.

Or, for the last two years, Covid and only Covid.

And anyone who disagrees with him, including the world's leading experts are stupid.

Then he has Alex Jones on to say provocative things to boost his audience.

But yes, we will call this open research, and not being a shock jock somehow...?

"If you disagree with someone, the only honorable thing to do would be to go on their platform of misinformation to make them more money while they present your position in the most disingenuous way possible."

Come on, you can't be on hacker news and have this poor of critical thinking skills, right?

My favorite part is how on Monday mornings when I have a meeting I can just 100% count on one of these things happening:

-One of them will have a dead battery, even though they've been in a perfectly clean case that charged it yesterday and will charge it tomorrow. -They will no longer be paired with my phone for some reason. -They will pair with my phone, but just not recognize that they should be the primary audio output and calls will just play on speaker phone.

But sure, they "just work".

Not exactly what the OP is talking about, but I do consulting and have ~5 gmail accounts.

My FAVORITE feature ever is: "huh. You just woke up on a Tuesday and need to get to work? Well, we've logged you out of all your accounts and need you to log in again."

The worst.

glad we're focusing on the important thing here.

So you're dismissing the defund the police movement based on the phrasing and not knowing anything about it? What would be so harmful with learning about the thing you're speaking about with authority before doing so...?

Its really weird how the "its just a flu, lol" crowd is totally okay with flu vaccines yearly but having more than 3 vaccines against a thing that has killed millions of people is JUST TOO MUCH. CAN'T HAVE THIS.

Totally! I don't think I've ever turned down a request to help someone. But in this case he basically admitted that he kind of lied to me so that he could get my advice, while asking for my advice. Bleh.

I have a fun one.

In 2015 I was laid off from a startup that unfortunately shut down.

During my search I was intro'ed by their VC to the CTO. The CTO told me they were hiring for my exact, kind of niche role. I was pretty pumped as I hadn't really lost a job before and wanted to get something new quickly.

I met the CTO at a coffee shop, he kept asking me a bunch of questions that were clearly more being asked with the intention of picking my brain about a project versus interview questions. I asked him what was up and he said they hired someone for the role the week before, but that he wanted to pick my brain so he kept our time on calendar.

I had taken BART into the city, pushed back a different interview and taken time out of my day so a CTO with a ton of funding could exploit my labor for zero compensation.

I said something along the lines of, "um, okay I need to focus on my job search, good luck." and got up to leave. He then kind of did this act as if I was being kind of a dick for not helping him.

Luckily a Director of Engineering I'd worked with at a past company was sitting two tables away and I said hi and he said he had overheard what happened and I ended up interviewing at his company.

Still, to this day, seeing all of those "Flexport is hiring!" posts has always made me wonder how much of their interview process is just wasting the time of potential employees. They seem like they have a fairly noble mission, which is why I interviewed in the first place. But man, that whole situation still feels really gross to me.

...yes?

I absolutely cannot stand the way these TV providers continually try to rope their customers into their disputes. This happened when I had directv, it happened when I had comcast, it happens now with YoutubeTV.

I would never in a million years, as a business owner, message one of my clients and blame a vendor for bad service and want them to help solve the dispute.

I just do not get the thought process here. "Well, these people are paying us a ton of money every month and we're just swimming in profits. Lets ask those same customers to try to get us a better deal for us with Disney so that we'll be more profitable!

No.

His reasoning was that they use to feel like they were on the side of the community, but in many places it is now the community is opposed to the police.

This is like your grandpa telling you kids have no respect nowadays when all he does is scream at any kid he sees and then demands respect. It works both ways. Police used to be part of the community. Then they put themselves in tanks and body armor and come into every situation guns blazing and scared of everyone in the community.

How is the community supposed to react...?

I cannot think of a more sinister motivation than not wanting your fellow Americans to die.

Wow, I think I found the most disingenuous person on hacker news.

Aren't they mostly just used for Bloody Mary's?

I fly a lot and I've never actually seen anyone order a tomato juice.

"why on earth should my actions have consequences!?!? this is cancel culture" is easily the most disingenuous cringe thing in the last year, and that is saying a lot.

I mean, you're basically the problem here. You're very clearly being disingenuous and playing word games at the exact moment you're accusing others of doing the same.

"They have illegal ones?"

Yeah I thought the US only had LEGAL torture centers!!

I worked there in 2013. I very specifically remember getting a speech about how if we didn't believe that the company would be worth more than google, we should quit. Seems like that may have been a better option for a lot of folks.

I mean, at this point you seem to be upset that I'm judging someone for their statements and actions? What else is there to judge people by?

The things you're describing are rare. A credit card expiring is not rare at all.

What were you hoping to prove here?

The difference between McDonald's midrange line and, say, a burger at a restaurant for $18 is negligible in flavor.

Oh come on. I get that you're trying to make a point but this is ridiculous.

Somewhat similar. I used to moderate a web forum and last summer I met someone from Scunthorpe. He said "yeah, its a small town, you've probably never heard of it." But I HAD heard of it because when I used to moderate that forum, we had someone from Scunthorpe sign up and the site blocked them for profanity. It was because their name contained the word "cunt". I've always found this funny and will remember Scunthorpe forever.

Its so weird that a company would make it clear that theyre in control of the platform they own and are responsible for.

You're really being duped here. Its not about "twitter posting their views". This isn't a question of who's opinion may or may not be right. Trump is continuously posting verifiably false information that could kill people. The idea that a single person on earth could object to fact checking these things, that again, will cause more deaths, is just stunning. Stop with the awkward 1984 act. You and I both know you're being completely disingenuous.

I don't think I've ever disagreed with anyone more than, "Twitter has massively overstepped what would reasonably be considered moderation."

This is all because they DARED fact check lie number 2129317?LOL

Do you have a source for this? I hear this every year and it never happens.

Completely disagree. You forgot the A350, which appears to be a better plane than the 777x. I also disagree that the A330 neo is inferior to the 787. Its cheaper, more reliable and the fuel burn isn't much different. To say they're "soundly" winning in the widebody market isn't correct, and it also leaves out the fact that the A220/A3XX is outselling the 737 like crazy.

That's funny. I was aware of the secondary usage, but not the primary.

Why not make this calculation yourself versus demanding a stranger does it?