bizzleDawg (u/bizzleDawg)

bizzleDawg commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

bizzleDawg · 2 months ago

Hardian Health | Senior Product Engineer | REMOTE (UK only) | Full time flexible, 1 (initial) year contract

We're building a regulatory intelligence platform for AI in healthcare. In effect a specialist dataset + search engine for that information. Currently working to get from a Beta to production ready. This is a Full-stack role, working alongside CTO.

Stack: Python, Node, React, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Data scrapers

Fully remote with quarterly meetups. Flexible hours.

Must have UK work authorization (no visa sponsorship).

Find out more and apply: https://www.hardianhealth.com/careers-list/product-engineer

bizzleDawg commented on Show HN: Claude Composer github.com/possibilities/... · Posted by u/mikebannister

serf · 7 months ago

Add a 5 hour timer so that us with MAX subs can know when to come back to our Opus work.

I like it. thanks for the effort.

bizzleDawg · 7 months ago

I was thinking that on this, folks need a cron task to run a trivial prompt at 5-6am and get that 5hr timer running so that it the majority of the quota is available in the working day morning, and then a new 5hr block starts around lunch time. This should maximise use of included tokens by a standard work day spanning 3 blocks rather than 2

bizzleDawg commented on Spaced repetition memory system (2024) notes.andymatuschak.org/S... · Posted by u/gasull

vjk800 · 7 months ago

I've tried spaced repetition systems several times. The problem that I always discover is that I don't really have stuff that's worth memorizing. Things that are actually important I remember without trying and for the rest of the things, doing daily card reviews starts to feel like a pointless chore after a while.

bizzleDawg · 7 months ago

I'm in a similar position of never having found a use where memorising lots of facts would be useful. The main use I keep seeing is vocabulary building when learning a language. I'm sure people are using the system for learning other stuff too though?

Seeing this did make me wonder how I might be able to get better at memorising important parts of iso/iec standards at work, but I can't see how that maps to flashcards

bizzleDawg commented on Timeframe of 8-hour restricted eating irrelevant to weight loss nia.nih.gov/news/timefram... · Posted by u/hilux

jetrink · 9 months ago

> Fitting 3 meals into an 8h window would be … tricky.

That's the main secret to time restricted eating, in my opinion: You don't have enough time to eat as much as you normally do so overall calorie intake tends to decrease. I think the other reason it's helpful for some people is that eating nothing for one meal takes less self control than restricting yourself to a small portion, leading to better adherence than normal calorie counting.

bizzleDawg · 9 months ago

I've been following 16hr fasts by skipping breakfast and eating my first meal at around 12:00 each day. Normally have an afternoon snack, then dinner at 18:00 with my young family. Perhaps a sweet treat by 20:00 after putting the little one to bed. Honestly, it's not that tricky if you bulk up lunch a bit.

Edit: As a sibling comment says quite rightly, you do feel hungry in the late morning, but reacting to that feeling is optional

bizzleDawg commented on Show HN: The App I Built to Help Manage My Diabetes apps.apple.com/gb/app/isl... · Posted by u/yeatsy

lukko · a year ago

Hey, I'm a doctor and work in a similar area. I really like the name and well done on shipping. You can tell the app is made by a patient who suffers from the condition, which is amazing.

I would be really careful in this area though, especially using ChatGPT to generate suggestions. This to me this does venture into medical device territory, based on the intended use. Check the guidelines here https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/medical-devices-s... - UK specific, but will be similar for FDA.

Honestly, I would seek proper consultancy advice, remove any suggestions / recommendations for now, and just have it as a data-logging platform. The disclaimer unfortunately will not stand up.

Congratulations on getting this far - I really hope you continue on this path, just make sure you are on firm ground.

bizzleDawg · a year ago

I came here to say the same as the parent comment - it's an amazing achievement, but you may well have built a medical device which needs certification in order to be on the market in the territories you want to use it in.

I work (freelance) with a consultancy [1] that helps specifically with software-as-a-medical-device (SaMD). My email is in my profile if you want to chat about what might be the best way forward.

[1]: https://www.hardianhealth.com/

bizzleDawg commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024) · Posted by u/david927

selimthegrim · a year ago

Now consulting? But yes I’d love to connect.

bizzleDawg · a year ago

Correct, thanks!

bizzleDawg commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024) · Posted by u/david927

bizzleDawg · a year ago

I'm working on scoping out specific problems facing "software as a medical device" (SaMD) companies. In particular issues around being able to release software at a reasonable cadence. I've been a CTO in this space for a couple of years and I am now consulting with other firms around the intersection of tech and regulatory.

It's a tight-rope walk of ensuring that all testing (software and non-software testing) and evidence is produced correctly and being able to release at a rapid pace to derisk each release. It's not uncommon for software to only be updated yearly, leading to very conservative changes and little iteration. Monthly releases are okay, but still not great.

I want to make it possible to release at least weekly and to do so safely.

If you work in this area, I'd love to chat and hear your experiences (email available via my website in bio).

bizzleDawg commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

bizzleDawg · a year ago

Neuronostics | Senior Engineer | Python | Bristol, UK (Hybrid) | up-to £65K

Neuronostics is revolutionising diagnosis and prognosis of neurological conditions. We create algorithms and software which can be used to aid medical professionals gain more value from EEG data than ever before.

Seeking: Mid/Senior Fullstack Engineer

Stack: Python, Django, Postgres, HTMX, Terraform, AWS

Role involves: Working within the tech team to take scientific code from our science team and get it into the hands of our customers, help to build out the rest of the tech team.

Full job ad: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4028079138

Apply: recruitment@neuronostics.com

bizzleDawg commented on Low Cost Mini PCs lowcostminipcs.com/... · Posted by u/mjcurl

mjcurl · a year ago

I tried to find this out myself. All I could find easily was the TDP of different processors. But I'm not sure if it's a good measure of how much power it will use.

bizzleDawg · a year ago

Yeah, exactly! I suppose that it's workload dependent to a great extent

bizzleDawg commented on Low Cost Mini PCs lowcostminipcs.com/... · Posted by u/mjcurl

outime · a year ago

This is neat, although I have a word of caution (even if it might be a bit obvious): it's possible to find good deals, but you should be aware of power usage. There are modern mini PCs, such as those with Intel N100 processors, that are very cheap and consume very few watts while being useful for many purposes. I personally bought a brand-new CHUWI LarkBox X, and it's been great. It cost around 100 EUR on a deal. If however power usage isn't an issue for you and you don't care about other misc stuff (noise levels etc) then you can disregard this.

bizzleDawg · a year ago

Does anyone have any useful rules-of-thumb or heuristics for balancing this trade off of upfront cost v.s. power cost? e.g. how much does an N100 cost to run for a year v.s. say a i5-2400s (the CPU for the first row on the linked site)?