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Show HN: Infiuss Health (YC S21) – Platform for Remote Clinical Trials in Africa
Show HN: Infiuss Health; Platform for remote clinical trials in Africa
2 points by Melissa_bime 2 days ago | hide | past | favorite | discuss
Hi HN! We’re Melissa and Charles, the founders of Infiuss Health.(https://infiuss.com)
Infiuss Health enables US and EU based life science companies run clinical trials and clinical research studies in Africa.

1.4 Billion Africans (most diverse population on the planet) are excluded from clinical research studies today because it takes averagely 6-12 months only to reach ~40% patient enrolment target, with researchers missing out on huge data that could be generated from studying this populations and exposing us to drugs, vaccines and medical devices tested on non-African participants.

Remotely run your clinical research study or clinical trial in Africa from anywhere in the world.

We are building an end-to-end platform to power remote research/clinical trials in Africa, connecting researchers (in industry and academia) directly to patients and participants for their clinical research studies in under 3 days. Our all-in-one software helps researchers to remotely recruit participants, collect remote consent, collect analyse data and provide virtual support. 20X faster and cheaper than traditional methods(CRO's).

Who are we:

During my Masters fellowship at Stanford, we developed a low-cost pregnancy monitoring device to be deployed in low-income settings. When we took this device into phase 1 clinical trials in Nigeria, it took us 9 months to reach 40% of our enrolment target. This made me realised the need for a solution that could speed up the enrolment process.

My co-founder Charles spent the last 5 years working at Microsoft and Huawei Technologies as a software engineer.

In 2018 we built software to connect blood donors with patients and hospitals in need of blood. Reached 5K+ users and delivered over 3K pints of blood.

How you can help

Our customers are US and EU based life science companies, Medical device companies, Pharma, CRO’s and sponsors looking to carry out preliminary research for FDA Approval. We can help with running surveys, recruiting participants and helping with ensuring that the research process is conducted as smoothly as possible. If you’re interested in testing out our product https://dashboard.infiuss.com/login

If you have had any experience building databases for clinical recruitment or EHR purposes, we would love any helpful feedback.

Cheers,

Melissa
Ships docking at Cuban ports are not allowed to dock at U.S. ports for six months.
Which is why we have AML/KYC at most steps of a real-estate transaction. Further, saying you can do crime with something else so let's look the other way is nihilist and pretty backwards to me. In that case let's go after both.
It seems like you're outwardly defending drug prohibition here.

Trading with someone who previously sold plants or compounds to a third party is not per se a moral or ethical quandary, despite apparent laws to the contrary.

If that were the worst thing this person did, I suspect he'd have far more support.

I am skeptical of the other whispers of unsavory behavior; they remind me of the whisper smears against Ross Ulbricht. Let's see how the thing develops.
May I ask how much you charged extra for signing the NDA? And was it a one time fee, or a different rate or was it a recurring fee while the NDA was in effect?
You may want to update your idea about what is a medium wage worker:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/203183/percentage-distri...
Why do I hate AirBnB? Because I've been at the other end, where I wasn't able to find long term accommodation in a city because so much of it had been ported to short term rentals to give the tourists. The sooner AirBnB is gone and these short term rentals get back on the long term market, the better.

And, the numbers from the pandemic in Dublin show it's quite a decent amount: the supply literally doubled once all those short-term rentals went to long-term because lack of tourism. And that's likely just the more over-leveraged owners, so there's still a lot that's being used as AirBnB than for the locals.

Tourists shouldn't feel entitled to live like locals; they're not locals.
> There's something fundamentally flawed

There isn't really. You're adopting, I assume, J.S. Mill's view, that the cure for bad speech is more speech, which he famously published in 1859.

However, since then it's been widely accepted that when speech reaches a certain level of harm then the greater good is to prevent/punish it. You can't incite violence under the guise of free speech. You can't advertise that something is safe when it's not. This is because more speech can't undo violence and death after it occurs.

And when it comes to misinformation with regards to provable and intentional lies about voting procedures, election results, etc. that falsely harm the country's institutions and legitimacy, it's entirely consistent for that to fall under the widely-accepted prohibition of speech that rises to a certain threshold of harm. It directly leads to mobs, riots, and revolution based on lies, not based on actual injustices.

This doesn't mean any harmful speech is prohibited -- that's ridiculous. You're generally allowed to insult people, tell lies, etc. But there's a threshold of harm that gets established.
>we no longer accept every image as representing absolute truth

That's not true for many people (I'd go as far to say most), and we're so inundated with it that unedited media is the minority. Ad campaigns get PR for being "unedited" and even then they're heavily art directed (casting, lighting, styling, etc) to compensate.

The effects are so widespread that they're subliminal, even if you're conscious of the scope that they occur. Billboards, tv, movies, newspaper, magazines, products on shelves, menus at restaurants, wedding photos, family christmas postcards... it's inescapable.

Even if you're some paragon of mindfulness and truth in image editing and can somehow isolate yourself from its influence, you're still subject to it because of how it impacts the way everyone else behaves and sees the world.

We should learn from these mistakes.
Everyone going on about lung disease when you can just vaporize it or use edibles. Edibles are tricky since you can either add too much or too little so you get an unexpected high.

Vaporizing doesn't produce harsh carcinogenic smoke and it's the best way to consume cannabis IMHO. By not combusting the plant material, you use less of it to get high and it's better bang for your buck. You can make 25g of hashish last 6 months if you want to.
> You can't build "the next Facebook" on the web as it is today because the incumbent powers suffocate you so effectively.

I don't doubt this suffocation is real, but isn't it really the strong network effects that Facebook benefits from which stops somebody from "building the next FB"?
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At the same time, the Civil Rights Movement aggressively used boycotts, protests, and shaming campaigns to push for racial equality.
Not to mention the "printing cartridge model" that some manufacturers are already trying to play at. Unfortunately this is inevitable as the 3D printing industry is getting more commoditised.
As mentioned above, it just looks different in person, that picture does not do it justice by any means. It's kinda like when you see a 3D render with inaccurate physics, but this one is in the real world - it feels out of place. Or like catching a really pink sunset: you can look at it for as long as you want and the color never ceases to impress you.
I thought this was going to be a SAAS, with a free plan and paid one: YC 2021
Technology Connections did some videos on "Making Holiday Lights Less Garish", where instead of using narrowband colored LEDs he filtered white ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBFPJ3_6ZWs
It’s not “active” support if the algorithm acts in a content neutral fashion, for example based on engagement metrics. In such a situation, changing the algorithm to artificially not let allegedly-false content be discovered is actively supporting the opposing viewpoints. Leaving the algorithm to act without artificial content-specific modification is not active support. Tolerance would be leaving the algorithms alone.
They had the USSR's nukes on the island. They were ready to fire (unbeknownst to Kennedy). Cuba had them, and the crisis had escalated so much Cuba wanted to launch. Castro demanded they be allowed to launch[1]. But Khrushchev declined. They wanted to bomb us (and unleash Armageddon) because they felt aggrieved.

Khrushchev was so taken aback by their cavalier attitude towards nukes that he took them back. So yes, for a few months they were a nuclear power.

This is confirmed by the USSR archives of that time plus interviews with Cuban officials back in the 90s where they conceded they wanted to bomb us and only Khrushchev kept it from happening.

[1]https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/jfk-def...

Excerpt of above link (Khrushchev's response to Castro): "In your cable of October 27 you proposed that we be the first to carry out a nuclear strike against the enemy's territory. Naturally you understand where that would lead us. It would not be a simple strike, but the start of a thermonuclear world war."
Several copies are listed on ebay at the moment so it is not so rare.
There was also “once in the century” in Poland, in 1997…
This exact thing actually happened in the States already. Gatlinburg, Tennessee is a prime example of it. 50 years ago the workers in the area lived there, now they've all been driven out by short term rentals and everything is pretty much tourist hell.
this is awesome! congrats on the launch!!
> The issue is that we know from experience, after 20+ years of the modern Internet, that if you make a 'free speech' drive/repository place that's widely available, it will host the absolute worst of the human race. Then, let's say you personally were in charge of said Free Speech Drive- every day you'd get up and hear about people using it for (legal) jailbait photos, Islamic State recruiting, collaboration between extremist militia groups in various countries (including your own), actual illegal content, and so on. Pretty soon the FBI & CIA start contacting you about some of the actual or borderline illegal content being hosted on Free Speech Drive. Do you want to deal with that?

Imagine if there was some kind of website or network that existed for years with barely no rules or enforcement, like image boards that only remove CP or a decentralized anonymizing network with even decentralized payment systems.
That would be the end of the world.
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And this is exactly why I don't want universal healthcare in America. We'll need everyone to conform to a rigid interpretation of life. My BMI is 22, so I'm fine, but I also like riding a motorcycle.

With UHC, suddenly folks like this will try to deny me care because I'm taking on non-normative risk. Fine, do so if you want, but I want to be tax-exempt. You can have your UHC, but you pay for it.

But folks won't do this. Instead they want to take my money and then give it to themselves by denying me 'subsidies'. No thanks, I'll keep my money and give it to Anthem. No UHC in the USA.
If you want to know just how hard this can be with bare metal that you control, take a look at this: https://signalsandthreads.com/clock-synchronization/
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Relevant: How The CIA made Google (2015)
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo...

Is Google honestly acting following economic interests? Is it to avoid liability from hosting damaging content? Is it acting to protect us?

Google, which isn't event the most valuable company in the world, is worth above all but - give or take - the top 36 countries in the world.

A company of this size wields immense power while simultaneously remaining unhampered by all the dead weight governments have to haul around to get anything done.

[edit: switched link to original]
> The economy relies on layers and layers of extremely convoluted supply chains and can't sustain a loss of even 1% of the human population

I think you are underestimating the ability of humanity to adjust and innovate, especially over time. I mean we literally essentially lose 1% of the human population to old age every year.
> indicating that the giant was probably first made by late Saxons sometime between 700 and 1100 CE. However, other samples indicate a later date of around 1560—still predating the first recorded mention of the giant in the 1694 church warden's account.

I still think the later date is much more likely. That nobody in England bothered to mention the giant for nearly 1000 years seems very unlikely.
Google (and all other providers) can not be sued for their users distributing "dangerous" or whatever content. This is literally the purpose of section 230. The only exception is the sex trafficking stuff covered under SESTA/FOSTA.

Whatever pressure they're getting to do this comes from somewhere besides the threat of private civil lawsuits.
I don't think these are for every household. Right now a 3D printer is incredibly useful if you're really willing to put in the work to learn, optimise, and even design your own parts.

Joe soap is never going to do that or even want to do that. He doesn't even have a need for parts, after all he doesn't repair his stuff, he just throws it away and buys new stuff.

Perhaps he'll buy a 3D printer when he can go to Amazon and click "print" instead of "order". But we're a long way from there.
The thing that has always defanged authorities of the past is organizational inability to see where the game is changing. And the game has gone on for a long time - villages would do all sorts of things to operate outside of the vision of the local lords.

The probable source of disruption comes from people one step removed from the top who see an opportunity to shake up the system and turn an activist message into opportunistic gain. This is why we often see waves of "anti-corruption" campaigns, sudden policy shifts, etc. The politicians see a trend forming and jump on to it. When they get in power they walk some of it back, but they can't turn back the clock all the way.

The source of a trend towards GPC comes from a series of "small wins" like the recent breakthroughs in Right to Repair, from IP that has recently expired, and from nationalistic competition("world's free-est country" will always be a title up for grabs).

It only takes one little country that's a "hacker haven" to jump ahead of the rest for a clamor to erupt. The dominant players will conclude that the answer is to strongarm that country into the hegemonic framework; others in weaker positions will see opportunities in jumping on. Then the fight is waged economically, and if the resulting products and services are desirable, concessions are made.
Oil, family business, getting strategic military bases oriented towards Iran, China, and Russia, wanting to really break America of "Vietnam Syndrome". It's all there!
Unfortunately for your argument, the defendant did not think about laundering drug money, they did actually launder what they believed was drug money.

Thinking isn't a crime. Doing is.
That's a really positive way to frame it. Thanks for the perspective.
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I agree. I think the reaction to the recent reveal of Windows 11's TPM requirement shows that we have basically no chance of winning this war because the average computer owner of the 2020s is simply not intelligent or educated enough to know when they're being screwed over. They hear "it's for your security!" and immediately roll over like trained dogs.
Facebook refuses to let anyone else tap those network effects, that's what's suffocating. Remember when Facebook and Twitter and everyone else had these amazing robust APIs you could build entire startups on top of? Then when they killed hundreds of companies overnight by turning them off?

In the dweb, those APIs can't be shut off. Those hundreds of innovative companies would still be alive and adding value to the world.
I couldn’t find strains that reliably gave me a body high (I have near constant pain) without giving me anxiety or doping me up. I prefer microdosing psilocybin, and partaking in strong hallucinogenics in religious ceremonies every few months or so instead.
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Classic movie scenario. Hubble's down, and we need it now. No-one can solve the errors. Old guy walks in, worked on Hubble 30 years ago.

"There's a backup module, with an override command to activate it, but it won't work with the system down. You'll have to use the manual override switch - on the telescope."
It sure is, is there an app for that?
There have been a couple science fiction novels with this premise:

Protector[0] by Larry Niven

David Weber's Dahak trilogy, available as the Empire from the Ashes[1] omnibus

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protector_(novel)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_from_the_Ashes
It nowhere says that it’s money
The foxfire books are full of this kind of folk wisdom. Much of it practical but with the occasional detour into the magical; there's one bit about how to cure a sure throat if you have never met your father that took my by such surprise that I laughed out loud while reading.
I mean, that's literally what most of the posts are arguing for in this thread— that this needs to be a watershed moment to get serious about distributed, uncensorable alternatives to products like Google Drive.

But in any case, "people will find alternatives" has never been a valid reason not to act (either here or in other popular cases such as guns/suicide). There is real value in having standards of conduct that go above and beyond the bare minimum of "not illegal." Moral and ethical value, of course, but also economic— in the reddit case, ultimately being a place that was viable for ad spends by mainline brands who wouldn't want to be associated with a site whose public image was that of being a safe space for hate speech.

Google is a little different since there's no r/all page for GDrive that can be gamed to show this content, and nor is Google likely as worried about the safety of its reputation as an advertiser.
Honestly a lot of folks should assess the value that big tech provides. We survived the 90’s running MSDOS backing stuff up to disks. And storage is cheap. Cloud this-and-that is great in theory but in practice it makes things too complicated. For instance, whenever I use a cloud-centric application I’m thinking okay… so where’s my files? And the answer is who knows!

More specifically I used to use OneNote when it used the local file system and I could get to my data. Then MSFT puts everything behind a cryptic ten-layer hashed URI…

The tech industry is like an insurance company now selling people on fear of losing files or productivity—but I’d wager more often than not technology gets in the way of folks productivity. By technology I mean fluffy clouds because obviously tech CAN help.

We need a better balance and a lot of that starts by keeping it simple.
I don't think the strain is that important, all I know is that legal CBD weed doesn't work that way. So it likely is the THC high, to strong is not good either tho.

It somehow just smoothes everything down and makes me less sensitive to sound and light.

It's not solving the pain, but it allows me to stand up and get a glass of water and a painkiller.

Also it makes my auras more bearable that sometimes knock me out for a day or two after the fact.

Edit:// something that actually helps me is micro dosing mushrooms. If my aura shows up and I notice I can almost always avoid the migraine attack. Micro dosing LSD works too, but I usually still get a headache.

I sound like I have a drug problem maybe, but I tried many things before I said fuck it and growed some shrooms I only use for my migraines
Why would smaller countries that are constantly being invaded by the US agree to give vetos to the US??
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> You can't build "the next Facebook" on the web as it is today because the incumbent powers suffocate you so effectively.

TikTok and Zoom aren't exactly the next Facebook (yet), but they both compete effectively against the incumbent powers.
Yeah, and bad diet happens in no small part because of chronic societal stress. It is overwhelming and constant grind on the psyche that makes people reach for the easiest option available because their brains are overtaxed out of the executive function necessary to do the "right thing". So you are correct, it's not one cheeseburger. It's the society that makes the cheeseburger the simplest, easiest, remarkably-cheap solution that fires the right neurons to give people a respite from the sad pressure cooker that is your average late capitalist life.

Perhaps those of us who benefit inordinately from the output of the perpetually stretched class can show some grace in life and not second-guess the folks picking and delivering our consumer goods.
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I have seen multiple small companies that contribute to the CNCF demand their employees sign noncompete agreements like this.

Even working a retail job would violate this agreement, as that is a market their competitors are in (despite it having no relation to cloud tooling!)
Yes, but as always: is it because they are black women? Nobody seems to care, or at the very least this question is completely bypassed by the assumption that "of course it is."

It should come as no surprise, but venture capitalists are much more interested in making money than they are in being racist sexists.
thanks a ton for the link. This looks way better than I would have expected.

Though also, "we've seen this cause exploits in the wild multiple times, let's just let this footgun sit for 3 years".

They could have at least added a documentation note to the archive/tar page that there's a security issue you have to handle, which is what the unsafe version of the rust unarchive methods do. 3 years of not even updating docs is kinda unfortunate.
There should be a phone number you can call that basically tells you the answer as to whether you should apply for a job and ignore the non-compete. It could just be a pre-recorded message saying "Yes".

No state is going to want to protect monopolies over the employability of its citizens. No one wants you to become dependent on the government dole.

The vast majority of non-competes are unenforceable. If you're unlucky enough to actually be in an enforceable one, the chances are you already have a relationship with a lawyer.

Seriously, why do employees worry about this.
I don't understand. Didn't the FBI agent induce him to commit money laundering by telling him he sold cocaine? Also, can't the defendant claim they thought it was a joke? Depending on the context, I most likely would have assumed it was a joke. It seems like the kind of answer someone would jokingly give if they didn't want to discuss their real job.
> kowtow is not a contemporary custom

It's rare as a protocolary practice, but it's still part of the culture.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35553120
I think I hate you.

"But the money" is your argument for contributing to something you recognize as evil. Good on you for having at least some conscience so it "weighs on you". Apparently the money is too good though, or you don't care enough. Curious which one it is.
> And now it has moved to other, more hidden platforms

Not Reddit's fault nor problem.

> where there is noone to write counterarguments

Yeah, I don't think there were a ton of countering voices trying to teach the vile racists or the pedophiles the errors of their ways.

> impossible to identify someone who writes actual threats

That's an argument against the existence/legality of anonymous networks -- probably not going to go over well here.