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Elofon IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts

I think the person was suggesting using the results of the AI to inform the doctors, not replacing them. Which is something I would like as well

Elofon Ask HN: What's a reasonable price to pay for a 1GB index/day on a serverless DB?

No instance size and pay for what you use. So you could have 10gb or 10tb and only pay scale you’re indexes up or down with out having to pay for an allocation of RAM

Elofon I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months

I think a more apt comparison would be to tell a classically trained English speaking chef to write out obscure recipes in French

Elofon I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months

As someone who has worked in professional kitchens, I can say that any professional chef that isn't comfortable sharpening their own knives isn't there because they love cooking. All of the ones I know take great pride in their knives.

Elofon 54% of adults in the United States have prose literacy below the 6th-grade level

Have you ever looked into Dyslexia? I was diagnosed around thirty and it explained a lot and helped me figure out how to operate in a society that isn’t designed for my brain type

Elofon You Can't Win

For what it’s worth, I’ve implemented Freshworks and while their customer service is excellent their software is meh. Moved to Zendeak and very happy

Elofon The Bay Area has become a large declining tech company

I'm from the Bay Area and have lived in Oakland for the last 6 years (lived in SF for 11) and from my perspective it's great here. Not without it's problems and very expensive compared to other cities. The only other places I've ever lived were north TX, MT, and central CA, but I've extensively traveled the US for work and holidays.

My entire career (since 2005) has been in tech and mostly at startups. The bay area is done has been a trope my entire life. What I've noticed in my adult life and as a professional is that people move here regularly, but there is also a bit of a hype cycle that draws and repels people. I also see a whole lot of people that come here to get rich and get jaded pretty fast when they don't while having to pay a whole bunch more than if they lived elsewhere. I have a great group of friends that are mostly from other places around the world and I think some of them are here to stay, but inevitably some will leave. I don't think this is specific to the bay though.

Elofon Web3 is going just great

While I agree with all your sentiment here, I think it's ok to be critical of web3 and still see a future for crypto. With all of the hyperbole and real issues both technical and social around the web3 ecosystem I'm reminded of being an outsider spectator of the dot com bubble crash. I was a senior in high school living in the east bay and something that kind of blew my mind at the time was grocery delivery. The idea of ordering some food online and getting it delivered was very exciting, the reality was it wasn't a tenable service. 12 years later with the advent and proliferation of smart phones the idea had legs and now I can and do order groceries from a variety of stores. Including a local speciality asian food place. I feel like the promises of web3 is in the phase of some good ideas that aren't ready for mainstream, similarly to grocery delivery in 1999

Elofon Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs

Sure, we discern reality, but that doesn't mean our perception isn't biased or correct.

Elofon Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs

Interpretation informs perception and perception isn't some constant in the human experience. A difficulty of classification can absolutely be a problem of perception because none of these things exist in a vacuum. Literally every human interpretation of reality is at best an approximate summary of what we experience of reality because it's impossible to remove bias and, believe it or not, we still don't know everything.

Elofon Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs

100%. To abstract it even further, I have some defining moments from my teens that are monumental to me and uneventful at best to everyone else. Gaining perspective is largely an individual experience, it's just that some things seem to have more influence in sparking a change in perspective than others

Elofon Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs

I think the point is that your sober perception exists only in your state of mind. My sober perception of the 'same' experiences you have is almost definitely not going to be the same as yours. So an altered state potentially gives you the realization that your personal experience isn't universal reality. In other words a personal perception of reality is not reality itself. This is why we have philosophy in general. Novel in this instance isn't relevant IMO

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Elofon I will not exercise my Gitlab stock options (2017)

They would get diluted if the company did something like a three for one trade (which happened to me and I know Gitlab did not), but in the case of an IPO there isn't dilution. Dilution matters when a company is getting bought by another company.

Elofon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)

Macrometa | Product Designer & Developer Experience Engineer | Remote | https://macrometa.com

Macrometa is a serverless cloud that maintains state and consistency across potentially 100's of locations (CRDTs) and does complex event processing including real-time machine learning.

We've raised just under $30M from top tier investors and are growing fast. We are a globally distributed team of 75 (mostly engineers at the moment). These hires will be the first full time designer and open source focused eng at the company.

Please reach out if you're interested in joining a fast growing early stage startup that's working on some very deep tech.

justin at macrometa dot com

https://macrometa.notion.site/Product-Design-Lead-1d307e5629...

https://macrometa.notion.site/Developer-Experience-Engineer-...

Elofon Ask HN: ADHD and Aging

That could definitely be a factor, stress is relatively high for me at the moment and has been for about a pandemic amount of time

Elofon Bill Cosby to Be Freed as Court Overturns His Sex Assault Conviction

So weird. I swear the latter part of the article wasn't loading when I clicked on it yesterday

Elofon Bill Cosby to Be Freed as Court Overturns His Sex Assault Conviction

The article doesn't get into any of the reasons. Do you have a link to something that explains why?

Elofon California population declines for first time in more than a century

Do you live in California?

Elofon Show HN: Easier, Free Webflow

Interesting, this looks pretty cool. Thanks for sharing

Elofon Show HN: Easier, Free Webflow

I'm about to start a project to move off of webflow. Here are my complaints, do with them what you will :)

Something got pushed to production a while back that should very much not have been on the production website because of a broken workflow I had with a contractor. I didn't realize it did and it ended up blowing up in my face badly. I want to remove his ability to push to his work out or have me be a final approver, bu that's not possible. In fact, there are no levels of permission and anyone will always publish all changes not matter what. I want to be able to colab in real-time, publish per change, and manage users permissions to do things on the platform.

Another thing, that would actually solve the first thing, is integration to Github. If I could have my designer push a PR to GH I would be able to see the changes he was making and accept or reject them, right now I have no idea what changes are being made. He could point me to one thing and have changed a bunch of others. I also don't love the webflow hosting, it's not that performant. I'd much rather have a colab tool and manage my own infra. I know there is a code download feature, but downloading a zip, adding it to git every time is a heavy lift. I like being able to make little changes here and there.

I'd like to be able to write more custom code and add JS libs (looks like you have this one already, so cheers). I saw someone suggesting you host your own JS on a CDN and then call it in the header, but I don't like introducing outside dependencies unless I absolutely have to, I would rather host all of my JS with my other static content.

One last thing. I want markdown support for the blog. Our blog is technical and I've had to do some very hacky things to get code blocks in there.

Elofon My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community

Seems like your brother can probably sue for damages if this is the whole story

Elofon Show HN: Lofi.cafe

Same, please keep sharing folks!

Elofon Show HN: Lofi.cafe

Check out https://turntable.fm/ you can stream from soundcloud and colab on playlists :)

Elofon Human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface

You should check out the Nexus series :)

Elofon Ask HN: Where do you find potential customers to validate your idea / MVP?

I've had some luck posting on https://www.producthunt.com/ in the past

Elofon What solitary confinement taught me about surviving isolation (2020)

My only tip is to not be hard on yourself and stick with it. Doing meditation 'right' isn't an end.

Elofon Tony Hsieh bankrolled his followers, who enabled his risky lifestyle

I've been in tech in the Bay Area for 15 years, mostly in startups, and I can say that untreated mental health issues (myself included for many years) are a very real thing.

Elofon The Framework Laptop

Really stoked for this. Good luck

Elofon The Case Against “Stem”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-19/wind-sola...

The limiting factor is exiting infra. If you had the option between the two in a greenfield project solar/wind would win hands down

Elofon Ensuring a transparent, thorough investigation of Covid-19’s origin

This is most definitely not before the COVID-19 outbreak