skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked ChatGPT to summarize this page.

"Labor induction is a medical procedure that stimulates childbirth and delivery. It can be done with pharmaceutical or non-pharmaceutical methods and is estimated to be used in about 25% of pregnant women in Western countries. Medical reasons for inducing labor include postterm pregnancy, intrauterine fetal growth restriction, health risks to the mother, premature rupture of the membranes, premature termination of the pregnancy, fetal death in utero, twin pregnancy after 38 weeks, and certain health conditions in the mother. Methods of inducing labor include medication, mechanical or physical approaches such as artificial rupture of membranes or membrane sweeping, and intrauterine catheters. Medications used for induction include prostaglandins, synthetic oxytocin, and mifepristone. Non-pharmaceutical methods include acupuncture, herbal remedies, and sexual intercourse. Inducing labor at or after term is generally believed to improve outcomes for newborns and reduce the number of cesarean sections."

(I did not proof read any of this, take with a grain of salt)
For those who are able, a pihole is a must when connecting a smart TV (or any other “smart” device for that matter) to the internet.

It’s shockingly disturbing the amount of traffic my Samsung TV produces, even when watching OTA stations. It easily queries Samsung cloud domains more than any other device on my network. Thankfully I am able to sinkhole all those requests without totally breaking tv functionality, but after paying hundreds of dollars for a television, I don’t need to give them any more of my data for financial gain.
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37 weeks is "before term" for inducement, in at least 2 of these patients.

"Normal" induction (i.e. absent specific reasoning) is at 39 weeks or beyond.

So some outrage is, in fact, justified.
Sad story, condolences to all who knew Otto. Something that stuck out to me from that article was that his floormates were aware of his condition prior to his death and were worried for his and their own safety, but weren't sure what to do. I imagine the legality of the substance played a role in that; they were likely conflicted as to whether to seek medical/police help which would almost guarantee legal issues for Otto, or do nothing and risk his well-being.
A number of years ago I worked with a colleague who had been one of the original electrical engineers at Splashpower [0] in the early 2000s. Splashpower was a Cambridge UK startup developing wireless inductive charging. Their aim was to create something similar to the multi device charging pad that Apple intended to launch but cancelled (the Splash Pad!), Apples was rumoured to be in development when I worked with them. He didn't think they would be able to achieve it (I think I remember him predicting high power draw and lots of heat, what is rumoured to have been the problem)

From memory (this is about 8-10 years ago) Splashpower found that miss alignment of the coils massively impacted the performance and as a result struggled to make the multiple devices charger pad work. The magnetic alignment of Apples MagSafe system, or the chargers on the old Palm phones, should aid in making them significantly more efficient.

Ultimately Splashpower went bust, the IP was brought by Fulton Innovation who, combing it with their own IP, then went on to create the Wireless Power Consortium [1] and the Qi charging standard.

It's interesting how it's going full circle and Qi2 is now incorporating magnetic alignment.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splashpower

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECoupled#history
From R155 4.3.1 "threats regarding back-end servers related to vehicles in the field" covers it? Of course the whole standard is still pretty focused on the on-vehicle side of things, but it certainly touches on it.

Surprised to see these even mentioned on HN. I've read R155 as part of my job and am responsible for implementing it.
We saved about 50% of our monthly bill migrating from AWS to Fly.io. While Fly.io isn't cheap, it's certainly cheaper than AWS from my experience.
Biophysicist here. Excellent questions – these are the kind of points peer reviewers would raise (though typically in far more esoteric and passive aggressive ways...).

(1) could be addressed in experiments where the algae-consumers in question are studied in monoculture (purified and grown in test tubes) with virus added artificially. This experimental design excludes the possibility that any middle man is present; if uptake is still observed, it must be direct.

(2) Measure viral replication, perhaps in a similar monoculture experiment as above. If the viruses are infecting (exploiting) the Halteria, they will have non-negligible replication (they are stealing the Halteria's resources to advance their own replication). Viral replication could be assayed by qPCR (counting viral genomes) or similar assays.

(3) This would require biochemical studies to determine the mechanism of uptake of viral particles. Typically, viruses are taken up (endocytosed) by cells as a result of interaction with receptors on the surface of target cells (prominently CCR5 in HIV, Ace2 for the COVID-19 causing virus). Of course, what biological systems are `trying` to do begs that we anthromorphize Halteria (or at least evolution), but one could conduct an evolutionary analysis to see if Halteria have progressively evolved receptors that improve viral uptake efficiency.

As an aside, the discovery of virovores hints excitingly (albeit remotely) at the possibility of creating virus sink cells/technologies that could eliminate viral particles in humans. An important question will be whether viruses, which evolve far faster than eukaryotes like Halderia (let alone than humans), can turn the tides in the evolutionary arms race and become the exploiters of the Halderia. Perhaps it's reassuring that we exist (mostly) symbiotically with our microbiota, despite their far faster evolution.
You can have more than one server per monolith.

I don't think you actually understand what microservices are. You don't put a load balancer to load balance between different services. A load balancer balances trafic between servers of the same service or monolith.

Microservices mean the servers of different services run different code. A load balancer only works together with servers running the same code.
They failed to predict that in the year 2022 all voice calls will be mutually unintelligible.
Great idea, thanks! I happen to have Samsung and Vizio remotes at home, and might bring them with me for some due diligence…
> If you want to be safe

You use post-quantum with a vetted algorithm in a hybrid scheme, usually this just involves concatenation or hashing.
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Cynically speaking, supported and freely provided voluntary euthanasia is also an option as well... with all the good and ill that option brings. I'd certainty take that option if I couldn't ends meet.
I've seen way too many cases (possibly resulting from 2to3 autoconversion) where the code ran without errors, you just couldn't log in because the xsrf token was "b'123456'" instead of "123456".
What instantly jumps at me is the fact that the software is subscription-based, with a monthly cost. Small, admittedly, if you're in the US, or maybe in Switzerland, and have a job (not a student, etc).

I'm more and more reluctant to admit any tools that are not open-source into my long-term stack. And a text editor is usually a very long-term commitment: you want to commit it to your muscle memory, and most of your daily development workflow hinges on the editor.
> I mean, using services such as those you are being tracked extensively anyways, it's pretty much unavoidable.

Consenting (possibly under duress) to one thing is not the same as consenting to all things.

You might consent to doing various intimate things with a significant other. That doesn’t make you a free for all buffet for everyone else.
What if I have $500/month to spend and still need high reliability and redundancy?
Idk if that is a good extrapolation necessarily, they also contribute to USB-C.

More likely, it’s better to just have their standard be the main one so they don’t need to deal with the complexity of messaging “well this doesn’t work on our phones etc”
> This is a very relatable feeling. I often find myself getting trapped into thinking about problems I am unlikely to solve.

I have this problem as well. The most disturbing thing is retracing old paths to dead ends without realizing it. Here I mean internal mental models, but also applies to previously known results I just wasn't familiar with, and don't turn up unless specific phrases are known.
Palm did it ages ago with the Pre and Pixi. Worked quite well. I will say, the newer Magsafe stuff is much stronger at helping with alignment, my Belkin dock feels like it vacuums onto my phone when I connect it. I recall the Pre and Pixi often requiring a bit more manual intervention.
SHA2 is not under threat from post-quantum computing. Only the signatures used.
I'm very interested in this. I've been looking at the XDR for a high-DPI, >27" display but can't bring myself to fork over $5k for it. Hopefully this is significantly cheaper.
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> Yep. Historically though, Apple's standards have been less about creating convergent technology and more about reinforcing revenue streams. Look at the entire MFi line, a 'standard'

That was never a licensed standard overseen by a standards body.

Apple contributed to the H.264 standard, and is also a major contributor to the USB C standard, as well as the Thunderbolt standard.

> They've made it completely obvious that their goal is indiscriminate rent collection, and I'd appreciate if that attitude would remain isolated from the ideals of open computing as a whole.

You realize that’s how the entire industry works right? Cellular standards and most video and modern audio codecs are also licensed via a patent pool.

There is no such thing as “open computing” where nothing is licensed from patent holders for anything that the vast majority of people would find usable.
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I drove around New Mexico four years ago and there are a number of ghost towns between Las Cruces and Roswell, these are towns that have nothing but boarded up buildings and no people. A waiter in a restaurant explained to me that once the population drops below a certain level the grocery stores disappear then the schools and finally the post offices and police where people are expected to drive to the next town for any of the above. At the point people just migrate to a city even if they don't sell their houses (which seems wrong to me like who would just abandon a house?) but I didn't actually stop in the towns, i just drove through. A handful of remote techies aren't going to bring these ghost towns back but they might prevent others from collapsing.
This is true, still: Everyday things that should be straightforward, or pythonic if you will, are way to convoluted and complicated.

As a python dev with experience since 2.6 I agree it has gotten better, but it is also rotten at it's core. The problems python has to solve there are hard, but this is why it should be priority number one to solve them elegantly and in a fashion so that 99% of python users never have to worry about them.

Right now packaging and dependency managment are my number one concern when I think about rexommending the language to beginners. The things I needed to learn just to figure out what is a good way of developing something with dependencies and deploying it on another machine is just way too much. When I was going through this there was no official "this is how it is done" guide.

Now there is poetry for example. Poetry is good. But there are still hard edges when you need to deploy to a system without poetry on it for example.
I never said anything differently.
+1 for this. I have some sense reading the page but would love an ELI5.
I think math is somewhat special in that it isn’t about solving specific problems, but about learning to recognize patterns, and that the tests don’t check whether they know the patterns, but whether they can apply those patterns to problems that they need not even have ever seen.

In many other disciplines applying what students learned to things they’ve never seen before isn’t really possible.

For example, you can teach students what factors were needed to start the Industrial Revolution and why, but then, to answer “why didn’t the Industrial Revolution start in the 1750s in South America?” students would have to know about South America in the 1750s. If they don’t, all they can answer is “it must be because not all of the prerequisites foo, bar, baz, … were available, but I wouldn’t know which one(s)”.

Because of that, that question isn’t better than the dull “why did the Industrial Revolution start where and when it started?”, the answer to which can be learned by rote learning.
Was that solution "cancel meetings" or "clear all physical room reservations from meetings, but leave the meetings alone"? Sounds like there's a slight difference there.
GPT-3 is limited, but it has delivered a jolt that demands a general reconsideration of machine vs human intelligence. Has it made you change your mind about anything?

At this point for me, the notion of machine "intelligence" is a more reasonable proposition. However this shift is the result of a reconsideration of the binary proposition of "dumb or intelligent like humans".

First, I propose a possible discriminant for "intelligence" vs "computation" to be the ability of an algorithm to brute force compute a response given the input corpus of the 'AI' under consideration, where the machine has provided a reasonable response.

It also seems reasonable to begin to differentiate 'kinds' of intelligence. On this very planet there are a variety of creatures that exhibit some form of intelligence. And they seem to be distinct kinds. Social insects are arguably intelligent. Crows are discussed frequently on hacker news. Fluffy is not entirely dumb either. But are these all the same 'kind' of intelligence?

Putting cards on the table, at this point it seems eminently possible that we will create some form of mechanical insectoid intelligence. I do not believe insects have any need for 'meaning' - form will do. That distinction also takes the sticky 'what is consciousness?' Q out of the equation.
Does Apple get a royalty per Qi2 charging unit? I didn’t see that mentioned anywhere.
But you do pay for 'grid upkeep costs', the grid availability is a part of that connection fee, otherwise what would you connect to if not to the grid. Even if you consume zero KWh in a month you will still pay.
I'm excited for this, because the PC world has been too low dpi for too long.

I hope more displays incorporate PD and networking.

None of the reviews mention the speed of the network interface on this, however. (Fairly safe to assume it's only 10/100/1000 but it would be nice to see 2.5G on a $2000+ display designed for pros and connecting with thunderbolt.)
I'm not for it but money rules the world and if you have billions to more some are gonna definitely use it to shape culture to how they see fit..nothing I'd personally do if I had billions but surely some do as you can see when jack Dorsey recently said he left twitter when an activist billionaire or investor pushed their agenda. When I read that from Dorsey who seems apolitical I was like that for me helps solidify this thought I've had for a few years that we share.
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I contrast this with the article I read today about a 14 year-old Dell monitor:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/why-im-still-using-1...
(also 16:10)
As I understood it, the subscription for the beta is optional and intended to support development until the first release. I would expect a more traditional license model with the release version.
2018 review of Pearl's book _The Book of Why_

A great book, IMHO
I actually spend more time on the tasks othan than tv (work, pc related, gaming). Each category is handled by a separate external box.
If you were to make an ad like that today, what would your predictions be?
You're describing all the power any employer ever has in any circumstance (absent contracts), dating back to the Thirteenth Amendment.
When you move to microservices -- or rather, when you split your data across several DBs -- you sometimes end up basically reimplementing DB synchronization in business logic layers that could (sometimes, and depending on scalability constraints) be solved by using DB transactions.

So instead of a single DB transaction, often with a single SQL roundtrip, microservices can sometimes force through coordination of separate transactions to several DBs.
>If you do not pay your rent, the eviction process will likely start immediately

One of the points of the article is that if everybody did this, TVs would be much, much more expensive.

FTA:

"“post-purchase monetization,” and it means they can sell TVs almost at cost and still make money over the long term by sharing viewing data."
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I got The Fixer. Very interesting test. I'm kind of impressed/mystified at how it got so much information about me from those questions. Like Myers-Briggs but seemingly both more ambitious theoretically and using fewer questions. I wonder how it would fare under psychometric validation (as I understand MBTI doesn't fare well despite being so popular and so many people including me finding insight there).

Re: agreeability, it seems like you're speaking of it as a skill more than just a personality variable. I see the skill of being prosocial and the personality trait of agreeability as separate. I see myself as a high-functioning disagreeable person, where I see things more negatively than average and have more conflictual feelings than average, but usually manage to turn it all into something effective and prosocial when working with other people.
> to the best of it's ability

To the best of its ability would mean not inducing at 37 weeks, which _increases_ problems.

Induction at 38 weeks or below is _not_ recommended due to poorer outcomes absent a compelling reason.

The solution here is to ensure appropriate medical care, not to say "we can't and won't provide that, so this is what we're going to do, and if you don't like it, maybe you shouldn't be a criminal, and if this has negative health implications for your child, well, then, maybe it shouldn't have had a criminal for a mother".
OOP is absolutely not essential, that's why new languages like Rust, are not OO. OOP is not necessary for mutable state.
it has been a while since I have had to rent an apartment, but the flip time was usually a week for the cleaning, not 2 months.

Apartments are always showing, and people have to give notice so the managers know what's coming availabile.
It's an interesting article to review, thanks for posting.

In a way, I have to say that I see Jeff Bezos currently blazing trails for Musk to merge onto in the future. But in another way, Bezos is going to owe a huge debt to Musk.

Musk's recent actions helped put Bezos squarely back in his comfort zone as an introvert and pushed him further away from public scrutiny. This allowed Bezos to work at his current philanthropic projects & new relationship in a comparatively morally superior mindset.

Bezos will likely watch AMZN hit new highs in '24 or '25 just in time to leapfrog Musk's shrinking world and show up as the "good example" alternative-billionaire.

If he can sort his stuff out, that is--Bezos' new civility-award system[1] seems weirdly like it is aimed at reconciling his personal love/hate feelings, but by projecting his weaknesses onto others, unfortunately. (I'd personally like to see him step in and identify more with the morals of the plebs he's attempting to lead, if he's going to nail this civility thing. IMO Bezos has massively untapped pleb-strengths to his personality if he'd only let himself go there authentically, dropping some of the higher ideals in the process, even.)

Musk on the other hand is so far away from Civility Awards, he might as well have already started his own Mars colony.

On top of that, Musk has waded into a personal zone of unskilled work (management of relational dynamics & discourse with groups he doesn't own outright) using tools he's comfortable with (leaning into ever-expanding perception of control). This is not working out well, of course.

Musk cannot control leaderless groups the same way he thinks he can control individuals & groups with clear leaders. The same tools do not apply there.

If politicians get more of a foothold in this divide between Musk & audience, it will not be good for Musk.

My guess is he will eventually slice off a small part of the pie and leave the party, so to speak. And a party-leaving, muted, quiet Musk is not a happy Musk by any stretch.

However I think if Bezos finds a successful way forward into philanthropy, Musk _might_ ride those coattails back into a more sensible billionaire phase.

(Likely without giving credit of course)

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfU1FGu6taI
Not every issue/question/complaint is an immediate blocker. Status meetings are great to queue topics or issues that do not need to be immediately addressed but if left ignored too long could snowball into a more serious thing.
Makes sense, it's a language processor, not a database.
Can I ask what your source for this is? Perhaps you're an ex-employee?

I never worked under Tobi directly (or even close), but I was almost always thoroughly impressed with his communication and direction. I think I have a totally different take than the one you stated. The only axis I could see Elon & Tobi both sitting on is being members of the tres comas club.
Somewhat meta: this post has a lot of comments that just assume that one's own experience is automatically representative of the majority.
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A lot of devs were busy with the busywork of migration rather than improving their libraries. For a long while you often got stuck between one critical library that has no alternative only supporting 2, with a second critical library for some other thing that also has no alternative only supporting 3. So doing your project in Python wasn't feasible.
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Within the tech sector lots of companies went permanent, partial work from home (need to be in the office a couple of days a week or month depending on the company). Some examples:

- Office downsized to only hold 30% of staff, and you can work from home as little or as much as you want.

- Need to come a few consecutive days per month, travel expenses from anywhere in Japan (within reason) are reimbursed.

I also know a handful of people in non-tech (but not what I would call salaryman/desk jockey jobs) that went to 75% or more work from home.