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by in_cahoots | 2025-10-06 22:56:14+00:00
No. I can transcribe every interaction with 100% accuracy, but if those notes aren't used in any way it's not data-driven. This article shows that the notes are inaccurate, suggestions using the notes are routinely ignored, and that doctors and legal review think this process is acceptable. There is no professional or legal liability if the records are wrong. And yet if you talk to a medical professional they'll explain that the records are to establish a legal paper trail if anything goes wrong.

Some executive(s) have been told that detailed medical records are the solution to so many problems in modern medicine. But they lack either the guts or the expertise to make sure that these systems are actually accomplishing what they set out to do.
by grahac | 2025-10-06 22:56:37+00:00
Look at the AI visibility tools. They all integrate with multiple LLM models, include scheduling, management of multiple external processes, data parsing, site-scraping, graphs, as well as multiple database structures. They need retry and error logic, real-time displays and updates, and multiple flow UX's, and Stripe integration with webhooks, and subscription management.

Same thing with competitor monitoring. These tools require scraping multiple sites, checking X, Facebook, Jobs sites, Crunchbase, etc, aggregating data and displaying and making sense of changes. And the same multi-process management, queuing, and Stripe integrations.

A few years ago, these would both fit into businesses requiring many months of development to get it all running. Now we are seeing dozens of companies emerging in each of these categories each month as they take weeks to build. And if one finds a cool aha (a new integration or graph or UX flow or positioning) the others can quickly follow in a week or less of AI-agent coding.

There are dozens of other categories where this is happening too.

The hard part of figuring out the nuances of the APIs and integrations and retries and AWS integrations and Rabbit MQ configurations and corner cases can all be done by AI with the right context.
by shinycode | 2025-10-06 22:56:57+00:00
As a side note, your comment makes me think of the software world where we have amazing talent and things looks like it’s sliding to being done in the majority with AI. Once that’s the case and we don’t have developers anymore then we’re out of knowledge and at the mercy of. Not being able to build complex systems in autonomy. A bit like what happened in the industry you describe
by stavros | 2025-10-06 22:57:07+00:00
From The Design of Everyday Things:

> Affordances represent the possibilities in the world for how an agent (a person, animal, or machine) can interact with something. Some affordances are perceivable, others are invisible. Signifiers are signals. Some signifiers are signs, labels, and drawings placed in the world, such as the signs labeled “push,” “pull,” or “exit” on doors, or arrows and diagrams indicating what is to be acted upon or in which direction to gesture, or other instructions. Some signifiers are simply the perceived affordances, such as the handle of a door or the physical structure of a switch. Note that some perceived affordances may not be real: they may look like doors or places to push, or an impediment to entry, when in fact they are not.

With Norman's definition, if a conversational interface can perform an action, it affords that action. The fact that you don't know that it affords that action means there's a lack of a signifier.

As you say, this is a matter of definition, I'm just commenting on Norman's specific definition from the book.
by Fischgericht | 2025-10-06 22:57:23+00:00
Two things to think about:

a) Due to privacy laws, no European country would right now be allowed to use your service. The data your customers wants to index will always contain stuff that allows to identify a human, and once you are there it's basically "game over" for handing over data to a third party provider like you.

b) My organization is tiny. But we are in a sector were we must be ultra paranoid when it comes to security. We do not use a single external service whatsoever, everything is self-hosted. I would love to be able to AI-index all of our collected knowledge and would pay for the value this provides. So far have been unable to find any plug & play solution. Then open source nature you have mentioned is important so that your system security can be be validated, but in the end I would rather want to pay for it being plug&play AND on-premise AND open source.
by lxgr | 2025-10-06 22:57:33+00:00
…what? Where do you see the claim that they are running a mesh? Why would they do that?

The main point of inter-satellite links is to provide coverage to areas beyond single-hop (subscriber to satellite to ground station) coverage. (Theoretically they can also be used to provide extremely low latency intercontinental routing, but for most traffic, the goal would be to minimize routing in space.)

Since the entire constellation is known a priori, all paths can be precomputed centrally, just like in a non-moving network, and that routing information can then be propagated to terminals and satellites. There’s no need to dynamically make complex “mesh” routing decisions at the edge.

802.11r controls faster key exchanges in 802.11 roaming scenarios – what’s the relation to satellite ISPs?

It seems like you have some axe to grind with Starlink and are collecting evidence through that lens.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-06 22:58:47+00:00
I want to say that to everyone who predicts impending doom from the sidelines.

Show me your positions. If you’re not short (or at the very least, hedged) you don’t really believe what you’re saying.

It’s a bit like saying you think the rapture is tomorrow, while you’re still contributing to your 401k…

I think requiring everyone to disclose their positions would make these conversations much more interesting.
by pyuser583 | 2025-10-06 22:58:53+00:00
It can be done - I went to a college that did it.

There are extreme downsides - for many colleges athletics is a money-maker. So is administering IP. There's is also lots of real estate, which appreciates value, but needs maintenance.

The big reason for all the extras is that it makes the school known, in a very big and important way. They host conferences, have archives that receive donations, give out awards.

Donors give all sorts of weird tasks - and funding to achieve them.

Modern colleges are so many different things.

There is a subset of colleges that adopt the "keep it simple" approach, but they often run into lots of trouble. The big problem is without doing tons of stuff, people forget they exist.

It's a bit like drug companies advertising at the super bowl. They hate doing it, but don't have a choice.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-10-06 22:59:35+00:00
That video from smarter every day was an eye opener. The effort to just make the simple mold was frightening. The chase to find a single source for a standard screw disheartening.

I've talked with some friends here in europe after seeing that video, and apparently tool and die remains more avaliable here. (Metal casting is impossible nationally though)

I suspect the larger travel distance to China from europe create a market nieche that keep it alive when quick iteration is important. I dont think we succeeded better politically basides that luck. (Trades is frowned opon in the same way)

Locally we have a good prototype industry for cirquitboard design (we work with them regularly), but very few large scale producers. The companies that make electronics nationally often have their own cirquitboard factories for their usecase.

But that doesn't work for new companies trying to create new products. The most common approach is to send the design to China and get a pallet of cirquitboards back fully assembled. (With frankly excellent expert support for any issues discovered in manufacturing)
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-06 23:02:03+00:00
It's often said that Linux user space is unstable. It's my hope that a language that runs directly on top of the kernel will help improve the status quo. The idea is to create executables written in lisp that talk directly to the kernel.

Also it's my shot at creating the fabled lisp operating system. Those projects tend to run out of steam sooner or later due to the sheer enormity of the task. I'm hoping that building on top of Linux will help keep the scope manageable. I'm taking advantage of the fact Linux is the only kernel that actually allows complete user space replacement. Even if lone fails at this, I want to inspire others to try it. Maybe it's the Rust folks who will succeed at rewriting Linux user space in Rust.

Ideologically, it's about Linux maximalism. I've been using Linux for over a decade now and I increasingly believe it should be used everywhere. I know it has lots of great features that people generally avoid because of portability concerns. I want to build a language that encourages people to use Linux to the fullest. Lone is supposed to enable programmers to easily use things like sendfile instead of read/write wherever it makes sense. I'm also thinking about making signalfd the default for signals handling. I want to make Linux systems programming as comfortable as possible.

In practical terms, my long term goal is to get lone to a state where it can power my website. I want to make it powerful enough that it's viable to rewrite my static site generator in lone. I believe its power and usefulness will increase immensely once I start working on a real standard library like Ruby's.
by more_corn | 2025-10-06 23:02:13+00:00
Applied topology and fluid dynamics + origami? Pretty sure there’s no program for this so you can just show up.

Also I bet they really need people who can help with the simulations. If you email the authors you can probably get added to the team.

I too love this. It’s that intersection of devilishly hard and almost useless unless you squint then it’s sci-fi magic tech. There are quite a few cases where you want the parachute to drop straight down.
by tcfhgj | 2025-10-06 23:02:35+00:00
Directly doesn't work over the internet, because the internet doesn't work like that. You'd be restricted to bluetooth, wifi direct or similar.

If you allow for forwarding in between, there are p2p messengers. Messages are stored - if at all - using store & forward techniques. They can use the internet, but also bluetooth and other communication technology to transmit messages. The most popular ones would be Briar and Jami. Matrix P2P exists at an experimental stage as well (moving servers onto devices).

The problem with them you give up convenient things, even though there are often are workarounds. For instance, plain p2p you cannot communicate with offline devices, but store and forward techniques exist, either storing messages on random people or dedicated store and forward servers.

Battery drain, lack of reliability. It's just extremely simple, quick and reliable to send messages to a defined server and receive Push Notifications via push service.

Want a reliable storage of your messages (encrypted) such that you can always access them when you wish? well...
by WanderPanda | 2025-10-06 23:03:31+00:00
Did they still not release "Bring your own subscription" "login with ChatGPT" and letting people apply their subscription/quota to other apps/services? There are so many use-cases where someone builds a usefull scaffold (e.g. even static website) that could benefit from integration with LLMs but rolling the authentication, having API-keys, free budgets etc. is scary. It would be much better if that could be outsourced to the LLM provider of the user.

It would bear a good lock-in effect for OAI as well
by DoneWithAllThat | 2025-10-06 23:03:41+00:00
As someone who never went to college: one thing I know I’m missing is knowing patterns and the commensurate pattern matching. What you describe perfectly illustrates this. Knowing what are effectively standard tools, best approaches to known challenges, and what’s truly novel is something almost no one without a formal education can do. You’ll hear protests to the contrary but it’s just a fact.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-06 23:04:05+00:00
Yes. The sat people that I know in NL always show that same cradle-to-the-grave kind of thinking and it really influenced me how I'm looking at how other industries are dealing with this. It's funny because externalization is the name of the game in almost every industry and the only industry that actually goes off planet takes that 'what goes up must come down' again angle into account every step of the way.
by fxtentacle | 2025-10-06 23:04:30+00:00
You’re not wrong, but how should politics fix this? It’s easy to buy the machines and the software and the training for a tool die shop. But the actual production is still messy and dangerous and needs lots of electricity. And while the salary is not horrible, it’s also not good, because no matter what you do you compete on price with shops in Shenzhen. That means what you actually need to get this manufacturing back to the US is cheaper cost of living. Your US employees need to be able to afford a middle class lifestyle in the US while matching CN salary levels. If that doesn’t work, prospective employees will choose other jobs.
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-10-06 23:05:11+00:00
We all want to uphold a system that limits medical school seats and won't create reliable immigration pathways for doctors to arrive here with just so doctors can maintain a specific salary. Then we'll go blame PE and consolidation and insurance or whatever.

If doctors don't have enough time, then there aren't enough doctors. Our population is aging rapidly and the need is increasing despite population growth metrics. If there are more doctors, they will need to need to spread further into regions where they're in demand.

This is a problem that we as voters should start to act upon.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-10-06 23:05:57+00:00
The funny thing is that everybody knows how this all ends. The only question is when. And I must admit, it's absolutely fascinating to watch.

I was quite young when the dot com bubble happened and didn't grasp the whole insanity of it, then witnessed the financial crisis (while also working in finance - quite interesting times), and now I can fully appreciate Sir Isaac Newton statement "I can calculate the motions of the planets, but I cannot calculate the madness of men" - which he made after he lost a fortune in the South Sea Company Bubble !
by JadeNB | 2025-10-06 23:06:05+00:00
> In my experience, people who are self-taught or who learned by experience tend to have odd gaps in their knowledge.

On the other hand, people who learn from experts learn, in addition to the experts' wisdom, also the experts' biases and blind spots. Or, to say it differently, being taught by experts is a good way to learn how to do what the experts already know how to do, but not how to do what they don't. (And I say this without casting any shade on the idea of education by the experts—I am a professor by trade.)
by dlisboa | 2025-10-06 23:06:18+00:00
As far as traveling being a "minimalist" is about making choices and removing things you don't care as much about. Some people care about having a pair of running shoes at hand more than a laptop, so they don't bring the later. Photographers like to take their camera and lens, even though to most people a phone would be more "minimalist". This person enjoys electronics...
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-06 23:06:30+00:00
“volume up to 35”

>changes bass to +4 because the unit doesn't do half increments

“No volume up to 35, do not touch the EQ”

>adjusts volume to 4 because the unit doesn’t do half increments

> I reach over, grab my remote, and do it myself

We have a grandparent that really depends on their Alexa and let me tell you repeatedly going “hey Alexa, volume down. Hey Alexa, volume down. Hey Alexa, volume down,” gets really old lol we just walk over and start using the touch interface
by Symbiote | 2025-10-06 23:06:57+00:00
I was surprised how bad Sharpie markers were, when I first came across them here in Europe a few years ago. I had started hearing the word, where we used to say "permanent marker".

But the smell! Yuerk. I don't know what it is, but I find it awful. The smell is the only problem, but as far as I'm concerned it's enough that I'll never buy another.

The similar-quality European or Japanese permanent markers don't smell anywhere near as bad, but have surely lost market share here due to Sharpie's effective marketing.
by amputect | 2025-10-06 23:07:07+00:00
If you want to experience the thrill of being in the antimemetics division I highly recommend* unmedicated ADHD.

I pre-ordered the hardcover when it came out. I've read it online dozens of times but I like books and supporting authors, and this specific one really ticks a lot of boxes for me, so I got a physical copy. The book came, I put it on the shelf, admired it, went about my life.

Then, months later, I saw a mention of the physical book online somewhere, and I thought to myself "oh that reminds me, I wanted to buy the hardcover when it came out!" so I did! The book came, I went to put it on the shelf, saw the identical copy already sitting on the shelf, and I just stood there for a minute with the book in my hand like "..." "..." "..." while I worked through what happened.

*- I do not highly recommend this.
by Nifty3929 | 2025-10-06 23:07:44+00:00
I think the main problem with pop-ups that makes them a bad place to put important (any?) information is that they interrupt the user's workflow - which is, indeed, kinda the point of the pop-up. But what is a normal human's reaction to this. They are in the middle of trying to do the thing they want to do. To continue with this, they need to get the pop-up out of the way, so they just click the button.

I run into this ALL THE TIME during the normal course of using software. I am trying to do something, then I get a pop-up about something-or-another that the developer clearly thought was important for me to see, but I click past it so I can get back to what I was doing. A lot of times is these "look at this cool new feature" kind of things - ARGH! And the worst part is, I might actually WANT to come back and learn about the new feature, but often I only get that one chance, and I'm too busy on my important task to focus on it right now.

Actually - a specific example of this just case to mind: I want to take a screenshot with Snagit - so I press PrtSn. But now Snagit pops up and asks me if I want to update. Sure, maybe I do - but not now! Now I just want to take my damn screenshot! So I click 'no.' And then I don't see it again until the next time I want to take a screenshot, and also do not want to be interrupted in my 5sec tasks with a 5min update.

Much better is to provide the information in a conspicuous, hard-to-miss area of the UI, but which DOESN'T block my workflow. Like, literally just put the text right on the form/interface in bold, red font. Like for Snagit - don't make it a popup update notification. Just put a bold/red link on the capture window and editor UI that says "Update"
by JadeNB | 2025-10-06 23:07:58+00:00
> I have friends who complain that they are engineers, and had to take so much math in school they don’t use.

This seems to me like saying "I could be a better engineer by combining engineering expertise with mathematical knowledge, and I have that knowledge, but I prefer not to use it." I don't always learn new things well enough to realize their potential, but I've never once regretted learning something new, and, if I don't know how to use it, then I usually assume that's on me, not on the subject.
by bylde | 2025-10-06 23:08:58+00:00
I’ve been working in the events space for a while and noticed how often teams rely on messy spreadsheets, browser tabs, or manual clocks to keep track of event timings. So I built a simple free tool that lets you display a fullscreen countdown timer for your events — perfect for backstage screens, live streams, or on-site coordination.

It’s clean, distraction-free, and works directly in your browser (no login, no setup). You just enter your event date and it goes full screen automatically.

Here’s a screenshot of how it looks [attach screenshot]

I’d love your thoughts or suggestions on how to make it more useful for event managers or production teams. Would you find something like this helpful during live events or conferences?

It’s 100% free to use. If you’d like to try it, here’s the link: [insert link]

Thanks in advance for any feedback — I’m trying to make it genuinely helpful for people running events.
by ajross | 2025-10-06 23:09:41+00:00
> Everyone who took an adjustable loan, interest only loan, etc., who didn’t have an exit strategy already in place in case of inability to refinance, had themselves to blame

Come on. Median homeowners (even median HN commenters) are hard put to even define those terms, much less execute your strategy correctly. This kind of blame-the-dummies caveat emptor absolutism fails in the modern world. It's like demanding people decide on their own medical diagnoses and select treatments from a menu.

We license realtors and banks, regulate mortgage marketing and have a CFPB for a reason.
by toast0 | 2025-10-06 23:10:00+00:00
We used to! Doctor would write prescription on a pad, and you could take the script to any pharmacy.

Of course, doctor penmanship is terrible, and we're going paperless, so we've got to digitize. And every doctor's office and every pharmacy has their own system, and sometimes they can talk (but I think there's a lot of faxing behind the scenes)

Of course, you can't know what drugs will be covered, so the doctor has to guess, and if they guess wrong, the pharamacist will want to check with the doctor to see if something else is OK to save you money, but nobody can be reached, ever.
by gruez | 2025-10-06 23:10:04+00:00
>Despite the randomized Mac address, you can still fingerprint devices using all the usual tricks when they connect to the authentication and authorization page before you allow them to access the broader internet.

Fingerprinting is overrated given that every iPhone 17 is identical to any other iPhone 17. If you leave system settings at stock, which most people do, there's very little to fingerprint.

>Doesn't pretty much every Starbucks location in the United States use a nationwide provider?

True, although mobile data is cheap and plentiful enough that I rarely bother using wifi at cafes or fast food places. The only time I use public wifi is if I'm staying long term, which basically only encompasses trains, airports, and hotels. Those are diverse enough that it's tough to build a complete profile.

>If the receipt had a passcode on it, you've got a link between all of your browser fingerprint, radio fingerprint and payment detail fingerprint and possibly customer loyalty provided at time of payment.

I don't think I ever saw a place that was that guarded about their wifi. The closest I've seen is hotels requiring your room/last name, which would allow them to identify you, but at the same time I'm not sure how much information they can glean, other than that I'm logging into gmail or airbnb. Persistent monitoring that ISPs can do is far more useful.
by fragmede | 2025-10-06 23:10:09+00:00
Snapchat is right there, as is reels and YT shorts. Microsoft conceded and just paid twitch because their own thing wasn't working. A brand is a moat that's hard to definite. It wouldn't be too difficult to stand up an alternative to Twitter or Reddit, but getting the people to move over there is the problem. What happened to Vimeo?
by gambiting | 2025-10-06 23:10:10+00:00
>>Starlink in particular is one of the most successful pro-humanitarian engineering projects that I can think of in maybe the last 20 years.

Better than gates' effort to eradicate malaria?

Sorry to be snarky, but to me Starlink is something rich people in rural England have, because it's slightly easier than paying OpenReach to connect them to proper network. And it's hard to imagine anyone else being their clients, at the prices that they charge.