Vegenoid (u/Vegenoid)

Vegenoid commented on ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods 404media.co/inside-ices-t... · Posted by u/cmurf

gruez · a month ago

See my other comment. At least in this particular case the databrokers are getting the data from apps themselves. If you don't grant location permissions to shady weather/transit/delivery apps, you should be safe.

Vegenoid · a month ago

Without more information about how the system works, a casual "eh if I don't grant location data access to shady apps I'm probably safe" seems very risky. What apps are "shady"? How does the real-time bidding system obtain and divulge location data?

I think that it is not a safe assumption that the only way corporations are obtaining people's location is via OS location APIs.

Vegenoid commented on ChatGPT Health openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/saikatsg

NuclearPM · a month ago

Brusqueness? More like insensitivity, lack of empathy, and ignorance.

My 12 year old daughter (correctly) diagnosed herself to a food allergy after multiple trips to the ER for stomach pains that resulted in “a few Tylenol/Advil with a glass of water”.

Vegenoid · a month ago

This isn't a criticism of you, I don't know your full story. But I think many people have a misconception of the role of an ER. I know an ER doctor well, and the role of an ER is to, in approximate order of priority:

1. Prevent someone from dying

2. Treat severe injuries

3. Identify if what someone is experiencing is life-threatening or requires immediate treatment to prevent their condition worsening

4. Provide basic treatment and relief for a condition which is determined not to be an imminent threat

In particular, they are not for diagnosing chronic conditions. If an ER determines that someone's stomach pain is not an imminent, severe threat to their health, then they are sending them out of the ER with medication for short-term relief in order to make room for people who are having an emergency. The ER doc I know gets very annoyed at recurring patients who expect the ER to help them diagnose and treat their illness. If you go the ER, they send you home, and the thing happens again, make an appointment with a physician (and also go to the ER if you think it's serious).

Unfortunately, the medical system is very confusing and difficult to navigate. This is a big part of why so many people end up at ERs who should be making appointments with non-emergency doctors - finding a doctor and making appointments is often hard and stressful, while an ER will look at anyone who walks through the doors.

Vegenoid commented on ChatGPT Health openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/saikatsg

halapro · a month ago

They're not useless but they're also human with limited time and limited amount of inputs.

To me it's crazy that doctors rarely ask me if I'm taking any medications for example, since meds can have some pretty serious side effects. ChatGPT Health reportedly connects to Apple Health and reads the medications you're on; to me that's huge.

Vegenoid · a month ago

> To me it's crazy that doctors rarely ask me if I'm taking any medications for example, since meds can have some pretty serious side effects.

This sounds very strange to me. Every medical appointment I've ever been to has required me to fill out an intake form where I list medications I'm taking.

Vegenoid commented on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes reuters.com/world/us/us-w... · Posted by u/kpw94

roadside_picnic · a month ago

The key word here is "Wall Street". And this statement is playing off a popular misconception around corporate investors buying up American houses.

There has been a bit of a panic around "Investors buying up all the property!!!" With people often citing Black Rock and Blackstone as the main culprits. But most of the "investors" buying up property are individuals purchasing investment properties.

Here's an article on the topic from 2023[0], a bit old but my understanding is large institutional investment in residential real estate was already starting to cool down.

Black rock isn't buying up all the housing, your neighbors are.

I suspect this statement, and even if it becomes an actual ban, is largely to gain wider popular support around a largely imaginary concern people have.

0. https://www.housingwire.com/articles/no-wall-street-investor...

Vegenoid · a month ago

If so, then we can at least put that myth to rest and move closer to a real solution. The only potential downside I see here is that maybe it pushes the real solution a bit further down the road.

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cons0le · a month ago

MrBeast is a hack, but its worth pointing out that all "progress bars" are bad design. You could make the same complaint against most of the progress bars in MsDOS. There was never a consistency in timing so you can never really use them to gauge how much time is left.

Vegenoid · a month ago

We’re not talking about a measure of computational progress here. We’re talking about visually representing how much time has elapsed out of a fixed duration. This is exactly where progress indicators shine, the total time for the thing to happen is perfectly specified in advance.

Vegenoid commented on C –> Java != Java –> LLM observationalhazard.com/2... · Posted by u/WoodenChair

Muromec · a month ago

Laws being unreadable is largely an Enlish-language problem zo. I have no problem reading them in my native language. Not requiring massive context size of case law makes things easier still. Big part of being a lawyer is having the same context with all the other lawyers and knowing what was already decided and what possible new interpretation is likely to be accepted by everyone else.

Vegenoid · a month ago

> Big part of being a lawyer is having the same context with all the other lawyers and knowing what was already decided and what possible new interpretation is likely to be accepted by everyone else.

And to create software specifications with language, the same thing will need to happen. You’ll need shared terminology and context that the LLM will correctly and consistently interpret, and that other engineers will understand. This means that very specific meanings become attached to certain words and phrases. Without this, you aren’t making precise specifications. To create and interpret these specifications will require learning the language of the specs. It may well still be easier than code - but then it would also be less precise.

Vegenoid commented on C –> Java != Java –> LLM observationalhazard.com/2... · Posted by u/WoodenChair

tjr · a month ago

At that level of detail, how far removed are we from “programming”?

Vegenoid · a month ago

Without understanding the level of detail required, which we do not yet know, we cannot say.

When I think of English specifications that (generally) aim to be very precise, I think of laws. Laws do not read like plain, common language, because plain common language is bad at being specific. Interpreting and creating laws requires an education on par with that required of an engineer, often greater.

Vegenoid commented on A website to destroy all websites henry.codes/writing/a-web... · Posted by u/g0xA52A2A

IvanK_net · a month ago

Internet is amazing, it is the best invention of humanity, and each year, a person spends more time on the internet (on average) than a year before, which shows that it is getting more and more useful for everyone.

Those who enjoy saying "I do not learn enough, I do not improve myself enough, I do not work hard enough" (but you say "the humanity" instead of "I"), that is just your own fault. Let people use the internet the way they want to use it.

Vegenoid · a month ago

Year over year, we eat more junk food and get more overweight than the previous year. This demonstrates that junk food and fat are becoming increasingly useful and beneficial.

Vegenoid commented on Google is dead. Where do we go now? circusscientist.com/2025/... · Posted by u/tomjuggler

drstewart · a month ago

Also:

basketball -> handball

hockey -> stickball

volleyball -> handball

rugby -> handegg

baseball -> stickball

cricket -> stickball

golf -> stickball

Hopefully this will finally appease the football literalists and make things simpler for you all to understand :)

Vegenoid · a month ago

I like the basketball, volleyball, and baseball way where the noun before ball has some leeway but should be clearly identified with an aspect of the sport.

football -> tackleball rugby -> tossball cricket -> paddleball golf -> clubball hockey -> icepuck