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Corruption, grift, fascism.
Virtually all medical info in the US is sent in plain text via the numerous MLLP connections that just rely on the local network’s access level to maintain security. Big companies act like it is enough and HIPAA is a paper tiger here.
Re:Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:40PM (#49646596)
Here in Washington state, it's a fine of over $500 to not be able to present insurance proof on demand when pulled over...
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board on Friday September 04, 2026 @10:30AM (#49565220)
Next you'll want us to prosecute coal company executives for air pollution that killed millions? PFAS makers and companies that distribute it in products causing cancer for dozens of generations? Capitalism needs compliance! /s
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board on Friday September 04, 2026 @10:26AM (#49565154)
As a species, we can't even address high-probability, high-impact events like mass ecosystem collapse and food insecurity due to global warming. This is just another kind of doom on the pile.
Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance on Monday August 24, 2026 @01:23PM (#49423082)
While on my high school math team, we weren't allowed to use calculators at school. Being able to work quickly without one was too important.
It's like it turns everyone into a CEO with all the yes men they could ever ask for! Never goes wrong!
I recently mentioned that my team and most of my dev friends don’t use AI for code on a gamdev forum (we do stuff like distributed consensus, compilers, etc.). I was quickly denounced as “an arrogant douche”.
Re:Running local models is good now on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:57PM (#48559241)
Hard to guarantee it's private if you don't keep it local... I don't have a lot of trust for companies in this space.
As someone in the Venn diagram intersection of "software engineer" and "studied climate/astrophysics/planetary science" in school, reading comments here is painfully disheartening. Virtually everyone highly engaged in this field is anticipating multiple, systemic apocalyptic scenarios that will end modern life as we know it. I'd assume that most of the people reading have enough of a calculus background to understand some of the underlying math. I implore you to find a good book or course on it.
Re:Cartoon Network Flash Games on Saturday May 09, 2026 @12:19AM (#48071793)
I worked on their Power Play downloadable system to embed games in a local player and also did stuff like add Mojo Jojo and new levels to games like Power Puff Girls Fast and the Flurrious. They had a mini golf game with a 3d golf club I embedded that I spent more time playing than working on :)
Re:Cartoon Network Flash Games on Saturday May 09, 2026 @12:18AM (#48071789)
Alas no. I worked on their Power Play downloadable system to embed games in a local player and also did stuff like add Mojo Jojo and new levels to games like Power Puff Girls Fast and the Flurrious. Fun times :)
Re:Cartoon Network Flash Games on Friday May 08, 2026 @12:43PM (#48065576)
Doh, I did some work on some CN games back in the day -- but don't see any of those here. Hopefully they keeping adding to it!
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen on Saturday January 03, 2026 @02:18PM (#46480409)
Alas, we're back to 1989. Bush did the same to Noriega in Panama when he stopped playing ball with the CIA.
This is what I'm seeing currently at work. YMMV.
Besides search, Android kinda killed Nokia and friends for the consumer phone market.
Re:China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990 on Thursday October 30, 2025 @02:38AM (#45757025)
We're on the verge of ecological collapse, undergoing an insane mass extinction event with ocean acidification and methane release going off the charts. I can't even begin to conceive of your reality.
Re:Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @01:01AM (#44884783)
I work in distributed systems programming and have been horrified by the crap the AIs produce. I've found them to be quite helpful at summarizing papers and doing research, providing jumping off points. But none of the code I write can be scraped from a blog post.
Re:Reflections on OpenAI on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @10:37PM (#44578139)
VGT?
Yes! Thanks for the interest, hope they're helpful!

for HL7: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir_hl7/main.html

for MLLP: https://hexdocs.pm/mllp/readme.html

We run a large distributed cluster (currently 4 DCs spanning the US) and use hot code reload for live patches when needed and rolling deployments for our standard releases.
I think that's a good point. Our largest pain point with Elixir is definitely the size of the community and the associated dearth of niche libraries. The technology behind it, though, is solid enough that once those libraries exist, things really take off. My team wrote several open source medical libraries for Elixir and we've seen it really expand into the healthcare market.
Re:Why the $25,000 car is going extinct on Sunday June 29, 2025 @09:38PM (#44418347)
i am still fine in my used 2012 12k prius.
see the novel kiln people and the transparent society essays by David Brin
Re:1,145 pull requests per day on Friday May 23, 2025 @12:53AM (#44069963)
good god, i would quit in a heartbeat.
Santa Clause was also my complete religious breaking point as a child!
Re:We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly on Monday February 10, 2025 @10:53PM (#43008754)
Is there a video of this ui??
Re:Constraining Writers in Distributed Systems on Thursday August 22, 2024 @10:47PM (#41325828)
We use something like this at scale, similar to Riak's design. We use it to store things like the active state of millions of hospital patients in RAM for high availability (zero downtime when DCs or nodes fail). One copy per data center with a writer at one of the DCs. Our current cluster has 32 nodes (8 per DC -- we should have 5 DCs across the US but only have 4 at the moment). You can learn more about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ0CvjAJXz4.
Re:Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house? on Friday August 09, 2024 @12:37AM (#41198807)
It's not hard to learn and my current Fortune 100 has had zero trouble hiring for it.

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