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ksaxena

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Founder at Autoninja

SO Profile: http://www.stackoverflow.com/users/140970/crimson

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ksaxena··on Forcing an inversion of control on the SaaS stack
This bothers me. ALL enterprise SaaS prohibits reverse-engineering in its TOS and CSA and most prohibit bots and automation. So, the buyer will need the vendor's explicit permission to use something like 100x; and when the vendor has something on the roadmap, even if it's delayed, there's little chance that the vendor will give this permission. Anybody else bothered by this? Anybody who has a successful workaround?
ksaxena··on Microsoft's new Dragon Copilot is an AI assistant for healthcare
Yes, the biggest problem with Healthcare AI assistants right now is that there is no way to "prompt" the AI on what a physician needs in a given scenario - eg. "only include medically relevant information in HPI", "don't give me a layman explanation of radiographic reports", "include direct patient quotes when a neurological symptom is being described" etc.

And the prompt landscape in the field is vast. And fascinating. Every specialist has their own preference for what is important to include in a note vs what should be excluded; and this preference changes by disease - what a neurologist want in an epilepsy note is very different from what they need in a dementia note for eg.

Note preferences also change widely between physicians, even in the same practice and same specialty! I'm the founder of Marvix AI (www.marvixapp.ai), an AI assistant for specialty care, we work with several small specialty care practices where every physician has their own preferences on which details they want to retain in their note.

But if you can get the prompts to really align with a physician's preferences, this tech is magical - physicians regularly confess to us that this tech saves them ~2 hours every day. We have now had half a dozen physicians tell us in their feedback calls that their wives asked them to communicate their 'thanks' to us for getting their husbands back home for dinner on an important occasion!

[Edit: typo and phrasing]

ksaxena··on Monitoring Is a Pain
Have you tried Signoz (https://signoz.io/) yet?
ksaxena··on Ask HN: How do I make a website in 2023?
To answer your specific question about where to store data - use Cockroach DB. Where do you plan to host? I'd recommend Netlify - it has good support for Next and integrates well with Cockroach DB.
ksaxena··on A 50-year quest: My personal journey with the second law of thermodynamics
TLDR (using Kagi): https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://writings.stephenwol...
ksaxena··on The Schwarzschild Defence
There is a huge mistake in this reasoning! Time dilation goes to infinity at the center of the black hole - at the singularity, not at the event horizon! The event horizon could be millions of miles (many AUs) away from the singularity. Near the event horizon, her husband is likely to be falling rapidly into the black hole and is not going to be stuck indefinitely. So, it's Murder 1, immediately.
ksaxena··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
Wow, that's salty! Mismanagement compared to what? An omniscient entity that understood exactly what global advertisement demand and capital costs would look like in advance? The real world is messy and runs on estimates for everything. If Google is 6% off on their estimate for human resources, it should not be labelled 'mismanagement'.
ksaxena··on Schizophrenia: The new etiological synthesis
This may be better explained by the Hygiene hypothesis - hunter-gatherers get exposure to all sorts of microbes and parasites early in their life while city-dwellers could be shielded from equivalent exposure. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
ksaxena··on The United States of America vs. Samuel Bankman-Fried Indictment [pdf]
See some videos on YouTube of Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger conducting Berkshire's annual shareholder meetings. It will help.
ksaxena··on Cesium detected in the atmosphere of a hot white dwarf
With the barrage of Astronomy articles that have been hitting HN front page of late, perhaps we should start asking, "Is it Aliens yet?"
ksaxena··on FTX’s financial black hole leaves Binance balking at rescue plan
Darwinian
ksaxena··on Alphabet Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf]
So?
ksaxena··on Build your fanbase using the K-pop method
The problem with this line of thinking is the power that media companies have. Media companies have immense power to alter political discourse to fit the narratives they prefer. Which gives immense political power to the owners of media companies, like Rupert Murdoch. Sometimes, enough power to "choose" senators, congresspeople, and even presidents. And this power doesn't have competition unless you allow all other companies to fight for their narratives with money.

What you have at the end is a stinking cesspool, but this cesspool is still better than your country's politicians pledging allegiance to the equivalents of Rupert Murdoch. This is exactly like Churchill's characterization of Democracy - horrible system but better than any other alternative.

ksaxena··on Ask HN: What Is Happening in the UK?
Between the tax cuts and the energy-price guarantee, the bigger problem is the energy-price guarantee that has been announced by the government. It will put a cap on fuel prices for consumers and the resulting deficit is planned to be funded by the treasury. The deficit is estimated to be more than 100 Billion pounds, and it is planned to be funded by government borrowing. This has resulted in a weaker pound.
ksaxena··on Ask HN: What Is Happening in the UK?
The bigger problem is the energy-price guarantee that Truss has announced that will put a ceiling on fuel price for consumers, with the difference born by the UK treasury - estimated outflow is more than 100 Billion pounds. This outflow is planned to be funded by borrowing, which has resulted in a weaker pound.
ksaxena··on Korean nuclear fusion reactor achieves 100M°C for 30 seconds
And Solar is just a steam engine with less steam, and less engine.
ksaxena··on More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade
Well, with that logic, coal is also indirect fusion
ksaxena··on Terraform Labs Caught Moving $4.8M Through Shell Company
No. Options also provide a fundamental service - insurance. So, in the case where the option buyer is paying for insurance, sellers add value by underwriting the risk that is being insured. Hence, both the buyer and the seller win - the buyer gets insurance, the seller gets cash.
ksaxena··on Terraform Labs Caught Moving $4.8M Through Shell Company
The example of Olympus DAO as well
ksaxena··on Tell HN: By default, New Relic will start collecting production log data on 5/3
Or go open-source: https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz
ksaxena··on Tell HN: By default, New Relic will start collecting production log data on 5/3
Try this: https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz
ksaxena··on Amazon employees in 20 countries will strike on Black Friday
What I find strange is the support that the Indian (opportunistic) left's narrative gets in US media including niche tech communities like HN. Any one who has grown up in India in the past 50 years has witnessed the devastation caused by Socialism in this country. Socialism did not make India equal - it made India's bureaucracy and politics a cesspool of corruption that did enormous damage to India's poor. Anybody on this community who wants a crisp, fair view of the situation should spend a minute reading this editorial from India's largest newspaper before commenting: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/swa...
ksaxena··on The math that says egalitarianism is possible
There are many systems where if you measure inequality by metrics like wealth or income, you may overestimate the equality in a society. Socialist India before 1991 was such a system - most people appeared equal if you measured wealth or income but in reality there was extreme inequality. Those who had influence over the state (bureaucrats and politicians), regularly decided who got admitted in a hospital and who didn't, who got a telephone connection and who didn't, hell, a common person often couldn't even get a train ticket if he did not know a bureaucrat or a politician. This was so common that the system had a name - "sifarish". So, if anyone could measure an individual's "power" and include it along with wealth and income to measure the society's inequality, you would get an incredibly "inequal" Indian society before 1991 that has since become a lot more equal as socialism has started to wane a little bit here.
ksaxena··on I created a $350M software company knowing nothing about software (2015)
This company was just acquired by Zoom for ~$15B
ksaxena··on Newly identified species of saber-toothed cat in North America during Miocene
Why?
ksaxena··on Amazon had sales income of €44bn in Europe in 2020 but paid no corporation tax
I would also like to ask, on the 44 Bn sales, how much VAT or other indirect taxes were collected by the government?
ksaxena··on Tesla hikes solar roof price on contracts signed over a year ago
I'm writing this out of pure curiosity - if you were to discover that the vast majority (more than 90%, say) of human beings that have ever lived in Human history are quite well described by what you just wrote, would you reconsider your worldview?
ksaxena··on Learning to See in the Dark (2018)
Video from the paper here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWKUFK7MWvg
ksaxena··on Implementing SIP Telephony in Python (2008) [pdf]
First of all, thanks for sharing this - it's a very thorough guide to implementing SIP.

Second, the author says that he has implemented a SIP client in JS as well. But my experience with open-source JS SIP clients (WebRTC) has been that their performance is significantly worse than the free version of xlite. (Both SipML and JSSIP have more frequent packet drops on the same systems than xlite).

Are there better JS implementations that are at least as robust as xlite?

ksaxena··on U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani
This comment made my day. Thanks :)
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