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Google got fined €60M for this by the French authorities. That must've stung a little.

Blendle tried this, but it didn't really work out for them.

There’s (luckily) no such thing as DRM in DICOM, but there is a billion ways to interpret the standard. Pydicom does work for the more common things but there’s some rare types of DICOM it unfortunately can’t handle.

Lawful? That's up to the government to decide.

We may not know what causes rejection, but are pretty good at seeing the signs of it. Extreme example: if a house collapses, you may not know immediately why it collapsed, but all the debris on the ground is a pretty good sign it's not in one piece anymore.

You think doctors/nurses do homework? They go to paid courses/conferences all the time to stay up-to-date on the latest medical techniques. Hospitals have entire teaching departments for that kinda stuff. Why should it be different for engineers?

Yeah you could do that and it's happening in practice. Many countries implement double reading where two radiologists look at it. In the USA, single reading + computer-aided diagnosis is quite common using commercial, FDA-approved software.

Na, this is all well-known work. This field is seriously big, lots of publications on it dating back to the early '90s.

Unfortunately, it's just a matter of time before someone gets severe complications for whatever outcome your program gets wrong. You have a false negative? Big problem, you just gave someone worse treatment options (if lucky) or led to someone being diagnosed too late and potentially getting metastasized breast cancer. Those bone metastases are quite painful, you know.

False positives are even worse, because they are far far far more likely to happen in practice. Imagine your program telling someone it has a malignant mass (VERY bad wording, only the pathologist can say something is malignant). I speak from experience that this WILL lead to the patient going to the doctor, and the doctor, seeing these very strong words, might want to take a biopsy to confirm the malignancy. These are painful procedures that can and will go wrong, eventually (complication rate is ~1%, which is not a whole lot on its own, but is unacceptable on a known healthy population). If lucky, the biopsy can be done stereotactical, but if unlucky it'll have to be done MRI-guided. You just cost society a few thousand dollars/euros/yuan. And that's if everything goes right, worst case it'll be hospital admission due to complications, like an infection.

Your blog post says you are trying to fight cancer, which is a noble cause. If the tool is not for diagnostical purposes, it's not doing a whole lot in fighting cancer as it is just a play thing then. At the moment, it's more like hindering cancer by taking resources from people who need them and giving them to people who don't need them.

Source: researcher in AI for breast cancer screening/diagnosis.

It is, you can easily do this one one GPU, but it will a bit longer. Doubt it'll be prohibitively so.

One of the few times a thin client with a virtual desktop (like Citrix and such) is actually useful, as you can keep working after moving.

You could also build the roads in such a way to discourage speeding, e.g. don't make roads with a 20mph speed limit look the exact same as those you can go 50mph on. If you are physically able to go more than twice the speed limit at a road, something's wrong with the road. I can't recall the number of times driving in Texas I asked myself what the speeding limit was, as it could literally be any number. The road itself sure didn't give me any hints regarding what it was.

Ways to do this is by making them a bit more narrow, or in residential areas make them a bit more swerving for example. No need for enforcement, just gently encouraging drivers to drive the proper speed.

The article is mentioning tons of technological measures you can take in the car, but a far more effective way to go about this is infrastructure. As someone from Europe, driving in the US is shockingly dangerous at times. High-speed unprotected left turns at higher speeds are so commonplace, lack of merge lanes on 45mph roads isn't that great either.

Something like Vision Zero and making the roads a bit more forgiving can also go a long way in reducing traffic deaths. No need for new tech in new cars.

Do they even have usable vaccines? Their Sinovac/Sinopharm vaccines were reasonably effective in preventing severe COVID in the non-elderly pre-omicron, but they don't seem to be too effective against omicron.

Most countries using the Chinese vaccines had the "benefit" of having a ton of natural immunity as well. China obviously does not have this. They might seriously have to consider importing Western vaccines as boosters, especially for their under-vaccinated elderly population.

Horos/Osirix is - by far - the best open-source DICOM viewer, it's the only viewer I'd describe as being on-par with commercial PACS software. Unfortunately it's macOS only.

They actually answered that, something with the user experience of using two apps and TOTP not meeting requirements for the highest eIDAS level. See interview here (in Dutch): https://www.security.nl/posting/701749/Security_NL+spreekt+m...

Devil's advocate here; Do I want my tax money to be used to create an app for an extremely niche group of people? (i.e. people who have a smartphone but not regular Android/iOS). How many people are we talking about, a few thousand on a population of 17 million?

We're not talking about unavailability of government services, there's still a process available, the analog one.

A heat pump?

Intentionally crashing a plane seems a pretty good example of piloting in a careless/reckless manner that endangers life or property. There's not a specific rule "they shall not crash your plane" but this is more of a catch-all rule for these kind of situations.

They got GPS tracking on the trains. Any delay over 5 minutes will show up automatically, less than 5 minutes you can see on the app. The train operator took over the information screens, so it's all part of the same company now.

Different system, that'd be the switches/signalling. Freight and international trains were running just fine, safely. This was literally just planning which train (rolling stock) is going to operate which train (ride) with which personnel.

Safety could be related to duty times, or making sure the rolling stock is fit for a certain trajectory (maximum platform length, weight restrictions etc.)

Storing it on the ECU is allowed as long as it isn't actually collected/used, right?

Or just follow the clinical guidelines and associated updates. They're there for this exact reason, to make sure every doctor uses up-to-date methods. No need for sales reps in this case.

Is that a thing in Swiss? Thought it was all Whatsapp/Telegram there.

placebo effect

I can first-hand confirm it actually works on their network.

Really depends on the individual countries. Some countries subsidize the tracks for everyone (including freight), others just the passenger rail companies. Heck, in the EU there's even quite a few open-access operators who are fully for-profit.

This is really dependent on each country. For The Netherlands, I know there is a system healthcare professionals can use to manually generate DCCs: in case of problems with the link, patients not giving permission to share PHI to a central registry or in exceptional cases like (partly) vaccinated outside of the EU and such. Just the matter of entering all details and it'll spit out a valid DCC.

Source: had to use this procedure myself.

Face ID has a separate IR camera and a 3d IR dot array, so can imagine it requires a bit more space than a regular webcam.

Gotta press the right button, not the water-saving button.