Someone could turn this into an app. Scan the medical bill, analyze the codes, understand the rules, show a target to negotiate. Could be extra spicy by providing the public data on hospital pricing before arrival.

Wouldn't it just burn more calories?

If they are going to lose the LLM race, at least they could invest in building a great frontend to interact with the non-MS models to capture a share of the revenue... Right now their frontend is one of the worst AND their model is one of the worst.

I don't think we've had the transformer moment for audio training yet, but yes, in theory audio-first models will be much more capable.

Particularly interesting would be transformations between tokenised audio and tokenised text.

I recall someone telling me once up to 90% of communication can be non-verbal, so when an LLM sticks to just text, it's only getting 10% of the data.

Would love to have ideas from the scientists in the HN community on how to make this more reliable for producing altered states of consciousness.

Or just the way the menus are on apps. Some app implement their own file/edit/view menus at the top of the app, then some will use the apple version at the top of the OS. If you plug in a TV to use as a monitor and cannot adjust the aspect ratio you're forced to blindly activate these menus as they're clipped from the screen.

MacOS folder navigation is a complete pain too, sometimes you see the list of OS folders, sometimes you see only the folder you opened in finder. If the menu is clipped due to the above aspect ratio problem, good luck getting to your home folder... No functionality to easily open a folder in terminal. Lots of basics just counter-intuitive.

Yeah, I found it not easy to go up one level in finder. Actually I had to Google when I tried first time. The way that MacOS wants to conceal information from the users is just insane. I don't know how it is justified. Nevertheless it has a good number of ardent fans.

> limitations of corporate attention spans and development budgets

And arbitrary turf wars like their war against web apis/apps causing more friction for devs and end users.

I'm a Linux fan and I like that Apple isn't rubber-stamping the two new web APIs a week that Google comes up with. There are hundreds of them, most of them quite small fortunately.

The basics are not rock solid. Even a core feature such as remote management crashes and freezes every 5 minutes when you connect from a non-apple machine, many have reported this over years but Apple just does Apple. Safari is still atrocious when it comes to web api supports. The worst part is, with Apple, we do not know if these are intentional anti-competitive barriers or actual software bugs. I purchased a mac mini simply to compile apps via xcode and can say the core experience is MUCH more buggy than a fresh Windows or Ubuntu install.

Edit: Hard to call intentionally preventing support for web apis a power user thing. This creates more friction for basic users trying to use any web app.

Edit2: lol Apple PR must be all over this, went from +5 to -1 in a single refresh. Flagged for even criticizing what they intentionally break.

Safari adds hours of battery life due to its hyper focus on power consumption. The level to which web API standards are affected is rather immaterial to me. I imagine we’re different consumers though.

Adds hours of battery life to the expense of making your microphone input completely inaudible due to throttling if you background the tab it's running on.

On iOS you cannot even keep a web app running in the background. The second they mutlitask, even with an audio/microphone active, Apple kills it. Are they truly adding battery life or are they cheating by creating restrictions that prevent apps from working?

Being able to conduct a voice call through the browser seems like a pretty basic use case to me.

If you’re comparing to Chrome, tests show it’s no longer true

I am in the same boat. I prefer battery life

Breaking things is not extending battery life. Battery life assumes functionality. Breaking functionality to extend it is a scapegoat and the break-whatever-you-want could be provided as a mode instead of one-size fits all, we don't care what breaks approach.

They said the basics are rock solid (to which I agree). What you're describing, I'd consider a "power user."

Why would you want to support web APIs? They're all just Google proposing 5000 new ways for advertisers to fingerprint you but doing it through "standards".

Nice strawman. The core of webapis is about opening up lower level functionality from the sandbox/accessibility of the web. Beyond audio and video IO, there's great stuff coming with webgpu and webNN. Web apps are much safer and much more convenient than downloading an app, well in theory they could be if support wasn't regularly sabotaged to protect a corporate interest in walled gardens.

Are those basics? You don’t have to use Safari, and I’ve never used remote management over the 20 years or so that I’ve been a Mac user.

If we dismiss remote management as a non-core feature shouldn't we consider installing a new browser to be advanced usage as well?

I understand that this post is about MacOS, but yes, we are forced to support Safari for iOS. Many of these corporate decisions to prevent web apps from functioning properly spill over from MacOS Safari to iOS Safari.

Dietary fiber adaptation probably has many more benefits beyond liver health too. Gut microbiomes resulting from high sugar diets likely cause the majority of disease in modern times.

Thank you Epic for your service to app developers. Huge win against the walled gardens.

It feels weird but I concur. :)