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WiFi signals can measure heart rate

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463 points bookofjoe | 4 comments | 04 Sep 25 14:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.831s | source
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onlypassingthru ◴[04 Sep 25 17:16 UTC] No.45129670[source]▶
No clunky wearables? No chest strap on the treadmill? Heart rate and respiration? Monitors everyone in the house simultaneously 24/7 on a cheap rpi? I hope this doesn't take years to come to market because this seems incredibly useful.
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transpute ◴[04 Sep 25 18:10 UTC] No.45130325[source]▶
There are positive sci-fi use cases, but ONLY IF the data and automation are entirely under control of the human subjects, e.g. self-hosted home server, local GPUs, local LLM, offline voice recognition, private 3D imaging of home and human, etc.
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1. bluGill ◴[04 Sep 25 22:42 UTC] No.45133061[source]▶
I don't want the data under my control - I want it under my doctors control. Except if it decects a coming heart attack or such, then notify every emt.
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2. transpute ◴[05 Sep 25 00:04 UTC] No.45133642[source]▶
If you have control of your data, then you can delegate to doctors, EMT or other agents.
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3. bluGill ◴[05 Sep 25 02:50 UTC] No.45134554[source]▶
I want my doctor as agent to delegate to other specialists without consulting me. Most of the time it isn't needed but I don't want to be bothered for 'just double checking this is nothing' which should happen at times.
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4. transpute ◴[05 Sep 25 12:53 UTC] No.45137948{3}[source]▶
When you say, "I want", you need initial data control to give that instruction.

You can delegate to your doctor the right to delegate to other specialists without consulting you.

Other humans can delegate to the agents of their choice.

This is why the first step is for you to have control of your data, then you can specify/revoke who-does-what with it.