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pagutierrezn··on Mistral raises €3B
Weaponizing the dollar against Rusia first, and Iran now is damaging the world's confidence in the dollar-based monetary system beyond repair
pagutierrezn··on Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
A summary:

Thirty years after we learned that abdominal fat distribution matters, large-scale longitudinal evidence shows that waist measurements meaningfully reclassify cardiovascular risk beyond BMI alone.

pagutierrezn··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
Better summary:

Two years of semaglutide treatment appears to substantially slow the worsening of a blood protein signature associated with future dementia risk

pagutierrezn··on Discussion – has anyone build a firewall for AI models yet?
When you say firewalls for AI models, you mean firewalls for agents, right? Otherwise, I don't see the need to firewall a model.
pagutierrezn··on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
>[LLMs are just] random token generator based on token frequency distributions with no real thought

... and who knows if we, humans, are not just merely that.

pagutierrezn··on Intent-Based Commits
I like the idea, but why not implementig it with a simple commit hook?
pagutierrezn··on AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?
AI is filling "narrow" gaps. In the case of seniors these are:

-techs they understand but still not master. AI aids with implementation details only experts knowb about

- No time for long coding tasks. It aids with fast implementations and automatic tests.

- No time for learning techs that adress well understood problems. Ai helps with quick intros, fast demos and solver of learners' misunderstandings

In essence, in seniors it impacts productivity

In the case of juniors AI fills the gaps too. But these are different from seniors' and AI does not excell in them because gaps are wider and broader

- Understand the problems of the business domain. AI helps but not that much.

- Understand how the organization works. AI is not very helpful here.

- Learn the techs to be used. AI helps but it doesn't know how to guide a junior in a specific organisational context and specific business domain.

In essence it helps, but not that much because the gaps are wider and more difficult to fill

pagutierrezn··on Imidazole propionate is a driver and therapeutic target in atherosclerosis
How can this article pass without comments? Summer time?
pagutierrezn··on They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)
To make matters worse, this is not only "rehappening" in the US. It's global
pagutierrezn··on Java on Prem Instead of Cloud
I suspect that there are no many cases of serious backend Java applications in the cloud. Mainly because they are typically integrated with legacy and/or propietary infrastructure that doesn't go well with the cloud. However, I would be happy to be wrong and read about existing cases.
pagutierrezn··on Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security
He might be right. Browsers come with CAs from EU states (or agencies controlled by states) for the last 10 years (at least). I work for a public admin in Spain and our site uses one of such CAs and browsers accept it without problems. So I believe that eIDAS has to do with personal identification rather than TLS.
pagutierrezn··on Leantime: Open-Source Jira Alternative
TBH it looks pretty much like Redmine: https://www.redmine.org/ (also open source) configured with the appropiate set of pluggins
pagutierrezn··on LK-99 isn’t a superconductor
Unbelieveble the effort invested in demonstrating that LK-99 is not a superconductor. Humans work like crazy when the oportunity arises to ridiculize others. If only...
pagutierrezn··on The End of Front-End Development
My mothe-in-law is almost deaf. However, as you said, she is a good example of a "super-powerful text predictor". She almost always predicts what you're talking about even not hearing a single word. And most of the time she offers meaningful answers just as GPT does. But not always (same as GPT)

I don't expect, however, that she will program front ends any time soon

pagutierrezn··on The End of Front-End Development
wait!...
pagutierrezn··on Launch HN: Electric Air (YC W23) – Heat pump sold directly to homeowners
This went by the name: Source Code Scrow https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code_escrow
pagutierrezn··on Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU
The proposal from the EU is not the first step towards the end of our privacy. In fact, it is the last one. Everyone else does already have our data, they just want what the rest already have.

TBH, I think we've lost every opportunity to correct this. And I'd be happy to be wrong

pagutierrezn··on The Future of EJB (2022)
This future is not new. AFAIK it is being proposed since 2011 https://stackoverflow.com/a/4705840/1820778
pagutierrezn··on Ask HN: How do I learn about the history of innovation?
Have a look at https://www.amazon.com/Diffusion-Innovations-5th-Everett-Rog... It is not history, but I remember having read it from cover to cover and gaining a historic insight in the process
pagutierrezn··on Earthing: Implications of Reconnecting the Body to Earth's Surface Electrons
This is a joke, right? If only it didn't come from the National Library of Medicine
pagutierrezn··on Ask HN: Why are JavaScript dependencies so messy?
Letting the versions of your project dependencies float without control guarantees some headaches.

And, of course, the Fast & Furious dependencies development lifecycle has some side effects

pagutierrezn··on Show HN: StackAid – Fund all your open-source dependencies
something similar for java dependencies?
pagutierrezn··on Ask HN: What blocks you from switching your small-to-medium business to Linux?
Did you try onlyoffice?
pagutierrezn··on Spain will introduce free train travel
More remote work might be better than free mobility to reduce fuel consumption
pagutierrezn··on Ask HN: What is the feasibility of completely automating a pharmacy?
It depends on the preexisting infrastructure. In Spain it would be easy for the prescriptions coming from the public NHS, i.e. the majority of them. Doctors prescribe in a common system (common for all the regions) that can be accessed by all the pharmacies. Pharmacists access your prescriptions using the patient Health Service Card. And patients can access the prescriptions through the Web
pagutierrezn··on Writing one sentence per line
"We need to vary the lengths of our sentences. Sometimes short. Sometimes long."
pagutierrezn··on Oauth2 support for GMail
misunderstanding? https://twitter.com/wilbowma/status/1526697254140071936?t=45...
pagutierrezn··on A social analgesic? Acetaminophen (paracetamol) reduces positive empathy
2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14683173

2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25540870

pagutierrezn··on A better way to divide the pie
I'curious why the last time this appeared in HN it didn't receive a single comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30140493
pagutierrezn··on Software is no longer sold; it's adopted
I love the way you've formulated that concept. Thanks.
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