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vinni2··on Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately
Wonder what happened to so called smart insulin https://bristol.ac.uk/news/2018/august/ziylo-deal.html
vinni2··on My favourite computer ergonomics hack
Apple watch already does that.
vinni2··on Elon Musk Is a National Security Risk
Interesting this post was not flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41561181
vinni2··on Elon Musk Is a National Security Risk
Just curious why this post was flagged.
vinni2··on Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours
Here in Norway unfortunately flying is still the fastest mode of transportation between major cities. It takes 7-8 hours between Bergen and Oslo for example. For frequent business travelers it’s not a feasible option. I wish the government was prioritizing improving trains and rail infrastructure but instead they are investing heavily on highways and electric flights.
vinni2··on Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index
So paper was still right to warn us about it but not for the right reasons.
vinni2··on Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index
I trashed all my black plastic utensils and bought stainless steel ones. I can’t decide if I did the right thing or not.
vinni2··on Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human cells
I wondered the same and unfortunately the manufacturers don’t publish the material of the tea bags. I am switching to loose tea and even when I only have tea bags i can take the tea out and brew it in reusable metal thing.
vinni2··on Show HN: I made the slowest, most expensive GPT
The issue is not about this project. This is a fundamental problem with LLMs. Leaving the decision of what is malicious to LLMs is not ideal.
vinni2··on Show HN: I made the slowest, most expensive GPT
this is not ideal. If someone wants to fact check controversial claim filtering it only makes it worse.
vinni2··on Show HN: I made the slowest, most expensive GPT
It was weird I made a simple claim “Keto diet cures cancer” and it analyzed history of cheeseburgers after a couple of minutes by saying “Sorry, I can't respond to that. I will now analyze the history of cheeseburgers instead”
vinni2··on Sora is here
Account creation currently unavailable
vinni2··on Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance
And the Ubuntu touch https://www.ubuntu-touch.io/
vinni2··on Probabilistic weather forecasting with machine learning
GenCast generates an ensemble of stochastic 15-day global forecasts, at 12-h steps and 0.25° latitude–longitude resolution, for more than 80 surface and atmospheric variables, in 8 min.
vinni2··on Australian Parliament bans social media for under-16s
But off topic how does selecting for top news work? I posted the same thing 17 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42265447

I posted from BBC is it less reliable source?

vinni2··on Las Vegas man who called 911 for help killed by police in his home
Why these kind of stories happen only in US? Makes me feel unsafe to live in US.
vinni2··on The Bluesky Bubble: This is a relapse, not a fix
I used it professionally to learn about research articles written by my peers at conferences. Most academics I know have moved to Linkedin now.
vinni2··on Spanish police arrest ex-fraud chief after €20M found in walls of his house
Ozarks
vinni2··on Trump wins presidency for second time
Tell that to the Puerto Ricans.
vinni2··on Why Wikipedia has landed in legal trouble in India
Any evidence to support your claims?
vinni2··on WireGuard Performance with a Pi Zero (2019)
I had this problem with pi 4 after frying several SD cards I found out you can setup read only file system and since then no problems for 3 years now. https://core-electronics.com.au/guides/read-only-raspberry-p...
vinni2··on UCLA professor says he's homeless due to low pay
It says he is a lecturer. Unfortunately lecturers are not well payed. My understanding is lecturers only teach and don’t bring in research grants. Tenured professors are a different story.
vinni2··on Open research Europe: Towards a collective open access publishing service
I wonder if research communities would be able to switch from publishers like ACM and Elsevier.
vinni2··on Sweden will offer migrants $34k to go home
Why not accept the money and apply for asylum in another country?
vinni2··on Almost all new car sales in Norway last month were EVs
> Norway has a slew of incentives in place that encourage residents to buy electric vehicles instead of gas cars.

They have been slowly taken out.

vinni2··on Rethinking Exercise: How Too Much Can Speed Up Aging, According to Finnish Study (2023)
> Further intriguing results showed that those at the extremes of physical activity—either too little or too much—experienced accelerated biological aging.

So moderate exercise is the optimal. Not too much or too little. But how does one know what is too much? It is different for different people.

vinni2··on Low level of Magnesium linked to disease-causing DNA damage
Doesn’t it lose potency over time!
vinni2··on Why I bet on DSPy
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41213561
vinni2··on Spain sentences 15 schoolchildren over AI-generated naked images
It’s less about generating those images and more about distributing them.
vinni2··on Humane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startup
ex-Apple doesn’t really give much credibility either. For a hardware startup yes but for a AI fact-checking startup? unsure.
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