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New comment by davibu in "Low-dose radiation offers relief to people with knee osteoarthritis"

davibu — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:36:36 +0000

3 Gy is nowhere near what could be qualified as a "Low dose".

"A whole-body acute exposure to 5 grays or more of high-energy radiation usually leads to death within 14 days. LD1 is 2.5 Gy, LD50 is 5 Gy and LD99 is 8 Gy.[11] The LD50 dose represents 375 joules for a 75 kg adult. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_(unit)#Radiation_poisonin...

New comment by davibu in "Could Apple Leave Europe?"

davibu — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 12:13:08 +0000

Lies.. European market is the second biggest one, accounting for 25% the company's revenue in 2023.

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/

Ask HN: How soon until tech giants use altered family/friends photos in ads?

davibu — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 11:39:51 +0000

I had this idea when I saw someone in an ad who strangely resembled my younger mother. I couldn't screenshot and verify because the ad disappeared.

That's when I wondered if Google or another entity might be using the photos we provide to generate AI-generated images resembling our loved ones. It sounds sinister but not impossible.

If I thought of it, others likely have or will soon.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37913432

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by davibu in "Image constructed using quantum entanglement of photons"

davibu — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:38:22 +0000

"Let's please stop arguing about the image now*, and move on to more interesting points."

That's rude. Let's not confuse Hackenews with a ChatGPT prompt.

New comment by davibu in "It’s time to admit that Remote Work doesn’t work"

davibu — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 09:46:29 +0000

It's time to admit that we don't need to work more than 3 days a week to be happy.

New comment by davibu in "A bacterial culprit for rheumatoid arthritis?"

davibu — Wed, 03 May 2023 12:29:43 +0000

There are treatments that are very effective for treating psoriasis, especially those based on monoclonal antibodies. I was treated for atopic dermatitis (which is a similar disease), and I have been in near remission for several years. However, the treatment is very expensive.

New comment by davibu in "I would like to be able to do LIMIT 60 SECONDS in SQL"

davibu — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 11:17:29 +0000

Certainly, but the use case mentioned here is not related to a performance issue. It's more about syntactic sugar when a user writes SQL in interactive mode to explore data.

New comment by davibu in "I would like to be able to do LIMIT 60 SECONDS in SQL"

davibu — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 11:06:42 +0000

Yes, that's true. After all, it's the functionality that is important, regardless of the means to achieve it. On the other hand, the fact that it is part of the syntax has other advantages: - it makes the functionality independent of the querying tool used - it is immediately understandable, and easy to use - it can be offered by automatic completion and therefore have a higher discoverability power than a function that would be hidden in the editor

I would like to be able to do LIMIT 60 SECONDS in SQL

davibu — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 10:35:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/davidbullado/blog/blob/main/proposal-new-clause-SQL.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35149487

Points: 3

# Comments: 6

New comment by davibu in "Ending Dependency Chaos: A Proposal for Comprehensive Function Versioning"

davibu — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 14:23:03 +0000

It would be really great if other languages could adopt this idea in their versioning system.

New comment by davibu in "Ending Dependency Chaos: A Proposal for Comprehensive Function Versioning"

davibu — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 14:19:13 +0000

Just for full disclosure: I removed the mention of ChatGPT.

New comment by davibu in "Ending Dependency Chaos: A Proposal for Comprehensive Function Versioning"

davibu — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 14:00:14 +0000

I am the author of the post. The reason is that English is not my native language, and summarizing is very resource-consuming for me, much more than if I had to do it in my native language. But I take note of the antagonistic aspect and I will make sure to rewrite the summary ;)

New comment by davibu in "Ending Dependency Chaos: A Proposal for Comprehensive Function Versioning"

davibu — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 13:48:54 +0000

I think at this point we should quantify the proportion of "inflationary" updates (i.e. those that bring absolutely nothing in terms of functionality or security) versus real updates.

Let's take a fictional example: I import D3.js to use the parseDSV() function, after 2 years the method has not received any updates, but the package has gone from version 1.0.2 to 5.0.2. With a granular system, my function would still be on version 1.0.2 (because no changes were made), but with the current system I would have received an unnecessary update.

So, in this case, granular versioning would actually help to put an end to the chaos of dependencies.

Ending Dependency Chaos: A Proposal for Comprehensive Function Versioning

davibu — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 11:02:30 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/davidbullado/blog/blob/main/we-need-a-new-versioning-notation.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35008074

Points: 47

# Comments: 54

New comment by davibu in "Satellite Tracker 3D"

davibu — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 10:22:07 +0000

Does anybody know why some Starlink satellites are lined up?

New comment by davibu in "Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?"

davibu — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 13:35:00 +0000

I'm tired of people saying they're tired. I use ChatGPT every day and it provides results of a quality that has little to do with Google, even though I'm aware that it sometimes fibs to me, makes up names for functions that don't exist, or makes mistakes. There's hype, but I think it's much more deserved than the hype around cryptocurrencies

New comment by davibu in "ChatGPT is a ‘code red’ for Google’s search business"

davibu — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 10:51:53 +0000

The criticisms regarding chatGPT remind me of what was said about Wikipedia at its very beginning, that it was supposedly unreliable. I think we will have a good laugh in a few years reading these first comments.

There is no doubt that chatGPT is the future. It is certainly perfectible, but the existing basis is a revolution in progress.

In my opinion, there are two essential things missing for chatGPT to become the perfect replacement for Wikipedia and Google: - The ability to activate a "system 2" or slow thinking (theorized by Daniel Kahneman) - The ability to cite sources

And the cherry on the cake would be the ability to interact with images

New comment by davibu in "Posix commands with a flag to output standardized JSON or YAML"

davibu — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 12:37:16 +0000

I tried to parse the result of standardized POSIX commands for the nth time and I realize that i would be much easier if it were already done by a standardized output.

I would dream of a flag that allow all POSIX commands to output standardized and structured content.

Posix commands with a flag to output standardized JSON or YAML

davibu — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 12:37:16 +0000

Article URL: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74508128/would-it-be-a-good-idea-if-posix-commands-had-a-flag-to-output-standardized-json

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680442

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by davibu in "Illegal host, electric shocks, slugs, leaks and no support – How Airbnb failed"

davibu — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:04:30 +0000

I found the Airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/53946710 (or https://archive.ph/2fO1l)