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Acronyms, shorthand etc. are routinely used on here to refer to US states,universities etc. For those of us outside the US, its a minor pain of using hacker news. Interestingly, th…

The parent was obviously being sarcastic to prove the point through comparison.

One of the backend developers at Anam here, one of the hardest parts of developing this has been monitoring and analytics. Most off the shelf solutions, or existing platforms heavi…

I regularly use Uber on Graphene OS and have had no issues.

In a nutshell, yep

You do not need any form of photo or biometric id to work in the UK. I have never given anything of the sort, and have worked here for decades. All that is required is a national i…

Personally been here about 15 years. There are ebbs and flows of different trends, but HN has never been pure tech or science. My favourite thing about HN has always been it's spri…

This is pedantry, temperature introduces a degree of randomness (same input different output) to LLM, even outside of that non-deterministic in a security context is generally unde…

I understand the point that you are making, but the example is only valid with temperature=0. Altering the temperature parameter introduces randomness by sampling from the probabil…

I get that maybe you meant culturally, but Ireland is a member of the EU whereas the UK is no longer. This forces a tighter alignment so makes your point about Ireland redundant. T…

I ran some quick benchmarks. Ubuntu 24, Razer Blade 16, Intel Core i9-14900HX Performance Results: Initial Latency: ~315ms for short text Audio Generation Speed (seconds of audio p…

Not well versed in the field, what are the basic implications of this for health?

Even in Northern Scotland (further south than northern Sweden) this is the case. The latest aurora showing was vividly colourful to the naked eye.

One of the examples here strikes a parallel with the US government's "Enhanced Interrogation" used as a euphemism for torture starting during the bush years. Straight from the Nazi…

Now reframe the above, normalising as a portion of wealth. Tax analysed in absolute dollar terms is misleading. What should be analysed is the tax's effect on a person's quality of…

This argument feels like an oversimplification to me. These are only two examples of "collectivist" societies. The idea that you are either strongly individualist or China/Russia s…

Potentially, the people responsible for deciding your salary. Even without gamefication I am guilty of storing up commits on "productive" days because I am conscious I may not have…

Why create a new repo and not a new file? I would have thought it more heavyweight, but maybe it helps organise?

Did you read the article? The exact point is that it's not meant to be concerning.

Most land in Scotland is owned by large estate owners (think castles and thousands of acres). We have extremely strict gun control and hunting is usually limited to employees of th…

There is an excellent documentary that covers a broad range of perspectives on this issue called "The Cull - Scotland's deer dilemma" https://thecullfilm.com/ As someone born and r…

Perhaps vest is the incorrect terminology here, or I wasn't clear in the explanation. The essence of it is, the equity will be allocated to me on written acceptance of the delivera…

I've been made a purely equity offer at a unfunded early stage startup and am able to complete the work in my spare time outside my day job. I have a rough estimation of the amount…

They definitely do. At least in BC. Source: Live in BC, foreign relatives had medical treatment while visiting.