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I’m typing this just down the road from this Kirkland roundabout. It is fine. I’m used to roundabouts from my old country tho. I do fear someone else will just hit me down there ca…

I’ve seen a setup like this in software for some specific high-demand SAP (ERP) consultancy roles. The nature of SAP migrations are per-project in nature (you wouldn’t want to migr…

Ironically, we have an infringing website right now on the front-page of HN (nypost).

Wow, thank you for the explanation. Such a complex topic and yet you’ve made it simple to understand.

Is it correct to rephrase PolarQuant as “embeddings vectors but as complex numbers” since polar vectors were represented with i complex numbers in other fields of applications? Wou…

I work at a enterprise tech company that has kinda of a monopoly on its market. The hate I get when I mention I work there is so big… I can only imagine what a MS Teams dev would g…

Yep, bugs are already just another cost of doing business for companies that aren’t user-focused. We can expect buggier code from now on. Especially for software where the users ar…

This was 2008 when they were fighting for titles still (turns out they were robbed and the FIA knew about it and let it play out). That said I imagine what Jonathan Wheatley would …

I like this. I have crafted a Claude Code docker container to similar effects. My problem is that my env has intranet access all the time (and direct access to our staging environm…

So they automated most of the production in order to compete with cheap labor. It didn’t bring the manufacturing jobs as we think of them back: it did something better.

I’m not not a lawyer at all and I have no real idea. My guess is that existing visas are already printed and henceforth there is no petition anymore, you have a status or visa alre…

Yes, but a visa stamp renewal is a visa “application” while the document that allows the application is the “petition”, which is the word used on this text and the step requiring t…

But I said the book does offer replication studies in different populations in different continents, albeit from the same author

Yes, maybe I was not clear but I’m in doubt of the Italy claim in the book and that’s why I remember it

IIRC the author compares brain scans and recognition abilities of children of hunter gatherers that where sent to school vs same age relatives that were not. I’m bringing this up f…

Literally one of the main points of the book: the church’s mandate and enforcement of monogamy in Europe lowered violence so much that a different kind of society emerged.

Do you have some recommendations? I remember seeing Show HN tools gathering book recommendations from here, but I like specific experiences

The author uses mostly hunter-gatherers tribes/societies in different continents as the control groups, usually. Most of his work is in anthropology.

I do not have the time now to craft you a full answer as I don’t have the book on hand and have only been commenting from memory so far. But to give you a quick answer: I don’t thi…

Yes, your point and other points around the web I’ve seen make his argument about north and south Italy very controversial to say the least. He does have data to back it up, where …

I meant it as “is responsible for” or “explains”. The author doesn’t seem to make any judgement in over the other, but he presents polygamy in a society as a causation for male vio…

I don’t have the data but I assume the corpus available to train an LLM is majorly in English, written by Americans and western counterparts. If we’re training the LLMs to sound si…

Can’t recommend the book that coined this acronym enough: The WEIRDest People in the World Book by Joseph Henrich. It is such an eye-opening piece that explains so much of the worl…

> If devs follow certain simple rules while writing UI text, it would make a tremendous difference for translation quality As a UI Developer that has accidentally focused my whole …

I remember some 12 years ago at high school where I was trying to create an iOS app tailored for visually impaired users, that AppleVis was the go-to website to understand what was…