peanut_merchant

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, this is the first time I've heard complaint about it and its a non-US university.

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 heavily skew towards the normal http web service world. However, the bulk of our interactions happen over webrtc in long-running sessions, where the existing solutions for in-depth metrics and monitoring are much less mature and well documented.

Currently we're using influxdb, prometheus, grafana and some hand rolled monitoring code alongside the stats that webrtc offers itself. Would be interested to know how anyone out there is monitoring conversational flows, and webrtc traffic.

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 insurance number (equivalent of Social Security Number in US).

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 sprinkling of the "interesting/thought provoking" amongst the more technical or science based e.g. 5 in depth articles about <insert language tech stack etc.>, blog post on seagulls in 1973 east Berlin, philosphical article ruminating on death and coding, Go compiler written in C# etc. etc.

I get the point about self promotion. But fwiw I think this list is quite insightful, and a fun read.

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 understood. Words have different meanings depending on the context in which they are used.

Let's not reduce every discussion to semantics, and afford the poster a degree of understanding.

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 probability distribution of possible next tokens rather than always choosing the most likely one. This means the same input can produce different outputs across multiple runs.

So no, not deterministic unless we are being pedantic.

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.

The UK has continuously been pulled between it's dying imperialist vision of itself as a world power, it's close but conflicted ties with the US, and it's similarly close and conflicted ties with the EU.

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 per second of processing):
  - Short text (12 chars): 3.35x realtime
  - Medium text (100 chars): 5.34x realtime
  - Long text (225 chars): 5.46x realtime
  - Very Long text (306 chars): 5.50x realtime

  Findings:
  - Model loads in ~710ms
  - Generates audio at ~5x realtime speed (excluding initial latency)
  - Performance is consistent across different voices (4.63x - 5.28x realtime)

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 playbook: "Verschärfte Vernehmung ("intensified interrogation"): torture"

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 life. A person with a million dollar income paying 50% tax still has 500k to burn. A person paying 30% at 50k a year has 35k left. That 30% means a lot more at the lower end, even though the dollar amount pales in comparison.

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 seems like a false dichotomy.

Some of the happiest societies in the world employee a model that is neither rigidly collectivist or individualist (e.g. the Nordic model).

My intuition is that the solution like probably in the middle ground at a political level, while adapting to our new digital reality.

The argument that our society must embrace full individualism or fail, feels a bit like the red-scare lite.

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 the same output the next day.

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 the estates or visitors who have paid a hefty fee to hunt on the estate. Hunting here is much more controlled and limited than it is in North America or elsewhere.

Source: Highlands born and raised, live in Canada.

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 raised in the highlands, I found it well balanced as well as providing a realistic depiction of the Highland winter.

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 deliverables.

I'm trying to determine, as quantitatively as I can, how much equity is reasonable for my time.

They definitely do. At least in BC.

Source: Live in BC, foreign relatives had medical treatment while visiting.

A failing CI build should not be taken as indication of being a "poor coder". As others have said, in complex systems running every single tests locally can be very time consuming, or even impossible. In my opinion, if you work in an environment where being seen as poor coder because of failed CI builds is a real concern, that speaks more to the potential toxicity of the work environment and/or insecurity of the coder.

I'm coming to that realisation pretty quickly

This definitely depends on the specific job, but in general there are more opportunities for high paying positions and a higher salary ceiling. It also depends on where you want to live within London and the kinds of activities you want to take part in. For me, I've found I have way more disposable income since the move to London as I had a huge salary increase from my previous job in Edinburgh. Although I have much, much less free time and would say I'm generally more unhappy

We have a similar problem in Scotland, I know a lot of people would love to have continued living in Scotland but can make >2 times the salary as a developer by making the move down to London. The cost of living in London is higher, but the increase in pay more than makes up for this. Granted, this is a move within the UK so it's not really a drain on the UK's economy but it leads to a more London-centric economy and, with an increasingly devolved Scottish parliament, is not good for Scotland.

Throwing money at a problem is one thing. Intelligent allocation of that money is another.

I'm not saying it isn't allocated effectively, just that the numbers themselves do not tell the whole tale.

I did the course several years ago when I studied there. He is excellent. Also recommend his text technologies course (lecture notes but no videos here) : http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/tts/

Any (very small) chance we could be seeing something related to this : http://www.cs.uml.edu/~xinwenfu/paper/SPCC10_Fu.pdf