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.

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.

All that is required is a national insurance number (equivalent of Social Security Number in US).

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 , 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.

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

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.

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.

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)

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Straight from the Nazi playbook: "Verschärfte Vernehmung ("intensified interrogation"): torture"

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.

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.

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.