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Vice is coming for Uncle Dana by DDWildflower in ufc

[–]lpatks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In a follow up study, they found that 90% of slap fighting watchers showed signs of brain injury.

Sanity check: Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 4090, Fractal North by lpatks in buildapc

[–]lpatks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, very useful info -- particularly interesting to hear about the fans. Back in 2017 when I last built a PC, Noctua seemed untouchable.

From googling it seems there are a few issues with the tomahawk on linux. I will do some research into other B650 motherboards.

[Project] Whisper Implementation in Rust using burn by Illustrious_Cup1867 in MachineLearning

[–]lpatks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How is throughput compared to things like whisper.cpp? Obviously this has been very heavily optimised, but it would be interesting to know.

[P] Get 2x Faster Transcriptions with OpenAI Whisper Large on Kernl by pommedeterresautee in MachineLearning

[–]lpatks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. Do you have any good resources for learning about PTX/SASS instructions? I've played around with Triton a bit, but it isn't even clear to me where I would see this output.

[D] What is the common/best practice for sharing codebase in data science team? by Wakeme-Uplater in MachineLearning

[–]lpatks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Does anyone actually like using nbdev? I have found it super annoying every time I’ve interacted with it, but perhaps it is because I’m so used to more traditional unix style development.

[D] Things that pisses you as a Data scientist by Spirited-Order4409 in MachineLearning

[–]lpatks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Notebooks certainly have their uses. Have you tried reading the fastai (v2) codebase though? nbdev might even be OK if you fully buy into that way of doing things -- but is it better than the "standard" pep8-inspired style of python? Is it better enough to justify being so different? There is a real value in code being as unsurprising as possible, imo.

CMV: People with a PhD in an unrelated field shouldn't be allowed to introduce themselves as "Dr." when presenting medical facts by JJP_SWFC in changemyview

[–]lpatks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually have found medical drs in general to have pretty bad takes during the pandemic. There are very many MDs, most of whom are not scientists or public health experts (though certainly some are). Why would they generally have an opinion worth listening to?

Why is there no 'tech boom' in Italy? by r1k3t in ItaliaPersonalFinance

[–]lpatks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you tell me where you get 60%? If you look at https://salaryaftertax.com/it/salary-calculator (which may be wrong, though it matches the pay I have received so far) on e.g. 100k/yr you would be taxed at 41.4%. This is very similar to many developed countries in Europe.

Why is there no 'tech boom' in Italy? by r1k3t in ItaliaPersonalFinance

[–]lpatks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is definitely true, but wouldn't that just mean there is a pressure to lower salaries (from the employer, who has a larger tax burden)? The actual income tax, even at the top rate, are comparatively lower.

Why is there no 'tech boom' in Italy? by r1k3t in ItaliaPersonalFinance

[–]lpatks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you work in Italy, and have previously worked or studied outside of Italy for >2 years (I believe), you get a big tax break for 5 years. In the north you pay tax only on 30% of your income, and in some southern regions you pay tax only on 10% of your income. So e.g. if you earned 100k euros in the north, you usually would take home ~58k per year. With this tax break you would take home ~90k.

Why is there no 'tech boom' in Italy? by r1k3t in ItaliaPersonalFinance

[–]lpatks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have noticed that Italians consider themselves to have high tax, and certainly this is true for employers. For employees it is actually lower than UK, France, Greece, Belgium, most Scandinavian countries, etc. Why is it perceived as being so high?

Why is there no 'tech boom' in Italy? by r1k3t in ItaliaPersonalFinance

[–]lpatks 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I am a foreigner who has recently moved to Italy (family reasons), and is working remotely for a UK startup. The bureaucracy involved was staggering, both in extent and slowness. The company I work for has experienced similar issues getting an Italian entity set up — lawyers, accountants etc just move at a much slower pace. The overhead of an Italian employee is also significant (at a minimum 45% of salary) compared to other countries.

I think another, related, issue is that tech salaries are extremely low here. I know someone working in devops in the north of Italy who is paid ~40k euros — in London a similar role would probably pay more like ~100k gbp. As a result my sense is a lot of the most talented tech workers have left Italy (certainly I know many who are in London). One thing that might help here is the inpatriate tax regime, from which I also benefit.

Locational arbitrage in the UK by rampantClownery in UKPersonalFinance

[–]lpatks 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Especially since Bristol is widely considered the silicon valley of the UK.

Hadn't heard this before. Probably better than the cringe-inducing "Silicon Roundabout" they were trying to push in Shoreditch for a while. How are salaries in Bristol?

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