> leave a gap in the smartphone market wide enough to drive a truck through
I think the opportunity is most likely going to be taken Huawei's HarmonyOS than something like Lineage or Librem.
As such we should consider this almost a-kin to a DeepSeek level threat to international security. Google did a lot to secure our phones [0], and we were lucky their economic incentive forced them to be as open as they were.
This is a completely fair, but open question. Not to be a typical HN user, but when you say SOTA local, the question is really what benchmarks do you really care about in order to evaluate. Size, operability, complexity, explainability etc.
Working out what copilot models perform best has been a deep exercise for myself and has really made me evaluate my own coding style on what I find important and things I look out for when investigating models and evaluating interview candidates.
I think three benchmarks & leaderboards most go to are:
https://evalplus.github.io/leaderboard.html - which I think is a better take on comparing models you intend to run locally as you can evaluate performance, operability and size in one visualisation.
Best of luck and I would love to know which models & benchmarks you choose and why.
"The youth of today love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for elders, and love talking" ~ Socrates, 432 BC.
The only older than elders writing off the youth is the youth proving them wrong. Let's hope some follow Charlie's quote instead: "If you've got anything you really want to do, don't wait until you're 93. Start now, and don't stop!"
Also there's plenty of shows and news about MU, SSC etc. I'm also surprised that Tao's rather specifically niche blog attracts such comments. Is it possible that the other blogs are just better moderated and Professor Tao doesn't need or care to?
I almost can't believe this is true. What possible reason could the Foundation urge such a destructive course of action on something that is so vital for humanity.
If you like this "Life as a RPG" concept, I can't recommend Habitica [0] enough. Completely helped me structure everything I wanted to do in my life, and it's even open-source.
It's a great read. I have also found a great reading list of from the University of Cambridge[0] that has a whole different range of books and websites for those who have a cursory interest in Mathematics.
I'm currently in week 4 of the most popular course in Yale [0], but was made available online on Coursera[1].
I think for the most part I've learnt I've learnt that much of what we think about happiness is consistently shown not to work. And that many of our expectations of what we think will make us happy, simply won't. If we want genuine happiness, it takes an honest self-assessment of what we're doing, what's stopping us from being happy and what would be the best way to map the parts of our life we can control to actually make us happy.
Anyway, the course seems well respected and highly recommended [2]. But I hope you're doing ok, and whatever you choose to do next, you find what you're looking for. Best of luck.
1) Let the arrow keys be used to move the in-game paddle.
2) The "squares" where the ball has gone through, should change colours so after a while the players are able to create their own versions Mondrian compositions.
As others have commented, there is a variety of alternatives to Google for the majority of their products, and the discussion has been had on HN a number of times . [0].
What really annoys me is how woven Google has now become to our working day processes. It's all very well having open-source alternatives for private use, but many (I included) used Inbox for work where we are obligated to use Gmail. This feels like a step backwards in many regards.
>"The privacy right established by Roe was not absolute. In the words of the Court:
'The pregnant woman cannot be isolated in her privacy. She carries an embryo and, later, a fetus, if one accepts the medical definitions of the developing young in the human uterus…. The woman’s privacy is no longer sole and any right of privacy she possesses must be measured accordingly.'
This, as we’ve witnessed in the intervening years, is the legal wedge that the anti-abortion movement has used to pick apart Roe."
As someone who has grown up in a country whose highest jurists have also historically been members of the higher parliament chamber and therefore subject to continuous parliamentary review, I'm continually interested in the way the decisions of 9 purposely separate individuals can set the political discourse of an issue of many generations, if not permanently.
Abortion with Roe vs Wade is obviously an extreme example, but are there any other times this has happened? Are there any US movements, other than extreme libertarianism or political anarchism that do away with this current process?
Any resources/book recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.