> 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.
I'm honestly more interested in anecdotes and I'm just seeking anything that can be a drop-in copilot replacement (that's subjectively better). Perhaps one major thing I'd look for is improved understanding of the code in my own workspace.
I honestly don't know what benchmarks to look at or even what questions to be asking.
"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!"
You do realize that societies rise and fall, right? Greek culture was falling from its golden age around the time of that quote (regardless of who actually said or wrote it). Things would soon get so bad Plato recommended his disciples drop out of society into a sort of monasticism.
Steam Deck + SteamOS is a catalyst in the making. You pretty much have to use Flatpak for application installation otherwise you risk your installs getting wiped out when Steam does a distro upgrade. You get a managed desktop experience with the setup. When you couple the Steam Deck with a good dock you have a great desktop computing experience.
Can 2nd this one, I tried Mint and Slackware this year, just because of the Win11 app checker thing kept popping and reminding me that i don't want another few years worth of BS like that.
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.
Because the Gates Foundation is classic philanthropy: launder reputation of rich people and uphold the norms that allowed them to get rich in the first place.
Funny how little humanity invests in things that are vital for it. If something important is only invested in by monopolists, humanity has been caught with its pants down.
> Some see the Gates Foundation, a heavy funder of Gavi, CEPI and many other vaccine projects, as supporting traditional patent rights for pharma companies.
> “[Bill] Gates has staked out this outsized role in the vaccine world,” Love said. “He has an ideological belief that the intellectual property system is a wonderful mechanism that is necessary for innovation and prosperity.”
