how do you grip the bar for your dead hang? Wide-grip overhand like a normal pull-up? Or narrow-grip underhand like a chin-up, or both, or something else?
When talking to foreigners and someone mentions USA, it's about 50/50 I get a trump joke or a fat joke. I don't think HN is the place for it, but stereotyping countries is pretty common.
tbf Trump is at least somewhat relevant to whether the US is a good place to live right now. It's more like inserting a Charles Manson joke when someone says why they like California...
Jumping from this for visibility - LM Studio really is the best option out there. Ollama is another runtime that I've used, but I've found it makes too many assumptions about what a computer is capable of and it's almost impossible to override those settings. It often overloads weaker computers and underestimates stronger ones.
LM Studio isn't as "set it and forget it" as Ollama is, and it does have a bit of a learning curve. But if you're doing any kind of AI development and you don't want to mess around with writing llama-cpp scripts all the time, it really can't be beat (for now).
I wouldn't recommend using anything that can transmit data back to the CCP. The model itself is fine since it's open source (and you can run it firewalled if you're really paranoid), but directly using Alibaba's AI chat website should be discouraged.
I should add that sometimes LM Studio just feels better for the use case, same model same purpose seemingly different output usually when involving RAG, but Anything is definitely a very intuitive visual experience
This post was written by an individual, not “Libre Open Source”. It seems fair and within “the spirit of complete freedom of speech” for one individual to criticize another.
It also seems reasonable for one person to question another’s leadership position given their expressed views.
if a framework has a BDFL, and that BDFL starts getting increasingly political in a polarizing way, then surely it's fair for the community to respond to that.
What on Earth does that even mean? "Freedom of speech" only extends to thinly veiled racism, but not criticism of the thinly veiled racism? I'm sorry, but what?
* Provision of Services The Services to Customer will be provided by our Technology Partner - TP Global Operations Limited, a limited liability company incorporated and registered in England and Wales with company number 14109189 whose registered office is at 109 Farringdon Road, Farringdon, London, EC1R 3BW, UK (“1GLOBAL”). *
They have a lot of obnoxious advertising which makes me not trust them.
I've used Airalo without much hassle, but I can't say that they're any better. I did have an incident where the phone I was using broke, and I was unpleasantly surprised to find that I couldn't just load the eSIM onto the replacement phone, seems like you only get one shot at downloading it.
(Dragonpass is pretty good though, I recommend getting that through a credit card or whatever if you spend a lot of time habging around airports.)
I had to edit and take out my reasoning for asking (I said why I liked it), as it seemed like I was shilling the service, which I wasn't intending to do.
Thank you for the insights!
Registered address:
The Valley - Beethovenstraat 505 North tower, Level 6. Amsterdam 1083HK, Netherlands
So we're at 3 levels of indirection on ownership already.
In practice, 1 Global is the trading name of TP Global because it's the successor company to 'Truphone':
> In 2022 the Company was selected in a competitive bidding process, conducted by a UK court appointed administrator
of Truphone Limited (“Truphone”), to acquire all the business and assets of Truphone (the “Acquisition”).
And this company was an investment option for Russian oligarchs:
> In December 2024, German Manager Magazin revealed that Russian oligarchs Abramovich, Abramov and Frolov, who had previously owned 96% of Truphone and invested more than €360 million in the company, could still benefit from any success achieved by 1Global.
Isn't this undisguised cultural appropriation? They are using it to try distance themselves from the already crowded Taiwanese and Chinese industry, but seem to hold no ties to South America other than probably indirect mining.
I guess they felt they ran out of names to use, but it'd be cool to honour cultures beyond just stealing their names and symbols.
As long as it isn't misappropriated, who cares? Countless companies in the Americas benefit from selling bubble tea, and now a Taiwanese company gets to benefit from a naming scheme.
Neither exchange harms the other party, instead we all benefit from sharing our cultures. It's not like they're growing cherimoyas in Taiwan and trying to pass them off as Chilean grown, or anything fraudulent like that.
Unbelievable