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I don't understand what you mean. There were social protests against the current situation; the government took steps to improve it, and most of the opposition parties rejected those measures. The current social protests are directed against the opposition, which is responsible for the situation remaining the same. What should Spain ask the government to do?
Re:I Run LLMs Locally on Monday December 30, 2024 @10:39AM (#42550229)
Totally agree! Other useful alternative: Lobe Chat (https://github.com/lobehub/lobe-chat)
There's a movie about that, Strawberry mansion.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11398346/

I am not entirely familiar with the .psd format. However, a rule of thumb is that if you can open an image file in a text editor, see readable code, and modifying the code affects the image, then the image is definitely written in code.
It's a great tool. Thanks!

I had to test it with Llama3.1 and was really easy. At a first glance Llama3.2 didn't seem available. The command you provided did not work, raising "An error occurred while pulling the model: not enough values to unpack (expected 2, got 1)".

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)? on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @02:13AM (#41376482)
Hey! It's the English version, something got broken. Your message made me learn about that. Thanks! Spanish and Catalan versions seem to be working properly.

On my next deploy that will be already fixed. Unfortunately, software done for the city council has very slow cycles due to several actors interacting. And the deploy will delayed specially now, on summer. Today I'll fix that, but probably you won't see changes until next week.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)? on Sunday August 25, 2024 @07:51AM (#41346620)
I am working on improving a system to inform citizens about the public benefits for which they are eligible [0]. It's hold by Barcelona City Council.

It analyzes the social situation of a person, or group of people that live together, and forecasts those benefits that they could access. It is an old base code that uses OpenFisca for the back, and React for the front. However, it's quite fun though. Currently I'm working on make it more stable as there are still some parts that could break the process.

[0] https://lesmevesajudes.barcelona.cat/

It is just an improvement of oTranscribe. It makes transcription easier, since you only have to polish the result, revising and punctuating it.
It does not punctuate. It just transcribes what is in an audio stream.
I helped coding oTranscribe+ [0], which does something similar to what you are asking for. Using ElectronJS and the current, at that moment, version of oTranscribe, there is this desktop application. It also exists as web version and PWA [1].

Language models were those from BSC (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) at the time. The transcription is done via WASM, using Vosk [2] as base.

I hope it fits.

[0] https://github.com/projecte-aina/oTranscribe-plus [1] https://otranscribe.bsc.es/ [2] https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api

Re:Ask HN: What brought back the joy of programming for you? on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @05:33AM (#40798121)
Joining a workers cooperative. That has been the best thing I could have done feeling as I was feeling about programming jobs.

I realized I disliked the way that job market works. Too much stress; clients and bosses putting too much pressure on my daily work; lots of stupid tasks to be finished ASAP...

At the end several friends of mine and me created a workers cooperative for doing programming jobs. We share projects and decide which ones we want to take. There is not that overwhelming duty of finding new clients as there is one person who does the research and business actions.

Everyone does what they want and we mainly focus on jobs we like and the way we prefer.

Amen!
Re:Ask HN: What older games are you playing through? on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @11:09AM (#40065795)
There was a related game to Demons Crest, the Gargoyle's Quest on the Game Boy. It mixes several genres. If you have access to it (or an emulator) give it an eye because it's worth it.
Aftersun (2022)

Having pass through a depression myself, the one which hit me most was Aftersun (by Charlotte Wells, 2022). It made me realize how silently mental illness affects one and their surroundings.