skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some first ideas coming to mind:

Engineering Level:

Solve CO2 Levels
End sickness/death
Enhance cognition by integrating with willing minds.
Safe and efficient interplanetary travel.
Harness vastly higher levels of energy (solar, nuclear) for global benefit.

Science:

Uncover deeper insights into the laws of nature.
Explore fundamental mysteries like the simulation hypothesis, Riemann hypothesis, multiverse theory, and the existence of white holes.
Effective SETI

Misc:

End of violent conflicts
Fair yet liberal resource allocation (if still needed), "from scarcity to abundance"
That's the license for the public service. Nothing prevents them from selling it as a separate package deal to an army.
> and have second thoughts about changing it

Do you have a source? As of now this is still in the roadmap[1] and I saw no information about removing it from there.

[1]: https://github.com/coq/ceps/blob/coq-roadmap/text/069-coq-ro...
> or ignored the point I made previously about the spell checker

It turns out I had ignored the point about the spell checker. I had turned off auto-correction, but left on checking/underlining. So I apologise for that.

So I turned off the checker and it's noticeably better, but still not ideal. The first attempt I made got the word wrong by one. I continued with more success but found other strange issues.

For example: If I gently long-press, I get a tiny popup showing the words either side of the cursor magnified slightly. This seems a modern implementation of the old "magnifying glass" feature. This "magnifier" follows the cursor works if you then drag left/right and sometimes up. If you drag down, it disappears. It's smaller than the original magnifying glass, and closer to the cursor (and your finger) so it's less useful... and why close it when dragging down??

> I can help no more

I think you misunderstand the intent of my post. I wasn't asking for help. I was venting, and attempting to show that Apple have handled this interaction badly. Like... really f*king badly. It's a mess. How is turning off spell checking an acceptable "solution"? The fiddliness and erratic experience should not have passed QA. Or... perhaps the company should review the intentions it has for these platforms. I put up with it on my phone because it's small enough that it cannot be anything other than shit for most tasks (especially for people like me with poor vision). But they're trying to claim iPadOS is a serious bit of kit for serious work, and it fails at stuff that was largely solved for 30 years prior on "proper" computers.
How much revenue can an unknown open-source project get
Depends on what space you are talking about. Do you mean the group building models, running the compute, or paying to use the models?

I don't know how the economics will work out for companies like openai who are building the models, its unclear yet.

On the consumer side, there will be winners and losers like always. Companies are seeing real value by using LLMs. I think its still in its infancy so a lot of net losers as people figure out what works and does not work but these new tools are creating value and doing it in such a way that I think warrants investment from companies.
a Lenovo Yoga Slim with a Ryzen 7840u lasts for 8-10 hours with Wifi enabled, browsing, Slack, and a text editor, with the screen brightness at around 30-40% - good enough for indoors.
Got them confused. C906 shipped ages ago. C910 was first available for general public in LM4A which is indeed recent relatively speaking.

I agree 4GB makes that Banana Pi board useless. I am hopeful for other boards with the same SoC or a future variant with at least 16GB.

We won't be getting very far with make -j8 with just 4GB.
Its not really obvious quite yet that the current gen AI can make money. I dont know that many people who use it, not yet anyway.
RVPC: The 1-Euro RISC-V computer with VGA and PS/2
Heat and weight mostly. While the laptop is more "stable" that only applies if you have it standing on it's own. If you want it more in your lap, then that isn't really applicable.
I will not buy an device with ARM running Microsoft Windows. Ship it with Linux or we ignore it like the other devices with ARM.
Windows isn’t built for ARM and the closed-source software isn’t running well or slowly on ARM. The reason to use Windows is that nothing changes and legacy software from 1988 runs like on MS-DOS.

What did Qualcomm think when they signed a monopoly deal with Microsoft? That they will benefit from this legally questionable action? Microsoft exploited hardware manufactures to spread their bad software in the 90ies and only Microsoft did win.

Ship it with Linux and target an initial a small but welcoming market. If you want just a cheap device with ARM for browsing only, Chromebook (next monopoly by Google…).
Nuclear reactors take a long, long time to recoup the investments. During that time the cost of electricity generated by them is quite high compared to renewable sources like wind and solar.

This compounds when cheaper sources are being added to the grid, pushing prices down and making nuclear even less viable economically. For nukes to work, economically speaking, electricity prices need to be stable over a long period of time or they become perpetually in the red.

For this to work you can't have liberalised electricity markets, you need the government take the brunt of the risk of new nukes when it's economically not viable and have a design that spans a lifetime of 50-70 years so future generations can benefit from the lower cost after the capital costs are paid off.
Reading article by Brian it always shows me how much information is „out there“. Sure this is cyber security / dark web we are talking about but there are companies hoarding gigabytes of data that was released, leaked at some point. In this case sure that is nice, but just always makes me wonder about the future and how open and public everything is.
Isn't access to massive datasets and computation the moat? If you and your very talented friends wanted to build something like GPT-4, could you?

It's going to get orders of magnitude less expensive, but for now, the capital requirements feel like a pretty deep moat.
See this post on why.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40097818
I have to assume that someone has run a trial on training these models to output answers to factual questions along with numerical probabilities, using a loss function based on a proper scoring rule of the output probabilities, and it didn't work well. That's an obvious starting point, right? All the "safety" stuff uses methods other than next-token prediction.
> It's largely because a lot of Oracle DB products where performance mattered (eg. Exadata) needed some sort of a base OS that Oracle could manage and optimize as needed

All that’s needed is update sysctl.conf to tune kernel parameters to the workload. Every Linux sysadmin knows how to do this. What kernel parameters need to be updated is heavily documented for any product.
The thing is, Debian's solvers are always deterministic. Given from a known state, it always ends int the same state. This allows getting/setting selection lists with "dselect", and using apt for system automation feasible.

In my last decade (or 15 years to be exact) with Debian, I never suffered from non-deterministic behavior or met with surprises from apt.
The price for solar/wind + energy storage is still cheaper than nuclear tho.
HBase & Hadoop are painful to upgrade. Honestly doing anything with them is painful.
I think they already decided? Maybe it does not work out for them but I thought this was always there pitch and along with it higher labor and food costs. Labor because they were having to do more of the prep work in-house instead of via the food distributor.
Has there ever been notable instances of company regretting and reversing license change of a major project?
I wonder how accurate this assessment is since the Linux Foundation is a non-profit.
The articles says the hot water _threatened_ a shut down. Did it actually happen to shut down because of the water temperature in the summer month in 2022, or was this FUD?
Superheavy Elements Are Breaking the Periodic Table
Thanks for sharing! I'm curious as to your approach to changing the ORDER BY key for such large tables without significant downtime, since AFAIK this can't be done in place (see: https://kb.altinity.com/altinity-kb-schema-design/change-ord...). Are you able to share any details?
Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last 50k years
I've used Debian with Mate desktop on a 2009 MBP for a several years. Ran fine with 4GB RAM and retro-fitted SSD. Just installed Debian from a USB flash stick. The same one that I have used on non Apple x86-64 systems.
Extracting Words from Scanned Books: A Step-by-Step Tutorial with Python, OpenCV
We have been working on this project for 3 years, our total revenue was $315,000. This number is not much, but it has already exceeded our expectations.
Try to share your insight in whatever topic you are an expert. (Or a semi-expert. For example if you see me commenting about biology, please double check the info because my biology knowdledge is not so strong.) Sometimes a good question is also helpful to get a good discussion.

> if you have any other helpful suggestions

There is a lot of folckore, I'm not sure if it's collected somewhere. Some random links:

Welcome page: https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html (It's shown only once. I'd prefer it were linked somewhere in the site.)

Launch HN recomendations: https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html (It's writen for internal use of YC companies, but if you ignore the specific parts there is lot of good recomendations.)

Undocumented HN features: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented (It's an unofficial list of features mantained by minimaxir.)
http://archive.today/9RjBv
This is the installed capacity.

The capacity factor in winter for solar is below 10%. Nuclear is typically at more than 90% in winter.

The target we are speaking is CO2 emitted, it already reached the "target" in france, with less than 60gCO2/kwh to provide electricity the whole year, to the whole grid.

> but that doesn't mean that it is the right technology for other nations to go with now

you propose something that is not feasible with the current technology.

Reports indicate countries should build a lots of clean energy source, as fast as possible, including nuclear, solar, wind, to use these clean energy source and replace fossil energy, to limit global warming

Right now, France doesn't do that fast enough (not enough investment in nuclear, and renewable), and Germany is headed to the opposite direction (need of fossil fuel to produce in renewable down-time).
The most crucial sentence is the following:

> "For years, it has been clear that there is no next iPhone." Now that Apple has failed to deliver a big step forward with the Vision Pro or Apple Car, its retreat into AI suggests it's chasing trends to keep up interest as it struggles to chart a defining next step.

and also:

> The drawbacks of Cook's divestment from product design and development are now becoming clearer.

While Cook is no Ballmer, his time is reminiscent of many other companies that slowly lose touch with product design and tend towards their brand as an end-all-be-all answer.
This interface has now been set in stone. Any additions that would be useful for the widget interface, say OnClick(), will require a breaking change.

The idiomatic way to deal with this is to add a new interface with the extensions. This not only prevents old code from breaking but also gives you compile-time assurance that your clients and objects know how to communicate with each other.
This is the case today. You won't get a "perfect" image without heavy post-processing, even if that post-processing is AI enhanced. ComfyUI is the new PhotoShop and although its not an easy app to understand, once it "clicks" its the most amazing piece of software to come out of the opensource oven in a long time.
This doesn't take into account the cost associated with storing the energy, or having alternate energy source to fill in the gaps.
Sounds productive. Don't forget to take breaks, drink water, and sleep.
Having these pretuned AND having a dedicated support team doing the tuning for you is the killer app for some buyers, as it allowed Admins to concentrate on other work and also minimize management overhead for the Infra org.

Spending $500k/yr on compute+support SLA is cheaper than $200k/yr on compute and hiring 3 admins dedicated to that piece of compute.

This is the model that every Enterprise Infra vendor pushes (eg. Oracle, AWS, MongoDB, Nvidia), and most mid- and upper-market purchasers are used to it.
Too many plastic enclosures are assemble-only, requiring destruction to disassemble.
Sad to hear that /r/japanlife has gone down the drain. I created it nearly 15 years ago, but stepped down as a moderator in 2015 when I left Japan and have not visited it since. It was supposed to be (was?) a place where expats could solve everyday issues without constantly being bombarded with questions related to pop culture or tourism ("Help! How do I deal with my washing machine?!").
I’ve had coworkers suggest a technical solution that was straight up fabricated by an LLM and made no sense. More competent people realise this limitation of the models and can use them wisely. Unfortunately I expect to see the former spread.
of course it's the 069 roadmap doc...
When you’re 63 and a multimillionaire and had a great run, maybe it’s fine to not have lots of ideas. It’s a great time to retire and keep bees or something.
Ah, so they meant avoiding 'downstream license complications' they don't cause.
> Bank fees don't disappear into the ether when they're collected, so I doubt they have this much affect.

1-3% was intended as a ceiling for what cryptocurrency could bring to the economy, after adjusting for the reduction in inflation once those costs are gone.
If you're hacking around with phones or GSM boards for fun, on and off, it is cost effective to just grab one for a pound or so every time you want to do something as they sometimes come with a tiny bit of free data, or just a number to receive SMS on at least.

If you don't top up (with say a tenner) within some months the card deactivates and becomes useless, so it's a no-commitment way to access the GSM network.
Thank you. Now I understand the use case.
> But while AI might drive short-term investor interest ... it's unlikely to be the kind of product that makes a big difference to the bottom line

I guess I disagree. Custom silicon, running a local AI (no network or network agency) in your pocket would be a game changer. Apple has to move fast to catch up on the software, but they own the hardware already, can design the AI-forward silicon.
The only problem with CFExpress is since it's mostly deployed in higher-end cameras, card makers are charging pretty high prices for them. We need more value options before I think that format could take off on the lower end. Would love to see it though!
Dual licensing also makes it IMHO less likely that a project "continues as proprietary". Example: Qt.

I think "contributor agreements" are the biggest red flag. Though I like them for potentially upgrading a license (say from GPLv2 to v3), not that this always is a good thing.
> You can have perfectly safe Rust code with data races

No, you can't. Data races are explicitly one type of race condition that Rust protects you from. Anything else would indicate an unsound library or compiler bug. For reference, you can take a look at the non-exhaustive list of undefined behaviors[0]. None of those behaviours should be possible to trigger from safe Rust.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/behavior-considered-unde...
Also consider https://cortexjs.io/mathlive/ in case you need LaTeX WYSIWYG ordinary people can understand
Interesting, mine says October 2023, which makes sense as it knows about APIs from WWDC2023 (although it needs a lot of prodding and correcting to get their usage right).
Holy cow, I didn't know they spent $10bn on the car project. That's nearly a month's worth of profit!
Its a mix of "Easy" things to fix: Streamline tax code, build desirable office centers, Have good internet infrastructure

and "Hard" Things: The work culture, Cost of living
Unfortunately you cannot discount the “sponsor effect” here. Wheel manufacturers have been pushing wider rims because it helps them sell another set of wheels to everyone.

In the days of rim brakes a wheel had a finite life (the length of time it took to wear down the braking surface). Then shimano and the frame builders pushed everyone to disc brakes, so the wheels now last for ever. What do you know, 2 years later all the wheel manufacturers are claiming “wide is better” and flogging everyone new wheels.

I’ve not seen any clear evidence that they’re right, and there’s lots of intuitive reasons to think that wider tyres will be slower (aerodynamics!). I remain sceptical, but genuinely hopeful that someone who thinks that wider is faster can provide me with some solid evidence…
Hmm what about the UX/UI. I don't feel it
Actual title -

"Apple desperately needs its Next Big Thing"

From the HN Guidelines -

Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Windows 10 enables existing unmodified x86 apps to run on Arm devices. Windows 11 adds the ability to run unmodified x64 Windows apps on Arm devices! This ability to run x86 & x64 apps on Arm devices gives end-users confidence that the majority of their existing apps & tools will run well even on new Arm-powered devices.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/overview
self consciousness?
IBM prolly got them to agree to do the re-licensing move "as Hashicorp" as part of the take over deal. So it would not look bad on IBM.
He's been a billionaire since 2020. How can you run a business like Apple when your personal finances take so much attention?
What you wrote is propaganda and not true, are you aware about that?
I begrudge no one their money, I would have paid 100 dollars for the good version of dominion, but I wont pay for a clearly inferior product that pushes out the good one, ever.
You can take a look at this discussion[0] where Casey Muratori designed something like that where communication is done by opcodes, and packets instead of vtables.
Note: search for "raw_device_operation" if you want to get to the code, but reading the whole thing is very worth it.
[0] https://github.com/cmuratori/misc/blob/main/cleancodeqa-2.md
JPMorgan CEO urges the U.S. to deal with its deficit sooner rather than later
While I don't necessarily disagree, I don't see why a young age like 63 should be the end of your career. Maybe i'm too young to have felt how age affects your mental abilities (Im 39, is that too young for this?)
Another question: How is AI used in this project? I expect it to be some direct randomized algorith. (IIRC making nice mazes is difficult, so the creation algorithm needs a lot of tweeks until the result is nice, but I can't see how AI can help.)
In a way they know the worst that can happen :D
And the laws will be repealed.... Right?
I would argue Cook hasn't really had _any_ ideas. It's all been about supply chain management and raising services revenue. Apple TV+ is literally just Netflix with Apple branding; there was no risk there.

The Vision Pro is the first "new" product that Apple has released and I fear it's been hamstrung by Apple's desire to tightly control the ecosystem. It's possible that Vision Pro could be amazing for games (a proven VR market) but Apple won't open up the hardware/software enough to port existing apps.

I like all of my current Apple devices, but I'm not naïeve enough to believe that fact of today will stay true forever.
It was only 11 years from pong to ping.
But what consumer product has there been that Apple missed in the past decade or so?

There are inevitable periods of drought in the tech-consumer space. And if you think Apple should just "invent a thing" ... they've never really done that.
Was he aware of the MCAS system? And would he know what an MCAS failure would do to the controls?
Browser Begins Support for Popover API: A Quick Guide
How CO2 warms Earth and why CO2 is not 'saturated' in Earth's atmosphere
The Platonic Representation Hypothesis
That’s a location, industry, and categorization of urban/suburban/exurban/rural discussion. And things can change over time. In the late 90s for example almost all of the tech jobs around Boston were in the suburbs and many still are outside of the outposts of west coast companies.
I think you need to rework your algorithm. Kubernetes is no way a high risk project, its IP is owned by the CNCF/Linux Foundation.
There is no contradiction here. It's exceedingly simple: companies will take as much as they can and give as little as they can. That's why it's important to raise the bar on what they have to give and reject all permissive (non-copyleft) free software licences.
And how do you test for that?
> The following year, his strategy bore fruit. Jobs unveiled the iMac, and its vibrant plastic shell instantly flew off the shelves and into the annals of iconic design.

> But other than the Apple Watch, which was already in the works before Jobs' death, there have been no earth-shattering product launches.

Unless the iMac was designed and built in a year, this feels like the writer is being dishonest and sloppy in attempt to make reality match their narrative.
> conspired with Madigan

That's why. Before 2018 he was the state of Illinois. Nothing could pass the state house without him.

Ironically, this was one of the good things about the Trump admin - a lot of Obama staffers returned to Illinois after 2016 and began primarying Madigan and his allies, and they began winning.

I recently visited IL for a graduation, and the state has changed both within Chicagoland and outside compared to the early-mid 2010s. Infra is much better now, and it looks like there are more economic opportunities.
> Food is not only cheap but usually tastes amazing. I have not even once gone anywhere (from cheap chain to upscale sushi place) a was disappointed.

On our trip earlier this year, my wife and sister in law really got hooked on the random convenience store food.
When this specter is common in mainstream media will be a great point to buy Apple stock. Oh no my 3T money printer takes time to get to 10T :O Sell!!
Pimoroni provides competition for this HAT, accepting one or two NVMe SSDs of up to 2280 length:

* Single: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/nvme-base?variant=4121958...

* Double: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/nvme-base-duo-for-raspber...

However, they report a limited list of compatible SSDs.
> They're also going to be the ones coming back with all sorts of game likely raising prestige, increasing odds of procreating, and so on.

Or more simply, the actual food to feed one's mate(s) and offsprings, further fostering that particular gene pool over generations.
I'm not sure how Kubernetes is high risk, given the CLA is to CNCF. Similarly, CLAs to the Apache Foundation, the FSF or similar are probably pretty safe (in that they have a long term interest to be good custodians for the IP), and could be safer than projects that lack a CLA but don't have (or only a few) outside contributors.

To me, the obvious questions are who owns the IP, and what are their incentives to maintain the current licensing.
FWIW, Israel and China are the other two hotspots for building startups. It’s worth looking at how Israel did it since their model could work elsewhere. For example they have a government funded delegation that goes around to conferences solely to meet with large companies and investors and promote Israeli startups.