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LINUX CAN FINALLY RUN YOUR CAR'S SAFETY SYSTEMS AND DRIVER-ASSISTANCE FEATURES

Elektrobit's EB corbos Linux for Safety Applications is a new Linux distro designed to comply with the automotive industry's functional safety requirements. It was developed with Canonical, who will help with keeping the system compliant with safety requirements over time. The operating system uses an external safety monitor to intercept and validate kernel actions. This allows its developers to keep up to speed with the developer community.

HASHQUERY

Hashquery is a framework for defining and querying BI models in data warehouses. Its expressions are defined in Python, compiled into SQL, and run directly against a data warehouse. It is capable of expressing complex, multi-layered data queries. Hashquery natively integrates with upstream semantic layers and can be used together with Hashboard as a headless BI interface.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME WE BUILT A NEW CITY?

California Forever announced plans in August 2023 to build a new city of up to 400,000 people in Solano County, forty miles northeast of San Francisco. The company purchased 50,000 acres of land for an estimated $900 million in 2017. Most of the land is zoned for agricultural use and is subject to slow-growth laws. This may change after a vote in November. The project may be the most ambitious new development built in California in over 50 years. This article features an interview with Jan Sramek, the founder and CEO of California Forever, where he discusses the project.

SENATE PASSES TIKTOK BAN BILL, SENDING IT TO PRESIDENT BIDEN'S DESK

The Senate has passed a bill for a foreign aid package that includes a measure that will force China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok or have it banned from the US. The bill will now head to President Joe Biden, who has already committed to signing the legislation. Once signed into law, ByteDance will have up to a year to complete a sale of TikTok. Enforcement of the law may be delayed by legal challenges. The bill is aimed at preventing foreign adversaries from conducting espionage, surveillance, maligned operations, and otherwise harming vulnerable Americans, rather than a punishment against ByteDance or any other individual company.

APPLE REPORTEDLY CUTS VISION PRO PRODUCTION DUE TO LOW DEMAND

Apple now only expects to sell around 400,000 to 450,000 Vision Pro headsets in 2024, compared to a previous market consensus of 700,000 to 800,000.

U.S. BANS NONCOMPETE AGREEMENTS FOR NEARLY ALL JOBS

The Federal Trade Commission has voted to ban nearly all noncompete agreements - existing noncompetes for senior executives have been excluded from the ban as these agreements are more likely to have been negotiated.

MICROSOFT'S PHI-3 SHOWS THE SURPRISING POWER OF SMALL, LOCALLY RUN AI LANGUAGE MODELS

Microsoft's Phi-3-mini, which contains only 3.8 billion parameters, may rival GPT-3.5.

THE MAN WHO KILLED GOOGLE SEARCH

This article tells the story of how Google Search died and the people responsible for killing it.

TSMC'S DEBACLE IN THE AMERICAN DESERT

TSMC's Arizona facility was originally set to begin operating in 2024 - it is woefully behind schedule, with production now set to start in 2025.

META AND OPEN

Apple's closed model may have been successful in the mobile market, but closed models don't always win - Meta is betting the open model will win with virtual and mixed reality headsets.

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APPLE WORKING TO SECURE STREAMING RIGHTS TO FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP

Apple is working to secure an exclusive TV deal with FIFA, who plans to launch a revamped version of Club World Cup in 2025. Apple wants the TV rights to the event, which will feature 32 teams from each of the six confederations. The first tournament will take place in the US next summer. The deal could be worth around $1 billion. Apple has already paid $2.5 billion to secure global broadcasting rights to Major League Soccer and it has also secured a deal with Major League Baseball. The company sees live sports as a way to lure new customers to the Apple TV+ streaming service.

FIRST REAL-LIFE PIXEL 9 PRO PICTURES LEAK, AND IT HAS 16GB OF RAM

Real-life pictures of the Pixel 9 Pro have leaked. The prototypes look just like the renders that came out back in January. The device features a new pill-shaped camera bump with rounded corners that match the body shape. The front and back of the phone are totally flat, with a metal band around the side. There will be three models of the phone this year: the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro XL.

GENERATIVE A.I. ARRIVES IN THE GENE EDITING WORLD OF CRISPR

Profluent, a Berkeley startup, has used generative AI technology to create new gene editors based on CRISPR. The company has used one of the AI-generated gene editors to edit human DNA, but it has yet to put any of them through clinical trials. While Profluent plans to open source the gene editors generated by its AI technology, it will not be open sourcing the AI technology itself. The project is part of a wider effort to build AI technologies that improve medical care.

MEET QDEL, THE BACKLIGHT-LESS DISPLAY TECH THAT COULD REPLACE OLED IN PREMIUM TVS

Quantum dot electroluminescent (QDEL) screens produce wide color spaces and are bright, affordable, and resistant to burn-in. Also known as NanoLED, the technology is being eyed as one of the most potentially influential developments for consumer displays over the next two years. There aren't any QDEL products yet and they may not be released for a while yet. This article explains how the technology works, looks at its advantages, and explores competing technologies.

PROMPT LIBRARY

This site allows users to submit and explore optimized prompts for a breadth of tasks. The prompts on the site can help generate games, extract insights from reports, create websites, write Excel formulas, and more. They are split into three categories: personal prompts, business prompts, and user-submitted prompts. The prompts can be filtered by keyword.

GOOD IDEAS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Programmers love to argue for their favorite technologies, but there are some ideas that are universally agreed on. This article provides a list of ideas within computer science that are universally considered good and the year each idea appeared. These ideas are so widespread and effective that many may not even think of them as being invented. The list focuses on ideas, not implementations, so some things like Unix aren't on the list. Some example items from the list include binary numbers, boolean algebra, arrays, and version control.

MARK ZUCKERBERG SAYS META WILL OFFER ITS VIRTUAL REALITY OS TO HARDWARE COMPANIES, CREATING IPHONE VERSUS ANDROID DYNAMIC

Meta plans to partner with external hardware companies to build virtual reality headsets using its Meta Horizon operating system. The move will result in new hardware devices that run on the same operating system and software as Meta's current first-party virtual reality hardware. It will recreate the Android versus iOS dynamic in smartphones with virtual reality headsets. Apple will soon have to compete against a range of different hardware devices at various prices, all running on Meta's operating system.

SAM ALTMAN INVESTS IN ENERGY STARTUP FOCUSED ON AI DATA CENTERS

Sam Altman and other investors, including venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, have put $20 million into Exowatt, a company that aims to provide big data centers with clean energy. The AI industry uses a lot of energy - a single new data center can use as much electricity as hundreds and thousands of homes. Exowatt has developed modules roughly the size of shipping containers that hold solar lenses that convert energy from the sun into heat. The company hopes to eventually offer electricity as cheap as 1 cent per kilowatt-hour without subsidies.

THE LITTLE SMART HOME PLATFORM THAT COULD

The Open Home Foundation now owns and governs all of Home Assistant, an open-source smart home platform known for its unmatched power and flexibility, and its related entities.

MAJORITY OF AMERICANS NOW USE AD BLOCKERS

52% of Americans use an adblocker, up from 34% in 2022.

ASK HN: WHAT RABBIT HOLE(S) DID YOU DIVE INTO RECENTLY? (HACKER NEWS THREAD)

Sometimes while researching, reading, or debugging, you stumble across something interesting, and upon looking into that, yet another subject catches your attention.

COPYLEFT LICENSES ARE NOT “RESTRICTIVE”

Copyleft is predicated on an understanding of freedom in which freedom is a positive guarantee of rights.

APPLE ORDERS CAPACITIVE BUTTON COMPONENTS ALLEGEDLY FOR IPHONE 16

Apple reportedly ordered system-in-a-package modules from Advanced Semiconductor Engineering that will be used to integrate capacitive components with Taptic Engine motors.

A GAME OF TAKE RATES

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TESLA SPENDS WEEKEND CUTTING PRICES OF CARS AND FSD SOFTWARE

Tesla has cut the prices of its models across China, Europe, and the US. Full Self-Driving is now $8,000 in the US. In China, the revamped Model 3 is now 241,900 yuan (~$32,000), down from 245,900 yuan previously and the Model Y was discounted to 249,900 yuan (~$34,500) from 263,900 yuan. The cheapest Model Y in the US is now $42,990. Tesla is facing several challenges, including a recall of almost 3,900 Cybertrucks, sales drops, interrupted production schedules, and more.

GOOGLE'S TOP SECRET CAMERA LAB IS LIKE AN IKEA FOR PIXEL TESTING

Google's Real World Testing Lab is an elaborate environment where Google tests the cameras in its Pixel phones. The lab looks more like a cluster of Ikea displays than a testing room. It allows Google to test its devices in realistic environments that simulate where customers will actually use them. This article takes a look inside the lab and the kind of testing that Google does to make sure its devices capture moments in just the right way.

THE GMO TOOTH MICROBE THAT IS SUPPOSED TO PREVENT CAVITIES

Lumina is a one-time treatment that can present cavities. It can be applied either at home or by a dentist. The treatment, which can be pre-ordered for $250 (before taxes and shipping fees), is expected to be released by mid-June. Marketed as a cosmetic product, the treatment has yet to successfully move through human clinical trials, leading to safety and ethical concerns.

HOW MANY MORE OZEMPIC-LIKE DRUGS ARE IN THE PIPELINE — HERE'S WHAT RESEARCHERS ARE WORKING ON

Semaglutide has proved so successful that its manufacturer is unable to keep up with demand. There is currently a tsunami of clinical trials for new drugs that also operate on the gut-brain axis and re-create the action of other intestinal and pancreatic hormones. This article discusses the state of the industry and new developments on the horizon. These drugs remain inaccessible for many people due to cost.

HOW DOES CHATGPT WORK? AS EXPLAINED BY THE CHATGPT TEAM

When users ask ChatGPT a question, OpenAI chunks the question into tokens, creates embeddings, multiplies the embeddings by model weights, and then samples a prediction. This article explains this process in detail. It covers pretraining and inference as well as the system's limitations. Links to other resources that also explain how ChatGPT works are available in the article.

THE POSTGRESQL COMMUNITY DEBATES ALTER SYSTEM

The PostgreSQL community recently resolved the question of whether to merge a brief patch adding a new configuration parameter. This article tells the story of the decision process, which involved one of the longest-running development discussions in recent PostgreSQL history. The success of the effort was due to the persistence of a small number of developers who saw it through months of opposition and 'helpful' implementation suggestions.

MEASURING PERSONAL GROWTH

Measuring things can often help to make life better. This article presents three metrics for measuring personal growth: rate of change, time to solve problems, and number of future options. Rate of change looks at how long it takes to become a new person. Time to solve problems looks at what big problems have been solved and what needs to be solved. Number of future options looks at options gained and lost.

SAMSUNG SHIFTS EXECUTIVES TO SIX-DAY WORKWEEKS TO ‘INJECT A SENSE OF CRISIS'

Samsung has introduced a company-wide six-day workweek policy for executives. The company had disappointing financial results last year and is now trying to tackle ongoing business uncertainty. The new workweek policy aims to inject a sense of crisis as part of an all-out effort to overcome its current challenges. Employees under the executive level are not expected to follow suit. Samsung is facing increased competition in the production of high-bandwidth memory chips alongside wider economic concerns like rising borrowing costs and oil prices and a rapid depreciation of Korean currency.

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HAS LLAMA-3 JUST KILLED PROPRIETARY AI MODELS?

Benchmarks show that Llama-3 70B matches GPT-4 and Claude Opus in most tasks.

THE DANGERS OF “DECENTRALIZED” ID SYSTEMS

Decentralized ID systems cannot protect users against state surveillance and exclusion as seen in current government ID systems unless they allow users to participate without linking government ID, allow pseudonyms and throwaways, and keep regular login methods for people who prefer it.

LOOKING FOR AI USE CASES

New use cases will be things that are still automated one at a time, but that could not have been automated before, or that would have needed more software and capital to automate.

EUROPEAN REGULATORS WILL SOON APPROVE APPLE'S PLAN TO OPEN UP TAP-TO-PAY TO BANKS AND PAYMENT PROVIDERS

Europe's new rules mean that Apple will open up access to iPhone NFC chips and allow for non-Apple tap-to-pay payment options.

U.S.-CHINA INTERNET WAR INTENSIFIES AS HOUSE PASSES TIKTOK BAN

The US House has passed a bill, tied to a sweeping aid package for Israel and Ukraine, that may force ByteDance to sell TikTok if the Senate votes to also pass it in the coming days.

FOLLOW CURIOSITY

Curiosity knows more than you do about what's worth paying attention to.

META'S BATTLE WITH CHATGPT BEGINS NOW

Meta's AI assistant is being integrated into search boxes within its apps. It will start appearing directly in the main Facebook feed and users can chat with it using Meta's messaging apps. The assistant is also accessible via a standalone website. It runs on Meta's new Llama 3 model, which outperforms competing models of its class on key benchmarks. The assistant integrates real-time search results from both Bing and Google and can generate images.