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I am excited about Project Vesta [1], which looks to me like one of the most feasible solutions to large-scale carbon capture. [1] https://www.projectvesta.org
I would also add Apple's health organization as an exception, for example they're rumored to have non-invasive glucose monitoring in the works for Apple Watch.
I hate those innovations at Apple, because if I want to help my relatives with their health and buy the watch, I also must buy the Apple phone and put them into the inescapable walled garden.
1) Personal favourite: Collaboration between Fairphone and E-foundation https://e.foundation/fairphone-and-e-expand-the-availability... 2) https://www.radicallyopensecurity.com/ (Non-Profit Computer Security Consultancy) 3) https://tutanota.com/ 4) The ActivityPub and Mastodon contributors 5) Matrix ( https://matrix.org/ ) 6) Signal ( https://signal.org ) 7) https://brave.com 8) Obsidian ( https://obsidian.md/ ) 9) S…
> Why: Because these organisations seem to take a moral responsibility on (some of the) things I value > https://brave.com Do you trust Brave after they did this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027 ? > Signal ( https://signal.org ) Signal is essentially s closed source walled garden now, because they do not publish their server code anymore.
2) Tesla and other car companies. Battery costs have reduced 10x in a few decades, cars now have OTA updates and increasingly sophisticated self driving abilities (already pretty good on the highway). Whole car industry is going to electrify in the next few decades.
3) Space X is making space transport way cheaper, and Starlink seems to be a great internet solution for remote areas.
3) Open source or donation based projects. Apps such as Blender, VLC, Signal continue to improve. Sites such as Our World in Data and Wikipedia provide amazing value. Open standards such as RISC-V, AV1 continue to push forward.
4) Wind and solar. Costs have reduced 10x in a few decades. The tech is being pushed to their efficiency limits, solar can still improve a lot. Of course, the intermittency of renewables remains an issue.
I still kinda excited about OpenAI. Even though they did a massive bait and switch with the name, their offerings still none the less never fail to amaze me. When GPT-3 first came out the results were jaw dropping for me. Now with Dall-e. Draw an illustration of a baby daikon radish in a tutu walking a dog.. who wouldn't find that amazing? So I'm just waiting what their next demo will be.
But even if GPT-3 is good at text generation, what are practical applications of it except generating blog spam?
For a more hype-free review of GPT-3 I suggest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24907318
I’ve been using Notion as a personal knowledge base for a couple of years now, and I still feel a sense of joy every time I fire it up (countless times a day). It’s simple, yet elegant. That said, I don’t know anything about the company. I’m excited about the product and where it’s headed.
1) Chip makers (AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Apple etc). Chips are still improving. Theres always new applications to more compute eg: 3D work can be done on laptop now, realistic renders can be ray traced with consumer graphics cards, phones can do voice recognition and so on locally. I mentioned graphics a lot but video games look amazing and some will be photo-realistic in ~10 years. 2) Tesla and other car companies. Bat…
Tesla. Far ahead of the competition in software, electronics and battery technology.
ive had this discussion with a couple of my friends- what exactly are the innovations in those three fields that put them so far ahead? do they make more efficient cells? their cars dont have anything particularly novel as far as i know, just well designed and made, as well as marketed. what is the software that tesla makes that is so good?
Software: self driving capabilities (i.e. autopilot), FSD (Full Self Driving) beta, shadow-mode neural net testing, OTA (Over The Air) updates, games and entertaiment, Autobidder energy trading platform, etc. Battery: tabless design, dry electrode, new 4680 form-factor, nickel instead of cobalt, manufacturing and cost improvements, etc. Electronics: efficient motors and inverters, custom ASIC chip for FSD computer, Dojo supercomputer, etc. Mechanical engineering: "octovalve" thermal management, structural battery pack without modules, "mega casting" aluminium body design, etc.
Edit: forgot to mention supercharger network.
As you’re talking about Apple, I find System76’s Linux computers, especially their notebooks [1] and their Ubuntu-based Pop! OS [2] a breeze of fresh air. This hardware/software combination gives me an Apple-like experience while committing to free software. The OS’s UX is very developer friendly as windows can be moved around and tiled using keyboard shortcuts. Then there’s a launcher bar similar to CMD+space on mac…
I really want to like system76 laptops, but I can't help but feel they are literally straight out of a prefab China warehouse, same old crummy quality plastic crap.
1) Personal favourite: Collaboration between Fairphone and E-foundation https://e.foundation/fairphone-and-e-expand-the-availability... 2) https://www.radicallyopensecurity.com/ (Non-Profit Computer Security Consultancy) 3) https://tutanota.com/ 4) The ActivityPub and Mastodon contributors 5) Matrix ( https://matrix.org/ ) 6) Signal ( https://signal.org ) 7) https://brave.com 8) Obsidian ( https://obsidian.md/ ) 9) S…
> Why: Because these organisations seem to take a moral responsibility on (some of the) things I value > https://brave.com Do you trust Brave after they did this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027 ? > Signal ( https://signal.org ) Signal is essentially s closed source walled garden now, because they do not publish their server code anymore.
I won't argue these organisatoins are perfect. Is that your criterion? I'm excited because I feel they are going in the right direction. That's why I'm using their services. I use Brave, but don't have the time to dive into things they are doing well or doing wrong. That's what we have investigative journalism for. I'm very happy to pay for that. By the way, I also use Signal. I also have a Fairphone. etc etc.
The next step after excitement is of course to convert excitement into action, and to actually support these organisations, through buying their stuff or making donations. Not because they are doing everything well, but because I personally believe they are helping to improve society.