Is it possible to download this for offline use? Or to view the source code for it?
Readit Newsaperrien commented on Smalltalk-78 Xerox NoteTaker in-browser emulator smalltalkzoo.thechm.org/u... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Get concerned when you see a real product in the market that has a sustainable business model.
The man behind the curtain here has an army of engineers, unlimited cloud nodes and basically has harvested all the data currently available in the world.
It doesn't get any better than this right now.
What's next? They'll ping you later on Linked-in with this awesome idea that you need to make sure runs in a $1 USD microcontroller with a rechargeable battery that is supposed to last at least all day.
The actual scary stuff is the dilution of expertise, we contributed for a long time to share our knowledge for internet points (stack overflow, open source projects, etc), and it has been harvested by the AIs already, anyone that pays access to these services for tens of dollars a month can bootstrap really quickly and do what it might had needed years of expertise before.
It will dilute little by little our current service value, but you know what, it has always been like this forever, it is just faster.
In the meantime, learn to automate the automator, that's the way to get ahead.
Man, we shared our knowledge via books long before the internet. And a lot of those AI models train off of thousands of books as a base before they try to incorporate less accurate knowledge from the wild internet. The cat was out of the bag on that long ago.
Is this model open source?
I could help you with this. What you really need to begin with is someone willing to put a sizeable sum into it to start things rolling.
I can't contribute that much yet. I'm working on a set of real estate investments to hopefully start the chain within 5-6 years. One of the things that would help for now is to experiment with small projects and hopefully identify something(s) that could make a good long term investment engine.
Everything gets captured by capital.. This aesthetic resonates the same with me. Its partly what drove me to join a startup to do global solar radiation forecasting as first employee. Burnt myself out over 4 years, but built platform that enabled higher penetration of solar pv power into grids all over the world, and was successful in this. I left due to burn out and realizing that most of the customers we would talk to about large scale solar utility sites that wanted integration with the data were basically banks/finance/insurance companies trying to return a better yield, they didn't care how. After I left got bought out by a risk management company.
Call me naive, but I went into it knowing solar power is _cheaper_, and the inability to measure how much solar energy was in an electricity network, and uncertainty about the generation were the main problems the startup was aiming to solve. The finance made it attractive to capital, I got that, partly why I was convinced it would succeed, but I underestimated how laser focused these groups are to "line go up". They would outsource everything because they were there as the money people, and have people in the meeting knowing just enough to gauge if project was on track for expectations of "line go up".
Problem being is that the margins aren't there. Everytime a solar panel is added to an electricity network, the life time ROI for ALL panels in the network goes down. This is due to pushing down the price of electricity during the day. Eg, when oversupply occurs in the middle of the day (and they don't store it cause X is cheaper), it causes electricity markets to drive prices down and even negative, meaning the return of possible life time generated power for each panel also gets reduced.
Saying all that, the adoption of renewables is growing at a rapid pace due to it being cheaper, but also slowed down by constant value extraction shenanigans.
I really wish there was a finance group for solarpunk stuff. It's a constant problem, and when I join any of the many groups online, no-one seems to acknowledge it. If there was some sort of fund that we could contribute to that handled the financing, and looked strictly for long term investments, I'm sure that it would make money, that could then be put back into more long-term solarpunk investments, for the good of all. I don't know how to set such a thing up, or I'd do it myself!
aperrien commented on Show HN: ExpenseOwl – Simple, self-hosted expense tracker github.com/Tanq16/Expense... · Posted by u/import-base64
Easier said then done. Most softwares Ive used that attempted this did so poorly. However it is getting better.
Whatever happened to the Quick Interchange Format(.qif)? It used to be common for all banks to support that. A modern variant today could just be a XML or JSON export, and I hardly see that either.
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aperrien commented on I automated my job application process blog.daviddodda.com/how-i... · Posted by u/paul-tharun
AI has made hiring especially in technical industry an absolute shit show. I agree with parent comment that ideally government could do something about it but agree with you on how would you even do that. Maybe if they required all the job board companies like indeed and glassdoor and LinkedIn to properly vet candidates else those companies would be fined, but it's hard to imagine a solution that doesn't also hurt unemployed legit human beings
And then you run into problems on the corporate side: fake job listings to build up resume databases for comparison shopping of applicants. Regulations in this area should have to cut both ways.
aperrien commented on Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs nullprogram.com/blog/2024... · Posted by u/zdw
I'm designing a new PC and I'd like to be able to run local models. It's not clear to me from posts online what the specs should be. Do I need 128gb of RAM? Or would a 16gb RTX 4060 be better? Or should I get a 4070 ti? If anyone could pint me toward some good guidelines I'd greatly appreciate it.
> "We harvest the cells from our tanks and integrate them with a few plant-based ingredients..."
Gross. This should not legally be allowed to be marketed as salmon, at all.