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Post by unixhero »

gramakri wrote: post #609
lostmsu wrote: post #167

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Which, as a regular user, I don't understand when I see it. Hell, I am a dev, and I still did not know that will let me create one quickly.

Agreed. Do you have any suggestions to improve the initial onboarding?

Ahoy gramakri.

I have been a Cloudron user for a bit of time. Recently I have launched a company and we're now a paying and very happy customer of Cloudron's business subscription.

It seems that the "next app suggestion" process have stalled. To me as an outsider of your internal process, I cannot see what applications are being preferred over others. There are tons of very good suggestions which are not receiving traction it seems, from the app suggestion-forum.

A few examples which Cloudron needs, and would benefit from having attracting more users:

- A Wireguard VPN frontend application

- Jupyter Notebooks Environment

- Odoo ERP Community edition

- Erpnext

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Post by chanux »

ramzis wrote: post #572
api wrote: post #546

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Our web site kind of sucks. We're going to be working with a design/marketing firm to re-do it soon. It's kind of hard to explain ZeroTier sometimes. Its so simple (to the user) people have a hard time getting it. "You just make a network and connect stuff." Huh? People have been conditioned to think networking is hard because 90% of networking software is crap.

Thanks for ZeroTier! Managed to convert a few friends from using Hamachi for LAN games, which was always a pain to setup previously. It simply just works for my needs.

ooh! so it could replace Hamachi. I think this is one use case (without using the product name) that can be listed in a uses-cases page. Hope other Zerotier users would chime in with more use cases.

Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Post by woah »

Animats wrote: post #95

Self-driving cars. Now that the hype is over and the fake-it-til-you-make-it crowd has tanked, there's progress. Slowly, the LIDARs get cheaper, the radars get more resolution, and the software improves. UE5's rendering approach. They finally figured out how to use the GPU to do level of detail. Games can now climb out of the Uncanny Valley. The Playstation 5. 8 CPUs at 3.2GHz each, 24GB of RAM, 14 teraflops of GPU,…

Why do they need lidar in the first place? Humans do fine with stereoscopic vision

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Post by mab122 »

More IPFS applications, integrations and services build on it.

As for "competition" like scuttlebut. I would love sneaker-mesh -net type mobile killer app that would actually work.

Hell I would even mind if facebook implemented something that would work when centrilized infrastructure fails.

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Post by noir_lord »

dangus wrote: post #264
ekianjo wrote: post #208

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> The Playstation 5. 8 CPUs at 3.2GHz each, 24GB of RAM, 14 teraflops of GPU, and a big solid state disk. That's a lot of compute engine for $400. Somebody will probably make supercomputers out of rooms full of those. Mmm, this sounds like exactly what people said at the time the PS3 was going to be released, and I can only recall of one example where the PS3 was ever used in a cluster and that probably was not that…

This exactly. The PS5 and Xbox One X are commodity PC hardware, optimized for gaming, packaged with a curated App Store. Sony also won’t just sell you hundreds or thousands of them for some kind of groundbreakingly cheap cluster. They will say no, unless you’re GameStop or Walmart. Everyone with a high-mid-range PC already has more horsepower than a PS5 and it’s not doing anything particularly innovative or groundbre…

Faster consoles are good if your a PC gamer though since games end up deployed for all three and consoles are the retard on progress.

GTA 6 with the hardware in the new consoles will likely be spectacular.

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Post by [deleted] »

KKKKkkkk1 wrote: post #563
roenxi wrote: post #532

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In 2014 top humans could give a good Go playing AI 4 stones (a handicap that pushes games outside of being between comparable players). In 2017 AlphaGo could probably give a world champion somewhere between 1 and 3 stones. From an algorithmic perspective the range between "unacceptably bad" and superhuman doesn't have to be all that wide and it isn't exactly possible to judge until the benefit of hindsight is availab…

When you're mentioning AlphaGo, you're committing a fallacy that's so famous that it has a name and a wikipedia page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox ). The things that are easy for humans are very different from those that are easy for robots.

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

dahfizz wrote: post #501
ianai wrote: post #469

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Of course the owner is to blame.

What if it's a rental or a lease? In a fully automated car, that's basically a taxi. I don't think I should bear the responsibility of my taxi driver. If/when we get fully automated cars, this kind of driverless Uber will become extremely common. Who bears the risk then? This is a complicated situation that can't be boiled down to "Of course the owner is to blame"

That is the most puzzling thing to me. Not from a technical, but societal ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons ) point of view. Compare with public mass transit, except of Singapore, Japan, it is mostly dirty, in spite of cleaning staff working hard, and other people around. In a Taxi/Uber you have the driver watching, and other rentals are usually inspected after, and immediately before next rent out, just to make sure.

Not so in car-sharing pools, and there it's already materializing as a problem. How do you solve that with your 'robo-cab'? Tapping on dirty/smelly in your app, send back to garage? What if you notice it only 5 minutes after you started the trip, already robo-riding along? What if you have allergies against something the former customer had on/around it? Or was so high on opioids, that even a touch of the skin could make you drop? As can, and did happen. How do you solve for that without massive privacy intrusions? Or will they be the "new normal" because of all that Covid-19 trace app crap?

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Post by amurthy1 »

peteforde wrote: post #635
funcDropShadow wrote: post #622

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Having high-speed steel boxes carrying human lives and what else react on messages from untrusted sources. Hmm. What could go wrong?

I'm going to ignore the snark and pretend as though this is a good faith argument, because we're on Hacker News - and I believe that means you're a smart person I might disagree with, and I'm challenging you. I want to understand why being in a high-speed steel/plastic box with humans (overrated in some views) controlled by a computer scares you so much. Is it primal or are you working off data I do not have? Please…

The risk is a bad actor could hack into this network and control the cars

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Post by dmak »

iamwil wrote: post #71

Rust lang - Memory safety through zero cost abstraction as a way to eliminate a large class of errors in systems languages is interesting. Especially if it allows more people to write systems programs. WASM - Mostly as a compile target for Rust, but I think this changes the way software might be deployed. No longer as a website, but as a binary distributed across CDNs. ZK-SNARKS - Zero knowledge proofs are still nasc…

I’m surprised people are still looking forward to the Lightning Network. Layer 2 has missed the boat because of all the politics and contention between the Bitcoin factions. Decentralized finance is already happening on Ethereum. We have stable coins like Dai that underpins loans.
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