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Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by davehcker »

mattmanser wrote: post #68
davehcker wrote: post #48

I have posted this here before- hexafarms.com. I am trying to use ML to discover optimal phenotype for growing plants in vertical indoor farms to a. have the higest quality produce b. to lower the cost of producing leafy green/med plants, etc. within cities itself. Basically, every leafy green (and herbs, and even mushrooms), can grow in a range of climatic condition (phenotype, roughly) ie temperature, humidity, wat…

I'm not able to help, but you don't have any contact details listed against your profile or in this post. How is anyone able to contact you? At the very least what's a link to your startup's website?

Sorry I thought my email was on my HN profile. I am sitting behind david[at]hexafarms.com

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by tome »

yosito wrote: post #33
tome wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you documented your replacements for various Google technologies somewhere? I'm particularly interested in a good calendar.

I'm using Nextcloud to host my calendar. On my work Mac, I connect to it using Fantastical. On my personal Ubuntu machine I use GNOME Calendar, and on Android I use https://github.com/Etar-Group/Etar-Calendar Everything is seamless for me, though admittedly I'm not a super heavy calendar user. I plan to do a write up on my whole Google-free setup, but I haven't done it yet, unfortunately.

Thanks! Do you self-host Nextcloud or did you get an account at one of the providers?

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by universa1 »

davehcker wrote: post #48

I have posted this here before- hexafarms.com. I am trying to use ML to discover optimal phenotype for growing plants in vertical indoor farms to a. have the higest quality produce b. to lower the cost of producing leafy green/med plants, etc. within cities itself. Basically, every leafy green (and herbs, and even mushrooms), can grow in a range of climatic condition (phenotype, roughly) ie temperature, humidity, wat…

Hmm,

Sounds similar to what I read a long time ago about a big tomato farm in the Netherlands... Have you tried talking to actual farmers of that produce? Universities? Agricultural faculties do a lot of research in that direction.

Expensive, quickly perishable produce might be able to compete, otherwise I guess free water and energy from above in the "remote" classical farming will be hard to beat.

And then my naive guess would be that to generate enough data for a "ml" approach not only by name might be somewhat expensive.

This sounds so negative, but this is not my intention... I wish you all the best and hopefully will stumble upon a success story in the future :-)

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by mattmanser »

davehcker wrote: post #71
mattmanser wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not able to help, but you don't have any contact details listed against your profile or in this post. How is anyone able to contact you? At the very least what's a link to your startup's website?

Sorry I thought my email was on my HN profile. I am sitting behind david[at]hexafarms.com

It sounds like an interesting project, good luck and I hope someone reaches out!

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by [deleted] »

pedrokost wrote: post #27

We are experiencing very high CPU load caused by tinc [0], which we use to ensure all communication between cloud VMs is encrypted. This is primarily affecting the highest traffic VMs, including the one hosting the master DB. I am starting to consider alternative tools such us wireguard to reduce load, but I am concerned of adding too much complexity. Tinc's mesh network makes setup and maintenance easy. The wireguar…

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Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by yosito »

tome wrote: post #72
yosito wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm using Nextcloud to host my calendar. On my work Mac, I connect to it using Fantastical. On my personal Ubuntu machine I use GNOME Calendar, and on Android I use https://github.com/Etar-Group/Etar-Calendar Everything is seamless for me, though admittedly I'm not a super heavy calendar user. I plan to do a write up on my whole Google-free setup, but I haven't done it yet, unfortunately.

Thanks! Do you self-host Nextcloud or did you get an account at one of the providers?

I got a VPS and installed Nextcloud with Docker. I would self-host on my own server, but I'm too nomadic for that at the moment. I think the /e/ foundation has a decent managed Nextcloud setup.

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by iyn »

PhilippGille wrote: post #55
pedrokost wrote: post #27

We are experiencing very high CPU load caused by tinc [0], which we use to ensure all communication between cloud VMs is encrypted. This is primarily affecting the highest traffic VMs, including the one hosting the master DB. I am starting to consider alternative tools such us wireguard to reduce load, but I am concerned of adding too much complexity. Tinc's mesh network makes setup and maintenance easy. The wireguar…

Apart from some smaller projects building on top of WireGuard, there's Tailscale [1]. One of the founders is Brad Fitzpatrick who worked on the Go team at Google before and built memcached and perkeep in the past. Outside of the WireGuard ecosystem there's ZeroTier [2] which has been around for a while and they're working on a new version; and Nebula [3] from Slack, which is likely to be maintained as long as Slack u…

+1 for Tailscale, the product is great. I've used it in a very limited scale but can vouch for quality and performance. No CPU issues at all (even on rPi).

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by f0e4c2f7 »

Rodeoclash wrote: post #5

I'm not sure if this is in the spirit of the thread but I've been working on a way to allow reviews of gameplay in video games. In short, you upload a video of you playing the game and someone who's an expert can review it. I currently have a UI with the comments down the side of the screen which looks like this: https://www.volt.school/videos/c980297a-417b-416f-947b-58a70... This is good because you can easily: - Se…

I find that my normal model for reading comments on videos across platforms is to not read them much of the time, but if it's a really interesting video go look at the comments and it's ok if the video is for example, fully minimized or off screen etc while I read them.

I don't know how normal my use is though or if that's at all helpful.

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by znpy »

adammunich wrote: post #43

I am working on two problems: 1. I want to create way to generate electrical power without pollution. Basically, a closed cycle process that releases no pollutants, or electronic waste. 2. I want to do everything I can to eliminate gender bias in the world.

Regarding 1, if you can accept some pollution at the beginning, hydro-electrical can be a solution, albeit probably not for a global scale.

We have a small hydro-electrical plant una River near my house and really it's no big deal, it fits very nicely in the surrounding environment and it produces clean energy.

It's also educational because since the river is near the city small children classes can visit it and learn about it.

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