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I try and make very small and deterministic steps. I do the planning (in flow state) and let the model to the execution. When the model is executing, I follow the "thinking" and keep seeing the diff like I would when I was coding.
GBook would have been so much nicer.
A corollary of this could be that people interested in Serious Work will never use LLMs. Could be the new "tell".
Reminds me of https://five.js.org/
Unfortunately you can’t just yell at the AI so it learns never to do this again. Humans take such a large range of feedback that LLMs can’t.
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There has been decent traction for Frappe Health (GPL) in Kenya. Not spending on expensive contracts and losing valuable forex is a big driver.
Here is a talk by Dr Mwogi on implementing at one of Kenya’s largest public hospitals https://youtu.be/yL6akPy2X5c?si=4UzUSJYm3PjxA3hL
Checkout Frappe CRM (https://github.com/frappe/crm). It is built on a customizable web framework and there is a reasonable community as well.
Also checkout Frappe Books from the team behind ERPNext for desktop accounting: https://github.com/frappe/books
Also Frappe Books - https://github.com/frappe/books
Open source pretty much wins by being cheaper (in most cases free). 99+% of users never look at the source code. That's the reality.
My reading of Neapolitan quartet is completely different. It is not Lila’s external looks that make her irresistible, but it’s her spirit - a force of nature that she has. I think the Lenu considers herself better looking than Lila, so it was not so much about a beautiful face and body. Remember it’s “My Brilliant Friend” not “My Beautiful Friend”.
Would highly recommend the books to anyone who is still wondering - the torrent of raw humanness coming out from those books is, for a better word, brilliant.
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We have been working on a FOSS desktop based alternative to GNU Cash with a modern UI for the past couple of years: Frappe Books
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I am not justifying the situation. I don't buy the overly negative prognosis.
Yes there is increasing threat to freedom of speech, but India is not new to this. The left leaning Congress had even worse norms when they imposed martial law (Emergency).
India has a robust sphere of public debate and draconian laws and acts of discrimination by the government are regularly criticised. In more cases than not the government embarrasses itself by its clumsy use of power to restrict opposition, like in the case of the BBC documentary which did not uncover anything new.
Constant vigilance is required. I am not a BJP supporter, but I don't think the intent of the BJP is to suppress debate. They seek legitimacy. BJP is clearly toning down its more radical elements and is getting more mature judging by the way it allowed the Bharat Jodo Yatra (Join India Campaign) and understands that a robust opposition is in national interest.
I am more hopeful than this article.
I am surprised no one has mentioned schema.org. It is a much simpler standard and more widely used than RDF/OWL.
Another point I think is that it is not in any publishers interest to publish structured data, as it easily copy-able. For example, neither Amazon nor Wikipedia publishes using schema.org. It would make their data susceptible to 3rd party aggregators.
Not yet, you can add your comments here! https://github.com/frappe/books/issues/183
If you are looking for a modern free desktop accounting platform check out FrappeBooks - https://github.com/frappe/books. Version 1.0 is round the corner.
This brought back a lot of nostalgia. (I was Indian grad student in a state university in the North East in ‘01)
For me the killer is the “master of the universe” feeling you get in the United States coming from India. Everything is in order and under control from the lawns in suburban homes, to supermarkets and libraries to traffic and restaurants. You see a lot more straight lines and perfect Bézier curves. This is a completely different texture in extreme contrast to India where “chaos” reigns and the spices and smells are a lot sharper.
After coming back to India. I somehow feel more “free” and “alive” in the chaos. Giving up control feels like a more natural, intuitive way of living and dying.
The big question is, if customers are going to stay over a long run. Also the assumption is that SAAS companies are to keep growing, while I see them all converging on the same market / same dollar spend (CRM, Support, Workflow). There will be consolidation at some point, and it won't be pretty.
Why is this on hackernews again? I thought it was a blog on Kubernetes or React!
This needs to be understood in the context of a cultural onslaught of American values. More than just social media, services like Netflix, Prime, Disney are streaming live into millions of households in India.
India has its own authentic identity that is under severe threat. If you look at China / East Asia - it is culturally and aesthetically like the West, mostly America, other than language and deference to authority.
India has been traditionally liberal through the ages, it has more diverse cultures embedded in society and has fought much fewer internal wars than any ancient civilization. Few other cultures have outright pacifist icons such as Buddha or Gandhi. It has been able to absorb external influences gradually while maintaining its own distinct identity.
The backlash we see is not as harsh as China or the Islamic world, but India will need its own gradual pace to accept changes. It is more than this core liberalism that connects India to the West. While India and America are not geopolitically aligned, Indians in America have formed deep cultural roots that connect the two cultures. Technology leaders like Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella are role models for every child in India, so is American VP Kamala Harris.
The article in my view is not wrong, but takes a very narrow view of things. Other than the few 100 posts that Indian authorities have removed, there are 100s of thousands of critical posts that are still widely circulated. The government inadvertently makes "own goals" and add fuel to fire when it does stupid things like this. The farmer's protest blew up in their face and this is not the end.
There is a lot more to be hopeful about India rather than expect it to follow narrow nationalism of China or fierce capitalism of America.
Blockchains are slowly becoming a pseudoscience. People spout a bunch of jargon and crypto math but have no idea how anything is connected to the real world.
Most of the fraud that exists out there is due to social hacking. There is no real problem a blockchain solves.
The surprising thing is how many people are falling for it.
There are auditors who are supposed to scrutinise this stuff. Audit trails with counter party ledgers, receipts, reconciliation with bank statements can easily bring out any such fraud.
To claim the miscarriage of justice happened due to “bugs” is wrong. It’s due to bad auditors. I think this is poor journalism.
Both paths, sales or product (or market) can lead to success. The key is always execution.
That's a complicated definition that I didn't understand. I do see 'the total income is made up of economic profit (earned) plus economic rent (unearned).' So why is my commercial transaction for you to acquire GPLv3-licensed software from me 'unearned'?
The rent is not for the software but for some additional service or hardware that you incur in making it available. As long as you provide some service other than just licensing the software.
As an open source creator, you essentially are giving away your labour to the community as charity. This is done out of free will and is not an obligation. There is no obligation whatsoever to support and provide guarantee either to any user. This distinction is where most open source contributors feel burnt out. As an open source creator, I look as community requests as "feedback" and not something I am obliged to do. When we take payment to provide certain guarantees or services, that is when it enters the realm of services and is not connected to the software at all. Anyone capable can do that. The company publishing the application has an head-start. That is all.
That is the mindset where it works as a public asset, rather than a "source available" or other kind of program.
Open source does not come with any warranty. You are welcome to spend your time and fix what you feel is broken, or pay someone for it.
ERPNext has a large and active community with thousands of active installs, and bugs are constantly being fixed and enhancements being pushed.
Unfortunately an ERP system needs time and effort to configure correctly, and what you consider bugs, might just be things that you need your accountant to tell you about.
Author here. This is wrong information. Not sure where you are getting this from.
Also as I mentioned above, docker installs are actively supported.