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Ask HN: Cloud Office Version of MS Access DB

Hacker News - Mon, 04/08/2024 - 2:38pm

Why does Google workspace nor Microsoft office 365 have a cloud and web-based Microsoft access database or even an app for the iPhone and android. What is a good substitute, spreadsheet is not cutting it for me.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39972522

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Ask HN: How do we coordinate open source initiatives?

Hacker News - Mon, 04/08/2024 - 2:26pm

I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about software as a way to contribute to the world.

Problem: This place we live is messed up. Most of our resources are committed to driving profits and that's a bad metric for things like climate, governance, education, etc. One can commit financial resources to charities and institutions to try and help this situation, but it's difficult to have this make a good material difference for a lot of reasons.

Solution: I have a set of skills that can create tangible, immediate value in the form of usable software that fixes problems for people.

New Problem: Building consumer-usable software requires a diverse skillset. I don't have all the skills necessary to create secure, cross-os-compatible, easy-to-use software. Engaging in such an endeavor requires the coordination of many individuals, which is typically done by using money, which I don't have enough of to run a startup (and I don't think the profit-driven model is capable of solving these problems in the long run anyway, so investors are right out).

I've seen plenty of instances where this happens kind of naturally - you build a tiny version of the thing you want to see and make it minimally viable and over time, other folks using it add features and work. But there are some problems that can't be bootstrapped this way - for example, I would love to see OSS attempts at solving local LLM development (which you can't start small).

What does HN know about coordinating efforts to build software "for the common good, and for the love of software"?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39972443

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What is for me a good resource for learning spring boot?

Hacker News - Mon, 04/08/2024 - 2:21pm

Yo

The title says everything, but the amount of resources where you can learn spring boot is a lot and my eyes doesn't know where to look anymore, really.

So, here what I did and I hope someone can took me in the right path:

1. Given as advice, I did a minimum read of the spring framework documentation to get a little preview about IoC, beans, dependency injection etc... As a beginner it was a little confusing, but is okay, periodically I will learn.

2. With a project in mind -- a web store -- I open Spring initializr, compiled the form and imported Spring Web and Spring Boot DevTools as dependencies. Extract the zip and open inside IntelliJ.

After the second task I don't know what to do and start to look on Reddit some resources, but most of these resources are some random books, courses or sites and blogs that I aren't familiar expect for Baeldung, Javapoint and spring.io.

I am more a reading person because reading retain more information for me instead watching a video, but I don't trust paper books so much because can be outdated.

So is there any good official or trusted resources where I can learn Spring Boot? Nothing too much beginner friendly since I already have a little knowledge of the Spring framework.

Personally, spring.io/guides seems the better starting point because it cover most of my concerns. But I don't want that to influence your opinion, and I would like to know what you have done instead.

cheers everyone!

Ps: Sorry for my English! I'm trying to not use a translator!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39972392

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Show HN: Neco – Coroutine Library for C

Hacker News - Mon, 04/08/2024 - 1:37pm

Article URL: https://github.com/tidwall/neco

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39971984

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A Library to build MoE from HF models

Hacker News - Mon, 04/08/2024 - 1:37pm

Mergoo is a library that allows you to easily integrate multiple open-source LLMs from Hugging Face and efficiently train a mixture of experts without starting from scratch. https://github.com/Leeroo-AI/mergoo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39971976

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