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tarunmuvvalaon How to solve the problem of insufficient renewable energy on the Earth

Energy generation is part of the problem. Storage is another part. All renewable energy sources are not consistent.

There are peaks and troughs in generation. I have seen solar companies cutting of panel areas from grids given the lack of demand during that hour. Storage at grid and home level has the potential to disrupt the dynamic of the energy market.

Today, a select few companies control vast amount of energy supply this control needs to be broken for better future.

tarunmuvvalaon Ask HN: I Think I Need a New Calendar App

build something on top of cal.com if you are developer.

or ask in the cal.com community, if you are ready to sponsor someone should be able to build it.

tarunmuvvalaon Show HN: Browser Extension to Save and Share URLs Easily

Nice Work,

I would love some integrations with PKM tools like Obsidian, Notion etc.

That would also help you improve adoption, given the use case is niche.

tarunmuvvalaon Ask HN: Why are most Startups asking for US Remote instead of just Remote?

This is very recent change. There should be some benefit for the company too.

I know a company which hired the best MIT PhD but they also hired the best IIT PhDs for the work. Both of them do equally good. But the IIT PhDs are more cost effective and hence they expanded the program in India.

tarunmuvvalaon Tesla's Musk says eyeing significant India investments after meeting Modi

Its BYD vs Tesla.

BYD is making progress on the sub $20K car with 500 km plus range.

What matters for India is will any of these companies enable local battery manufacturing capabilities.

No wonder Buffet bet on BYD.

tarunmuvvalaon Why America will soon see a wave of bank mergers

Personally feel its double edge sword right now.

Many mergers indicate the weaknesses of the US banking system. Accelerating the non-USD assets and flow of cash into those instruments.

Non mergers will lead to defaults, forcing government to Print further

tarunmuvvalaon CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg

The real question is, will this lead to reduction in cost?

If yes, I hope they open-source it so that the fight against global warming can gain some momentum across the globe.

tarunmuvvalaon Generative AI profits off your code. Make them pay for it

Thanks for taking the initiative. there is very little awareness and implication of this.

I am not a developer, but I understand how generative AI leveraging your work to make it easier for someone else.

A similar thing needs to be done for images too.

tarunmuvvalaon ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

Similar is the case from people who can't afford. They are not asking you to give it for free. What they want is that the information accessible at affordable prices. The current situation is an ABC book either cost $10-$20-$30 or they can get it pirated. there is no middle ground.

People move to piracy due to lack of affordability and options.

tarunmuvvalaon Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly

Stability AI is formed with that vision to keep is open-source and accessible to the masses. It's very rare that we might see it becoming a closed source

tarunmuvvalaon Mastercard Is Bringing Cryptocurrency Trading to Banks

Bound to happen. But eventually banks will provide direct service. or Mastercard's will have to decentralize itself.

tarunmuvvalaon Ask HN: What's a Good SMS App for Android?

SMS organizer by Microsoft is good on Andriod.

tarunmuvvalaon Ask HN: Co-Founder? Seeking Co-Founder?

SEEKING CO-FOUNDER | Decentralized storage| India (open to expand) | Pre-Seed

Looking for a co-founder to build a low-cost photo storage service as an alternative to google photos/apple cloud. Over time leverage the data to enable incomes to people using the services by enabling them to sell data to LLM-AI model makers.

tarunmuvvalaon Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on

The walled gardens are raising their walls.

The plan is to sell the corporates VPN enabled services. The corporate will buy it without hesitation too if it comes bundled with Office 365.

tarunmuvvalaon Show HN: I Built 0xFast Stream – 100x Faster Ethereum Block Downloads

Curious how you managed compute cost. Are you running a node locally?

tarunmuvvalaon Ask HN: What'd be possible with 1000x faster CPUs?

As per raykurzwiel https://www.kurzweilai.net/images/chart03.jpg

With 1000X CPU computing, each computer will have equivalent computing power as human brain.

So brain compute interface or jarvis like AI may get possible

tarunmuvvalaon Show HN: BookmarkFS – Store files as Chrome bookmarks that sync between devices

This is interesting. Thanks for making.

Can the extension be used to interact with app in mobile?

tarunmuvvalaon Ask HN: How was your move back to India?

Listen to 1947 podcast.

Stories of founder who came back to india and have started.

tarunmuvvalaon Ask HN: What jobs will be big in the future that don't exist yet?

Robot Trainer - They will train bots to do new works.

Robot Safety specialist - As bots take over manufacturing, they will work more and more with human. You will have a person who train Robot to safely work with humans.

Drone Pilots/Drivers - These people will be responsible for driving drone in unplanned and unprepared scenarios

tarunmuvvalaon Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as 'Not My King' tag grows

Its 21st century, I feel that the UK citizens need to rethink on the concept of Monarchy.

There are lot successful republic nations.

The goal is prepare UK for the future not for the past

tarunmuvvalaon Ask HN: Worthy People to Follow on Twitter?

Farnam Street - This blog and the handle is high signal to noise channel.

Balaji Srinivasan - The way he see the world is something I never thought of and its all logical and practical backed by evidence from past and real world.

tarunmuvvalaon Queen Elizabeth II has died

The biggest hypocrisy is that in realm of modern era, do the monarchs have role to play? UK must move on from monarchy and become republic.

The commonwealth nation should also do that. It time for the UK to move into a new era.

tarunmuvvalaon What to read to understand central banking

https://www.youtube.com/c/FREENVESTING

This channel just points to doomsday of the central banking fund. I am curious on the counter point people can put against the prediction they are giving out.

tarunmuvvalaon Is the Fiat currency world ending?

This channels list out the dooms day vision of all the top thinkers.

The forecast, FED printing more money in future leading to more chaos.

The conclusion are not great for common folks. What should a Millennial/GenZ do in such an environment?

What are the points which can counter these hypothesis?

What happens to common people if they get true?

tarunmuvvalaon Ask HN: What is the next big thing?

Human labor is making less and less money and , we need ways for common man to earn a basic living out of tech. If money is not the right way to earn equity then we should figure out how can we distribute equity better.

The tech world is controlled by just a fraction of the world population. we need to find a way the majority makes money , else the inequality just kills

tarunmuvvalaon Ask HN: What technology is mocked today but will be common within 20 years?

Works for the developed world who have buying power.

I am not sure how will it work for the developing world where the buying power is very less.

I love the fact that the EV bring a lot efficiency.

tarunmuvvalaon Ask HN: What technology is mocked today but will be common within 20 years?

This is depended on a lot of fiat defaulting and people using these as mode of transaction.

What are you thoughts on the next wave?

tarunmuvvalaon Ask HN: What technology is mocked today but will be common within 20 years?

I am curious why will this scale for all plants. There are a lot limitations for the type of plants they can grow.

What are the factors that will lead to the growth of vertical farming?

tarunmuvvalaon Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon

you can zorp.one for building operations workflow.

tarunmuvvalaon Stable Diffusion: Is Video Coming Soon?

I guess the next step is to make stable diffusion better a lot of local context driven and multi- image prediction .

Today still the AI misses local context as the images are more of trained from Open images annotated in English by experts. But imagine if you have single image annotated by multiple people in different languages then what happens to AI capabilities