Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
We have the monthly "Who is hiring?" and "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" threads. But what about people who don't want to work for money and are not looking for people who want to work for money but still want to work together on cool projects?
For free to make the world better or to start a startup.
If you do, please post your project or your skills!
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Here is a demo of how this could look like for Django:
https://www.gibney.org/from_debian_to_web_app
It would be cool to have one column for each framework and then align them visually by feature. So if you want to compare how do you use a template, you can look at the "Let's use templates" row and have a quick overview of how it is done in Django, Laravel, Flask, Symfony, NextJS...
Each framework section could link to the developer(s) who wrote it.
If you want to contribute to the section for your favorite framework, send me a message!
From there on, it is up to the developer to add their own design and functionality. After you understand the code for setup, routes, templates and user accounts this should be easy.
As for mutliple steps adding to the same file, I think overwriting the whole file every time is doable. For example when we introduce the concept of a template, the template can be created like this:
Now say later we want to use a base template which contains a content block. Now we modify the template to extend the base template:It's not tutorial-style, but it does contain hundreds of sample web apps (that all do the same thing, but still)
https://todomvc.com/
https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
My whole project is just one page!
The page displays multiple scripts side by side.
One script per framwork.
Each script can turn a fresh Linux installation into a working web application with routes, templates and user accounts.
What are your thoughts on docker which seems to do something similar? Also, how would you stay updated on every single framework if they ever change their installation scripts or other such parts?
Since I envision the scripts to be very small, I expect that updating them will not take long. The history of the updates will indeed be very interesting. In 10 years we can look at it and see how often each framework had breaking changes.
So instead of using debian:11-slim as I propose, one could use a Dockerfile made for Django. But that would help very little. Django even abandoned their official Dockerfile because it brings so little to the table.
In my opinion, using a higher level Dockerfile than the bare OS is a net negative. The developer won't know how much magic it hides. Even though it just hides a few lines of code. And being higher up in the stack also means stuff will break more often and the scripts need to be updated more often.
https://fullstackphoenix.com/ https://railsbytes.com/
Maybe its time to focus on marketing and product fit ;-)
My projects / areas of interest:
1) high-concurrency booking system (10,000 university students trying to enrol in classes for next semester)
2) real-time money streaming
What does this mean?
A pay-per-second model explicitly validates accountancy-per-second, aka micromanagement, and constructs a unique feedback loop that, exactly as you say, has never been possible before.
How would you build fundamental contingencies against micromanagement into such a model?
I don’t believe in technical analysis, and I think the efficient market hypothesis is mostly true and love Fama’s work (and sometimes I am first!).
The biggest reason I do this is because it feels like a PhD that can actually pay well.
Are you similar? Let’s meet!
Email is in my profile
This may be part of the motivation.
The audacious goal is something like “build a Trello clone from git init to a live product in under 10 minutes”
Looking for like-minded folks with any of the following skills:
- strong React
- UI/UX design
- TypeScript
- AWS
- SaaS building
- writers for docs, tutorials, articles, evangelization
- product / project manager
I want to lean in heavily into existing AWS services and have everything e2e pre-wired, testable with great CI experience and essentially following best AWS practices.
take a look at https://www.airplane.dev and https://www.scriptkit.com
Is there anyway to follow progress of what your working on?
https://www.gooddog.ai/
If you’re interested in conservation / sustainable development and associated technologies let me know! Always looking to collaborate and bounce ideas off others.
To simulate this invention:
- have a dog
- put something smelly on your thumb
- extend arm to point thumb towards dog
- as the dog is within 5-10cm radius of your thumb, press your thumb against their nose (and say the obligatory "boop")
- imagine your had something to extract noseprints from their nose on your thumb
https://gorillafund.org/karisoke-research-center/noseprints-...
Really cool stuff. I wonder if face detection is sufficient too? It has been proven to work for brown bears [0].
I have also been doing some open source work [1] to democratise object detection in this space but I haven't had the time to make improvements to the project in a while.
* [0] http://bearresearch.org/
* [1] https://github.com/petargyurov/megadetector-gui
Seeing as you are in DRC. I've worked on a number of projects there. Maybe you might be interested in checking out an app we made to help NGO/media etc learn about and manage their digital and physical security? Lots of groups on the ground there have used it in situations like kidnap, targeted malware etc.
It's called Umbrella. It's free, opens source, on ios and Android available in many languages. If you are interested, have a look at at https://www.secfirst.org or ping me via the email in my profile! :)
This looks like a behavioral modification tool, to prevent kidnap, etc. Two questions: is there a scenario database of DRC "actualized risk", that describe real kidnaps, extortion, etc ideally with root cause analysis? What is your revenue model[1]? Okay, 3 questions: what do you think of tools like what NSO provides for client recovery?
1 - Speculation: do you make revenue by providing a marketplace where security service providers can market to consumers?
So at the moment the advice we give is not country specific. We have slightly different levels depending on risk, threat model and skill. Building a logic to do country by country was something we tried but is incredibly hard.
Our revenue model is based on a few things. We got grants to build the initial version, we also create paid white label versions for organisations that want their own and we do security training and consultancy services.
Regarding NSO Group. Well considering we work every day with journalists and activists, some of whom have been targeted by NSO...to say we despise what NSO does is probably an understatement.
NGOs jobs tend to be structured on topics as much as on functions, so making a shortlist of topical keywords might be helpful in the search to become aware of organizations. You should also look directly at organizations' staff lists, which are typically fairly open and have emails listed. One thing to be aware of is many nonprofits have tightly budgeted projects with specific needs, so getting your foot in the door on a less interesting project might be needed. Generalists can benefit here.
I know a few job sites that collect these kind of positions, some techy and some not:
https://techjobsforgood.com/
https://nextbillion.net/jobs/
https://greenjobs.greenjobsearch.org/
https://www.devex.com/jobs/search/
Last I will mention the nonprofit organization I work for - World Resources Institute (https://wri.org). We organize our work around seven global challenges: food, forests, water, the ocean, energy, climate, and cities. We do research, build data products and applications, organize partnerships. We help tackle some the largest questions related to how we collectively transition to a world where more than 9 billion humans have their food and energy needs met through fair economic and environmental systems.
PS: I love that autocorrect.
It's only available in Czech so I had to translate the title. I've read it in two days, really enjoyed it.
Like everyone else in the world.
Are you saying that people are equally friendly, hospitable, kind and ethical across the world?
I hope you can perhaps see the problem here.
Gorilla tracking devices are likely to be intrusive and cumbersome for them. They are also known to help each other out and remove devices. For now, gorillas are tracked on foot by a team of rangers.
I think many programmers want to do something good ( preferably by learning) and are willing to spend time on projects like this.
Ps. Don't forget to submit it here ;)!
Where can I read more about this part of your work?
The goal: you (any programmer) should be able to use an open-source program, get an idea for a simple tweak, open it up, orient yourself, and make the change you visualized -- all in a single afternoon.
More details: http://akkartik.name/about
What I have so far: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva
Lately I'm spending a lot of time on the sandboxing model. It's nice to be able to download and run untrusted programs before we start trying to understand them. How to permit this without letting them cause too much damage, by explicitly giving them arbitrarily fine-grained permissions that are still easy to take in at a glance.
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mromanuk - If you are interested in sharing experiences, advice, or just chat about ideas/programming/tech or collaborate, say hello at my contact is in my profile.
shazeubaa - Wouldn’t it be neat to hangout with devs while coding, even if not speaking that much. Can share screens, be supportive.
eloisius - A hypothetical project I'd be interested in contributing to would be
They make best use of low-cost resources. Check out the Arduino-based robot built using recycled materials.
[1] https://unmuktfoundation.org/
Give me a shout if you're interested in turning it into something - email is in my profile.
The primary feedback from friends has been it's cool, but hard to use without much of UI (current version is all shortcut keys). That's something I can fix in the next couple of weeks.
A harder problem is there's a decent chunk of knowledge workers with no experience navigating virtual 3D spaces. If you didn't grow up playing Quake, Minecraft etc you might find Temin frustrating to use for a little while.
For organising information Temin has been an entirely positive experience for me. For the first time what's in my head matches what's on a screen.
Early on I expected that mental model to fall over as the amount information in a metaverse grew, but I have ~12,000 sticky notes/pieces of paper in my 'main' metaverse and haven't personally felt the need to add any search functionality yet. I'm honestly not sure if I know where everything is, or just how to get back to it. Speaking to a neuroscientist or similar would be great - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_memory#Current_theories
I'd also be keen to speak to anyone who has thoughts on Temin as a graph, as more recently I've been finding sticky notes mean multiple things and belong in multiple locations. https://temin.co.uk/#links does a rather poor job of explaining my current solution.
Regarding your question about why this works : I urge you to read at least the first chapter of Frances Yates The Art of Memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Memory - how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page.
Thanks for the book recommendation, I've started to read it. It's nice to get some history and depth to concepts I had some awareness of.
I do wonder how method of loci strategies stand up to bricks and mortar sticky note use in collaborative environments. In my day job I've felt other people moving and adding things to a wall as almost destructive if I didn't experience it happening (purely in terms of memory). As changes in Temin are written to a ledger a fringe benefit is you can play back what's happened while you were gone, which seems to sooth that.
For work, I also spend a lot of time writing/drawing/thinking with a pen, and most of the artefacts in my metaverse are created with a Wacom not a keyboard. Being able to remember where things are I put down to Temin, being able to remember what's there I put down in some part to that. I'm not going to trying to convert people who prefer to use keyboards, and I expect pen-first users will very much be a minority, but the research on retention when it comes to pen vs. keyboard is pretty compelling.
Also it could be an interesting intersection between laptop (where you create data and put things to the boards) and VR (where you navigate, process and work with data). I am not sure about MVP, but surely there is so many usecases, starting from personal collection of knowledge to teamwork, project documentations etc.
Great insight into the use cases for Temin depending on the I/O. It took me using a desktop and VR headset to form the same opinions. Initially I thought my VR usage would be higher, but it's below 1% of the total time I spend inside Temin. VR is also pretty good for presenting/telepresence.
Mixed reality excites me way more than VR, so I'm keen to skate more towards that technology long-term.
https://github.com/inet256/inet256
Developers, applications, and end-users are under-served by the network layer. INET256 provides necessary features (stable addresses, encryption) to client applications, which usually have to reimplement those features themselves.
I have validation, unique domain expertise and a strong "why now".
The plan is to exit within 4 years at a $5-10M valuation taking minimal or no external funding.
If this piques your interest, please drop me a message. Email on my profile.
I created a GUI wrapper around a popular AI model for object detection for wildlife conservation [0]
The idea is that most ecologists don't have the technical expertise to run such models, so making their life easier is an important task. The use of AI also saves them loads of time. The project was born when I got in touch with New Zealand's Department of Conservation for volunteering opportunities.
I haven't had time to continue working on this; help is welcomed!
* [0] https://github.com/petargyurov/megadetector-gui
[0] www.thehighestcritic.com
someone need a little labor force at projects written on c#/unity?
or maybe you're have vanilla JS stuff?
let me know: cr189@yandex.com
P.S. my competition profile: codewars.com/users/pGc3m9
anyway, i don't know target auditory, and how skilled must be person, but i want read more stuff like that.