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Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by neltnerb »

robmsmt wrote: post #120

I created a toolkit to evaluate many different speech recognition engines. https://github.com/robmsmt/SpeechLoop Comparing speech systems can take a long time esp for a dev who doesn't have the background in audio/ml. How do you know which one will work best? Will new shiny transformer model perform well enough? Most end up using one of the big tech companies existing API to throw their data at. Whilst this is conven…

I'm likely to lose the use of my hands in the next few years so I've been trying to figure this out from the user perspective (for Linux) for a few years to try to sort of set up and get used to the tools I'll need later in life.

I've been using Almond, but it's really not good. I don't know how I might help but I'm definitely interested in the results... if I could use a high quality microphone to open a program, select menus, and type accurately (and have commands to press arrow keys) I think I'd be all set. I would be able to do anything I wanted, even if it was a bunch of steps.

I remember Dragon Naturallyspeaking in like 1995 being basically capable of doing all of this, and I was able to completely control a computer in like 1995 with speech and now I can't. It's extremely strange for 26 years of development.

It is as if all the tools try to be so clever that instead of assuming the user can learn new tricks, to me it should be the same as learning to type or use a mouse. Yeah, I used to have to say "backspace backspace period space capital while" to get fine details, but at least it was possible. I could even select things with voice commands. I just hope that we don't lose sight of the value of voice recognition as a general input device in search of which model performs best on accuracy alone.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by distalx »

ASK:

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I' building a 'lfg' (looking for group) website (playeeyay.com) for MMO games.

Currently there are community run discord servers for most of these games. I'm building this so people can manage all their 'lfg' preferences for different games from one place.

I'm looking to connect with either a product or a UX person and get advise on things. I know how to build things but I trying to figure out what to build actually.

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OFFER:

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I can help you pick a tech-stack for your MVP or SaaS idea.

I can help you setup a deployment workflow for your hobby project.

Email is in my profile.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by slotrans »

I am looking to collect databases from real businesses and business-like entities, including those that have failed or otherwise become "past-tense". Read on if you or someone you know might have access to such things.

Background: I'm a data engineer with about 16 years in the industry under my belt. Something that's always frustrated me about the way that we design and build systems, is the way that knowledge fails to diffuse through the industry, because we don't study what we do, and especially we don't study our failures.

As an example, the 2010s witnessed the full hype cycle (rise and fall) of "NoSQL" databases, such as MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Riak, Aerospike, and many others. Did they turn out to be any good? Individually, in local circumstances, some engineers know the answer, or at least an answer. Collectively, we have no idea. This knowledge only spreads as the primary sources write blog posts (mostly terrible), or move on to new jobs and tell stories (distorted by all sorts of biases). What we should be doing is studying what was actually built, out in the open, where everyone can see it if they're interested.

Additionally, I find it very difficult to teach other engineers about data systems, in a scalable way, without open example material. There are many online courses in SQL and things of that nature, but they always deal with trivially small, trivially clean data sets, without any of the richness or messiness of Real World Data. Many years ago, my own skill in dealing with data grew by leaps and bounds the instant I was exposed to real business data and asked to solve real business problems with it.

To these ends, I am looking to collect real business data sets. I use the term "business" loosely, in the same sense that engineers often say "business logic". Non-profits, community efforts, personal side projects, these things all count. The key thing I'm after are custom-built databases, meaning they either started from a blank MySQL/Postgres/MongoDB/etc, or heavily customized an off-the-shelf system like Wordpress or Salesforce.

I recognize there are thorny issues here with respect to intellectual property and personal data privacy. I do not expect anyone to just hand over a database and wish me well. We would have to work something out, whether that's an NDA, or thorough anonymization, or whatever.

In any event, if you possess a data set like this, and might be willing to share it for research purposes, please reply here and we can figure out how to connect and discuss.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by outside1234 »

YousefED wrote: post #229
outside1234 wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am thinking from a development perspective something like an easy set of React Hooks that essentially allow you to utilize CRDTs etc. without having to know much more about them than the operations available (add, delete, etc.) From a user perspective, I am thinking that getting support for a local first approach is as simple as installing a Dropbox style service locally that enables storage and syncing across your…

I’m working on this. One of the projects part if this journey is https://www.syncedstore.org which was recently on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29483913 ). Shoot me a message to collaborate on this or similar stuff!

Great! Will have a look.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by slotrans »

mg wrote: post #3

Hey, I want to put together an open source project that gives an overview of how to set up a minimal viable web application from scratch via all the different frameworks. The idea is to format the tutorial for each framework as a shell script. So there is no ambiguity of how to reproduce the results. And it is even possible to just copy&paste the steps into a docker container and see the framework in action. Here is…

Are you familiar with https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks ?

It's not tutorial-style, but it does contain hundreds of sample web apps (that all do the same thing, but still)

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by kinow »

nhatcher wrote: post #246

I would like to build a small CAS (Computer Algebra System) that is usable from the web. It could be used in education to plot functions, solve equations (algebraic, ODEs, PDEs, ..), work with matrices, complex numbers, number theory, you name it. We need to come up with a decent DSL. My idea is that we would write the core of the app in Rust (so that it could be used in the web as wasm or locally). They key features…

Sounds interesting! Maybe extend/improve/integrate desmos (used in khan academy by many), gnu octave, etc? Not sure if desmos has an offline version though.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by Dev_Olly »

onassar wrote: post #113

I run a side (open source) project called Iconduck ( https://iconduck.com ). It collects and makes open source icons, illustrations and graphics available to download in various formats. The goal is to collect sets from across the web (atm, mainly Gumroad and GitHub) that have open source licenses that allow for them to be available on a central site. I then use a service called Typesense ( https://typesense.org/ ) t…

Wow, nice, i am front end developer, i would love to join you on this

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by sangnoir »

indigochill wrote: post #197
martincmartin wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yep, exactly. When Facebook changed their name to Meta, people were looking for a good acronym for the biggest tech companies.

Interesting that out of five corporations, only two letters are represented. Ok, "A" is ranked third in frequency in the English language, but the other one I avoided in these sentences? Not even in the top twelve.

Freqency at the begining of words is likely to be different to frequency anywhere in the word. Regardless, "a" has the highest frequency in the company names, when spelled out in full (occurring 6 times, in 3 of the 5 corporations)
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