I don't know of anyone who volunteers their own free time to work on something they don't care about the success of.
Its just that, for them, the success might not be measured in what others think nor how much money it might make?
Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
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#262Listudy - https://listudy.org/en
I created this as a tool for me to memorize chess openings. Since then I added more tools like tactics and endgames where I took theoretical winning endgame positions with the challenge to beat stockfish in them.
The project is open source [1] written in Elixir using Phoenix and also utilizing LiveView for some pages like the search pages.
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#263It's a website and apps listing events in Paris
Also an emoji-only twitter
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#264My minimal notepad project: https://kvak.io/?n=intro
Was a great mini-side-project to learn some basic engineering.
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#265Vertical indoor farm to reach the highest throughout possible per cubic meter are, using only non-GMO plants by discovering the right phenomics- https://hexafarms.com Vertical indoor farms are getting a lot of attention in the recent times, but the issue is the lack of plant expertise. Even if you were to go through all the literature, you would never find a holistic study that takes into account all the optimal fact…
Is the hardware and software used open?
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#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm working on it. It is incredibly hard to get videos in the format that apple demands when you have limited hardware. I now have an M1 mac, and I was hoping it could do things in real time in the simulator so I could capture videos that way, but something about OpenGLES support or whatever that I don't understand means that simulators still run really slow.
Record the screen and airdrop to your mac. There’s an option in iMovie to export as screenshot video. Also it’s not available for download worldwide?
I don't have an iPhone and my wife's phone is an SE, which apparently isn't high resolution enough for Apple to accept the video from. The video on youtube was recorded that way.
It is available in all the countries that Apple says they will handle the tax for. Any country where I need to worry about tax is unfortunately missing.
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#268https://aphelian.io an orbital sequencer inspired by Kepler for iPad
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#269https://quixical.com/ A suite of realtime chatrooms, for travellers to talk about their flights, and the airlines that run them. The idea is to let the use enter their flight details into a search box, find the chatroom for their flight, and let others know what's on their mind. Before the pandemic, me and my wife would travel to see family often enough to experience the mind numbing frustration of sitting in a cabin…
Are you limited to only chatting with people by flight number? Odds of more than one user on the same flight for a new app has to be low. Seems like it would be difficult to bootstrap an audience that way. Might help to start with airport chat by airport code, or just grab user's location and place them in the closest airport's chat room automatically. Also maybe add hooks for other messaging and chat tools.
Not by flight number. Each room has the airline and depart/destination airport as their key. A chatroom per airport would be an easy change, but would be a bit of a departure from what I intended the app to do. For example, the difference in customer service standards between British Airways flights across long haul and short haul products is huge. Almost night and day by my amateur reckoning.
I want to draw this kind of info out of the customer base.
As you don't need the flight number, the idea is that customers on the flight itself can make use of the realtime chat when appropriate, but prospective travellers can also peek into a room, review the chat, and ask a few questions like a regular forum.
Here's an example of how I'd like to see the app used - https://quixical.com/channel/b41eb89fca20a5ca422d9c6ffac1577...
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#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please tell me "seed-money" was a pun intended moment. Jokes aside, from a biology perspective why the aversion to GMO? From an ML perspective, what are you optimizing for - maximized growth rate?
It was!!! Personally, I have no aversion towards GMO. But in the end, it's the customers. It's already so hard to convince that food grown in clean and sterilized nutrient medium is far better than the romantic soil everyone is clinging to; GMO would take way more convincing. However, there are tastes that are indeed only found in the 'old' seeds, so there is do see the aversion non-GMO from customer side. In terms o…
> It's already so hard to convince that food grown in clean and sterilized nutrient medium is far better than the romantic soil everyone is clinging to;
You are delusional if you belive this.
You actually think that putting some vitamins, minerals etc.. in your hydropnic system is enough to immitate the insanely complex environement of real soil?
You are the example of peak arrogance: you think you can take a few things here and there and that you will be able to make the "perfect food".
The food you will grow like this will lack nutrients and will be sub-par for human consumption.
There are people who: 1) Know that they don't know many things. 2) Don't know that they don't know many things.
You are category #2.
Your delusion is that you think you can immate the insanely delicate and complicated interdependencies in soil just by putting some stuff in water.
You can eat as much of your food as you like, if you eat shit food that is your problem.
The issue I have with people like you is that you will be forcing your stuff down my throat sooner or later, even indirectly since your obviously campaign against soil grown foods: people like you will put legit farmers out of business and then people like me will have severely limited access to real food: just because you arrogantly belive you can mix a few minerals and vitamins and that that will produce legit food.
You are a prime example of someone who will do great harm out of your own deluded belief in "the greater good".
In reality you are absolutely clueless when it comes to understanding the complexity of nature: nothing works in isolation in nature, but you think it does.