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Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by skbohra123 »

I am looking to build an open road accident database and related API for India. Road accident/crash is huge problem in India and there is no open dataset available for realtime or historical crash data.

We would start by creating a web scrapper for news site to scrap crash related data and provide a searchable interface to query this data. This dataset can be used to provide realtime notifications for risky roads etc.

We can brainstorm on various ideas related to this problem. You can contact me, my email is in my profile.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by caspar »

neltnerb wrote: post #251
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, se…

Unfortunately Dragon development has mostly stalled for the last 5 years (Dragon 15 was a leap forward but that was quite some time ago now).

You can still make use of it via Dragonfly (see also Caster[0]) as mentioned by a sibling comment or by using Talon[1] or Vocola.

Having used a computer 90% hands free for about a year and a half back in 2019, I chose Dragonfly then, but would probably choose Talon nowadays - less futsing about and it has alternative speech engine options.

I also recommend looking into eye tracking: the Tobii gaming products[2] work well for general computer mousing with some software like Talon or Precision Gaze[3] - well enough for me to make a hands free mod[4] for Factorio, for example.

[0]: https://github.com/dictation-toolbox/Caster [1]: https://talonvoice.com/ [2]: https://gaming.tobii.com/product/eye-tracker-5/ [3]: https://precisiongazemouse.org/ [4]: https://github.com/caspark/factorio-a11y

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by rickcarlino »

I just posted a blog article about this a few days ago.

If anyone wants to work on something big in 2022 (very open-ended), please get in touch: https://rickcarlino.com/2021/seeking-collaborators-for-proje...

My background is in IoT / full-stack web dev. Media projects are particularly of interest, but I am open to other ideas also.

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Post by carapace »

minhmeoke wrote: post #369
carapace wrote: post #88

I have a sort of constellation of projects that fit together into an overarching project, and I'd love to have some other people interested or even collaborating on it. The goals are: - Make computers that easier to understand and use (than current systems.) - Make large flying machines to enable cheap and efficient mass transport of people and materials. (Like huge, kilometer-scale kite/blimps.) - Collect and recycl…

> Make large flying machines to enable cheap and efficient mass transport of people and materials. You might be interested in ground-effect vehicles which would be much faster than ships, yet still cheaper as well as more energy-efficient than conventional aircraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-effect_vehicle There are some startups working in this area like the Flying Ship Company: https://flyingship.co/ > C…

Your enthusiasm warms my heart, cheers!

> ground-effect vehicles

I know of them a little. There may well be some applications for ground-effect in the devices I hope to build.

> bioengineer bacteria to eat plastic

Maybe so but that's outside my wheelhouse. :)

> you might be interested in concatenative languages like Forth, Factor, and colorForth.

Indeed! My "macro language" is a dialect of Joy: https://joypy.osdn.io/

> A good starting point or source of inspiration might be the Smalltalk and Lisp Machines from the past.

For sure they are inspirations, as well as the Oberon OS and Jef Raskin's "Humane Interface".

In re: Loper, yeah I love that guy (he's even more grumpy than I am for one thing.)

There are a lot of interesting projects and software out there that seem in the same or similar vein, such as Collapse OS or akkartik 's Mu.

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Post by lnsru »

minhmeoke wrote: post #386
lnsru wrote: post #243

I want to finish a Time Of Flight camera. My initial application was robotics, but this domain is very crowded. The start is here: https://github.com/lnsru/melexis_VGA_ToF_camera Hardware is not complete, current software is raspiraw with corresponding modified camera header file. Tweaked raspiraw can receive test pattern from sensor chip. I want to offer low cost camera commercially at the end, but have no problem o…

I'm not an expert in this area, but wow, that's quite impressive. Thanks for sharing and good luck with your project!

Thanks! I really like the complexity of this project.

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Post by onassar »

tomcam wrote: post #416
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…

1. Thanks for a wonderful site. It's the best of its kind 2. I hope you're not paying for hosting, since places like Cloudflare and Netlify host static sites for free, and I think yours probably qualifies 3. It's free--what would you need marketing help for? 4. Have plans to monetize somehow? I can imagine a couple of ways you could do so.

1. Thanks that's v kind :) 2. A bit complicated, but it's not an added financial burden :) 3. I'd love to grow it, the API, and a bunch of other things related to it. 4. Yeh there are some routes, but for the time being, I'd love to have it serve as an open source resource for people.

Let me know if you'd want to contribute: oliver@iconduck.com

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Post by atlasunshrugged »

caseyslaught wrote: post #407
atlasunshrugged wrote: post #304

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey! Curious what impact you've seen of the mining sector in the country but especially towards wildlife and economic development? I have heard the country wants to move up the value chain too, any feelings on whether doing something like processing (requires lots of skilled workers and 24/7 power) is actually realistic? Do you have any recommendations/travel guides for someone who would want to come visit and not ju…

You're definitely right that DRC wants to move up the value chain. Most raw materials are shipped out of the country for processing or smuggled to neighboring states (gold). However, the impact on wildlife is most certainly negative. The economic development impact is pretty unclear; DRC has shown time and again that mineral wealth is equitably distributed. Despite the jobs some new processing plants might afford, th…

On the latter point, interesting, maybe I'll try to dig up some research on what the counterfactual would be if there was no mining industry; my understanding is that while the conditions are terrible, it does provide jobs for hundreds of thousands if not millions. In regards to distribution of gains... yeah, seems like the whole world is failing at that one, just more egregious in a place where people are starving or having to become child soldiers. That being said, what's the alternative here? Mining companies will come because of the resources and I see no other angle for the DRC to industrialize other than the control they have on the mineral wealth.

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Post by atlasunshrugged »

thelastgallon wrote: post #449
atlasunshrugged wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Second on the monthly idea. Will you be lobbying at the federal level of focused on state/local?

Building codes are mostly at city/local level. We have to get this changed for every city. I am hoping once we get a few cities to adopt this, it will be easier to get other cities to adopt. There are no federal/state building codes. There is a central authority (ICC), all cities start with ICC code and make modifications. We can also work with ICC, but the adoption cadence will be slow. ICC updates building codes ye…

Got it, that's not a space I'm very active in but have you checked trade associations? That may be a way to cut across state/city lines quickly and it would be good to understand their stances because they do hire professional lobbyists at the city/state and I'm pretty sure federal level (met one from a roofing association socially)

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by exikyut »

thelastgallon wrote: post #100

This is a great idea! Can we do this monthly? I am having conversations with a few people to start Conduit Foundation: require all new construction to be EV ready. Have conduit installed whenever we build new parking. It will make it future proof to pull cable and install chargers later. This is a one time building code change with a continuous yield of new charge points. Hit me up if you have any interest.

...lobby to have the building code changed.

Huh.

It's kind of neat to realize you can actually just go and do that. So easy to just write that sort of thing off as interminable because it will be hard. Very cool idea.

On a related note, I'm torn about applying the same idea to new residential constructions, and the minimum amount that would be appropriate to require. Such a concept would make for example running fiber straightforward and inexpensive.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by 4sellff »

Looking for collaborators to help build the future of digital advertising. Working on a solution that offers benefits to sellers of products/services, while buyers can choose which ads to view [opt-in], respects user privacy [no tracking or collection/resale of user data] and compensates people for their time and attention [earn cash rewards]. More information here:

https://sellff.com/$/ron.michel/post/200

Any help is welcome. Feel free to connect on sellff.com or via email [in profile]. Thx.

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