Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by birbs » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 1:36 PM UTC

wintermutestwin wrote: post #361

birbs wrote: post #326

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I think Discord is then modern form of this. It’s really a great product.

Isn't Discord just chat (aka IRC)? Every time I try to get on Discord, it seems chaotic and confusing. Like chat, I guess it depends on who the users are at the moment you happen to use it. Forums are a much better approach to information sharing IMO.

Discord is chat in a sense. But community forums are also a form of chat. You shouldn’t confuse a technical implementation (e.g. Discord or IRC) with the end product (e.g. fostering community discussion).

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by roland35 » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 1:46 PM UTC

I am trying to design a solution to something I encounted a lot during my hardware development days - keeping track of inventory of small and large parts alike. Basically a shelving system with an app which a user can search and the shelf would illuminate the correct bin.

My problem is, would this be a viable product for companies? It was always a hassle when I worked in labs but I am not sure if it is a big enough problem to design an entire IoT product around.

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by wizzwizz4 » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 1:53 PM UTC

gpa wrote: post #354

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #335

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I'd just slap a GUI / audit logs on top. Show the intermediate data (the “wrangling”), show the computed similarities, show the conclusion (this met that threshold, and the other was equal, so it's category seven).

Can you elaborate on the technical details: which language, library or framework would you use?

Tkinter, probably. Or a web interface. Depends on what I'm doing, honestly – the answer will always be “whatever's currently being used”.

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by myWindoonn » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 3:18 PM UTC

jlokier wrote: post #441

myWindoonn wrote: post #127

I'm working on destroying proof-of-work blockchains. I have a plan for BTC, but I'm not sure how to approach ETH. Advice would be appreciated.

If you're interested in eliminating proof-of-work for ETH, you should really take a look at the proof-of-stake network in progress. Keywords: "Eth2", "proof of stake" and "the merge". When proof-of-stake takes over, there won't be any miners. The block proposal process is done by stakers instead. Some of the incentive issues with miners still exist with stakers, but raw competitive power consumption isn't one of them…

The proposed PoS scheme for ETH will run afoul of regulators as soon as a big-enough crime is financed on ETH. I do not need to put effort into destroying those things; they are ticking time bombs. PoS separates participants into pigs and chickens, and the pigs could find themselves liable as money handlers.

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by iamwil » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 3:43 PM UTC

Matthias247 wrote: post #285

iamwil wrote: post #153

What are the resources to look at for designing the architecture of a scheduling system (for coroutines/threads)? Would I first look at how Operating systems implement it? Or how VMs like Erland implement it? Same question for effects systems, where would I look to understand how they're designed and the trade offs for their design decisions?

It indeed makes sense to look at on OS. You might want to start with a simple one, like FreeRTOS - which is more or less just a task scheduler at core. I would recommend not to start with coroutines in the beginning if your main focus is scheduling. In the end coroutines and async/await is about building a userspace scheduler on top of a scheduler that already exists in the OS, so you just get twice the amount of log…

So don’t start with coroutines and just look at OS scheduler and possibly the erlang VM?

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by koheripbal » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 3:44 PM UTC

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #263

koheripbal wrote: post #204

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The value of a forum is not to get everyone. It is actually in limiting a community to the most mature voices and thoughtful people. There's little upside to having teenagers in a forum, for example, unless you're looking to monetize.

Younger people can help evolve topics by providing a set of fresh eyes. It's also important to pass knowledge on, otherwise it just ends up dying with you. For example: Virtual reality headsets were fairly stagnant until a young guy in his early 20s tried something new. Old people often become stuck in their ways and it requires someone new to show up and ask how the sausage is made.

"fresh eyes" can still be the people new to the form who have that year just turned 35 (eg).

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by tmilard » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 4:32 PM UTC

Const-me wrote: post #440

tmilard wrote: post #431

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1: yes, improving it. 2: yes but it is a tradeoff between texture quality and minimazing loading time. 3: Yea, ideally. But KISS is my priority : We have an editor that aims to be simple enough for all, thus no BPR & no shader.

2 – can you possibly replace them with higher resolution ones after the scene is already running? Ideally, gradually with a blend over ~1 second. 3 — I see. Still, you could pre-compute local illumination automatically in the editor, and bake it somewhere. Maybe into vertex attributes, maybe into another lower-resolution R8_UNORM set of textures.

2- --> The person Who builds the space in 3D With free-visit 'builder' decides how much he squeeze down the texture quality. His choice depends on the target: Smartphone (low quality), computer with big screen (high quality texture)

3- --> I will see with client feedback. I do not want at this point to over-engeneer free-visit. First I must find my market.

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Post by bsldld » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 5:29 PM UTC

dane-pgp wrote: post #170

bsldld wrote: post #65

I am not there yet, but I am trying to make education loan-free and based on equity. The details of the project are written here: https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org

> when that student starts generating income then a small percentage from that income is auto-deducted and distributed to everyone who was involved in that student's education. Your idea, if implemented well, may end up being a net positive for society, but I can't help imagining a future where every child, from the moment they are born, has a biometric ID connecting them to a consortium of companies which provide th…

> Your idea, if implemented well, may end up being a net positive for society

Thank you!

> but I can't help imagining a future where every child, from the moment they are born, has a biometric ID connecting them to a consortium of companies which provide their education, health care, housing, energy, internet connectivity, transport, media access, and so on.

My idea will not have that side-effect because not only is the project non-profit and open source, but it is also decentralised. And if we keep thinkng of a dystopian future then we won't be able to do anything positive unless we become some sort of social revolutionaries. I don't have those skills. But I can think of small ideas to make a positive impact that benefits everyone though. The idea I listed in my original post above is very simple, it helps teachers, lecturers, or anyone who contibutes to a persons monetary decent life via education get appropriately paid for their efforts, and everyone(i.e. businesses) who benefits from an educated person should contribute towards that.

It is a simple idea but notoriously diffcult to deploy because there is a possibility of this getting caught up in a political slugfest.

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by lsferreira42 » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 6:00 PM UTC

I have two app/websites ideas, one is a way to track your food and alert you when your food can spoil ( and sugest recipes with what you have in your house ) And a learn helper website/app that will give you paths to learn thins and register, track and help you through this process The first one is on the planning side, the second one already have some pages written in python/django

Re: Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

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Post by adriangrigore » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 6:19 PM UTC

adriangrigore wrote: post #406

cxr wrote: post #404

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If by "client side" you mean in the web browser of you, the author of a new piece of content, then yes—a site that is "capable of generating itself". (If you mean templates that are evaluated in the browser of every site visitor every time they refresh the page, then no.)

Ah, yeah, finally got your "capable of generating itself" idea. Pretty cool, interesting to experiment on it. I guess it would be something like a site that downloads itself also.

But then you would have a Js dependency.