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Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

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Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

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Post by marcprux »

I am building an open-source (AGPL) distribution network for native macOS apps at https://appfair.net, along with a catalog browser and installer application at https://appfair.app. It features homebrew casks integration for third-party apps along with security disclosure, an automated build system (using GitHub actions), and verifiably reproducible builds for appfair.net apps.

Creating and distributing apps using appfair.net is instantaneous and free. I'm looking for SwiftUI developers to try out the system to help build up the appfair.net catalog of applications beyond my own little collection of sample apps.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

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Post by tartakovsky »

imranq wrote: post #65
xiaofan wrote: post #10

We're actully a group of nerds looking for Go/Cpp engineers familiar with distributed system, database and high performance computing. Vector search is the new trend and let's make something different together~ https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus

Vector search is getting a lot of attention these days. Why is that?

Read about pinecone.io. Cut off a neural network that does image classification at the second to last layer and you have a system for creating meaningful vectorial representations. Then if you apply some distance metric to a bunch of these it turns out you can retrieve images that look similar to some query image.

Problem is, scaling and doing this in real-time is hard.

Use cases abound. This was only one. There are a lot of others too. Pinecone, Vespa.AI, Faiss…

Previously this type of tech was only available for the MAANGs of the world. Hope that helps

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

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Post by iforgotmypass »

rustybolt wrote: post #14

I was hoping this would turn out to be more of a 'developers looking to collaborate' instead of a 'looking for developers to work on my idea' thread. I will post my profile and hope that somebody can suggest a nice project to contribute to. Anyway, I'm reasonably experienced in C, have some experience in C++, C++, SQL, VHDL, Python, some HTML and Javascript as well. I have a good mathematical basis and some basis in…

Would you kindly share your contact information? My e-mail is visible in the profile.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

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Post by erikerikson »

EZ-Cheeze wrote: post #68
erikerikson wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you limit it to friendships? Why not to find colleagues? Game theoretic strategy compatibility? The problem comes in how you'd make it real (i.e. implement) and find adoption.

It wouldn't be just friends, but that's how I phrased it there. I called it "supporters" in these 280 characters: "Some people just get along. They are compatible. They mesh. I think it's possible to predict whether any two people will hit it off, and to create groups composed entirely of highly compatible, highly synergistic people. What will happen when EVERYONE has a THOUSAND SUPPORTERS?" And it wouldn't just be f…

Okay. The problem is something like "social knowing doesn't naturally scale" but the entirety of the problem is how to make it do so effectively without ill side effect. I'm curious if you've gone the further step on how the system may simply iterate the current state. What ends do you seek? Most important... What have you done to start solving this problem?

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

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Post by Tpt »

I am currently building a single-node graph database implementing the SPARQL query language. It is written in Rust and is named Oxigraph: https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph

I would love to get help, I have a working MVP but there are a lot of work left to get good performances for which I would love help. Some current problems are:

- Very big write amplification (the database size on disk is very large).

- The query optimizer is basically non existent.

- The query evaluation code might be easily optimized further.

There is not yet a lot of developer-focused documentation. Feel free reach out here or on Gitter: https://gitter.im/oxigraph/community

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

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Post by dcz_self »

ge96 wrote: post #59
dcz_self wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I have ordered a batch of smart watches that go on the handlebars, same as the prototype on the photo. I will sell them together with a Bluetooth wheel/cadence sensor once I figure out Bluetooth.

That sounds pretty cool. Good luck. I'd be curious on design choices like waterproofing, battery life, things like that. Also I think you mentioned your site is getting worked on but pictures to clarify what it is about would help sell it.

The watch hardware is waterproof (but not submergeable), it works for 1 day without special optimizations (all-disabled-low-power-mode on original firmware about 2 months), it has a sunlight-readable display which should work with GPS for at least 6 hours without any optimizations. That's enough for a trip. It only has 8MiB storage space, but that should cover a couple hours worth of GPS track. It's the same device as used by Bangle.js 2.

The web site was put up before I started the firmware work, so obviously no pictures :) They will come once the project becomes more useful.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

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Post by mamcx »

I'm building a spiritual successor of the Base/FoxPro family of languages (https://tablam.org) that marry ML + relational + array paradigms with a bit of imperative support.

This is on Rust, and apart of the fancy buzzwords, what it set apart from many is that it (plan to!) be a better fit for business/data intensive applications.

Now I'm reworking the whole parsing so i can get great error messages like as Rust/Elm.

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As long-term plans, I wish to be like FoxPro/Access and be a full-stack development environment, with nice RDBMS integration, and how know, maybe build a new kind of RDBMs.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

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Post by rrjanbiah »

react2solid is a ReactJS to SolidJS code converter https://github.com/rrjanbiah/react2solid

I have started the development today (after months of thinking & gathering ideas).

Any contribution is welcome. Would prefer contributions in to the code transformer rules; something similar to https://github.com/rrjanbiah/react2solid/blob/main/_transfor...

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)

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Post by webmaven »

EZ-Cheeze wrote: post #21

From my recent post: "The thing that could bring the most change to the world is a system that finds everybody a thousand or more best friends based on psychological proximity and compatibility. Don’t tell me it’s impossible to predict whether two people are likely to get along or not based on a bunch of factors that can be analyzed with various techniques including AI. What would the world look like if every single…

You might find the novel The Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson interesting:

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Affinities.html?id=...

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