Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by O__________O » Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 4:10 PM UTC

techdragon wrote: post #568

O__________O wrote: post #565

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious, what functions specifically fall under ITAR? For example, have you reviewed something like this page: https://research.mit.edu/integrity-and-compliance/export-con...

The largest issues I’ve had with ITAR are: 1: I’m building this myself as an amateur, not a university or company, this seems to instantly put everyone on high alert and I suspect I’m getting “ITAR” as an excellent stonewalling/excuse instead of just saying they don’t want to talk to me. 2: I’m working with an orbital imaging systems which could in theory be used as a very ineffective spy sat (the optics aren’t desig…

If the aperture is below 0.50m, it should be subject to US Department of Commerce’s Commerce Control List (CCL) of dual-use technologies governed by the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) — not ITAR. How big is the aperture? Did something else qualify it as being under scope of ITAR?

SOURCES:

https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/satellite-export-controls...

https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceedings/Download?urlI...

* (might try reaching out to author’s of paper above to see if they have any suggestions)

Personally, I would not make to much of how people respond to you independently trying to complete paperwork. My guess is it’s more likely related to any non-consumer system that requires paperwork not wanting to deal with non-professionals and/or give legal advice.

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Unrelated, do you have a breakdown of the SatComm expense by type product/vendor and/or utility fees/rates and expected utilization?

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by alexmingoia » Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 4:17 PM UTC

marginalia_nu wrote: post #99

As always working on search.marginalia.nu. Search itself is a fractal of interesting problems. Haven't had much time to write about it lately, but I've pretty much doubled the size of the index and re-written a lot of the query logic to make it much better, faster, and more accurate. Will do a write-up eventually, since it may be relatively explainable without getting too into the weeds that the audience dwindles ent…

I love this :)

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by O__________O » Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 4:25 PM UTC

achariam wrote: post #504

I'm working on taking the best tools from social networks, contacts app, and crms[0] to help you make the most of your relationships[1] all while protecting your privacy. It's something a lot of folks struggle with yet it is a trait that is eminently learnable[2]! [0] https://clay.earth [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498890/ [2] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/014616721663784...

Curious, how’re measure performance of your system if it’s private?

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by jfim » Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 4:27 PM UTC

koeng wrote: post #448

jfim wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not knowing anything about this field, what could someone do with such a chip? Is it something like a 3D printer where you can get a rough but usable finished product, or is it more like a "if you want to make bacterium X produce Y product, you need to do X, Y, Z, W, etc." and the chip is used to do one of the steps.

It is more like the X Y Z W. However, the X Y Z W bits I am working on as well ( https://github.com/TimothyStiles/poly , https://github.com/TimothyStiles/allbase , trilo.bio, freegenes.org). Going for fully automated "make bacterium X produce molecule Y", but still a while away (but surprisingly not THAT far off)

That's really cool! I was about to ask how to get started on that field, but I also noticed that you have that covered in https://github.com/TimothyStiles/how-to-synbio

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by O__________O » Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 4:31 PM UTC

anthonyhn wrote: post #60

I'm trying to improve my search results by building my own Search Engine. Over the past couple of years, the popular search engines haven't given me great results, and I've had to use a series of different engines, search operators, and dorks to prod out the search results I'm looking for, with mixed success. The front ends have also become a bit too feature rich for my use cases; I prefer a minimal front end with ju…

Are you trying to objectively measure your search engine vs others and if so, how?

(And yes, realize yours is currently basically just custom version of Bing.)

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by O__________O » Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 4:33 PM UTC

arionhardison wrote: post #523

I am building a public health and wellness infrastructure for black men. Launching Nov 8.

How’re you planning to get users and monetize them? Do you have to deal with HIPAA compliance, if so, how’re you doing this?

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by O__________O » Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 4:45 PM UTC

wwilim wrote: post #388

Having a baby in a few months

Congrats, good luck!!

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In case you missed this, “A method to promote sleep in crying infants using the transport response” was recently on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32845229

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by ativzzz » Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 5:06 PM UTC

andrewallbright wrote: post #47

Writing automated tests for video games. Why is it interesting to me? I started to teach myself unity in December 2021. I've personally experienced benefits to writing automated tests and using CICD; therefore, I thought it would be fun to learn about writing tests for a 3D based software. It will be different from the web/CLI based stuff I usually write. So, it turns out that the video game community (or at least th…

Old post so IDK if they still do it, but Riot Games does some automated testing for League of Legends: https://technology.riotgames.com/news/automated-testing-leag...

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by arionhardison » Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 5:06 PM UTC

O__________O wrote: post #576

arionhardison wrote: post #523

I am building a public health and wellness infrastructure for black men. Launching Nov 8.

How’re you planning to get users and monetize them? Do you have to deal with HIPAA compliance, if so, how’re you doing this?

I finished HIPA and HL7/FHIR Integration. I am getting users through a population health model. This is phase 2 of my moon shot. This was phase one. I am writing a larger blog post about it now.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/award-winning-progr...

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by perlwle » Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 5:11 PM UTC

I built a historical feed builder[0] so I can listen to previous episodes in one feed.

Most podcast feeds only include last ~100 episodes. Podcasts such as Planet Money and Radio Lab have more than 1000 episodes in total.

Manually combining the feeds is too time consuming and I enjoy building this tool.

[0] https://backpod.podcastdrill.com/