AlexDanger

I'll be hanging around for a little bit to answer any questions.

Congrats on building something and posting it!

This person is very considerate. They are already in a mindset where they will help others. They just dont see how herd immunity works.

I'm looking for interactive simulations that show how a certain vaccination rate 'tips the scales' and keeps the whole community safe. Something like this but a little more user friendly (eg using sliders and slick animations):

https://www.software3d.com/Home/Vax/Immunity.php

Can you give some examples of this financially incentivized OSS that falls under 'crypto' ?

Thanks, i'll check it out.

This is great, thanks for your post.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Thanks for your response.

Its the interesting use cases I'm trying to find - the kind of easily understandable case studies that make for a good narrative. Hence the reason for my post.

I dont need to worry about the technical details.

I also think you are undercharging for a very useful product.

The utility of what you are offering is significant. If I'm a 'cost conscious' startup and I need CSV upload functionality then I either write the functionality myself (30+ hours of dev time + ongoing maintenance?) or I use your service.

If the product works as advertised, you could charge $19/month for a basic plan and that will always be better value than 30+ hrs of time a developer will have to put into the CSV problem with all its annoying edge cases.

My suggestion is to modify the free plan such that users can upload 10k+ rows per upload, but only 20-30 times per month. Then your 'cost conscious' startup with only 5 customers can test your solution, know that it works for non-trivial amounts of data, and happily fork out $19/month when they hit 20+ customers a month and become less 'cost conscious'.

And yet using music libraries (specifically Youtube Music in my case) is a source of both pain and frustration.

Image libraries have done well, yet I feel music management has gone backwards.

fecak's reply is the best answer. In particular this quote:

As I mentioned in another comment, you can also use a summary to define yourself. If you're applying for product owner jobs, you define yourself as a product owner with skills in web dev and ML. If you're applying for a web dev job, you define yourself as a web dev with skills in ML and product.

This is great advice. Make sure you still include all the roles in your CV to illustrate a consistent period of employment. Just highlight the aspects of each role that are most relevant to the position you are applying for. If a previous role is barely relevant, just summarize the experience in a couple of sentences.

The point is to make most of your CV relevant to the role. Dont make the employer hunt through your CV for relevant experience. Most people will make a snap judgement within a minute or two of scanning your CV. Make it easy for them.

I also think a summary is very important. Sum up your best points with some dot points at the top of your CV.

Fantastic response!

Are you aware of the players in Australia? There is Skymesh (owned by a UK company) but I'm not aware of other players in the Aus market.

Of all of the providers on your list - are any of them doing LEO constellations that are able to provide low latency in the way that Starlink can offer?

One might quibble about cost efficiencies and system capacity, but in the consumer market I cant see how you can argue with the physics advantage of being 50x closer to your customer!

I'm a big believer in Starlink and SpaceX generally.

It annoys me that I can not invest in these big bold innovations directly. Has anyone thought about how to invest indirectly on the belief that Starlink will succeed? For instance, are there satellite equipment suppliers or other upstream supplier who stand to profit with Starlink's success?

Likewise, who might fail based on Starlink's success? Should I be shorting Satellite based ISPs?

Make multiple resumes, each with a focus on one thing. Use the resume that's best for the job. I recently saw somebody who must have had 20 different resumes to match the jobs they were applying for. It worked.

I'd like to second this methodology. It is a very effective approach. I've worked across multiple specialties within technology and I always tailor my CV to the job I am applying for. I highlight the most relevant experience and skills required and remove (or summarize) experience that is not relevant to the position.

Matching your CV to the job can be as simple as updating it to use the same keywords that you see on the job advert. It sounds trivial but many recruiters will filter job applications with a keyword search. If they dont see the exact keywords they are expecting, your CV will be thrown away.

Good luck!

My experience with LinkedIn is remarkably positive. I am contacted a few times a month for professional opportunities and two of my most recent jobs started from recruiters contacting me on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a chance to put forward your best self to the professional world. It is a serious force multiplier - do the work once to make your profile really shine and reap continual benefits.

Knowing who is looking at your profile (and hence who might be interviewing you for a new job) is incredibly useful information. Does this person have a technical or a business background? Do we know the same people from previous jobs? Do we have similar interests or did we go to the same school?

All of that information is very powerful when meeting someone for the first time and can give you that 5%-10% edge during an interview. It's the kind of information that allows you to make a great first impression.

I am not affiliated with LinkedIn but would recommend it to anyone struggling to find the right opportunity in the technology world.

Its not clear to me from the walk-through how they ensured they were only counting each bottle once? Is that something they automated or is it left as an exercise for the reader?

How would you go about automating the unique count when you are sampling the video 3 times a second?

Imagine the applications for the military and the intelligence services;

- Completely bypass any EM shielding / faraday cages designed to stop spies / bugs from transmitting information out of secure facilities

- Transmit information out of underground facilities or caves deep in Afghanistan without worrying about RF attenuation. Indeed, communicate anywhere in the world (or under the sea) without worrying about RF attenuation.

Bypassing the limitations of sending information by RF would be hugely advantageous for the military and intelligence services. The resources of the military industrial complex are staggering. What is the state of the art in unclassified technology regarding generating these waves and modulating them? What would be required to make such transmitters/receivers practical? A breakthrough in materials / fabrication technology? It sounds like the theory is solid, and it's a now an applied science problem?

How do you know this?

The site is fantastic. I think you have massive potential upside if this is marketed appropriately.

Do you need any help with sales and marketing? I'd be interested in having a discussion if you'd prefer to focus on building things.

Well done for taking the effort to create this site, it contains some impressive stylistic elements. Keep building things!

I prefer reading the original HN site because it loads fast, allows you to quickly scan topic titles, doesnt waste space in the layout, and has no animated elements that detract from the content.

Certainly a medium post would be good - I'm impressed by your pivots trying to find a fit with the visual programming paradigm.

What is your opinion on visual programming and diagramming libraries? Would you recommend particular libraries/services for visual programming if looking to build this type of UX/UI into a new product?

I'm interested in building a service that utilises a basic visual programming interface but I have no interest in building out a complex visual programming / diagramming UI toolset myself.

Do you consider the visual programming aspect a commodity or a selling feature? Or is that dependent on the market you are selling into?

Great work. Is the code available to look at? I see its a Creative Commons license but I cant find a link to a code repo.

I wonder if CD Projekt heard the same arguments when they started GOG? Certainly they leveraged The Witcher and anger around DRM to gain traction. But they've found a sustainable niche that does not depend on going head to head with Steam's colossal network effect.

Steam is generally pretty great. But off the top of my head I can think of two areas where Steam arent delivering;

- Greenlight. Good idea, didnt work as planned. Room in the market for some kind of Greenlight/Kickstarter hybrid?

- Gaming for kids and educational software. A Kahn Academy approach but with games instead of lessons.

Just wondering if it will or will not work with a mouse and a monitor. The application is still very relavent without VR.

This requires a VR headset? No mouse controls?

I imagine there are some testable hypotheses around this very interesting question.

1.) What, if any, of mathematics has been invented concurrently in different regions (say within 10-20 years) without collaboration or knowledge of other derived work?

2.) To what extent is the rate of mathematical development associated with war or advances in knowledge sharing? Be it radio, printing press, persuing weapons development, crypto, or mass migration (eg post ww2).

I think 1.) comes about via natural scientific progress. Some mathematical ideas are dependent on the right set of tools being invented or environmental necessity. How many people independently came up with ballastics equations once soldiers starting flinging big rocks at each other?

The 2.) Question is very interesting to me. What is the network effect of mathematicians sharing ideas? What happens when the 10 smartest mathematicians in the world end up all working at the same elite university? Why isnt this just accelerating mathematical progress in the 21st century? Are breakthroughs harder now? Does the internet and peer review journals provide too much noise? Or is it simply that progress is so fast now we don't think of these things as extraordinary ?

Incredible Machine!

Question: Were you able to utilise any data about Lego parts from Lego's own catalogues (current and historal) or technical specifications? It sounds like you trained the classifier manually. I imagine if you want to sort into sets you need to know what makes up a particular set.....does Lego provide an API or anything regarding parts/sets?

Further to that, if you have pricing data on sets you have a nice little optimisation problem - given my metric ton of parts, what are the most valuable complete sets I can make?

I'm amazed they arent more profitable, given that Twitter has become Ground Zero for the daily (hourly? minutely?) news cycle.

Are stock exchanges highly profitable? Twitter has become the global exchange for real-time information. I suppose Twitter cant really charge a 'brokerage' fee for tweeting. That is not in their interest.

Please excuse my ignorance of Twitter's commercial offerings, but is access to the Firehose expensive? Or real-time summary of Firehose statistics relevant to your keywords? That just seems so valuable and such a singular offering....its not like there is a competing service.

I know I've misued the word minutely. But there needs to be a better word for 'minute-by-minute'.

That's interesting, do you work in the industry?

Things have come full circle - slot machines paved the way for gamification techniques and IAP. Flashing lights, the sounds, the 'I almost won' near-misses from the big jackpot...all finely tuned to get that dopamine squirting and keep you on the machine. Very Pavlovian.

Video games (IAP in particular) are just rehashing the psychological tricks that slot machines have used for decades. Its just the games are newer and offer a bit more depth.

I'm sure in good time we'll see more advanced slot machines to entice the smartphone generation.

If this holo tech gets real traction I'd hope (and expect) that they'd go cross-platform with iOS/Android as first class platforms. I like WinMo but its not exactly hoovering up market share from Apple and Android.

Microsoft seems a bit more pragmatic about multi-platform now. I'm sure the business model will revolve around running your holo-server on an Azure instance or running holo-skype meetings from your corporate Office 365 subscription tied to your corporate iPad. They are moving towards device/platform agnostic services. The lock-in is server side in the cloud :)