Readit Newsbjacobt commented on Making regular GPS ultra-precise norwegianscitechnews.com/... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
Why don’t cities have ground beacons for this?
Much cheaper than satellites and would be guaranteed to see heavy use
Nextnav (no affiliation) is trying to do something similar. https://nextnav.com/
Edit: not affiliated with the company
bjacobt commented on Ask HN: Can anyone suggest few open source projects for SaaS Boilerplate? · Posted by u/magundu
For backend this might help https://feathersjs.com. I’m not affiliated with them, just a happy user.
I don’t do AI professionally but as a hobby, so this may not be the best way. But the way you described, it seems the user maybe taking the picture a bit further away and there may be other objects in the frame. So you may want to look into some sort of segmentation or have bounding box. This could help the user make sure they are looking at documents for the correct machine.
I think something like detectron2 [1] could help. It is Apache2 license, so commercial friendly. That said the pre-trained weights may not be commercial friendly, so you’ll want to check on that.
Also fast.ai course [2] is a good starting point to understand the basics. If you are pressed for time, just go through Lesson 1.
[1] https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2
Edit: added fast.ai, grammar
bjacobt commented on How to easily pay a single employee in another country · Posted by u/dsingh1990
Not sure if there is any policy prohibiting it, but you could try Upwork or fiverr. After they join you could hire them as a contractor.
bjacobt commented on Understanding Deep Learning udlbook.github.io/udlbook... · Posted by u/georgehill
> Sources like Karpathy's recent video on what LLMs actually do are good anti-hype for the lay audience
Which video is this?
I believe op means Intro to Large Language Model
bjacobt commented on Ask HN: I've spent $1M+ building a fitness app. Now what? · Posted by u/ptwobrussell
I find going to conferences helpful. I went to a few and found potential customers and more importantly other businesses that became new sales channels.
Depending on your personality you may or may not want to setup a booth. I’m a technical founder and not comfortable approaching people, so having a booth and people wanting to find out more about my SaaS helped establish new relationships and sales.
bjacobt commented on Tell HN: Marcus.com' automated fraud detection locked me out of life savings · Posted by u/sherlock_h
- Start by filing a complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau[1]
- Advice patio11 gave me (adjust for your own situation):
> 1) Unlikely to convince them to re-open the account but if you want to try your best bet is on paper to Sallie Mae; enclose copious documentary evidence of identity, source of funds, and purpose for opening the account. You can address the packet to Legal or Chief Compliance Officer; they can messenger it over to Fraud.
> 2) Assuming primary goal is getting $20k expeditiously: Reg E letter to Sallie Mae’s Legal Department or Chief Compliance Officer or similar. Argument: you made an electronic transfer into the bank; it was not processed properly (not credited to you); you require them to either reverse transfer or return the money via a method convenient to them. Send on paper.
> 3) Check that Chexsystems didn’t get a file opened on you as a result of this; would be unfortunate. More on your local Googles.
- (patio11 used to ghostwrite to banks as a hobby[2])
[1]: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/
[2]: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...
+1 to file a complaint with CFPB. Chase closed my account and for two months I was visiting local branches and calling them, and nothing happened, just end less calls and explaining the situation again.
I filed with CFPB, and situation resolved automatically in about two weeks.
I had posted a bit more here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37013206
bjacobt commented on Ask HN: What will it realistically take to create an iOS app? · Posted by u/om154
Since you already know react, you might want to try https://reactnative.dev
As someone else mentioned the difficult part is generating the marketing materials and the app review.
You could also try PWA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app
Edit: add PWA
I'm bootstrapping a project and looking for someone that can quickly build a CRUD iOS app using Swift, VisionKit and invoke REST APIs for backend integration. Its a basic app for a web application with the following features:
1. User Login + FaceID (no need for signup, password reset, etc)
2. CRUD operations on an item
3. Ability to take pictures and upload
4. Ability to run Vision operations like Text detection, OCR, etc on the image.
5. Upload data to backend via REST API including background upload.
6. Publish app to iOS app store
API will be provided for login and CRUD operations.
You'll be working with me (backend developer) to make it as close to production ready and publish to app store.
If you are interested please respond with rate and approximate start date and time required to build, my email in profile.
Edit: formatting