Ask HN: If you could automate anything, what would you automate?
Try to ignore the cost of creating it. You can assume automation is free, money and time wise.
Especially since in every class there will be one or two kids who take up like 40% of your energy, and you end up completely ignoring self-disciplined kids.
If there was a way we could provide automated teaching, that would be huge. And I mean teaching, not just making resources available. Stack Overflow and Wikipedia and Khan Academy are great, but they won't replace schools and teachers. An AI system that could motivate, answer questions, pose questions, encourage learning without judging failure, etc. would be wonderful.
That said, I do still understand your point.
Oh, and web infrastructure security and identity management including derivatives like ssh configurations. I have to do it every dang job I go to and despite it having surprisingly little deviance in terms of requirements in most places, nobody has the same setup. Ever. It drives me up the wall every time and it makes me somewhat dread starting new companies because it’s such a time sink yet so important.
It's been hit or miss and it gives them a little too much leverage, but it's been effective to some degree.
Having said that, you really need to watch out for these kind of agencies. Some will just endlessly fling rubbish contracts at you and demand a new CV each time.
It looks like a great service. I went to it at first thinking it didn't add any value over just launching the service in a Docker swarm (most open source apps have pre-built containers now) but I see the enterprise options as a good value add.
- SirLJ
- Are you trading on the order of minutes (or greater)? I assume from your bio tips that what you're suggesting doesn't require hft.
- Do you have a book recommendation for the actual quantitative part of things? The domain knowledge of trading if you will. I'm most curious about this because I have plenty of experience implementing autonomous systems that act under risk but have little guidance for going from raw market data to signals.
Thanks!
"Warning Signs About Another Giant Bitcoin Exchange"
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/technology/bitcoin-bit...
Though there's no mobile version because it stores everything locally.
a) didn't want stuff to be uploaded anywhere
b) didn't want to test a lot of apps
c) am always up for a challenge
So 2 weeks ago I dug out my long-forgotten knowledge about WINAPI and wrote something in Rust. It's an MVP - it queries the active window every second and writes a bit of info to a logfile in JSON format. Then I can run a python script on the daily log and analyze it. It's been fun, but you instantly notice a few things:
a) using a "window changed" hook would be better, but mine's good enough for now, but this prepared
b) idle times are important. Don't leave the computer and then wonder about off times. Current workaround: focus the media player window that's usually not really active
c) dual monitors are really hard. There's 2 windows open - one on each monitor, only one will be tracked.
d) Everything is hard, when I'm listening to a podcast during some other task that doesn't need much concentration, this won't be tracked.
e) actual quality of the data. On the one hand I'm simply not interested in adding all my browser history to this via window titles. On the other hand, maybe you want finer-grained tracking. Same with songs played, videos watched for example. Mayyybeee it could make sense tracking source code files in your editor, but I think that's too finegrained. browser vs editor is good enough for me right now
On macOS I use accessibility API to read content on the screen, including address bars in browsers. But a browser extension sending URLs to your app on localhost can work too.
- Working
- Working on X project
- At home
- Sleeping
- Eating
- Driving
- With Someone
- With brother
- With friend X
- With Mom
- etc...
- Drinking coffee
- etc.
Edit: formatting
My expenses for work.
Telling people on the internet that they are wrong.
I mean if you want to make food, that is great, but just like making your own furniture or sewing your own clothing it would be something most people didn't have to do.
Imagine an app that tells you how many calories you've consumed and the nutrition you've consumed in real time, with reasonable accuracy, without you having to manually input the food you've consumed. Like hands free MyFitnessPal. Couple that with what's already available in activity monitoring...
I just want a smarphone app where I click "refill", and everything that is not in my fridge and shelves but should be, is ordered. I then go pick it up the next day.
Nice extra: buys extra stock when discounted (taking expiration into account)
I'd still cook a few meals a week and I'd still go out to dinner, but it would be a rare occasion.
- Learning/Teaching
- My money, not earning it (although that would be nice) but if there was some way to automate investing/saving/budgeting
- Cleaning
Less Difficult:
- Transportation
- Setting up new programming projects (depending what language you're using this has been done)
Dishes, laundry, cars, floors, walls, furniture, windows, lawns, roofs, pets, any of it and all of it. We have tools for making these tasks easier, but even with the latest technology the amount of human labor hours spent cleaning one individual and their environment is staggering.
The benefits include not only a reduction in labor, but health and wellness benefits as well. In addition, cleaning automation has a history of being widely adopted. Almost everyone in the US uses dish washers and laundry machines. Roombas and automatic car washes are also widely distributed.