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What useful tools can be made from such a dataset?

The other day I came across this pricing dataset https://oria-data.trillianthealth.com/ (this is just for pricing though)

There must be some gem datasets like these - I wish I had the time (and expertise) to explore


get ready to help each other

This. This will make all the difference, everything else is secondary.

In today’s media/social-media hellscape, how does one even begin to build a community? Every front page is filled with negativity, divisiveness.

I used to think preppers are nutjobs. As I grow old now, it feels more like they have a point


Good question. First start as small as possible. You dont need to design a massive system and burnout is a real possibility... which leads to: find groups already set up around you. We have a local food pantry that also cooks for people. It's ok to test drive various groups until you find good fits. There are various ways. Im helping a group get their non-profit status atm. Not super visible or boots on the ground but needed/useful. Other groups just need people to help reach out on social media.

It's as much a state of mind as physical actions and good for you for starting to see the need and opportunities.


10M pages? woah!

I remember watching a YouTube video where a farmer was talking about how they are squeezed by modern tractors. I suppose any help farmers can get is worth the effort. I don't know anything about tractors, just read somewhere that farmers are looking more and more to purchase older tractors (without all the fancy software and electronics) - apparently those don't break down as much, and when they do breakdown, they are easier and cheaper to fix


This is fun! Where do you get the audio from?

Thanks!

We handcraft each game my pulling audio quotes from different media available on the internet and also from the original sources. We also have a workflow to pull clips from clip.cafe via their API (with a workflow process to extract the audio only and generate subtitles and other cool stuff) but we usually still trim and normalize those by hand too.


Nice! Makes me wonder how many other businesses are possible to build, on top of govt data.

1. What is the churn like? Don't people cancel after finding a job?

2. Has any company objected to scraping?


1. Churn isn't as bad as I would have thought. There is also the use case for someone who has a job and wants to find the next one. But yea if someone wants to only use for 1 month, that is expected

2. I think companies (or the ATS's they use) might object to reposting a job listing on my site but I'm not doing that. You can search/sort/filter jobs but in order to view the job posting you will open a link back to the original job.


I think what people do in public should be heavily witnessed and recorded

What for? I don't understand why you want to record some stranger jogging, drinking coffee, smoking, eating or simply walking and minding their own business. What am I missing?


Temporarily it's fine. Store it for a few weeks and then destroy. If something happens to the jogger on their jog we can grab the video, if nothing happens, it's deleted.

Map says "data from https://www.homeboy.immo/en" - maybe he scraped, just guessing.

Nice site, has tons of info on moving to Berlin. Must have time quite a bit of effort to put together


They scraped the info. I politely asked them for it. Otherwise I would need to maintain my own bots on top of everything else.

One of my colleagues (he is in his mid forties now) joked that he was raised by TV, not his parents. I suppose today’s kids are raised by social media. It is super easy to give an iPad to a 10 year old, so they don’t bother you while you’re working. Feels like parenting is a bit outsourced to electronics and the internet


And yet, there are so many people who have never written a line of code in their life building iOS apps, web apps etc with AI tools and making more money than a super smart software engineer.

Sure these apps could have serious security issues, might have inefficient implementation etc, but in the end they are still able to provide for their families. Not saying this is good or bad, just pointing out that there are at least a few people making a living with these tools


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