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Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by andersonmvd »

M4v3R wrote: post #238

I’m from Poland. 20+ years ago as a teen I got to play Final Fantasy VII and even though my English vocabulary was pretty limited I felt in love with it. I was thinking about all the people who couldn’t play it because of the language barrier. So I got online and found some folks that were willing to help translate it to Polish. The only problem was that the game files were proprietary and while the modding community…

Another FF fan hehe. Btw if you still play, FF14 online is a banger to enjoy some nostalgia. I'm having a great time at least :) About working, well Square Enix is always hiring, but you need to speak japanese. Their offices are in Tokyo if I am not mistaken.

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by heynowheynow »

djmips wrote: post #382
TaylorAlexander wrote: post #360

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You could have worded this with kind concern but you chose to open by insulting me instead. I only moved here from the other side of the bay. I’ve lived in this area my whole life. Somehow all my friends in Oakland do just fine. If I get robbed, so be it, but I’m not going to hide in my car. I’ve been a cyclist my whole life and I would never ride without a helmet. This isn’t the Netherlands. My bike goes 30 MPH and…

Hey, they were trying to help. ;-) Clearly just a culture clash.

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Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by nonrandomstring »

Thanks for this interesting question.

A consuming passion of mine the past few years is ethics in digital technology, and an attempt to write a half-decent book on it.

It's been a bewildering deep dive into philosophy, psychology, criminology and law, social sciences, economics and politics. Quite an off-piste mission for a technical person coming from an EE&CS background.

HN is a helpful way for me to connect with current issues, to ask informal research questions and test ideas, and hear intelligent, critical voices that are hard to find anywhere else. Thank you all.

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by daretorant »

Fables.

For the past year or so I’ve been writing a book of fables. I originally began the effort inspired by the book The Little Prince. Over time, I’ve begun reading book after book of fables. I love finding different ones—from the classics like Aesop to Buddhist koans, Persian, Indian, Chinese, Arabian fables.

The format is just so fun and I think the philosophical lessons can be really powerful. I think of it as different parts of different societies trying to gift us with wisdom…all we have to do is open a little book and give it a look!

That said, many of the books I’m reading are old and out of print, so alongside writing my own I want to share the best fables I find. I have a regular newsletter where I write about creativity, drawing, writing… and once I’m done the book I want to share fables through it.

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Post by vbezhenar »

ricardobayes wrote: post #375
vbezhenar wrote: post #141

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I think tech lead or something like that. It sounds more serious than it actually is. Electrical engineering is done by someone who knows his stuff, I'm more software guy. Actual ADC is Texas Instruments chip built for ECG applications. So we basically interact with it and deliver a recorded signal to UI and finally to our servers. We have working business and we integrated with some ECG devices which are used on the…

If it's CE or FDA you're after, they are not that bad at all, I was tasked with it as an intern many moons ago and could complete both within 3 months starting from zero. It's a lot easier if it's the lowest level grade of medical device, otherwise you need clinical trials which are really difficult to organize. At the lowest level it's basically just a bunch of documentation you need to present to the authorities.

I think that we have our own certification processes in our country. I expect it to be mostly paperwork. We ensured some standard safety measures like galvanic isolation between human and potentially high voltage. But how it’ll go, I don’t know yet. It’s still lot of work for a complete device, especially with chip shortages.

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Post by s3000 »

seibelj wrote: post #27
weakfish wrote: post #16

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I would _love_ any semblance of evidence that the current order is in any form socialist

Depends on your world view. I give ~40% of my income to a decrepit government where I have no say how it’s spent. My city pays $25,000 USD per public school student and the results have not only been atrocious for decades but are declining year after year. Government jobs require college credentials… colleges whose accreditation are approved by the government, in some circular fashion of reciprocal approval. Our medi…

Have you considered that your market-rate could be 66% up (166*0.6=100) because everybody in your market has to pay 40% and wants to have a certain living standard? Or the other way round: how much will your income fall if taxes would be abolished?

If you want to see change, link up with other productive people. It takes one to get one. Those 40% are kind of a global standard. Instead of fighting big government, why not help to make it productive?

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Post by djmips »

BaculumMeumEst wrote: post #133

For some reason this post reminds me of the game Journey, which has drop-in/drop-out anonymous co-op where you just chill with a stranger for a little. Highly recommend it if you like games, it's on sale currently. https://store.steampowered.com/app/638230/Journey/

I think this concept will be at the root of a future breakout hit.

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Post by bogdan0s »

daretorant wrote: post #394

Fables. For the past year or so I’ve been writing a book of fables. I originally began the effort inspired by the book The Little Prince. Over time, I’ve begun reading book after book of fables. I love finding different ones—from the classics like Aesop to Buddhist koans, Persian, Indian, Chinese, Arabian fables. The format is just so fun and I think the philosophical lessons can be really powerful. I think of it as…

That's cool, I've been thinking to write some fabels as well (although I'm not good at writing)! I enjoy how such tales can be simple and deep at the same time.

If you ever get to complete it I'd love to check it out

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Post by zimpenfish »

chrisrogers wrote: post #226
spike021 wrote: post #160

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My brother recently bought an e-bike and has been enjoying it as well. He hasn't taken it on errands yet, though. How do you handle preventing theft, since that's super common here in the bay? I know there are some relatively higher rated locks but I still don't think I'd personally feel comfortable leaving an expensive bike or scooter out of sight more than maybe just a minute or two.

I'd use a large chain and the beefiest lock you can manage. The sort of thing you'd use to lock up a motorcycle.

Same suggestion but also multiple locks - I always use 3 (D, chain, metal bar) in London and I've never had a problem, even with occasional overnight leavings. If the bike next to yours only has one, you're already ahead in the risk calculation.

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Post by zuric »

sixstringtheory wrote: post #351
zuric wrote: post #176

Great post! So great that this will be the first time I post a comment here on HN. I’m from Sweden and I’m passionate about two things currently. The first thing is that me, my wife, my mother and my father is building a house from scratch to me and my wife. I’ve never built anything before so a lot of what free time I have goes towards reading up on how to do it. We started building 1,5 years ago and started taking…

Cheers for your first post here, welcome, and good luck in your endeavors! They are both things I too enjoy: building things in physical reality and in Swift.

Thanks! Seems common for tech people to combine their virtual projects/work with something in physical reality.
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