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Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

#41

I am working on a solution for people to defeat procrastination. Here's how it works, you select a time slot for work, and we assign you an accountability assistant who will get on a call with you and keep in touch as often as necessary to keep you from procrastinating by holding you accountable for the task at hand.

Sounds expensive

Lets think about it and come back to it later.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

#42
I'm working on scaling up a network of devices connected to our laboratories aboard the International Space Station for K-12 education. Our 7th mission launches on the Cygnus resupply NG-13 on 2/9.

As we connect classrooms and scale across different countries, the problem set has grown exponentially.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

#44
The environment and how to lead people to enjoy acting sustainably long-term, so they spread that joy and sustainability to others, not coerce.

I've found a strategy I think believe will work -- my Leadership and the Environment podcast.

Here's the podcast: http://joshuaspodek.com/podcast

Here's an episode clarifying my strategy: https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo...

Here's my corporate strategy: https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo...

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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post #3

Persisting your OS state as a "context" - saving and loading your open applications, their windows, tabs, open files/documents and so on. Started because of frequent multitasking heavy work with limited resources. Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates. https://cleave.app

This is cool! I wish I have something like this across multiple machines, although then there’s a lot of sync problems that needs to be solved

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

#46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you please elaborate on meditation? How has it helped you, how much time do you spend, what is walking meditation etc? Thank you

> walking meditation Walking while meditating. There's a common misconception that you need to be sitting or lying down to meditate *or even need to be in a dark candle lite room lol). Meditating is a state of mind.

Distance running gave me the space to let stressors bubble up, acknowledge them and move on. Once all of those thoughts pass it becomes easy to focus on breathing and be present in the moment. Over time it also becomes easier to recognize this pattern and expect and accept it.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Somewhat of a departure from the rest of the current comments. I'm a dataminer/rom hacker mainly working on Nintendo handheld systems from the DS onward and I've recently resigned myself to learning the sort of ASM code needed to reverse engineer compiled assets (since obviously I have no way of getting a pre-compiled version of those assets). I've been looking into the legality of reverse engineering and I've always found it to be a fascinating subject.

All because I can't get a 3DS game to load modified videos.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

#48
Problem:

The hassle of splitting proceeds from a service/event/product sale after the fact related to sending/collecting your % share, timing and details of wiring the proceeds.

Solution:

Pre-set allocations and create a customized checkout so that splits happen on a per-payment basis. Members dont have to wait to get their share.

https://www.korabo.io

Idea kind of came about after watching my wife, who is a yoga instructor/ studio owner try to split proceeds from a workshop she hosted with a few collaborators.

Another example: allows you to create a shield to a checkout that will split proceeds on a per payment basis.

https://github.com/surfertas/deep_learning/tree/master/proje...

Working on this on my spare time. Any advice from the community would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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The past several years I've been trying to find some tangible philosophical ground to stand on. This (desperate) search is and has been the produce of mental illness I've dealt with since my adolescence (I'm 32 now). Quite a long story short, I managed to get the mental illness under control; something I thought I'd be living with the rest of my life. My research has included mostly standing/walking meditation, and r…

I would suggest that you read "He Is There And He Is Not Silent" by Francis Schaeffer. He tackles the three big philosophical questions (metaphysics, morals, and epistemology) from a Christian perspective. His writing is simple but deep - I had to read it several times to get parts of it.

He's doing an overview of huge fields, not an in-depth, point-by-point argument. You sometimes have to fill in details of his argument yourself, because he doesn't answer every possible counter-argument.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

#50

I'm working on pacing emails to a more manageable, calmer schedule. I'm doing it with essentially a UI-less system which is a rather fun way to produce an app. It simply requires a user to update their email of the website that emails them too frequently with a paced.email alias. E.g. johndoe.shopify@daily.paced.email johndoe.stripe@weekly.paced.email johndoe.github@monthly.paced.email At the end of each period, a si…

That's a neat idea.

> At the end of each period, a single email is sent to the real email address containing all of the messages the alias received over that timeframe.

Why not send each received mail individually? If you aggregate them first, it makes it very difficult to reply to individual messages with standard email clients.

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