Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by philip1209 » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 2:40 AM UTC

kylebenzle wrote: post #387

philip1209 wrote: post #366

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Glass correlates with higher levels of carbon emissions, but doesn't cause it. At Silo, wine causes a lot of headaches. Their solution is to use wind-powered transport ships. Then, they turn the waste glass into tiles. So, the carbon footprint is low. If you can tolerate slow shipping, then the carbon footprint can be reduced. So, well-preserved food in glass (as opposed to, say, flowers in plastic) can have a lower…

There is no active wind powered transport, obviously. The one ship they are testing is not shipiping anything yet. https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/22/travel/wind-powered-cargo-shi...

Incorrect.

"Three Dutchmen decided to take a step back to make a leap forward and established Fairtransport, the world’s first modern emission-free shipping company. Silo gets coffee via Fairtransport – it still has to be transported from the landing port, but it is a huge saving on energy. It’s a fine example of imaginative thinking. The small fleet of traditional sailing ships used by Fairtransport includes the world’s only engineless sailing cargo ship. The focus is on transporting special products which are organic or crafted traditionally – such as olive oil, wine and rum. In addition, the fleet is raising awareness of the huge amounts of pollution created by the modern shipping industry and is affecting positive change in the way goods are shipped around the world."

McMaster, Douglas. Silo (p. 71). Leaping Hare Press. Kindle Edition.

https://fairtransport.eu/en/

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by lasermatts » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 2:42 AM UTC

Acrylic painting!

I’m recovering from a knee injury so I’ve had a rough time keeping my mind occupied without being online all of my waking hours. It’s been a ton of fun painting based off of famous impressionist works, pictures I’ve taken over the years, and from my imagination, and it’s definitely given me a fun new way of looking at the world!

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Post by MuffinFlavored » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 2:42 AM UTC

4death4 wrote: post #382

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #373

Studying the relation between just how volatile SPY 0-day-to-expiration options are in regards to the underlying. A 1% directional move in SPY can yield a 1600%+ in most cases if you can time it right in regards to direction + strike. I would never actually trade or anything like that. It's just fun to scrape data. Historical option chain data isn't really publicly free/available so I wrote a scraper + analytics on t…

Any conclusions?

I could be wrong because of the obvious downside of "if you get it wrong it'll expire 100% worthless by end of day" but if you can use "technical analysis" to know when to enter a long/short position, I'd say don't use margin (short) and don't buy the underlying (long), instead buy a slightly out of the money (this is where predicting which direction the market will go and for how much/how long gets... impossible) call or put depending on direction can yield a better return.

Obviously it's all gambling but I see why so many people are attracted (addicted?) to it (Robinhood traders)

If you lose 100% of a $100 out-of-the-money bet 7 times but then hit an 800% ROI... you break even, right?

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Post by langseth » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 2:43 AM UTC

Archery. I got my first bow in 2019 to try bow hunting, but now I am mostly interested in it for target archery. In state competitions, I was on the podium in 3 of the 6 events last year. It’s not a huge field but it feels pretty good.

The other big thing this year is walking, it’s simple exercise that has helped me lose 30 pounds since July 1st.

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Post by tyler_sf » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 2:44 AM UTC

hahahacorn wrote: post #344

Running. I got the bug about 12 weeks ago. I had never ran longer than 1.5 miles continuously 12 weeks ago. Now I’m planning my next Sundays long run. 12.5ish miles. Im a heavy guy. My heaviest was 270, but I’m down to 220 now. I hated running my entire life. But I finally figured out how to run pain free and now it’s the thing I look forward to everyday. It’s also tremendously rewarding to see such rapid improvement…

I'm in the same boat as you. I have been running since the summer and I recently finished a couch to 5km plan. My pace is similar at 35-38 minutes. Do you have any tips on going from 38 to 25 minutes? Thanks

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Post by cdchn » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 2:44 AM UTC

solardev wrote: post #7

There is a new show on HBO called Scavengers Reign, and it's become my favorite scifi story ever. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21056886/ It's kinda like watching Planet Earth about another ecosystem, with a strong focus on judgment-free ecology (ie there isn't good and evil, just different flora and fauna and otherwise interacting both with their normal food webs and with human outsiders). It really tickles the envir…

>I can't stop thinking about how much fun it is to throw people off cliffs in Baldur's Gate 3.

I was too worried about wasting loot then I finished the game with 20k gold and nothing to spend it on and thought "And nothing of value would have been lost if I had yeeted more people off cliffs."

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Post by kaycebasques » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 2:51 AM UTC

Poverty abolition.

I just finished Poverty, By America. It's really moving and seemingly well-researched and honest.

I don't know if I'll stick with it. I don't have a good track record of sticking with social activism stuff. Deep-down in my bones I know however that poverty is wrong and really doesn't need to exist at the levels we have collectively accepted as "natural".

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Post by november84 » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 2:52 AM UTC

xedrac wrote: post #200

politelemon wrote: post #18

Games. I've been forcing myself into productivity for too long because that is the thing to do. I recently built a gaming pc, picked some jrpgs, and I'm having a blast. There are entire franchises and worlds for the exploring. There are amazing rich stories and history and beautiful soundtracks that I'm living through right now. My wishlist grows by the day as I discover new tales.

I tried this by playing Factorio, and realized I was doing similar "work" as my job, but without the added stress of deadlines, compromise and people. Ironically, it felt extremely productive, but not very recharging.

I feel this. I don't reach the same level of drain after playing compared to work. However, it's such a fun way to use my brain in a similar way, I can be hard to put it down.

I also find it rewarding after getting robotics and memorizing recipes. Which allows me to focus more on designing (I suck so bad at it but it's fun).

After a good few hundred hours I moved on to krastorio2 + space exploration. It's so much more complex.

Oh and multiplayer is a great addition allowing me to asynchronously play with some friends /colleagues.

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Post by november84 » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 2:53 AM UTC

SwiftyBug wrote: post #260

Learning to use Vim! I've tried three times before in the past 10 years. This is the first time it actually clicked. It's the first time I've tried Neovim. It's awesome and I feel like I'm playing a game with myself while working. I thought it would take much longer to get to the speed I'm at now. I've been using Vim exclusively for a month.

Any resources you can share or did you jump into the docs?

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Post by wsintra2022 » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 2:54 AM UTC

jcpst wrote: post #333

Making an album. It’s been a journey. For about a year I was trying to do it all by myself. Then one former band mate moved back, another reached out and we reunited to make new music. This is gonna sound corny, but after that first time we got back together to jam, later that night I was in tears because it playing with them again was such a large emotional release for me. Now we’re in a great place, we all want the…

Nice! I’m starting a project that can automate pressing vinyl records, kinda like a kickstarter, you create a 45 day campaign with the aim of selling 75 pre sales and we then go into production (you need to 100 total). No upfront cost from the artists. Still working on the details. My friends have opened a vinyl pressing factory so I figured building out an automated indie vinyl pressing crowd sourcing app would be cool. Check out Kushty buck records if your interested. It’s my weekend passion project.