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

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Post by mattfrommars »

I'd say I'm obsessed about it or at least want to do for sake of curiosity. The commercial intent is not there but feeling of accomplishment doing something fun. Working in finance pays bills.

1) I really want go pull of a rope mechanic in VR. I cannot forget the experience I had after encountering rope in Last Of Us Part 1. Now I want to replicate it in VR. I have dabbled with Unity but haven't really put time and effort into it 2) Build a mini, local service to cater to local Town/city instead of depending on big tech. Say a restruant uses your resturant ordering system. My analogy is that we set up a small stall in the world of internet, just like there are shops in the real world. You'd go to your trusty mechanic instead of a mega dealership. 3) Self host an kind of service to be used by folks on the internet. Be it a simple hosted test editor or a to do app.

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Post by kajaktum »

andersonmvd wrote: post #391
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.

I’ve finished Endwalker and the ending is one of the few stories that broke me. Really got me thinking about our place in the universe and our planet specifically.

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

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Post by shireboy »

Interesting post that reminded me of my Compuserve/Delphi days. I’m pretty passionate about my garden. I’m out there every day picking off caterpillars and frequently googling how to get more yield from a few beds. I have learned there is an economy of scale and it really isn’t cost effective in small lots. But I still enjoy participating in the growing process and enjoying fresh veggies.

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Post by Broker0 »

frans wrote: post #256
blinding-streak wrote: post #45

Thanks so much for posting this, I love the spirit of it. I'm passionate about my sobriety journey. I just got home from a dinner party of ex coworkers and friends. Being the only one not drinking is hard for me and a huge change. I used to lead the charge with booze, it was the thing that took my crushing anxiety away. It made everything more fun. Well, that can only last so long when you abuse it so much and it fuc…

May I suggest the book "This Naked Mind" by Annie Grace? I learned about it here on HN [1]. I have no alcohol issues, but there are some eye-opening ideas in that book that should appeal to everyone (unless you already are on zero alcohol) "Alcohol is the only drug on earth you have to justify not taking." [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32714527

> "Alcohol is the only drug on earth you have to justify not taking."

I find this quote really interesting. Growing up in a western country where people drink a lot of alcohol, not necessarily for the enjoyment of it but to get "hammered". I've countless times defended myself for both friends, family and new and existing co-workers for why I don't drink, and these people look at me like I'm some sort of alien. According to "these people" I am in fact a weirdo, because I've spoken about the affects of caffeine, taking cold showers/baths, fasting etc etc.

I'm not sure where I'm going with this, however, I hope there'll be a time where it's "acceptable" to go out with your friends, family or co-workers, and not be expected to drink alcohol or excluded just because you won't inject your body with legal "poison".

Note: I have nothing against people who drinks alcohol, but let's just enjoy each other's company and don't force it on me. Thanks.

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Post by lancelot-ru »

this2shall3nd wrote: post #470

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If the administrators of this site do not understand, that by not removing such comments, they become themselves what the poster obviously is, they have a very big problem.

They have an even bigger problem if they do understand.

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Post by talktalkmake »

shireboy wrote: post #523

Interesting post that reminded me of my Compuserve/Delphi days. I’m pretty passionate about my garden. I’m out there every day picking off caterpillars and frequently googling how to get more yield from a few beds. I have learned there is an economy of scale and it really isn’t cost effective in small lots. But I still enjoy participating in the growing process and enjoying fresh veggies.

Username checks out <3

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Post by joeyrideout »

I quit my job recently to work on AGI.

I have some unique insights that I wanted to put into practice. The past month has been the most intellectually stimulating, challenging, and rewarding period my life. Some interesting utility has already appeared. I won’t discuss the details but I will say it does not involve statistical learning.

And don’t worry, I’ve read Bostrom :)

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Post by bsldld »

Education funding should be based on equity, and not on debt. And it should be funded by the society as a whole and not by some private for-profit entities.

It is outrageous that we make young students debt-laden even before they have any income source. This is not only unethical, it also sets a wrong example for the younger generation.

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Post by notacat »

Make PRT work (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit)

Inter-city Transit is currently not solved: trains suck, cars suck, metros suck. If you combine them in the right way, you are left with the best of each of them: individual pods managed by an automated central planning system. Small enough to fit in sewers inside the city, elevated outside, dynamically forming trains zipping at 100-200kmh inside the city and going exactly where you want them. Because you don't need tbms, the cost of a whole network is probably on part with a metro system, while having similar capacity and being much faster. Optionally you can have dual-mode pods that "downgrade" to normal cars using normal roads while your guideway network is not fully developed. Everyone seems to have given up on PRT, but I don't see where is the catch. If you do, please tell me.

On my day-to-day I apply deep learning to trading to raise money to do an AI-research lab (been going really well so far). This PRT-thing is an idea I'm obsessed about but it doesn't fit anywhere in my trading+research plans (I call it a mistress project). Anyway If you see the flaw in such a PRT idea please let me know, and I'll be able to discard it and be less distracted in my main AI research.

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