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

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Post by bigtoepfer »

fullstick wrote: post #667

Amateur Radio! I got a bachelor's degree in geophysical engineering about 10 years ago and never really used it besides programming, GIS, and data visualization. Ham radio lets me do a lot of the things I loved about geophysics. Wave propagation, being outside, electronics, talking to satellites, remote sensing. Driving around being cool with a radio lol. I'm just getting started but I'm really glad I got licensed. E…

I got my license about five or six years ago while living in Colorado. The coverage of the repeater network was better than the coverage of the cellular network there. I was just on the east side of Glenwood Springs on I70 headed back home when there was a four car wreck right in front of me due to black ice, and of course no cell reception. I was able to reach someone on the Colorado Connections Repeater network and they reached the Glenwood Sheriffs instantly. They were able to dispatch sheriffs and ambulance very quickly. Otherwise it would have taken probably 30-40 more minutes for someone to reach cell reception just to call 911 to let them know there was an accident. That or the traffic to back up to the city.

It's an incredibly handy tool and worth looking in to the local ham group and repeater network in your area. I just sold the vehicle that I had my mobile radio previously installed in. I need to install it in the new vehicle so I can go back to chatting with the local HAMs on the way to work.

Sadly as I moved from Colorado about four years ago the community isn't as large where I'm at now as it was there.

Edit: I've been reading HN for a long time but for some reason today I felt I'd finally create an account to respond to this.

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Post by linuxrebe1 »

AI induced reactive Observability. What if we could (ok we can just haven't) create a system that based on past solutions looks for a specific condition and then, when that condition is met, takes specific actions immediately and then reports to the human rather than reporting to the human and waiting for them to take a known set of actions. Beyond just "container died restart" but getting into "Container 2 is exhibiting performance that indicates it is suffering a very slow memory leak. Capture logs and readings to prove this, restart the container and report findings to a human"

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Post by Tainnor »

ipaddr wrote: post #255
sjmulder wrote: post #204

Small city council politics :( there's a lot of resistance against a new temporary housing project for Ukrainian refugees with many legit concerns, and some NIMBY, but also xenophobia and racism. It's tough but we've been able to start a YIMBY group and encouraging people and organisations to make public comments or send letters of support. A good few didn't dare because they feared reactions, and rightfully so, beca…

How does racism play into your situation? Small towns and Ukrainians have one thing in common: they are both white. I would think their race wouldn't be the deciding factor.

Thinking that racism has to do (only) with skin colour is a typical American misconception.

Hitler considered the Slavs the be a "race" (an inferior one that ought to be enslaved).

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

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Post by em-bee »

vivekd wrote: post #354

This post caught my attention because recently I met a woman I really admire. She dropped out of her computer engineering class, took a vow of celibacy and poverty and became a missionary with a Catholic sect. The reason I admire her isn't that. What caught my attention about her is that she has a sense of purpose. She has a purpose in life and has devoted her life to it. I used to have one. My goal was to make the l…

i believe that the purpose of humanity itself is to advance our civilization.

that suggests that everyone should contribute to that, which further implies that every contribution matters, no matter how small. you tried something, and it failed. that's fine. ideally others have an opportunity to learn from that, but even if not, at least you learned something, and you can use that learning for your future.

the goal is not to create the greatest possible impact, but to learn and make the most of the resources available to you. it could be something small like if you are a lawyer having one out of ten clients pro-bono or for a very low rate for people who could not afford a lawyer otherwise.

find an area/place/people that need help, and then help them.

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Post by sanderjd »

monero-xmr wrote: post #490
Johanx64 wrote: post #227

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How in the loving gods earth are you getting 10% to 30% interest rate without risk ? None of the stable coins have gone through a full thorough audit done by a reputable company, thus it's safe to assume they are not fully 1:1 backed and thus it's a ticking time bomb. 30% interest rate sounds like a pyramid scheme. If something sounds like a scam, then it probably is a scam, since it's crypto, then it's most certainl…

Not sure if you are someone who just wants to shit on stuff without ever learning, this is HN so 90% chance that's the case. But on the offchance you are actually curious: Tokens should be viewed like stock. The team behind the token has a pool to fund their network / app. Different products in the decentralised finance space (DeFi) incentive usage by handing out their tokens (stock) to people who provide value to th…

You should take to heart that most people here are not just "shitting on stuff without ever learning", but have seen this story play out many times now.

Everything you described about LPs, TVL, and token value; you are just describing the mechanics of the ponzi scheme, not describing the way in which it isn't a ponzi scheme.

If you are getting "interest" over 20%, what you are doing is extracting that money (which isn't real until you turn it into fiat, btw) from the people in the future who lose money when the scheme inevitably crashes; they are transferring their future losses backward in time to you in the present.

That's fine as far as it goes, if you're aware of what's going on, ethically comfortable with it, and make sure to get out of the scheme early enough to not yourself be one of the people left without a chair when the music stops.

But from your comment, I think it seems like you aren't one of the people cynically taking advantage of the scheme, in which case, you are actually one of the marks.

It is simply not possible for a scheme that is above board to pay over 4x the prevailing global interest rate, without significant risk.

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Post by elkrych »

makingstuffs wrote: post #611
Elegia wrote: post #576

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Not cheesy at all. I wish I could enjoy the same thing, but when it comes to showing kindness to others I often end up feeling used.

I’m sorry to hear that, it’s a really hard mindset to grasp and we all falter here and there. I can’t speak for anyone else (I don’t know your particular situation and do not want to assume anything) but I found that doing something for the sake of doing it was one of they key things that helped me overcome a feeling of being used/unappreciated. In my personal experience and with a lot of introspection I found that t…

Hi, thanks for posting.

A mantra I use that some might find useful is:

"To the work you are entitled, but not to the fruits thereof."

Good luck on your journey!

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Post by bmitc »

voidnap wrote: post #560
bmitc wrote: post #522

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Glass is basically infinitely usable, aside from breaking it, and does not pollute the things that go in it or if it's tossed in a landfill. It's also the most easily recycled material with high yields (basically 100%).

I was recently made aware that some amount of glass is not recycled and instead turned into powder to cover landfills. Apparently, where I live, most used glass ends up this way; but I expect it varies between institutions. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/recycling-glass-eigh...

Yea, there is a lot of discrepancy between what is actually recycled or not, particularly from trash and recyclables coming from homes and municipalities. I keep wondering if there's an opportunity there to help improve the yields of recycling.

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Post by hiepph »

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.

Factorio is fun but the way I play it was unhealthy—several hours of Factorio after 7 hours of sitting in front of a computer. I had to give it up to find a healthier lifestyle—e.g. running, hiking, or taking a walk in nature.

I do want to come back to Factorio since it's an awesome game, but currently I cannot find the good timing for it.

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