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Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by syngrog66 » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 5:22 AM UTC

MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: post #351

atonse wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank goodness for Obamacare (at least in the mid-Atlantic US). Before Obamacare, individual plans were absolute shit (my individual plan wouldn't have covered my wife's pregnancy with our first kid... her job's insurance did). Thanks to Obamacare, individual plans have the same coverage as employer plans. Without Obamacare I couldn't have started my company which now employs 9 people in well paid tech jobs (without…

Obamacare is utter garbage and costs ridiculous amounts of money. It impoverishes poor people far more than it helps. They should've provided a tax credit to people who pay in with it. Instead they just reduce AGI. What a joke. Honestly the best thing Trump did was make that no longer mandatory or face a penalty. It was a rammed through system democrats did just to pat themselves on the back. Quite literally one of t…

not being denied for pre-existing conditions, or being dropped for hitting a lifetime limit, have been a huge lifesaver for many Americans. if one is fortunate to be young or healthy the ACA wont benefit as much. but its a huge improvement and peace of mind for the large percentage of folks it helps

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by megameter » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 5:22 AM UTC

philangist wrote: post #180

I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…

Take up martial arts. That's what I turned to after a windfall. I only stuck with it a year but it got me in the right frame of mind to continue feeling ambitious.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by dt3ft » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 5:27 AM UTC

A reddit alternative: https://20-things.com :)

Yeah, it may never get to see 100 users, but it is fun to build :)

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by jjallen » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 5:27 AM UTC

Still settling into life in a new country (US->Switzerland) after having moved during the pandemic with a one year old and dog (I do not recommend this, but it might have been our only change)

I'm also building a SPAC tracking/info tool at https://stockbase.com/spacs, among other things.

Also learning about longevity related things and writing about my learnings at https://longevitybase.com. Yes, I think all sites should just be *base.com (haha)

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by colecut » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 5:27 AM UTC

My son's mom died of cancer last February, and two days later they found tumors in my then girlfriend/now late fiancee. She passed away last month.

I stopped working several months ago and have no immediate desire or need to go back to work.

I'm not sure if it's a blessing or curse to have so much free time to grieve.

Enjoying the downtime with occasional spontaneous bursts of tears.

Edit: thank everyone for the kind words. I put together this 4 minute tribute of our times together to honor her/us. She was beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB5_1mdTgcM

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by kstenerud » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 5:29 AM UTC

I'm continuing to work on https://concise-encoding.org which is a new security-conscious ad-hoc encoding format to replace JSON/XML and friends. I've been at it for 3 years so far and am close to a release.

In a nutshell:

- Edit in text, transmit in binary. One can be seamlessly converted to the other, but binary is far more efficient for processing, storage and transmission, while text is better for humans to read and edit (which happens far less often than the other things).

- Secure by design: Everything is tightly specced and accounted for so that there aren't differences between implementations that can be exploited to compromise your system. https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/ce...

- Real type support because coercing everything into strings sucks (and is another security risk and source of incompatibilities).

XML had a good run but was replaced by JSON which was a big improvement. JSON also had a good run but it's time for it to retire now that the landscape has changed even further: Security and efficiency are the desires of today, and JSON provides neither.

I've got the spec nailed down and can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel for the reference implementation in golang. I still need to come up with a system for schemas, but I'm hoping that https://cuelang.org will fit the bill.

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Post by fsckboy » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 5:31 AM UTC

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #124

Hah this thread is perfect. I just finished building my new four axis robot arm design. It’s all open source. Three months ago I started playing with a new planetary gearbox concept, where the first stage is in the middle with second stages on both sides. The first sun is driven by a shaft that goes through a hole in the second stage sun. The result is a very balanced joint design with parallel outputs. A good config…

I count three axes, what am I missing? (considering the "stick" at the top "a finger" and moving down, I see the wrist rotation, the elbow rotation, and a rotation at the shoulder down on the desk)

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by djrockstar1 » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 5:33 AM UTC

Great thread, feels like a time capsule for some of the people that are starting new things in life, moving to a new city, getting a start-up off the ground, trying to get used to their new lifestyle. I hope I can come back to this thread some time in the future and reminisce as I'm sure many of you will.

To answer the question, I'm working full-time at a job that I feel completely hopeless at. Basically fresh out of college and I'm working at a place where I can't communicate with like 95% of the development team due to language differences, so I'm stuck working on an undocumented codebase with no guidance/on-boarding/help whatsoever. Lots of trial and error to figure out how stuff works, and a fair bit of going around the current code and working directly with libraries because I don't have the time/energy to try to understand the layer the people before me built on top of that library.

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Post by mkleinstadt » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 5:33 AM UTC

AYBABTME wrote: post #301

philangist wrote: post #180

I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…

If from the Coinbase IPO, you just got out of lockout and you're new to that amount of money. You're probably still near 100% invested in Coinbase and need to divest into something more diversified and less volatile than Coinbase before you can sit on your hands and look at the number in your brokerage account as if it was real retirement grade money. Plus you'll need to pay a ton of taxes on the capital gain. So don…

Not to mention that there's a nonzero chance of Tether bringing down the entire crypto ecosystem (temporarily) within the next year, Coinbase stock included

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Post by melenaos » Tue, Nov 02, 2021, 5:35 AM UTC

gpaul wrote: post #276

I've been steadily sinking deeper into Go (the board game, not the PL) for the last few years. I keep thinking that my enthusiasm for it will dry up soon, but it just keeps increasing. The depth is immense, every few months I feel like I'm swimming along the bottom of the ocean, then I come to a continental shelf and as I stare into the depths below, I realize that I've only explored the shallows, I dive, and leave t…

I was in love with Go when i was younger, i have even created an AI that played using some rules, not an algorithm.

But when i created again the same game with AlphaBeta algorithm, i just quit the game. No matter how good you are the computer can predict all the moves, and win you no matter how good you become.