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#551
I have been working on a Pull Request tool for Unity Cloud project: https://unity-cloud-ci.firebaseapp.com

Basically, Unity Cloud can auto build commits for you but it doesn't work with pull requests unless you set it up manually.

This way it trigger a build for a PR and the set a status check. It's a good solution for people who don't want to set up their CT by themselves.

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

#552

Super frustrated by the state of videos for kids on youtube, especially in the arts and crafts department, i decided to launch a channel and start creating my own content. Basically, all videos start half decent but for some reason end in a big noisy mess, weird sounds, spoiling food, questionable product placements, zero creativity and always incentivize more watching and trapping viewers in the infinite ‘next video…

Nice!

I have watched both videos and they are engaging (to me). I think they could use a little bit of more speed and some music or explanations. Also, you could show at the beginning what you are about to make.

I have recently needed to start drawing (nothing fancy) for my side project, and have found tutorials such as your first video on youtube invaluable.

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

#554

Just hoping an economic downturn doesn't happen for another 4 or 5 years. Getting settled into a new job and I definitely do not want to be on the bad end of another 2008.

I'm with you...although it definitely feels like it's months away.

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

#555
I'm working on privacy-friendly analytics [0] and also try to get into some consultancy work. Preferably in Golang. I have one project in the pipeline where I'm building a prototype for a very niche checkout like system, but for contracted work instead of products. In the long run I would like to work on my projects exclusively.

[0] https://pirsch.io

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I started taking steroids two weeks ago. 500mg/week testosterone. They haven't even really kicked in yet (takes about 3 weeks to get really testosterone levels up) but I'm feeling real good and I'm really excited with all the weight gain I've had so far this year. I started at around 155 in June and today I'm up to 180. A lot of it is water weight I'm sure but I'm excited to hit over 200 in the next 5 months of my fi…

Water weight and glycogen retention. Hopefully you're taking an aromatase inhibitor as well with those T levels.

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Thanks for the kind words. In principle I'm absolutely in favour of releasing it to the public. To be sure: do you mean the _content_ I create in the video or the _videos_ themselves (I wouldn't mind both, but just to clarify). One of the things I want to add later are downloadable resources: PDFs with the drawings or cutting templates, so people can get a head start with e.g. colouring instead of having to do the dr…

Please put the craft content as CC0 or CC BY! I like attribution-noncommercial for the explanation/demonstration of the craft to make it clear that you are source of the work. https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/

thanks, added it to the channel description and probably will add it to the individual video descriptions too once I publish them

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

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> Have you decided on a specific idea or are you interested in the space generally? Thinking of developing educational content and digital twin in the related domain. > Right now the greatest number of users and app sales seems to be at the low-ish end but not absolute low end ($300 Quest) Those would be the gamers. But I am targeting students. And not many students can afford high-end devices. I am more interested i…

> Those would be the gamers. But I am targeting students. And not many students can afford high-end devices. I am more interested in devices such as Google Cardboard, Zapbox and AR4E. High cost of devices should not become a roadblock for educational content distribution. > Some applications that I have in mind will require interaction and collaboration I think this would be a much easier decision if there weren't th…

> the lowest-end devices lack positional tracking for both the headset and the controllers

That is the reason I am excited about ZapBox and AR4E headsets. Both promise support for interaction using controllers.

> So as far as I can tell the category seems like a dead-end at this point, it doesn't seem to be receiving substantial software or hardware investment and will likely disappear altogether as positional tracking gets cheaper.

If that happens, then it will be a shame. We need lot of low-cost headsets for XR to proliferate. Otherwise it will remain a niche market.

> In contrast FB is launching a $150M fund specifically for VR educational content

One of the things I am trying to avoid is vendor-lockin.

> So I guess it depends on what your time horizon is - I'd just be aware that any investments into designing software for 3DOF systems are likely to depreciate pretty quickly.

Hence planning to use open source software and standard APIs as much as possible e.g. Godot engine, Vulkan Scene Graph, Monado, OpenXR complaint API etc.

> there's a video there (and a sign up to get a free copy when the beta launches!).

I am not able to see video. I am using Firefox 93 x86_64 on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS.

Are you a designer or a software engineer?

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

#559
post #505

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Tether has been extremely opaque in what assets they hold to ensure the 1:1 USD/Tether peg. It's been observed that at least as one point they definitely didn't have enough USD-equivalent for it, and they've been issuing new Tether at quite a clip since then with flow on effects to the BTC market. Now if they actually had this financing in place, this would all be fine - but nobody can find a proper accounting of who…

Tether is just one of many cryptocurrencies -wouldn‘t its implosion lead to people pulling out and investing their money in other crypto, hence consolidating the market and making every other coin rise?

Would you trade me a dollar for 12 cents? If it implodes who’s going to trade you the other coins for something of questionable value?

Additionally, say you hold 50% tether and the rest in a mix of coins. Your portfolio would be cut in half. How does that result in other coins being purchased if people are uncertain of tethers true value and unwilling to trade for it.

Then there’s the whole using tether as margin for leverage or if your margin is based on tether, and that disappears, your position will be liquidated. Now add the layers of derivatives that are quoted and settled in tether. Additionally what exchanges can you trust that will let you cash out in an event like this? People will run to the doors and liquidity will disappear creating a larger sell off as people seek shelter in liquid assets.

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post #540

I'm healing from PTSD, I took two years off work and then the last nine months I just finished up my PhD in mathematical physics working part time. I'm still disabled in different ways, I get triggered by groups of people so I can't socialise very easily I'm kind of slowly reintroducing interacting with society. I had an interview for a postdoc in my field last week and I'm waiting on whether I got offered a job or n…

Similar situation here - I’m slowly starting to look to get up and do something other than focus on therapy and healing. I’ve taken a bit of time off, and I’m struggling still to change my mindset from survival towards more self actualization.
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