Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by gota » Wed, Nov 03, 2021, 4:22 AM UTC

lejbrouwer wrote: post #726

gota wrote: post #233

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Do you perchance like to teach? Maybe lectures like traditional classes, but there's a huge need for mentors to young folks with interest in technical fields, particularly in underdeveloped countries (in many such cases merely talking to them in English is already a lot of help!) I know I'd like to do that, but I've always liked teaching so maybe it's not fitting to everyone. E.g. I volunteer at a local (Brazilian) n…

Hey man, long time lurker, first time poster here. I'm also brazilian (living abroad) and interested in doing some sort of volunteer work teaching CS basics. The idea of doing it in my mother tongue to underpriviledged brazilian kids sounds awesome! I also have my email on my profile, please contact me with a bit more info... Obrigado e tudo de bom pra vc!

Just a heads up - adding your email allows the admins to see it, but not other users. You'll have to add it to the description so I can see it!

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

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Post by tata71 » Wed, Nov 03, 2021, 4:30 AM UTC

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #673

CircaSurvive wrote: post #559

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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…

God I hate "crypto". It's all a big fucking "get rich quick scam", all of it, without exception. Hopefully I will cash out at the right time (probably not).

Not true!

There's also drugs and gambling! /s

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

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Post by randomopining » Wed, Nov 03, 2021, 4:49 AM UTC

sigg3 wrote: post #548

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…

This is quite normal. Many who win big in the literal lotteries are worse off. I know reddit is all antiwork these days, but that's really mostly about rights and not not working. Being a productive member of society is meaningful. I'm from Scandinavia and a lot of our identity is tied up with our careers. Being without a job or any structural social purpose is asking for depression. GWF Hegel wrote about suffering f…

What if you can internalize the social mental sphere inside yourself? Giving yourself an honest and just approval when deserved?

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

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Post by randomopining » Wed, Nov 03, 2021, 4:57 AM UTC

tata71 wrote: post #780

prox wrote: post #746

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I don’t really get this point… how does that work?

If you can afford to lose your money, don't invest it into cryptocurrency and keep it as USD or other fiat.

All the ghost industries like US airlines kept afloat by money printer go bur. It keep going and the intrinsic value of a BTC go up. (Numba go up)

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

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Post by pabs3 » Wed, Nov 03, 2021, 5:34 AM UTC

pabs3 wrote: post #219

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…

Open source is always looking for more people to work on it.

I should add that open source is always looking for more people to fund it too.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 03, 2021, 5:43 AM UTC

bri3d wrote: post #201

I have been reverse engineering automotive ECUs for a while now - https://github.com/bri3d/VW_Flash . It's a nice change from my day job in enterprise engineering management, and I've met some fun people and taught several folks a lot of new concepts, which is always extremely rewarding. My latest project has been reverse engineering the data-flash encryption in Simos18 ECUs. After some work, it oddly appears the enc…

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

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Post by hidden-spyder » Wed, Nov 03, 2021, 5:44 AM UTC

david927 wrote: post #5

Could we make this a monthly post, just like the Who's Hiring one? I miss that aspect of HN.

Emailing dang requesting for this to be made a monthly post might help us.

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

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Post by quick_brown_fox » Wed, Nov 03, 2021, 5:46 AM UTC

drivers99 wrote: post #9

Going through "Nand to Tetris" (the version that is part II on coursera). Almost got the VM to assembly translator working. (Week 8 of the course.) Should be able to finish debugging it tonight after work.

loved this course!

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

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Post by sanketpatrikar » Wed, Nov 03, 2021, 5:53 AM UTC

tralarpa wrote: post #597

I reverse engineer/decompile games (and sometimes applications) from the 80s/early 90s for fun. The more complex the program, the more fun it is. As an extra challenge, I try to avoid runtime monitoring (i.e. in an emulator) and try to rely as much as possible solely on what I see in the binary file. Other people do sudokus, I stare for hours at disassembled code to figure out what complex data structure the game is…

I couldn't find it in your profile, but do you write/vlog about this somewhere?

Would love to follow you and learn something!

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

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Post by wiresurfer » Wed, Nov 03, 2021, 6:33 AM UTC

jasondigitized wrote: post #747

wiresurfer wrote: post #587

I've been burnt out with the current state of work. I work for a japanese cloud robotics company and have been witness to a great long term idea being plagued by bad management and strategy. To manage my headspace, have been doing the following 1. Writing. Realising the value of communication for teams, have been writing up a lot of my learning into a series of documents which talk strategy and decision frameworks fo…

Any guidance on getting started in gardening and hydroponics?

Sure. So a lot of what you want to grow depends on the weather prevailing in your area. If you have warm and humid climate with atleast 60% sunlight days. you should be able to grow about anything.

Top 3 suggestions 1. start small. preferably with herbs. Their time to harvest is low and as with anything, you need iterations and immediate gratification to keep you going. If this is your first time gardening, then i would say, go with plain gardening and graduate to hydroponics with the healthy plants from your first produce coriander, cilantro, lettuce are good first candidates.

2. There are hydroponic starter kits with plumbing pipes, and minimum hardware. If you want to hit the ground running, then go for these. Otherwise, DIY is possible.

3. Use grow lights if you have variability in sunlight in your area.