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Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
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Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
#332Earlier quoted context omitted.
The exact same thing could be said by the people running toxic mining operations with clearly safer alternatives, monopolistic healthcare firms who regularly deny basic access, lobbying operations to eliminate laws that keep kids from getting addicted to nicotine, and plenty else. These are all things your investments are surely contributing to. Ethics is hard because there's no enforcement like there is in the legal…
Sure, I guess. However, the market will not die due to my lack of participation. It would be amazing if we lived in a world where morality would win out but we don't. My concern is "how do I help the most amount of people?", and that's why Feetr is public and cheap. You can live the life that makes you happiest but how are you helping people deal with the current economic downturn? There's a food bank near me and the…
I give my time to folks in my neighborhood who are food-insecure, and help those who can't or won't drive to fix their bikes so they can still get around to their jobs, doctor's appointments, grocery runs, etc. Why do you ask that question when you have nothing to show in kind?
Further, why do you imply that participating in the market contributes to "good"?
Your reliance on a false dichotomy to make your point shows everything about how little you care about the actual problems we face as a society, if you can only come up with such unimaginative and ultimately selfish approaches.
I don't understand why people snap back like you have, when you have literally nothing to stand for.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
#333I ended my career in June, and I am attempting to entirely reinvent my professional life at 36. It's interesting going through this sort of open ocean search having a little bit of savings and stability, but the stakes feel higher (emotionally) even though, rationally, I am in a better position to take on risk than when I was young and completely broke. The hardest part of it is actually deciding what do I want from…
I wish you great luck on your journey! I did this when I was 42 - studied for a degree part-time, wrote some books, ran out of money and did some minimum wage jobs, etc - and it was a scary-yet-exhilarating adventure which, thankfully, ended well when I finally landed a full-time job developing websites.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
#334I heard few song lines from a new artist I've discovered. It has me thinking on a problem I want solved. Although, I'm not actively working on it. Why aren't there more employee-owned companies? And I don't mean solely shareholder programs, I mean actually owned by every employee and they are paid dividends of profit after all planned R&D costs. Similar to the Alaska oil pipeline bonus. Even interns. All studies show…
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Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
#335Working on a better solution to sedentary health and sitting caused back pain at work. No one posture is the answer, so there is probably an optimal amount of regular postural variation during deskwork that wouldn't interrupt focus. That is what a chair should do for you to protect your health, so making a smart dynamic chair for standing desks. Had a cycling accident years ago, became much more sitting intolerant af…
Really interesting. I too had a bicycle accident four years ago and have been really sensitive to bad ergonomics and spending too long in one position since. Just understanding what makes things worse and what better has been a big challenge. Coincidentally, just today I ordered a Håg Capisco chair, which serves the same purpose of allowing a variety of different positions with a standing desk and also makes it pract…
The Capisco was the last chair I had before diving into this and it actually worked pretty well. I mostly alternated legs, with one standing while the other was draped on the chair. The only drawback was the friction of repositioning and I think the trick is to minimize friction so frequent movement is easy.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
#336I ended my career in June, and I am attempting to entirely reinvent my professional life at 36. It's interesting going through this sort of open ocean search having a little bit of savings and stability, but the stakes feel higher (emotionally) even though, rationally, I am in a better position to take on risk than when I was young and completely broke. The hardest part of it is actually deciding what do I want from…
I can so relate :). I left my position as a principal engineer at a FAANG/MAAMA/etc. company in 2020 with a general direction to try to make a difference in the education space. It has been maddening trying to live up to my own expectations.
Good luck!
p.s. In the off chance that you are interested in the education space, you might find my post in this thread of interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32870101
Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
#337Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, I guess. However, the market will not die due to my lack of participation. It would be amazing if we lived in a world where morality would win out but we don't. My concern is "how do I help the most amount of people?", and that's why Feetr is public and cheap. You can live the life that makes you happiest but how are you helping people deal with the current economic downturn? There's a food bank near me and the…
I give my time to folks in my neighborhood who are food-insecure, and help those who can't or won't drive to fix their bikes so they can still get around to their jobs, doctor's appointments, grocery runs, etc. Why do you ask that question when you have nothing to show in kind? Further, why do you imply that participating in the market contributes to "good"? Your reliance on a false dichotomy to make your point shows…
I'm saying that helping people make money is good.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
#338Can someone work on improving the brains NGF?
Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
#339I'm having a blast working on https://printnanny.ai/ - the embedded computer vision system is cool, plus there are many meaty unsolved problems in the 3D printing universe. To name a few... - Rolled a Linux distribution (PrintNanny OS) designed for mixing/matching controller software across a manufacturing "fleet". - Created an atomic upgrade/rollback system. - Built a WebRTC stack for live camera streaming. - Lots o…
That's an awesome one. I recently had wondered why the only one I knew of was spaghetti detective. Just a heads up. Trying to preorder gives a stripe error (below) from the orders endpoint. Copy also says 50% off then shows a $199.99 original price and $149.99 discounted price (25% not 50%). > Request req_JF7zd2A0rO1rXY: One or more provided prices do not have a `tax_behavior` set which is required for automatic tax…
Oops, thank you so much for letting me know! I'm trying to roll out Stripe's tax product for VAT this week. If you send a quick hello to leigh@printnanny.ai, I can ping you when that's fixed. I'll honor the 50% discount too - thanks for catching that copy snafu.
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#340I do gamedev(unreal).
So much educational content is locked behind videos or hard to search mediums like an example project you have to download and setup.
There are attempts at community wiki but I'm trying to start an opiniated blog/wiki type site since I dont agree with lots of other things that I wish existed.