Hacker News: JacobDotVI

New comment by JacobDotVI in "U.S. seeks to revive idled shipyards with help of Japan, South Korea"

JacobDotVI — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 21:23:03 +0000

Are there any startups working on disrupting US Shipbuilding?

New comment by JacobDotVI in "Homemade Pasta. Now Is the Time (2021)"

JacobDotVI — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:16:09 +0000

Activity-hours aren't fungible and have constraints. If I need to eat by 6pm and get home from work at 5:30 pm, I generally can't just choose to swap a 9 - 10 pm hour of streaming with an hour of preparing food.

While some people can level up and perform food-prep activities during the 9-10 pm hour so that the following 5:30 - 6 pm slot can be filled with quick prep, many people don't know how to do so, nor see the ROI for such activity.

AGI Trades

JacobDotVI — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 18:08:57 +0000

Article URL: https://dcgross.com/agitrades

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39070435

Points: 1

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New comment by JacobDotVI in "My Left Kidney"

JacobDotVI — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 12:13:15 +0000

Some screenings have gone direct to consumer in the US. Fairly easy to purchase online, make an appointment, then show up for a quick collection.

https://www.ondemand.labcorp.com/

https://www.questhealth.com/sale

Quest is even running a sale right now on some tests!

New comment by JacobDotVI in "The Restaurant Nearest Google"

JacobDotVI — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:01:27 +0000

What is old is new again. The Chicago Tribune writing in 1992 about restaurants naming themselves to get a better listing in the phonebook:

"`A ALPHABETICAL ADVANTAGE` HELPS BUSINESSES" https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-11-08-920411...

New comment by JacobDotVI in "Meta sued by states over harmful youth marketing"

JacobDotVI — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 17:19:36 +0000

Now do it for the food and candy companies

New comment by JacobDotVI in "Title 38, §1614: Products containing PFAS"

JacobDotVI — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 01:34:42 +0000

Some additional information:

https://www.pressherald.com/2023/10/16/maines-pfas-law-draws...

New comment by JacobDotVI in "Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?"

JacobDotVI — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:09:23 +0000

Guzey updated changed his mind on this topic: https://guzey.com/2022-lessons/#get-minimum-possible-sustain...

It's unfortunate that he hasn't added a disclaimer to the original post since it is shared so widely.

EDIT: fixing autocorrect

New comment by JacobDotVI in "Ask HN: How to deal with 0.1X programmer colleagues?"

JacobDotVI — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:15:23 +0000

A formula 1 race car is _much_ faster than a freight truck. However a freight truck can deliver a lot more goods across the country than an F1 car. Which is your big organization optimizing for?

Bryan Johnson's anti aging blood transfusion involves dad and son

JacobDotVI — Mon, 22 May 2023 14:56:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-22/bryan-johnson-s-anti-aging-blood-transfusion-involves-dad-and-son

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36032246

Points: 2

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New comment by JacobDotVI in "I’m a doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients"

JacobDotVI — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 23:05:07 +0000

My hunch is that this is exactly what he was expecting. There is a lot of hype around ChatGPT passing the medical exam and this exercise is a counter point to that.

New comment by JacobDotVI in "FDIC auction for SVB said to be underway, final bids due Sunday"

JacobDotVI — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 19:50:01 +0000

Not an FDIC auction, but if you’re interested in what this sort of bidding looks like the book Barbarians at the Gate details the LBO auction of RJR Nabisco. That auction was a lot of bankers squired away in conference rooms on separate floors of an office building while the auctioneers walked bids between the various groups.

New comment by JacobDotVI in "Netflix's New Chapter"

JacobDotVI — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:56:19 +0000

He wrote a book called Blitzscaling regarding how to execute: https://www.amazon.com/Blitzscaling-Lightning-Fast-Building-...

The book Netflixed (mentioned in the article) is likely also a good source: https://www.amazon.com/Netflixed-Epic-Battle-Americas-Eyebal...

New comment by JacobDotVI in "The art of knowing when to quit"

JacobDotVI — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:46:32 +0000

First Round had a good podcast episode with her about the book:

https://overcast.fm/+k1HEhCB1U

New comment by JacobDotVI in "WeWork exits 40 U.S. locations after tepid forecast"

JacobDotVI — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:37:59 +0000

Try a roost stand (or equivalent) and external keyboard and track pad (I use the smallish apple ones). This has saved my posture when working from outside my office. It’s not the equivalent of the home base setup but it’s good enough that my neck isn’t screaming at me at the end of the day

New comment by JacobDotVI in "Show HN: Add live runnable code to your dev docs"

JacobDotVI — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:48:10 +0000

This seems like a great alternative to passing around postman collections separate from documentation

New comment by JacobDotVI in "How do you fix a stroad?"

JacobDotVI — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 13:42:29 +0000

> Has anyone ever put a picture of a stroad up as art/instagram etc like you see with downtown NYC, Paris, small european villages, shanghai, rural mountain towns, old downtowns in America etc?

Yes, but in a different way than I believe your question implies. Edward Burtynsky produced an amazing series of photographs centered around the automobile and in his words, how it "represent[ed] not only freedom, but also something much more conflicted."

https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/oil

One of the most internet famous images from that series is of a stroad in Breezewood, PA:

https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/news-hub/2019/7/25/what-inte...

New comment by JacobDotVI in "Mushroom leather and how it is made (2020)"

JacobDotVI — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 14:46:01 +0000

Some shoe brands still do this, such as Allen Edmonds:

https://www.allenedmonds.com/discover/our-story/recrafting.h...

New comment by JacobDotVI in "Ask HN: What's the quickest way to get something online?"

JacobDotVI — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:32:47 +0000

Using s3 to host a static page?

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Hostin...

U-shaped relationship between LDL cholesterol level and all-cause mortality

JacobDotVI — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:49:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-01738-w

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29201408

Points: 4

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