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New comment by jvln in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

jvln — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:05:55 +0000

I always thought that way about genius level.

New comment by jvln in "Ask HN: Does Duolingo Work?"

jvln — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:38:25 +0000

I am always joking that duolingo sells a dream to speak foreign language fluently. My argument is I have not seen a person claiming learned a language on the platform.

New comment by jvln in "Why South Korean women aren't having babies"

jvln — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 12:09:37 +0000

Is not it just to expensive?

While having a child you must pay for daycare, school, evening baby sitting. Next to that if the family splits the woman is doing most of the child care alone. Sounds like to much risk.

New comment by jvln in "Ask HN: How did you learn to stretch effectively?"

jvln — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 19:53:05 +0000

I created a playlist that tells the strech exercise name and then beeps every 20s. Efective stretch takes between 20-30s and the strength of it should be such that the intensity phases out at the end of the 20s. I did 3x20s for every exercise. My whole routine was approx 20minutes and took me daily for 3 months to achieve the angles that are checked by physio therapist.

New comment by jvln in "Ask HN: How do you deal with the feeling that everyone around you is stupid?"

jvln — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 18:40:50 +0000

Could you give a little bit more context by describing the last two cases when you felt that way?

New comment by jvln in "LinkedIn's software and customer service are seriously affecting my business"

jvln — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 17:23:53 +0000

What positions are you hiring?

New comment by jvln in "Ask HN: How to use AI/ML to cut all dead time from table tennis video matches"

jvln — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 20:01:11 +0000

After you solve it, please share :)

New comment by jvln in "Support Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression"

jvln — Sun, 15 May 2022 19:43:45 +0000

So sad. Your thougts do not sound as free person thoughts. On a countrary I would better be dead than a slave.

New comment by jvln in "Columbia's Sachs Criticizes NATO's Handling of Ukraine"

jvln — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 13:10:46 +0000

What might be the reason..?

New comment by jvln in "Ask HN: What would you do if you were president?"

jvln — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 06:21:48 +0000

Call in all inteligence heads and ask the most important question: do aliens exist?

New comment by jvln in "Every thought about giving and taking advice I’ve ever had"

jvln — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 12:57:08 +0000

After reading the quote “Most men give advices by the bucket, but take it by the grain.” W.R.Alger. I stopped giving advices.

New comment by jvln in "How I stay motivated working on my long-term project"

jvln — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 06:19:20 +0000

My two cents. I prefer analogy with sport. Say you choose running and pick 10k distance. What might be the goal? 50min, 40min, 30min? Say you pick 50min, if you are out of shape and did not do sport in your life - it will take you 6-9 months. You will have to train 3 times a week, probably you won't hire a couch, your body won't be ready, hence you will make many mistakes and will have quite high chances to injure your self and quit. What I want to emphasize - to succeed you have to start loving the process and blend the process into your lifestyle.

I see very clearly how the goal oriented approach fails for loosing weight while the only effective thing to do is eat less.

New comment by jvln in "SoftBank’s Vision Fund Loses $17.7B on WeWork, Uber"

jvln — Mon, 18 May 2020 19:40:44 +0000

I just finished reading https://www.billiondollarwhale.com/ book. The book tells a story how 11Billion USD were stolen. After seeing $17B losses I hardly can believe that a big chunk of it or most of it were not funnelled to support a lavish lifestyle of connected people.

New comment by jvln in "Hourly 4-second sprints prevent impairment of postprandial fat metabolism"

jvln — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 06:41:35 +0000

Searching for exercises having an efect and taking as less time as possible looks like panacea.

New comment by jvln in "Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists"

jvln — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 18:26:49 +0000

That is an interesting question. I would like to buy a nice painting or a sculpture but how can I distinguish a piece that is worth considering.

New comment by jvln in "Ask HN: 2020 goals and resolutions?"

jvln — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 00:05:17 +0000

I improved my flexibility whithin 6 months by visiting a physiotherapist. I visited her once per month. She checked my angles and muscle strenght then gave me a custom routine of exercices and streches each time.

New comment by jvln in "The Body Keeps the Score: Book Summary"

jvln — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 15:06:55 +0000

The analogy about muscle streching is wrong.

New comment by jvln in "Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (2018)"

jvln — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 05:30:54 +0000

Not the same situation. Roads are used and paid for maintainance by business. Subways/undergrounds are not used by business.

Ask HN: How to improve product intuition skills?

jvln — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:15:13 +0000

Recently I had an interview for a Data Science position. My candidacy was declined due to lack of product intuition skills. What are the ways to improve it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21123474

Points: 8

# Comments: 3

New comment by jvln in "Vital Wikipedia Articles"

jvln — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 12:35:35 +0000

What I want to emphasize is that majority of articles represent western democratic, capitalistic, liberal culture. Reading these articles you won’t learn anything extra that you were tought in school. On one hand it is ammusig how english wikipedia became a western culture mirror. On the other hand it is sad that you can not get insights into other cultures without western culture filter.