Hacker News: samjett

Uses for a Five Gallon Bucket

samjett — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:53:00 +0000

Article URL: https://fivegallonideas.com/top-posts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39058655

Points: 1

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New comment by samjett in "Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?"

samjett — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:49:20 +0000

You made Dynobase? Dude such a needed product - the DDB GUI is awful inside AWS and painfully slow to work with.

Been trying to convince my manager to buy personal licenses for everyone on my team - glad to support this excellent product.

Rivian Lays Off 6% of Workforce

samjett — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 16:58:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ev-maker-rivian-cut-6-jobs-amid-price-war-internal-memo-2023-02-01/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34613433

Points: 6

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New comment by samjett in "If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?"

samjett — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 19:25:38 +0000

Near nonexistent. Battery size requirements and battery charging rates make EV RVS either really expensive and really impractical for distance travel. You would need to put a huge battery (say, 300 KwH, which would cost $60,000 just for the battery), to get a reasonable range of 200-300 miles between charges, depending upon the efficiency of your RV. And then, even at a level 3 DCFC Charging station (providing 50 KW) you're looking at 6 hrs of charging to fully charge the battery.

Show HN: Rivian Tank Turn

samjett — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 06:03:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzwM8KE2L3I

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26382709

Points: 1

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New comment by samjett in "Google's Project Sunroof"

samjett — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 02:21:38 +0000

An incredible breadth of data has gone into this prediction tool which I had never even heard of.

Google's Project Sunroof

samjett — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 02:21:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.google.com/get/sunroof

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25548270

Points: 1

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Mammalian Diving Reflex

samjett — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 03:38:56 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_reflex

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23674131

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Biologists who need help with Computer Vision?

samjett — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 06:29:23 +0000

Was watching the nature documentary "Night on Earth" recently on Netflix. I loved the show, and was inspired by the incredible shots and film they captured. In the "Behind the scenes" episode, there was a scene depicting a biologist who counted flamingo nests in an image taken by a drone, and I was wondering if there are any other biologists who could use help with computer vision tasks (like this one)? Would love to help in my spare time with the awesome conservation work going on, and was wondering if there is a need out there

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22232968

Points: 3

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Ask HN: Why is no one talking about CarPlay Native Apps?

samjett — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 07:22:51 +0000

Seems like a whole new development platform here ripe for the hacking. Especially as driver intervention becomes less necessary.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21267916

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Is there a universal abstract template for academic conference apps?

samjett — Sun, 05 May 2019 21:13:46 +0000

I've submitted to present at many different conferences, typically in the biomechanics field, and it seems that each conference uses a distinct abstract template with distinct requirements. I've observed that a substantial amount of time is spent modifying the same content to comply with various word-limits, adding or removing figures, and changing the submission formatting. I was wondering if there was a reason for these template differences and if there had been any effort to create a universal conference abstract template to reduce the time reformatting.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19835116

Points: 2

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New comment by samjett in "Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?"

samjett — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 02:11:32 +0000

Fantastic and I completely agree. The book helped me to get perspective on current events and helped provide relevant historical precedent for almost everything in the world around us.

For example, I never thought about how ideas that are touted by organizations or religions are frequently argued to be "natural" or "divine" or somehow sewn into the fabric of the universe. The book helped me to become a little more skeptical by portraying how versatile and diverse human societies can be, and how there is truly very little that is "natural", "eternal", and meant to be.

Similarly, the book helped me to realize how unprecedented the current rates of economic and technological growth are. Its an exciting time to be alive, filled with almost infinite possibilities, and that fact is especially inspiring when you understand how much more restrictive previous generations and cultures were.

Show HN: Find the best times to commute

samjett — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 04:53:59 +0000

Article URL: https://thecommuterapp.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18639390

Points: 3

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