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Re:Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue what's your p... on Friday April 14, 2023 @11:49AM (#35570888)
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.

Re:If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week? on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:25PM (#28461860)
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.
Re:Google's Project Sunroof on Saturday December 26, 2020 @09:21PM (#25548271)
An incredible breadth of data has gone into this prediction tool which I had never even heard of.

Ask HN: Biologists who need help with Computer Vision?

Posted by samjett on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @01:29AM
from the ask-hn dept.

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...

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

Posted by samjett on Sunday May 05, 2019 @05:13PM
from the ask-hn dept.

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...

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Re:Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything? on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:11PM (#19092089)
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.