davehcker

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by davehcker 6mo ago
Building wireless (LTE-based) sensors for most major horticultural sensing needs. Measurements include: - CO2. Side note: I was surprised to find that most (all?) CO2 sensors used in closed plant production setups are not meant to operate b
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DuckDB JIT Compiled UDFs with Numba(bnm3k.github.io)
3 points by davehcker 2y ago|0 comments
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by davehcker 3y ago
We need to update the FAQ. Now we offer a fixed subscription pricing model.
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by davehcker 3y ago
Thanks. My email address is in my HN bio.
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by davehcker 3y ago
> What exactly do you offer / sell / solve? It's a SaaS + IoT + Plant Biology knowledge baked into one package. We are figuring things out on the fly as well (here's a link to one of the products https://ww
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by davehcker 3y ago
We built a company around this very problem- indoor farming (including vertical indoor farming) is pretty complex and by default it's energy hungry. In theory, indoor farming is very efficient for commercial food production though. I t
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How to Search on Google(support.google.com)
1 points by davehcker 4y ago|1 comments
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by davehcker 4y ago
I didn't want to confess, but yes you're right. Elixir (or the willingness to learn Elixir) is a great filter for me to find the right people. Again, this is my purely subjective opinion and might as well be true for other languag
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by davehcker 4y ago
I know-- I was scared like hell. But after the first week and multiple staging releases in less than 10 days, I was on top of it. Yes, hiring is real challenge and am facing it already. However, if I, even as a startup, reach the salary thr
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by davehcker 4y ago
I second this. I would say that I am pretty advanced with Python (and Django) and same with JavaScript (Vue and Nuxt) and have written applications that got used by multiple users. I saw a sharp rise in my productivity when I knew enough ab
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by davehcker 4y ago
Quite few I had (assuming OPs question to be broad enough)- 1. Reading Malcolm X's autobiography _The Autobiography of Malcolm X_ in college. It transformed me such that within that one week of reading it, I developed (given my low sta
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by davehcker 4y ago
OP here. No matter how hard I try, I just can't get it until I make frequent visits from 'different sides' to a location. I didn't even know about Topographical Disorientation, but it really hits home. Anecdotally speaki
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Ask HN: How can I improve navigation skills?
33 points by davehcker 4y ago|34 comments
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by davehcker 5y ago
Author of the post here. Trying to respond to some of the comments. Firstly, apologies- I didn't intend to make anything click-baity. As a matter of fact, I didn't even post it here. I realized that I could have titled my post lik
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by davehcker 5y ago
Waiting for someone to build something like this for founders of any promising startup out there (and not just YC startups). I totally understand the current choice of sticking to YC startups though. But do you imagine accepting non-YC star
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by davehcker 5y ago
Yes, it is called bias lighting. Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_lighting
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by davehcker 5y ago
Sorry to read about such experiences people might have had, but I actually have had the exact opposite experience. I made few submissions/comments about 'dev' things, and because of the support of the HNers, I felt really goo
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by davehcker 5y ago
Sorry I thought my email was on my HN profile. I am sitting behind david[at]hexafarms.com
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by davehcker 5y ago
I have posted this here before- hexafarms.com. I am trying to use ML to discover optimal phenotype for growing plants in vertical indoor farms to a. have the higest quality produce b. to lower the cost of producing leafy green/med plan
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by davehcker 6y ago
OP here; not kidding, but once you get down to talking to your actual customers, one has only so much energy to convince people that GMO is not necessarily bad. May be I'm harming myself by being so honest here- but the general consume
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by davehcker 6y ago
True, but I can't really predict the outcome due to covid. Just saw Dubai post-covid-onset, and to my eyes, nothing has changed much from food-supply-chain side. I personally believe that permaculture would actually be the best solutio
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by davehcker 6y ago
Right now (re-starting almost the fourth time), my goal is to get consistent 1. images 2. co2, ec, ph, temperature, humidity, light intensity/quality readings. Anyone putting in money (besides me) hesitated until now because they could
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by davehcker 6y ago
It was!!! Personally, I have no aversion towards GMO. But in the end, it's the customers. It's already so hard to convince that food grown in clean and sterilized nutrient medium is far better than the romantic soil everyone is cl
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by davehcker 6y ago
Vertical indoor farm to reach the highest throughout possible per cubic meter are, using only non-GMO plants by discovering the right phenomics- https://hexafarms.com Vertical indoor farms are getting a lot of attention in the r
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by davehcker 6y ago
Thanks for clarifying; now I get it.
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by davehcker 6y ago
I have heard this before but I never understood why- 'not getting vaccinated affects everyone else'. My thinking is that if you already got vaccinated then you should be good to go. How does my not getting vaccinated then harm oth
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Discovering the Y Combinator by Mistake(lambdacircle.com)
2 points by davehcker 6y ago|0 comments
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The Why of Y [pdf](dreamsongs.com)
2 points by davehcker 6y ago|0 comments
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by davehcker 6y ago
I say why not have an environment for people to have the opportunity to learn multiple languages so that the inherent beauty of the variety of languages is preserved, and yet, we can communicate and silo. As a matter of fact, then multiple
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by davehcker 6y ago
I would think so. Fatwa s i.e. the Sharia rulings are legally non-binding ( https://en.unesco.org/courier/2017-april-june/what-sharia-no... ). 'Secularism, Sovereignty, Indeterminacy: Is Egypt a Secular or a

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