skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep reading how bad and competitive the "job market" is today, but I haven't been able to find actual data on it.

It's like people have this gut feeling that due to the recent layoffs at FAANG, no calls for interviews and the number of (likely mediocre) applications showing up in a job post in LinkedIn indicates the job market is extremely competitive. But is it? The entire job market?

There's no doubt some companies and markets are beaten up but other are actually doing great and growing.

So rather than invest time on blogging and creating repos why not focus on researching, identifying and learning about the industries that are actually hiring and acquiring new skills so that you can target them?
You have to be hopelessly naive to believe that the hold-back feature is going to be implemented as described, if at all, and not quietly removed when the outrage dies down.

And even if it stays as described, the percentage will be low enough that those that fail attestation can be safely barraged with captchas or simply told to go away. (You can try browsing the web with TOR to get a taste of how you will be treated)

The whole post can be summarized as "trust me bro"
What is wrong when walking into a web shop with disclosing how much money you earn and may be able to part with?
Is it even possible to have super conduction at room temperature? I always thought it was highly associated with cold temperatures.
> This is incorrect. You can easily do small scale work with almost all SMT components without solder paste. Solder paste is required for automated assembly processes. But almost anything done by hand can also be done with conventional solder.

I disagree. I don't consider 0603 passives and TSSOP packages "modern" anymore. Of course these components can be hand soldered with ease (possibly at top quality with the aid of a microscope). Unfortunately, the industry is gradually abandoning TSSOP and QFP in favor of DFN, QFN, and LFCSP in recent years. For anything that does high-speed signaling or multiplexing above 1 Gbps (which is old by computer's standard) like USB 3.0, PCIe 1/2, QFN goes without the need for a mention (short of using BGA). But the thing is, even in simpler ICs like DC-DC controllers, you can see the same trend. Simple RFICs are another source of heavy users of these packages, reduced circuit parasitics is certainly a factor.

These packages are all leadless, and frequently with thermal pads at the bottom. An older term for leadless packages is BTC - Bottom Termination Components. [1] After a few successive and multiple failed QFN soldering attempts, I switched to ordering stencil, solder paste, and a hot plate. It worked perfectly on my first attempt, so I never looked back.

Unless you have top 10% soldering skills, which I don't (experienced smartphone repair technicians seems to have mastered the art of QFN), I found solder paste is required for maintaining your sanity with leadless packages. Furthermore, without reflow soldering, prototype assembly can be very time-consuming and takes hours, especially when you need 3 or more prototypes.

Occasionally, leadless packages also have optional difficulties turned on, completely eliminating the possibility of hand soldering, such as multiple bottom pads for different nets (to minimize parasitic inductance), or having two layers of contacts, one row on the exterior and on row on the interior.

> You can easily do small scale work with almost all SMT components without solder paste. [...] The one exception is BGA devices

And DFN, and QFN, and LFCSP, and...

Thanks to industrial and automotive users, some ICs still have QFP versions for these markets (due to their vibration resistance) that are friendly for hand operation, but you have to pay a premium.

Finally, even plain-old QFP chips have bottom thermal pad these days (in that case, you can manually apply a blob of solder on the PCB and reflow again with a hot air gun, but manually apply a drop of paste is easier to work with).

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[1] But these days it would make people think it's some kind of a Bitcoin mining ASIC. BTW, the last time I've checked, these ASICs are indeed QFN, so one can say they're BTC BTC chips...
Reverse your logic and remove all rules applied now; no seat belts for cars I mean take them out not just give the option to use or not. No regulation of alcohol use any age anywhere any time. No rules for smoking any age any time anywhere. And so on. Pretty soon it would be a mess for everyone.
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Yes, there's some that just want to work on different problems and want to just fix the puzzles.

But blanket blaming all of them and saying they all have a choice is not real. Any of them on visas? How would you feel about risking not just your job but also the ability to live somewhere.

You can't blanket blame all engineers and say they all have a choice.
Hah, when I followed a link and after having read a tweet, my muscle memory actually took over and I clicked the x automatically. It took me a second to recognize why I was feeling surprised.
So boiling isn't strictly required, though it has nice benefits on the wort (in a phase called the "hot break"). However, it is necessary to reach certain temperature (140-160 F, though broader may work) to convert starch into sugar.

In old times, a metal vessel large enough to boil an entire batch of wort may not have been feasible. Other techniques were used in these cases.

Say you have a wooden barrel or tub:

* Take off a portion of the wort, boil it, and add it back. This is decoction.

* Heat rocks and add them into the wort.
Chinese "sign years" are a good example where it seems not to shake out. There's a 12-year cycle between repeating signs, but it doesn't seem that every 12 years you get whole cohorts of specifically intelligent/kind/diligent/cunning/lazy/science-loving/humanities-oriented/whatever children in a given school year, which will nearly universally be composed of only two star signs (Chinese New Year falling about halfway into the school year). It's even more obvious on the 60-year "element-animal" cycle that the world doesn't go 3 generations between people having "fire dragon" or "earth horse" characteristics.

It'd be hard to hide such statistical effects on an yearly interval, whereas the Western zodiac hides its predictive failures by not having signs that are commonly stratified into different groups.
Vid here on strategies that work on the SPY https://youtu.be/BWxJKs0Zj7k

It seems short term efficient but over the longer term there are periods where putting all your money into it are in fashion and periods when the public are wary of stocks.
Caffeine affects sleep quality as well as the ability to fall asleep. So just falling asleep doesn't mean you aren't suffering any negative effects.
Which implies the click fraud problem. I thought that Google was strongly disinterested in robust counter measures because so much as engagement is straight fraud. If you shine a light on it the market shrinks a lot.
iirc remote attestation is reliant on hardware attestation, which means these websites will only run on authorized DRM-enforcing hardware and architectures. Only Intel, AMD, Qualcomm and the like. No open-source firmwares, architectures or hardware.
That was short and sweet, thanks for sharing it. I wish I could express my journey this way but am not articulate like others. So at least I live vicariously through you all.

I reflect back on my earlier days and also realize my changing views. I used to take joy in solving problems in any way possible. I now take joy in solving problems with as little future headaches as possible for everyone.
I might actually start a blacklist over this. We are looking at aggressively hiring and I don't think I want anyone who has ever served time at Google on my staff anymore.
It really depends on your teachers tbh. I had loads of poorly formed sport teachers, 2 that were OK, one who was great (he was an ex-professional diver and I think that's why he was great.)
That is my point: none of this well understood, by you/me/anyone, and it's absurd to assume it is.

Absolutely none of our base assumptions related to these mRNA vaccines don't require extreme scrutiny. It's not tinfoil-hat territory to say so.
> So, basically, anybody who wrote about it is a part of an evil white conspiracy engaging in a coordinated attack on the noble savage, and William Rubinstein is just as well a bigot by virtue of publishing in Quadrant.

If you say so - I'd have phrased it differently myself and pointed out the history of Quadrant articles on Australian Aboriginals that proved to be dubious at best.

For anyone outside of Australia or unaware of Quadrant, its editor for many years was on a crusade to downplay European interactions with aboriginals. It's a massive multi volume kind of side issue to argue, see [1] [2] for airplane overview.

As a general rule, skin colour aside, colonisers did have a tendancy to overstate their virtue at the expence of those whose land they appropriated; check in with India, Canada, much of Africa, etc. There's a bit of a pattern.

Infanticide at low freqency being universal is correct - on that we agree, and Europe was just as prone as elsewhere, just as cannabilism was quite the fad in Europe a lot more recently than you might suspect if you're not already aware.

Where we disagree is in this 30% of kids killed and some high percentage eaten nonsense.

> Agricultural mothers didn't have to walk ~9km per day

That sounds about right for anyone tending crops when planting or harvesting by hand and many mothers hand tie wraps for carrying their babies ... you, ahhh, did know that I trust?

It also sounds as if you're under the delusion that Australian Aboriginals were nomadic on a daily basis and never settled down in one place for months at a time.

You'd be quite wrong on that score.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Windschuttle

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_wars
Athletic brewing is easily the best non-alcoholic beer I've had. They have less than .5% alcohol which makes me wonder if that little bit helps keeps the flavor profile correct.
Yeah you generally only have 2 or 3. Wouldn’t recommend having more than that
Holo: A routing protocol suite written in Rust
Ads per se are a fine alternative to pay for a website, the problem is when they are the most attractive option. Because them being the most attractive option usually means they are the only option, meaning they are also the only option for people that would be willing to pay to see no ads (me).

I see it like smoking. It should be legal, but there need to be laws in place preventing smokers from harming and annoying anyone that chooses not to smoke. Ads should be legal, but there need to be laws in place allowing people to completely avoid them by paying a fair price. Until this is the case and everyone can choose, making them unavoidable is morally wrong.
Climate change can be real, and the world can not fall apart, those two things can co exist.

Everyone’s generation thought the world was falling apart.

But it continues to get better.
From what I recall reading, there was a grow in population during XIX century that to this day is still hard to explain by historians. A lot of that surplus population couldn't live off the land, since it was already at capacity in most of the Western Europe, so they moved to cities, hoping to find a living there. This resulted in "infernal cities" of XIX century, as described by Dickers, Zola etc - people dying of starvation of right on the streets of London or Paris, hordes of underage prostitutes roaming the streets etc.
The calming effect comes from L Theanine which you can buy separately and add to your coffee
How I eventually resolve this kind of problems.

minimum = +Inf
for b in bar.naz():
if not some_filter(b):
continue
b = some_op(b)
minimum = min(minimum, b)
foo(minimum)

Yes, plain old procedural python. data flow from top to bottom.
it allows `print` debugging, very usefull to debug some_filter and some_op are broken.
That’s not a big deal on a multi-core 1ghz processor. Much bigger deal on a single core 200mhz microcontroller that doesn’t have branch prediction or any of those fun optimizations.
Definitely seems like we will have a commercial internet run to satisfy corporations and an adjunct internet that is federated and open for free thinkers. I think focusing on federated publishing tools is the best route around these ideas.

Remember the corporations will need to be more disruptive than a nuclear war to break the internet. We can always route around them ourselves.
As someone who has built a business on browsing certain website using Chrome in headless mode this proposal worries me, and it has the potential to destroy large commercial segments of other similar companies.
When I was still in academia in two years ago, there was plenty of materials scientist, chemists and yes, experimental physicists I worked with who used Word, depending on the journal.

Sometimes you have to collaborate outside of physics!
That won't happen. "Normies" don't care. At all. They just want the fastest thing and are happy to watch ads popping up all 5 minutes all day.
Funnily enough, I think it is exactly the other way round: it is much more difficult to run a marathon while depending on carbohydrate (because your stores are limited and the amount you can digest per hour is also limited). It is much easier to do long distances if you are accustomed to NOT depend on sugar. (If you are good enough, a running a marathon is not even a long distance event...)
No. Society joining the internet has led to the downfall of society.

It should be left to the nerds.
Any tea does, just to varying degrees, and it definitely works. This is due to a chemical called L-theanine. I never have caffeine without theanine now. Usually I just drink a green tea alongside whatever other caffeine I have (or only drink tea). You can buy it separately but I don't see the point.
This is news to me; when and how does Google own Firefox?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
They did. Then they lost it.

You can't get that back.
You can actually use more extensions on Android. It's just more involved than it should be. The trick is to create an "extension collection" from your Mozilla account. Then you can use any extension, and a lot of them just work.
True, I would prefer "unobtanium"
In this case they could not.
How does this prevent ad-blocking?

If website you visits asks you to confirm that you are a human user from some 3rd party API isn't that same as requiring captcha?

You can still have browser extensions that filter the ads away after the website sends you the final HTML, right?
> Firefox is owned by Google

You're gonna have to explain why you think this, because publicly, Firefox is owned by Mozilla which is not owned by Google in any way.

But maybe you know something the rest of us don't?
Is there a connector/crimp tool set that's recommended for hobbyists? I make just a couple devices per year in a year where I'm actively pursuing the hobby. Mostly audio, some home automation and on the fence if I should dive a bit deeper into either synthesizers or robotics. Up to now I've only done screw terminals and soldered plugs. Spending even a couple hundred bucks on a single crimp tool seems like such a hurdle, especially as basically every tutorial or open source design I see seems to be using different connectors.

edit: nvm, I just never did proper research. It seems like you can get a high quality crimping tool like the Engineer Pad-11 for just ~50 bucks and it does a bunch of common connectors like JST-SHD. I don't know why I thought I had to spend hundreds on single purpose tools.
Have to give this a try. personal finance is a pain point for me, signing up.
Priceless, love all the spoofs, especially the Buggles one :)
We had an "indie hacker" using our product who would write in a really abusive manner over and over. I could never figure out why he didn't just go with another company.

Incidentally, I remembered his name recently and looked him up. I found an interview where he sold his company for "8 figures" and talked about the joy of "nurturing a team." Not sure the lesson there, but I found it funny.
I've heard this too, but green tea, for whatever reason, absolutely ratchets up anxiety for me. Black coffee can if I have too much, but is surprisingly less likely to
Towards the end of the previous century and early days of the current one ColdFusion was a very attractive platform. It was good while it lasted, and even greater it ended (kinda).
An introduction to metaprogramming in Ruby
How MOS 6502 illegal opcodes work
>Firefox is a bit weaker on Android, with an extemely limited set of extensions

Definitely not with the Iceweasel fork.
https://github.com/fork-maintainers/fenix
> I wonder who actually gets this money in practice.

The record companies and the top 10 or so of the artists.
Mine swings wildly. Around 130/100 while resting due to having taken BP meds for months now, but can get as low as 110/80 after exercise/cardio to the point of easily passing out.
I tried to use it and my immediate block was using a react native plugin I really needed and it wasn't compatible ...
Then make laws to force your ISPs to be neutral carriers and prosecute any pulling shit. Most of the world doesn't have this problem yet we are still forced to waste countless of cycles and man-hours on TLS for public read-only content.
While I generally agree with what you say, specifically with squats its a bit more tricky. Especially if you use additional weights, but even just body weight for sedentary or bigger injury recovery person.

There are numerous ways how to mess up your body with squats, spine and knees are major source of focus if you do squats improperly. The problem is, injury may not reveal itself immediately with some snap and pain, but rather in few hours/next day, or even worse it can take many months of continuous joint degradation without a hint. A prime example would be ie weighted squats with knees not stretching out but inward, or putting too much weight in front of your feet and toes (when most weight should be handled by heel, many bulked up folks in gyms literally put some plank on floor and stand on edge of it on heels while squatting).

In fact, in regular weightlifting, squats are by some considered too injury-prone to advise to beginners, at least not without some good supervision. Deadlifts, another massively compound exercise (meaning it activates many many muscles/tissues in the body, many of them as stabilizers) is considered safer. You can lift literally a grocery bag or random stone if you want, doesn't matter as long as you keep the good form.

I personally am huge fan of squats, but I am not a beginner anymore. I don't put massive weight, rather light and many repetitions, that's much better training for real life usage like sports. I don't have mental issues that I work around by getting uselessly massive, cca lean reasonably muscular strong body with lot of endurance is much better for anything in real life. Lunges are great too and IIRC safer, I use them without weights for warmups, the longer the steps the better.
Probably a good idea to take the blog offline and see if the job search situation improves.
Interesting. The pipe operator is more idiomatic in OCaml where this would be

crumb_of_zing x |> glork_of_crumb |> floob_of_glork

versus

zing_to_crumb x |> crumb_to_glork |> glork_to_floob
It's important to remember they are only commercial efforts. If you can value something other than money it doesn't matter what the corporate web is doing compared to human ingenuity and the internet. Let them waste their time and money write their specs.
> Firefox is owned by Mozilla which is not owned by Google in any way.

Who owns Mozilla? Put another way, if Google stops funding Mozilla, will it still exist?

The only reason Firefox exists is because Google wants something they can point to in court and say "look! we're not a monopoly!"
Piracy is a service problem. Back in the early 2000s pirates simply offered a better service.
The gaming industry understood that and quickly created online marketplaces for games.
The music industry didn't - and instead of creating Spotify a decade earlier - spent the 2000s trying to sue grandmas who filmed their kids dancing to copyrighted music.
We did - briefly - have the DAT (digital audio tape) format.
Well, considering most people using a browser don't even know of the existence of ad-blockers, I'd wager that no, most people will continue to use whatever is already installed to continue browsing Facebook as usual.
And if ad-blockers are considered illegitimate software?

This would be entirely in line with financial incentives of the proposed attesters and even logically defensible (oh well, we haven’t vetted uBlock, so you can’t browse with that installed).
I wouldn't go that far.

I don't know if we can model any biological structure with complete fidelity. There's a lot that modern science doesn't know about the cell. The Golgi apparatus, for instance, is still a mystery; there are models, but nobody really knows how it works, and all of the models are apparently incomplete. You'll note that the Golgi apparatus is one of the very largest cell structures.

Our cognitive processes rest upon an extremely complex biological substrate. That we're not able to simulate a nematode's brain, however, absolutely does not imply that it's not simulatable in principle.

...I'd say that it's made of fermions, which in a coordinate space approximate bits of information. Those fermions are mostly arranged into atoms, which are grouped together in molecules. As, contra Penrose, quantum effects don't seem important for cognition, if you have an absolutely complete molecular picture of the brain and an evolution function, you'll have a model of the brain.

You need more than "mapped out connections," but it's eminently possible in principle, which is to say that it's not infinitely complex or somehow ineffable. It's just decades beyond us, by my estimate.
Thank you, I thought jesus was code for all powerful moderator dang or smt
Because Google pays Mozilla ~$500M dollars a year, nearly 80% of all of Mozilla's revenue, use Google as the default search provider.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-go...

If Google turned off this money faucet, Mozilla would be severely impacted. Unfortunately as Firefox's market penetration gets lower, the value of that deal gets lower, should Google stop paying it and someone like Bing takes over.
I agree, I use Firefox everywhere. But we must not forget the following:

In 2011 Mozilla income was 85% derrived from Google, through the primary search engine deal. Around a billion was paid over three years as part of this deal at some point. Appearantly there was bidding by Microsoft for making Bing the default, which pushed up the pricing.

So every time Mozilla speaks out against Google, it is a bit awkward, since they are biting the hand that feeds them. I suppose they could take a deal from Microsoft, Yahoo or even DDG (or Baidu!), but without interest from Google I presume the funding would be lower. Quite an interesting situation.
Thank God both Firefox and Chrome are open source. That is at least some small degree of insurance against potential freedom-limiting shenanigans by tech giants.
Lina Khan wrote an influential essay about Amazon and monopoly in college. She will come with guns blazing for this one after the crushing defeat in the ridiculous lawsuit against the Activision purchase.

Amazon both revolutionized and destroyed large parts of physical retail. I'm thinking about whether I want the FTC to win this one.
Yeah, it was only when I briefly worked for a FAANG that I realised that it doesn't really matter how many well-meaning engineers you have, because ultimately they don't make the decisions. Execs make the big decisions, and they will always take the most profitable choice.