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bobbywilson0 commented on Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase   github.com/instantdb/inst... · Posted by u/nezaj
jamest · 2 years ago
[Firebase founder] The thing I'm excited about w/Instant is the quad-fecta of offline + real-time + relational queries + open source. The amount of requests we had for relational queries was off-the-charts (and is a hard engineering problem), and, while the Firebase clients are OSS, I failed to open source a reference backend (a longer story).

Good luck, Joe, Stopa and team!

bobbywilson0 · 2 years ago
If we only had doSQL() for everything.
bobbywilson0 commented on Ask HN: How do you go about finding a job?    · Posted by u/bobbywilson0
potamic · 2 years ago
Could you share your blog?
bobbywilson0 · 2 years ago
looks like it's this: https://blog.codepipes.com/
bobbywilson0 commented on Ask HN: How do you go about finding a job?    · Posted by u/bobbywilson0
throwaway019254 · 2 years ago
I posted here the steps I'm following when looking for a job:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36494126

And I would say I am pretty successful.

bobbywilson0 · 2 years ago
That reminds me of something sort of similar I observed. I was driving with a friend who drives all day for a living. He said that the fellow drivers told him that if you want to get over and you're in heavy traffic, roll down the window, and say "Hi there, do you mind letting me in?" I watched him do it and sure he showed me putting on his blinker didn't work at all, but the direct ask always worked.
bobbywilson0 commented on Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o   tamerc.com/posts/ask-hn-w... · Posted by u/comcuoglu
bobbywilson0 · 2 years ago
Cool analysis with GPT-4o! I was doing some messing around with the same dataset recently around the "Who is Hiring" and "Who wants to be hired". Although I was just using pandas and spacy. (I was job supply and demand with the US FED interest rates here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bobbywilson0/hn-whos-hirin...)

I can actually see how nice it would be for an llm to be able to disambiguate 'go' and 'rust'. However, it does seem a bit disappointing that it isn't consolidating node.js and nodejs or react-native and react native.

I'm curious on the need to do use selenium script to google to iterate, here's my script: https://gist.github.com/bobbywilson0/49e4728e539c726e921c79f.... Just uses the api directly and a regex for matching the title.

Thanks for sharing!

bobbywilson0 commented on Commercial 3D printers emit traces of toxic fumes, study finds (2019)   eandt.theiet.org/content/... · Posted by u/esskay
bobbywilson0 · 3 years ago
I recently purchased a 3d printer, and I looked for articles talking about the risks associated with PLA fumes. This article[1] seems to be popularly cited, which includes the statement "PLA doesn’t look like a problem." I think this is what in my experience has been largely the sentiment when I have asked around, and read forum posts about the topic. At my local library there is a makerlab space, they are free to use and they basically run them non-stop uncovered in the room.

One of the other points I found interesting was that someone mentioned that a lot of the printers are manufactured in China where there isn't as much regulation around required safety warnings. However, NIOSH does have a short page[2] on 3d printer safety.

In my mind as a new hobbyist it seems like the combination of two issues.

1. The way 3d printers are currently designed and marketed is primarily an open-air style that can be used just out of the box. Enclosures are usually at least as much as a consumer level printer, and you need to have a way to vent it to the outside.

2. The thinking from the community is largely "PLA doesn't look like a problem" and only use an enclosure for ABS and more toxic materials.

I understand the comments around hobbyists shouldn't be the ones designing filtration systems, but it does seem reasonable to

[1] - https://hackaday.com/2016/02/01/3d-printing-fumes-new-scienc...

[2] - https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/newsroom/feature/2022print3D.html

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