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shnkr

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    Comment #42138125

    God's work. Simple process but didn't find a matching profile to apply - boring backend principal engineer with 10+ yoe.. will keep an eye though.

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    Comment #40730323

    a tricky situation now for oai engineering to decide between good and evil.

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    Comment #40443299

    >How do you dispute what prior employers said about you? Are they not doing that already? Even with all the current processes, employers are taking a chance. If a candidate profile…

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    Comment #40443234

    NO certificate or authority, I'm a nobody. Take LinkedIn as example, and the messages from recruiters inviting for an interview. Why can't they get the profile checked by hiring ma…

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    Ask HN: Does Preapproved Job offer akin Preapproved credit card exist?

    Conditions can be screening round, post background checks on experience with previous employers. No other interview rounds. If I build a product on this idea, I know every job seek…

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    Comment #39891800

    someone committing fraud for money is same as committing fraud to keep a visa.

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    Comment #39884824

    Whatever may be the end goal, MITM is called an 'attack', not 'research'. I'd not last a single day at such a company who would ask me to do such things. I had worked for a nationa…

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    Comment #39876592

    >The relationship with commercial vendors isn’t always healthy, but many major OSS projects are supported to a significant extent. Almost always the so called "community" supportin…

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    Comment #39854694

    honest question - why was there a need to start a new repo? Would you be ok to merge yours with notepad++'s official repo[0] (both are in c++). Did this cross your mind before and …

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    Comment #39852990

    thanks. I want to see more devs like me. I call it - owners mindset.

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    Comment #39852950

    wow.. i know what you are talking. Is meta-cvs available somewhere?

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    Comment #39852183

    insert meme *Don't give me hope* In an idealist world, you're the perfect employer and I should be your employee. I want to believe that these employers exist but my conventional w…

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    Comment #39840726

    there are two types of people. 1) who trusts everything on the internet 2) who doesn't trust everything on the internet. whether its free or premium, the second group still wouldn'…

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    Comment #39840302

    I see. thanks for the reference. followed it on x now. https://twitter.com/lmsysorg/status/1772759835714728217

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    Comment #39839283

    my question was specific to databricks model. If it followed llama or openai, they could add a line or two about it .. make the blog complete.

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    Comment #39838550

    I'm no more trusting the benchmarks. other than trying it out myself, what else can we do here?

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    Comment #39838474

    GenAI novice here. what is training data made of how is it collected? I guess no one will share details on it, otherwise a good technical blog post with lots of insights! >At Datab…

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    Comment #39838335

    Any hype should go thru the hype cycle.. the phase of peak of inflated expectations is over.

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    Comment #39836279

    I felt copilot chat is the only useful feature. copilot as in code completion is too annoying and distracts the thought process. It may be useful to new developers but for experien…

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    Comment #39828768

    I think CVS might not be a perfect fit for OSS development[0]. For the rest, it is great. But look like big players moved to git to please the opensource community. >Why are people…

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    Comment #39828338

    >If they find them good enough This is very important and missing in your product workflow I think .. to get these products (buy/sample?) before affiliation.

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    Ask HN: Is CVS (Concurrent Versions System) Dead? Long Live CVS

    We're mostly a monorepo shop and cvs is serving us well, given the scale and branches. Git wasn't there so I guess the founding members went with cvs. Till now there was no need fe…

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    Comment #39827769

    total newbie here and honest question: why would I recommend a product that I haven't used? won't it be cheating my viewership?