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Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

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Post by codetrotter »

andrepd wrote: post #35
jamestimmins wrote: post #34

Any chance you could run a comparison of the number of Rust vs Golang jobs over time? I seem to have noticed that Rust has gotten more common than golang in the job postings, but it's hard to verify without code because there are so many false positives for "go" on any post.

Using a 100 billion parameter LLM to `grep --count` surely is something

Read the second part of what they said

> it's hard to verify without code because there are so many false positives for "go" on any post.

Hence grep being insufficient in this case.

Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

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Post by SoftTalker »

roncesvalles wrote: post #36
SoftTalker wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've heard that many of the jobs posted on general jobs boards like that are never intended to result in a hire. They are posted when the company already knows who they are going to hire, but are legally obligated to post the position, or when the company wants to manufacture evidence that "no qualified candidates" could be found locally.

I would say that's more prevalent in HN. A lot of the "Who's Hiring" posts are veiled show-and-tells. Some of those companies clearly have no intention of hiring. Even got an automatic rejection email from one of those (within a minute of applying). To be fair, it does work - I've discovered some interesting startups and market niches from the Who's Hiring threads.

Interesting. I hadn't considered that angle, and my expectation was that this would be less prevalent here.

Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

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Post by pacomerh »

l5870uoo9y wrote: post #5

Surprised to see Redux featured so prominent in JS frameworks section, since it is so often criticized while many praise newer competitors like Zustand.

From my experience some of these companies that are already using new state libraries still have code in older libs like Redux and it's important for them to hire candidates that understand how they work since they changed the way you think about state, and if you understand that it's very likely you'll understand the other ones.

Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

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Post by serial_dev »

omoikane wrote: post #21

> https://tamerc.com/posts/ask-hn-who-is-hiring/#what-javascri... "Node.js" and "NodeJS" are drawn as separate spheres, is that intentional? Similarly for "Vue.js" and "VueJS". (Maybe the same for "Angular" vs "AngularJS" too, although the former might be referring to Angular TypeScript).

AngularJS support has officially ended as of January 2022. Angular is the actively supported "version".

My vague memory of this is that AngularJS from v1 to v2 was such a huge difference (and arguably some percentage of the community qualify this update as a colossal f up), that they decided to go with a different name, and they also came to their senses and their backwards incompatible changes are no longer so bad.

Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

serial_dev wrote: post #44
omoikane wrote: post #21

> https://tamerc.com/posts/ask-hn-who-is-hiring/#what-javascri... "Node.js" and "NodeJS" are drawn as separate spheres, is that intentional? Similarly for "Vue.js" and "VueJS". (Maybe the same for "Angular" vs "AngularJS" too, although the former might be referring to Angular TypeScript).

AngularJS support has officially ended as of January 2022. Angular is the actively supported "version". My vague memory of this is that AngularJS from v1 to v2 was such a huge difference (and arguably some percentage of the community qualify this update as a colossal f up), that they decided to go with a different name, and they also came to their senses and their backwards incompatible changes are no longer so bad.

I’m convinced Angular’s adoption of RxJS for HTTP requests was a cunning move to cement job security.

Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

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Post by SushiHippie »

comcuoglu wrote: post #31
pvg wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644563

Thank you, looks promising.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40782787

Also the clickhouse dataset, which is free.

Google BigQuery can become very expensive.

Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

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Post by codetrotter »

comcuoglu wrote: post #10
SushiHippie wrote: post #7

> Using Selenium, I used a script to google iteratively for strings query = f"ask hn who is hiring {month} {year}" to get the IDs of the items that represent the monthly threads. FYI, you could've just used the hackernews API, and get all posts by the user `whoishiring`, which submits all these who is hiring posts. And then filter out only the posts where the title starts with "Ask HN: Who is hiring?", as this bot al…

This makes just so much sense and would spare me 65 lines of code. Thank you!

Also if you want to manually browse them, look at https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

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Post by pvg »

comcuoglu wrote: post #31
pvg wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644563

Thank you, looks promising.

It's handy but I think for your use case, the regular API works fine. For instance, you could have just pulled all the whoishiring posts

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/whoishiring.json?...

without the googling hoops. Not that this is very helpful after you're done!

Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

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Post by t-writescode »

andrepd wrote: post #35
jamestimmins wrote: post #34

Any chance you could run a comparison of the number of Rust vs Golang jobs over time? I seem to have noticed that Rust has gotten more common than golang in the job postings, but it's hard to verify without code because there are so many false positives for "go" on any post.

Using a 100 billion parameter LLM to `grep --count` surely is something

Using a 100B parameter LLM to overcome the large amount of experience required to learn how to do natural language processing one's self rather than using a library to do it sure is something.

I should write a bot to analyze users and hide those who are actively and regularly negative online or on a particular forum and hide their comments.

Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

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Post by codetrotter »

roncesvalles wrote: post #36
SoftTalker wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've heard that many of the jobs posted on general jobs boards like that are never intended to result in a hire. They are posted when the company already knows who they are going to hire, but are legally obligated to post the position, or when the company wants to manufacture evidence that "no qualified candidates" could be found locally.

I would say that's more prevalent in HN. A lot of the "Who's Hiring" posts are veiled show-and-tells. Some of those companies clearly have no intention of hiring. Even got an automatic rejection email from one of those (within a minute of applying). To be fair, it does work - I've discovered some interesting startups and market niches from the Who's Hiring threads.

As an opposite data point, when I was looking for a job I interviewed with multiple companies that I found on HN who is hiring. And one of them ended up hiring me. Two years later I work for them still.
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