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

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

#51

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.

In total numbers I got 539 jobs saying that they want Rust experience and 695 want Go experience. I think I should have added another line-chart showing the programming language distribution over time, thanks for the idea.

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

#52
This is very neat! Thanks for using your time and literal dollars to work through this!

As an added detail regarding the "remote" v "in-person", another interesting statistic, to me, is to know how many of those in-person job-seeking companies are repeats! It could absolutely mean they're growing rapidly, OR it could mean they're having trouble finding candidates. Equally, missing remotes could mean either they're getting who they need OR they're going out of business.

All interesting plots on the graph!

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

#53
post #35

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

While this made me laugh and there is some truth to it, the nice thing when running the process described in the blog post is that you don't need to know what or how you want to count - the LLM has the knowledge to classify it correctly enough to get good estimations. Go and Rust are both good examples of words that have multiple meanings and are pre-/suffix to many other words.

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

#54
post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> To post, submit a story whose title begins with "Show HN".

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Most reading material is just fine as a regular post and can't be a Show HN, thats very near the top of the thing I linked: On topic: things people can run on their computers or hold in their hands. For hardware, you can post a video or detailed article. For books, a sample chapter is ok. Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those ca…

Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to submit your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

I don't know, 0 posts and two comments, first post with self promotion right away. I had a feeling it's not allowed, oh well

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

#55

This is very neat! Thanks for using your time and literal dollars to work through this! As an added detail regarding the "remote" v "in-person", another interesting statistic, to me, is to know how many of those in-person job-seeking companies are repeats! It could absolutely mean they're growing rapidly, OR it could mean they're having trouble finding candidates. Equally, missing remotes could mean either they're ge…

This kind of input is exactly what I've hoped for submitting it here, thank you. I agree!

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

#56

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.

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

#58

> 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).

Thanks, is fixed now.

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

#59

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.

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

#60
post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Most reading material is just fine as a regular post and can't be a Show HN, thats very near the top of the thing I linked: On topic: things people can run on their computers or hold in their hands. For hardware, you can post a video or detailed article. For books, a sample chapter is ok. Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those ca…

Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to submit your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. I don't know, 0 posts and two comments, first post with self promotion right away. I had a feeling it's not allowed, oh well

I'm completely confused here, sorry. Are you talking about this submission? People submitting their own work with their first post is totally fine, especially if they're around to talk about it. These are some of the best threads HN has to offer, often. The guideline is about not using HN to post your own stuff exclusively but it's, you know, a guideline rather than a mathematical constraint so the trivial case of posting your own stuff on HN for the first time is not merely fine, it's a good thing.

Edit: Maybe I'm figuring it out, is it that you thought that self-posting is strongly discouraged and that 'Show HN' is a label you're supposed to use to identify self-posting? They're not directly related, Show HN is just a special HN category with its own subsection and its own extra rules. Nobody has to use it but if you do use it, the post has to be within those rules. The other, somewhat orthogonal thing is that you can post your own stuff (in or outside Show HN), just don't overdo it.

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