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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

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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

There's 3 matches for " go " on this page (before writing my comment) but only 2 of them pertain to GoLang.

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

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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!

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

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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.

Thanks for looking this up. It's especially interesting bc if I search "golang" on LinkedIn jobs, I see 5,185 results (in the US), but I only get 148 results for "rust".

Hardly scientific, but shows the risk of using Hacker News to draw overly strong conclusions of language popularity.

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

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Nice work, OP. Looking at the graph, I sure hope we did not hit "Peak HN" in Q2 2023.

IMHO, I believe the peak was due to a combination of Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) and the pandemic, both of which have faded out this year. Elon Musk's highly publicized firing of a big part of the Twitter work force also set a precedent for lay-offs in the industry. But I am still optimistic that we will many such peaks ahead of us.

> Elon Musk's highly publicized firing of a big part of the Twitter work force also set a precedent for lay-offs in the industry

Layoffs across the industry were already well underway when Musk completed his first round. I think some tech company execs were happy to use Musk as a high profile excuse, but investors everywhere were demanding layoffs/corrections as early as Summer 2022.

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

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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

It's not doing that though, and if you'd done classification tasks you'd realise the huge benefit that comes from taking a computationally expensive system and using it to solve one off problems that were very time consuming, and doing it easily.

The article says it cost ~$50. That's astonishing. That's 25 minutes of my billable time.

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

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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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how do you create these perfect tables with just text?

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

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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.

We need LLMs for this?
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