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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 by globular-toast »

foolswisdom wrote: post #84

I think it's bad to stack bars in a graph, because it means you can't properly gauge the second layer (for example, the remote jobs quantity, at the beginning of the results section). Better to have two bars side by side (for each timestamp), one for remote, and another for not remote.

At least he does have remote jobs percentage on the same plot. But this is always the problem with plots. They always show what the author wants to show, not necessarily what the reader wants to see. I've often dreamed of a document format that embeds the data and allows the user to easily select the plot themselves. In this case you'd at least be able to toggle between stacked and side by side, but you might even prefer different bins or a different plot entirely.

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

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Post by globular-toast »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #127
noduerme wrote: post #125

I'm just waiting out React, using my own much cleaner SPA framework for the last 10 years that's only about 5k LOC and avoids a lot of debouncing and fragmentation issues. From that three.js diagram, it looks like React should turn into a red giant at any moment. Can't wait.

React has already jumped the shark, people just haven't realized it yet. The backlash will be big. I think most people will jump to Preact or Vue.

The standard tech cycle:

1. Awesome new tech,

2. Tech gets more and more popular,

3. Tech gets more and more features to better cope with new use cases,

4. People get sick of bloat and create awesome new tech to replace it,

5. Go to 1.

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

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Post by epolanski »

herpdyderp wrote: post #87
epolanski wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had few interactions with HN crowd as I've posted my availability for consulting/freelancing and I feel like I don't like the bias. People needing freelancers for few weeks/months to complete projects where the requirements are glueing the usual APIs and solving the usual Safari bugs asking me Leetcode questions are out of their mind. I am not applying for a full time position, I'm not a cofounder that is going…

I assume there are specific Discord servers per ecosystem? How do you find those?

My primary domain is functional programming and effect systems (effect/zio/rio) related, all of those communities have plenty (even too many) gathering places that are one google search away or the related libraries (for me would be effect-ts, typescript and some other microsoft tooling) have official discords linked on GitHub or docs.

Another good source of work are local meetups/communities chats.

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

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Post by DoingIsLearning »

equasar wrote: post #132
comcuoglu wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, I've realized too late that I should have introduced a "Hybrid" category in this.

Another thing to improve this, is to ask posters to add GLOBAL_REMOTE, COUNTRY_REMOTE or something that indicates is not local remote only (within the same country).

I would add one more category.

Beyond the in-office and the N-days-a-week-hybrid, you have within _actual_ remote roles:

- Country remote (mostly for taxation/regulatory)

- Time zone remote (remote first companies but constraint to within 2 or 3 hours of HQ time zone)

- Anywhere remote (actual remote but often as a contractor or EoR)

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

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Post by irthomasthomas »

ilaksh wrote: post #134
krick wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I mean, it appears langchain just technically doesn't support structured response for Ollama (according to the link above). But, as I've said, I have absolutely no idea what all this middle-layer stuff actually does and what may be the reason why different vendors have different integration capabilities in this regard. I'm totally new (and maybe somewhat late) to the domain, literally just tried right now to au…

1. Use temperature 0. Anything over that is asking for randomness, which not useful unless you actually want it to say something random rather than following instructions. 2. Use the best/largest model possible. Small models are generally stupid. phi-3 might work as an exception of a very well trained tiny model. Very large models are generally dramatically smarter and better at following directions. 3. Tell it to ou…

Temperature 0 will not prevent randomness, only reduced it. I addition, there may be times when temperature > 0 is essential for reproducing the text accurately. Consider a model with a knowledge cutoff 3--6 months out of date and trying to write e.g. a model name which did not exist when the model was trained. In that case temperature 0 will make it more likely to fix your code by replacing the model name it's never heard of with one more likely according to the model training data.

In other words, if the text you want was not in the model training data, a higher than normal temperature may be required, depending on how frequently the term appears in the input data. If you provide a few samples in the input, then you may be able to use 0 again.

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

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Post by johnnyanmac »

blowski wrote: post #6

I wonder how this would compare against a random sample of jobs on, say, Indeed or LinkedIn. My experience of Hacker News is that it’s a very biased group (in a good way) to the general industry.

definitely a skew here, yes. You'll get about the same web dev role demand, but it feels like there's more of some deeper domains here (embedded, compilers, etc) and less of other domains (games, IT).

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

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Post by johnnyanmac »

epolanski wrote: post #79
blowski wrote: post #6

I wonder how this would compare against a random sample of jobs on, say, Indeed or LinkedIn. My experience of Hacker News is that it’s a very biased group (in a good way) to the general industry.

I've had few interactions with HN crowd as I've posted my availability for consulting/freelancing and I feel like I don't like the bias. People needing freelancers for few weeks/months to complete projects where the requirements are glueing the usual APIs and solving the usual Safari bugs asking me Leetcode questions are out of their mind. I am not applying for a full time position, I'm not a cofounder that is going…

>Discord is by far better for finding work in your domain and related to technologies you like

I've tried to interact on a variety of gamedev discords, and the results are about as dry as LinkedIn. But I suppose probing based on the 2020's market won't garner typical results. (still, open to checking out any suggestions. Far from a census here).

Money, though... ha. Less money and usually very few VC's so you're taking a hit compared to trying to grind interviews with EA/Activision. But that's games for you.

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

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Post by johnnyanmac »

comcuoglu wrote: post #8
rickcarlino wrote: post #3

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.

>But I am still optimistic that we will many such peaks ahead of us.

I'm not. But I don't think my industry is too represenative on what affects HN hirings. I've seen maybe 5-ish game positions on Ycomb job boards ever (they don't even have it as a category to filter into).

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