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by clusterhacks 11mo ago
I was a light or social drinker for decades. Probably 3-5 drinks per week. In November of 2024, I decided to avoid alcohol as a personal experiment - no GLP-1 medications involved. I have not consumed any alcohol since. After 3-4 months, my
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by clusterhacks 1y ago
> Even at the risk of false negatives, I would actively filter out resumes listing schools like these. I am occasionally on hiring committees and use a rubric for ranking candidates. The rubric usually has 8-10 yes/no questions that
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by clusterhacks 1y ago
> tuition paid by students in the social sciences is effectively subsidizing the STEM fields This is not true at my state flagship R1 institution. Tuition and fees make up a little over 10% of the institution's total revenue. Genera
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by clusterhacks 1y ago
> This isnt science, or engineering. > This is voodoo. I was struggling to find the exact reason this type of article bugs me so much, and I think "voodoo" is precisely the correct phrase to sum up my feelings. I don't
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by clusterhacks 1y ago
"Out-of-order" and non-conventional explanations are interesting to consider. For both, I would expect LLMs to do poorly when there isn't much (or any) material for those approaches in the training data. My intuition would be
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by clusterhacks 1y ago
Isn't this just showing the effects of actively engaging the learner by placing a topic in contexts familiar/favored by learner versus just reading about a topic? Like, if you had made the text pdf readers do some manual thinking
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by clusterhacks 1y ago
I think it is just poorly worded. From another point in the paper: "Our analysis draws on a new dataset that combines LinkedIn resume and job-posting data from Revelio Labs. The dataset covers nearly 285,000 U.S. firms, more than 150 m
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by clusterhacks 1y ago
I am confused about how to feel about the data the paper is based on. If you look at the paper, the data description is: "Our primary data source is a detailed LinkedIn-based resume dataset provided by Revelio Labs ... We complement th
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by clusterhacks 1y ago
We have always been in-person or hybrid with staff mostly very local. Openings tend to pop-up on indeed, linkedin, and probably other job aggregator boards.
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by clusterhacks 1y ago
Just to add some hope and a different perspective, we received 23 applicants for an entry-level or early-career software developer position when it was open for a couple of months in early 2025. This is about the same number of applicants w
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by clusterhacks 1y ago
Yes. I recently used the online calculator and it quoted me $4200/yr for $250K of coverage. I live in a "zone X" neighborhood. Interestingly, it appears that significant areas around me are all "zone X" but personal
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by clusterhacks 1y ago
We recently had an open position that could have been a fit for a new grad with some internship experience or a solid portfolio of projects from just school. We had just over 20 applicants and selected 6 for interviews using a rubric to sco
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by clusterhacks 2y ago
I can find no mention of a TPMS requirement in my state. My older car has a malfunction in its TPMS and has for 10+ years. The repair cost I was quoted was ridiculous and I just periodically check the tire pressure with a normal gauge. This
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by clusterhacks 2y ago
I have seen the argument that very little code is novel but I find it inherently unsatisfying and lacking in nuance? I think what bugs me about is that if you squint hard enough, all programming reduces to "take some data, do somethi
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by clusterhacks 2y ago
I am a slow adopter of new tech but plan to spend a significant amount of time in 2025 using AI tools when coding. I am net negative on AI simply replacing programmers, but I think the practice of development is undergoing a seismic shift a
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by clusterhacks 2y ago
Maybe that perception that people chronically job hop is not true? I would welcome a data source that shows chronic job hopping is the norm. Anecdotally speaking, I spent 6+ish years at my first "old tech" company. My org in this
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by clusterhacks 2y ago
Similar experience. I now think of Clojure as a power tool for small shops and consultants. These aren't the kind of places that typically cast a wide net looking for "employees." Most of the opportunities are maybe more focu
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by clusterhacks 2y ago
BLS figures show tradeworkers make about the median salary in the US - it isn't above average. In the Occupational Outlook handbook, The mean annual wage for all occupations is $65,470. The trades: Plumber - median $61,550 per year
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by clusterhacks 2y ago
Use College Navigator for these types of questions: https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=MIT&s=all&id=166683#... That link says 72% of incoming freshman in 2022-2023 received financial aid. Also has a full-t
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by clusterhacks 2y ago
Honest question - how are you planning to source candidates in the first place? stack-auth is a two person YC startup and you were previously at another YC startup. I would expect you to tap the YC network for candidate referrals that proba
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by clusterhacks 2y ago
This article is based on a online poll of 966 people with murky qualifications for having a meaningful opinion about what seem, at best, to be silly questions. I could see this as a first step towards some more interesting work and data col
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by clusterhacks 2y ago
This is for "First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers." Does this represent the "average tradesperson" at age 40? If we dig into the BLS numbers for the people doing the work in what HN tends
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by clusterhacks 2y ago
"The average tradesperson in a HCOL is a millionaire by age 40 ...." This is a pretty bold claim that I'd like to dig into. Do you have a reference or source for this? What HCOL are you referring to? I'm quite interested
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by clusterhacks 2y ago
This general topic about trade workers pops up on HN periodically and there is always some discussion about high-earning people working in the trades. But I can't find any data that actually supports this statement - the BLS numbers te
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by clusterhacks 2y ago
I only care about the ability to search/filter by "Informed Sport" or "Informed Choice" testing. After that, I prefer zero artificial sweeteners. https://sport.wetestyoutrust.com/news/informed-s
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by clusterhacks 2y ago
I agree that this approach would be pretty unwieldy for a large/complex backend schema. It worked quite well for a smaller, in-house application and set of requirements. I think I probably would be perfectly happy using the approach ag
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by clusterhacks 2y ago
I didn't mention it, but in this particular service, no client actually had SQL access to the database. There were create/read/update/delete service functions that clients used instead. The timestamp for a tuple was retu
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by clusterhacks 2y ago
Several comments mention the data immutability of Datomic as a plus and I just wanted to say you can totally make a plain-old-RDBMS table append-only and get those benefits. I'm sure this is commonly done. I did it with a timestamp on
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by clusterhacks 2y ago
Multiple times in the last 3-5 years, I have coded up wrappers to new/evolving C++ libraries using Rcpp for internal use by bioinformaticians. Especially anything using multi-threaded algorithms or from the recent algorithms research w
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by clusterhacks 2y ago
That sounds interesting. Are there easy sources for seeing what companies drive US equity market volume? My google-fu failed me but maybe I am missing something specific in the fintech industry that tracks that kind of thing . . .

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