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Maybe? I've filtered 300-400 CVs by hand before, and didn't find it particularly time consuming to bin the ones which clearly didn't meet requirements or have any redeeming features. And hiring was not my full-time role.

At 90 seconds per resume, that would take up a full 8 hour day. Having gone through this myself, I don't think it's possible to do this much faster than that, even if you have an ATS that optimizes for that workflow.

I often found myself falling into patterns of poor judgement, e.g. mentally filtering out resumes based on the layout because, to my tired and bored mind, they looked similar to the resumes I had seen from unqualified candidates. I actually think some automation is helpful in evaluating them more rigorously.


The last time I posted on HN in the 1-st of the month hiring post, I got around 2 thousand resumes. Pretty much all of them were this kind of: "Increased the performance of the service by 23.123213%" collection of bullet points.

PS: I replied to most of them, I think, but I'm sorry if I missed somebody :(


I agree your mother should get a new phone with a big screen, but what qualifies as a luxury car? There are Toyotas that cost 6 figures USD.

I think he was considering a Lexus RX. I doubt he even looked at BMW, Mercedes, etc (not really his style).

His Toyota was probably under $40k. This was back when cars were quite a bit less expensive than now. Nice car for sure, but the Lexus probably would have been a bit more refined.


How old is your old man?

You've said the same thing.

> Ads will be the last way I chose to do that

The implication is that they've exhausted all other options.


I haven't said the same thing as the parent commenter:

> So, is this OpenAI announcing they're strapped for cash?

It by no means conveys that. It means they haven't figured out another way to monetize something they want to do; it indicates nothing about their financial situation. It means they don't want to sell something at a loss perpetually while they figure it out.


Being forced into something you don't want to do, to stop selling at a loss... I would categorize that as some level of strapped for cash.

You realize we're talking about a product that is currently free, right? Neither of us have any insight into the margins of their paid offering.

All this means is: we have a free offering that we can't figure out another way to monetize right now.

We can each draw our own conclusions about what that might mean for the state of their business, but all of the other inferences (ha) in this thread are conjecture.


> You realize we're talking about a product that is currently free, right? Neither of us have any insight into the margins of their paid offering.

I don't see how that changes the analysis.

> All this means is: we have a free offering that we can't figure out another way to monetize right now.

And they're doing something they significantly don't want to do to monetize it.

Either they fully changed their mind, or the money is somewhat important, or they're utterly crazy.

The first is unlikely, the last is unlikely, the middle one is enough for a casual "strapped for cash".

It's a very minor conjecture. Actions aren't taken for no reason.


If we can agree that "strapped for cash" also includes "not stupid with cash", I think we're on the same page here. :)

(For all I know they are strapped for cash, to be clear; I just don't think the quote says that.)


Going with a last resort implies more than "not stupid".

Okay, fine: "conservative with cash" or even "tight with spending"?

(I'm not sure how much deeper HN threads can nest.)


"Tight" gets pretty close to "strapped", especially when it comes to making a change.

(They can go super deep if people are committed.)


I concede.

(Haha, ok, let's call a truce here before we break HN! Appreciate the conversation.)


Presumably the way to monetize a free tier is by converting them into paying users.

“Upgrade for an Ad free experience” will certainly be a part of it.

What other options are there?

> will simply lie, as with a biased human opinion

Is this really how bias works?


Writers have many options to deceive their audience without outright lying.

If a journalist is given an all-expenses-paid trip to an exotic location for the launch of a new product, and they review the product and say it's great - are they lying?

If a reviewer writes an article comparing certain types of product, but their review only includes products where affiliate links pay a 10% commission - are they lying?

If a journalist is vaguely aware of rumours about newsworthy, under-reported Event X but also that their publication has a big sponsorship deal with folks that Event X makes look bad, and they don't investigate the rumours or report on them - are they lying?

If a reviewer hears a claim from X, and they report the claim credulously, without adding the context that X has a history making false claims - are they lying?


Oh no. Definitely not. Humans would never just lie. They always lie only if they're biased. That is, after all, the definition of how a bias works.

/s


I'm using bias to mean hidden motivations to the benefit of other parties. Feel free to substitute a better word.

EDIT: actually I'm really not sure what hairs we're trying to split here. I see bias as a departure from objectivity. It can be conscious or unconscious, but when someone is selling something, it's frequently conscious and self-serving, and I believe that's referred to as a lie.


> LFS adds its own operational overhead.

Seemingly seconds on every remote-touching command, even on a very small repo.


What is worse is that for about half a year or so, I now have to authenticate my ed25519-sk key with my Yubikey thrice (!) when using LFS. On every push.

That they didn't go with git annex was such a fit of NIH of a mistake.

Both have their advantages and disadvantages. git-annex is not strictly better, LFS just chose different tradeoffs.

Well it is owned by github.

which is owned by microslop

...and proudly maintained by Microsoft's AI agents: Tay.ai, Zo, and Copilot.

They seem to be doing a pretty good job at wrecking both GitHub and npm at the same time.


Clippy was too stupid to qualify as an AI.

Ref 1, he should have called it Daughter.

No Code, surely?

Did wifi work out of the box? I really struggled with a 2013 Air.

I think I might have used a usb ethernet to install it? It was 2017 the last (and first) time I had to re-install, so I don't remember.

Thanks for sharing - loads of great ideas there for the GitHub team.

White vinegar is a fierce cleaning product and a salad dressing. Although to me it has the disadvantage of tasting like a cleaning product.


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