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langitbiruon Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

I'm working on PredictSalary (https://predictsalary.com), a web app to predict salaries from Linkedin CVs and job opportunities.

There are also adjacent services, like AI career coach that can roast your CV and give advice on how to raise your salary, and crowdsourced salaries data.

I'm working on other features like creating interview questions based on CVs, and so on.

langitbiruon Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative

There is Cody (https://sourcegraph.com/cody). But their "applying code" feature is worse than Cursor. They put import lines on the bottom of the file, for example. Cursor's "applying code" is superb. Too bad it cannot be used with another IDE.

langitbiruon Show HN: Icebreaking AI. A free tool to help you find close friends

This "reading the room" problem... can we solve it with AI?

I envision smart glasses with AR capabilities that can detect the vibe in a room and offer us advice.

langitbiruon Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

A good idea is the backend or the cloud could be a paid feature for this application.

langitbiruon Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing?

Greg was the CTO before Murati. Then he was "promoted" to President and Murati replaced him as the CTO.

langitbiruon Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau

Yes, Egypt has a high fertility rate, 2.9. But Iran does not. It only has 1.6. For comparison, Japan has 1.26.

langitbiruon Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau

Men, especially young men, do commit violence more than women. Perhaps "being a men is the cause of violence" is not correct, but "being a man makes you much more likely to commit violence".

langitbiruon How to Pick a Mate (1946)

Because picking a good marriage partner is ableist. That's why it's controversial.

For example, people prefer good looking people as marriage partners. That makes people who are not good looking sad. And you can imagine for other traits like income, age, height, social status.

langitbiruon Ignoring boys' emotional needs fuels public health risks

It's not artificial wombs. But you can have children through surrogacy.

https://www.thefp.com/p/motherloading-inside-the-surrogacy

langitbiruon ‘Attractive women 16% more likely to secure startup funding’

Oh, also, ugly men have a tougher time raising venture capital:

https://www.geekwire.com/2014/study-ugly-men-tougher-time-ra...

langitbiruon 1 in 5 adults don’t want children –– and they don’t regret it later

Another perspective:

"One in five women are childless at midlife, with about 90% of those in that position not by choice."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/07/chasm-...

langitbiruon The ‘elite’ couples breeding to save mankind

Not so fast. New evidence suggests Africa’s birth rates are falling fast.

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/04/05/...

langitbiruon The ‘elite’ couples breeding to save mankind

Elitism in a sense of social status, I think. The husband has worked as a VC in Korea.

langitbiruon Digital collectibles on Instagram is winding down

Twitter. Last I checked, you have an option to use NFT as pfp.

langitbiruon Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts

Automation.

langitbiruon How Duolingo reignited user growth

Memrise.

langitbiruon Software 2.0 (2017)

Google is the Xerox of AI.

langitbiruon Does Google need a new CEO?

Who do you suggest to replace Pichai?

The founders (Sergey and Larry)? Eric Schmidt? Or someone new? Who do you think the "Nadella" or the One who can lead Google?

langitbiruon Why a shortage of Mr Rights means single mothers hold key to falling birthrate

The article provides a number.

Most important reason for remaining childless. 1970 British Cohort Study members who remained childless at age 42. Column per cent.

Not wanted children 28 (men) 31 (women)

Never met right person 23 (men) 19 (women)

Own infertility 3 (men) 12 (women)

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-44667-7_...

langitbiruon Ask HN: I'm a good programmer, I know nothing about marketing. Where do I start?

Case studies: https://www.first1000.co

Semrush Academy: https://www.semrush.com/academy/courses/

langitbiruon Companies save billions of dollars by giving employees fake “manager” titles

It's correct. Some people choose status over money. https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/status-over-money-money...

"The solution, then, is to pay the low-status workers a bit more than they are worth to get them to stay. The high-status workers, in contrast, accept lower pay for the benefit of their lofty positions."

The consequence of this is job title inflation.

https://www.economist.com/business/2022/12/08/the-scourge-of...

langitbiruon Ask HN: Disabled and out of work for years, but need some side income

There are contract jobs: https://whopaystechnicalwriters.com

But there are also permanent type jobs. Some companies are looking for technical writers. Find them at "Who is Hiring" threads.

langitbiruon Sexual loneliness: A neglected public health problem?

I understand your point. But the original premise is to find a relationship via hobby. Then some said it's wrong. You should have a hobby because of the hobby itself. People looking for relationships in hobbies would be a turnoff.

So the original question is how people find relationships IRL (outside dating apps). Some answer just get a hobby. But then the same problem remains as you can see.

The same thing can be applied for working in an office. People do get relationships in an office but you would be a turnoff if you said you're looking for a relationship when applying for a job.

So for people looking for relationships primarily, what should they do outside dating apps? Or should they just repress their desire and live their life? If they meet one in hobbies or offices, great! If not, c'est la vie.

langitbiruon OpenAI Status: Multiple engines are down

This is why Amazon begs employees not to leak corporate secrets to ChatGPT:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazon-begs-employees-chatgpt

langitbiruon Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?

Replika:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34d43/my-ai-is-sexually-har...

langitbiruon OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic

langitbiruon A mistake that killed Japan’s software industry?

I think the population factor plays here.

langitbiruon Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT

There are two ways forward for testing candidates' skills:

- offline testing

- asking candidates to create ridiculous and hardcore apps that even ChatGPT is not sufficient. For example, creating a web browser with Rust.

langitbiruon Notes on Saudi Arabia

It's correct. You can visit Medina as a non-muslim. But some parts of the city is off limit to non-muslims. It's Mecca that's totally off limit to non-muslims.

https://www.inclined2travel.com/post/medina-non-muslim

langitbiruon Some notes on the Stable Diffusion safety filter

Does the picture or the prompt trigger the filter?