istorical (u/istorical)

istorical commented on Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment? · Posted by u/vbi8iBEX

dddrh · a year ago

Adding a topline response echoing the same thing.

Been on the job hunt since October 1, and have done hundreds of applications, yet only spoken to 3 companies, and made it past the hiring manager once.

I’m a technical product manager with 10+ years and most recently was head of product at a healthtech company. It seems like none of my experience or background matters for the initial screen.

The most frustrating part has been spending time to update a resume and a cover letter to get a rapid rejection obviously done via AI. The fastest rejection I’ve received was 2 minutes.

It is at the point where the information-asymmetry between company and applicant is so high that I don’t think it is worth the time or effort to craft a customized resume and cover letter to match the job description. Not even with the “help” of LLMs.

The promise of Remote hiring now is proving to be a double-edged sword. It can be easier to get hired, but it means competing in an almost global applicant pool.

As a way to keep me occupied I’m building a personal tool to journal my work history and use the journal as a source to leverage an LLM to customize my resume and cover letter to a job description that sounds like me. Just need to keep the momentum up for both the continued job hunt and personal projects.

Though its starting to wear on me.

istorical · a year ago

Have you tried just saying you're a product manager instead of technical product manager? In my experience small changes in storytelling and self-marketing can create giant shifts in how you are perceived.

istorical commented on ChatGPT Saved Chats: Save and organize your important conversations in ChatGPT chromewebstore.google.com... · Posted by u/s-sameer

jaredsohn · a year ago

OpenAI has already built some of this but maybe it requires a paid account.

https://mashable.com/article/chatgpt-chat-history-search-int...

It also has projects (says is for Plus, Team, and Pro users). https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10169521-using-projects-...

istorical · a year ago

I would not trust OpenAI to retain my chats given that their model for what is a TOS-violating conversation evolves every week or every month.

Any outputs they generate that one finds useful need to be retained outside their walled-garden.

istorical commented on Magnetic swarm intelligence of mass-produced, programmable microrobot assemblies cell.com/device/fulltext/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

notjoemama · a year ago

When exactly will world leaders realize that this new wave of military research is risky enough to destroy them in their wealthy gated communities? Do they actually have to die and take a percentage of life on this planet with them before they can agree to some form of of altruistic peace agreement? Even if they have escape islands, I think too many people have seen Mad Max and that never ends well for the leaders.

istorical · a year ago

Current economic and political systems reward baseless confidence, believing you are better than others (and speaking and acting that way), and hubris.

So maybe it makes sense that our political and economic leaders have false confidence that "everything will be fine, it always has been for me".

istorical commented on Is the internet killing the nude beach? theatlantic.com/family/ar... · Posted by u/fortran77

deadbeeves · 3 years ago

Why would that make any difference?

istorical · 3 years ago

I think the parent was alluding to the differences in culture and norms around nudity and sexuality among native Europeans vs recent immigrants, that sometimes leads to cases like this: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/austria-swim...

istorical commented on Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year pewtrusts.org/en/research... · Posted by u/ParksNet

mulmen · 3 years ago

Van life isn’t a scalable alternative to permanent housing. The reasons for this are many. One of the obvious ones is that if a wealthy investor class can buy up houses and extract rent they can certainly buy up vans and extract rent. So it isn’t even resistant to the very problem you suggest it can solve.

Take a look at how much a 1980s VW Westfalia is these days. It’s as absurd as house prices.

istorical · 3 years ago

Land in desirable areas seems to me to be a much more scarce resource than the inputs and labor that go into a vehicle, especially if you add time - aka decades to make such things cheaper. Not sure how time and technology can do the same for land ownership.

istorical commented on Review of 17α-ethynylestradiol in water across 32 countries: Estrogenic effects pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3... · Posted by u/JPLeRouzic

mancerayder · 3 years ago

Am I the only lunatic that drinks almost exclusively bottled water? I've done so since I was a child.

istorical · 3 years ago

Doing so seems incredibly wasteful and pollution-generating. A filter pitcher like a Brita + a reusable water aluminum/glass/steel/whatever water bottle seems like it'd be a better substitute.

istorical commented on Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores economist.com/united-stat... · Posted by u/lxm

rco8786 · 4 years ago

Anecdotal I guess but I’ve visited 15-20 countries across Europe and Asia in the last ~10 years and the supermarkets were largely not great relative to your average American Kroger.

istorical · 4 years ago

Yeah I think the like lowest end bread at an Italian grocery store is going to be way better than the lowest end "bread" at an American grocery store, but the difference is at the American store there is literally (I shit you not) 50-100 varieties of bread and a lot of them are decent (actually by a lot I mean like 4-10).

istorical commented on Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores economist.com/united-stat... · Posted by u/lxm

chiefalchemist · 4 years ago

> Today Americans spend a smaller share of their income on food to be cooked at home—about 6%—than people in almost any other rich country...

Well then, where is that windfall going? Or do Americans not cook at home all that often?

istorical · 4 years ago

Probably due to eating out way more often and eating shitty cheap processed foods for the meals they do cook.

istorical commented on Ariel Ekblaw on building beautiful architecture in space news.mit.edu/2022/ariel-e... · Posted by u/bryanrasmussen

carapace · 4 years ago

As cool as this is, I think space architecture should be made of bubbles, not metal cans (even cool geodesic origami cans.)

If you look at the spittle bug's nest: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=spittlebug+nest&iax=images&... Spittle bugs create a dollop of foam and live inside it.

You make bubbles of several different sizes and nest them inside each other to make a kind of fractal spittle bug nest. The smaller bubbles serve as "vacuoles" within the larger bubbles.

I don't have the time/energy to go through the whole concept this morning but I'll summarize some of the main points: Bubbles are easy to make. The fractal structure is more resilient to damage and easy to repair. It's safer ("Yo dawg, I heard you like space stations so I put space stations in your space station!") Probably a lot cheaper, definitely lighter.

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istorical · 4 years ago

Actually if you look at Ariel Ekblaw's proposals in a different article / medium, many of her designs do involve the 'cellular'/'connected closed chambers' nature you describe. Highly recommend the Lex Fridman podcast interview linked in the other comment!

istorical commented on Investing in lighting did great things for my mental and physical health bramadams.dev/projects/in... · Posted by u/_bramses

tgv · 4 years ago

That's an article? A rehash of a handful of common ideas with no relation to the title and no further exposition, let alone some support for the ideas? How does something so empty get upvoted so quickly? Did brightness and dark mode become some kind of belief system?

istorical · 4 years ago

People upvote headlines these days (as a form of agreement) rather than articles. But you're right. This is on the extreme low end in terms of details.