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ng12 commented on Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs   cnbc.com/2025/08/25/tech-... · Posted by u/Teever
tptacek · 6 days ago
The controls summarized in the CNBC piece seem reasonable, or, if not that, then at least not all that onerous.

The controls in the actual proposal are less reasonable: they create finable infractions for any claim in a job ad deemed "misleading" or "inaccurate" (findings of fact that requires a an expensive trial to solve) and prohibit "perpetual postings" or postings made 90 days in advance of hiring dates.

The controls might make it harder to post "ghost jobs" (though: firms posting "ghost jobs" simply to check boxes for outsourcing, offshoring, or visa issuance will have no trouble adhering to the letter of this proposal while evading its spirit), but they will also impact firms that don't do anything resembling "ghost job" hiring.

Firms working at their dead level best to be up front with candidates still produce steady feeds of candidates who feel misled or unfairly rejected. There are structural features of hiring that almost guarantee problems: for instance, the interval between making a selection decision about a candidate and actually onboarding them onto the team, during which any number of things can happen to scotch the deal. There's also a basic distributed systems problem of establishing a consensus state between hiring managers, HR teams, and large pools of candidates.

If you're going to go after "ghost job" posters, you should do something much more targeted to what those abusive firms are actually doing, and raise the stakes past $2500/infraction.

ng12 · 6 days ago
Maybe it would be simpler to just impose a nominal tax on the total number of job openings a company creates throughout the year. Maybe as a % of the role's salary. You could even rebate it against employer payroll taxes so they get the money back when they actually hire someone.

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ng12 commented on OxCaml - a set of extensions to the OCaml programming language.   oxcaml.org/... · Posted by u/lairv
abathologist · 3 months ago
Ah yeah, that is absurd, given how successful they have been, and how much they attribute that success to their technical decisions.

People love to sulk in their parochial pits, I guess?

Thanks for clarifying :)

ng12 · 3 months ago
Maybe Jane Street succeeds because of the people who are good at finance in spite of the people who like OCaml.
ng12 commented on The Frontend Treadmill   polotek.net/posts/the-fro... · Posted by u/Kerrick
olliepop · 5 months ago
Component lifecycle methods to hooks and HOCs, does that ring a bell?
ng12 · 5 months ago
Yeah, and I'm not anywhere near as distressed about it as this article implies I should be.
ng12 commented on The Frontend Treadmill   polotek.net/posts/the-fro... · Posted by u/Kerrick
ng12 · 5 months ago
> Whatever framework you choose will be obsolete in 5 years.

I've been writing React professionally for over a decade at this point. I don't know what this guy's on about.

ng12 commented on Apple Invites   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/openchampagne
scarface_74 · 7 months ago
How many people do you think really use it?
ng12 · 7 months ago
I don't know but anecdotally living in a major city every social event I attend has a Partiful attached.
ng12 commented on Trump wins presidency for second time   thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
hackernewds · 10 months ago
I'd rather they have prosecuted Jan 6 and the theft of natsec documents
ng12 · 10 months ago
Huh? Lots of people are currently in jail for things they did on January 6th.
ng12 commented on Trump wins presidency for second time   thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
scarby2 · 10 months ago
While I agree, I can't picture how trump was more charismatic than Harris.

He seems like a used car salesman to me...

ng12 · 10 months ago
Honestly while Trump is a little slimy he's also kinda funny. Visit some conservative spaces sometimes, they're having fun while liberal ones are all doom-and-gloom.

It really does matter.

ng12 commented on Python toolkit for quantitative finance   github.com/goldmansachs/g... · Posted by u/tzury
sk11001 · a year ago
Does someone have LOC as a performance indicator?
ng12 · a year ago
Unironically probably. The only place I've ever worked that used LoC as a performance indicator was a hedge fund.
ng12 commented on Dr Pepper is now as popular as Pepsi. It's still shrouded in mystery   washingtonpost.com/food/2... · Posted by u/richardatlarge
ng12 · a year ago
I mean... how do you describe what Coke tastes like? Most soda is kind of mysterious.

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