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Ask HN: Do you track the conversion rates in your job search?
I’m very disciplined in the way I track my job search (and yes, like many of you I won the laid off lottery!), and just like while working, I use data to inform my strategy and derive useful insight to reach my goal[s]. BTW, I’m a Product Manager.

I have a simple GSheet file where I track my job search and the Conversion Rates (CR) of the various steps, which helps me to spot patterns and opportunities for optimization.

Currently my aggregated data after 3 weeks of job search is the following:

# 42 total applications

→ 6 interviews

→ 7 rejections

CR interviews / applications = 14%

Breaking down the data by roles here’s what we get:

# 9 Growth PM standard applications
→ 3 interviews
CR = 33%

# 3 Technical PMM standard applications
→ 1 interview
CR = 33%

BTW the applications supported by a referral should be tracked separately.

From past and peer’s experiences, my rule of thumb is: “if this isn’t your first job search in a role I’d consider a CR for standard applications healthy if ≥ 10%. If this is your first job search, on average you should expect a CR ≥ 2%”.

If lower it is very likely that there’s room for optimization, thus experimentation.

However this job market is a quite different beast from the past years.

When I started this job search I was expecting a rate around 5% CR knowing how tough the market is, and after having seen the number of matching roles diminishing after the 3rd week I think I’m unfortunately heading towards that number.

Why I think that this metric is useful

1. To inform if there is a match between the application (thus also the CV) and the Job Description

This is really important because it tells how we could optimize further our CV according to the role we are applying, the stage of the company (startup vs established), the industry, the settings (remote, on-site), geography, etc…

1. To set up the expectations for how long it would take to receive the first offer.

From past and peer’s experiences, I’d consider a 1:10 ratio a lower bound for the CR interview → offer, this means that knowing the speed we can get 10 interviews, we could assume how long it may take before seeing the first offer. Of course, this isn’t deterministic, but at least we have a baseline.

If you are currently job searching, do you use to track your conversion rates? if so, what are the insights that you are getting?
The second statement is what is implied by Rowling's call for "biological women only restrooms".
The first statement is not fact. "Not really women" according to whom? Do we have to test all "women" for karytotypes nowadays? What if their primary and secondary sex characteristics don't line up. If it's about reproduction then are sterile women not women? The fact of the matter is you cannot come up with a definition of womanhood that ONLY excludes trans women. It's kind of incredible people don't understand the dehumanization behind "you're just pretending sweetie I know your gender better than you"

EDIT: it's also very much the case that these laws about ascertaining "biological sex" hurt cis women too. see Caster Semenya as an example. so if Rowling really cared about cis women she wouldn't be advocating for segregating trans people into their own spaces.
Yes, desktop GNU/Linux has a long way to go to get to the security model of Android. Yes, FDE only works for the turned off device (at the current stage). But, depending on your threat model, the phone can already be more secure nevertheless.

For example, if you do not trust the manufacturers in China, you can verify the schematics, or order Librem 5 USA. Or, if you suspect your device is compromised, you can rely on the kill switches to make sure you are not tracked or listened to. Can you do these on Android? I'm sure there are known vulnerabilities for the latter on the black market.

Another example: If you use the smart card to read or sign your emails, you can be sure that even a hacked or stolen unlocked phone would not allow the attackers to manage your email identity.

People who say that Librem 5 is less secure than Android do not take into consideration that threat models can affect it a lot. You cannot simply declare "it's insecure" without considering the threat models. Also, I guess if you are fine with the security of your GNU/Linux laptop, which you take with you, you should be also more or less fine with the Librem 5 security.

I am not even speaking about the freedom benefits. Also, there is no security and privacy without freedom (https://puri.sm/posts/why-freedom-is-essential-to-security-a...). In the long term, Google is heading toward the walled garden on Android, just like Apple does. I would not bet on it for the future. If you care about security more than freedom and need Android-style security now, then Librem 5 is not for you.
To me, "news" is different than "journalism" (and obviously way different than "opinion") but most media orgs go way out of their way to just completely blur these.

Every "news" article (an election, a shooting, an earthquake, a new science study) is wrapped in spin - why this is bad or good for America, why it's racist or a sign of moral decay, how you should feel, what these other people think about it, who agrees with it.

I gave up and just use primary sources - reading the actual ArXiv paper or gov website or watching the eyewitness video is a better use of my time.
> What better way to say how well you are doing in the economy than by wearing Apple glasses.

I really don't think it's going to have that effect. iPhones still carry status thanks to the cumulative impact of 15 years of relentless marketing. But they're also extremely personal items that are on you all the time. Glasses are not going to be like that.
I believe consciousness exists on a sliding scale, so maybe sentience should too. This begs the question: at what point is something sentient/conscious enough that rights and ethics come into play? A "sliding scale of rights" sounds a little dubious and hard to pin down.
> No, not really _hacked_.

I see a number of comments similar to yours on HN, and I am legitimately curious and do not mean to offend: Why did you think Belarusian police do not hack phones? Was your comment based on any source or personal experience, or did it feel right?

I ask because I have observed a number of times where HN comments are wrong on things (on have personal or professional experience in) but get upvoted because the comments look reasonable, but the correct comment gets downvoted.

It's an interesting failure mode of HN discussions. I thought I'd ask you because the topic is not contentious, and hopefully this comment does not cone across as underhanded.
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If they charge a cleaning fee and leave you a bad review about not cleaning you can dispute it usually and maybe even get the fee refunded.
I am ashamed to admit I've run into a case where SQlite was the wrong choice.

I have a cluster of 20 Windows 7,8,10,11 machines spread across multiple sites that I wanted to run some log analytics.
This was for some custom software running on all 20 machines which had a SQlite API.

So I did the simplest and cheapest thing that would work.

I setup sync.com folder on all machines (think dropbox/ onedrive) to write logs to the same log.db file across all machines.

This worked great at first (I could analyze the db remotely).

However you see the potential problem here...

Logging was maybe a few writes an hour PER MACHINE but inevitably you start getting conflicts (since sync takes a 5-30 seconds to actually sync).

Now I am faced with merging 20 conflicting log.db files.

In theory I should have used a server based SQL database.
Or perhaps I should have just lived with 20 different log.db files.

In my defense there was only SQlite API so I would have had to write some middleware to transfer to another DB.
For me it’s absolutely horrible staying in a hotel with kids. You either all stay in one room (so no fun once they’ve gone to bed and we sit in the dark) or you buy two rooms (normally really expensive) and then either try and find the normally-unavailable option on hotel websites to buy interconnecting rooms or sleep one adult and one child in twin beds in each room. It’s rubbish. There’s nowhere for them to really play either. AirBnB fixes all of this.
You are conditioned to think you are and feel cold. Look how cold some countries and regions get? The people working outside there are not a different species. The trick is to get used to it gradually. I didn't say it was fun or easy.

I spend a good bit of winter working outside but with physical activity it is much easier.

Do you have other ideas? I mean, it would be nice? I cant think of anything else besides migration.
I feel like airbnb fees have gone through the roof, and I am done with them. So much so that we are no longer using them. I am now booking hotels, and if we want to rent a house we just use short term rental companies(who also post the same houses on their site and also on airbnb). We spent almost $60k on airbnbs the past 3 years so thats money that airbnb will no longer see.
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eBay had (maybe still has I don't use it) that problem too. Sellers would list something with a Buy-It-Now price of $5, but when you got to the last step, you'd see that shipping was $25.

At the time we suggested that they limit shipping fees to no more than 50% of the total cost of the item, but it never got implemented.

I just checked and it looks like their compromise was to set max shipping rates for different types of items: https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/shipping-items/maximum-shi...
Operation Vacation automation

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4305856-tesla-operation-vac...
Some of it was legal ass-covering but also rules about vehicle heaters, wheel chocks, radios, fueling, checking out and in etc. I only walked to Scott, never ended up driving. Drove to building 71 a lot to install and service radios taking to my equipment on Erebus, and to and from the helipad.

Oh yeah and some of the trucks have treads instead of wheels (matttracks) so those take some learning.
It was the media's fault but not Bush and Cheney's? I don't remember where I got the information that led me to join the largest antiwar protests in history in 2003 but a lot of us knew Bush was lying because of the media.
CNN is not the counterpart to fox. That comparison is apples and oranges. It’s almost like saying strawberry ice cream is the counterpart to chocolate and implying non chocolate eaters all eat strawberry.

Yes cnn is a newsertainement org like fox, but it’s not the anti-fox. For starters, No one actually cares about cnn except fox watchers.
Any you particularly recommend? Trying to stretch my reading material.
EBay went through a similar problem where people would list an item very cheap and then charge a fortune for shipping. Now eBay shows you the price and the shipping charges from the search result list and even lets you sort by “lowest price + shipping”. This makes the experience of using eBay infinitely better!
Just came here to say big thanks to the Homebrew crew. First thing I install on a new Mac.

There's so much thankless toil that goes into maintaining package infrastructure that we all just take for granted. Thank you!
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regret my idiocy every day.
Is that not related in a roundabout way?

Part of the reason the US has dismal social security is the same "dog eat dog" hyper individualistic mentality that is also present in people thinking it's their sacred right to own assault rifles and shit.

At least that's my impression from the outside. I never really went to the US to taste it first hand.
A relevant idea I stumbled across recently: Gell-Mann Amenesia:

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
– Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
I think there are lots of problems with relying on this. As others have pointed out it could mean that Clojure devs skew more senior. An other issue with these surveys is that this factoid from Stack Overflow is a highly celebrated and oft-reposted part of the Clojure cultural canon and so Clojure developers may be motivated to fill out the survey more than others, especially if they have high income, and may even be tempted to exaggerate their income. For me, all of this is moot. In my country of Canada, there are currently 34 job postings on LinkedIn which even mention Clojure and among those, almost all of them just mention Clojure in passing, such as "nice to have: a functional language like Scala, Clojure or Haskell". Maybe among these 34 postings like 4 are actual jobs looking for people to write Clojure. For comparison, there are about 37,000 postings mentioning Python. With a ratio of more than 1000 to 1, it is impossible to argue that knowing Clojure will be more beneficial for a developer's career than Python, for instance.
And honestly its cause for celebration for me as a New Yorker.
nah, gladly indoor air is still much worse :)
Hey hey hey, don’t leave us ex-Yugoslavians out! We had UDBA and political prisons and much of the rest. I hear it was “great” (too young to remember/experience myself).

Yes it wasn’t as bad as many other places. But bad enough for people to know there are things you can and can’t talk about in public. Growing up it was interesting to observe how my history class evolved from elementary to high school as news and declassifications trickled out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Security_Administration_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Political_repression_...
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Dualism is a form of misleading, and many news organizations aren't explicitly seeking to be nondualist sources, so that's a form of deliberate misleading flying covertly under the rest of this.
Refurb often means previously broken and hopefully fixed; sometimes it just means returned, but the box wasn't nice enough to sell as open boxed. Looks like your board probably still had issues after refurbishment. It would probably have been better to return it when you first got it, although newegg return processing isn't always easy.

It's hard to be patient, but buying parts after they've been out long enough to get supported by the software you want to use also helps let other people find the problems with the rest of the package.
I've literally never experienced this with react. This sounds like an infinite loop of some sort.
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It's supposed to be a standalone device. At the rumoured price of point of $1500 minimum, it would be suicidal to make it reliant on an iPhone (or any phone really).
How about calling it nothing more than a file server is also just a Reddit style insult.

If you think a package manager is nothing more than a file server, I'd suggest you learn more about what a package manger does or just go live in Reddit land with all of the other willfully ignorant types. It is not for us to convince you otherwise. It's such lame comparison that even searching for "file server vs package manager" doesn't even autofill because nobody searches for it because probably nobody would ever even sanely think to make the comparison.
Tell me the price, make the host and tennant have a singular universal set of expectations. It's not hard. Holiday Inn Express has been getting my business lately. Everything is labeled, no wild sudden items after checkin like "don't forget to put the back door mat on the balcony railing so the racoons don't run off with it".

Everything that made AirBNB cool at first eventually made it bad inevitably. Glad to have made friends with hosts along the way before it went sour.
> Today it's quite difficult sorting fact from fiction from speculation.

That was never easy. The only thing that changed is that there isn't one specific fiction pushed with incontestable power anymore.

The thing is that people are used to that incontestable fiction. With it gone, many people never learned to healthily distrust their information, and many are unsettled that people can not agree anymore.

> But the basic facts reported agree when they overlap.

Yep, and that's manufactured. The way those media run, the basic facts agree by construction and the real world is irrelevant for that.
There are places in the US where that's not true. You made the personal decision not to live in one of them.
Apply the counterfactual: what would have to be the case in order to correlate the UUID in question with user data?

We do not store anything else that could correlate with that UUID. We don't expose it to anybody else and it's unclear how, even if we did, it would result in personal correlation.

You can argue against this, but it's simply how the GDPR defines personal data, and if you violate it, someone could report you to their data protection authority.

Secondly, the GDPR does not just do this to protect citizens against direct use of their personal data (I think most Homebrew users would be immediately convinced that you wouldn't misuse this data, including me), but also scenarios that are outside of your control. Such as: Google decides to violate the GDPR against your will and correlates the data. Or: Google Analytics gets hacked, the data set becomes available on the black market or wherever and people correlate the data with other leaked data.
Hmm, I like the thrust of your point, here, and I do think that when people think critically about the news, they aren't "stupid and credulous".

But Gell-Mann amnesia is a real thing that educated, informed readers readily fall victim to, so it's clear that the media seems to have some kind of privilege of credulity.

I wonder if it's really an effect of people reading media primarily for entertainment - isn't there some old saying about "people who read the Times are less I formed than people who read nothing at all?"
Not the OP, but this is a leading question that goes in the wrong direction. You can't really trust any source 100%. You need to do your own research and be humble about it. Journalists are good at this kind of work but they make plenty of mistakes (and as the child of Journalists I will also add that they can be total idiots who are more focused on emotional stories than facts). Basic media literacy with a healthy dose of skepticism and humility is necessary to get anything more than urban legends out of the paper.
It's called entitlement. We also used to call them "The me generation"
open source data spreadsheet + python tool - were you looking at https://www.quadratichq.com/ ? or something else?
Depending on the severity, its not unusual to get 8 doses for the most minor of cases, like a root canal.
"Solaris" is an interesting exploration of a situation in which this is maybe not the case.
Which is about ~2x the actual rate of inflation over that time period..

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=107Zn

And ~3x the rate of inflation for 'Lodging away from home'

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=107ZN
I understand the desire for privacy, and the seriousness that comes with it!

I've linked Homebrew's analytics data and the source code that collects it elsewhere in this thread.

And, to be absolutely clear: it is perfectly fine for you to disable Homebrew's analytics. There are an infinite number of legitimate reasons for doing so, including the most basic one of "I just don't want to." My sole goal is to dispel the small number of inaccurate beliefs about what Homebrew collects, why we collect it, etc.
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Yes, yes, that was it. Garbage slowly clogging the maintenance functions, building up other toxic substances, like plastic bags clogging a chemical plant over time..

And it does not have to be directly.. it just has to tilt the chemical environment slowly, but steadily towards something bad downstream.
Why is having to show up to work on time a horror story? I don't get it, especially if Tesla commissioned busses to pick people up.

Serious injuries from machines is much more concerning, however.
I think so too, a product like this is useless without software, and unlike 2007, Apple cannot simply create a bunch of basic apps and hope that an app store can fill the gaps.
Unfortunately much of philosophy is very easily ignored. The philosopher will get very defensive about this, as perhaps they should, since their work was the "initial" work leading to the development of a rigorous field (physics, mathematics, psychology, etc). However, much of philosophy is intentionally vague because the philosopher is grasping at straws, is speculating.

Philosophy is a discipline whose success is desperately trying to reclassify itself from its own subject. In that regard, when you say that mathematicians do not care and cannot argue philosophy, you are merely being defensive. There is nothing in the philosophy of math that a Mathematician could not grapple with at your level of expertise or better in a simple conversation with no preparation. The issue is that what you have to say is not rigorous, it is not grounded in anything, it is vague. This is your problem, not the mathematicians.
I bet walking while talking is great once people get used to it.
Used to be pretty easy to sign up as a dishwasher or that kind of thing. If you are in interested in science, find a PI looking for grad students. Edit: I read more closely. There are technical grantee groups as well, like UNAVCO and IRIS PASSCAL. Not too hard to get a job with one of those.

Lots of ways in... Everybody I know who has really tried has made it down there.
I see, this makes sense, thank you for helping to clarify.

That being said, I feel like this kind of the entire point of emacs. Everything is pieced together, and very little is "out of the box".

At least, It's THE main reason I started learning Emacs, I was tired of the lack of interoperability of my different tools and I wanted an ecosystem that lets me piece things together as needed, like the Unix philosophy but with a tighter interactivity loop.

It's a double edged sword, in that it takes much more effort to build and maintain, but there's nothing really like it.

I still use VSCode and Jetbrains IDEs, but they don't drive my workflow like Emacs.
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