JSavageOne (u/JSavageOne)

JSavageOne commented on Panic at the Job Market matt.sh/panic-at-the-job-... · Posted by u/speckx

JSavageOne · a year ago

Yea the job market is brutal. Being unemployed and getting rejection after rejection is really the most demoralizing thing.

Behavioral interviews are actually my least favorite and I have no idea why I'm not passing them. Either my experience is not good enough, or I'm not presenting it well enough.

Anyways to anyone struggling out there - hang in there. Remember that all it takes is one offer to be employed.

JSavageOne commented on Panic at the Job Market matt.sh/panic-at-the-job-... · Posted by u/speckx

analogwzrd · a year ago

My pessimistic take on the world at the moment is that at least 50% of jobs in the US fall into Graeber's BS jobs category. I saw a map a few years ago that labelled the largest employer in each state. In every state except Arkansas (Walmart), the largest employer was a university or a healthcare company. Education and healthcare policies are controversial because everyone wants those things to be as good as possible, but also because a huge majority of Americans are employed in those industries and our governments pump massive amounts of funding into these bureaucratic structures.

We already have UBI, it's just the overblown bureaucracies housed by American corporate structures.

JSavageOne · a year ago

> "We already have UBI, it's just the overblown bureaucracies housed by American corporate structures."

Don't forget disability insurance, which is massively abused, functions like a UBI

JSavageOne commented on MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions whyevolutionistrue.com/20... · Posted by u/nsoonhui

BaronVonSteuben · 2 years ago

I don't agree. "Diversity" has a commonly accepted meaning which in the US at least, means everything except white men. Female or non-white are "diversity." A great example are the statements and articles from 2020 when Biden announced the most diverse ever White House Communications Team which was 100% female. Biden talked about how critical diversity was and bragged about this 100% female communications team. All the articles I read about it had things like "most diverse White House Communications Team in history" to describe it. At least from a gender perspective, I don't see how they could make it more clear that diversity == women

JSavageOne · 2 years ago

Asians aren't counted as "diversity" either. This is why they're referred to as "an inconvenient minority" in the context of DEI.

JSavageOne commented on Ask HN: How is the Spotify app so bad? · Posted by u/erlich

JSavageOne · 2 years ago

Yes Spotify UI/UX is absolute garbage. It's not even possible to simply view a list of all songs by an artist. Also I had to turn off autoplay because the recommendation engine wouldn't stop autoplaying the same song.

JSavageOne commented on Devin: AI Software Engineer cognition-labs.com/blog... · Posted by u/neural_thing

Bjorkbat · 2 years ago

Reminds me of the no-code / low-code hype around 2020, tons of startups advertising app-builders that used little, if any, AI. Just blocks that you dragged-and-dropped. While many of them were successful, it seems like overall they didn't really make much of a dent in industry, which I found very curious.

Like, by now you'd think it would be inevitable that we wouldn't be writing software in a text-editor or IDE. Everything else we do on a computer is more graphical rather than textual, with the exception of software development. Why is that?

Part of the reason why I'm kind of bearish on AI is because it seems like we could have replaced written code with GUI diagrams as far back as the 80s, or at the very least in the early 2000s, and it seems like something that should have obviously caught on given that would probably be much easier for the average person. Again though, curiously, we're still using text editors. Perhaps despite the popularization of AI no-code builders we'll still see that the old model of hiring someone good at writing code in a text-editor remains largely unchanged.

Makes me wonder if there's just something about the process that we overlook, and if this same something could frustrate attempts at automating the process of writing code using AIs as much as it frustrated our attempts at capturing code using graphical symbols.

JSavageOne · 2 years ago

I think you're underestimating the amount of things built with nocode.

I don't think most people are building landing pages anymore by handwriting code anymore. Same with blogs (eg. Wordpress). There are MVPs of successful businesses that've been built by Bubble.io. Internal dashboards and such can definitely be built without code such as via Retool or Looker or whatever.

WYSIWYG obviously makes sense for frontend, but less so for backend. For backend code I don't really see how some visual drag and drop editor could make for a better interface than code. And even if it could, the advantage of code is that it's fully customizable (whereas with a GUI you're limited by the GUI), and text itself as a medium is uniform and portable (eg. easy to copy and paste anywhere).

Not to say that we can't create better interfaces than text, but I do think some sort of augmentation on top of a code editor is probably a more realistic short-term evolution, similar to VSCode plugins.

JSavageOne commented on Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation trangram.com... · Posted by u/trangram

JSavageOne · 2 years ago

This looks awesome.

Some suggestions though:

- Would be awesome to be able to open an existing animation (eg. like any of the ones showcased). It's a built overwhelming for a noobie opening up to a blank editor page.

- Could also consider putting a tutorial video

Anyways I'll have to play around with this.

JSavageOne commented on "AI will cure cancer" misunderstands both AI and medicine rachel.fast.ai/posts/2024... · Posted by u/pratnala

JSavageOne · 2 years ago

Such a bloated, meandering, poor written article. Just get to the point. Gave up halfway through and author still hadn't addressed the title.

JSavageOne commented on Oregon is recriminalizing drugs, dealing setback to reform movement nytimes.com/2024/03/01/us... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

pillusmany · 2 years ago

The only solution to the drug problem is full legalization of all drugs.

They should be manufactured by big pharma and sold in grocery stores. No question asked. Poor people should have acess to subsidized prices.

We should also invest in educational programs where people are taught about drugs and how to consume them in a safe way. These programs should sample all major drugs so that one can find out if they should become a consumer and what is the right drug for them.

JSavageOne · 2 years ago

How would that solve anything? In San Francisco drugs are practically already legalized, and filled with junkies openly doing fentanyl on the sidewalks.

JSavageOne commented on How Quora died slate.com/technology/2024... · Posted by u/CharlesW

krkhan · 2 years ago

I was an active contributor to Quora in the mid-10's -- my answers gained some 3m views. It was really something back then, as many people have fondly reminisced about the era. There were so many great writers who brought so much understanding to whatever crazy stuff they were passionate about by writing for free on Quora. You had diplomats, chefs, former propaganda writers, people living through violent conflict, doctors, teachers, scientists, physicists, astronauts and the list goes on. Quora from that time truly helped me understand the world better.

AI might have driven the final nail in the coffin but the one decision which was truly an inflection point was starting a program that would pay for asking X amount of questions. The platform was cool because of people who wrote ANSWERS -- to the point where the original question sometimes became even tangential to the actual answer but you'd learn so much nevertheless. Quora not only ended the top-writer program for those people it started offering monetary incentives for asking the most inane bullshit questions as long as they got the views. It is truly baffling to me how something that holds so much genuine value can be driven into the ground while making decisions left, right and center (and the whole community trying to tell you exactly what you're doing) that destroyed everything of value in the Quora process. The older answers are still there, but the community magic has utterly evaporated.

I guess it's pretty normal for folks who have seen this happening in BBS/Usenet era but regardless of all of Quora's faults (the tone-moderation of the language was always a bit overboard in IMHO but I don't think it led to the downfall -- it was always there and writers worked around it) it is genuinely disappointing to see every successive platform try to build something of value only to falter and disappear because we just can't seem to keep anything good around.

JSavageOne · 2 years ago

Fascinating and confirms my suspicions. The point when the questions popping up in my feed were obviously not genuine is when I lost interest in Quora. The worst was how it'd always show me variations of questions fetishizing working at Google. Seriously every single Quora digest email had some variation of a question like "What is the best thing about working at Google?" Unsubscribed and don't miss it.