soerxpso (u/soerxpso)

soerxpso commented on Kite News kite.kagi.com/... · Posted by u/tigroferoce

ks2048 · a month ago

I clicked on a story and at the bottom, it lists "sources" (19 in this case). Following one of these sources (a lesser-known site), there is an article, and at the end it says "REUTERS". So, I guess its source was another source.

Maybe a site like this should try to root-out the "root source" of information - official press releases or press conferences, eye-witness accounts.

I think some editorializing is worthwhile to place things in context and to decide what information to put together into a readable article, but things could be more explicit and should always link to the source material.

soerxpso · a month ago

> Maybe a site like this should try to root-out the "root source" of information - official press releases or press conferences, eye-witness accounts.

I'd personally pay for that. It feels like 90% of the "news" I see these days is just some site telephoning what a different reporter said. I regularly see "study finds x" articles that completely bury the original academic source. Often, "politician said x" articles that spend a lot of time going over everyone's reactions to whatever the politician said without letting me have the full video or press release where he actually said it.

This would also fix an issue I'm seeing on Kite where some stories seem to be the same thing from different angles (one article about the Texas floods is directly above an article about how the Texas floods are "testing FEMA", and there are two separate articles for the recent Trump-Netanyahu deal, one in World and one in USA. X's CEO resigning is three different articles in different feeds. The Business tab has two different articles about Trump tariffs that could really be one article).

soerxpso commented on Human coders are still better than LLMs antirez.com/news/153... · Posted by u/longwave

ch4s3 · 3 months ago

It seems like LLMs made really big strides for a while but don't seem to be getting better recently, and in some ways recent models feel a bit worse. I'm seeing some good results generating test code, and some really bad results when people go to far with LLM use on new feature work. Base on what I've seen it seems like spinning up new projects and very basic features for web apps works really well, but that doesn't seem to generalize to refactoring or adding new features to big/old code bases.

I've seen Claude and ChatGPT happily hallucinate whole APIs for D3 on multiple occasions, which should be really well represented in the training sets.

soerxpso · 3 months ago

> hallucinate whole APIs for D3 on multiple occasions, which should be really well represented in the training sets

With many existing systems, you can pull documentation into context pretty quickly to prevent the hallucination of APIs. In the near future it's obvious how that could be done automatically. I put my engine on the ground, ran it and it didn't even go anywhere; Ford will never beat horses.

soerxpso commented on Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 telegraph.co.uk/world-new... · Posted by u/wslh

jampekka · 3 months ago

It's utterly insane that people need to work more and longer as technology increases productivity. A truly dystopian economic system.

In 1930 Keynes projected that by 2000 their grandchildren could work 15 hours per week¹. Now the projection is that we will work more and longer in the future.

And what is this labor supposed to even do? How much of even current work really increases wellbeing?

Graeber's thesis of bullshit jobs becomes increasingly more convincing: work isn't about production, it's about social control².

[1] http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf

[2] https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

soerxpso · 3 months ago

> In 1930 Keynes projected that by 2000 their grandchildren could work 15 hours per week

This projection came true. You can live with a 1930s living standard while working 15 hours per week at a median wage. However, nobody wants to live at a 1930s living standard. It turns out that in aggregate people prefer to spend productivity gains on conveniences and higher standards of living than on working fewer hours.

soerxpso commented on Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 telegraph.co.uk/world-new... · Posted by u/wslh

grunder_advice · 3 months ago

Getting immigrants who work is a non-issue. I never heard of immigrants from India, China, Africa or Latin America who don't work so long as they entered the country legally. The issue you are alluding to has to do with genuine refugees and illegal economic migrants, who are not filtered at the border depending on their employability within the local market. But the cultural shift is still inevitable. A foreigner is not a local, and it is neither fair nor ethical to expect a foreigner to transform themselves into a local.

I think, if you are concerned with the cultural shift, you can give immigrants temporary term VISAs and make it clear their stay is going to be strictly temporary. That was supposed to be how the Gastarbeiter system works. Thing is, when you have already on boarded a foreign worker and have had them working for you for 2 years already, you don't want to let them go and replace them with a fresh foreign worker who you have to retrain.

soerxpso · 3 months ago

> you can give immigrants temporary term VISAs and make it clear their stay is going to be strictly temporary

In practice that rarely goes as intended. The first political party to say, "We changed our minds, you can all have citizenship," gets to secure power with an influx of loyal voters.

soerxpso commented on The behavior of LLMs in hiring decisions: Systemic biases in candidate selection davidrozado.substack.com/... · Posted by u/hunglee2

nottorp · 3 months ago

A bit unrelated to the topic at hand: how do you make resume based selection completely unbiased?

You can clearly cut off the name, gender, marital status.

You can eliminate their age, but older candidates will possibly have more work experience listed and how do you eliminate that without being biased in other ways?

You should eliminate any free form description of their job responsabilities because the way they phrase it can trigger biases.

You also need to cut off the work place names. Maybe they worked at a controversial place because it was the only job available in their area.

So what are you left with? Last 3 jobs, and only the keywords for them?

soerxpso · 3 months ago

Create a low-subjectivity rubric before looking at any resumes and blindly apply the rubric. YoE, # of direct reports, titles that match the position, degree, certifications, etc are all objective metrics. If you're using any other criteria for evaluating resumes, you should stop and wonder 1) are your criteria just subjective biases? 2) are you accidentally actually just selecting the most confident liars?

soerxpso commented on Show HN: My AI Native Resume ai.jakegaylor.com/... · Posted by u/jhgaylor

slt2021 · 4 months ago

Kudos to you for doing this.

However, I will retire from this cursed industry if this will be the expectation in the future

soerxpso · 4 months ago

How is this any worse than the current system where your resume is just keyword-filtered? It seems like a straight upgrade for my resume to be discussed by agents that know the difference between Java and JavaScript and aren't going to pass on me because my resume didn't explicitly mention 'scrum' and 'agile' as skills.

soerxpso commented on I'd rather read the prompt claytonwramsey.com/blog/p... · Posted by u/claytonwramsey

sn9 · 4 months ago

> I should hope that the purpose of a class writing exercise is not to create an artifact of text but force the student to think; a language model produces the former, not the latter.

It's been incredibly blackpilling seeing how many intelligent professionals and academics don't understand this, especially in education and academia.

They see work as the mere production of output, without ever thinking about how that work builds knowledge and skills and experience.

Students who know least of all and don't understand the purpose of writing or problem solving or the limitations of LLMs are currently wasting years of their lives letting LLMs pull them along as they cheat themselves out of an education, sometimes spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to let their brains atrophy only to get a piece of paper and face the real world where problems get massively more open-ended and LLMs massively decline in meeting the required quality of problem solving.

Anyone who actually struggles to solve problems and learn themselves is going to have massive advantages in the long term.

soerxpso · 4 months ago

> I should hope that the purpose of a class writing exercise is not to create an artifact of text but force the student to think

I'm there for the degree. If I wanted to learn and engage with material, I could save $60,000 and do that online for free, probably more efficiently. The purpose of a class writing exercise is to get the university to give me the degree, which I cannot do by actually learning the material (and which, for classes I care about, I may have already done without those exercises), but can only do by going through the hoops that professors set up and paying the massive tuition cost. If there were a different system where I could just actually learn something (which probably wouldn't be through the inefficient and antiquated university system) and then get a valid certificate of employability for having actually learned it, that would be great. Unfortunately, however, as long as university professors are gatekeepers of the coveted certificate of employability, they're going to keep dealing with this incentive issue.

soerxpso commented on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy... · Posted by u/belter

iteratethis · 5 months ago

This won't bring home manufacturing but let's say that it will...

The US doesn't have the people to do the actual manufacturing. I saw a video recently explaining how sectors like the military, construction and the automotive industry each have 100K+ positions that they are unable to fill. A return to manufacturing adds to that shortage.

Apparently there's some 7 million young men of working age that are...missing in action. Self-isolated, gaming, addictions.

In construction, for every 5 people that retire, only 2 enter. And it's been like that for over 10 years. The people aren't there nor is the motivation.

I'm sure you'll have Apple investing in a mega plant where 50 educated people push some buttons though.

soerxpso · 5 months ago

> The US doesn't have the people to do the actual manufacturing

I am willing to move anywhere in the US to do any manufacturing job if it means that I will be paid enough to afford a house with two bedrooms and basic living expenses. I have a bachelor's degree and have been unable to find such an arrangement. So where exactly are all of these unfilled jobs that you speak of? Are they unfilled because we don't have the people, or because they're trying to pay in peanuts? Unfilled because we don't have the people, or because HR departments are filtering away qualified resumes based on voodoo? This outlandish claim you're making that we don't want to work is offensive to a lot of people who are aware of their own existence and know that you're spouting bullshit to trick people into more wealth inequality.

Your 7 million young men aren't 'missing', you're just refusing to hire them. The jobs don't exist.

soerxpso commented on Japanese scientists create new plastic that dissolves in saltwater overnight newatlas.com/materials/pl... · Posted by u/bentobean

dylan604 · 5 months ago

i'm fine if the call it artist impression without calling it AI generated. i don't care if the artist's impression was created in watercolors, oil, charcoal, or AI. as long as it is identified as not an actual image is the main concern

soerxpso · 5 months ago

The issue is the artist in this particular case didn't really provide their impression. When I hear that something is an "artist's impression" I expect it to mean that a reasonable thinking person read about the thing in at least more detail than I have (since all I've done is skim an article) and then created an image that conveys the information visually. If all the artist did is tell an AI to render "a piece of plastic dissolving in the ocean" it's not conveying any information that's not in the headline, and it's not very pretty either.

If the point was purely aesthetics, maybe they could at least use Midjourney or that new Ghibli style transfer thing instead of what looks about as good as old Dall-E? It's ugly. If the point was to convey information, they could have done that better with a 30-second pencil sketch, which would have also taken less effort than the AI-generated thing.

soerxpso commented on German electrical engineer with green card stripped and 'violently interrogated' theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/KnuthIsGod

_heimdall · 5 months ago

We lost that concept way before Trump.

Any immigration law that gates entry likely runs afoul of the poem on the statue of liberty. Blocking entry from specific countries may be a gray area, but anything that blocks based on merit is a problem and those laws have existed for quite some time now.

soerxpso · 5 months ago

Despite the poem, Ellis Island has always turned away individuals with known criminal records (although a 'known' record was much rarer at the time) and anyone they thought was likely to become a public charge. Our immigration policy in the previous 4 years was actually significantly more permissive than when that poem was put on that statue.