How do people even go about finding jobs these days? I've been with my current place for a few years and it seems like all the ways I used to find jobs just don't work at all anymore.
I went looking for a new job a couple of months ago. As before, I uploaded my CV to a bunch of career sites, but didn't get any reaction at all. Not even from recruiters, who, when I was looking for a job 5, 10 or 15 years ago, who start spamming me with unsuitable jobs almost immediately after uploading my CV.
So I applied to jobs myself. However, because a lot of these career sites don't put in relevant details in the job descriptions, I now used AI to find the companies behind the vague job descriptions. That worked like a charm!
Once I found the companies, I checked if they had any job openings listed on their website and applied through their website.
I applied to six job listings. Three companies didn't bother to react at all, including one from HN's "Who's hiring" page. The other three companies reacted to my message, two were a possible match, and went to in person interviews etc. One of them I picked for my new employer.
All in all, it took a couple of weeks from actively looking for a job to finding one.
However, I had my CV up for quite a while, but looking for a job passively didn't do a thing at all. That's decidedly different from the early 2000s and 2010s.
Google "$field jobs in $location". Whatever sites come up, sign up for all of them and search them individually. Apply for jobs. Maybe 1 in 100 isn't a scam. Get an offer at 1 in 10 of the non-scam jobs. It sucks but there doesn't seem to be a better way.
The error condition is then the system is incapable of dealing with overly aggressive prosecution as well as overly lenient prosecution where repeat violent offenders are let off with light sentences, no sentences or commutation where offenders go on to re-commit serious crimes.
I hope folks reading this do not conflate my statement to mean any kind of support for police violence. However, the fatalistic thinking of "there is no accountability" excludes any sort of nuance and examples to the contrary. Does it happen less often, yes of course. But let's be intellectually honest with ourselves here. Another example in which I fully support the outcome of the judicial system:
Law enforcement is held accountable for anything so rarely that it's silly and disingenuous to bring up a couple high-profile examples as if they actually matter.
Even after these cases you mention, for example, that 1 year old was shot by a police officer somewhere in Missouri or Mississippi I think, within like the last year, right
I do agree with you, and can admit that the position was weak from the get-go. However, I do strongly oppose the fatalistic mindset as it - in my opinion - lulls people into complacency and acceptance instead of fighting for change (e.g., civic oversight boards, external audits of misconduct cases, collaboration with local government officials for reform, etc.).
Thanks for your reply though, it did help me see I’m arguing from a charged and unequal assertion. Maybe not an outright fallacy, but I suppose fairly close.
Yep, there's pretty much only one rule that matters. You can do anything you want as long as it's to people below you socially. All other rules and laws come second to that one.
Yeah, but normally the world-gen is automated and then the rest isn't. I get the comment. Minecraft isn't fun when you automate everything. People have been hosting WorldEdit-spammed servers since the beginning that were always lame. The real-life to ingame map conversions were novel at first but are old news now. One famous example was the UC Berkeley replica, which was done in creative mode manually in 2020. Tons of people joined that server and explored the entire campus. Then Stanford auto-gen'd their campus ingame from real-life spatial data, and it was boring, and nobody cared.
These country / world maps autogenerated are still cool to look at a bit. Also some people can take these and then rebuild famous landmarks by hand.
Claude is so absurdly bad about false triggers for security. It kept triggering when I asked it questions about how to plant some tree saplings I got because somehow that was a security risk.
Would you mind copy+pasting the text that you fed it that led to that refusal? That's so bizarre. It would be really interesting to try and guess at what exactly in the message set it off. Over-indexed on biology refusals, perhaps?
Are you sure that AI model progression and the height of your family members are 35 is related? It seems unlikely but I guess you'd know better than I.
"We're running out of data, so LLM progress is hitting a wall" was a prominent late-2024 narrative. Back then many experts including Ilya used the word "plateau" when describing LLM progress. No one is using that word now, and there is no evidence we are about to reach a plateau, even though we ran out of data long ago.
That pretty much sums up my experience. Everything is more expensive and worse at the same time. And it feels like we're being screwed over from every direction and in new ways every day. People keep talking about this tech is supposed to do so much but everything just gets worse.
Private equity bought out the healthcare system where I lived so now it takes months to get an appointment and the quality of care is horrible.
Not that matters since the health insurance I pay hundreds for a month wouldn't cover anything anyways because it's through UHC.
My job keeps getting rid of positions because they want to "do more with less" but it just means I'm doing more work while being paid the same.
If I buy a new car it will spy on me and sell my data. The state DMV already sold my personal info without my permission and now I get constant spam.
Private equity bought out many of the restaurants I liked going to and ruined them.
Third spaces in my city have been mostly destroyed.
The social media sites I used to use were overrun by bots.
I can't upgrade my PC because hardware prices have gone insane.
Gas is like $5 a gallon now so I can't really justify going on any trips anymore.
Private equity bought up most of the rentals where I live and so now I pay much more for rent on top of crazy monthly fees while the building I live in is falling apart because they refuse to fix it. Housing prices have also gone up so much that I have no hope of owning a house.
It's not true that everything is more expensive. Nominal prices are higher, but incomes have risen faster than inflation. Purchasing power of the average person in 2026 is higher than it was in 2016.
As for things getting worse, I guess it depends on the domain. In hardware, things have gotten a lot better; my desktop computer is orders of magnitude more powerful than I would have expected 10 or 20 years ago. In software, I do see a lot of bloated software being written, but I don't feel that the software that I personally use has gotten worse.
Average, or median? Don’t know the answer offhand, but there are a small number of well-known people who are likely to skew the average quite a bit upward, given how much wealth they accumulated during and since covid
Even most of San Francisco and the VAST majority of the LA city limits is way under 3 stories. Even if you excluded parking lots from the considered land, it still would be.
I'm sure many other major cities are also like that, outside the few-block radius of the "central business district."
They kind of did the opposite. Started off open source until they had gotten what they needed from the goodwill of the open source community, then made it closed source to make sure they wouldn't have to return any of that goodwill
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