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dkasper

7,987 karma · joined February 18, 2008

Currently: member of technical staff at OpenAI.

Past: Meta, Reddit, Weebly, Mixbook, Yobongo, Justin.tv

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dkasper··on I'm an Old Fart and AI Makes Me Sad
I feel similar, but keep going another 10 years and we might lose the desire for that type of fun too, not to mention the “building” part might look radically different and not be “fun” anymore. Or maybe it will be more fun, but point is things change.
dkasper··on Google slips as OpenAI said to be working on search product: report
I welcome the completion but surely Google could clone that. The real bet is that they won’t have the courage to do it.
dkasper··on Nine US states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of heat pumps
i think this explains the oversizing. 76% seems pretty good, but a lot of places do get to negative temperatures once in a while, maybe once every year or two, and that’s when you really want the heat to work.
dkasper··on How to hire low experience, high potential people
Some of these questions may be borderline illegal. In my experience interviewing folks for Meta we are taught not to ask such questions because of the obvious bias. Even probing into what neighborhood someone lives in is dubious (oh you grew up on the wrong side of the tracks?). I don’t even look at résumés anymore, although recruiters have to screen them. Focus on the job, if you are conducting a coding interview asking coding questions, maybe ask about something they built in the past for fun/work/learning . If you’re doing system design ask them to architect something. If you’re doing behavioral interviews this is trickiest but focus on the on the job behaviors, even if their previous job was not tech or they only have educational experience you can see how someone works with others on a project. Personal questions like this are a really bad idea.
dkasper··on Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of data per day
In some important ways space is actually the least hostile environment. But yeah, it’s still amazing and has its own challenges.
dkasper··on Fossil is quitting smartwatches
Do you not daily charge your phone?
dkasper··on Dangerous chemicals found in recycled plastics, making them unsafe for use
I think you can use compost, you should just test it if you don’t know what was put into it.
dkasper··on DoS Attacks in Available MQTT Implementations (2021)
But is that exposed to the public internet?
dkasper··on Rich People Don't Talk to Robots
It’s not even that, if I could save $1000 but I don’t care about $1000 I wouldn’t do it. I wouldn’t sit on hold for $10. A billionaire isn’t gonna sit on hold for $1000 unless they have an axe to grind.
dkasper··on All arabica coffee is genetically similar: how can beans taste so different?
Funny as people use to always feel frozen was not as “healthy” as fresh
dkasper··on The Long Tail (2004)
There are a bunch of them but by definition they are niche and not that “successful”
dkasper··on Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service
Are there any other capable providers that are in the same ballpark in terms of cost?
dkasper··on Beaver Drop
Texas is obviously bigger but California also has 8 (or more depending on which classification scheme)
dkasper··on Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
I hadn’t heard of it either but it does seem like there are some studies. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-55920-5_... Cardiac valvulopathy is likely not an adverse effect to consider when psychedelics are used occasionally but this may be different for “microdosing” which involves low doses of psychedelics taken daily or multiple times per week.
dkasper··on Europe at last has an answer to Silicon Valley
Really the original “silicon” boom was in the 60s with fairchild et al. 60+ years of this
dkasper··on FastForward: Bypass link shorteners, don't waste time getting to the final link
Pretty much only used as a hack for sms character limit, or for making urls “prettier” when they get absurdly long with lots of parameters.
dkasper··on Database of artists used to train Midjourney AI garners criticism
I don’t think the current tools are doing much to the creation of “art”, it’s mostly replacing run of the mill graphic design work like logos and ads and cover art, or maybe some higher end stuff like automating workflows.
dkasper··on Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car antenna (2022)
Not quite because it’s almost backward with banks. Yes they take your deposits, but to the bank a deposit is a liability not an asset. Banks can lend out much more than their deposits (fractional reserve) but they technically don’t even need deposits at all to create a loan, because a loan is credit (asset) and a liability to the borrower. This means banks in the modern sense can literally create money, so they don’t need your deposits. You can imagine if no one defaults banks can balance their cash flows without any deposits at all, but in practice there is risk so deposits are more like a form of reserves more or less, and potentially an expensive one if interest rates are high. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/022416/why-b...
dkasper··on With 1 Sentence, Patagonia Just Gave a Masterclass on How to Treat Your People
That’s fine but two points:

- Most hourly jobs don’t have “pto” do they?

- if more people want to take time off at Christmas/NYE than it takes to operate someone will have to work then, so closing is a nice option.

dkasper··on Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it
I thought you were gonna go with “Audentes Fortuna Iuvat” for a minute.
dkasper··on Visualizing American inflation across eight categories
Exactly what I’ve seen. I don’t think anyone can afford to become a farmer at these prices unless they already own the land
dkasper··on Visualizing American inflation across eight categories
Guessing you’ve never looked at housing in random farm towns? They all mooned in 2021 too except the really crappy ones.
dkasper··on New Entry-Level Lucid Air Pure RWD Starts at $78,675, Still with 410-Mile Range
A lot of people buying $78000 cars (even if $68000 with discounts) don’t qualify for the credits. I know I don’t.
dkasper··on Why are there so many colourful houses in Bristol?
There are tons of pastel colored houses in SF and some of the surrounding towns. It’s nice to have some variety.
dkasper··on Multifault earthquake threat for Seattle region revealed by mass tree mortality
From what I’ve read the faults in the Bay Area can’t really generate above an 8.0, whereas the cascadia zone can produce much larger events (remember a 9.0 is 10x the intensity of 8.0). It has to do with the size and type of the faults.
dkasper··on Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren't enough players
So 30% for Valve
dkasper··on Influxdb made the switch from Go to Rust
Yeah but the Reddit link is very relevant for the cto’s comments on the change.
dkasper··on Drinking diet sodas daily during pregnancy linked to autism in male offspring
Yeah, I’m gonna need to see some replication with stronger methodology than self reporting and better confidence interval before I put much weight on this study.
dkasper··on Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
fwiw the meta glasses look almost identical to regular ray bans
dkasper··on Apocalypse Proof: 33 Thomas Street in New York City
Reminds me of 611 Folsom in sf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/611_Folsom_Street
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