olladecarne

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by olladecarne 22d ago
The pitchforks are out because even without that part, it's still a scumbag move to try to frontrun the mathematicians who were working on this for years after OpenAI heard that they were close to releasing their results. Just identify
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by olladecarne 7mo ago
Same in someone I know, shifted between bipolar and schitzoaffective and schitzophrenia. Bipolar during manic episode, later schizoaffective. A lot of paranoia and also delusions, but also refused medication due to side effects (and probabl
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by olladecarne 2y ago
I used to use Airbnb all the time but a single experience dealing with their customer service and a bad host was enough for me to never use them again. The lows of using Airbnb are 100x lower than the lows of hotels, and the highs are highe
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by olladecarne 3y ago
I dropped out of high school, moved countries, finished high school, dropped out of college, went back to a different one. I wasn't dumb, I always had >99th percentile test scores, but I couldn't concentrate. Now I work at Big
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by olladecarne 4y ago
Why should the 99% accept a governance structure where they get only 1% of the power/wealth? I think the core issue is wealth inequality, and although I initially liked UBI, it doesn't really solve that issue. If we don't sol
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by olladecarne 4y ago
It was much better 5+ years ago. It's impossible to maintain high code standards when a company grows as fast as Google has. Eventually the law of large numbers applies. It's probably still better due to starting from a stronger b
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by olladecarne 4y ago
My experience has been similar at other large companies (MSFT, Google). My advice is to look for founder-led teams (not companies). If there are plenty of founders still on the team, they will likely care a lot about the product and code an
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by olladecarne 4y ago
Pension funds take money from poor people and give it to rich people, just like everything else. When the economy is doing well, rich people make billions by managing them, and when it's not doing well rich people still make billions u
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by olladecarne 4y ago
Is there any difference in performance?
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by olladecarne 4y ago
Lack of high end tech will be the least of your problems if China and the US get into a hot war.
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by olladecarne 4y ago
One thing I noticed is that on GCP if you create a a2-ultragpu (Nvidia a100 80gb) and you select a spot instance, the price estimate goes down to $0.33 hourly ($240/m) which sounds really good if it's not a mistake. I was wonderin
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by olladecarne 4y ago
ML revolutionized translation a long time ago and the demand and pay for translators went down. It also used the works of thousands of humans who translated text and they never saw a dime. Copyright applies to translations so we've alr
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by olladecarne 4y ago
I've been thinking about this and I think this is a problem all companies face. The best employees are confident and know they can get a job anywhere anytime so they leave. The worst are less confident and never leave. How do you keep
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by olladecarne 4y ago
When Airbnb is bad, it's really bad. You're gambling with the possibility of completely ruining whatever trip you had in mind. I've had both cases where a host cancelled last minute and also where I tried to cancel months in
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by olladecarne 5y ago
There's so many things we invent with good intentions but in the end go terribly wrong and I think this is one of those things. I think it's ok to mourn and remember the past, but moving on and accepting reality is important to a
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by olladecarne 5y ago
Why is the financial media so obsessed with Gamestop? It's a relatively tiny company and if it truly was the case that it is over they would have stopped talking about it. Instead they publish fear-mongering articles and hit pieces on
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by olladecarne 6y ago
Thanks, I didn't know about those statistics. Every time I read about ADHD I definitely think I have it given a bunch of problems I've had throughout my life. Luckily I've managed to get a really good job as a software engine
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by olladecarne 6y ago
I also recommend switching from coffee to tea if you consume a lot of it. I used to drink gallons of coffee a day. Basically from late highschool to a few years into my career (so like 10 years), I didn't drink anything but coffee (wit
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by olladecarne 6y ago
Quick disclaimer as someone who lived in Costa Rica for many years: Costa Rica's prices for many things are comparable to the US. If it's imported stuff like cars or tech, then expect to pay 2-3x as much. The internet can be fast,
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by olladecarne 6y ago
The CEO of a social media company going and personally making political edits to user messages to push their agenda sounds about as bad of a thing as I can imagine. I have a hard time imagining something more wrong for a social network to d
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by olladecarne 6y ago
I still think the "holistic" approach is flawed. The "holistic" criteria benefits upper-class students because lower and middle class kids are rarely trained from a young age to be involved in extra-curricular activities
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by olladecarne 6y ago
I take the pills that have liquid inside, I think they're referred to as softgels. I asked my doctor about Vitamin K and they told me that it's not really necessary so I don't take it. I agree that taking it with Omega 3 is a
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by olladecarne 6y ago
To add to the anecdata, I take 5000 IU daily during the winter and about every other day in the summer and my blood tests in the winter showed I had 54 ng/ml, the healthy range is 30-100. I'm not super diligent about it though and
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by olladecarne 6y ago
> those working for the company get considerably more say and control than outside contributors As someone who knows little about open source politics, I'm genuinely curious about how people expect this should work. What are the lar
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by olladecarne 6y ago
Low quality information is more profitable to produce than high quality information (thanks to Google and their ads). So all the incentives for people currently are to produce content that is nearly indistinguishable from spam. It is much m
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by olladecarne 6y ago
"Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome." This whole ad driven attention economy is probably as dangerous of an invention as nuclear weapons. We're caught in a state of psychosis and individually none of us
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by olladecarne 6y ago
I think you've got the causality wrong here. There’s noting inherently expensive about serving http -> makes all of the web practically unusable without filtering -> Google monopolized search with the great product they developed
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by olladecarne 6y ago
Any decision they make can be classified as "influencing political leanings". If they just serve you content that you agree with, that's influencing your political leaning by reinforcing your beliefs (IMO this is what Youtube
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by olladecarne 6y ago
I think if you look at the brain as a neural network then it's easy to see how this happens. Not everyone is born to educated parents and receives high quality education. If a lot of the information your brain received growing up was b
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by olladecarne 6y ago
I would love to see someone test the difference between a $35 a day vs $1000 a month UBI. The $35 a day approach seems like it would solve a lot of the problems people worry about with regard to misuse.

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