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It's not surprising since these are all reasoning models now. Token sampling/decoding isn't exposed because the reasoning models are trained around specific configurations. That's why it's been replaced with "reasoning effort" instead (low, medium, high "thinking" levels).

The ISS is in the middle of rolling out upgrades to their panels so it’s not a great comparison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll_Out_Solar_Array

> ROSA is 20 percent lighter (with a mass of 325 kg (717 lb))[3] and one-fourth the volume of rigid panel arrays with the same performance.

And that’s not the current cutting edge in solar panels either. A company can take more risks with technology choices and iterate faster (get current state-of-the-art solar to be usable in space).

The bet they’re making is on their own engineering progress, like they did with rockets, not on sticking together pieces used on the ISS today.

The memory layout can be better this way depending on how the fields of a strict are laid out. It also gives the data better locality.

Let's say you're iterating over position coordinates of some set of objects in a game. With an array-of-structs you can lose ou on cache locality if unrelated fields are nearby. If you use a struct-of-arrays you get cache locality advantages anytime you do something like "iterate over this 1 field for each object"

The latter approach is called data oriented programming btw, and seems to have been around for a while. Andrew Kelley gave a good talk about it recently while using Zig: https://media.handmade-seattle.com/practical-data-oriented-d...

There are also other ways to get these returns outside of DeFi, like by staking ETH, selling covered calls, or various other strategies on centralized services

I don't know what happens behind the scenes at Celsius.

I do know there are many ways to get those high ROIs in DeFi.

With zero evidence suggesting they are lying about returns, the charitable guess I can make is that they are getting high DeFi returns and giving their customers slightly lower ones after taking a cut.

I'm not a fan or user of Celsius, but this is an incredibly inflammatory title with very little evidence to back it up. Claims like that demand greater proof. This is an incredibly lazy article

The author pretty much failed to do any research on DeFi investments (point 3 in the OP). Compound and Aave are just 2 of many places investors place their assets, and are definitely near the lower end of APYs. Badger, which Celsius has already said they used, offers much higher returns. So do other projects like e.g. Convex Finance.

Where do these high APYs come from? Well a lot of it is coming from incentives of these protocols and speculation in those native assets. But the author doesn't even know that, so I won't bother steelmanning his argument

A large proportion of readers on HN are also quite lucky in similar ways to OP and can make this work. This lifestyle also requires less luck now with remote work having taken off big time.

chess.com has a really cool vision game for picking out squares and moves by name: https://www.chess.com/vision

It seems silly but makes reading chess books and analyzing games much easier. The first time I played with the vision tool for 20 minutes I felt way faster at it already.

The trigger for surveillance is $600 which is practically every American. It is certainly about regular people.

Larger sums of many are already tracked, so wealthy people would have already been monitored.

It's good to see that OOM errors can be handled in Rust now, at least in unstable.

Zig has a similar approach that is pretty cool. I don't know of any other language that let's you handle it like this https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.8.0/#Heap-Allocation-Fai...

You could probably use a low Japanese table for this pretty well.

I think a combination of positions is probably best to get variety in muscles you're using. Reminds me of a theory I heard that hard-backed chairs are actually better because they make you fidget and readjust your body, versus using the soft chair as an external spine

Yes, that is the main argument and I agree with it. But bundling it with EA is just inaccurate.

Longtermism seems to me like one of many deadends that utilitarianism takes you down if you embrace it and only it as your moral theory.

A little bit of utilitarian thinking can be fine when you have another theory to tell you the "why". That's why I don't have any problems with EA which is usually quite concrete

> Hence, they point out that focusing on superintelligence gets you a way bigger bang for your buck than, say, preventing people who exist right now from contracting malaria by distributing mosquito nets.

This comment and others in the article seem to be making a (bad) case that Effective Altruists don't care about the Global South. I find this bizarre because all EA enthusiasts I know are very much into mosquito net altruism.

GiveWell, an organization very popular among EA folks, has a list of top charities and most of them target the Global South https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities.

Personally, I am convinced that all of the harms of social media can be traced back to the Garden of Eden.

People just decide to be bad sometimes. The perfect feed algorithm doesn't exist.

You don't have to be on exactly 24/7. The default delay for spending coins from a commitment txn is 144 blocks in some clients and is usually scaled with channel size. Most clients let you configure it manually too.

That means you'd have to be online once within 24 hours of your counterparty trying to steal your channel balance to stop them. IMO this is pretty reasonable for a cellphone user.

It doesn't follow that this would lead to centralization of custody either. If you want to pay for better liveness you could pay someone to run a watchtower to watch your channels. Basically, it watches the blockchain for bad channel closes and posts the justice txn with the correct settlement for you in case it sees it. I'd be surprised if a service like LN_Strike didn't start using these.

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/wat...

Lightning does work. I've used it myself as have many others. You should really work on explaining what it is you actually mean by that statement instead.

Apparently they are using Lightning and a service LN Strike that recently launched.

https://twitter.com/starkness/status/1402635954653904902?s=2...

This is a really myopic view on uses of crypto and the BitTorrent protocol. There's so much more going on than criminal applications.

BitTorrent is used in a lot of settings for data distribution and for software distribution. Saying it's just for pirating reveals the author's laziness. Several of these use-cases are listed in the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

As for crypto, I recommend people read about Bitcoin being used for the purposes of sending remittances to start.

Counterpoint: https://www.coindesk.com/the-last-word-on-bitcoins-energy-co...

"It is completely unambiguously obvious to me that" the author is an intellectually lazy rube who recycles tired old arguments. Anyone who talks about "China-based" miners hasn't done their research on the actual hashrate distribution today. That's a talking point from like 2015.

What the author misses, and what many on HN miss, is that technical expertise does not translate into financial/economic expertise. You may grok Bitcoin on the CS level and still totally misunderstand the economics.

There are fermented raw meats that people seem to be able to eat safely. Lookup "high meat", it's a trend among people doing the raw carnivore diet.

I mostly eat cooked foods, but it's interesting to think about what fermented, rotten foods people have been eating for thousands of years.

Michael Burry was way ahead on this too.

Also, fun to see the expected seething at anything related to finance here :)

This is patently false. https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-o...

There absolutely is more nuance to this and you seem to be missing all of it.

> the consumption of electricity is not a side effect, it's the whole point.

The OP would argue that it's about the consumption of resources in general. The interesting point of discussion here is CAPEX vs. OPEX dynamics in mining. The CAPEX of creating ASICs is a huge factor in Bitcoin mining.

One of the arguments for using photonic ASICs for mining is that it actually decreases centralization in hardware manufacturing. Photonic circuits are printed using older processes which are cheaper and more widely available than 5nm ASICs that will be made for Bitcoin.

I recommend you read the paper linked by the OP or watch his talk. Personally I don't know if I really believe in the idea, but there are definitely interesting points being made that are worth studying.

Most of the people betting on this becoming a recession/depression think that the coronavirus is just the pin to pop the (ETF) bubble. Most of the companies that have announced that they're working on vaccines have pumped already, but feel free to invest.

If you're experiencing 6 sigma events daily, your modelling is wrong.

If it can't handle the extremes, it's not durable. This is such a bullshit attitude. Financial systems need to work in the extremes. Period.

FYI for anyone else who was wondering, the WHO declaration has no impact on whether or not pandemic bonds default.

Another cost associated with your 2nd point is the collateral a host would have to burn to comply with take-down notices.

Coronavirus-induced supply-shock is just what it took to break a fragile system out of equilibrium.

Rate cut was already priced in yesterday. CME's FedWatch already had really high odds for this exact cut.