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"steps" are important to optimize if they have negative externalities.
There is of course also an argument about national security, not being at the whim of some Iranian dictator. So some form of government investment would be justified, but not necessary IMO.
In Europe you only have the same parties/"uniparty" in power all the time. Many people never had a representative they voted for.
I understand the nuance about the US voting system. But when I look at the outcomes, the US seems way more democratic than Europe.
Re gas demand: Renewables are cheaper than fossile fuels. They will obviously win out in a free market. No subsidies needed.
The $1B were a refund. Net exchange ~$0.
Building out fossile fuel production shifts oil revenue from various dictatorships around the world to the US in this case. That's a good thing. I wish we in Europe produced more gas ourselves instead of being highly dependent on other countries.
This does not mean higher gas demand, which is what matters for CO2 reduction.
FP8 training and GRPO make sense to me, but that only gets you a 4x improvement total, right?
So in this scenario I could see it become necessary from a military perspective.
For established industries regulation just increases prices. ... Until a new technology comes up that allows new competitors to enter the market. Like Tesla, SpaceX.
Without retry amplification you can do retries ASAP, which has much better latency. No exponential backoff required.
Retrying deadline exceeded errors seems dangerous. You are amplifying the most expensive requests, so even if you only retry 20% of all RPCs, you could still 10x server load. Ideally you can start loadshedding before the server grinds to a halt (which we can retry without risk of amplification). Having longer RPC deadlines helps the server process the backlog without timeouts. That said, deadline handling is a complex topic and YMMV depending on the service in question.
A person that hides the face with glasses and hat can still be tracked via CCTV, etc., but the data can't easily be associated to the public persona.
So there might be a long term benefit to the team, even if individual productivity of high performers goes down slightly.
Does this mean you could eavesdrop all Bluetooth connections from a single satellite?
I have only worked in large codebases with monorepo, so I'm curious.
I assume this helps reduce their server and electricity costs. At a certain scale these things pay off.