Wouldn't space data centers be a magnitudes larger environmental issue when they eventually come back to earth and turn into GPU dust in the atmosphere?
A small Starlink satellite burning up once in a while won't destroy the environment, but a multi-gigawatt space datacenter vaporizing in the atmosphere is probably a very bad idea.
Indeed, but justice requires that we recursively continue all the way to the base case, until all 32-bit integers are products of 16-bit integers, all 16-bit integers are products of 8-bit integers, all 8-bit integers are products of 4-bit integers, all 4-bit integers are products of 2-bit integers, and all 2-bit integers are products of 1-bit integers. Only when we have reach all the way down that list to the very, very smallest of the numbers around us and brought justice to them will the future be able to arrive. I literally can not wait for that day.
I thought you were making a joke but if we're assuming that the 1's are being rounded or truncated before the final value cake is produced I guess you are right.
I upvoted you, not because I think your joke is particularly great, but I hate that HN has this tendency to downvote comments that are clearly meant as a humorous contribution. And I get it, no-one wants HN to turn into Reddit. I also understand that not every joke lands. But I just think it's unnecessary to downvote, you could simply ignore.
"Ignore" is one of those things that sounds like it's a neutral choice but really isn't in practice - it's still just saying "can only ever be positively pressured". IMO people shouldn't go as far as flag though, at the very least, and if it's already at the bottom of the sort there is no sense dumping on it further.
My current comment itself, for instance, also doesn't really add anything to the discussion about the article and I'd have no expectation people leave it from going negative. Maybe the will, maybe they won't, but there is no reason to expect they should in principle of me loving tangents :D.
If layoffs will pump your stock, why aren't there more? Sure there are some layoffs happening, but those could just be companies that will benefit from layoffs. Certainly there could be many companies whose stock price would drop due to layoffs and those companies just haven't done that.
Robinhood's crypto offering is extremely deceptive. They offer "commission-free cryptocurrency trading" but don't make it clear that you pay a 0.95% fee[1] on every trade (technically a 'spread' and not a 'commission' but there is hardly a difference). They also take 25% of staking rewards. These are absurdly high fees.
I disagree, AI agents could help level the playing field. Citadel doesn't have any AI models that are better than what you or I have. Market data is more accessible than ever. As LLMs get better at trading, the difference in capability between you and a professional trader gets smaller.
Also, Claude knows about a lot of the traps that consumers can fall into: spread, execution, risk concentration, etc. -- high chance that if I tell Claude I'm thinking of going all in on AMC because some Reddit post told me to, it'll say "slow down cowboy"
Will it be is a different thing though. And if it’s not, who exactly is accountable?
With funds and portfolio managers that run them, there’s a clear accountability model (if the fund sucks, the manager loses their job and the company loses credibility)
With AI agents doing the management, who is accountable when the fund sucks? If it’s the customer, we’ve moved accountability from someone who at least in theory, knows what they’re doing to someone who has little to no clue.
You have to be accountable for what you have the model do on your behalf. I hear what you're saying, but there are also issues with the hedge fund accountability model. There are certainly swaths of fund managers who are only there because they got lucky or had the right pedigree, and more that are better traders but never became a fund manager because they got unlucky or had other passions.
An individual investor can invest with their risk appetite on their time horizon and not be subject to Citadel's "5% draw down in a quarter and you're fired" culture which can be toxic to returns over time.
What is the point of having a speculative market if everyone has access to the same information and capabilities? You might as well just direct deposit a proportional share of all economic growth relative to investment into every citizens account and be done with it.
I believe that your individual ability to execute an order is constrained such that some of the difference is removed. On the other hand, the overall thesis has merits IMHO
I thought Temporal was overly complex, but as you said the best part is it does enforce good engineering practices.
Then I tried their Cloud offering and was appalled at their pricing. I burned through the $1,000 free credits before I even got something to production. Didn't want to bother with running a local Temporal, either.
Best solution is to just take inspiration from their architecture and then do it yourself in Postgres, IMO.
We already have a Postgres instance running (as I'm sure most stacks have), so it's just another database table rather than a whole new piece of infrastructure that needs to be maintained, with its associated cost, attack surface, risk of Temporal going under or dropping support for OSS, authentication, and other unknowns.
Yes, I think this has become their competitive edge to stay relevant and retain customers. If a lab falls behind the frontier for too long, they will lose customers to other models. Google, DeepSeek, and XAI have all released frontier models in the past, but they fall behind and people lose interest.
A small Starlink satellite burning up once in a while won't destroy the environment, but a multi-gigawatt space datacenter vaporizing in the atmosphere is probably a very bad idea.
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