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New comment by cma in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

cma — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:51:33 +0000

When a tech company builds an AI training datacenter in Alabama, does the model they train there get counted as a created capital asset that they then pay taxes on in that state.

They'll owe some tax from apportionment formula that doesn't really cover the datacenter's contribution to the value of the created model I think, but maybe that's wrong.

A factory that produces physical goods gets more straightforwardly taxed, though they often pit states against each other to reduce it to near zero or negative for bringing jobs.

New comment by cma in "Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute"

cma — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:50:25 +0000

The moat is in training on the most high value user sessions. What Altman referred to as the "data flywheel."

New comment by cma in "Amazon is adding a fuel surcharge to fees it collects from third-party sellers"

cma — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:56:09 +0000

~20c/GB to ~9c/GB was the 2006-2026 halving I mentioned. Two decades to drop by half.

New comment by cma in "Amazon is adding a fuel surcharge to fees it collects from third-party sellers"

cma — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:02:27 +0000

AWS egress prices have been the same for a decade despite massive networking advancements.

In two decades, since 2006, they've only come down by about 50%.

New comment by cma in "Safeguarding cryptocurrency by disclosing quantum vulnerabilities responsibly"

cma — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:53:30 +0000

Can't the same be said of classical attacks?

New comment by cma in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

cma — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:23:38 +0000

According to this he ordered them uncut and unfinished and may just warehouse until needed:

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram...

Its still speculative that OpenAI won't go bankrupt and have to free it back to the market, but if it is holding them unfinished it is a supply constraint on finished RAM chips even if not on wafer output.

New comment by cma in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

cma — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:44:54 +0000

> RAM prices spiked speculatively

Didn't OpenAI buy up 40% of the capacity all at once?

New comment by cma in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"

cma — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:36:50 +0000

> the enrichment of nuclear material to military grades while constantly threatening the elimination of Israel.

Iran has supported a treaty on elimination of weapons of mass destruction in the middle east, Israel has been the blocker of it, only actor in the region that has nukes, and isn't in the NPT.

As a non-signer of the NPT, military aid to Israel is also illegal under US law, so we play along with strategic ambiguity and pretend they don't have them.

New comment by cma in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

cma — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:53:01 +0000

Anthropic puts up random prompts defaulting to enabled to trick you into accidentally enabling.

New comment by cma in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

cma — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:37:26 +0000

I think the Unreal Tournament 4 team was moved to Fortnite after the success of PUBG to rapidly turn it into a battle royale.

New comment by cma in "Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe"

cma — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:06:23 +0000

> it decided to "solve the problem in software"

This isn't made by nvidia

New comment by cma in "It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]"

cma — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:46:25 +0000

https://evermorestud.io/retroreflective-chromakey-experiment...

Nvidia GreenBoost kernel modules opensourced

cma — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:47:08 +0000

Article URL: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-greenboost-kernel-modules-opensourced/363486

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393347

Points: 5

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New comment by cma in "Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing the GIL"

cma — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:24:56 +0000

Every python object will trigger copy on write of a full memory page on any read, due to reference counting, though some will share pages.

New comment by cma in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

cma — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:24:10 +0000

Why not just symlink

New comment by cma in "Pentagon chief blocks officers from Ivy League schools and top universities"

cma — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:19:51 +0000

Religious schools have long had the strongest cancel culture out there.

New comment by cma in "Every privacy concession in history has been permanent"

cma — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:38:25 +0000

How about the Quartering Act of 1774, American Revolution and Third Ammendment?

New comment by cma in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

cma — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:23:06 +0000

> it's limited within the law to 150 days and then has to be extended by Congress.

Isn't that one also limited to targetted tariffs? He's applied it worldwide...

New comment by cma in "Fast KV Compaction via Attention Matching"

cma — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:08:41 +0000

The inventor's grace period under first to file changes still gives them/their university a year to file if they publish openly.

New comment by cma in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

cma — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:42:34 +0000

When you predict with the small model, the big model can verify as more of a batch and be more similar in speed to processing input tokens, if the predictions are good and it doesn't have to be redone.