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New comment by muddi900 in "Top Pentagon Official Contracted Personal Lawyer to Handle Minerals Deal"

muddi900 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:25:52 +0000

But the state can manufacture any excuse to formulate an "official act"

New comment by muddi900 in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

muddi900 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:47:59 +0000

Has there been any inkling into the prompts of these agents?

New comment by muddi900 in "'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres"

muddi900 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:38:37 +0000

This is not a culture war issue. And there are people posting real data ITT.

New comment by muddi900 in "'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres"

muddi900 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:31:58 +0000

I am quite sure you are being facetious, but XRot has made me doubt everything.

New comment by muddi900 in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

muddi900 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:26:11 +0000

I was thinking of another Indian CEO maybe.

He is an MBA. And his reign has been full of managerial bullshit

New comment by muddi900 in "'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres"

muddi900 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:24:38 +0000

Unless the German government is subsidizing or fixing the cost, that is not possible.

Infrastructure requires new capacity to be build, which requires capacity payments.

New comment by muddi900 in "'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres"

muddi900 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:21:27 +0000

The effects of Russian War had normalized by 2024. Or the paper would have shown an increase in Electricity tariffs.

And the effects of Iran War are not apparent.

I would recommend reading the actual paper where it acknowledges that it does not regard capacity payments.

https://www.energyknowledgebase.com/post/capacity-payment

New comment by muddi900 in "'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres"

muddi900 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:17:51 +0000

Well I don't have the data in front of me, but building power capacity leads to higher capacity payments, which are passed to all consumers. This has been an global industry standard for decades at far as I know.

The study's authors acknowledge it in the text.

> We estimate that data centers caused average retail electricity rates to fall modestly in the United States from 2015 to 2024 using an instrumental variables approach.

This is a good primer on capacity payments: https://www.energyknowledgebase.com/post/capacity-payment

New comment by muddi900 in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

muddi900 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:53:35 +0000

Asking your models to follow the google developer guidelines is angood way to get good responses from them.

https://developers.google.com/style/highlights

New comment by muddi900 in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

muddi900 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:59:58 +0000

Google’s CEO is an IIM graduate

New comment by muddi900 in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"

muddi900 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:05:06 +0000

The wild west era of the internet was an anomaly and we were naive to ever believe it will go on forever. State actors and Big Businesses have mostly put the genie back in the bottle.

New comment by muddi900 in "Ask HN: Do you use LLMs for non-coding related work?"

muddi900 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:33:55 +0000

Are you an LLM sir?

Ask HN: Do you use LLMs for non-coding related work?

muddi900 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:42:11 +0000

LLMs are very good at code. We can argue on the merits of their other qualities, but we can all agree on that. However, code is a very small section of 'work'. OpenAI, Anthropic, Kimi, etc. all market "work assistant" products that are supposed to handle that other sections.

Are y'all using any of these products voluntarily? How do you use it? What do you like and what can be improved?

I understand I am sounding like a survey, but I am genuinely curious. I don't see how you can fit them in any organization without causing undue chaos.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230194

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New comment by muddi900 in "Discovery Loop"

muddi900 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:25:35 +0000

Solar Energy is already quite economical.

New comment by muddi900 in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

muddi900 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:22:10 +0000

A lot of datacenter are operating their own Natural gas based power generation. Which in itself is a different dynamic than buying electricity.

I have operated such a setup, at a much lower industrial manufacturing scale. The tradeoffs are quite stark. The electricity is cheaper, but generators/turbines need to operate at 80% capacity to be feasible. In the slow hours, they become an albatross.

So they lose more money per user if less people are using the services, but they also lose money overall if more people are using them.

New comment by muddi900 in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

muddi900 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:15:33 +0000

But did that kill music downloads?

Like that line from The Social Network, "Do you wanna buy a tower records Eduardo?"

New comment by muddi900 in "Resetting Xbox"

muddi900 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:12:42 +0000

What is MS board doing? How did Xbox spend 70 Billion without C-Suite approval?

There seems to be no consequences for top management.

New comment by muddi900 in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

muddi900 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:35:28 +0000

I bought a base iPad 2 qeeks ago.

At least with the cheaper models, you get deals at Best Buy and Amazon.

I wonder whether this will also inflate the used market. I could have gotten more for my trade-in.

New comment by muddi900 in "Trump Surrenders to Iran on Virtually Every Point"

muddi900 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:09:36 +0000

The 300 Billion pay out is huge.

For context, Israel gets 38 Billion over 10 years to buy US Arms.

And Iran's GDP is 475.2 billion as of 2024.

New comment by muddi900 in "The dead economy theory"

muddi900 — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:10:51 +0000

We have to remember that for the vast majority of human history, keeping people alive and healthy was not a concern. Most medical interventions discovered during post-Industrial Revolutions did not require special technology.

It is only when human labor was needed at a large scale when we started caring about people living long healthy lives.