Hacker News: mustyoshi

New comment by mustyoshi in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

mustyoshi — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:52:48 +0000

Phones aren't disposable because of the lack of replacement batteries.

I keep my phones for 3-4 years, and the battery life while degraded isn't really an issue.

And that's with recharging it just about every night even if it's not dead.

New comment by mustyoshi in "Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year"

mustyoshi — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:52:55 +0000

Nuclear fills a base load role better than solar+battery though, imo.

A healthy power network will have a variety of generations sources available.

New comment by mustyoshi in "What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math?"

mustyoshi — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:42:10 +0000

I don't see how we'll ever get to widespread local LLM.

The power efficiency alone is a strong enough pressure to use centralized model providers.

My 3090 running 24b or 32b models is fun, but I know I'm paying way more per token in electricity, on top of lower quality tokens.

It's fun to run them locally, but for anything actually useful it's cheaper to just pay API prices currently.

New comment by mustyoshi in "What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math?"

mustyoshi — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:39:31 +0000

The drop in memory stocks seems counterintuitive to me.

The demand for memory isn't going to go down, we'll just be able to do more with the same amount of memory.

New comment by mustyoshi in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

mustyoshi — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:17:01 +0000

Just about everyone on the left has been saying these tariffs were illegal since day one.

It's not insider trading that they acted on that consensus.

New comment by mustyoshi in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

mustyoshi — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:00:40 +0000

I don't buy that it's because of the monopoly. TSMC has been starting a fab for close to 5 years.

It doesn't matter how many companies are in this market, it takes a real amount of time to add capacity.

New comment by mustyoshi in "Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database"

mustyoshi — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:37:11 +0000

>Instead, we should make it illegal to discriminate based on criminal conviction history

Absolutely not. I'm not saying every crime should disqualify you from every job but convictions are really a government officialized account of your behavior. Knowing a person has trouble controlling their impulses leading to aggrevated assault or something very much tells you they won't be good for certain roles. As a business you are liable for what your employees do it's in both your interests and your customers interests not to create dangerous situations.

New comment by mustyoshi in "I’m joining OpenAI"

mustyoshi — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:47:14 +0000

But realistically, I just had 2 flights last month, checking what model of aircraft I was on didn't even cross my mind. I survived both flights btw.

New comment by mustyoshi in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

mustyoshi — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:19:37 +0000

Anything the government does should be viewed with the lens of "do I want somebody who hates me to have this power".

New comment by mustyoshi in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"

mustyoshi — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:30:21 +0000

It's hard to put into words, but you're eroding the social contract through your actions. People with conditions get accused of faking it all the time, and it sounds like you're actually faking it.

New comment by mustyoshi in "Parking lots as economic drains"

mustyoshi — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:13:52 +0000

Cars are the most time efficient though, assuming you can find parking relatively quick.

New comment by mustyoshi in "TrumpRx delayed as senators question if it's a giant scam with Big Pharma"

mustyoshi — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:59:19 +0000

The framing of 100% of people getting a prescription as being bad seems weird to me. We live in the age of AI we don't need a doctor to tell us the side effects of medication anymore, people should be free to buy for themselves whatever they want to take.

Obviously involving insurance and (other people's money) makes a difference, but for direct to consumer, I don't think doctors should be gatekeepers any more.

New comment by mustyoshi in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

mustyoshi — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:26:21 +0000

Hyundai is partnering with Boston Dynamics to deploy 30k robots a year.

Amazon is looking to replace 600k employees over the next decade.

Why do you believe demand for humanoids isn't high?

New comment by mustyoshi in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

mustyoshi — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:24:48 +0000

>Robotaxi has to be cheaper than a normal taxi to kill taxis. The margin of that company can't be that much more than a company like uber.

This just isn't true. If you're a woman, choosing a slightly more expensive robotaxi over a ride share where you might meet your end is a valid choice.

New comment by mustyoshi in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

mustyoshi — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:20:45 +0000

There are provisions in federal law which allow non citizens to receive federal Medicaid dollars in some circumstances.

New comment by mustyoshi in "Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body"

mustyoshi — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:38:40 +0000

Not the guy you're responding to but I'm not going to willingly pay money for pork rind ads to be shown to Muslims. In fact I'd go so far as to suggest that should be illegal as a hate crime.

New comment by mustyoshi in "How We Found 7 TiB of Memory Just Sitting Around"

mustyoshi — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 12:03:39 +0000

I politely disagree. I spent maybe 8 hours over a week rightsizing a handful of heavy deployments from a previous team and reduced their peak resource usage by implementing better scaling policies. Before the new scaling policy the service would scale out and new pods would remain idle and ultimately get terminated without ever responding to a request quite frequently.

The service dashboards already existed, all I had to do was a bit of load testing and read the graphs.

It's not too much extra work to make sure you're scaling efficiently.

New comment by mustyoshi in "YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers"

mustyoshi — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:53:33 +0000

Ads are how they get paid until they're big enough for alternative revenue generation.

New comment by mustyoshi in "How often do health insurers say no to patients? (2023)"

mustyoshi — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 22:59:03 +0000

What if the medicine costs 100$ to produce, should uninsured have to pay that rather than a subsidized 20$?

New comment by mustyoshi in "I spent over $31k on Whiteout Survival"

mustyoshi — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000

It's not a bad game, I played for about a year in a relatively well run clan. Never spent any money on it though.