Hacker News: creato

New comment by creato in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

creato — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:07:10 +0000

Remind me who leaves 8 bath tub faucets running 24/7/365?

New comment by creato in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

creato — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:24:37 +0000

It's not that simple. A pure EV needs ~10x as much battery as a PHEV. So for the same amount of batteries produced, you could make 10x as many vehicles PHEVs as EVs. Not all vehicles can be EVs due to practical issues.

Which results in more total electric miles driven replacing gas? I don't know, but "gas is destroying the world" is a brain short circuit.

New comment by creato in "MiMo v2.6"

creato — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:58:11 +0000

It's a matter of scale: https://www.wsj.com/world/china/the-u-s-has-been-spending-bi...

If you trust Google's AI summary, China spends 4-5% of GDP on industrial subsidies, vs US at 0.4%. 10-12x as much.

New comment by creato in "MiMo v2.6"

creato — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:47:14 +0000

It looks like the curve is flattering, and the current state actually looks slightly cherry picked (it matches a previous spike that looks a bit of an outlier before the result went down). The longer they train, the more they risk getting scooped by another release by someone else. Etc etc it's a judgement call based on all of these factors (and more, including cost/occupying a big cluster as you mention)

New comment by creato in "The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence"

creato — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 03:00:51 +0000

Was there really a choice? What they do or advised others to do would have had no bearing on what is happening.

New comment by creato in "NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami"

creato — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:22:21 +0000

> I'm sure many of us would have made the same mistake.

From the reporting and commenting on this incident, that is not the impression I'm getting. This wasn't one bad call after getting half way down the runway, this was a continuous stream of bad decision making for the entire approach, with the copilot suggesting the pilot go around too.

Also: this kind of incident is very rare, so obviously, the vast majority of pilots don't make this mistake.

New comment by creato in "Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread"

creato — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 02:46:06 +0000

That the issue of slavery has weak explanatory power for what is happening today.

New comment by creato in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

creato — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:41:58 +0000

Just go back to 4.8. Opus 5 was a regression in every way I've noticed every time I have tried to use it.

New comment by creato in "OpenAI and Anthropic are ruining San Francisco"

creato — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:10:50 +0000

There is not one mention of data centers in the article, and I highly doubt anyone is trying to put any significant computing capacity in SF.

New comment by creato in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

creato — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:44:06 +0000

Roomba was not competitive in the market, no amount of Amazon market manipulation would have changed that. Best case scenario, Amazon would have invested in making it competitive. Worst case, their engineers would have been absorbed into Amazon's warehouse robotics projects.

Is either of those worse than what actually happened: the company is now a zombie brand for a Chinese company?

New comment by creato in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

creato — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:19:46 +0000

Some of Evergrande's financial practices were somewhat ponzi-scheme-ish (new sales funded construction of previous buyers), and the US has imprisoned a few such schemers too.

New comment by creato in "Incident with Github.com"

creato — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:57:52 +0000

None of this is specific to GitHub. The exact same problems will sometimes happen any time users and developers communicate, which is a basic requirement of developing useful software. I doubt GitHub issues are worse than mailing lists or any other mechanism.

New comment by creato in "Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding"

creato — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 04:08:52 +0000

Based on my personal experience and general observation, it seems like companies are both slow to hire, and slow to fire. So, paradoxically, both actions seem like they should signal "this company is going to be better in the future", because companies only either hire or fire when it is really obvious they should.

New comment by creato in "Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding"

creato — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:59:45 +0000

You're conflating two things (probably intentionally, but I'll go with it). If you are firing someone without replacing (a layoff), then presumably, that person cost more than the value they provided, and so laying them off should improve the value of the business (after incurring the costs the parent post mentioned).

If you are firing someone to replace them with someone else, you are incurring a lot of cost (hiring is time consuming, difficult, risky, and requires a ramp-up time before the new hire is productive), and hoping that the long term benefits outweigh that cost.

New comment by creato in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"

creato — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:37:46 +0000

If that's really all it takes, then it is not much of a moat.

New comment by creato in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

creato — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:00:12 +0000

I don't know what timeframe we are talking about here, but 1 million gallons is how much 33 people in the US use in a year. It's really not that much water.

New comment by creato in "Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (2025)"

creato — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:09:49 +0000

They shouldn't be. But the point is, they are. OpenAI and Anthropic are paying many rights holders for access to their data (reddit, NYT, etc.).

So distillation, among other things, allows Chinese labs to indirectly benefit from these arrangements at no cost to them.

New comment by creato in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

creato — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:03:05 +0000

> Between 2005 and 2024, Chinese firms received on average three to eight times more subsidies than competitors in OECD economies.

https://www.oecd.org/en/blogs/2026/06/industrial-subsidies-h...

New comment by creato in "What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis"

creato — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:38:19 +0000

Disclosing private repos against the owner's intent is a much more immediate and significant business risk than violating the license of open source code.

Maybe that shouldn't be the case, but it is.

New comment by creato in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

creato — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:07:25 +0000

Israel can fly aircraft over their adversaries at will. Russia can't.