Hacker News: don_esteban

New comment by don_esteban in "Our position on open-weights models"

don_esteban — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:28:07 +0000

Imho this is still wishful thinking ... care to provide examples?

New comment by don_esteban in "Our position on open-weights models"

don_esteban — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:02:44 +0000

Now compare that to what the USA did in the same time frame. Pay special attention to people killed (either directly, or indirectly) outside of their own borders. Who should you be worried about?

New comment by don_esteban in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

don_esteban — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:21:12 +0000

Judging by the actions (all the wars, multiple genocides all across the world), the most psychotic religion is Christianity.

New comment by don_esteban in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

don_esteban — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:14:06 +0000

Maybe the best you can do is just don't meddle in other's internal affairs.

Just think how would you feel if other countries interfered 'with all good intentions, of course' in the internal affairs of your country.

New comment by don_esteban in "US battery manufacturing output continues to break records"

don_esteban — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:56:51 +0000

Or China?

New comment by don_esteban in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

don_esteban — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:32:32 +0000

Spamming solar in Sahara + DC cables to Europe still feels more realistic than fission. Not destabilising Libya would have helped ... whole another can of worms.

Geoengineering (depending on how it is done) is prime hubris. Are we sure we won't screw things even worse?

New comment by don_esteban in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

don_esteban — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:19:29 +0000

Because there is so much less to cut down? And what is remaining is harder to reach/extract from?

New comment by don_esteban in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

don_esteban — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:14:58 +0000

How much of that reduction has been achieved by outsourcing the production to China/other places?

Are there good links to articles/papers where proper accounting has been done?

New comment by don_esteban in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

don_esteban — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:09:32 +0000

Technically, not illegal.

Practically, the sanctions/restrictions will be imposed, due to fear of losing access to US market/US infrastructure.

New comment by don_esteban in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

don_esteban — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:34:44 +0000

Jews and arabs lived there peacefully together for hundreds if not thousands of years ... until the British arrived and started their games...

New comment by don_esteban in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

don_esteban — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:19:52 +0000

> Keeping the politics of AI-driven unemployment aside, The is doing some very heavy lifting.

> US exports as a whole is only 10% of the GDP and has a deep trade deficit ... maybe there is a connection?

New comment by don_esteban in "The American Missile Crisis"

don_esteban — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:18:17 +0000

Hm, is this still true in the age of nukes?

Would Russia/China/US not use their nukes if in risk of being overrun by conventional forces of another superpower?

New comment by don_esteban in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

don_esteban — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:22:23 +0000

In China, they hang those that are responsible. In US, they get slap on their hand.

New comment by don_esteban in "A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore's Law"

don_esteban — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:06:23 +0000

Thanks, this is what I wanted to say, but perhaps I was a bit too terse.

Perhaps a good coolant with a good flow speed can gain you a decent constant factor versus a classical heat sink, but once the third dimension of your chip gets bigger, you will hit a barrier. Just do the math.

New comment by don_esteban in "What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology"

don_esteban — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:02:27 +0000

Great post! Thank you.

Is it conceivable that instead of water, some other solvent can be used? Those ethane/methane lakes on Titan ...

New comment by don_esteban in "A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore's Law"

don_esteban — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:00:26 +0000

This does not scale, due to square/cube law (the energy is generated in a volume, but has to leave via surface -> the energy evacuated per surface area has to grow)

New comment by don_esteban in "What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology"

don_esteban — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:56:28 +0000

There is no contradiction: simple amino acids as a basic building block being coopted by replicating RNA to build more sophisticated structures.

You can conceive other than nuclear-acids based replicant, using the same ubiquitous amino-acids to build a protein life not using RNA/DNA but some other encoding structure.

The question is what is the chemically most likely 'other'? Also, what could be alternatives for ATP/sugars?

New comment by don_esteban in "When AI Crosses the Line: The Matplotlib Incident"

don_esteban — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:29:43 +0000

> History books (well, not books) will write about this stuff.

History is written by the winners. I will leave to your imagination what an AI-winner will write about this.

New comment by don_esteban in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

don_esteban — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:02:57 +0000

EVs work in cold weather, just the range is reduced.

If it is a second car in the family, used for short range commuting ... or if your lifestyle does not involve frequent long-distance trips, EV is perfectly suitable even in Finland.

New comment by don_esteban in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

don_esteban — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:30:52 +0000

Norway is not damn cold. It sits next to a warm, Gulf-stream ocean. Rarely gets much (<-10 Celsius) below freezing.

Finland, that's another thing.