Hacker News: dubcanada

New comment by dubcanada in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

dubcanada — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:49:22 +0000

Your logic is incorrect, you are thinking that a "international" folk buying a TV is what they mean. But that's not correct. Paying income taxes, paying tax on cars, paying tax on gas, paying rent, these matter a lot more to the government then you buying an iphone from the apple store in the mall versus one in "international country".

New comment by dubcanada in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

dubcanada — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:33:59 +0000

Wine in North America is largely a gate kept rich person thing. It is usually not mass production wine, but what little amount of grapes grow go into weird wine makes that they then mark up as if it is nectar from god.

But that said, there is dirt cheap California wine brands, like barefoot.

New comment by dubcanada in "Prompting Claude Opus 5.5"

dubcanada — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:15:52 +0000

It is not as self thinking, you need to be more detailed and accurate with the prompts.

New comment by dubcanada in "ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room"

dubcanada — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:12:06 +0000

Where does it say that is guaranteed? Nobody can guarantee that.

New comment by dubcanada in "I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture"

dubcanada — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:56:07 +0000

I think it's just we don't have a way to say/write these numbers. So you make up a way to write them (-1 and 1) and continue.

The numbers don't matter and you could replace -1 and 1 with anything. It's just easier to begin your new fake number at - 1 and 1. Because position does matter.

New comment by dubcanada in "Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026"

dubcanada — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:07:01 +0000

It does look like the general consensus is agent orange is not a chemical weapon, or at least was not used as one.

New comment by dubcanada in "Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026"

dubcanada — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:45:46 +0000

2 - is a little pedantic, they used agent orange to kill foliage to kill people...

They didn't gas people with chlorine or mustard, but they mass destroyed crops and foliage, to kill people.

And "affected US troops as much as Vietnamese" is just completely incorrect, US covered a nation in herbicide, went home, got cancer. Is completely different then having your soil destroyed for decades.

New comment by dubcanada in "Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers"

dubcanada — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:32:42 +0000

Then convert from HTML to markdown before you convert to tokens? It's not rocket science, if markdown is "better" stripping all possible HTML tags and leaving just text, images also works. That is more then likely what any automated "serve markdown on the fly" would end up doing.

New comment by dubcanada in "Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter"

dubcanada — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:04:56 +0000

42C and 100% would be a humidex of 81~ that would be every animal at that location instantly dying.

New comment by dubcanada in "Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts"

dubcanada — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:37:05 +0000

Let's be real here, Apple does not have to compete with AI for fab capacity, they can outbid anyone if they want. They have more money and longer contracts then anyone else. Apple customers will just end up paying for said DRAM price inflation.

The ones who will actually suffer is Apple 2.0 (presumably a different competing company), start ups, research, companies that are not worth trillions.

New comment by dubcanada in "Precursor"

dubcanada — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:55:12 +0000

I get flagged way more often on Starlink then I did on my local ISP fiber.

New comment by dubcanada in "Precursor"

dubcanada — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:54:40 +0000

Acting like a human is something scapers already do. Using residential proxies, using latest Chrome user agents, not moving/typing as fast, etc. This is just 1 more layer, moving mouse naturally.

New comment by dubcanada in "Precursor"

dubcanada — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:45:00 +0000

There is nothing stopping a bot from moving their cursor like a human. This is basically just putting up a door with zero walls and telling people to stay out of your house.

All of these things are completely abusable/bypass-able and just annoying for actual humans who trigger flags.

New comment by dubcanada in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

dubcanada — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:29:40 +0000

Google Chrome tells me it's like 14 different things. How is that any different then DeepSeek saying it is Claude?

New comment by dubcanada in "1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse"

dubcanada — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:37:44 +0000

Because nothing bad happened to you, therefore nothing bad happens?

New comment by dubcanada in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

dubcanada — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:50:49 +0000

Don't know why people keep parroting this, this is incorrect. Chinese electricity prices are equal or slightly cheaper then most of North America. But significant pockets such as those around the Quebec or other hydro plants are significantly cheaper then Chinese power pricing.

Not only that, China may subsidize AI, but so does the US.

New comment by dubcanada in "Roku LT Operating System open source distribution"

dubcanada — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:44:45 +0000

On hackers news a technology focused platform where custom weird languages thrive. You're complaining about a company who the original developer made their own language.

Isn't this exactly how all of the other languages where created?

New comment by dubcanada in "Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%"

dubcanada — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:36:44 +0000

Industrial Chinese electricity costs is similar to that of Texas, It's 8-9cents a kWh. The only benefit is industrial China decides to put millions of solar panels down, so "peak" sunlight hours can drop electricity costs significantly since their rates are highly dynamic.

New comment by dubcanada in "Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%"

dubcanada — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:25:46 +0000

China has a population of 1.4B, US is 349M. 0-8 Beijing time is their off-peak? How is that funny, that's literally how timezones work?

New comment by dubcanada in "Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%"

dubcanada — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:23:45 +0000

This statement makes no sense, because you literally said the "US is getting bad". We already gave up all of our data, if you wrote something about the CCP you should already expect they know about it.