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throwawaycan··on Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
One of the most hateful human being control this social network. There’s tons of decent people in a nazi bar isn’t the test of what makes it a great place to be.
throwawaycan··on Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
It’s a social network. Less people on it = less ads dollar. You not building the network is making it less valuable and important. It’s something.
throwawaycan··on Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
And Panama!
throwawaycan··on 15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test
Did you ever see a tick?
throwawaycan··on Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million
When people have no hope of not making it as a permanent resident or citizen, their incentives to perform well are not as high. Also immigration is a global market, you compete with other countries that might offer better conditions so you lose on the best workforce.
throwawaycan··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
Exactly that. Novice don’t notice the BS. But they see the output and it looks magical. The UI is working! Hardly any time to code that in

Then they send that PR for a review by a more senior person. And that senior person doesn’t even know where to start on how to explain why it’s all wrong and likely to collapse in prod.

Tons of good use of AI. But tons of bad use of it. And when it’s bad and people don’t notice it, that gets dangerous. So because of that, now we spend a lot more time in doing reviews. Essentially creating a new bottle neck

throwawaycan··on Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
Bus Tesla isn’t in anything looking like a growth phase
throwawaycan··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
No. All index dropped on Friday.
throwawaycan··on U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse
Ah! Both siding science.
throwawaycan··on Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute
Interesting you say that. Every user I speak to says antigravity cli is missing lots of features and Gemini cli was working quite well. Same for me.
throwawaycan··on The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give...
throwawaycan··on I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)
On the mesh in Toronto with meshcore we have regular communication that reach all the way to Buffalo. We are past the « toy » stage, it’s truly impressive.
throwawaycan··on Preliminary report into Air India crash released
It’s always easy in those threads to see who’s familiar with the world of aviation and who’s not.

No it’s not comparable to a cop that confuses things in the heat of the moment. Not anywhere close to be relatable.

If it was, planes would be crashing down the sky quite often (and it would have been fixed for decades already).

throwawaycan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014)
Toronto (Canada) - GroupBy Inc - http://groupbyinc.com We are building a ecommerce platform built on top of the Google Search Appliance to deliver the best search experience possible on retail websites.

We are a one-year old startup, self-funded, have 15 employees across Toronto and NYC and already have many clients. We are an amazing group of very smart and talented developers and are looking for a Software Developer and a Senior Customer Support Engineer in Toronto to help us grow even more.

Software developer job description: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/592280/GroupBy%20Job%20D...

Support Engineer Job description: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/592280/GroupBy%20Job%20D...

Apply here: http://www.groupbyinc.com/careers.html

throwawaycan··on How Not to DDoS Your Former Employer
It has nothing to do with being illegal. That's just not the name of the city. Why would someone call San Francisco St-Francis on any sign, since nobody would know what it refers to?
throwawaycan··on In Lieu of Money, Toyota Donates Efficiency to New York Charity
Well you have to understand the structure of those organizations. They might not know anything about IT and have someone they don't know offering to "fix it", they might think you are there to remove virus from their PCs. Lots of org wouldn't know the benefits of getting a proper IT management system before they see it. Sometimes you have to get started volunteering at that organization, see what they really need, and then propose to develop some IT projects that would help them fix real world problems that they have. Before they see what problem you could solve, you are just a volunteer that doesn't fit with their core activities and they wouldn't know what to do with you. Anyway, there are so many NGO out there that even if you get refused somewhere, find another one, there's no shortage.
throwawaycan··on Getting started with login verification
I can't see that option in my account
throwawaycan··on How I got robbed of 34 btc on Mt.Gox today
Look at str2, it says poutinecoutu Seems to be the username of someone in Quebec (Canada), coutu being a very common last name and poutine being the national dish. This nickname has been used quite a lot on different hacking forums: https://www.google.com/search?q=poutinecoutu&aq=f&oq...