skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
euh thanks for proving my point lol have you read the report ?

"À Montréal, en 2021, ceux-ci ont augmenté de 17,3 % par rapport à la moyenne
de 2016 à 2020. Les homicides et les tentatives de meurtre ont augmenté de façon importante et la problématique
de la violence armée contribue très certainement à ce portrait. En effet, la moitié des homicides et des tentatives
de meurtre commis sur le territoire du SPVM en 2021 impliquait la présence ou l’utilisation d’une arme à feu
(voir tableau Armes à feu). La problématique de la violence armée demeure au centre des préoccupations du SPVM. "
Depending on your weight, walking for 1 hour burns about 300 calories, which is 1 pound ever 12 days. So that is definitely a big factor (on hour walking is about 7200 steps).
> I have a strong conviction that the reason Montreal housing is cheaper is in no small part because of the language barrier.

You can totally get by in Montreal speaking English only.

Here’s the CEO of Air Canada, Michael Rousseau, on how he’s managed to thrive in Montreal without knowing French working for a legislatively bilingual organization: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-canada-ceo-1.6393063

> Even if you could work remotely, why would you move somewhere you don't speak the primary language

Immigrating to Quebec from outside of Canada is difficult since they have a system to keep non-French speakers from moving there.
vim, or at least vi, is something you can pretty much expect to be existing on any system you ssh into. If you are comfortable with vim, you have the editor part sorted no matter what system you are dropped into to debug/whatever.
Only if your base assumption is that everyone has to build solar, or would otherwise do it out of the goodness of their heart.

If your base assumption is that nobody is going to lift a finger for the common good, than the purpose of SRECs is so that a polluting Bitcoin miner pays you to put solar panels on your home, so that you get some good out of it and we don't all have an incentive to be polluting Bitcoin miners.

People who believe that everyone will naturally do the right thing out of the goodness of their hearts are often nicer to be around, but tend to get screwed by their inaccurate view of reality.
Just responding to a comment that said "If deorbiting in years is sufficient, the difference in time is not relevant" where it's obviously relevant.. this doesn't seem remotely controversial.
A vital consideration not mentiond: cross border carbon adjustments.

As China, the EU and the US switch to cheap renewables, and developing countries expand with the cheapest available energy sources, cross border carbon tariffs will be introduced not as protections for local clean industry (which will be competing with global cheap renewables anyway), but as punishment for free-riders.

This has a triple impact on Russia:

1. Lowered fossil fuel demand globally
2. A specific price increase on Russian sourced fossil fuels (e.g. Norway will have well-managed wells powered by offshore wind)
3. All the non-fossil exports, even if they use "cheap" local fossil fuels, will be penalized and have that priced in anyway, making them uncompetitive.
Microsoft will discontinue Swiftkey on iOS from October 5
I agree there could be more details about the specific system used.

At the same time, I'd take this as more valuable & informative than not, to be a reasonable indicator of what most users might expect. There are quite a large number of different tests features here that give quite good representation.

A lot of your questions don't seem concerning to me. Perf is just one test, and we have plenty of other great real world tests here. Kernel parameters are set at boot, and those arguments are shown. RAM isn't allocated to CPUs: there is a single I/O Die which all ram is connected to & cores access it uniformly over Infinity Fabric. There's no tuning to IRQs implied but if you have similar hardware it should reproduce without fiddling, and more so, the IRQs should be working similarly in both cases; the default config is more than good enough to compare two cases with. I would not expect ECC to make a vast difference, and it's notable that some level of ECC already is built in to all DDR5 anyhow ("ECC" is now a matter of whether the ECC extends to the CPU or is on-chip only). None of these points seem strong enough that I'd consider discarding or ignoring these findings.

This article has a pretty good starting place that paints a pretty good general picture. It's a service & contribution & informs nicely. For users who have more specific concerns, they should follow up, and ideally, do as good a favor as Mr Larabel did & blog their findings.
By vim user count alone, I would conjecture that the venn circle of
philosophically opposed devs has more people insisting on the absence of
a GUI story, than those insisting on one.

Of course the vast majority of devs use whatever suits them, GUI or not.

And you couldn't have picked an editor with a worse GUI story.
My issue with the StrongTowns set is they only want homes built for the use-case thirty-one year-old single office workers. They can't imagine anything else and they are quick to denigrate people who want a yard and a driveway as knuckle-dragging apes being duped by oil companies and SUV manufacturers.

Closely related are the people who ask over and over again why everyone in the US can't ride bikes like they do in Belgium. I'll tell you why - my backyard is bigger than Belgium. But don't worry, once the typical HN reader hits 65 you will see a sharp decline in the suggestions that everyone ride bikes everywhere.

Some of us want: a yard. A garage. Space between us and a neighbor. Enough room for a family of four.

I absolutely don't see the StrongTowns model as an unassailable good - I have no desire to share a wall with my neighbors.
Ah telemetry - you mean software that sends back information about what I'm doing to some 3rd party? Unlike spyware which is software that sends back information about what I'm doing to some third party.

Totally different, got it.
Show HN: Released my first macOS/iOS app 100% SwiftUI
Ok, but France exists.
Making my own computer/phone apps has been a bucket list of mine and it's just really cool to use something I've made myself.

I know there's a lot of competition in this area so it was more for the learning, but it's also much simpler than many apps I've seen and syncs with iCloud (iPhone, iPad, MacOS) which is what I wanted! I'm going to write about the experience soon and hopefully can release my next app which is going to be a workout tracking app as well in the near future.

I've already written a little about my experience trying to make an app from scratch with only SwiftUI and no iOS/UIKit background. Subscribe if you're interested: https://technicallychallenged.substack.com

[edit #1] - I'm waiting for the iOS version to show up on the store and will share link when it does.
I'm not sure how you'd know that; since vim, emacs, and other more traditional options don't include telemetry we don't know how many people use what editors. In any event, Windows remains the most-used (desktop) OS, so I've long since acclimated to people living with the suckage.
i have a couple of no-name air quality sensors and they react to the environment fine, but they read high (like 500) CO2 outdoors. I got them in case CO2 was the reason for my spouse's insomnia. I've tested them by putting them in a large bowl with dry ice, and it certainly reacts to that. Also cooking makes the AQI number change dramatically. right now the powered one says my AQI is 2, CO2 is 515, CO is 9, HCHO is 18, and TVOC is 0.2. Neither of mine mention temp or humidity, and i've never taken them apart.

I certainly won't rely on them to tell me if i actually have TVOC or HCHO issues. And i wish they had SD card slots that stored the values, like my 8 remote temp/humidity sensors and their base station.
If they traveled through another country (Mexico) which could grant asylum, but chose not to stay there.
And Opera 1995-2005 (ads alternative to money since 2000).
Nice. I'm unemployed right now (by choice) with minimal savings, but if I was still working I'd definitely be buying right now via DCA or value cost averaging. I bought a lot when pandemic started, mostly S&P 500 and Norwegian Cruise Lines and profited a lot. Sold them after a year to avoid the short-term tax hit.
In Thailand, the new Bangkok governor do Facebook live almost every day on his work. 100,000+ views on almost every video from a city of 8m.

It is truly refreshing to have this kind of transparency.

I have faith in FB. It is a good communication/community tool. They have to tone down the VR thing a bit. It is not the time for VR yet.
I know that everything you say here is true.

The niche tech circle you speak of /is/ the audience here on HN. If we can’t be bothered to stop using Chrome then all is lost.
Microsoft edge non chromium was fine, but no one used it. So they went chromium based.
I'm pretty sure half of the folk in tech at some point did illegal tech things in their teens. Rebelling and breaking the law in your teens is kind of normal and should be expected in my opinion.
Yes, at least if you want global coverage and/or great uptime.
Yes but transparent
>City planning hipster-ism is great clickbait on the internet. Younger people without much experience or brains click on it and get all enthusiastic about the idea of some mythical perfect city.

Single Family Homerism is very popular among boomers who have never been to Europe or Asia.
That's a definition of the word "fix" with which I am unfamiliar.

He still doesn't have access to his accounts.

If a sympathetic police department had not offered to navigate the (likely complex) process of restoring their copy of his data to him, he would have little hope of recovering the data, either. (My hat's off to whomever made that decision, because my guess is other considerations would almost always prevail.)

If federal investigators had not been quite so favorable in recognizing the nature of the situation, that component alone could have easily ruined him.

I'm also unaware of what his legal and other professional fees have been in all this, but I would imagine Google has done nothing to reimburse him for his expenses, much less compensate him for the time wasted and incredible stress that had to place on him and his family.

Beyond all that, getting SEO bombed as being potentially involved in the production and distribution CSAM is not a positive outcome for anyone who values their privacy or wants to ever have a normal interaction with a new employer or any other entity that may search his name. Beyond that, those who regularly fill out official forms relating to background and behavior will forever have to answer some questions differently and jump through the additional hoops an experience like that would trigger.

His outcome has been one of the least-terrible possibilities, but I hope he sues Google in a very public and embarrassing way, because whatever damages are awarded will be a rounding error to them.

Finally, the process itself is by no indications anything but still completely broken.

Your suggested "fix" is anything but.
While you're definitely not wrong, there are probably better vehicles for home energy users to meaningfully affect emissions. I make ~7 SRECs (7MWh) per year, and assuming I'm average, it'd take close to 100 homes not selling their SRECs for one year to offset an average coal plant for just one hour (http://www.energyjustice.net/coal/igcc/factsheet-long.pdf says the average coal plant puts out 667MW).

My state doesn't have time-of-use based pricing, but I do see this as one particularly effective way of shifting load (not installed capacity!) towards more emissions-friendly sources. The sun shines on home solar panels while we're not home; then absent any other incentives, we come home in the dark and do all sorts of energy-intense activities, like heating rooms and cooking dinner.
It would be understandable if it were for scams or using ads for illicit goods, but I can't imagine it being a tenable business practice for a corporation to keep a negative permanent record over a minor transgression where no-one is hurt. Are they being pushed by some regulations? Were those rules "written in blood" somehow?

Not to mention all the sketchy or pointless webpages and apps which are there exclusively for the ad revenue and are really abusing the platform.
That's a really great point- thanks for the feedback. I updated it to fade to pink as you're holding your breath. Looking into the Firefox issue as well.
If you have never worked at a large tech company like Microsoft, you'll probably have a bad feeling because there's a lot you don't know about the business process of shipping features like this. It's reasonable to be cynical and confused if you have never seen it from the other side.

For the most part, product features like this are shipped for boring and completely non-nefarious reasons. It's just hard to believe that if you've never worked on one.
What you are saying basically amounts to "My political opponents are Nazis and so is anyone who associates with them, so they should all be silenced."

And yet you're not taking the extreme position there. Interesting how that works.
I’m not offended in the least, I’m just tired of reading melodramatic takes from people who haven’t experienced any hardship. It’s a common theme here and I want it to be better. Let’s attribute the correct level of concern to things instead of calling keeping track of people who defrauded you “dystopian”. There’s literally a war happening and an actual real government cutting off communications to its people so that they can’t protest, let’s focus on that very real dystopia.
You may not have met them, and Austria may not be very attractive for this type of immigration, but there are significant populations of them. Remember that BioNTech (who created the European Corona vaccine) was in fact founded and is operated by Turkish immigrants to Germany.

> Non-EU skilled people I met all want to move to low tax high salary places like Switzerland, UK, Netherlands.

The Netherlands at least is still part of the EU. You'll also find plenty of high-skilled migrants in Ireland as well, and France and Germany also attract quite a few.

Note that language concerns and attitudes towards foreigners, especially foreign workers, are a huge part of how many people come to work in a particular country. Ireland and the UK have a huge advantage here purely by virtue of speaking English, as does France for the populations in North Africa. The Netherlands are very open to using English in business, even though their own language is quite obscure. German is less internationally spoke than English or French, but it is not that obscure either.
Right. It's fascinating how this is the one area where so-called environmentalists suddenly become very concerned about fiscal responsibility.
I doubt Americans would be happy paying what France pays for electricity (both directly and government aid).
They use Postgres foreign data wrappers and caching with live queries against the Api. We were doing periodic scanning and then storing it in elastic. Then trying to convert the SQL to elastic queries.

The elastic part let us do free text queries but converting from SQL was challenging (this was before elastic had it built in). And also everything was only as fresh as our last scan.
it's our only neighbour but we'll always look good if we compare ourself with the worst
I started buying on eBay before I was 18. I think my birthday is still wrong on that site, even though I'm almost 40.
I wonder if it is also the case that some feedback mechanism in our digestive tract exists in order to try and preserve those bacterial populations. Perhaps it works in tandem with the signalling you mentioned. The idea seems plausible, but this is just speculation on my part.
It's the same way in urban grocery stores in the US. Produce is at the front, next to the entrance. Junk food is furthest from the entrance, in the back row of aisles.

I assume the grocer logic is something like "make them walk past and consider all the other stuff before they get to what they really want (junk food)"
Isn't this something different though? You're downloading video and uploading game inputs, not passing game data around.
"Missing middle" construction seems inefficient for heating and Montreal gets cold. It probably helped for cooling in the summer before A/C existed, but compared with here in the midwest (not even anywhere south) Us, Montreal doesn't really get that hot. "Missing middle" is a style I'd expect more in Mediterranean climates, like southern California.

It's also not as good is insulating for things like sound. Maybe that's a cultural difference. What part of France were a lot of the immigrants to Montreal originally from?
Netflix was using client-side discovery only. They did run into the issue of supporting multiple languages and invented their own sidecar, but it was a huge productivity boost for them as the decision and customization on service discovery and traffic routing was distributed to individual teams.
I have a Solis inverter [0], while it has WiFi built in, and we have the data logging dongle, it doesn't need to be connected to the internet to function, and you can configure the dongle to talk to MQTT locally (but I haven't done this).

It doesn't need to be connected to the internet during configuration either, we set it up and got it going before connecting the data logger to it.

That said, I do use their portal to see my generation and consumption. It's pretty handy. But I also do scrape their data and store it locally as well.

[0] https://www.ginlong.com/rhi_3pinverter1/29118.html

* I'm not affiliated with them in any way, it's just the one we have
I wish I could respond to your concerns here. However almost every concern you have boils down to "I don't think bitcoin has value or use". As much as you are entitled to this opinion. The market says other wise. 19k USD per bitcoin to be precise.

What I do find ironic is how we are discussing the death of Bitcoin yet again (RIP bitcoin). On a startup accelerator with at best a success rate of 10%. But please tell me how Bitcoin is dead and useless after 13 years. Also consider that bitcoin was essentially created with no startup investment and now has a valuation of 400b dollars. If Bitcoin was y combinator incubated for all intensive purposes it would be considered a success. Maybe Bitcoin can teach us a lesson here.

Now its important to understand. I'm not here to change your mind or suggest you use Bitcoin. At this point I'd actually suggest the opposite. If you want to stop bitcoin though I suggest you'd be wasting your time (energy) but by all means you can try.

Best of luck to you.
People around the NYC area openly drive around with fake badges mounted on their windshield to indicate they know a cop and should get preferable treatment. And cop unions openly advertise handing out cop union support stickers in exchange for donation.

Very in your face corruption.
This was not only a very informative read but felt like an amazing achievement if everything described here was developed by one person (the author - @muggermuch).

The breadth of knowledge demonstrated by author from technology (bringing performance down to 14 minutes) to ML to deep understanding of financial markets is super-impressive.

Granted the author has an educational background in computer science and has been a trader which probably explains many of his abilities but to my small brain it feels next-level achievement.

Maybe I live in average circle of finance but I have never met nor heard of a person who could single-handedly conjuncture and implement such a system. To my knowledge, a typical hedge fund has several highly-paid people in different teams to build and maintain such a system.

I never thought one-person could do it. I genuinely wonder how he managed to wrap his head across this much knowledge. He seem to fall in 10x category. Kudos!
> "attack on detached family home"

Single family homes in high-demand/land-constrained cities often make up >66% of the allowed zoning (see San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, etc); By definition this is not a good allotment of land and resources in high demand areas (you are fitting 1 family where you could fit 2-4 families with little immediate change in the neighborhood).

No one is saying ban building of single family homes, but the amount of land exclusively zoned for single family homes in high demand areas needs to be rebalanced -- if you want the conveniences of a single family home in an urban city, you should be prepared to pay for it (think Upper East Side brownstones), or move further outside the city. But there is no reason that the vast majority of homes in a city MUST be single family homes.

I say this as someone who owns a single family home in Los Angeles, and supported the conversion directly next door to me of a single family home into what is now a four-plex.
In this case it's policy reflecting Little's Law:

population = arrival rate X duration of visit

If suddenly someone wants to launch twice as many satellites, you either have to reduce tenancy or accept a higher population in the system. If you have a policy that's at most 25 years and a lot of satellites de-orbit in say 15 years on average, you can still triple your launches by pulling that down to 5.

I am worried though, do we really build satellites that are expected to only work for 5 years? Are we disincentivizing people from building 20 year satellites this way?
AirMyne (YC W22) is hiring a chemical engineer in Berkeley, CA
It would be pretty neat to have some kind of refresh interval, where both devices list their current capabilities and have it renegotiate to some optimal level.

As for the refusing to charge, my ThinkPad on Windows will alert me when the dock or power source isn't putting out enough power for it to maintain the current power usage trend.
Also 20% of the US's electric grid for the last 30 years.
First, the data is helpful in aggregate to learn about homeowner power usage and sell and stuff. Second, these companies are often selling some sort of contract or carbon token, or some sort of virtual aggregation of power to a utility. For example, Tesla is famously paying huge amounts to sell their customer's power to SCE right now in a pilot program. I can tell you from experience, the prices they're paying their customers per kilowatt-hour are way higher than the market rate for that sort of thing, so it's not going to last. Eventually, these Tesla customers will be stuck in some contract, probably, selling Tesla their power for pennies on the dollar.

None of the VPP software running in the cloud cannot be run locally. What we should have is a small computer optimizing homeowner's devices (solar, batteries) on-site, but instead all that crap is in the cloud. It's "Generation as a Service" at this point, and it's bullshit.

What we need is an open-source building energy management supervision software with a diverse driver and plugin ecosystem. I want to write it, but I have a family to feed.