skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As with many western countries, there's a rising sentiment against immigration due to the lack of infrastructure provided to the existing citizenry. Housing in Canada is some of the least affordable in the world, our health care system is deeply underfunded, competition for spots at post secondary is rising as the institutions accept more international students as they're cash cows, and we're slowly seeing a rise in populism with the the Conservative Party electing Pierre Poilievre who is a Trump-lite figure who rails on about being for the working class while simultaneously voting against dental coverage for poor children [1].

It genuinely feels like the political class has abandoned its people and has sold out to special interest groups entirely. We import tons of TFW's (temporary foreign workers) to appease the corps to have cheap labour, and these TFW's are often treated terribly by the corps. As a first generation Canadian who is the child of refugees, I really do worry about the future of this country. I know tons of couples who are putting off having kids entirely because of the bleak economic picture in our major cities. We need immigration due to the low birthrate, but there's significant resentment from those who want kids and simply cannot afford them which is pushing down our numbers further.

[1] https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/ndp-calls-out-poilievre-and-...
What’s the paid app? I miss Google reader and all the blogs I used to subscribe to.
Canada has a housing crisis because no one is stupid enough to arrive to Canada and move to Thunder Bay (sorry TB, but you know its true). As a result all these people go live in one of three or four cities.

The situation is more akin to the rapid urbanization in the third world. Infrastructure cant keep up. Just try GTA traffic. People move to Barrie just to afford a house in the GTA (Barries not GTA!).

Sure Canada is "empty", but its also an inhospitable frozen waste land with 90% of the population living within 100 km of the US border. When we say Canada is "full" what we mean is that Canada cannot build fast enough. That the 3000 km^2 worth living in in Canada are really really dense.
Housing in Canada is expensive for North America. Relative to incomes it remains cheap.
When corporations and the wealthy complain about worker shortages it seems to me they really just don’t want to have to raise wages or improve working conditions to attract workers. Or in the case of jobs that require certain training or education they don’t want to have to provide that training or education.
Existing infrastructure is not designed for an aging population.

But it’s good that you point out the real problem which is a lack of infrastructure.
What options will you suggest for web developers instead? How can you develop a convenient user experience without js? Even the most simple things require it, and will likely use a third party framework.
That’s cool, build more of them then and pocket the cash. Free money and property taxes for your local economy.

Is “Chinese buyers” supposed to sound scary or something? Honestly this reeks of xenophobia.
Bitcoin sucks for any purpose, but Monero is also PoW.

Which may be why they don't single out Monero in order to not reveal its about taxation and control as much as it is about climatism.
Canada is pretty much screwed without immigration, because nobody's having babies and the top talent keeps leaving to the US. Without immigration, they'd have a largely older population and not enough people to pay taxes for their free healthcare (which I don't think is sustainable or great even with immigration).

Canada is also pretty selective about the skilled immigrants they let in, they don't do a random lottery or FIFO but have a points based system. You may argue about the parameters of how points are scored, but there's little doubt that it's better than a lottery.
Because there were no Timmy's or nursing homes before we all showed up?
Are immigrants mostly just leeching benefits and not contributing to building Canadian society? Based on what facts do you come to this conclusion?

Has immigration historically played a role in building the exquisite Canadian society you speak of?
Don't wanna break it for you - but calling even a remote function exactly is "using an API" (application programming interface).

I like the logo (or icon) they have, that masquerades it as some serious haskell (or some other functional PL) related project.

If it was this easy eveyone would be using RPC all over the place for many years already, and we'd have no HTTP and no train-load of other protocols.
I know your comment is stale at this point, but my hammerspoon config is quite extensive.

Here's the Spoon I created for window management:

https://github.com/nonissue/hammerspoon/blob/main/_Spoons/Fe...

Essentially, `cmd + alt + left / right` resizes the frontmost window to 50% the screen width, and moves it to the specified side of the screen.

`alt + space` maximizes the frontmost window. `cmd + alt + ctrl + P` sends the frontmost window to your next screen, and you can repeat it to move windows between multiple monitors. I also have an undo function that lets you revert any of the window management actions you've taken.

Let me know if you have any questions / concerns!
They could be using anycast, but the pings for Digitalocean seemed correct to me
Sub-Optimal: What was missing from Tesla’s new Optimus demo
Most of the things that go wrong, don't happen in the kernel. Kernel development is pretty awesome and although there is always room for improvement I can't see something revolutionizing the work done there.

You might say: Let's rewrite it in Rust to ensure memory safety - well, rust support is on the way and while I think it is a good thing, it will not fix everything.

In my opinion writing a completely new kernel would not benefit from the huge effort and experience that has gone into the current kernel - so it must be inferior in many ways for a long time.

If you ask for the things Linux needs the most "polish", in my opinion this would be mostly about the desktop and the community of hating each others work. Many projects are fighting each other instead of working together to fix things, but this also might be a good thing in terms of "competition". The things I would work at are:

UI
Security
Apps

And this also is all on the way. The current version of Fedora for example shows many improvements for the daily desktop user. Wayland / Gnome is getting ready to really be acceptable and flatpak does so for apps. Only security is a bit of a todo... but it will always be.

I remember the "Linux Touchpad like Mac" article that made me believe again, that people really care... and nowadays with libinput, gnome and libinput-config, the touchpad really works... it is still hack-ish, not anywhere like macOS, but pretty good, and I'm a nitpicker on this.
The announcement seems sudden but actually it's with about three months notice. It does seem a little short, but how much would it help to drag it out further? How much time do you want to spend on a project that's shutting down?
I am having a similar problem with my son. We live in a very progressive county and he is finally eligible to work, but there are effectively zero places he can get a job. The traditional teen jobs like paper route, fast food, etc., are all filled by middle-aged immigrants.
> Canada has an immigration rate 10x the rate of the US but any discussion of lowering this is considered racist

...or maybe don't compare Canada's rate to a country with one of the strictest immigration policies available, just because doing so fits your inclinations...?
It's rather unfortunate that you still have dig so deep to look up the auto-assigned IPs and then manually type them in Explorer.

It really ought to be as simple as file transfers from a PC to a phone - plug the cable, each side gets a prompt on whether it wants to provide access, and once you confirm, the other end shows it in the drive/device tree in Explorer.
You didn't ask me, but here's mine:

https://github.com/nonissue/hammerspoon

Quite extensive! My custom Spoons (Hammerspoon's version of plugins) can be found in the _Spoons directory. Let me know if you have any questions or need any help with your own config!
Not the parent commenter but here's mine:

https://github.com/nonissue/hammerspoon

Quite extensive! My custom Spoons (Hammerspoon's version of plugins) can be found in the _Spoons directory. Let me know if you have any questions or need any help with your own config!
Fair point, and great work pulling that off. I still remember when my own fitness was at a level I couldn't imagine doing a climb like Hotham - while I have done it more than 6 times now they certainly weren't all in one day!
The Ostrich Effect
How do you think immigration should be fixed?

Should the US absorb large amounts of people from Latin America and from Africa?
Can you even hire teenagers anymore? Is it still common for teenagers to work (outside of internships)? I can’t say I ever knew anyone who worked before university and in my school some teachers actively discouraged it.

(I went to high school in Canada in the early 2010s).

Although the hiring bias makes sense. Of course you choose relatives over strangers so that the money stays in the family.
Can you clarify what you mean by a narrow set of countries dominating immigrants? Is it disproportionate relative to the world population in general, disproportionate relative to all people migrating from one country to another?
#3, it seems [1], but less than a third the size of AWS and less than half of Azure.

[1] https://www.capacitymedia.com/article/2afswwuvis94wy12r320w/..., https://www.ciodive.com/news/aws-microsoft-google-cloud-mark...
What about 7 for T and also 3 for E?
As an Indian, the thought of India colonizing a country is chuckleworthy.
>Americans moved there (on invitation of the Mexican government), then when the government of Mexico didn’t act as expected the US supported a war of independence of Texas.

Americans were invited to live in what is what is now Texas by Spain long before there was a Mexican government, to act as a buffer against the Comanche who had decimated Spanish ranches, towns and outposts in raids from the north.
The west lost it's ability to build new cities. Canada could be more like china and use multiple billions to build/encourage growth outside their core city centers. It has the land. Arguably GDP would benefit from having more populous cities between Vancouver and Toronto.

Heck just give Canadians a 0% interest, 0 down mortgage for building a 500k home and residing in it for at least 10 years in say Regina.
I think it was this one: https://drive.google.com/settings/storage

I might be wrong.
Duh. What else would you expect when fertility rate is so low. It is either depopulate or bring in new people.
I am sure a number of people will make comments here pointing to Canada’s struggling healthcare system as a direct effect of these immigration numbers.

I just want to point out that the current and recently re-elected Ontario government (representing 14.5 million people) is currently running a $2b budget surplus [1] while simultaneously capping healthcare workers’ pay raises to just 1% a year [2] in a time of record inflation. That is to say: you get what you pay (and vote) for.

[1] https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1002311/ontario-releases-...

[2] https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/11/15/bill-124-ontario/
> If you’re waiting until a few hundred thousand views before moderating a video then you’re already too late.

Oh. I'm not suggesting that at all. I'm saying that bigger videos should get a better system, and smaller videos can use the current system.

It's minimally risky because it doesn't change anything for those videos. They get the current treatment.

I think "No change -> roughly zero downside." is a reasonable conclusion, at least for those videos.
They don’t even need to train mor doctors. Canada imports a lot of medical professionals as part of their immigration programs. However due the CMA regulations, they cannot practice in Canada even if their degree is from an accredited university.

Even doctors trained in developed countries like UK have no guarantee that they will be approved to work in Canada as noted on the BMA’s own website [1].

On top of that most medical professionals moving to Canada are not from highly developed but rather developing countries and they spend years just trying to get their license and give up in the end .

https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/career-progression...
There was a previous discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23998793
It must be hard to avoid that kind of table-flip rhetoric when by all accounts your own people are not having the easiest time in the meat grinder [0] (tw, intense combat footage) and in fact the niche opposition group which specifically repudiates your authority in particular comes off looking quite bit more effective, maybe even elite than you had hoped [1].

Things can't look very good for this person at home right now. It's probably scary.

0. https://twitter.com/justartsndstuff/status/15762291184460103...

1. https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/157630239286142976...
Are you talking about the free lifetime Google Apps for Your Domain? They did announce that they were canceling it, but they reversed course and you can still keep it by pressing this button: https://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120

I actually closed my account when they first announced the cancellation, which made things more difficult and I had to contact support to get it back (I was successful). But if you haven't done that, I believe all you need to do is press that button.
I'm researching YC's brand image plz help
Current grad student researching the topic of brand image. Narrowed my focus to looking at YC's brand image. Need some data. Plz hit up this Qualtrics survey. If you're a YC founder or early YC company employee, hit me up. Would love to ask you some questions about what you think about YC.
Total population means less than growth rate. The country may be sparsely populated but construction is the main bottleneck. It’s hard to spit out hundreds of high rises quickly enough.
There's nothing there. Canada has one road linking every city together (well, except TO).

Imagine Iowa, but emptier.
I"m not sure if this is directly related to this particular "initiative" by China or another one: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-individuals-charged-vari...
Another one I came across recently is Damselfly https://damselfly.info
Title has since changed but originally it was something like "trains should not be on the same track to avoid collisions"
Is that what you derived from that? Really?
The huge lines are more due to the insane menu Tim’s has right now. It’s far too complex and requires endless context shifting from workers. The workers at my local Tims have been complaining about it for a long time.

The half closed ones though? Yah, that’s a worker shortage. My local one started by closing the dining area and then started closing at 8PM simply because they can’t staff it. Of course they can’t, they only offer minimum wage.
On Android devices, you can use Termux (Debian style Linux as an app) and install a complete emacs inside. I use it on a tablet and sync files (incl. *.org) over ssh with my "real" computers.

The tablet can be used with a bluetooth keyboard if I have to do a lot of typing and have no laptop with me. And thanks to ssh I can reach any of my computers, even ones at home via reverse ssh tunneling.
You gave an example of something that wouldn't change and called it a downside. So yes you need to do better than that for examples.

If you're taking a "no free lunch" approach, the downside is that it costs money to hire these people. Does that make the balance clearer?

Adding human review to more decisions, and changing nothing else, can possibly cause some problems but they should be very minor compared to the number of robot-caused problems they will fix.
> We're one of the least densely populated countries in the world

There’s a reason most Canadians live close to the southern border. Most of Canada’s territory isn’t particularly friendly to large-scale human habitation.
Can HN please reject any submissions that are not HTTPS urls? The number of sites that get submitted here via plaintext http is shocking.

To anyone who just started typing out something to inform me that "it doesn't matter on _______ site because _______": there are four purposes of encryption, not just "confidentiality."
hdoc: the modern documentation tool for C++
Game developers lacked trust in Google, and didn't want to invest on the platform.

So lack of trust also prevented Google from getting that huge game library.
How did you get 10x? Because the numbers this article talks about includes temporary visa like student visas.

Looking at US stats (2018 numbers):

- 500k immigrant visas (green cards)

- 9M non-immigrant visas minus 6M B1/B2 visitor visas

So each year, it totals about 3.5M, which is ~10x Canada, so not that far off per capita.

You could argue that staying in Canada after arriving with a temporary visa is much easier than the US, which is true.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v...
In Bangladesh, parents select men (90% of marriages are arranged) based on earning power/education, family reputation, and looks, in that order. American culture by contrast immerses women in this narrative that what’s important in a man is sense of humor, sensitivity, impulsive romanticism, etc. Indeed, American culture portrays women who prioritize the things that Bangladeshi moms tell their daughters to prioritize quite negatively.

This hurts women in two ways. First it makes them more likely to select shiftless men who will run out in their families to pursue their dreams of being YouTube stars. Second, by setting cultural expectations and incentives, it increases the supply of such men.
Also, immigrants probably disproportionately staff our health system.

Our immigration system heavily favours educated professionals with job offers.
I just had this problem today when trying to book a flight at American Airlines. The purchase button would simply not work when uBO was on.
Healthcare would be much worse without immigrants.

In Canada, immigrants make up

23% of registered nurses
35% of nurse aides and related occupations
37% of pharmacists
36% of physicians
39% of dentists

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/ca...
Firstly, because as things exist in the world today, we have thousands of highly funded companies using robots to snipe the ticket supply at release and create a much higher priced (3x+) market.

It's the same thing that happens with PlayStation console launches, except there's no chance of getting the experience later. The artist won't be in your city again playing the same set list.

Secondly, I don't think "concert tickets" should be classed quite the same as property per se, and this is for a few reasons:

- Concert tickets are limited edition, single use time slots you're booking with a person or group you admire. They're like stock options in that they expire.

- Buying concert tickets is a means to become a benefactor of the artist. (It's better financial support than buying their albums.) In exchange, you get a good experience.

- The act of profiting off of a ticket for a group you like should feel sleazy. Rather, in selling a ticket, I think a fan would simultaneously feel remorse for missing the concert and happiness that someone else that wants to go can see it.

These stipulations are of course if you really appreciate the art and the artist. There are all sorts of people that go to concerts -- such as those that talk loudly during the set, those that don't really care about the artist, etc. -- , and I understand they may feel differently.
> Canada has an immigration rate 10x the rate of the US

I assume you mean per-capita? Because legal immigration alone into the US is about 1.8 million/year and has been for almost a decade, excluding one or two pandemic years.
That's correct as far as I know. Employees do need to exercise any relevant stock options to start the holding period, however.
Not exactly. I’m talking about this workflow.
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/mute-datadog-alerts-planned-d...

You use specific tags to mute a monitor by adding a scope. This does not scale well with the UI.
This is a good practice for anything you depend on.

And if you find something that you’re absolutely dependent on; either try to mitigate that or accept it and be aware.
Ask Japan how it's going for them with a plummeting population level, exploding elderly population, almost a million unfilled job positions, and hardline anti-immigration policies.
It's even worse. A 20W USB-PD charger might indeed put out 20W, but not at the voltage your device needs. It might put out 20W at one voltage, but only 10W at another.

The whole thing is a goddamn mess, and it's a mess because the alliance is a cartel, not an actually useful technical standards group. They're a bunch of fat swine contributing little to nothing but extorting licensing fees from everyone.
Fast and Simple SPSC Queue
This survey said up to 30% of young immigrants may leave within two years.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/young-immigrants-may-leave-can...

I have heard this elsewhere, that Canada loses a lot of its immigrants either to return or another destination (most likely the US).

The rate of immigration is not as high as the headline number for this reason, but 20% of Canada's population is still foreign born which exceeds the historical peak in the US during the 1900s and 1910s.
Now it's time to chronicle its demise, on the WWW.
Is there any online tool where I can upload a photo that doesn't contain GPS data in the EXIF metadata, but gives me an estimate of the location that the photo was taken from - e.g. not just identifying the Eiffel Tower but also whereabouts I was standing when I took it. I'd love to be able to enrich my older photos with reasonably accurate GPS location - or at least a '95% chance that the photo was taken within 500m of this point'.
true story I honestly considered emigrating from the us to Canada as a diesel engine mechanic when I was a greenhorn. Kirkland lake, a mining company, flew me up for two weeks to see things in their repair pool and even offered relocation.

from my observation blue collar work in Alberta at least is seen as equal or better than white collar. you're treated sincerely and honestly at the job site and there is real respect and concern for your safety and productivity on the job. there is a very tangible and defined career path you can take, with lucrative benefits and meaningful lasting retirement.

I chickened out at 19 because I didn't understand the implications of the citizenship, which requires a pledge of allegiance to the queen. old timers at my shop managed to scare me out of it but to this day I still dream of Canada.
I have discovered my ideal population density is far lower than most people. Perhaps yours is higher?
That’s not true at all.. Almost nobody with a house in Canada has the income to buy it at current prices. The only way most people can do it is because they bought a long time ago or got an inheritance from somebody who bought a long time ago