Poll: Where do you live? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by munk-a » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 9:42 PM UTC

belval wrote: post #221

stackedinserter wrote: post #169

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> By land area Canada is about 20 times as large as California Cornfields and tundra don't post on HN much.

Now now, we also have forests and lakes.

And so many mosquitos - we've got an entire province solely inhabited by mosquitos (within a margin of error) that we call Manitoba!

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by yurishimo » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 9:42 PM UTC

bdcravens wrote: post #139

hwc wrote: post #103

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Texas is without power at the moment.

Actually our grid has held up pretty well this time around.

It also didn't get nearly as cold as last year, and not for as long. Plus, the providers ramped up production the first evening to the point where wholesale rates were negative to incentivize more usage.

Another week+ of 0 degrees would likely have not been as smooth...

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by testplzignore » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 9:42 PM UTC

I'd be interested to see the results of this poll compared to the monthly "Who is hiring?" thread. Are the distributions the same? Is there a supply/demand mismatch?

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by young_unixer » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 9:42 PM UTC

wongarsu wrote: post #182

gkfasdfasdf wrote: post #72

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Current top 10: 'US: California' '79 points' 'Canada' '48 points' 'US: Washington' '39 points' 'US: New York' '36 points' 'Germany' '35 points' 'United Kingdom' '34 points' 'US: Massachusetts' '19 points' 'Netherlands' '18 points' 'US: Colorado' '17 points' 'Sweden' '16 points' Colorado #9? Really?

As percent of total responses, as of right now: 'US: California', '10.87%' 'Canada', '5.79%' 'United Kingdom', '4.51%' 'US: Washington', '4.45%' 'Germany', '4.45%' 'US: New York', '4.32%' 'US: Colorado', '2.10%' 'US: Texas', '1.97%' 'US: Massachusetts', '1.84%' 'France', '1.78%' The US in total makes up 49% of responses so far (even though it is nearly 10pm in most of Europe) Edit: quick and dirty one-liner to get th…

It would be cool to see it relative to the population of the country.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by agopaul » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 9:42 PM UTC

naetius wrote: post #233

agopaul wrote: post #151

France 28 vs Germany 68 vs Italy 11 I guess that says a lot about the tech scene in Italy

Does it? May it be that HN is more or less known among tech workers in country “X” (eg: due to language, etc…)?

Sure, you can even say that both France and Germany just have larger populations than Italy. But still I would argue that being open to the international tech scene is pretty important to have a local tech scene. It's also crucial to keep up with innovation.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by vel0city » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 9:43 PM UTC

runako wrote: post #260

vel0city wrote: post #203

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> so made an assumption You shared lies and slandered a state suggesting its a third world country based on false data.

To be fair, our power grid does have a tendency to fail regularly across the US. Texas last year, California's rolling blackouts, NY blackouts, etc. There's a reason that upper-middle-class homeowners have been buying Generac generators en masse.

Power grids tend to fail just about everywhere that experiences extreme weather. Its not necessarily a US-only thing. Its just that the US experiences a pretty large share of extreme weather compared to most of the developed world. Far more tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, etc. affect the US than say, Europe.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by jolmg » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 9:44 PM UTC

voisin wrote: post #183

What order is this list?

It changes with every refresh.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by onion2k » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 9:44 PM UTC

mothsonasloth wrote: post #15

Why does America get states and UK doesn't get England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland?

Maybe the author looked at the UK and thought "Look at the state of that!"

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by lgeorget » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 9:44 PM UTC

abdusco wrote: post #255

l0b0 wrote: post #30

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Ask codegolf.stackexchange.com, there's probably a Mathematica one-liner to display a globe with colour-coded areas.

I never understood the purpose of languages with unicode operators that can supposedly express a 30 line script in like 2 symbols. Are they purpose built on the spot for CodeGolf?

Not on the spot, a condition for the answer to be accepted is that the language must exist before the challenge, but yes, many languages exist only just for the purpose of golfing. Mathematica is a legitimate language though, it just is the case that some operations are surprisingly compact.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by gabrielsroka » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 9:45 PM UTC

newaccount74 wrote: post #225

toqy wrote: post #36

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This is begging for a console.table console.table([...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => [el.textContent.trim(), el.nextSibling.textContent.trim()]).sort(([,a], [,b]) => parseInt(b) - parseInt(a)))

I wanted a total for the US: console.table([...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => [el.textContent.replace(/:.*/,'').trim(), parseInt(el.nextSibling.textContent.trim())]).reduce((d, [k,v]) => {d[k]=v + (d[k] || 0); return d}, {})) I can't figure out how to sort that, though...

  Object.entries

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...