I'm starting to wonder how many Canadians are on Hacker News. This after seeing the BC Time Zone story as well as this one. Just curious, really. I'm wondering what the country breakdown is for Hacker News users.
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Closure of the Weatheradio service in Canada
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#52I'm starting to wonder how many Canadians are on Hacker News. This after seeing the BC Time Zone story as well as this one. Just curious, really. I'm wondering what the country breakdown is for Hacker News users.
Like 60% work for the government, the rest is $18 an hour or your own hustle.
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#53Here's a map I put together of the Weatheradio (one "r"!) service coverage in Canada, assuming each station has a range of 60 km: https://www.keacher.com/files/dir12/weatheradio_map2.png Perhaps unsurprisingly, the coverage is most dense where the population density is also highest, with some exceptions. And if anybody is curious, here's the coverage for the equivalent Weather Radio service in the United States: http…
I'd actually assume closer to 100km of coverage, 60 miles or so is a conservative estimate of coverage, in the prairies I would expect it to go much further - 500w of output on high band VHF goes quite quite far - I know how far the US NWS stations cover, and its much closer to 60+ miles.
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#54Serious question: might the solution be a satellite broadcast in the clear, a la DVB-S but for data, audio, or video? Weather radio is a critical service, and even if traditional AM/FM or RF signals are deprecated, there should still be a way for anyone - no matter how remote - to get safety and meteorology information from the government. Given that its constant availability is more important than latency or bandwid…
We probably shouldn't deprecate AM for emergency broadcasts given you can listen to AM radio with grass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9UO9tn4MpI
Only at the point of emission however...
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Canada has an educated population, large online presence, and many folks operate within both the US/Canada under dual citizenship. One can find them in every field from medicine to high energy physics. If the Corporation is type S it is purely US citizen owned, but most are type C thanks to the great work by AMCHAM attracting global investment. Notably, most science is done on UTC time... because politicians were alw…
> If the Corporation is type S it is purely US citizen owned Purely US resident owned, not US citizen owned. Resident aliens, who are not citizens, can have ownership in an S corp.
Out of an abundance of caution, please talk with AMCHAM, and a local tax lawyer first. In most cases, founders almost always want to form a type C corporate entity within their largest trading state.
People often do whatever they like, but whether it is locally legal is not a YOLO/LLM matter. Best of luck =3
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#56Related I think - The Hello Weather/Bonjour Météo Canada toll-free 833 phone numbers are shutting down on March 16th if that hasn't been mentioned.
I archive daily calls to selected time-and-temp phone numbers 1-833-794-3556 # Hello Weather Canada (English) 1-833-586-3836 # Hello Weather Canada (French) I'm archiving these until they go dark. I'll probably put the calls immediately before and after on my YT time-and-temp channel.
Re: Closure of the Weatheradio service in Canada
#57I'm starting to wonder how many Canadians are on Hacker News. This after seeing the BC Time Zone story as well as this one. Just curious, really. I'm wondering what the country breakdown is for Hacker News users.
The breakdown probably varies according to the time of day. In the middle of the night (for North America) I'd expect to see a higher proportion of international users, although I'd also expect the numbers aren't quite so high since HN is U.S.-centric and predominantly English only. The number of Canadians is relatively easy to estimate though, since the geographic distribution is similar and the majority do speak En…
Maybe @dang can setup a roll-call for entertainments sake.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
The breakdown probably varies according to the time of day. In the middle of the night (for North America) I'd expect to see a higher proportion of international users, although I'd also expect the numbers aren't quite so high since HN is U.S.-centric and predominantly English only. The number of Canadians is relatively easy to estimate though, since the geographic distribution is similar and the majority do speak En…
Maybe @dang can setup a roll-call for entertainments sake.
I measured it 3 different ways and came up with an average of 8.9:1.
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#59Is this the Canadian equivalent of the US NOAA Weather Radio service? If so, that sucks. The last Tornado Warning in my area did not trigger the weather alert of my phone, but it did trigger our weather radio.
It's also very useful for people who don't speak English, as you can just set up a weather radio in their home with only the severe alerts enable, then simply explain "if this makes noise, shelter in place."
Edit: Guess so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatheradio_Canada. I wonder if this is some kind "decoupling" with the US, as the article states it "is an official partner of the [US] National Weather Service," and the decommissioning seems abrupt and no reason was given.
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#60If this is a money issue can someone else take over? I mean can they raise money for it. I'm not Canadaian but I'll donate.
I'd be willing to bet that Canada takes in more than enough tax payer dollars to cover the expense of this critical service. I'd even be willing to bet that there's more than enough tax payer money just in waste and fraud to cover the expense if somebody cared to dig into the finances and government contracts to track it down. The idea of cutting this service as a cost savings measure is laughable.
I'd be willing to bet that the government didn't want to run it anymore, so they asked pelmorex...
pelmorex probably said "pay me", and the government said "well I guess we'll just shut it down"...