<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: syrgian</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=syrgian</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:38:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=syrgian" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by syrgian in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My wife runs <a href="https://www.saviament.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.saviament.com/</a>, an open-access educational website in Catalan. She also sells printable content following the same style as the website, which has exploded in popularity this year and has become a decent source of income.</p>
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<p>Wouldn't all the houses in the village lose way more than £400 in value?<p>Last I was comparing houses in a neighborhood, the houses near a powerline were consistently worth 15k-30k less (3-6% less).</p>
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<p>The post I was replying to was edited and originally claimed that London had higher murder rate than New York.</p>
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<p>You are right. Should not have relied on the most likely LLM-generated description attached to the data. I trusted it because I already had the wrong impression that it was less safe, but that was just because the raw number of crimes is high because it is very populated.</p>
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<p>London murder rate per million in 2024: 11.6
NYC murder rate per million in 2024: 43<p>And from what I read, NYC is exceptionally safe for a US city, and London is exceptionally unsafe for a UK city.</p>
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<p>Same boat. I have a 6D Mark II since 7 years ago now, and I misguidedly was counting on ML to be released within 3 years of my purchase. But luckily, it's still a fantastic camera.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:00:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45114338</link><dc:creator>syrgian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45114338</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45114338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by syrgian in "Hackers strike Australia's largest pension funds in coordinated attacks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can't the Western government strongarm the receiving bank by threatening to kick them out of SEPA/ACH/Fediwire?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 13:13:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43581850</link><dc:creator>syrgian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43581850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43581850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by syrgian in "iPhone 16 is much easier to repair"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you are going scam people with locked iPhones over the internet, why send an iPhone at all? You should just send a literal paperweight. It will serve the same purpose. It's not like the marketplace will be like "It's an iPhone. Even if it is locked, the seller is right. We will remove the negative rating and let the seller keep their reputation".<p>By the way, I recently sold an iPhone 8 (through App, but the transfer was in person) and out of 5 potential buyers, all of them asked the same three questions: "Is it on and unlocked?, is it carrier sim-locked?, which is the battery %?".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:37:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41624163</link><dc:creator>syrgian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41624163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41624163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by syrgian in "Google uses AI to reduce stop-and-go traffic on your route"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems to me that it would increase safety, but I guess only a simulation could truly tell. I understand your take, but I have a different one: most accidents happens when someone makes a mistake at stop light changes. Less cars stopping/starting at red lights seems less chances for accidents to me.<p>Let's go with an absurd example: If you multiplied by 5 both the length of red and green stages, I would expect much less accidents per day, but it would obviously also be much more frustrating to move around (and possibly more accidents if the amount of infractions increase because of the frustration). If you divided them by 2, I would expect much more accidents of all kinds.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:54:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41129733</link><dc:creator>syrgian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41129733</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41129733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by syrgian in "What spreadsheets need? LLMs, says Microsoft"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was trying to write a decent definition but Wiki does it better: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model#Agency" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model#Agency</a><p>In this context it could be able to do multiple actions in order to address an ask from the user: read cells, documentation, edit cells, and perhaps even read the result from the edited cell before answering. i.e. "Can you create a new sheet that focuses on the Countries where the sales happened, including YoY differences, and tell me which countries are outliers and for which reason(s)?" (probably very far fetched given the level of progress Excel has achieved in 20 years).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:56:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036594</link><dc:creator>syrgian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by syrgian in "China installing the wind / solar equivalent of 5 nuclear power stations a week"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the source to the 3.9TW number: <a href="https://assets.bbhub.io/professional/sites/24/BNEF_2023-11-21_triplingrenewables_Final.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://assets.bbhub.io/professional/sites/24/BNEF_2023-11-2...</a><p>I understand your frustration. I had to dig quite a bit to find numbers I could use, because there are multiple energy categories that are used inconsistently: solar&wind, all renewables, non-fossil. Then they are combined with two main ways of measuring them: capacity and average production. Then there are targets, predictions and in-production. It is a nightmare to get fair 1:1 comparisons.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2024 09:19:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40993878</link><dc:creator>syrgian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40993878</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40993878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by syrgian in "China installing the wind / solar equivalent of 5 nuclear power stations a week"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Australia's target is more ambitious, but China has a larger share right now:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable_electricity_production" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable...</a><p>I am also not clear that it is that much more ambitious. You are not comparing the correct numbers. 1200 GW in 2030 is just solar and wind, they are targeting 3.9TW renewables by 2030 and 80% non-fossil by 2060.</p>
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<p>If you don't need the granularity, you can store all the credentials that will be used by a specific caller(s) in a single JSON object and it will cost you only those $0.50. You can easily fit a thousand, maximum size is 64kb.</p>
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<p>The article mentions it is not a limiter, but rather a speed limit warning. So none of your hypothetical scenarios apply, other than drivers might learn not to overtake if breaking the speed limit is necessary because the warning is annoying.</p>
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<p>2013 was a quite bad moment to move into Ireland. It was very hard hit by the crisis. Right now salaries are way better: <a href="https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/greater-dublin-area" rel="nofollow">https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/greater...</a><p>I moved in 2020 and it has been the best decision I could have made. Taking into account everything (savings rate, safety, working hours, job security, politics, closeness to my home country in Europe) it is the best place I could be by far.<p>All other places trade off too much in exchange of something else. For example, I would have better savings rate in California (maybe 60-100k instead of 30-50k a year), but it would be worse in every other metric, except perhaps weather, although I dislike hot weather.</p>
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<p>You are comparing market cap to GDP. You should compare revenue to GDP. Still not a perfect comparison, but much much better.
Apple's revenue: 380B. Iran sits at position 40 with 380B GDP in 2022.</p>
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<p>I love this genre, and Deep Rock Galactic and Alien Swarm are the only ones that are on the same level. Alien Swarm is even more tactic and punishing (no reviving at all). Full Metal Furies is also very good, but not as similar to the other three.</p>
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<p>Buy houses and lots, keep them empty, and speculate on their value.<p>Or just build their 6th mansion that uses a plot of land that could fit 400 apartments, keeping the people underneath them commuting 1 hour from their 80 square meter apartment.</p>
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<p>This already happens in Spain. It is very common that the private eviction services negotiate rather than force them out. And the negotiation is basically a piece of the payment, say, they might split 2.5k/2.5k and both squatter and evictor go home happy, and the owner is 5k worse off.<p>They obviously often know each other, but as far as I known, they have never found them being explicit accomplices.</p>
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<p>Basically only truly DRM-free, offline games in GOG/itch.io will be able to show "Buy", giving them an advertising edge.</p>
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