skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not so sure about rising levels of anti-intellectualism overall if you look globally. I looked at some stats over my lifetime and globally from Our World in Data 67m people had post secondary education in 1965 vs about 1.07bn now so up 16x. (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-level-ed...)

Also in the 1970s the Cambodians were searching out their intellectuals and executing them and the Chinese did a slightly less extreme version in the cultural revolution whereas now you get none of that and China is becoming a science superpower.

Admittedly some in the US seem to be pushing antivax and climate denial but it's not like the past events. Also it seems a bit local. I'm a Brit for example and see almost no climate denial here. A bit of antivax maybe.
As pointed out, these do exist. I've been using several over the decades. And chrome forks too.

They all tend to lag behind over time, until the fork is eventually too old and it's either abandoned, useful changes I was relying on are dropped, or becomes just too old compared to upstream to be fully compatible (and thus just annoying to use).

Just the burden to upkeep the upstream changes, in either firefox or chrome forks, seems to be significant enough that I'm quite pessimistic on the lifespan of these projects.

You might just as well do your own thing, and don't pretend to be a mainstream browser replacement altogether.
It's possible, if it was some silly omission. Also, it takes a few minutes before a status like that is posted in the first place. (Possibly different teams)
Learning how to do back of the envelope calculations is not simple, it needs to be taught and you need to work on problems [1]

Everyone at university not doing an Imposter degree should have had it taught. It's not university level, but it's above average high school level I'd guess.

I'm not sure how you would learn it online?

[1] A classic problem is have you breathed in part of Hitlers last fart? It's not a hard calculation, but is gives you insights to CNN reporting microplastics being found in penises (Yes the Doomers have moved on past the testicles)
> The age of the project or the development status of the project does not matter

If you have any evidence to support this, you could become quite well-known for disproving the Lindy effect's applicability to software projects.
> it's all through subsidy of generation rather than directly of manufacture

At least at the federal level, this seems to be the case.

> it's identical to Western-style renewable subsidies?

At least early on, most Western subsidies didn’t discriminate based on where the panel was produced. We also don’t have visibility into provincial books, where if how they treat coal is any indication, where the plants are there to buy coal from their coal mines, there is probably cross subsidy.

But given what we know, one could argue they’re structurally similar, at least in respect to what we’re doing now.
So, mix of HTML, inline html strings and bunch of .querySelector() with DOM manipulation? I see.
Considering European modern history and how the EU white-washes all their tech legislation as "pro consumer rights" (it's protectionism¹ ² ³). One would think that the EU would be the last place on earth to introduce such obvious surveillance legislation.⁴

Similar proposals haven't got this close to passing in any other first world countries.

I'm glad to see that many sane voices (particularly those affected worst by the Nazis) are leading a resistance against such obviously flawed legislation.

¹ https://itif.org/publications/2022/09/19/how-the-eu-is-using...

² https://www.ft.com/content/9edea4f5-5f34-4e17-89cd-f9b9ba698...

³ https://www.politico.eu/article/european-protectionism-trade...

⁴ https://sdw.space/europe-wants-to-end-encryption/
Nothing beats being rich in a poor country
You can buy products kinda like this already. Portable solar panels, portable all-in-one charger/battery/inverter, charging from the grid if you want, and basically available off-the-shelf.

They're sold for camping, RVs, boats etc. No ability to feed power back into the grid though.
> There has been, as far as I know, one single case of tourists being attacked (and killed) by militant Islamists

Reading this made me have to ponder the interesting fact that this is several thousand less than the number of people killed by militant Islamists in the city I live in (New York) since I moved here.
As I understand it: Spectre/Meltdown allow reading from the address space of the same process only. If browsers put different origins in the same process - which they used to - then JS code can break the same-origin security barrier and read details of other origins directly from memory. By putting each origin in its own OS address space they are protected from this attack as JS can still only read data from its own origin even when using security flaws to read any part of the address space.
Fossil emissions hit record highs as world struggles with deadly heat
They also actively teach it to them. They are immersed around the clock, using other languages is forbidden (recalcitrant recruits used to get hazed in the past), and they put in efforts to teach it in a practical and conversational way.
But we are just back at the argument of what if I own a gun and keep it locked up but someone breaks my lock and uses it to shoot someone.

To me the only conversation to be had here is were there reasonable protections in place at the time and what is being done to prevent it happening in the future but just due to the fact that this is the NSA those conversations are not going to be public for obvious reasons.

What exactly do you want to see happen here?
Or just prove yourself with pen and paper if the algorithm works, using structural induction and other techniques. Then it's just a matter of whether the code follows the spec
Climate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe, study finds
So, this describes both my and my wife’s situations as kids, and now my kid’s situation.

Let me tell you, three languages is a stretch. In both my wife’s and my cases, the languages which got used stuck - and I don’t mean our parents didn’t speak them all to us - just that in our respective cases the utility value of the third language, which was in both cases an ancestral tongue not related to where we lived or spoken by both parents, was not adequate to make it stick. We each acquired the family language and the local language.

Our kid, we speak English with at home, Portuguese in the public sphere. She’s acquiring both and not muddling them to any great degree.

There’s a notion we share that other languages we each speak fluently would be good for her to learn, but based on our own experiences we intend to take a different approach. Once the two languages which will actually present utility to her day to day are in place pretty firmly, it’s time to ship her off to her grandparents for the summer, where she will be immersed in a tongue that will in that circumstance provide her utility. It was how I ultimately acquired my third language - two months with cousins and their family, aged 7.

So in short, your mileage may vary, but each of us found learning a third language that only one parent and nobody else spoke a chore, and it did not stick via primary language acquisition mechanisms, but had to come later.
> One problem is that the highest solar power output is around mid-day,

Tariffs that reward charging electric bikes, cars and home backups at these times can also really help.

> The other problem is the country uses a lot of power for heating during the winter

Sadly I doubt the UK will ever be able to move away from winter gas. It's hardwired into many heating appliances and, as you say, it's challenging for batteries to shift the load.
Being filthy rich in a rich country, perhaps? :)
By 'real product' I mean real existing product in real world, not in the fantasies of native_js witnesses.
U.S. factory incentives drive gains in April EV registrations; Tesla plunges 17%
As a relatively early investor, I have been watching Tesla subs for a long time. Even though I sold 2 years ago I still pay attention. While certainly not the only factor, public opinion on Musk is a significant factor it appears:

https://electrek.co/2023/07/27/disapproval-elon-musk-top-rea...

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+won%27t+bu...
Solar to hydroelectric dam long term storage is the best bet for summer vs winter, and similar things of that nature. Trouble is you need to ask Scotland nicely to act as your big battery for hydro, and there is a point where you run out of places to go.
Your next best option is to increase the interconnection to the European grid.
>> Women can have short hair, too

Yes, pubic hair. Preferably clean shaven, we're well past the 80s when you couldn't find the forrest for the trees.
No because in a rich country you need to adhere to laws and regulations while in a poor country you can just pay bribes and do what you want
The sentence "that's because the cost of nuclear includes every possible cost" is wrong and that's it.
I agree it's a great feature, it just doesn't trump 'universal' for me. At my desk I want one cable to plug in, and MagSafe can't be it. Travelling if I take USB-C it can charge my phone and earphones too, transfer data if I needed to even.

It's just never going to be such a great feature for me to bother finding/carrying the different & extra cable, personally.
I read Bentely's 'Programming Pearls' many years ago. It was a real eye opener for a junior programmer. Thoroughly recommended.
Is it off the cards?
Education at degree level is a self learning process.

You read, you discover, you clarify, you expand, you think for yourself, you find your own way, you discover your own views, uncover your own theory on the topic you study. You own what you learn.

An integration of the accumulated knowledge.

Like the four stages of competence:

Unconscious incompetence

Conscious incompetence

Conscious competence

Unconscious competence

AI cannot replace this process.
this is a failing strategy given that sources of that workforce has already a sub-replacement birth rates.

You are essentially draining other countries of its population to temporary plug in your hole.

Also a rapid migration from clashing culture backgrounds will introduce permanent cultural frictions and clashes into host country, all for a temporary increase of workforce.

The sub-replacement birth-rates is the biggest problem the majority of developed countries are facing now
What we have learnt is that big enterprises do not really want to use close source models due to the random bursts in usage which might drain their bills.
Why don’t you think it’s a sane enough world to “sue them into oblivion”?
Ah. Just a stroke of good luck that Musk's $48 billion package has be approved by the shareholders then..
When you are worrying about this, are you looking at visualisations or are you looking at the real sky?
I've also had good results with Gemini 1.5 Pro for some tasks. Just yesterday, it produced very good analysis and comments based on a 200-page document. ChatGPT 4o was much weaker, and the document was too large for Claude 3 Opus. (This was a few hours before 3.5 was released.)
> sentence "that's because the cost of nuclear includes every possible cost" is wrong

Correct, the LCOE of nuclear is much higher than competitors’. Most of that, however, is regulatory, and it’s far from clear how much is necessary.
GPT-2 was not a fairly good chat model, it was a completely incoherent completion model. GPT-3 was not much better overall (take any entry level 1B sized model you can find today and it'll steamroll it in every way, hell probably even smaller ones), and the public at large never really had any access to it, I vaguely recall GPT 3 being locked behind an approval only paid API or something unfeasible like that. Nobody cared until instruct tunes happened.
>Python forces you to write an enormous amount of regression tests

It doesn't. You can just have it break occasionally.
People call the first actually useful thing the first thing, that's not surprising or wrong.
I´d also wager that some of the competition has finally gotten they sh!t together.
Tried the new WV ev Passad and the latest Skoda Enyaq. Both have great battery range and when it comes to comfort are much better than the stiff bumby Tesla.

Tesla had momentum and they used it to the max. Now the competition has gotten wizer.

I do not subscribe to the interwebs anti-Musk rhetoric, most people do not care if he eats babies for breakfast as long as his cars are affordable, reliable, comfortable and reasonably green.

So before the Musk hate starts as is fashion in the forums these days, competition got better, Tesla are no longer ahead.

That's what I would bet on.
>This is the same mentality that contributes to these countries remaining poor. Just kick out the “WASPs”…so that the local kleptocrats take over.

The "local kleptocrats" are usually just lackeys of those WASPs, put in place, supported financially and diplomatically, with arms and so on (and by pressuring their opponents) to ensure the stealing continues. On their own, they're small time crooks, the real bulk of the countries riches still goes back to the post-colonial masters...

>The problem is corruption and lack of rule of law, not WASPs

Corruption and lack of rule of law is a feature, not a bug. A feature kept in place by those bugs, the WASPs, with the help of loyal local scum.

"But, but, but those WASPS kept the rule of law an order when they governed directly as colonial masters"

Yeah, when you rule a colony and live there as ruler, it tends to benefit you to keep the rule of law. You get to stroll safe, and besides all your own colonial stealing is done "by the book" and is a-ok since it's based on your laws.

It's when you leave the place (or get kicked out) that you opt for the "divide and conquer" and "get friendly local scum to power" approaches, and helping keep the country poor, corrupt, and at war, pays dividends...

And you have your establishment scholars point out how it's the local's bad culture and unfitness for rule of law that prevents them for flourishing.

It's the same kind of people who would have written that the locals are inferior races and need taming and someone to keep them in order, a century or so ago...
I think a lot also depends on whether the kids are in school or daycare already. Those will take care of advancing one of the languages.

I'd say in your situation it doesn't really matter as long as the skills in English are maintained - should be easy enough nowadays.
I think the problem is that chrome and firefox are developed for general usage, and as a result, have to deal with general usage constraints. For example, spectre and process isolation mentioned in another blog post here in the comments. I had a project in the past where I needed a browser with good JS support, but that does not make any http requests to any resources not in address bar or in the page rendered at that address. I did not find single browser based on firefox/chrome that fulfilled that requirement. Even the most privacy-focused projects still made continious requests to some mozilla resources (if i remember correctly, it was something about tls or maybe something else). So seeing someone creating an engine from scratch gives me hope that such browser might exist one day if I ever will need one again.
fascinating that ui-focused website has scrollbar overlapping with the X sign on the welcoming pop-up...
Learning Machine Learning in Elixir
> Only in the USA, for US citizens. Outside the USA; not so much.

Yeah. When I think of the US and freedom, the first thing that comes to mind is "The country where you're not even allowed to cross the road."
As an university educator I would add: Take risks and try out things at times/places where you can afford to fail, e.g. during your studies.

Nowadays too many students put their chips only on safe-bet-projects during their study, which traditionally would be the one time in their lives where they could really try and fail etc.

Sure a lot of that is due to economic constraints, which have gotten catastropically worse in the past decades, but trying out things that you know could fail means you are operating at the edge of your abilities, rather than in an area that is safely covered by them. And traditionally that is where the interesting lessons are learned.

Learning from others mistakes is a good thing as well, but for that they also have to try things that aren't safe bets.
I did some work in Tajikistan a while back. Really good fun with some great people.

It was also the most vertically integrated place I've ever encountered. I've worked in a lot of places outside of EU/US and it's the only one where I've felt you could stick most people on the country on an organigram.
> Is it really curiosity though?

it's not - it's a stock standard way to ask a question in bad faith.
This is trying to be a democratic process. There is no single "hero" to worship, but a number of things to consider.

The German Bundesregierung signalled a few days ago they would vote against Chatcontrol (IIRC, it is part of the Ampel coalitions founding contract to vote against surveillance enhancing measures on the EU level.) Nancy Faeser, Social Democrats, Germany's interior minister and usually not against surveillance, and Marco Buschmann, Liberal Democrats, Germany's justice minister, released statements that Chatcontrol is irreconcilable with liberal democratic states of law. The Greens were opposed anyhow and said so the last few weeks. So, unity of sorts.

France had said from the start they would vote against it (but apparently backtracking after the EU election) and with the two biggest countries in the EU against it now, the law had little chance to pass the informal council vote.

Add on top that around 30 MEPs from the Greens, Liberals and Social Democrats already wrote a letter stating that their fractions are opposed, thus ratification would have been unlikely. Add on top strong efforts by economic lobby groups, I guess the Belgian president of the council saw no reason to put the vote forward anymore.

Of course, all this could be wrong. I'm just puzzling things together I read over the last few days and weeks.
Many election-watching scientists are under pressure
For a new project I wonder how much simpler (or secure) a browser could be made if you only allowed a subset of js and browser apis.

I’d wildly guesstimate for 70% of use cases you wouldn’t even need 50% of stuff with some slight modifications. The web is just so bloated.

Edit: might as well prune down the css a little too and maybe dump wasm, webgl and canvas
It's best understood against the backdrop of a very long series of colonial endeavours. The circassian genocide is well documented.
Using AI as a coach or mentor shapes your thinking process significantly because AI internal rules and censorship (which we don't even know) impact its answers, your outputs and, consequently,... your future O_o
Threema – The Secure Messenger for Individuals and Companies
> brought the world to the brink of annihilation

Should read *has brought*. As in the present perfect tense, since we are still on the brink of annihilation, more so than we have been at any time in the last 60 years.

The difference between then and now is that we just don't talk about it much anymore and seem to have tacitly accepted this state of affairs.
Show HN: Minesweeper game generated entirely by latest Claude Sonnet 3.5
The next sentence is “in other cases, our partners had already run out of spaces on the year’s Schedule D and feared that another entry would require them to attach a separate sheet.”
“A few minutes” seems… reasonable? Like, you can let it run for a few hours on a list, come back in the morning, see which combos work. You ship it out once a month, it’s gotta be quicker than testing them by hand.
Will be very interesting once they roll them out unbundled and with more than 50gb/month of data.

(right now you only get a Starlink Mini if you are an early Starlink customer and it requires an existing residential subscription)
Not if they're super drunk. ;) But yes.
Most traffic enforcement is focused solely on speed, and typically in areas where speed doesnt matter as much. Drunk driving enforcement is typically an after-the-fact (eg accident already happened).

On top of that, jail time is minimal and people with suspended licenses obviously still drive because you need to in order to live.
Ask HN: What you wish you had known before joining a company as an engineer?
Hi everyone,

I hope you're all having a great week.

I've recently joined a new company, and unfortunately, many of the things discussed during the interviews turned out to be inaccurate. While the tech stack is mostly the same, their approach to code quality, deployments (often involving manual scripts run from developers' computers), PRs, and reviews is poor, with no interest in improvement or change (suggestions are never taken seriously, always scheduled for 'later discussion').

With this experience in mind, what are the key things you wish you had known before joining a company engineering-wise? If you had a close friend working there, what questions would you ask them to get an honest and accurate picture?

Thanks a have a nice weekend!
Last I checked, starlink was $50/month for the residential plan here in the Netherlands... that's quite a large difference.
Reverse Engineering Perplexity
Children also have no choice than to be immersed around the clock. And they have very patient teachers who are elated about every new word they master and who will stubbornly correct them if they get something wrong.

Most adult learners can't do full immersion or underestimate its importance and don't commit even if they get the opportunity.
At this scale:

1) Electricity usage

2) Staffing costs, both for operational control and ongoing maintenance and support

3) Parts replacement costs. The more you use the radar the faster its components wear out
There's loads of really good EVs on the market these days, why would anyone need to buy one that's so user hostile as to have non-functioning wipers.
> Funny, given that the word diplomacy is a French word

This is true. But it only tells about the cultural dominance that France had at the time the convention started. If history had happened differently, Chinese, Hindi or something else could be in similar position.

> But if someone is not proficient in Rust it will only slow them down and they'll end up fighting the language and the compiler instead of using the language.

This is indeed the choice. Make it difficult to write code but more likely that the result is correct, easy to achieve high performance but risky (C++ and similar) or just accept the overhead of checking everything over at run time (JVM and CLR languages, etc). I would say there is a niche for the first.

> Why nobody ever recommend Haskell or Smalltalk?

I think at this point it's well known that the pure functional lazy evaluation model rules out too many useful data structures and makes it easy to introduce accidental complexity. As for Smalltalk, it seems (I've never actually used it) to me that most of its once unique ideas have been copied to current mainstream languages. It also seems to have a huge number of fragmented implementations and most of them seem to have a heavy runtime virtual machine.