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> In an ideal world, we wouldn’t have a tiered education system and that everyone will have access to master any subject/curriculum regardless of age.

I’m not sure where you are, but I’m in the US (specifically California). This dream of yours pretty much exists.

> Therefore, we wouldn’t need an arbitrary and flawed aptitude tests.

The aptitude tests are more for matching folks who will be more closely matched in terms of quantity and speed of learning. There is definitely some virtue signaling as well via elite admissions, but that doesn’t exclude anyone from learning pretty much most subjects.

Maybe I don’t understand what you’re suggesting.
This is a cool idea!

However, I have a couple of reservations:

1. Firstly, the JavaScript code in the release version of the extension is 12MiB. This is a lot of code, with much of it in a bundled form, making it very difficult (if not almost impossible) to verify them against the originals in the case of React, lodash, etc.

2. It seems like the code uses an external API[0] to find the current owners of the installed extensions. While I appreciate that this may be one of the only ways to do it (since I imagine Google themselves would not appreciate an extension programmatically accessing the Chrome Web Store to find the current owners) - and as far as I can see from the published code, it doesn't send any identifying data beyond what a normal Web request does, hence why I'm not identifying the site by name here - I would still urge caution as it might still cause alarm to someone examining their Web traffic and seeing a suspicious domain name, as the sort of person who would be interested in this extension is more likely to also the sort of person who would watch their Web traffic closely. (I know I do.)

In general, though, I love this idea and I hope it raises awareness of new owners looking to monetise existing extensions, and does something to reduce the likelihood of it occurring.

[edit: Actually, on further investigation, it looks like the developer of this extension is also the developer behind ExtensionBoost[1] (the site that's hosting the API mentioned above), so there's no need to hide the name any more. Note that this may also indicate that the developer is using this to gather lists of installed extensions, to allow them to indicate 'related' extensions by popularity in ExBoost - but it's important to note that this is just speculation on my part!]

[0] https://github.com/classvsoftware/under-new-management/blob/...

[1] https://www.extensionboost.com/
Some more:

General cost cutting without any other visible reasons. Cut backs on travel, social budgets, contractors, any other expenses that can be trimmed to make the financials look sexier.

Departments like Finance, Legal, Risk/Compliance and HR are overworked and distracted. These people, at least some of them, get involved after the execs but before everyone else. As someone else said this can start with the CFO but it'll spread to whole teams of paralegals and accountants before you are told about it.

Speaking of HR, do they suddenly want everyone to sign contract addendums or "compliance papers" or whatever? Asking you to fill out a "skills inventory"? Everyone got to get background checks?

Sales teams rushing to finish deals (to sexy up financials) and clear their comp (before the new boss brings new rules). I guess this isn't really that different from BAU.

As has been pointed out these things can all have other causes. But all together, all at the same time, without any stated reason....

Unfortunately ICs are often the least plugged in politically and end up the last to know. The compensation is being retained, unlike everyone else above who heard it through the grapevine before you.
The article shares cool ideas for keeping employees happy and sticking around, like making them feel special, offering flexible schedules, and helping them grow in their careers. It highlights why making the workplace a happy place is key for everyone sticking together. How do you think these strategies would fit into your company's culture?
>I cannot find any reference to this as a reasoning for declaring genocide. 6 countries made a declaration, and all allegations centre around rampant killing of civilians. That's the main benchmark.

I haven't checked the PR statements, but the arrest warrant regarding the children includes the genocide charge[0], that's where the actual legal action centres, not around 'rampant killing'.

It's based on article 2(e) of the genocide convention: "Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."[1]. Also, Russia is doing it publicly so it's easy to prove.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/17/vladimir-putin...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention#cite_ref-C...
The explanation is not convincing enough. Good to know info but I can't see this useful for a large scale production system. There is no description of cache invalidation strategies.

But it's highly voted on HN so may be I am missing something.
Yes the rules should change. Otherwise it will increasingly go other way and what used to be general use devices will be turned into limited use computers that users wont own.

Apple has been heading in this direction with iOS, iPadOs and lately with MacOs too. I think their main reason though is to be able to force users to upgrade/trash otherwise perfectly fine devices using software. Computers are fast enough for most users already but then there is no reason to upgrade.
A fertile man can have hundreds of babies, a fertile woman has a limited output. So women will be the bottleneck.
No need for crank. It’s wolfram.
Hiding behind some accolades of past,
lawsuits and other tangibly criminal
offenses. The guy is smart enough
To gear projects to ends that
avoid crank threshold in the dictionary definition.
Thanks we need to edit the light theme, but also the docs as a whole as they are currently created for the enterprise product.

For now all the info you need is on the readme, but working on docs as we speak.
Ask HN: What do you expect from a great VP of Engineering?
Got promoted into a position where I will be overseeing a relative large set of teams. I've been an engineering manager for 12 years now for smaller orgs.

What got me here won't get me there, however. Being super close to engineering and developing the team 1-1 or via 1 management layer won't cut it anymore. To overcome this, I am actively pursuing learning more formally about engineering leadership, setting vision, mission, strategy, tying everything together (this I did for the 30/40-strong orgs but this is a different ball game).

With that, what in your opinion are some great traits, behaviors, or professional initiatives that make a VPE you'd like to work for/with? My normal style of management is staying connected to engineering, continue to develop tech skills on the side to be credible, formally develop the team and focus on promoting from within. More will be expected from me, I'm sure, so I am curious to learn exactly what.

Thanks!
I'm interested to dive into this healthcare topic a bit deeper.

To find out what a true free market of healthcare looks like.

Often you find that government intervention distorts markets.

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...and this looks like the case.

For example, people complain that benefits are tied to employers. But this was caused by the government capping wage increases to combat inflation in 1942, which resulted in companies offering pre-tax health benefits.

This looks like it is changing as people are like: wtf this makes no sense and creates so many bad incentives.

It looks like market forces will fix the system in the end, maybe it just takes 50 years or so.
Also the publication date of this article shows March 8, but we are on March 7 :)
Boeing, Apple and few other companies are losing their way. They do not care about customers anymore and for few extra cents they do everything within their power, including endangering customer lives.
China is physically the same size as the U.S. They absolutely want energy independence, and will probably achieve it for the majority of use within 10 years.

ICE car sales requirements are going up drastically this year, meaning most new sales could be EV within 5 years, and they could sell EVs at such scale after that that a ban on gas cars in cities would convert the rest of the fleet in another 5-10 years.

Once you have cheap, abundant energy all the industrial segments are highly motivated to switch.
It’s remarkable how “woke” has been weaponised. See something that makes you feel uncomfortable? Just label it as “woke”.
"Prevent" is a strong word. I would say that the best thing EU can do is facilitate conditions that would encourage ASML to stay home. Something obviously isn't going well if ASML can't expand within NL/EU and putting any further restrictions would scare businesses off.
Right, but looked from the other angle, if Apple didn’t provide an easy enough experience for developing apps, less 3rd party developers would develop and they wouldn’t have access to a luxurious market. It’s a two way relationship, these things don’t exist in a vacuum.
> for people to comply with that plan would also require that about 60% of air travel just be cancelled for the next 5-10 years. Which, coincidentally, would actually bankrupt all the airlines

You are saying this as if it was a bad thing.
Even if Airbus could suddenly double capacity over night, a duopoly already is quite bad for consumers (aka airlines). They certainly don't want to create a monopoly.
You do not need to be evil villains in a dimly lit boardroom for such things. It is simply a matter of self interest, and each actor can easily independently arrive at it. There is a general atmosphere of confusion and chaos and the public knows there are issues with supply chains and manufacturing, so who's to know the increase in prices is really due to legitimate issues or just a silent hike in profiteering. The consumer is none the wiser at that moment.
Great article! My tip for employee retention is to emphasize open and transparent communication. It builds trust, makes employees feel valued, and fosters a collaborative culture, significantly boosting satisfaction and loyalty.
Also true, but China is spying on their own people already. I would not be surprised if Chinese EVs are sending data to the government.

So the tech is there. And then it comes to trust. Will they not send data when they sell cars outside China?
Great summary! It’s key for HR to focus on these areas to keep a team happy and onboard. How do you think implementing these strategies will change your workplace atmosphere?
And how exactly does that then allow breach of DMA provisions?
People seem to either ignore or just not be aware of this. Fedora has always been the first mover. If that's not what you want you should be using a different distro. Ubuntu will be supporting an LTS version with X11 for many more years.
The fact that journalists in war zones died doesn't mean these were "targeted exclusively"
is there any evidence that Israel has targeted journalists intentionally that weren't involved in the fighting?
For R&D it's usually winner take all, if you fall behind as a company then you might just end up irrelevant.
The line of thinking you're showcasing is exactly of the type I've had to deal with in so many companies before, and is the real energy vampire.

Yeah, our turnover rate is 300% and people are crying in meetings, but please ensure your concerns are raised elegantly, with many euphemisms for conveying urgency, and above all, please ensure by raising your concerns you are not impacting the roadmap.

That kind of low-energy "platitudes driven" communication around issues is exactly what leads to insane dysfunctions like ones we see at Activision and every startup that failed before getting to build an MVP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwTplsSvRuI
Everyone has a unique situation, but wanted to share my experience because improving apnea can have such a huge impact. I have a relatively mild case, so CPAP was borderline but I tried it. Like you spent 4 months and never got past 3 hours in one night, even trying several masks. Gave up for a year, worked on sleep hygiene in general and tried again. After about 2 weeks of a new mask and adjusting settings slept through the night. 5 years on I still wish I didn’t need it, but the improved quality of life means I basically never go to sleep without it. Can’t imagine how big a deal it is to someone with severe apnea.

You don’t need to completely throw in the towel if you don’t want to. Take breaks, try different masks as much as you can, get your dr to help adjust pressures. At least for some of us it does eventually click.

Good luck!
There doesn't need to be a conspiracy and they don't need to be in cahoots. They just need to all recognize a situation that allows price gouging.
Maybe the result of some short sighted AB testing. I hate that to but I have to admit that I tend to close the tab as fast as possible seeing some prices that don’t correlate with the „amount of benefits“ at that concrete moment. So they try to bind you as long as possible to raise that amount through the „good price“ threshold.
I wish tailwind would support attributify like https://github.com/unocss/unocss, which is much more readable for complex layouts:

<a bg="red" text="white" dark="bg:red text:white">link</a>
As you might imagine, I spent numerous days in the arcade as a kid playing 'Daytona USA' :)

Regarding the pipeline, got it. I'm working on this and am glad you like the CLI-centricity of it.
> What shots exactly? the missiles? Attack the launch sites.

What if those launch sites are top of hospitals or media buildings?
This will level the field? If you think Canon's cine options are equal to Red maybe it levels it. However, I think this tilts the field away from Canon to Nikon's favor while leaning more toward Sony as well than Canon. Maybe Canon can tilt it back in their favor if they were to buy Alexa.
It is very ironic that they sell it has "eco-compact dishwasher" when it require disposable chunk of plastic to use it. The amount of water saved will really not make up for the amount of plastic thrash created.

From their website: "At Daan Tech, we’ve always believed that a more sustainable and fairer world is possible.", you really have to be cynical to write something like this and then sell a worse washing machine that generate lot of plastic waste.
Talk about burying the lede:

> The original version of the CC license stated that the license would “terminate automatically upon any breach.” That meant that if you failed to live up to the license terms in any substantial way, you were no longer a licensed user of the copyrighted work. Any uses you had made of that work were no longer permitted under the license, so unless you had another basis for using it (for example, if your use qualified as “fair use”), then you were now infringing copyright.
Recall that “willful” copyright infringement carries a statutory penalty of $150,000.
[Copyleft trolls say:] we’ll find people who made minor errors in their use of your Creative Commons works, and then send them a speculative invoice for a “license,” on threat of a copyright lawsuit that could run them $150 grand plus legal fees.
The NTSB tries not to be adversarial. They're not a law enforcement agency. They analyze accidents, figure out what really happened, and produce technical reports.
The goal is to prevent repeats of the same problem. Decades of this made aviation safe.

Usually, everyone in aviation is very cooperative with the NTSB. For Boeing to be uncooperative is extremely unusual. That's a strong indicator that Boeing's safety culture is dead.

The last time the NTSB encountered stonewalling was when Tesla (Musk, actually) was uncooperative about that crash where a Tesla on autopilot rammed into a large white semi-trailer, with no automatic braking at all. Musk threatened to report the NTSB to Congress. Nothing happened to the NTSB, and Tesla had to do a recall.
There is something called reactive hypoglycemia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_hypoglycemia

It can occur for various reasons. Personally, I was developing adult onset type 1 (LADA) for a couple of years before I was diagnosed and I had all sorts of effects. While it was of course mainly effects of chronic hyperglycemia and shortage of insulin, I also had some episodes of hypoglycemia. Now that I’m on insulin, I’m very familiar with hypoglycemia resulting from an imbalance of exogenous insulin and carbohydrates. However, I looked back and realized this happened to me a few times before I was on insulin. I recall waking up a few times at night, sweating and shaking, and having a strong urge to consume food. I’d drink some juice or eat chips, feel better in 20-30 minutes and go back to sleep. This occurred after drinking alcohol, which makes sense as alcohol intensifies the effect of insulin and also prevents your body from releasing chemicals which raise your blood glucose level. I didn’t think much about it at the time but now I can see it was related to T1 onset.

My understanding is that essentially the body’s systems which regulate blood glucose are disrupted. This happens a with type 1 in general - not only problems with the system that produces and releases insulin to lower blood glucose by allowing it into cells, but also the part that does the opposite and release glucose to raise blood glucose levels. Sometimes the glucose-raising system doesn’t work at all while other times it’s inappropriately in overdrive. The same is true for the insulin releasing/glucose lowering system as it fails.
Two things that are wrong here:

1. Wayland was actually started in 2008

2. Wayland API is not stable even today
I'm on the latest Nvidia drivers (550), I have a 3080 video card, and I get something like 20 FPS in Plasma's Wayland session. They are crazy if they drop support for x11.

Fedora was similarly crazy for making it the default when they did. I remember trying out Fedora around that time, not being aware that Wayland was even a thing. I installed it on my machine, I attempted to login, the screen goes black and then after a second I'm back at the login screen. I ended up installing another distro, not realizing what the problem was.

Wayland is wonderful if your hardware supports it well, but even then it is not without problems and regressions.
It doesn’t matter. A company does not have to be a monopoly to be a gatekeeper under the DMA. The DMA defines gatekeeper (among other things) in terms of the number of users in the EU and revenue in the EEA. According to those definitions Apple is a gatekeeper and the DMA applies to them, monopoly or not.
>Without googling, can you tell how many armed conflicts are going on in Africa right now?

Without googling: I know of Sudan, Congo, the Mali / subsaharan Jihadi mess (they've been sieging Timbuktu for months now?), Somalia (recently also Somaliland area) and Ethiopia (civil war with TPLF reduced, but Oromo still going on). Northern Nigeria always has something bad going on.
Enforce it at the cyber insurance provider level, if you pay out a ransom for a client you risk losing your insurance license.
Some stuff was pretty accurate. Most people got Apple wrong though.
Kroger and dollar stores have this
could be intentional. Implying LLMs are a proverbial nuclear bomb to the tech landscape. but honestly it threw me as well
And fill the script with that? Wow
FWIW, it's also easy to claim HN is biased, because people are biased differently, and HN is close to global.

As a northern european, I for instance would say that I often find HN trend conservative, compared to the discourses in my country. But someone from a different part of the world could claim HN to lean progressive, based on their political environment.

So I don't think there is an easy way here. If one were to decide that HN should balance both-sides, who draws where the middle lies?
Try it for some longer time. Scrolling on Macbook becomes subconscious. I don't think about it anymore. I don't even notice that I am moving my fingers. The scroll pane just moves where I want it to move. Simulating the behavior of physical objects allows our minds to reuse what it learned about the physical world. That is imho a very powerful user interface metaphor. But beware, this is just an anecdote.
It’s awful and unprofessional for a podcast. This is why editing exists.
The Netherlands is possibly the safest (coastal) country in the world when it comes to rising sea levels. They've been taking back land from water for centuries.
Personally I'm very aware, and not against that. Just wanted to point out that a single "I'm running it without problems for years" experience is not a high quality signal for state of any piece of software.

I have experienced "very fun" problems with a "supported NVIDIA card with official drivers that support that card", while people said that they are using theirs without any problems for years.
No, it is about doing proper science. Where you usually don't deal with absolutes, but values within an interval. Which they named in the publication.
That scientists want to "scare" is the narrative of the climate change deniers.
The political aim was to cause a LOT of casualties. I'm not going to disagree that this is ugly stuff, but Hamas must have known this was the result. Also I do think the Israelis think they can get a large amount of Hamas leadership.

Gaza is a mafia state under control by Hamas, who likely control all aid coming into the country and certainly the Iranian military funding.

Israel seems to apply a 10x minimum response to any Israeli casualties over the years. This attack is well above the 10x number already.

And remember, the Israelis do not completely surround Gaza. Egypt is complicit in closing the walls of the prison on Gaza, and Egypt I'm told hates the Palestinians more than Israel does. I wonder why this is, Egypt did manage/oversee Gaza for 25 years and I guess said "no thanks".

AFAIK, it's not like the Sinai peninsula is some valuable land, I think Egypt has room to take in Palestinian refugees. They simply refuse to do it. I have not gotten any good reason why they hate them. I guess the Lebanese hate their Palestinian enclave. It is clear the Arab world doesn't care about the Palestinians, and a common brotherhood of Islam doesn't carry weight.
You should check when the last election was. And even if the majority supports Hamas, it is NEVER a justification to target civilians.
One more point, no VR support in Wayland yet
Fifteen or so years ago, Swedish legislators took the 200 pages of electric code, replaced them with 13 pages essentially just saying "whatever the Swedish standardization organization says is safe." And paywalled.

I can understand delegating from law to something that doesn't require 180 people agreeing on a change heavy in domain knowledge. I'm not an electrician, so I'm not allowed to do anything anyway (oh, the protected guilds,) but this is going in the wrong direction.
> Writing your program to use UDP instead of TCP won't make it …

There was no proposal to use UDP, so this comment is not about the article.

The point of the article is near the end:

> the only way to deal with the leaks competently is to learn about how the abstractions work and what they are abstracting. So the abstractions save us time working, but they don’t save us time learning.

I.e. To competently use an abstraction, one needs to understand what happens under the hood.