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How to Avoid Burnout?
I work for a startup. ~60-70 hours a week. There is pressure to ship things fast, but that would break things from time to time. Heavy work load plus incidents are taxing, so I am wondering if I should get a bigger company that could offer better work-life balance and avoid burnout caused by ensuring stress over a long time.

How do people here deal with this type of situation?
First mistake is HR.

HR is not your friend, never engage unless you have air cover from an exec with juice.
From Boeing's statement -

"Boeing has been developing a flight control software enhancement for the 737 MAX, designed to make an already safe aircraft even safer".

Just unbelievable. For the concerned software "enhancement", the undisputed fact here is that the current MCAS can crash the aircraft when the sensor reading is wrong. Apparently, that is now considered as "already safe" by Boeing! To be honest, that is not a "software enhancement", it is an urgent fix for a life critical system.

It is also important to notice that as of writing, FAA still refuses to ground all 737 Max for a full investigation. I don't think FAA is going to be that nice towards say Airbus aircrafts. It is a pure political move aimed nothing else but to trade human lives for some cheap protectionism for its domestic companies.

340+ real people already dead, 737 Max are being grounded by more and more countries, FAA still refuses to follow to do the right thing. Shame on FAA and Boeing.
All those applications that added USDT providers... that work will pay off even more now!
Hitting the "Junk" button in Thunderbird is not so hard and the filter catches most spam after a while.
> Why shouldn't Facebook take down the ad that's calling for a break up of their Company?

Because allowing fb to do so would tend to allow people with power to get more power.

This is bad because concentrations of power will act in their own interest, not the public interest.
I don't think it's quite that simple. In the case of the Lion Air flight, one of the AoA sensors had been recently replaced due to problems on an earlier flight; in the case of the Air France flight, there were icing conditions which were known to affect the airspeed sensors.

It's possible that both of those flights could have been saved given better awareness of how much those sensors could be trusted at the time -- for example, if Lion Air's engineers, upon fiddling with AoA sensors, had been able to tell the avionics systems "the AoA sensors might be unreliable; don't do anything automatically based on those sensors which might crash the plane".
Does airworthiness (USA: true; Singapore: false) evaluate to true or false? What does such a bilateral agreement mean? If I make a new plane, am I required to get Singapore's approval before I can fly it in the US?
Anyone know the salary for a Senior SWE at Goldman Sachs SF office?
Indeed. I would easily take at least a $25K pay cut in exchange for a private office where I can actually get work done. Maybe more.
I appreciate your defense of these folks. It’s a kind gesture with great intent behind it. My response in no way takes away from the spirit of your post.

I think the core of why people are responding how they are is that there’s not a big moat here, yet. You mention people being triggered due to missing out on their opportunity to build it- but in reality someone can just knock these folks off after a couple of weekends. That’s not to say the tech here shouldn’t exist, or that this isn’t a business. It is, I’d pay for it, I just wouldn’t pay for long. That’s ok though, it’s just a specific type of business.

I hope they stumble across something sticky in their solution that makes them painful to replicate. These sorts of utilities are always welcome and they make bootstrapping faster and faster every year.
Interesting point, that any emails you send that are received via a gmail app can be monitored.
I don't mind Javascript for rich interfaces. I do mind it if it's required to load a page that is just text and images.
It's ironic that it's a Boeing with bad software (or sensors) interfering between yoke and plane. After all, historically, Boeing has had the philosophy of trusting the pilot with direct control of the plane. This is in comparison with Airbus, where controls are by stick instead of yoke, and pilots are taught to trust the flight computer and move the controls less. (Of course, these days both manufacturers build fly-by-wire planes.) [1]

The addition of a 'maneuvering characteristics augmentation system' seems very unlike Boeing. I guess it became necessary after adding too-big engines without otherwise adjusting the airframe... [2]

This "we'll fix it with software later" attitude works well with CPU errata and maybe Teslas, but it doesn't look like we're there yet for airplanes, unfortunately.

[1] https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/10321-stick-vs-yoke-airbus-v....

[2] https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/what-is-the-boeing....
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Medium is bullying the curators it courted
This problem is so specific, haha. I'd say 99/100 people could navigate this easily.
If you eat nothing but empty carbs, you will die.

However, growing calories is hard. It's really hard. It's just about impossible to, outside of a real, outdoor, field.

And we need to do it, to keep people fed. It's the hard part of feeding people. Urban farming of a small number of high-vitamin, low calorie crops doesn't solve a problem that anyone is likely to have.
DocuVerse: Intelligent Document Management - Beta
You hear that, Millenials? Stop asking for more money, it's "workplace culture" that's important.
Adam Smith: man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations
Population and density have been low enough that a of peninsula people own cars.
well my secret document says you're wrong and i'm right.
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Air France 447 was an Airbus 330. I think 333 is a typo.

It was a typo, but for "332" (which is the jargon for "330-200").
Once tax day has come and the full force of the capped SALT deduction is felt, things may change.

A high-earning couple with $500k in combined income (roughly $45k in state taxes) and a $2m home (roughly $20k in local taxes) will go from a $65k deduction to a $10k deduction.
You Could Be Jailed for Playing PUBG Mobile in Some Indian Cities
You might find a problem with that arrangement when you need to buy something that Amazon doesn't or won't carry, and there's nobody else in town

Why would Amazon not selling something prevent someone else from selling it?
As someone that has worked from home for the last 6 years, it’s all relative. If I can work from home I’ll take a ~20% pay cut. The thought of having to drive into an office everyday is hard for me to even imagine.
>highest-in-the-nation 13.3% income tax rate

That sounds very comfortable and affordable
Great video from pilot explaining the new MCAS system that was in a comment on prior thread.

https://youtu.be/zfQW0upkVus?t=220
Anyone operating a cloud of remotely interesting size will need DTrace, or, if they use Linux, eBPF tracing. It was a foregone conclusion that Microsoft needed DTrace.

Microsoft surely also needed it for other reasons. Developers, sysadmins, and power users -- all need DTrace or DTrace-like tools.

We're finally leaving the dark ages of unobservable operating systems! Hooray!

We should all give huge thanks to the creators of DTrace, Mike Shapiro, Bryan Cantrill, and Adam Leventhal, as well as Brendan Gregg and all of the crew at http://dtrace.org.
When developing for Linux, use Linux.
Different sensors, yes. But similar issues -- in one case the pilot stalled the plane, and in the other case software designed to prevent a stall caused an unrecoverable dive.
Sadly ESP8266 may become banned in EU
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/11/eu_directive_ban_rf...
If we think of open source as an ideology that drove people to plant trees and tend them so that users get fruits for free at a time when fruits are only commercially available then the point becomes a bit more complicated.

We now have a cottage industry of people who harvest the fruits and sell them so end users don't have to pick them themselves and also others who use the free fruits to manufacture and sell milkshakes at higher margins than if they would have to grow their own fruits or buy them.

The relationship with end users and ideology is broken as is the pipeline of new contributors as end users do not anymore see the value and ideas that drove the initial plantations as they deal with fruit pickers and milkshake makers.

At this point open source loses its reason to exist and the people still planting and offering fruits for free will inevitably question what they are doing if they are only enabling third party businesses, but inertia means they will continue as that's their life work. But there is unlikely to be a second generation after them so that's the end of the movement. The story here is the commercial interests have cut the branch on which they and everyone else sit. For them it doesn't matter its just money not ideology and they will find ways to profit but the loss is to end users. So for open source to be meaningful its has to think carefully about how it will interact with commercial interests as mix and match will kill it in a generation.
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There are a lot of things that are more important than salary.
Your comment takes me back to AOL days of “keywords”. Then I realized that’s essentially what Facebook (and co) is: modern-day AOL.

The similarities are striking:

- Keywords instead of URLs? Check.

- Chat within the app? Check.

- Standalone chat client? Check.

- Marketplace? Check.

- Advertising? Check.

- News aggregation? Check.

The only real difference is Facebook doesn’t offer an internet service, and doesn’t charge a subscription fee (and ok, doesn’t send out floppy disks or CDs).

If it wasn’t so sad it would be comical how much engineering effort is wasted on reinventing the same things.
If the sensor fails, the plane fails

I don't believe that's true - if the sensor gives an erroneous reading, it's up to the pilot to recognize uncommanded trim and disable it by shutting off power to the system that moves the stabilizer.

Really, flying by instrumentation is what you're saying is the problem and that's the truth

Flying by faulty instruments is clearly bad, but flying by (working) instruments is much better than the alternative, every pilot going through instrument training learns very quickly that he needs to trust the instruments when flying in poor visibility, his senses don't work.

They could at least have both sensors active as a failsafe in case one is acting up

If you have two sensors and one is acting up, how do you know which one is true and which one is false?
The market is huge at 35k compared to higher price points. Musk is trying to get to that price first to grab substantial market share and brand loyalty in evs. That has always been the plan since the roadster.

I agree he's not a good manager and clearly doesn't have competent and confident operations people to reign him in as he does at spacex.
I totally disagree with this framing. So here's the sequence of events:

1) I publish an article on Medium

2) Hacker Noon requests that my article be included in their 'publication' on Medium. There is an understanding via Medium about what this means (ie. that I own my article and can post it to other publications as well.) I accept Hacker Noon's request. I benefit because Hacker Noon puts my article in front of more eyeballs.

3) Hacker Noon decides they want to leave Medium. They send an email to contributors asking them to sign a new terms of service.

4) Medium emails the contributors and says: Let us clear up some confusion; Hacker Noon has no rights to your content unless you grant it to them.

Why is Medium the bad guy here?
Broseph, they're paying 28% via federal as well, and social security and Medicare. If it were only 13% marginal that would be whoop-for-joy low.
That's state tax, which is paid in addition to federal (nationwide) tax. Some states, like Texas, have no state income tax.
https://paleotronic.com/2019/03/12/theres-a-3d-flying-dragon... seems to be what the url should be
Frankly it's irrelevant. Nobody ever said you have to contribute back to open source to benefit from it, though I think you'd be stupid not to. Amazon released their fork instead of keeping it in house, could be a PR move, but I believe they just want to keep the advantages Elastic had being open source.

But honestly, whether the companies are 'right' or not isn't my point, and I hope it's not what people take away from my ranting. I only wanted to make a point about the narratives around FOSS being destroyed. People chose to build businesses on open source; sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. That's all we're learning.

Contrary to reports of its death, open source is alive and well.
BTW: Did you know that Trader Joe‘s kind of belongs to ALDI as well. It is owned by a company of one of Aldi‘s sons.
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Another few good technical articles on MCAS, and other preexisting automatic stabilizer trim adjustments on the 737:

http://www.b737.org.uk/mcas.htm
http://www.b737.org.uk/flightcontrols.htm#Stab_Trim
modern open-sourcers don't care about software freedom. They want free contributors and marketshare so they can 'monetise' and 'exit'.

Gotta learn to spot the fakes.
Plant-based diets and veganism are often conflated.

"Veganism is a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose."
(https://www.vegansociety.com/go-vegan/definition-veganism)

Good on you for carving out a couple of days a week for plants, it all helps. FWIW, I've been 100% whole food plant-based since 2003 and have enjoyed a very healthy life with lots of physically demanding activity. I'm not even dead yet. Win!
Windows 10 could automatically uninstall botched Windows Updates
How you lived and died is part of your art.
To be clear, do the files contains a copyright or licence, if they do not and many companies don’t attach a copyright header to their files. Why would the assumption be that the files are not public domain or free for use
This is an amazing observation, and as someone who used to shop there and at similar stores a lot, I have to agree.

You really _do_ get nice deals though. Many of my tools are from Aldi or Lidl, and in my experience, they're cheap in terms of price, but still surprisingly decent quality, pretty consistently.
Singapore didn't yet trigger a false. It's close but not yet. Banning the plane is not an Airworthiness Directive. If you make a new plane and you want to fly it in FAA controlled airspace you need to get FAA approval and if you want to fly it in Singapore airspace you need SG CAAS approval, however due to the bilateral agreement, if you have a FAA approval this is a non-issue. Basically you get to skip the entire approval process except the very last step where the authority issues the approval itself.

And, again, if Singapore did the unthinkable and deemed the 737 Max 8 not airworthy before the FAA did, then ... yes, everyone else would follow but that's not how this is done. Singapore practically says in the way this is done that the FAA should issue an AD and then they and everyone else would follow. To be honest, it's extremely likely at this point the FAA will cave in and issue a temporary AD within the next 24 hours until the dust clears. Right now they issued a "Continued Airworthiness Notification" https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/media/CAN_2019_03.pdf and going straight against that is ... even in the Trump era, that's impossible. It would, without exaggeration, unravel the fabric of smooth international air travel.

According to https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-witness... the plane "was making a strange rattling noise and trailed smoke and debris" which very well might mean it was a very different issue to the Lion Air one.
>But even the anime/toku community doesn't use AV1

It is much too early for AV1 do see any real adoption. The existing encoders are very slow and/or lack features/tuning, and hardware support is non-existant.

In a year or two we will see encoder(s) at a sufficiently high optimization and quality level that it will be a candidate for high quality encodes, and if AV1 gains traction (outside of streaming) at that point I'm certain it will start in the anime scene.

edit: went and searched on Nyaa, and there are actually some AV1 encodes of various content, so some people are already experimenting.
Free, portable tool for developers to modify HTTP headers on-the-fly
It's probably not wise to rely on drugs. Not a good long term strategy.
On a page that is meant to have the user scroll down to the next news article, and then to the next, and then to the next, it doesn't make much sense to me, to only have the menu and hamburger available on scroll up. I didn't even know it existed until I was reading the HN comments. Is this an actual standard thing, apologies if I'm going off for no reason.
There are links to all the standards work in the article. All of the APIs mentioned are going through the standards process.
Having worked at NGINX, I would be surprised if Avi Networks was at all a consideration for marketing F5 replacement. When I left (not too long ago), most of our enterprise sales of NGINX+ was for F5 replacement deals...which is why the marketing emphasis has always been on replacing F5.

As an engineer (so I can't speak to business strategy), I always thought of Avi Networks as market validation for ancillary software services like Amplify and Controller rather than a competitor with NGINX+. But that was just my thinking.
>Plan first. Act second. Evaluate third.

Bingo. Why not plan? Also why not day dream sometimes? Some of the best days I've had are also one of when I pause to take a stock. Once I just took a notebook (physical) and went to a park. It was the best planning day, helping me set future direction for next 6 months. Also Bill Gates is(/was) famous for taking reading/thinking retreats.

Also your whole comment also summarizes my take on the article.
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I think it’s more interesting than that, because unless you do robotics (which requires skills in electrical engineering) then banks are our leading tech companies in Denmark.

The most impactful piece of Danish software in recent years, that I can think of, is an app called MobilePay. It lets you pay for things, send or request money from friends, stuff like that. It’s made by a bank.

I mean, we do have a few unicorn startups, but most software-companies build rather boring stuff with JAVA or C# and sell it to boring companies or the public sector.

Then there’s the benefits, but it’s really hard to compete on that in Denmark, because a lot of them are set by law and you can’t beat the public sector anyway. I work at a muniplacity, at significantly lower pay than I could get in the private sector.

But I get 15 weeks paid maternal leave (as a man), 6 weeks paid vacation, paid sick days, flexible hours, paid leave on the first and second day of a child’s sickness, two-four days of paid leave per child under 11, 15% pension, all sorts of insurances and 25.000dkr a year for additional education.

And when I said significantly more in the private sector, it’s exactly like you say, not an extra $100k a year unless I leave Denmark.

But as far as the premise of the article goes, I’d say that banks are tech companies in 2019.
The right approach from the developers who decided to store text as plain text, would have been to highlight this to the requestor, and indicate that it would cost extra. More business for them, and better end result for the requestor.
> the pilot’s action of pulling up the nose was an irrational thing to do

Actually the inexperienced COPILOT did this. The pilot realized that was a problem eventually, but too late. And unfortunately the Airbus takes the average of both pilot inputs.
Just pay higher (statistically significant) take home compensation than tech and see a lot of talent flocking to you. /cynic

Maybe 5-10 years back, when Tech was everyone's darling and Wall St reputation was in tatters after 2008 crash, higher packages alone wouldn't have been sufficient. But tech is sufficiently tarnished now.
This is the wrong problem definition and will fail.

You will ALWAYS have a centralized authority for social. No ifs, ands, or buts.

ANY successful network WILL create free space for attackers to target.

In email it was spam

In social media it’s false content, spam, manipulative advertising and so on.

You will ALWAYS have the problem of child porn, crime, and similar traveling over your network.

All of these MUST be solved, or normal users/society will target the network.

People here are solving Facebook. You need to solve for liability.
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that's part of the problem.

News media has to report on how crazy it has become, but...

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" -- Upton Sinclair
They can't agree though - angle of attack and airspeed are two different measurements. Together they can be used to detect a stall condition, but independently are insufficient. Furthermore, if either are incorrect or inoperable, then a stall may be misreported or not reported when it should be.

AoA is really the weak point in my opinion, the probe can get stuck or iced up; they always seemed extremely fragile to me for something so critical. Not to mention, redundancy is limited by the number of probes, of which there are only two on all the aircraft I've worked on, so if they ice up, that's it. IIRC that's what started the chain of events which brought down the Air France fight.
It's almost as if one of the benefits of being rich is that you don't have to worry about things like how much taxes cost. Yes, this can be interpreted in more than one way.
It's funny how I always hear this about apple but every time I try to use the company issued iPhone I get stuck trying to do something that just can't be done. Can't even plug in a standard sd card or an audio plug...
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(In case you're wondering -- you're likely being downvoted for calling the parent 'Broseph' -- it's a bit of a pejorative, which is uncalled for in HN's mostly civil discourse)
They can and do jump the incognito mode regarding ad cimplaints. I have proof.
How is this different from provably fair? https://dicesites.com/provably-fair
No the Indonesian plane that crashed first the pilot had similar problems on a previous flight with the plane before the crash so he was aware of something being wrong but he still crashed. So pilot being aware of it won't make it safer.
I'm not a fan of the new tax plan, however that same couple would have been subject to AMT previously. The changes to AMT in the new tax plan offset the loss of deductions.
Am half of a high earning couple in a bit above this range in California. Surprisingly, my taxes changed very little this year. In years prior, I always had to pay AMT, in which SALT deductions were already disallowed. The new tax law is basically a wash. I don't pay AMT, just pay higher regular. I didn't check exactly but my effective rate this year may even have gone down a little. Many people in this income range will find similar.
that was a good read and quite interesting. liked that it provided a viable strategy for doing a reset and cycling use so that you still get the health benefits.
> Bitcoin is the last exciting open standard I can remember that has done well and maybe has a future.

And that future we call Ethereum.
Yep, not a fan of the tax plan but it seems like a lot of folks forget about AMT. AMT made state and local tax deductions pointless.