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If they cannot be held accountable in the legal sense they might in the financial sense. Stopping 737MAX sales would hinder their operations quite a bit.
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ALWAYS-ON WORK CULTURE CREATING ‘BROKEN’ PEOPLE, SAYS REDDIT CO-FOUNDER

Alexis Ohanian speaks out against toxicity of ‘hustle porn’ that glorifies ‘most absurd things’

Alexis Ohanian, venture investor and husband of tennis superstar Serena Williams, loves getting asked how he balances family life and his career as managing partner of Initialized Capital.

He and Ms. Williams became first-time parents in 2017, and in the months that followed, Mr. Ohanian frequently spoke out about why it was so important for him to take time away from the Bay Area firm he co-founded to bond with their daughter.

Parental leave wasn’t only a fun way to spend 16 weeks with their newborn Alexis Olympia Jr., he said at The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival on Tuesday, but it was also a reminder of why work should never be the only metric for measuring success.

“I’ve spoken out quite a bit about things like ‘hustle porn,’ and this ceremony of showing off on social [media] about how hard you’re working,” said Mr. Ohanian, who previously co-founded online discussion forum Reddit. “Y’all see it on Instagram and you certainly see it in the startup community, and it becomes really toxic.”

Business men in his position are rarely asked about juggling the requirements of their roles outside of work, like in their family, he said, and that contributes to unrealistic expectations that a job can reflect the entirety of anyone’s identity as a human being.

“All of us who decide to start a company, we’re kind of broken as people,” because founders are often singularly-focused on the success of their venture, said Mr. Ohanian. Even with great mentors and investors supporting their vision, entrepreneurs tend to put a great deal of pressure on themselves to work harder than anyone else to achieve success and profitability. That psychological pressure is compounded by what he and others refer to as “hustle culture.”

“You have this culture of posturing, and this culture that glorifies the most absurd things and ignores things like self-care, and ignores things like therapy, and ignores things like actually taking care of yourself as a physical being for the sake of work at all costs. It’s a toxic problem,” said Mr. Ohanian.

This issue isn’t limited to technology companies, he added, noting that his acquaintances in finance and other industries also promote an unhealthy attitude that encourages 12-hour work days and few breaks.

“Social media has made it possible to weaponize it to the point where, if [bragging about your difficult workweek] gets hearts, you’re incentivized to keep pushing” the limits.
By forcing them to fully certify the MAX, they will take a massive hit in sales and further losses in legal suits from the airlines that have already purchased planes they can't fly.

This will also add a serious line item to the various civil lawsuits regarding the loss of life as a government level entity has now said 'this was a different plane, Boeing lied.' It will be extremely hard for Boeing defense attorneys and likely lead to triplicate damages settlements.
It’s pretty amazing that we’re capable of identifying behavior like this.

They’re like little DNA paratroopers behind enemy lines
Being the reserve currency is not relevant to the industrial trade war underway. The US's power here is in its consumer market and its ability to impact other nations by threatening them with secondary boycotts.

EU companies have no reason not to trade with Iran under the JCPOA, but US law says that any company that does cannot trade with the US. That's not the currency controlling, it's the trade.

There may be legitimate security concerns about 5G and its ability to be penetrated. On that basis, doesn't that mean that the design of 5G is inherently flawed?

That is the issue.
Out 300 Boeing Max delivered since it was release in 2016, there has been 2 full hull losses with full loss of life. I bet if you do the numbers it is the most dangerous way of traveling. Tesla gets shit on for autopilot and it’s killed 4 people but has 100s of thousand of cars on the road with autopilot.
I won't be flying on a 737MAX ever. If I ever come into a situation that it would be an option I will email the airliner and let them know that there is no way I will use their service with such an aircraft. I was also thinking about creating a boycott737max.com website.
Which really just points to the need for the simple XML format you've proposed!
This is why you do long term holding in BTC or any coin that may take longer to confirm on the chain and the money you are playing/trading with should be in an asset like XLM which transfers in seconds.

Now if the whole thing is tanking and you want to transfer your entire savings to try and ride the wave you are already too late if your money is not already on an exchange and you shouldn't be 100% swing trading anyway.

Just my opinion on how I handle it.
I'll have no problem flying in one as soon as the relevant authorities deem it safe enough. If I don't trust relevant authorities on what is safe and what isn't - why would I trust them when they say the next plane is safe?

Also, since you can't know which flights are using which planes (usually), many carriers use thes planes interchangably with non-MAX (737-800s), and you can't use the choice of plane as a reason to get a refund on your ticket, avoiding these planes is likely expensive. You need to fly another route, pick an airline that isn't the cheapest for the leg you are flying and so on.
I mean I'm as scared of crashing as the next guy but I'm not "5% more expensive trip"-scared.
That's helpful, though I can confirm the same sort of process is used in areas where it matters more.
That ignores the advancing production capabilities and the vast grey market that moves goods into the US. That and the complacency of Amazon produce a situation where high quality knock offs can be made in China and find their way into the US market quite easily. Note: I’m speaking not of trademark infringement but patent infringement. It’s really no different. Patent infringement is problematic.
So what if I have an object that has a pointer to another object? memcpy is not what I want in that instance.
I find the idea of working more than 40 hours a week to create something ultimately optional and meaningless... Just utterly preposterous.

People treat the "crunch" as if it's an epic accomplishment of world shaking importance to write a slightly better Android food delivery app, or slightly optimize video ad delivery.

I have worked on networking and IT projects in immediate post-disaster relief environments, and in active combat zones, where it might be justifiable to work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week.

But it's just laughable that some corporation expects people to do that for something which is frivolous. Look at the recent news article about the abuse of their staff involved in the development of the recent Anthem video game...

https://kotaku.com/how-biowares-anthem-went-wrong-1833731964
Create a coworking space, offer space for meetups, promote to digital nomads, offer free/discounted use of coworking space to digital nomads.

I saw this strategy working in Japan. Several IT companies have coworking space that can be used for ¥100 to ¥1,000 per day.

You don't care about digital nomads in ROW, you care about digital nomads visiting your city, you need a way to find and connect with them.
> streams and related functional features

Streams are inspired by some idioms of functional programming. But they are not functional, and they cannot be made to be functional, because it is impossible to evaluate one without causing a rather glaring side effect.
> Please note that your account or wallet funds are not permitted to be redeemed for use outside of the Forge TV / OUYA / MadCatz MOJO services, have no cash value and are not exchangeable for cash. Funds that are deemed unclaimed property may be turned over to the applicable authority. So, we encourage you to utilize your account funds prior to the shutdown.

That's really bad. Virtual currency should really be regulated at this point. It is not acceptable for service to force you to use their currency to use it and then have the possibility to withhold it if they ever shut down.

Their is a lot of dodgy stuff when it comes to virtual currency but the minimum should be a guarantee refund if the service close.
There's a ton of state ownership of industry, particularly manufacturing, and land is strictly controlled.

That's why I called it "mixed-command".
Taxation does not have to be a race for the bottom, unless the state wants to collect the money and give little in return.

Take New York State for example. It has some of the highest taxes in the country. What do the citizens get back? Roads? Well, New York roads are known to be some of the worst in the country. And you still have to pay tolls to use them. Schools? Just average. State University? Again, quite average.

What the heck am I paying for?
> I wonder why so many companies are happily paying Oracle [...] instead of sponsoring an open source project like PostgreSQL.

Corporate world is ruled by liability. When you are working on a multi-million dollar project and the database breaks, you want to be able to put as much responsibility on the 3-rd party as much as possible.

Open Source projects come with no guarantee. If someone hacks into a system because of a flaw in the Open Source project you are screwed. If it's a software delivered by Oracle, then Oracle is responsible and needs to pay your million dollar fine.

Of course I'm simplifying, because there's probably still a lot of legal process behind it depending on the country, but it's essentially that.
This reads like a PR piece, there is really nothing about what happens when the rubber meets the road. Lots of talk about voting (not how much/ impact), Glassdoor ratings, and nice environmental ideas.
Nobody is arguing about flying vs no flying. This thread about 737MAX safety.
How accurate are these types of sensors and how unique are an individual's tremors? Given a long enough scan period is it possible to uniquely identify someone just from their grip (not just device calibration data per this attack)?
Read "Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14" by Scott Meyers.

That'll clear it up for you. It's a very good book. rvalue references are a bit muddy but move semantics should be clear.

Do you have Stroustrup's blue book?
If a company can provide return on capital greater than 9%, then spending their money to get a 9% return is not actually a good investment.

It’s more complicated than this because it’s expected rate of return with some variance, and deploying additional side-lined cash doesn’t always achieve the same return as the previous dollars, etc. etc.

But it comes down to this; if the best thing a company has to do with its dollars is pay down debt, they are telling you that they couldn’t think of anything more reliably profitable or useful to do with the dollars than that.
Ugh I’m so sick of people ignoring the brainwashing of the populace via media control
First, recertification will not be cheap.

Second, it will hurt sales. No airline wants to buy a plane they can’t fly, but they also don’t want to buy more old planes that use more fuel. My bet is that companies like Southwest will half all orders and see what happens.

Finally, it’ll drive companies that straddle the Boeing airbus decide deeper into Airbus’ arms.
My view is that IP is fundamentally a terrible idea and should be abolished. All it does is help incumbent companies and prevents competition.
I look at it as a collection of any guarantees that you can leverage to ensure a (relatively) high degree of correctness, performance, and maintainability. I can't fault Google for valuing these things over agency to play with languages that feel more fun/interesting.
Quickly read: The "Personal Narrative" sections of Richard Gabriel's Patterns of Software, available at https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf
> I will not fly the 737 MAX unless and until it has its own type certificate

then you will never be able to fly one. It cannot get its own type certificate.
Well, I have a whole startup whose flagship hardware is based on web servers on microcontrollers, and our build costs and iteration times are trivial compared to our competitors.

Microcontrollers: cheap, reliable hardware. Web: cheap, reliable interface. Web programmers: cheap, numerous.

What's not to love?

You said yourself: minimally proficient C/Cpp devs are genuinely hard to find. HTTP GET with the program. ;)
Depends on when you book and what fleet they have. The exact plane (individual) isn't assigned to your flight by the scheduling software at the booking date, if you book months in advance. It's a guess in that case, and it can change up to hours before the flight. So there is nothing that guarantees that the model specified on your booking will actually be used.
The banks know this, and they don't like losing money, so they have made most of their transactions reversible. There was an article on this a few years ago exploring why bank account credentials are worth little on the black market. Basically, there isn't an easy, safe way to just steal money out of a bank account.
Even if they manage to dodge civil liability (which is unlikely), a number of nations could bring criminal charges for the deaths caused by the two crashes. In addition most major nations have the option to bring criminal charges against Boeing for endangering the lives of their citizens.
>If you can call it that

You can't. Manjaro uses its own repos. It'd be like calling Ubuntu a wizard for installing Debian.
I’m okay flying on the older 737s. Those are proven enough that we know what they’ll do; the biggest risk for those older planes is the safety culture for the airline, not Boeing.

Any of their newer stuff? No way.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267444/
What's GHC's bus factor? (Actual question.)
Most of the tradesmen who work for our property management business live in Somerville, Medford, or Malden, I think. I haven't done an exhaustive poll, though.

(They all spend half their lives at thay same Home Depot, too.)
There is the comment below about the 4 order of magnitude difference between A320 vs. 737MAX. And there is confirmation bias that can save your life.
> interface with other languages…

Many languages that compile to native code allow you to export functions in a way that they can be called from other C code.

This means you'd write your actual code in whatever language you want (possibly one that does have a generic vector in its standard library - but I guess these days that's anything but C) and then you'd just export a usable-by-C interface so other languages still get to interface with your implementation.
You can say that it is equivalent, but the FDA will still make you prove it with the relevant tests and documentation.

And look, I'm not saying it's wrong that Boeing has it a lot easier than I did. I'm just asking what's the justification? In my case I get it. Imagine you're submitting a device that shoots high levels of radiation, at extremely high power, into the human body to kill cancer cells?

Well yeah. I understand. The FDA doesn't care that you believe this device is the same as the last one.

You're shooting high yield radiation...

At levels fatal to humans...

In the middle of a hospital...

Which itself is potentially in the middle of a population center?

OK, yeah, I get it. They're gonna check the new device as thoroughly as they checked the old one. No one wants the equivalent of a dirty bomb going off in some small town. I'm not complaining about that.

I even understand that Boeing doesn't shoot radiation all over the place, so maybe things can be a bit more lenient? I get that maybe that was the justification? But here's the thing, Boeing can still kill people, as is plainly evident. Why is the government being so lax on them, while at the same time giving my RTP product the equivalent of a regulatory colonoscopy?

I mean, if anything, both products should get the regulatory colonoscopy.
Elon Musk - Ashlee Vance.

Hands down one of the most inspiring and motivating biographies I've read.
Stellar and IBM's WorldWire are hoping to tackle the remittances issue! Check it out if you haven't.
Going beyond your comment, it’s amazing how many American’s extol the virtue of Europe’s system without actually knowing the details of how it works!

“Single payer healthcare is the only solution!”

“What about Switzerland?”

“What about it?”
Yeah, something like that.

One way to implement that is that error-event-raising is just a function which examines the dynamic context for error handlers, and calls them until one transfers control (e.g. by throwing an actual exception). That's pretty simple to implement in any language which has exceptions, panics or similar control-transfer structures.

It gets more complex when you have restarts. The nice thing about Lisp is that all the complexity can be hidden with macros; with other languages you have to be explicit every time.
I think Haskell was largely derived from Miranda, a commercial product.
As if RISC-V needed any PR.
> Swift doesn't need to be adopted outside of iOS development at all, because when people develop iOS apps the main choice will be Swift.

That would mean its fate would be tied to iOS, which is used only on phones built by a single company. When that company stopped producing mobile phones, or decided to use a different operating system, the language would die.
That seems like strong supporting evidence that the $10 number is truly just to stir the pot to grab some headlines.
When I was a teenager, old people told me that my political views would grow more conservative as I got older. If anything, as I've watched growing income inequality and the further concentration of wealth among the one percent, I can better appreciate the point Karl Marx was trying to get across to people.
I mean you can intercept the request, retrieve the real cert, generate a self signed cert with the exact same details, then submit that to the user and be man in the middle. Of course the user gets the blank SSL cert error page on the browser, but a percentage of those users will override and continue. Copying the cert details increases that percentage as some will actually look at the invalid cert. It is quite blatant but it is just a numbers game at that point. If you ever hit an SSL cert error with TOR you should force a new onion path.
>> so he’d be wise to curb his nationalistic “no-one-tells-China-what-to-do” bluster
>This comment highlights both ignorance of Chinese history and continuing American arrogance.

>China has been painfully dictated what to do during the last 200 years. This has had a profound effect on the country and has led to the collapse of imperial rule and the drive to 'rejuvenate' the country (to use the official term in China).

I disagree. China has been given some unfair advantages in order to help it build its economy over the last 40 years. Instead of growing up and becoming an adult, they've become the playground bully with their IP theft and closed market.

>This is also arrogant because it suggests that China should be told what to do coming from THE country (the USA) that really is the archetype of "no-one tells us what to do".

If China doesn't figure out the game real fast, they're going to lose it. And to do that, they really need to do what people are telling them they should do.
Jeez, it's easy to forget how unusable the web is without an adblocker nowadays.
The initial idea had some merit but the implementation is terrible and most countries had no choice and had to implement the US copyright and related laws.
Financially, these are the same, but politically they're not.
I like the list of things you can do to combat procrastination. It's all good to understand what drives it, but even better to know tactics that work to help you overcome it.
There are some who would argue it's a "soft B" - his recent conf outburst isn't the only example of him failing to listen and adapt.
Norwegians 15 737-MAX8 are of course still grounded. No airline is "cheating" and flying with a grounded plane.

The planes are very similar (which is the whole selling point). That's why they can use the same safety instructions, which is probably where you saw the text "737-800/737 MAX8" printed. As others said, they are most easily told apart by the different look of their wing tips.
You aren't one of those who say people should “vote with their wallets”, are you?
That’s horrifying.

I’ve also heard that the 787 was a boondoggle.
This is exactly by design. It encourages consumerism and the idea of consuming your limited free time with entertainment and superficial activities.

But it goes far beyond that. With limited free time people cannot develop political consciousness and drive social change.

There are historical examples: most dictatorships go/went very far to keep people busy and preserve the status quo.

Universities, on the other hand, has been often driving social change given that students usually have more free time and freedom to organize their time.
I do pay to remove procrastination. I think a great example of the level of procrastination I’m talking about is this — despite getting two tickets, I didn’t renew my tags for my car for a year and a half after their expiration. It’s not like I was broke or busy. I just felt UGH every time I thought about it. I procrastinate things despite the great personal cost it might incur because of the anxiety of something even the most mildly unpleasant.

I wouldn’t want to do work at work, so I’d endlessly scroll Hacker News or Reddit for about a year and a half. I’d leave at three because I was bored. I left one job and got fired from another.

I take prescription amphetamines now. The difference is night and day. Developers I’ve worked with on the medication think I’m intelligent and diligent. Developers who have worked with me off the medication are baffled I got hired. People have a hard time believing they’re talking about the same person. The reward is great, but so are the costs. I’m really irritable in the evenings, and I struggle to be kind and enjoy time with my wife and daughter whom I’m ostensibly doing this for. I can’t just take some in the evenings, or I can’t sleep. It makes me more distant emotionally. My wife can instantly tell if I’ve taken Adderall, and not in a good way. My sense of humor changes, more cutting and rude. I take a drug that changes what interests me. I don’t take it on the weekends, because I’m terrified I’ll develop a tolerance, as happened once before. Tolerance doesn’t mean all effects (including side effects) are diminished. When tolerant the emotional effects seemed to scale linearly, bizarre things like crying on the kitchen floor because my wife didn’t want to talk about Austrian economics at 6am, but the concentration effect would level off and I’d feel foggy. So I sleep 14 hours on weekends, giving me even less time away from work and with my family. Vacations are the best because my wife says I’m “the man she married again” after a few days off the meds. I feel good but maaan am I unmotivated.

I’m not saying I live in some dystopian nightmare. My life is so much better for it. Adderall has made me a firmly middle class citizen, it took me a year and a half of not taking it to realize without it (and propranolol, which reduces anxiety by just a tiny bit), there’s no way I can work a developer job. So every three months I pay the doctor, then pay the pharmacist, and I get a pill that fundamentally alters who I am.
I’ve generally considered websites being able to access gyroscope data without asking to be surprising and invasive: why isn’t there a permission prompt before Safari provides access to this?
Here! Always fun seeing Clear Lake mentioned on HN!
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