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The most important bad decisions in the Boeing case were made in 2011-13, when they promised that the 737 Max would not require a new type certificate for someone with a 737 cert already, and that it would use the new, larger, and more efficient engines. At that point in time, the CEO of Boeing was James McNerney, who had a Harvard MBA, worked at P&G and McKinsey, then spent 20 years at GE (running their airplane engine business). When he lost the race to succeed Jack Welsh he went to 3M and then was picked to run Boeing.

At the time that these key bad decisions were made for the 737 Max, Dennis Muilenberg- the engineer you cite- was running the Boeing Integrated Defense side of the house and had no authority on the 737 Max. He does bear some responsibility for the Max- he was CEO when it first flew, got certified, was delivered to customers, and the first crash that was not investigated with appropriate speed- but the most important bad decision was made when a MBA was running the company.

International airliners and semiconductors are two areas where I've become convinced that engineering CEO's are required, because they both involve making 10 billion or more dollar investments that won't even enter the market for more than 5 years. So you need someone with a very good feel for technological possibility, one who understands that you can't bafflegab mother nature the way that Harvard's MBA school teaches you to.

It's possible I'm over-indexing on Boeing and Intel: Airbus' big recent fiasco- though since it didn't kill anyone it's not nearly as big as the 737 Max- the A380, was largely a commercial failure not an engineering one (by some estimates the A380 never even turned a profit on fly-away costs, totally ignoring development costs). So maybe having Harvard MBA's and market people would have saved them. On the other hand, when those key decisions were made (2000 was when the A3XX was approved) Airbus had a convoluted two CEO-two Chairman structure designed (to this American's jaded eye) to prevent any personal responsibility from leaching back to the bosses, so I can't tell you who was in charge when the wrong decisions were made for that program.
Emigration is a serious and non-trivial matter. Do you have any idea on how expensive, and in many cases risky, it is?

https://money.cnn.com/2017/05/08/investing/china-eb5-visa-tr...

https://www.propublica.org/article/operation-fox-hunt-how-ch...

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-ui...
The audacity to demand otherwise is just absolutely staggering.
Do you think we should have more doctors in the UK? You are aware of the bottlenecks preventing that from happening? Do you think that it's just a question of money?
> OP is talking about a full grown adult. Not a child.

This is an interesting tangent to me. What makes a full grown adult? Is it being able to drive a car? Being able to serve in the military? Being able to drink? Vote? In the state where I grew up, these were all different ages.

And then there’s the scientific notion of when the brain is “finished” developing and maturing in the mid- to late-20s.
Conversely, how can we blame the government for failing to provide the benefits taxes are supposed to fund when people are cheating on their taxes? The reality is that tax cheaters are stealing not from the government, but from other citizens: cheaters and honest folk alike benefit from social services, but the latter pay for them.
> It seems that the company could remotely connect to a terminal on every sign.

What a red flag... they basically had a backdoor to everyone's home network.
> and file off the serial number.

Which would be dumb, because the serial number can easily be recovered in a lab and is an easy 10 years in jail and way to get feds to pick up the case.
Here's a more readable version I came across: https://gist.github.com/nwh/60eb3115754e68f2d1c46aa31961b660
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I'd also like to see that. Might be hard though--if you're studying untrained individuals in a 6 week program, they're going to see such massive gains in their deadlift that I don't think programming will make much difference. I would rather see a study on experienced lifters over 6 months, but that's probably not going to happen.
This is all true, however I don't think very many people keep $100,000, let alone $250,000 in their bank account. There are far more lucrative places to park your money.
The nature of something that has an inelastic demand, like guns or drugs (for very different reasons) is that by increasing the scope of regulated exchange or outright bans, you just create pressure for creativity and innovation to solve the problem that it's "too hard to make at home".

Yes, regulating ammo will make it harder for the average person to access.

But, it will also drastically increase the amount of people experimenting with making powder at home and/or develop novel solutions to weapons making that are even harder to control, like very high power air rifles or electrically driven railguns.

The pressure for this kind of innovation currently doesn't really exist, because ammunition is readily accessible. If we want to start regulating it, we have to acknowledge that we may be creating pressure to develop a future where alternative solutions that can't be easily controlled have flooded the black market.

Ultimately, bullet control is the same problem as gun control. It's treating a symptom rather than the disease. Since the symptom of gun violence is not an existential threat to our society, it absolutely seems like a waste of effort and political capital that should instead be targeted at the root reason for eruptions of deadly violence, whatever the tools.
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It's missing a key part, which is the decontextualization of the cultural element being adopted.

In another comment you wrote "Please, by all means, spread matzoh ball soup as far and as wide as you can. It's delicious." What if I took a recipe for cholent, added sour cream and cheese and some kind of shrimp ball, and sold it to people under the name "Authentic Jewish Matzo Ball Soup"? Imagine if that food product exploded in popularity and suddenly people that have never interacted with Jewish culture or food are talking about and making a "matzo ball soup" that contains beef, dairy, and shellfish (but no matzah).

That's all fine, to you, I'm sure.

Not all cultural appropriation is aggressive. Cultural exchange happens and not everything keeps cultural context. Japan loves to adopt bits of other cultures without context, and I don't think people are upset about that.

An imbalance of power can compound the issue. Back to the bastardised soup. A "regular joe" altering a recipe for a traditional Jewish food to repackage it and sell to a wide audience can be excused in a number of ways. But what if a violent antisemite was engaging in that kind of behaviour? Would that change anything for you?
I have seen half a dozen otherwise useful projects retired or criticized because "the original developers are all gone and no one understands it any more."

The code worked, and continued to work, and didn't need really active development, so the org decided the project's programmers should move on to something new, or that the knowledge they have isn't especially valuable, and the programmers aren't worth keeping happy.

And a couple of years later, no one knows how to update the code for a changing outside environment, updated input styles or whatever. And all that investment is gone.
That's a really good process that scales forever even if you have a good person for it. Once you want to have more people do it, I find it easier to have hard-coded timeouts that cancel and rollback if the migration will be locked. I've also done auto rollback in these cases.
People are talking about MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL and the like in this thread of discussion. And suddenly you're talking about local userspace programs on Linux?

There's a web-bias in the discussion. Database here is innately concurrent, such as when you and I submit a comment to this webpage (Hacker News), the ordering of our submissions are ill specified and effectively random.

A proper database organizes the data (ex: PostgreSQL) so that its in a form that's well defined.

This is true for even the smallest of web servers. Concurrency and concurrent access is fundamental to web applications today. I know PHP has access to raw files if you ever wanted them, but its definitely a dangerous proposition to be doing raw file access on web apps. There's just too much risk of data corruption.
The Tesla changed lanes and came to a stop in the middle of a bridge for no reason.

Would you make excuses for a human that did that while conscious and not in any kind of distress?
"It's not management's fault because engineers should expect to and put up with managers treating them harshly (yelling, shaming) when they are doing the right thing"?

Is this really the defense we're using?
It's a feature not a bug.
the thing here that gets me c when compared to software is they had a schedule and they hit it early. This can happen in software, I think the appstore/iphone sdk is an example of having a date to hit and sticking to it, but it’s rare. I’d love to read an article about how the development of the iphone sdk and app store was managed, to see if it parallels these conclusions from the Empire State Building.
Good point! I added " -- expect in extreme circumstances, like war" to the last paragraph. Thank you.
I've had great experiences doing this.
Was the $1b donated to the non-profit? That’s what I would want to know. Every time I hear non profit, I just assume it’s for tax avoidance.
> if they did get a living wage then prices would go up and the living wage would be more and the cycle would repeat...

that's not how the world works

if they were paying them a "living wage" then they wouldn't hire low-skilled teenagers at all; if you raise the price of salmon roe to the same by weight as caviar, few people will buy salmon roe instead of caviar

and this is exactly what happens irl: "minimum" wage laws increase teenage unemployment, preventing them from getting experience, which no one (other than economists) factors into "wages"

"minimum" wage laws drive salaries down from low to zero (i.e. unemployment) for low-skilled workers, preventing them from getting more skilled
>How large / where is is your place if your neighbors pay $8000 a month to rent it?

I didn't say my rent was $4,000 a month. I said my monthly nut (rent, utilities, insurance, ISP, excluding food, clothing, transportation, medical expenses, etc., etc., etc.) was ~$4,000/month.

My place is significantly smaller than a double-wide trailer. And my rent bill is my business and that of my landlord.[0]

Have a good day!

[0] Since rent stabilized leases have an upper limit to the rent charged to remain rent stabilized, you can get an upper limit to that with a little research. Good luck.

Edit: Added additional info about my rent.
No... if you have some messed up system that involved that process to filter people from your life, you're the bad guy, yeah. Not just on the internet, either.
Handguns have always been extremely tightly controlled in Canada.

Even before the recent sales ban you couldn't have one at home unless it was locked away - it's not like you can have it in your bedside drawer. The only time you can transport it anywhere is to/from the gun range. In transit it must be locked away, and you have to get a permit to make that drive.

Also note you're in big trouble if you get caught buying groceries on the way to/from the gun range and you have the handgun locked in your trunk.

It has always been illegal to carry a handgun on your person, and you can't hunt with them either.

Note: I have a "non-restricted" firearms license, which means shotguns & long rifles (bolt action, small magazines), and it's fairly straightforward to get the license to own those weapons. They dropped the "long gun registry" a few years back because stats show crimes are not committed with long guns. That means long guns are no longer registered, the government has no idea who owns what in terms of long guns. Handguns are a WHOLE different story.
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In Europe, the regulated part of the gun is typically the high pressure components, i.e. the barrel and bolt. In the US and I guess Canada, it's the receiver. The thing is, machining the former is much more difficult and involved than printing / cutting / grinding / assembling the latter — unless you're making a single use weapon, in which case any old steel tube of the right diameter will do anyway.

The problem is not 3D printed guns, it's inadequate regulation.
It's a much better piece than I expected. Still direct and simple enough, but tackles an important issue and is long enough to give it the treatment it deserves.

I can definitely relate to the change in how identity is understood compared to Shrier's teenage years (or to mine, for that matter). The modern version just feels like a weird exercise in box-collecting. It's bizarre to see how what people get excited in modern fiction is "[Character] has [identity marker X]!" The excitement isn't about the character being awesome, or deep, or relatable. It's about a stupid box.

> The self is not found but made, because meaning is made. Rather than be unearthed like buried treasure, meaning is laboriously created, often by doing hard things. I cringe a bit recalling the person I was in my twenties, because she represented an early stage of an ongoing project that I have modified much in the years since. My twenties were an early draft of a manuscript whose sentences I have revised, pruned, and qualified. Ideally, if I keep forcing myself to do hard things, the later drafts of my eternally incomplete manuscript will be more captivating.

Here, though, she goes wrong a little. Meaning is made is a somewhat iffy choice of words because it implies we can decide that things are meaningful and I think most of us will agree that it doesn't quite work that way. Yet Shrier is right that by doing hard things you will oftentimes create a sense of meaning, but that meaning is found in the process of engaging with the world, not decided by human will.
conveniently replaces Academia with Science. People are not paid for science, but for being academics

You can BS your way even to High journals as an academic. You cannot fall, unless you are cancelled. There is little downside once you made your way in.

In finance you can lose all your money. In literature , all your audience.
> It sounds like your deployment and provisioning infrastructure is sub-par.

If you want to add supporting details to that — like, any at all — then we can have a discussion. The rest of your comment doesn't actually relate to anything I said.
That's what AMD said.
I used LISP and APL professionally for, in the aggregate, over ten years. My current opinion on these languages is that software engineers would benefit greatly from learning and understanding them, yet it would be a mistake to use them for any modern work.

When I say "learning" I mean in-depth application over, perhaps, a year, not something superficial. The question is how. I don't really have an answer for that. You have to find reasonably complex projects to be able to spend that much time with a language. That's the problem. I was getting paid to use these languages back then. Who wants to do non-trivial work in these languages today. Not many.
> So... how do you handle this?

By not giving in. My social life is nobody's business but mine.

If I'm asked to share something on my social media accounts, I tell them no.

If they need me to share on social media, they'll need to set up a social media account for me on which to share.

I don't mix work with personal.
This is the text of the license from this repo [1]. Seems pretty open to me?

About this license

The Responsible AI License allows users to take advantage of the model in a wide range of settings (including free use and redistribution) as long as they respect the specific use case restrictions outlined, which correspond to model applications the licensor deems ill-suited for the model or are likely to cause harm.

[1] https://huggingface.co/CompVis/stable-diffusion-v-1-4-origin...
Should people low-cost-of-life areas pay taxes to subsidise people in high-cost-of-life areas?

If one area gets stupidly expensive to live at, maybe people should get their affairs in order accordingly?
what's the btu on your ng burner?
> Walmart earns $13k of profit across each of their 2m employees. One could make the argument that if Walmart had to pay each employee an extra (say) $3k annually [1], management would instead choose to shut the whole thing down and return capital to the shareholders, which would be a choice available to them.

Honest question: why not make it $5k or $10k?

Is there something magic about $3k that leaves Walmart employees unaffected, and — if so — why will $5k not achieve this?
> true. If we talk about percentage of income, the lower and middle classes subsidise everyone else.

No. The top 1% pays a greater share of total taxes (state, local, and federal) than it’s share of total income: https://itep.org/who-pays-taxes-in-america-in-2019/

> Short of a few outliers such as some Nordic countries that appear to have figured it out (at least for now), everyone else is in the same boat.

Ironically, the Nordic countries shift more of the overall tax burden to the middle class than the US: https://taxfoundation.org/publications/how-scandinavian-coun...

In Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, the top tax rates kick in at just 1.3-1.6x the median income. They all rely heavily on VAT, which is regressive. All have low corporate tax rates, and apart from Denmark, they also have competitive capital gains tax rates.
It's not to stop honest human innovation, but rather to stop machine learning algorithms from stealing your work for use in massive training sets.

Think of the training data as content, not code.

You are free to use the WordPress application to create your own website, but that doesn't mean you can plagiarize the content off of the WordPress homepage. That is what machine learning does.
Not sure how it is in SF. But I have noticed too many people on highway looking at their phones (even if it is illegal).

On the other side I do not understand why this 'Autopilot' is not banned from the public roads.
It's more of a work culture, I think. Remember the swordsmiths, potters, builders, etc., their dedication and know hows. People are used to this and respect this. Noone blames them. And over centuries the culture of masters, schools and trade secrets only hardened. It's not a surprise these practices are hard to let go of.
Good luck proving that without evidence. You can see a number of youtube videos of people trying to perpetuate break checks as an insurance scam. Sometimes break checking alone doesn't work so they reverse into you. Relying too hard on simple heuristics creates these problems and additional evidence such as dash cams can help.
There's also this one from a previous Show HN https://pianochord.io
I'm sorry but can you list a single stock with 15% dividend with track record for paying that out consistently?

15%+ growth (considering they pay taxes and have expenses other than dividend) consistently will reach astronomical numbers pretty quick.
The "four pacemakers" where "every one of these workflows was separate from the other workflows" could be read like an argument for microservices, doesn't it? I assume it's harder to make software as independent as say windows and floors, but I find it interesting to think about.
The racial and ethnic slant is also hard to miss. If the NYC underground economy is indeed the only thing keeping minorities afloat, that means the economy is dependent on exploiting minority communities (keeping them working in illegal ventures, preventing upward mobility).

You nailed it, only it applies to most of the country and not just New York. The shoddy enforcement and looking the other way is the cost of doing business. Enforce too much and it collapses.
> This is pretty disingenuous given that I believe Teslas have probably covered by far the most miles with an "advanced driver assistance system".

I'm not sure that this is true given almost every Honda sold since 2019-ish (and a big proportion for years prior to that) has had ADAS features included and enabled by default, most notably Automated Emergency Braking.
I agree with that but it seems like the Tesla basically cut off the driver to their left while changing lanes (while signaling) but also coming to a stop. Really weird behavior to see, of course, but this honestly doesn't seem like much of a "safe driving distance" thing to me.
The phrase usually used is a "leaky bucket". Sure a company can operate in a neutral space, but it's unlikely that overtime their revenue growth will match their customer churn.

At the same time, a lack of growth limits how much can be invested on staying relevant in terms of R&D which further separates them from competitors with a positive growth trajectory.

Its also incredibly hard to kickstart a growth engine once it has slowed down. The net result is a flywheel but in the opposite direction.

PE buys companies like this to slow that negative growth flywheel down attempting to stay neutral until the investment is paid off at which point profit can be made.

The long tail is massive attrition as well, because few people want to work at a sinking ship or rather a ship unwilling to invest internally.

Neutral isn't bad, but it's very hard to exist.
It's not "gone", it served its purpose. Software is born, lives, and dies. By the time a project is 3-4 years old, unless it is a core central service, the business (if it is competing successfully) has most likely moved far beyond the initial assumptions laid out at its' creation.
I don't know of any fully featured services, but something like Fiver (https://www.fiverr.com/) in combination with services like JLBPCB (https://jlcpcb.com/) or PCBWay (https://www.pcbway.com/) could act as an equivalent.

An integrated combination or even a board design offering from either of the two mentioned manufacturers would be awesome and really help bring down the barrier to entry for hobbyists that want to try moonlighting as entrepreneurs
Coinbase doesn't offer margin.
Income generating assets in industries that are resilient during recessions. Oil and gas, rental property, bedrock consumer goods like toilet paper, owning a business that has cash flow you can access. Diversify.
In casual conversation, or in a specific legal/regulatory context, or what?

Are the "stock options" something that one of the founders said over beers that they'd give to everyone next year, or signed-and-notarized-and-your-lawyer-says-it's-ironclad paperwork in your hands, or somewhere in between?

(What? No, I've never been burned on this. /s)
I'm not sure the argument that regulations are the cause of decreased social mobility is valid. Germany who have regulatory framework much closer to France than to the US, has lower youth unemployment than the US. The US in general has quite low social mobility compared to many more regulated economies (e.g. the Scandinavian countries typically rank amongst the highest on social mobility despite strong regulations).
Really? I wasn’t aware you could send $1k for Pennie’s like you can with Bitcoin. Very cool!
It's a fruit where I live.
Even if you solved that, you'd still have problems with knives (you can't outlaw kitchen knives), homemade explosives, sticks, screwdrivers, acid, etc.

Mental health, crime, and drugs (also, again crime related to those), and you've solved most of the problems. Just legalizing some drugs would probably solve more than half of the issues in some places.