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There's a great talk by Brian Cantrill about Leadership principles [0] which also includes a discussion of the Amazon Leadership principles. He argues that Amazon's leadership principles actually aren't helpful and don't make much sense and I tend to agree.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QMGAtxUlAc

(The part about Amazon starts around minute 26, but I recommend watching the whole talk)
I don't think that this is a serious response but it deserves a rebuttal anyway. 80% of millionaires in the USA are first generation. Of that other 20% basically none goes back to slavery. Slavery made some people quite wealthy but it doesn't scale the way a modern corporation does so we are talking multi millionaires not billionaires. That level of wealth just doesn't last that long. One side of my family were slave owners in north Carolina and that money didn't even make it to my grandfather. Anecdotal but that's usually how it goes.
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They don't take a cut, they take the whole thing. The money goes straight to the company, and in return they promise to display the petition more prominently within the website itself. (They also occasionally use it to fund advertising to the website itself, as in the case of George Floyd.)
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And to complete the loop, the HN link at the top of that doc: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8450147 (which for some reason never turned to a live hyperlink for me, I had to use the PDF version to extract it)
Sorry, where was "data manipulation" mentioned or implied before you mentioned it?

Grand Solar Minimums like the Maunder Minimum are a different beast from the shorter-term 11-year solar cycle, so I'm not sure why you brought up the former. Also, the Maunder Minimum is not the only (or the biggest) contributor to the Little Ice Age, if that's what you're implying. If another Grand Solar Minimum were to arrive, it'd only offset the equivalent of 3 years of current CO2 concentration growth: https://climate.nasa.gov/blog/2953/there-is-no-impending-min...
Can't read the article since it's behind a paywall. But how do they define rich?

How much of this is simply because most successful entrepreneurs are in the top 10%?

What percentage of the population is entrepreneurs?

Why should anyone be surprised that kids are following in their parents footsteps?
So much this. I remember being so excited that Map and Set were added to the language, only to find that they were worse than useless for objects. At least Set can be handy in a pinch, but I have never seen an actual usecase for Map that isn’t solved better with plain old JS objects. Curious if anyone else has?
There's a lot we don't know though. We don't know how long ago that was or what she was told to expect as far as salary increases go. Plus, Change.org is 14 years old now so I wouldn't really call it a startup anymore.
Nowadays I use Clojure as my primary general purpose programming language.

As far as sweet spots go, due to pervasive immutability, I think it can be a good choice anytime you're dealing with concurrency.

If you're dealing with relatively straightforward web applications, outside certain specialized scenarios (and certain really bad choices) I don't think language choice matters.
The trolls presumably picked on SparkFun rather than ARM because the latter has the resources to fight back hard.
No, to be even “the least charitable read of the situation” it would have to be a remotely tenable reading of the situation.

It's the most actively looking for the opportunity to regurgitate shallow canned complaints kneejerk reaction to the title in isolation.
If you like these life-saving type of experiences, I encourage adrenaline sports. Whitewater kayaking, big mountain skiing, etc. Having done these for years I can say there are opportunities every season to save a life and to have my own saved by someone else. It is exhilarating.
It's not that MS couldn't. I am sure they have the resources, had they really wanted to. But they just didn't see the incentive since their own browser, IE, was well and truly dead. Capturing the market again starting from level zero just wasn't attractive enough. Instead Chromium offered them the best of both worlds. No need to do the grunt work, but they can now still bundle their browser with their OS and try to grab usage share from Chrome and Firefox, by offering the added attractions of deep OS integration and installed by default. If Edge ever become a serious competitor to Chrome then MS's influence within the Chromium project and web standards will become bigger and bigger, serving as a soft obstacle against absolute Google monopoly. They also always have the option to maintain more and more parts of the Chromium code base independently.
It's all about the incentives. You have to decide what you want, a criminogenic environment or fairness.
What are you talking about? Biden had already won when Trump was banned.
Blaming others for your position in life will not change your situation. Divisiveness through lies like this, when there are plenty of examples to refute it, is not the solution. You are radicalizing the discussion on a topic only unity can tackle, and that will not end well.
Why do you assume all that work is engineering? I mean you’re probably right that comparatively the number of people who actually work on the site itself are teeny tiny. But then there’s the whole rest of the business — admin, finance, accounting, sales, marketing, design, support.

Like $15m ARR and a $300m valuation isn’t “a website.”
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Just FYI, they cite a paper here: http://www.andrewoswald.com/docs/entrepre.pdf
This is a really interesting post, let down by a vague title.

The author describes a system they created to help remote health centers in Thailand and Cambodia send disease cases in a structured way via SMS, while working around the difficulties of teaching people to send text messages in those languages (which have a lot of letters, often not made available on handsets).

Their solution was a cardboard disc wheel which could generate numeric codes that could be more easily sent.

The post is from 2010 - I'd love to read a follow-up on this project.
The visual that made it click for me was at 18:54 in the original video[0]. It shows the air hitting the propeller losing kinetic energy which becomes the energy ultimately making the vehicle go.

I also don't know how you can watch the treadmill video and doubt it after seeing it go up the treadmill unless you believed it was a complete hoax.

[0] https://youtu.be/jyQwgBAaBag?t=1134
I think it should be used to make a pure-Rust Tor Browser, since Rust memory safety is essential to preserve anonymity and there are already expectations that full web functionality isn't be available.
What is the timeline for the Android version of the app to be available? Is there a way I can sign up for a notification on the website when this comes available?

I would be very interested in this for my father's chronic pain but he currently only has an Android device.
Afaik refinement types (e.g. LiquidHaskell) are bit more appropriate than dependent types for this sort of thing
Until they build a fake Chrome window with the correct URL... https://twitter.com/chokotrix/status/1376979077748375553
Given that this is a heavily-trafficked tourist area, I can't help but suspect that the volcano researcher's discovery was likely already well-known to the locals. I mean, one would expect that CO2 concentrations of 80% in one place would cause a lot of animal deaths, not to mention be a severe health/safety threat to unwary tourists.
thank goodness those never need repairing and aren't essential, heavily-used pieces of hardware /s

This is as toothless/pointless as passing a law that says you have the right to a discrimination-free workplace, except that racism and sexism are ok. These exclusions make the law useless for most people.
This is just more of the pervasive attitude of grievance and blame gaming we have these days. Yes, some entrepreneurs come from rich families. But many more are for example, the immigrants that come here and have no choice but to become an entrepreneur to support their families. Entrepreneurs are everywhere. They are running pop ups at the flea market. They cook your food in the restaurants. There's a +billion entrepreneurial hustlers in the world doing whatever it takes to feed their families, without bitching about their situation. Stop letting idiots build imaginary barriers to your life outcome. Just go find a way and do it.
The Python version is also goofy since it doesn't support keyword arguments for the wrapped function:

def memoize(func):
cache = {}

def wrapper(*args):
if args in cache:
return cache[args]
else:
cache[args] = func(*args)
return cache[args]
return wrapper

and why wouldn't you just use

# or @functoolscache (3.9+).
@functools.lru_cache(maxsize=None)
def f(*args, **kwargs):
pass
I think it was a reasonable point. Inter-generational wealth transfer is very durable over time. Whether or not someone inherits "house money" (and can plan their lifestyle and tolerance for risk according to that expectation) still corresponds to closely to race in the US.

A family history of slavery might not necessarily be the cause, but having ancestors who were allowed into the property club, at a time in the past when there was still headroom to pump appreciation faster than inflation, makes a difference in what people inherit.
> the troll can almost always just drop the suit and then you have no claim against them

I do not believe that would suspend an inter partes review [1]. Of course, if this method of relief is not available the above wouldn't work.

[1] https://www.uspto.gov/patents/ptab/trials/inter-partes-revie...
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I would think the SEC fines would be senior to investors, but it seems the SEC never filed to recover them in bankruptcy court. As noted pedophile Woody Allen once said, 80% of success in life is showing up.
https://www.howhotwillitget.com, I made an overview of future climate scenarios of each country worldwide with the latest predictions by the World Bank, maybe this is what you are looking for. :)
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My best advice would be on two fronts that mutually benefit each other:

1. Start taking pride in what you do. This isn't just work, but everything. You'll slowly start becoming someone (at work) who doesn't want to demo something "meh" because you'll be embarrassed. If you take pride in your work, everyone else will too, because it'll be good.

2. Realize that what you do isn't for the company; it's for your fellow teammates. They depend on you. If you are late with your work, produce shoddy work, etc. then they can't get their stuff done. They miss time away from their family because they are cleaning up after you or working around your short-comings. You do your best to help them, and in-turn they'll do the same for you.

Both of these will apply to any job you have and any position. Anyway, a strong work ethic is a symptom, not a solution. Do the above and the two things you wanted will fall into place.

The only time the above can be tricky is if you have one of those "thankless" jobs. These are almost always behind-the-scenes people who make everyone else's job possible, but people rarely think about them (think janitors and IT). With those jobs it really pays to be a strong self-motivator and work for a company where those jobs are recognized for the contributions they provide.
And that’s fine, every company finds their balance. Usually a year down the road they’ll have a round of layoffs and get closer to their equilibrium.
financial risk is proportianal to how much money you have, abd it has always bothered me that people think its a huge risk to start a company as a really rich person. its not! doesnt mean its not hard to start one successfully, but you are essentially stealing valor from poorer people if you try to claim your risk was the same.
>Defamation is a great way for those with money to silence dissent and avoid any consequences.

Your comment seems to fit the profile of Brewdog, a UK based 'craft brewery'. They are known for deliberately courting controversy. The egregious examples include frivolous claims on trademarks, misogyny, bullying, harassment, amongst toe-curling and churlish behaviour, when they appeared on a BBC programme Who's The Boss. The latest 'Gold Can' escapade is another deceptive marketing campaign, which is their raison d'être. The strategy works, as it is doing them no harm and the growth is phenomenal.

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https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2016/03/brewdog-boss-regre...

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57650685
Exactly. Once I realized I didn't like Amazon's tactics, I started switching to other sellers. For example, I now buy books on bookshop.org. For every type of product I want, I've managed to find a decent alternative either online or locally.
Sure, but that's not what the article says... The article says that these genes appeared to prevent humans from getting wasted - as in becoming less tolerant to alcohol.

Unless there was an epidemic of people getting wasted - and dying from it - in the same decade as some other terrible event, the argument doesn't hold.
They're soon going to "have (a) problem" when the Colorado River starts to have the predicted shortages this year. Those golf courses might have to skip a watering or two.
I guess it goes back to 'scratching an itch' when it comes to hobby contributions to open source. It's easy to contribute to something that solves one's own problems - and if the maintainer abandons it, someone else can fork and maintain it to fulfill their need.

But for projects set up by corporations, geared towards large scale problems, it would be difficult to keep them alive by random drive-by contributions from individual contributors.

Maybe what might save Servo is a company seeing a business opportunity by using it, like what happened with Firefox OS, or perhaps being adopted as something like a research project at a University department.
You don't bother to list new principles if you're already living up to them. Charitably, they are an attempt to refocus the company so these are lived up to in the future. Cynically, they are an attempt to use words to avoid needing to change anything in how Amazon operates.

With a new CEO, the more charitable version seems not impossible.
My Windows 10 Pro just got updated to Windows 11 for free via an update and I have no TPM module.
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Leadership principles aren't worth anything; it's just nice PR.

It's like a shark telling you it's gone vegan.
Any channels you might recommend?
> IMHO, most activists are exactly just that sort of monkey.

If you value accuracy in the analysis then you are doing yourself a disservice by only looking at the most ludicrous of street level activists and have somehow missed the incredibly wide variety such as the countless people who are highly highly educated and have strategically placed themselves in international roles in everything from attorneys, to the ceos of their own companies who are building interesting alternatives, and even ignoring the scientists who have been tirelessly and meticulously researching. And most of these who you seem to have missed are incredibly professional humans. Yet you’re trying to portray them as too stupid to realize something as basic as “We need to refrigerate our food.”

It would seem you’re willfully ignoring the decades of research and decades of many different other attempts to bring forward alternatives. They spent those decades of time and resources precisely because we need alternatives.

In my experience, these professionals make up the overwhelming vast majority of those fighting for our climate, I don’t know how you missed them, or if you didn’t miss their existence, I wonder why you’re implying they’re so rare.
I see people make this absurd argument applied to various subjects constantly on HN.

So a guy hits a triple, should I then say, "wow that guy hit a home run" because in business meetings "hitting a home run" means "doing a good job".

Or can we agree that when talking about baseball we probably shouldn't use the term home run to mean good job because that would be incorrect in this context specific setting.

Well, using the word damages in the general sense but in relation to a legal case is the same thing as calling a triple a home run. It's wrong, because the context makes it wrong.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. I went through the same process to create an LLC, and while the process was simple enough, once I had my attorney look over it, I realized that I needed to make changes that Atlas would not accommodate on their boilerplate. So instead I used a different, more established company to form the LLC.
Interesting article! I think there's an error though, where the first constraint should be expressed as "(5-x) + (x-5) = 10" (the author has "(x-5) + (x-5) = 10" currently).
Isn‘t it to be expected that there are a lot of entrepreneurs with „humble backgrounds“ because this pool of people is going to be a lot larger than the one with rich families?
> I wonder how this "troll" was "traced". Specially trained Twitter-hound? You don't just "trace" people on the internet.

Look up Kurt Eichenwald. He found and sued an anonymous Twitter troll who send him a GIF "you deserve a seizure" in 2017. I'm not sure exactly how, I think the authorities helped him, so Twitter just might've gave them the information.
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>The truth is, about 25% of new businesses in the US are started by first-generation immigrants.

So for me it seems like going to US makes you small outlier, the programming people that I know and went to US were really strong devs
This reminds me of one bug I introduced a long time ago:

This was a node backend, and there was some code that was recreating an object be reinserting all the key value pairs in a precise order so that that's how it would serialize in the json and then the UI depended on that order. But to me, it was just recreating the same object so I deleted that code, causing the bug.

In retrospect, I should have at least asked the committer what they were trying to do.

In my defense, this was before javascript guaranteed the insertion order would be the order kept.
Inflating headcount is a topic often discussed by economists. It causes huge inefficiencies but also benefits a bunch of people:

- manages get promoted

- CEOs justify increasing their salaries and bonuses

- allows taking away valuable employees from [potential] competitors

- when the headcount is big enough, companies acquire serious political weight

- often a branch or even an entire company can be used as training/proving ground to select the best employees to work on more valuable projects
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Aeolian mode is not a mode of the minor scale. It is that mode of the major scale we commonly refer to as the minor scale.
So if you call it a mode, its a mode of the major scale. Or you could call it a minor scale itself. But not a mode of the minor scale
Just get a seperate signal box and a big monitor?
I wasn't implying that lack of unions is the cause of high pay, just that unions are not a prerequisite.