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They are a very popular discount (I guess a bit like Walmart, but this is not a 1:1 analogy). The article mentions cloud for the retailers and 70 cloud specialists. It think this is far from AWS scale and judging by the article I’d expect they (will) offer services for European retailers rather than general purpose global cloud.

They are good in their core business, and I’m sure this means logistics, marketing, etc. but does it translate to potential operational efficiency in cloud infra I honestly don’t know. It may, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Of course life is anything but absolute. We know that as a fundamental aspect of life. The point of avoiding those statements is that they don't add anything of value when used in the best case and in the worst case weakens the strength of the points you are making by sowing uncertainty. Note that expressing degrees of certainty is still fine as long as it actually expresses the degree of certainty. Additionally, note that this is for professional discussions. In everyday speech use whatever is most comfortable but removing these phrases from all aspects of your professional life can be immensely helpful.

As examples:

"I/We think X is (possibly) the cause of Y issue." Why should anyone care that you think X is the cause? Even more so if you only think that it might be or could possibly be the cause? Instead you should be answering "I/We know A, B, and C are happening which all point towards X as the source of Y." The difference is that by avoiding "I think" you are forced to provide a summary of the facts/evidence that brought you to your evidence. If this is too technical for the discussion, you are going into too much detail. In that case, instead go for "We have tracked down a source of issue Y and are taking steps to resolve it." and if necessary go into the externalities of this such as how much time and resources you will need to resolve issue Y. An important differentiation is that this approach to explaining the issue forces you to demonstrate your progress and not just speculate as you either go into details, you don't go into detail and they have faith in your team, or they ask you to explain and you have a neat trail of facts and evidence to detail your progress.

"We've just about wrapped up preparation for the launch and we hope everything goes smoothly." For most people in leadership, this sets off alarm bells. In the back of their heads they are asking "What do you mean we hope everything goes smoothly? What if it doesn't? What then?" It should be evident to everyone in the room that everyone hopes the launch goes smoothly. It may not be the intent but in this case, your expressed hope is suggesting that you haven't prepared for things not going as planned. The alternative is either just dropping off everything after the "and" in that sentence or replacing it with a brief summary of how you've prepared for if things go wrong.

I include these as examples particularly because I've both heard people get bitten by saying these and myself getting bitten by it as well. I would have come up with more examples however I'm too tired to at the moment.

Ultimately the purpose is avoiding meaningless filler, not discrediting your knowledge or performance, and avoiding speculating in such a way that you are dodging responsibility in the case that your speculation was wrong. This is by no means an end all rule but as a habit to train yourself to maintain your appearance and avoid putting your foot in your mouth, it is an excellent tool.
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Well the lack of numbers is a bit disappointing. I admit I'm not interested enough to really dig in but I do find the results interesting. And they did shoot down the previous advice I was given, which is to have everyone set aside time to write down some ideas before the meeting. It seems the presence of the group itself is a strong motivating factor.
I suspect that this may of came about due to the cancelation of a half a billion SAP migration and need to update their own internal systems.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lidl-cancels-sap-introduction...
I'm currently getting a 500 on the link. Here's [1] an alternative source, originally in German but put through Google Translate.

There's three things to note there: it's not Lidl itself, but the parent company doing this, and the plans were announced late last year. Also they're building out the infrastructure for internal use first and are not necessarily looking to offer a cloud to customers, though they may work with select other companies.

EDIT: I was able to load the original source just now and it claims that following an acquisition they were now offering/planning to offer this service to other retailers. I cannot find other sources (particular German ones) supporting this claim. The blog of the allegedly acquired company speaks of a "strategic partnership" and "investment" only [2].

EDIT 2: This [3] is the German source that the link on this post refers to. Unfortunately it's paywalled. The abstract claims that the acquisition is a "building block in building out their Cloud business".

[1] https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...

[2] https://camao.one/blog/partnerschaft-schwarz-gruppe-heilbron...

[3] https://www.lebensmittelzeitung.net/tech-logistik/Lidl-und-K...
This seems sufficiently unlikely that I wonder if something has been lost in translation.

My guess would be that Lidl does expect to do something innovative in e-commerce (around, say, augmented reality) and is planning to offer that as a service to other retailers, hence the comparison with Amazon's strategy. I can't believe that Lidl is planning to compete with S3 or EC2.
Europe, especially Germany, has this general consensus that EU needs it's inhouse large cloud providers. So think about state subsidies, preferring european partners and stuff like that.

With enough capital and will they will get to somewhere. You can be sure the political establishment likely has their back.
Oh my. I'd forgotten about scrolling text. Why did we do that? LOL
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Lidl is not world class, it’s just cheap.
Not sure if Sergey had one, but I saw Eric Schmidt's Tango parked near building 41 sometime in 2007.
Amazon was mostly still a book-seller when they first launched AWS, stranger things have happened. For what it’s worth Lidl has a respected IT presence in the Eastern-European capital city where I currently live, I know that they invested quite heavily in that area for a few years already.
not to mention the code for the online app is the same as your card pin ...
Can you use a known object which is illuminated by the sun?
I just tried postgres yesterday for the first time after years of being on mysql only.

I immediately got some warnings in pgadmin that some tables need to be vacuumed. Is this really necessary? Can i just vacuum everything at night on a cronjob?
> We're all closer to being millionaires than Jeff Bezos.

This is true in terms of orders of magnitude, but gets hilariously true when looking at the absolute numbers.

The difference in wealth of a homeless person and a (barely) millionaire is about a million ($1,000,000).

The difference in wealth of that millionaire and Jeff Bezos is about a Jeff Bezos ($138,999,000,000).
If Hetzner ( Also from Germany ) cant / isn't competing with AWS, why does Lidl thinks they can?

It then also mention Delivery in UK, and ecommerce projects. Which makes me doubt if the publication knows what AWS really is.

The whole piece ( If you can even call it a piece ) is very poor reporting, to the point I am thinking of should I be flagging this.

Edit: Please Read Comment by Cu3PO42 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23151233.
I really don't think the situation is simple enough that you can rationalize a decision to it in 15 seconds.
If the supplies required for Tesla workers to safely perform their jobs aren’t available, maybe they shouldn’t be reopening their factories. All this reopening is at the expense of the employees being prematurely forced to resume work. From what I’ve seen, those that are pushing for reopening aren’t the ones that are likely to actually contract the virus at their job.
It's Lidl's parent company that's launching the service, after buying a cloud provider. The headline is just stupid. It's equivalent to an article titled "Whole Foods runs AWS".
Also check out Project Magenta for MS FSX and Pr3par3d pro flight controls (FMC, etc.):

https://www.projectmagenta.com/

It's commercial software, but there's free demo versions of the controls, and a personal license is 600 euros, which is a good deal if it does what you want.
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Not sure if the title is ironic or actual clickbait.
I understand money is tight for a non-profit, but why are bandwidth costs a gating factor?

Both your upstreams, Cogent and Hurricane Electric, offer 100G ports at fiveish grand per month in carrier neutral DCs. Given that your budget is in the millions, an outlay of this magnitude doesn't seem wildly out of the question.

If you can explain what the problems are in getting more bandwidth, I'd be more than happy to see what I can do to help.

Please let me know if you'd prefer to discuss the matter over email.
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22945630
I would think so, too.
Considering that Lidl is the biggest discounter with around 11,000 branches worldwide, it might make sense for them to ditch AWS and set up their own, independent infrastructure.
I have been thinking about this lately. It started a while back when someone was asking me about which data science programs they were considering was best. I suggested NYU because of LeCun. Then recently I was discussing how having Google on your resume is a bit like having an ivy league university on your resume.

That got me thinking, a huge part of the reason why some people fight/pay to get into the best universities is so they can get into the best companies. Isn't the university just a middle man at this point?

Then my next thoughts are mostly along the lines in what is discussed in this article.
If this is the case it would make more sense. Just a note your link is still pointing to the same source.
Probably also worth noting that there are [stories of it happening before](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah).
American companies so far have been really bad at actually complying with regulations like the GDPR - many do on the surface level, but if you're a European company that wants to do things right and not take risks on the interpretation of things like "consent", suddenly your pool of potential third-party data processors drops significantly. There's a serious cultural issue there.
>The epidemiologists who have been advocating for lockdown have very explicitly ignored all of those sources of mortality entirely. They have only focused on COVID-19-attributable deaths and that's it.

Do you have a source for this?
How large are their resources? Keep in mind we are talking about clod computing here where the big 3 themselves should be doing 60-70 billion dollars in sales yearly, so large has to be relative to the Industry.
Home Depot is open because you need it to be open, say for essential repairs (broken water pipe or what have you). I think something like Home Depot is actually pretty high up on the list of essential things.

That people go there for non-essential reasons – sure. I think it’s a sound policy decision to say that you do not investigate the reasons why people go shopping. That would create complicated overhead and be hard to enforce.
We are quickly approaching the point where rationalizing Musk's words and actions becomes impossible. Maybe it's time to face the reality.

He seems to have no problem trading his science geeks following for QAnon crowd. Rather than grasping at increasingly thinner straws I wish him luck and hope it works for him.
Thank you very much for that lengthy explanation.
I experienced the fear of loss before and I was surprised how bad I handled it.
It's shortcircuting all rational decisions.
European (BE) here, no. They are just know for being cheap stores and have time to time crazy promo on an limited article. You can't even rly do all of your groceries there. Unless you only eat frozen chickens, chips, soda and vegetable cans.

Their website is slow af btw (4s to display a detail page).

So if they want to do an AWS like. They'll need to invest. Its not like Amazon : hey we've a bunch of unused servers why we don't rent them?
They own most of the brands. The production facilities are in Eastern Europe (mostly Poland) so they take advantage of cheap labor and huge volumes.
Standalone AR/VR headsets powered by 5G are expected for 2021
here is an archive http://archive.is/yICx0
Elon Musk has questioned the rule of law and he is getting away with it. USA, 2020: laws do not apply to rich white guys and do not protect poor blacks.

Not that this is anything new. Here's what Google says about the rule of law for Americans and Canadians. I didn't even need to click the results, just screenshot the result snippets. https://i.imgur.com/TO2XUco.jpg Somehow it magically becomes not difficult to define the moment you cross the 49th parallel.
> Paying for the party...

Interesting concept, I went ahead an ordered a copy on Amazon. Not sure when it will arrive as all my USPS stuff has seen a 5-7 day delay, but looks like it's worth exploring.

I actually declined all the offers to be included in several 'rush week' inductions, I despised 'campus life' by the end of my incoming Summer Freshman year. And the notion of 'paying for my friends' was not just alien to me, but counter intuitive as I was already living and working alongside Pro-drivers, Industry leaders in Motorsports by the time I was 17 and going to Industry parties and gatherings by 19.

Later in my upper division courses I found out how critical getting a passing grade was less about what you knew, then who you knew as the Frats were running exams. Funny enough, some of those Frats would also get caught in a Drug Sting by the Federal Government that year, too.
Suspiciously cheap? I love to shop at Lidl because they're great value for money. Quite often the quality is better than more expensive supermarkets but at a much lower price. Also by and large they're very consistent.

They fulfill the adage that "you don't need a lot of choices, just one good choice."
> predicts hundreds, if not thousands, of brick-and-mortar universities will go out of business

That’s only possible in places where universities are businesses. Elsewhere (most of Europe for instance), it would be super easy to counter this trend: don’t give the new comers the national habilitations that make the awarded degrees recognized and thus worth something.
Aren't the costs of getting that data out of the backup much larger than the cost of keeping it in the first place, to the point that when you actually need to restore a large backup, it turns out it was better to have been managing it yourself? That's the impression I got from various HN comments on the topic over the years.
Hi, it seems that the link is showed as suspicious because it starts with HTTP:// instead of https://. Google is very strict about it.

I work for Elastic Email and I don't recall any problems from our side lately.
"Lucky imaging" is not a widely used technique in astronomy. There is generally no shortage of photons in earth observation, however, so it could work quite well on spy satellites.

A much more common technique is adaptive optics. A wavefront sensor measures the incoming signal from a reference star (or laser guide star) and deforms the mirror to compensate. I wouldn't be surprised if adaptive optics is also used on spy satellites though I can't imagine what they would use for a reference.

As other commenters have mentioned, you are always going to be limited by the diffraction limit of the telescope, which is a function of the mirror size and wavelength.
I never said they altruistically paid it. All I am saying is that without them, we couldn't have paid for it.
Surely it can't be that many. And if it is, that has to include janitors at their data centers.
They will probably not attempt to compete against AWS on everything but focus on the core cloud technologies using off the shelf software and hardware. An alternative of EC2, S3, and ELB is already interesting and many companies provide that with fewer employees.

No need to waste resources on products such as AWS Greengrass, or AWS Lumberyard, or even AWS EKS.
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But we know there are more than 1% cases.

We have good data that the IFR is in the 0.1-1% range, putting cases in say MA in the 7% range a couple of weeks ago (time from infection to death), which based on confirmed cases would put it well above 10% now

That means you’d have 1k false positive and 10k true positive from a test.
I wonder if the self-deprecation might be a corporate branding thing? In Portugal a couple of years back there was a "marketing war" where one retailer's message went something like: "smart people buy with us" while Lidl's ads expressed something like "you don't have to be smart to buy at Lidl".
Huh, that it did. I have legitimately no idea how that happened, other than "copy paste shenanigans on my phone". I fixed it now.
> That is something I cannot support.

Then work with Alameda County to give permission to Tesla to reopen. What Elon Musk did, however, is openly defying the law.
As has become the norm when it comes to news about India; the article while making some good points, impugns and insinuates motives where there are none.

The situation is absolutely unprecedented and Indians are VERY THANKFUL that the government did the early lock-down for a month-and-half to contain the spread. This has dramatically cut-down the infection and death rates. In fact we have been watching aghast at the response shown by the so called "developed countries". All sorts of arguments have been trotted out to justify themselves but the truth is that they are directly responsible for many of the unnecessary deaths of their own people.

India with its unique characteristics i.e. huge population and density, poor infrastructure, insufficient medical resources, poverty/cleanliness limitations, a large unskilled/uneducated labour pool etc. needs a STRONG AND DRASTIC response if it is to avoid the fate of the most stricken countries of the world. We simply have no other options.

Thus in order to move out of a full lock-down, the govt. has designated red(full containment)/orange(partial containment)/green(relatively free) zones to restart economic activity. But people being people, how do you enforce it? By using technology to do comprehensive tracing of everybody using the "Aarogya Setu" app. There is no other way. Fortunately given that almost everybody(rich and poor alike) has a cellphone, this can be done by govt. mandate. All perceived problems w.r.t. "Big Brother/Surveillance State" etc. can be put on the back-burner for now until we are out of the current World War-Virus(WW-V) situation. While most Indians are onboard with this approach, there is a small vocal minority (mainly political/media folks) who are making noise simply due to their vested interests. This is unnecessary at this point and can be taken up after we are out of WW-V. We do know how to fight for our rights but this is not the time for it.
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That is literally something Amazon could do.
Everyone wants to believe they're somehow above the influence of advertising, while a large percentage still earn their income working for ad companies.

To them: If advertising doesn't work, what's your company selling? A lie?
> Apply the same to all sorts of manufacturing, agriculture and anything else that can be automated.

I see where you're coming from, but that only works with stable prices. Prices aren't stable. Technology, automation lowers prices (or increases quality). Your 2020 BMW is nothing like the 1970ies BMW, and had you wanted a 2020 BMW in 1970, you would've had to pay outrageous sums of money.

> TL;DR I guess I have a few random ideas about an ideal world where we use tech for building a star trek like society, where basics are no longer an issue and all we do is advance our society.

I believe the general issue is that it wouldn't be an issue at all if everyone was like you. The harsh reality is that most people are not. It's like anyone that read Kant and who felt the categorical imperative resonate with them, and they go "why do we need laws? I wouldn't act in a malicious way". We don't have laws to regulate their behavior, we have laws for the vast majority who didn't read Kant or don't care about what would happen to society if everybody acted like they do.

You likely live in somewhat of a bubble, your friends are usually similar to yourself etc. I have no doubt that a lot of your well-meaning ideas would work great with them. I also have little doubt that they won't with the population at large, because they are very different. It's like a bunch of people who read books talking about information dispersal, not keeping in mind that a large chunk of the target audience is functionally illiterate.

> Dont worry about people immigrating to the us - the very workers we automate out of jobs dread us highly skilled immigrants, as they dint see the benefits from our work - more than taking pictures with shiny new iphones - and they want us to stay out, by voting for Trump.

It's the high-skilled workers in the US who compete with high-skilled immigration, it's a benefit for the low-skill workers, as we'd usually bring know-how and taxes, create jobs and generally improve society. The low-skill workers vote for Trump to stop low-skill immigration, they don't mind high-tech billionaires like Elon Musk or Peter Thiel.
You don't generally ever need to manually trigger them, they happen automatically when needed
Do they have distributed backup?

Surely a lot of people would be happy to donate unused space on their drives (I know I would) - especially since backup wouldn’t use much bandwidth...
I'm pretty sure they could do it, on a German-speaking scene, which is sheltered in and of itself.
LidlCloud?
According to Wikipedia, Schwarz group had revenue of €104 billion in 2018/2019, while Amazon had revenue of $280 billion in 2019. The employee count of Schwarz group is 429k while for Amazon it's 840k.

So Amazon is double in size overall. It's not an impossible thing for them. That being said, I think their current ambitions are more limited by just running their own infrastructure.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)
I think at this scale we're no longer talking about buying drives, but securing a steady supply stream of them. So we're talking not $1MM, but a somewhat safe $1MM per year for it to be even worth considering.
The Schwarz-Group (which operates the LIDL brand among a few others) is huge. They do about 100 billion in revenue annually and have half a million employees or so.

However, I've never heard of them venturing into tech, although I guess it's possible. Walmart is pretty solid when it comes to tech, and there's certainly enough talent across Germany and Europe.
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