skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about recruiters but I am interested! Would you mind sharing those links here?
I like "from the archives." Or maybe "comments from past discussions"?

Although maybe a bit too scifi, in my family we call these kinds of archival history factoids "the knowledge of the Krell" (from Forbidden Planet), in that if you absorbed it all, it would kill you.

Also, thank you for doing this, it's always appreciated from me! Super useful!
Gotcha. Many thanks!
As someone who understands nothing of linear algebra, I have to say this "introduction" was gibberish. He may be a fantastic teacher, and perhaps it's a bit much to expect a 4 minute video to teach me anything, but it reminds me of talks from business people where what they're saying is obvious if you already understand it, and completely obscure otherwise.
In Germany, their store managers do inventory manually, which means they have to order items they run low on, no tech insight. Their attempt at setting up SAP failed after burning 500 million on it.

Delivery robots, Amazon-style prototypes for cashier-less systems, heck, even Instacart like delivery are nowhere to be found. If Amazon decided to enter the German supermarket landscape, Lidl (also, Aldi and others) would be in serious trouble.
Professor Strang’s lectures helped me greatly during my linear algebra class. I thoroughly appreciated his clear, coherent lecture style.

On another note, he is such a nice guy. 10/10.
It's certainly not the job of corporations to save us, which is what I was getting at. Corps were around when Hitler rose to power, too.
I work with integration for large ecommerce systems and some of the services I work with are synchronizing orders between systems.

This means I've monitored a lot of data in regards of orders.

Generally speaking when looking at orders where payment has been rejected, it's rare that people try again. Most people just give up it seems.

I have never seen anyone try more than twice.

Of course it might not depict a realistic picture for this scenario but I can imagine my observation is somewhat general.

I imagine the reasoning for people not trying again is just that it can be tedious to type out information again or most people will think their card has been frozen etc. and will wait until their bank's opening hours to call and ask what's up etc. which means they don't try again because they assume the error has to do with their card or bank and not necessarily with the site they're paying on. That is sometimes also the reason of vague error messages.
I see. Many thanks.
They cancelled their SAP integration after dropping 500 million euros...

It might be a sign they're moving in the right direction, but it also tells me they are transitioning from a board and executive team that felt that was the right path quite recently.
Agreed, I think that the EU can look at any talent in their timezone (Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Belarus, Hungary etc.)
https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/top-12-international-... South Africa has the biggest bang for your buck, even for local jobs, having an international job and living in SA would be a great combo.
I remember that ages ago in Poland these were extremely popular, I used to see them everywhere:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duo_(Krankenfahrzeug)

Essentially a motorcycle with a cabin built around it. And yes, technically they were meant for disabled people - but during communist times getting an actual proper car(even a Fiat 126p) was extremely difficult - this perhaps less so.
And in basic terms, how do you earn your crypto, selling what? I can think of only a limited number of things one can easily, readily sell for BTC or etc.. So, a bit curious and hope you don't mind answering since you're anonymized.
It’s German, but here is the Heilbronner Stimme [0] article the Handlesblatt references. It says Schwarz Gruppe bought 90% of Camico IT, but they’ll keep the name and 50% of their work will be what they did before.

[0]: https://www.stimme.de/heilbronn/wirtschaft/2018/schwarz-grup...
WireGuard for OpenBSD Kernel Patches Posted
I understand that living spaces are quite a bit larger on average here in the US. My home for my family of four is a 1,800 sq ft, 4 bedroom/w bath home with an office/den and large living room. It feels fairly typical for suburban/semi-rural areas.
that's not necessarily true though is it. first off the government has no issue creating money to bailout corporations, thus the money could be created/borrowed to pay for infrastructure projects and repaid over the long term. Secondly 'without them' would mean without the multi-millionaires and billionaires. Well if we didn't have them it would be because of a more equal sharing of the wealth, thus the same tax revenue could be gained from a wider share of the population. The economy has the same value/size it is just currently concentrated in the hands of a few, there is no reason it could not be more equally spread out, except that those with money, get to buy those in power and lobby for rules that make them richer and make it harder for people to compete with them.
For serious thought: anything by Krishnamurti :)
Jorge Luis Borges is the man for fiction.
You forgot to pay tax on your profit.
Linear algebra was one of those classes I was forced to take in undergrad as an engineering requirement - only to end up appreciating it immensely later on when I realized how many real world problems can be converted to matrix operations.
Reconnecting, Reluctantly, with Facebook
> .web in my view is the only possible challenger to .com

Is .biz not in the running? Or .site? Why not .hot? The true challenger to .com is clearly .wtf.

Using .web doesn't even make sense, because it's a protocol. If you're example.web, your website is www.example.web? Kind of redundant. And then is your mail server mail.example.web? But it's an SMTP server, not a web server.

What you really want to replace .com isn't some other general purpose TLD of the same kind anyway, it's the domain-specific ones. Let Ford Motor Company have ford.car and the Ford Foundation have ford.org and the Ford Theatre have ford.theatre and the Ford Cup have ford.tennis etc.

Which also prevents this:

https://nissan.com/

Because then Nissan Motor could be using nissan.car instead of having a bitter dispute with Nissan Computer because they registered the name first.
Is that what humility is? I find the word so confusing (non-native English speaker). When I look at the definition of it [1], I can't see that it means a growth mindset and a real eagerness to learn.

From the definition that I read, could as easily mean having a mindset of that whatever you know now is something one should be grateful for, and you don't always need to push yourself so hard.

[1] : freedom from pride or arrogance : the quality or state of being humble
accepted the honor with humility
The ordeal taught her humility.
Former Schwarz employee here:

The company made SO much money in the past 4 decades with big box / discount retailing, you won't believe it. Salaries are off the charts (it would make senior software engineers in SV look pale). Hubris is as well. The only thing that drives reasoning are statements like 'we're not just some random company, we're Schwarz Group'. It's the poster child Corp described by Andy Gorves statement: Success breeds complacency, complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

At the same time, skill level did not take off so much. Just to give you some insight: The Lidl online store team is not even aware of KPIs like CAC or LTV or even how many new customers were acquired in a given year. And it's a 10-year-old unit (still burning millions per year) .

The whole corporation is basically a 2-person-empire (the only two people that own shares and have taken the thing from 1 store to ~13k stores globally). They make every major call, and even random minor calls. It should be mentioned that they are 72 and 80 years old, respectively.

The Cloud idea very likely was acquired together with a former SAP cloud sales VP. Here is the difference: Core Schwarz DNA is selling packed soup to end customers at crazy scale, without even intervening in the whole process. Core DNA SAP is large scale enterprise sales. Go read the Stratechery posting about why Google failed with GCP to understand why Schwarz should not do this. When I once mentioned this in a LinkedIn thread, I was urged by colleagues to delete the comment because 'management did not like it'.

They are getting into the car sales and recycle business as well. Just to give you an impression.

Interesting times though :)
Motivated by legacy is also the archetype of several villains. It's not a good or bad quality per se but the actions taken on the pursuit of it make it good or bad.
"The Magus" by John Fowles
Show HN: Dockgrid – Save money on cloud computing by processing data locally
Hello HN,

We are launching DockGrid(https://www.dockgrid.com), a platform that enables the user to connect any Linux machine into a computational grid.

The main purpose of our product is to make better use of local computational resources. Be it a server, a workstation, a desktop, or even notebooks, you can create a grid (and clusters) to run your pipelines and save money on cloud computing.

We are in an early stage, so the product still has some rough edges, but we realized that with the COVID situation and all the recent layoffs in IT we needed to accelerate our launch and try to help.

Would love to hear your feedback.
Happy processing!
> A Tesla factory is a much safer place

Citation needed please.

Tesla's factories are the most dangerous car factories in the US by an order of magnitude more __than all other car manufacturers combined [0]__.

With such a bad safety track record, they must be completely high to believe that they are going to be doing significantly better with a pandemic going on.

Right now, not only the safety of their workers is at stake, but also the safety of the whole region around their factories.

Their track record proves that they cannot be trusted with the safety of their workers, what makes anybody believe that they can be trusted with the safety of whole regions instead?

Doesn't make any sense to me.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2019/03/01/tesla-sa...
Didn't Lidl abandon a 500 million SAP integration recently? I mean perhaps this kind of failure is part of their motivation, but it certainly seems like a leap.

I'm certainly hoping a major European player emerges in cloud but it would be an impressive diversification in this case.
Can we get Bruce Dawson to use this as source material for one of his deep-dive angry rants about software quality?
Hetzner runs hosting, which ultimately is an administration feat. AWS is above that an engineering feat. Different operations and you would have to hire entirely new people, and I think Hetzner's model still has its appeal.
Many good reasons why this would work in Europe.

- Logistics in Germany is awesome, and Amazon really doesn't have a leg up on the already existing logistics solutions there.

- For a cloud provider, negotiating deals now when AMD is on the rise must be perfect.

- Beating AWS on EC2 pricing is easy. AWS EC2 pricing is insanely expensive. German providers like Hetzner Cloud entered the market at 1/10th of the EC2 price.

- A k8s-focused cloud provider gets an enormous number of already existing k8s services without the need to compete directly with all the AWS services.

A "Hetzner Cloud" + K8S in Germany? I'd move all my stuff there.
"One advantage is they can be parked sideways on most streets"

Caveat lector. I know this to be technically illegal in some European countries, even when the entire vehicle is parked within the lines.
My anecdata in ~ 50,000km riding time on a motorcycle: a frontal crash I could do nothing about (oncoming car made a left turn, didn't see me).

Luckily it happened in a city and I was in full leather tracksuit. I got through with a few bruises and ruptured spleen (which thankfully healed on it's own and I now have two of them).
The Codex Seraphinianus. It's basically knowledge structure without content, because it is, by design, incomprehensible. Makes you think about hypothesis-making, information design, and simple intellectual humility.
Stelling blood is not illegal. Stelling hair also isn't. Selling vital organs is. Some people sell plasma multiple times each month.

That is not even questioning all the people that need blood transfusions for medical emergencies. Where would that blood come from?
This is a description of monetary assets, of which bitcoin is an example.
The Smart cars have always looked as if they should be electric, but aren't.

Then there's the whole Kei car phenomenon..
I could swear I saw a cloud platform on the middle aisle last week but now I need it it's gone!
This is clickbait. That's why it says Lidl instead of Schwarz Group. Everyone in Europe knows Lidl and find it amusing that they would run a cloud service. Which means they'll click the link.

In reality it's a major german business group who plans to get into IT services with a recent acquisition. They have none of the experience that AWS or GCP have acquired in the last 6-10 years.

They'll do their best and I honestly hope it works out because I want to see more European cloud providers compete with american ones.
Strings are so tempting because they are there and everyone knows how to use them.

But they are the wrong abstraction for building DOM nodes. They're error prone (no guarantees of correctness)
, encoding woes) and are write only (how do you modify a node that is encoded in a string). And what do expressions like html.substr(0, 7) even mean?

First class HTML composition in JS is pretty dang important.
To me one of the primary benefits of dhall is the type system checking that the structure of your data and its values match expectations. By using JavaScript don’t you lose all that?
Apparently, the brief of exploring more esoteric music was somewhat foisted on him by the BBC and he was initially dubious about it. Maybe in an alternate universe we'd be poring over The Tony Blackburn Sessions.
That somehow manages to be uglier than the Fiat Multipla. It also has a >=< "face".
Trader Joe's in the US is owned by Aldi Nord. How come Trader Joe's is doing well here in the US despite Amazon?

I don't know anything about the operations and logistics of Trader Joe's but from a consumer perspective the stores seem very streamlined. In many ways it reminds me of Lidl in Germany (more so than Aldi).
Manipulating iOS Safe Area Insets with Xamarin Forms
This is not a course, or a primer or an introduction on Linea Algebra.

From the course description:

> These six brief videos, recorded in 2020, contain ideas and suggestions from Professor Strang about the recommended order of topics in teaching and learning linear algebra.
I was running a stall at a graduate careers fair and was amazed at the interest both Aldi and Lidl were getting.

Both had amazing starting salaries - I think Aldi was £48k rising to £70k over 3 years if you went on the area manager scheme. Plus a car. The teams there were so enthusiastic and energised and appeared to really really enjoy their jobs.

I am impressed by any company that consistently looks after their staff financially and otherwise.
the trains and other forms of public transportation may have to go the way of the other things impacted by covid. The new reality calls for individual, ideally autonomous, vehicles. Especially in the dense cities. Small, electric, may be even 3-wheelers.

Sidenote: i wonder whether the lockdown may work as a selection pressure on the covid to produce the more viral, like long living on surfaces, etc., mutation of the virus.
This has been my experience with all discounters in Germany. Maybe it’s because 100% of my meals are cooked from scratch, but none of the discounters can get me what I want/need as well as REWE can.
I remember those days when a single person -- usually working for free -- made the domain decisions. Specifically I remember Hungary. Registering under the .hu domain was free for a while (it started in '91 Oct) and the rules were made up by the person registering because, well, who else? and in '96 an organization not fitting those rules laid immense pressure to get the domain they wanted so said person resigned. And then the Council of Hungarian Internet Providers was established and the free domains were gone...
Seems like your country's Lidl lags behind mine's. They solved all these drawbacks in the last few years here in Czechia, including really nice reconstructions of the shopping spaces.
Still uses http on its website?
Python Multiprocessing I: Concurrency vs. Parallelism
I confess 'mind games' and 'plot twists' don't correlate to my personal notions of wisdom. Googling 'books wisdom' turns up a lot. My one sentence bit of wisdom is currently from Charlie Munger: "I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do."
Popeyes is a good one. They've got Tuesday's Leg and Thigh for a very cheap price.

I personally like their Chicken Sandwich and 2 Can Dine deal.
That's true. Does such solution exist, though?

I had some hopes for Filecoin (i.e. a P2P system with monetary incentives attached to backing up other people's data, from one of the very few groups in the crypto space that don't look like scammers to me), but I haven't heard anything about it in a while.
Let’s Check in on the State of iPhone and Android CPU Performance
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It was the same in 2000 with anything internet, and then again some years later with Web 2.0. Simply switching to "scam mode" may sound good in a forum post, but you miss the interesting stuff too.
I assumed that their bandwidth needs were due to their web crawler rather than serving cached content. I guess I’m basing that assumption on my own usage patterns.
The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins. It describes what science believes life to be, and it can be very upsetting. Understanding it, however, made me a more confident and happier person than I was before.
Defensive Programming Fundamentals
Right. Plus, let's not forget the legal implications for the companies that will be able to keep their data within Europe.
This is claimed in the linked Wikipedia article to prevent phishing but how could it?

If the phishing site presents a ui that looks like the real site, the user could be tricked into entering his real username/password which the attacker could then use to log into the real site.

Or am I missing something?
Most of that is misleading.

I reccommend people google these events rather than take thawaway1837's post at face value.
They tried to integrate the business into SAP for seven years. Which still is fairly recently in non-startup terms, but I agree it's still a great sign they decided to cut the losses instead of falling for the Sunk Cost Fallacy.
"Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of high score on Raven’s Progressive Matrices"

The study is equivocating intelligence with RPM, and I feel I missed the paper that proved that RPM was an accurate measure of intelligence? Or that we even arrived at a general consensus on the formal definition of intelligence.
Guns, Germs and Steel.

Actually, any well researched history book. View on the world gets changed drastically, and usually for better.
Nausea, J.-P. Sartre
Yes it does, it makes things faster ;)

A common misconception about (auto) vacuum is, that you need to turn it off, to avoid performance problems.

The truth is: you need to make it more aggressive (= run it more frequently) if you have problems with the (additional) I/O load it generates.
Two of the most influential models in shifting public policy have been Ferguson and the IMHE's model.

Here's Ferguson:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

> We do not consider the ethical or economic implications of either strategy here, except to note that there is no easy policy decision to be made. Suppression, while successful to date in Chinaand South Korea, carries with it enormous social and economic costs which may themselves have significant impact on health and well-being in the short and longer-term. Mitigation will never be able to completely protect those at risk from severe disease or death and the resulting mortality may therefore still be high. Instead we focus on feasibility, with a specific focus on what the likely healthcare system impact of the two approaches would be.

(From Page 4)

Now let's shift to the IHME model. They do make passing reference to the econonic impact, same as Ferguson, but don't go any further:

http://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/files/Projects...

> The overall financial cost over a short period of time is likely to be enormous, particularly when juxtaposed against the substantial reductions in revenue for many hospitals due to the cancellation of elective procedures and the broader economic consequences of social distancing mandates.

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Now as I said, it's not necessarily their job to forecast the economic harm. But unfortunately we have created this notion that being pro-lockdown means "believing science" and therefore thinking that the lockdown is a bad idea is being "against science". Our politicians use these exact words, and as I said their actions show that they are not holistically evaluating the downside risk. On the contrary it appears to be a very simple game-theory type calculation where their incentive structures are leading them to make irrational decisions. COVID-19 mortality is much more "visible" than the fuzzier and longer-term mortality caused by our (IMO misguided) response to COVID-19.
> Loudon Wainright III outside the context of John Peel

He was a regular guest on Jasper Carrott's UK show in the late 80s. It was most strange context-switching from a genial Brummie comedian to an acerbic American singer.
Show HN: We made a tool – Scrumie – that keeps your team in the loop
Hey Show HN,

We’d love some feedback on Scrumie - a tool that keeps your team in sync no matter where your teammates are working.

Initially, we developed Scrumie for our internal needs at Webscope.io because we couldn’t find a suitable tool on the market. After we had some discussions with companies about team management, we found out that Scrumie might be helpful for other enterprises as well. So we decided to make Scrumie public.

What features Scrumie has?

Detailed teamwork overview - see what your teammates have done and what they plan to do

Daily virtual stand-ups - briefly inform your colleagues about your work progress

Team’s availability - check the working hours + availability status (working, WFH, vacation,…) of your teammates

Time zones overview - see when there’s an overlap between your and your remote colleagues’ working hours.

Integration - Slack, more are coming soon (probably Jira, Github, Trello)

Custom native apps - Reporting, Accounting

Right now, Scrumie is in beta and free to use for everyone. Let us know if there’s anything that we can do better in Scrumie.

We are ready to listen to your feedback.

Thanks a lot!
Education for its own sake has always been a minority passion. Remember, universities started as trade schools for the clergy and then added trade schools for lawyers and physicians centuries before anything else.

Conflating real education with job training and certification of intelligence and conscientiousness does not lower the value of education but it does make training and certification easier to sell by adding some of the lustre and prestige of scholarship to trade. This is to education’s benefit. Without it there would be many fewer people studying fields with no jobs or very few like the Studies, Psychology or Physics.

There will always be those whose parents can afford to spend a lot of money on a finishing school. Everyone else will need to get a job and there’s not going to be much support for subsidizing that from those whose children aren’t going to attend.