skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But is he paying them more to show up than they'd otherwise be paid if they didn't show up?

That would be reasonable, to compensate for risk and going above-and-beyond?
They are more conservative.

Blockbuster, Sears.

VW, BMW.
Same could be said for sickness, poverty, or well, any other forms of time drain.

Of course but luckily the first two don't apply to me. And that any form of time drain leaves you with less time is kind of tautological.

Take a look at Tech Ingredients. He involves his son in all his projects/videos:

That's good for him. But not everyone is the same. For instance, a father who has three children, say aged, 1, 2, and 3 years old should probably find it more difficult to involve all of them in his hobby projects.

I do agree, though, that as your kids get older and more and more independent, the amounts of free time you have start getting bigger again...
I would recommend Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter if you haven't already read it.
Maybe it's because I'm a cheap date, but those prices look rather upmarket.
Rapid7 have started an open-beta of AttackerKB, a community to discuss, analyze, and prioritize security vulnerabilities.

I've posted the blog about it instead of the direct link as I think it provides some valuable context.

The direct link for the site is here: https://attackerkb.com/

I thought this was something that the community here would be interested in as I see a lot of insightful comments regarding the latest hyped security vulnerabilities, take the other days comments on thunderspy as an example.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23137979
An open source flicker fixer for Amiga 500/2000
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker.

Maybe not mindbending, but a must read for us engineers prone to burning the midnight oil.
It's the typical innovators problem you describe and that is pretty international. I do think you have a point about culture and in Europe in general software engineering is not seen as such a value adding activity as in the US. Salaries are less than $100k even in senior positions and

I think because of this more talent has moved to the cutting edge technology companies in the US than Europe wants to admit.
> The postponement of mortality only becomes the true avoidance of mortality when we get a "game-changer": a vaccine or a highly effective treatment that seriously improves outcomes.

I don't think this is correct. Every day that passes by, we learn a little bit more about this virus and get a little better at treating it. For example, in the past few weeks doctors have discovered better ventilator protocols [1] and potential benefits of anticoagulants [2] in treating Covid-19 patients.

None of these are "game-changers" but they incrementally improve patient outcomes and that's a good thing. The more time we buy to make discoveries like these, the better off we will be.

Put another way: would you rather have been of the first few patients in Wuhan when doctors had no idea what this virus was or how to treat it, or would you rather have it now? What about a few months from now?

[1] https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/928236

[2] https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/930165
Clive Sinclair was ahead of his time then! Here is the C5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5

Latest incarnation is at: https://www.theengineer.co.uk/sinclair-c5-revamped-by-sir-cl...
The first time I read Talebs Black Swan was pretty mind bending. It's a intriguing mix of philosophy, history and the application of probabilistic thinking.

It's also a great aggregator book. It introduced me to the works of Kahneman, Tetlock, Poincare and Mandelbrot.
Plans to get into IT logistics services.

If you want a database tracking how many potatoes are in which trucks and when they'll arrive, they'll sell it to you. If you want a Kubernetes cluster, that isn't their business.
The car reminds me a lot of the Twike 5 [0] which - besides being all electric - can be pedaled, too.

[0]: https://twike.com/twike-5/twike-5/
I found this book completely degrading, even to the point of nauseating .. it discounts tens of thousands of years of human experience with describing itself, producing a taxonomic monster that is of very little actual use to the common man beyond providing a convenient excuse for ones failings and for the nature of humankinds more banal spirit.

Science can be repressive. Dawkins is a classic example of the iron fist in a velvet glove, imho. He justifies monstrosity with a technical crutch, and whether it is 'true' or not, at the end of this book I just felt like dirt.

/just_like_my_opinion_man
Yes, it has that and some of it is good for a beginner.
But for a beginner, it also can be an overload of information that impedes learning momentum. It might also be due to the interface.

Yes, knowing how to read and use documentation is very important. Yes, it is a well-covered documentation.

My opinion is that the very start of learning, the learner should be guided through a series of specific gradual digestable learning, and there is a feedback loop on the process.

There are better resources out there.
Using an iPad as the main display for a Mac Mini
That’s not how prices work at Whole Foods, and that wasn’t my personal experience at the same store in January this year. Most items had e-ink price displays next to them so they could update but they were slow to update and so price updates were generally limited to once a day. In Whole Foods, they still use the usual printed price tags everywhere, though maybe locations vary. In Ontario, where I am, there’s a Retailer Code of Conduct that most grocery stores have signed up for which says if the price in the aisle is cheaper than the price at the register, you get the item for free if it’s under $10, or thereabouts.

Also as a clarification, the in store demo Amazon Echo devices are set to a variety of names including Alexa and Amazon, which one to say where is printed on the product description tag I saw. They’re not spaced far enough apart though, occasionally “the wrong one” would answer me.

I had a much nicer time shopping at an Amazon Go Store, though selection was limited and I had to edit my receipt later as it thought I’d bought a pop when I had only browsed for flavours.
I am familiar with the material of linear algebra but haven't read his books. Could someone who has absorbed linear algebra from different sources and familiar with Strang's books comment on what's good and bad and unique about them.

In my time I had picked LA from Ben Noble, Halmos and Axler and the computation side of things from Golub & van Loan.
> In Germany, their store managers do inventory manually

Do other stores not do this?

I know Tesco did this not too far in the past - they had an IT-enabled process, but it was based on staff going round the shelves, scanning barcodes, and punching a button if stock was low. That's despite them having tons of computer power pointed at store-level sales records.

As someone who doesn't know retail, like most users of this site, it's easy to assume you should drive re-ordering from sales records. I'm not sure that's actually true.
E152 – Dataflyer 500 Amiga 500 hard drive controller
TBH I have attempted to read it many times but escapes my feeble mind. GEB is one of those books ...
Develop their own tools and get people locked in? Yeah, I don't see that happening, unless maybe they lobby for further EU-wide Internet regulations aimed at keeping US/foreign companies out.

https://lobste.rs/s/wfltz1/eu_commissioned_study_proposes_eu... Oh...
Docker can now be used on Windows 10 Home edition through WSL2
He stated, that employes can stay home as paid vacation. So no one is forced to break the law or put him or herself at health risk.

But it will surely gets noticed, who did show up and who did not and so anyone wanting a career at Tesla better shows up.
There is a Swiss curiosity made by Peraves. It is a motorcycle that's not quite a car; a monocoque shell around a two-wheeler. When at low speeds, two stabilisers descend. Here's an article from 2006:

https://www.autoweek.com/news/a2065371/cabin-cruiser-flying-...
Pleased to see the reference to there not being a concept of a legal name in the UK. Which made it even weirder when a spate of insane billboards appeared with the slogan "It's illegal to use a legal name"; presumably some sovereign citizen nonsense infecting the UK over the Internet.

Another essential piece of reading for names in the database context, and the idea of social "legibility", is Seeing like a State (see long review at https://crookedtimber.org/2007/10/31/delong-scott-and-hayek/ ).

Also thinking of a certain South African industrialist who has recently given his child a name that is not only unpronounceable but un-renderable in ASCII.
Why do you need to go to college so bad?
I am sceptical but I applaud their effort. If Google has trouble competing, it wont be easy for Lidl either. Yet having a true European option with enough low prices and reliable engineering could work. From my experience retailers dont often have the engineering expertise to pull these kind of things off, but with a culture that empowers developers instead of keeping them as puppets of the managers, they might manage to find and keep good talent.

I hope they at least embrace open-source options and easy billing management, to counter-act the greediness of AWS-way of doing things. Competition in this area is definitely a good thing for all the customers.
Gives you unified access to all your data spread across all your relational databases.

Supports: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL server, Oracle and DB2

Allows you to query across all these databases through a unified interface. Supports reasoning to allow for concepts to be modelled differently in each relational database, but be queried through a single model. This means that developers higher up the food chain don't need to know that the old DB2 instance from 2005 that stores experimental turbine data uses a new table per turbine while the new Oracle db uses a single table with column to specify the turbine instead.
> "Bullshitting, a style of communication characterised by an intent to be convincing or impressive without concern for the truth"

A wonderful and suprisingly precise definition.
So if ".org" is supposed to be for non-profits (and not-for-profits?) and ISOC/PIR are supposed to be running the .org registry for two reasons:
1. To provide a gTLD for non-profits at an affordable price
2. To provide an ongoing income stream for ISOC

Given that those are the professed reasons, then ISOC's management and diversification of its revenue stream is ISOC's problem to solve, however, selling its revenue stream should/must not interfere with the other purpose of the ".org" gTLD.

A stable revenue stream like ".org" is a valuable thing in its own right. ISOC could sell the rights to that stream now, receiving a fixed amount for endowment and other investments, or it can plan around that revenue stream.

Either way, the other primary purpose of the gTLD has equal weight to ISOC/IETF etc need for income.
> That's about $1MM

is that a "Million Million" eg. 10^12 ?
I think you may have missed the point?

It's not about genes for selfishness.
How does this make sense? Automation lowers prices, not margins.

The prices go down because you don’t have to pay people. If it costs the same, you don’t lower prices just because you’re using automation.
Wouldn't they have the same situation with LIDL? LIDL is also a (very) successful retailer, other retailers would have little incentive of helping them make more money.

Also, I'm quite surprised about this announcement. I knew LIDL was in a really good position, but to attempt to compete in the cloud market is impressive. Good luck to them.
Show HN: Inlets – Cloud Native Tunnel
Come get mom if they disrespect your “no”
Any books by Fritjof Schuon, René Guénon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, or Titus Burckhardt.
Thanks for your honesty, I thought I was the only one.
Slack class and Facebook Messenger calls do not work on Firefox, which is furstrating. Google meet does work though, which is a breeze.
3Blue1Brown's linear algebra animations were fun to watch but they did almost nothing for me except the basic fact that the "linear" part means lines.

The rest was effectively preaching to the choir so those that already know linear algebra nodded their heads and idiots like me were still flummoxed
Both. I go into coding with a design in mind (a class diagram/db schema etc.), but I've found after I start coding the design always mutates.
Civil disobedience is about people, not corporations. More specifically, it's generally about people fighting for justice and against bad laws. It's not something that should be used for corporations ignoring safety regulation.
You can hear everything. Coughs and other sharp noises go straight through ANC headphones.

You're exposed to everything.

People will tap you on the shoulder.

While I'm the same as you, I don't particularly enjoy the feeling of having noise cancellation headphones on for the entire workday - it starts to feel a bit vertigo-ey.

Some people don't like making small talk.
Hazri – Marifah – Sufi Jamil Ahmed
Hazrat Nizamuddin, was a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order in the Indian Subcontinent, an order that believes in drawing close to God through renunciation of the world and service to humanity.
Advantages of Synthetic Papers
> For example, they could divide the shifts in half and decrease the chances of getting COVID19 for everybody.

That's one of the proposed alternative means of organizing that I've heard. Some of the criticism against it I've heard are the overhead logistically, like the follow up from one shift ending to the next beginning can slow things down. The other criticism I've heard is that the people currently working in those essential jobs don't want to let them go, even partially. There's a human instinct at play, those surplus are their retirement fund, they don't mind working the 40h a week to build it up. Another challenge is education and training, we didn't plan for this, we trained 5 people in essential work, and 5 other in non essential work, so its not like the other 5 can just pick up the work immediately.

I also heard some of the opposite happening, with Covid, essential workers are choosing to reduce their own shifts, to protect themselves, and that now causes a lack of surplus, because we reduced production from pre-Covid. Mixed with the lack of availability in people who have the training to take over their "missing shift", its a problem.

I still personally think it could be a good idea. As we drive up efficiency more and more with the use of technologies, automation, better techniques and processes, we'll just more and more face this problem, Covid or not. The 5 needed to produce for 10 might become 1 needed to produce for 10. I think we could solve the above problem if there was a political will and a populace movement behind it.

A good variant I've heard on it is to make the work week 10 day long, and split shift 5/5. So people work 40h on and take 40h off. That reduces the shift switch overhead, while still allowing two people to contribute to any given job.
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https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/ch10...

Good read about it.
Careful with this one, the content is controversial and considered unscientific: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
Development kits like the Pi Zero are usually intended solely for development and experimentation. When it comes to production, you either take the product the dev kit is wrapped around or there's some kind of module you can use.

For example Raspberry Pi has the Compute Module, ESP32 comes as a solderable module and for the Teensy I suspect you'd just put a IMXRT1062 in your design.
That's not what the efficient markets theory is. It means that the current price reflects all currently available public information, not that the price magically predicts the future and it can never change. Random events like what you described are completely different from the halvening, which is predictable years in advance almost down to the day.
That looks great! Firefox should have something like SingleFile built-in. Instead of just copying features from Chrome, they should lead the innovation and add useful features like this.
But I guess you don't always need to configure the systems underneath, if you buy Kubernetes as a service from Google or Amazon, is that correct?
The software is stable and I've used it professionally to track bands in a real studio for years - right alongside full-blown ProTools, REAPER, and now Luna systems, which have just as much failings as you seem to think would preclude professional use.

In fact the Linux DAW has saved my ass a few times - most recently with the catastrophe of Catalina nuking entire suites of apps and plugins that were needed for production.

FL Studio under wine: pro's can use it. Just because you don't like the technology doesn't mean its not professional - you just haven't bothered to get competent at it. As is demonstrated time and again in the pro audio world: its not the instrument, its the artist.

Ubuntu Studio is great for artists and anyone wanting to learn pro techniques, whether they are fashionable or otherwise, would be wise to give it a go - in spite of the naysayers who have gained no production experience with the tool because of their own prejudices...
I came here to say this.

It isn't just the car factory one needs to look at: Where are these employees eating lunch? Have they redesigned break rooms? How are employees getting to work - collective transport? Since employees are out more due to work, are they more likely to stop elsewhere or have small gatherings since everything feels like it is returning to normal?

And as you said, going to less places means there is less chance of getting infected.
We host a lot of our infrastructure on Hetzner Cloud and are very happy, but to be fair it's a long long shot away from what AWS offers. You basically only have compute, storage and networking, only three datacenters and two regions to choose from and no managed services at all. You also can't do advanced networking like announcing your own IP addresses (Hetzner only allows that in colocation). You also only have a few instance types available, with RAM maxing out at 32 GB and no GPU servers available.

Don't get me wrong I love Hetzner and their cloud offering and I think they're doing a fantastic job, but it is not comparable to platforms like AWS, Azure or GCP. It's good enough for simple use cases but I think most large companies that want to switch from on-premise would have a hard time adopting it since so many crucial features are missing.

The LIDL cloud will have the same problem I think: They will probably build it on top of OpenStack or Kubernetes but will never reach feature parity with AWS, Azure or GCP. I think in their niche (retailing, logistics) they might be able to get some good adoption if they offer specific services and infrastructure based on their own use cases and experience, but this isn't really competition for AWS, at least not in the broader sense.
.net was/is supposed to be for people/orgs/companies that are on the net. Initially its purpose was for ISPs and other infra orgs, but it's more general now.

.web is about one particular technology on the .net :)
So I'm running a single Postgres 10 instance for a small project that probably hits about 200 queries a day at most.

I haven't upgraded but would it actually be worth the effort?
Maybe, but it's not the "biggest natural predator" the one so big it already started to squeeze you out of your habitat by sheer quasi-monopoly power.

Lidl is easier to keep in check. For at least WalMart (it's happening in Europe) and Aldi a fighting them on their home turf.
I think you can check n_dead_tup, n_mod_since_analyze from pg_stat_all_tables, and see if the numbers are high, then it would be a good idea to perform vacuum. I found some query on the net which might help you. See https://gist.github.com/lesovsky/b0e4033380b0992789118ab35c4...
I think you might need to change this depending on the version of Postgres.
Unfortunately full of errors: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
Damn, I was too late...
>> For a cloud provider, negotiating deals now when AMD is on the rise must be perfect.

The prime factor driving negotiations is volume. It is going to be hard to beat AWS on this front.

>> Beating AWS on EC2 pricing is easy. AWS EC2 pricing is insanely expensive.

This is simply not true. Taking into account everything you get with EC2 it is in par with other providers.

Factors:

- multiple (redundant) tier1 networking routes

- DDOS protection

- firewall

- redundant power (this almost never the case)

- access management that can easily be tuned to meet with corporate security standards

- network-attached storage that is very flexible with IOPS and size configurations

- multiple different hardware offerings that can match your workload

- elastic scalability (turn on when need more, turn off when no need)

- control over resource allocation down to AZ and shared/non-shared level

I am not saying that everybody needs these, but for those companies which do you won't be able to compete with a cheaper less powerful solution. These are the guys who can calculate what they are paying for and also know what they get, in detail.

There are so many moving parts in a datacenter that you can get wrong (and companies regularly do) that hiring the best dc engineers is going to be the first challenge when building an AWS competitor unless you have a James Hamilton clone stashed somewhere.
If you're talking about state actors, I'd bet real money that they have these and in fact have an infrastructure that makes finding and exploiting them fast and easy.
If UBI allowed me to live my life, which is not extragent, then I would not do 'nothing', but I doubt I would do anything that raised tax revenue. I pay more tax than the median tax payer in the country I live in. I would be a net loss to the tax income of the country.
You can have orbits that are never eclipsed by the earth, but not GEO.

GEO satellites go dark for about an hour a night for about 6 weeks a year.

https://www.stephenmack.space/blog/geostationary-satellite-e... Contains a video of them
> Famous examples being how Netflix pivoted from DVD rentals

Not to nitpick your overall post, but let me explain the context better.

Netflix is named "Net flix" because the original plan was to offer a streaming product ASAP, but investors and end-users weren't ready at the time.

So mailing DVDs was done initially, and because of a loophole in USPS pricing rules, was a genius move when looking at cost. (Netflix historically has employed a former Postmaster General to stay on top of that.)

Source: worked there, read a bunch of stuff on this.
You might enjoy Undoing Project by Michael Lewis as well, it's like the backstory of Thinking Fast and Slow.
Russia admits rocket's tanks just disintegrated in Earth's orbit
This is big. And it can only grow with future legislation. This could tie in to security measures and standards in the future. We will see what happens, but it is a strategic advantage as for now.
> The thing in my eyes that separates bullshitting someone from lying to them is that when you lie, you know what you are saying is probably or definitely false but when you are bullshitting someone, you just don't know if it's definitively true.

This is obviously a false statement, because once you expose bullshit to the ones who provide it, they never go back and say "oh sorry, I did not know it was not true", which makes them de facto liars and they are always well aware of it.
To give some context on the perspective this piece is written from, since the article doesn't provide a disclaimer -- the author is a developer of Whonix.
Some industries use M for thousand. For example, advertising uses CPM (cost per mille), which is the cost for 1000 clicks or views.

In this case, 6250*150 = 937500, almost a million.