skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Schwarz Group covers the entire value chain of the food trade like no other trading company, from production to sales to materials management. Digitalization and its pressure to change are noticeable in all business areas. To continue to successfully serve rising customer needs, new digital business models must be iterated even faster – and this while the data and system infrastructure becomes increasingly complex. As the number 1 in the European retail business, the Schwarz Group knows that those who do not digitize will lose market share in the long term.

Lidl are part of the Schwarz Group.
This is a good point, and, interestingly, I think the author of the original post would agree. He clearly (in 2016) still enjoys his work, and seeks to be excellent at it. He's just come to the conclusion that he can both do that, and not have computers and operating systems and programming be the sole focus of his life.
Turing Award Won by Programmer Who Paved Way for Supercomputers (Jack Dongarra)
I understood what they meant.
> STACKIT services are currently offered to the Group’s internal
> customers and are continuously optimised according to their
> requirements. In the future, it is also planned to offer the
> services on the external market.
This product looks like it doesn't respect the license of Elastic: https://www.stackit.de/en/product/elasticsearch
No, but thank you :).
Interesting facts from Wikipedia[0]:

CompuServe was founded in 1969 as Compu-Serv Network (as a subsidiary of an insurance company), a commercial time-sharing service with focus on business customers. It did so by renting time on its PDP-10 midrange computers during business hours.

In 1977, they changed their name to CompuServe Incorporated.

In 1979, it began offering a dial-up online information service to consumers. Radio Shack marketed the residential information service MicroNET, in which home users accessed the computers during evening hours, when the CompuServe computers were otherwise idle. Its success prompted CompuServe to drop the MicroNET name in favor of its own.

By the mid-1980s, CompuServe was one of the largest information and networking services companies, and it was the largest consumer information service.

CompuServe was the first online service to offer Internet connectivity, albeit with limited access, as early as 1989 when it connected its proprietary e-mail service to allow incoming and outgoing messages to be exchanged with Internet-based e-mail addresses.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe
"STACKIT is the digital brand of Schwarz IT and therefore part of the IT organisation of one of the world’s largest retail groups.
The Schwarz Group consists of the well-known brands Lidl and Kaufland, as well as Schwarz Produktion and waste and recycling management companies."
TikTok’s Black Box Obscures Its Role in Russia’s War
See also: Lite, written in C and Lua https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23126458

I use the lite-xl fork https://lite-xl.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarz_Gruppe is the parent of Lidl. And the Schwarz IT business group runs StackIT. There is also Schwarz Mobility for fleet management of company cars. I don't think it's meant to be associated with the Lidl brand.
Balancing chores and errands with your daily remote job
The Weekly Thing - https://weekly.thingelstad.com/

It is a fabulous collection of technology, privacy, leadership, family and life in Minnesota.
Or, it’s that the dog does tell all his doggie friends about his predicament, but any time they’re about to give him actionable advice for solving the core problem, he cuts them off, more interested in emotional catharsis.

“It’s not about the nail.” https://youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg
None of them
Thank you, it's probably above our pay grade right now :)

For shorter options in the meantime, you can also use a few others and they'll work:

https://andi.co

https://goandi.com

https://andi.so

Shorter is good for typing. Thanks again for trying it out and for the suggestion!
Embarrassing "We are STACKT" typo right in the middle of the page, too.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Makes Record-Breaking Discovery
> "rival"

Sometimes people will post a React template on HN with the title "How to Build Twitter."
So, when I buy a $5 bag of potatoes from lidl, how much of that money is going to pay for these servers?

I would hope that for a retail business like Lidl, far less than 1% of the revenue goes into IT staffing and systems costs. I worry that the number is closer to 10%.
> Germany has the big the biggest responsibility to carry because in total cubic meters they are the ones bankrolling the Russian wars

They’ve also owned up to their mistake in a way I can’t find recent comparison for.
While the style is very similar - and as the sibling comment said, the location does half of the work - there is no question the photos in the magazine are technically much better. Long focal lengths compress the scene for a more interesting look, the color grading is nicer, even if exaggerated, composition is more deliberate. Not to everyone's taste but very well executed.
I'm not familiar with large European companies, but is this kind of like Aldi offering AWS-like services? Clancy's Cloud Compute, and Casa Mamita's Message Queues?
The return to office has generally been an awful failure. Business owners and management have broadly failed onto address employee experience, and generally have done nothing to support hybrid working. For example, there are simple tools and practices that help teams coordinate their schedules to be in the office at the same time, while not overbooking space (which has often been reduced). Bad management is basically being exposed as inept with high turnover. They can get away with it for a while as a good portion of the cost isn't directly reflected by a line item in the balances sheet, but either their days are numbered or the days of the company will be.
His previous blog post has more general information about the neural engine: https://eclecticlight.co/2022/03/29/live-text-visual-look-up...

Basically it's used by anything involving machine learning:

- Speech recognition

- Face recognition

- Visual lookup (image recognition)

- Live Text (OCR)

It allows all these functions to be performed efficiently on-device rather than shipping data off to the cloud.
Yes! Thank you, this is exactly it.

Apparently I indexed this in my mind with the word "ladder", but now I'll just remember "The Blub Paradox".
Vast quantities of extra calories are needed for large segments of the population to be obese. That kind of surplus is very recent and absolutely required for an obesity epidemic.

So we absolutely have the root cause, but not perhaps the only one.
GitHub disables Google FLoC user tracking on its website (2021)
He’s talking about what this article calls “anti-unification”, but this Bret Victor post really changed the way I think about abstraction: http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
Cloud Hosting, in the Center Aisle of Lidl, next to the other random items for sale.

In all fairness, this move makes sense to monetize any surplus they have in DC capacity. In terms of competition, their offering competes more with Equinix and the like than with AWS.
Whereas I hear the pay at the Amazon fulfillment centers is really good???!
Alcohol is far more dangerous than MDMA, both in long-term usage and immediate effects. Especially when you consider how socially acceptable it is to drink alcohol, and thus the total consumption of alcohol is far higher. Tobacco is largely dangerous in the long term, the immediate damage from tobacco is much smaller.
They have 150 employees. Like Amazon there's likely a difference how people at the frontline vs backend IT systems are treated.
I thought the recent Tom Hanks movie "a beautiful day in the neighborhood" was an excellent study in small talk that was actually big talk and active listening. Here in the UK we know nothing about Mr Rodgers but I really enjoyed it.
True, as I wrote the calculus example I remembered this post about a medical researcher rediscovering integration - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26384357

But it still feels more like unknown unknowns causing you to put in a lot of extra effort; I wouldn't classify these as productivity multipliers.
What is Application Embedded Zero Trust? (open source project)
Zero trust is such a buzzword and overused but it really is "a good idea". This video is an overview of some zero trust concepts as well as demonstrating the power of embedding these zero trust ideas directly into the applications you write (and it's easy to do). Check it out.

Video at: https://youtu.be/IPi2BxyIM8s

Come join the project! Give us a star and help us spread the word to the world about application embedded zero trust http://github.com/openziti/ziti
The electoral college was set up to protect less densely populated areas from more densely populated areas, so the situation was always that way; it didn't "gravitate". It's not like "rural issues" are the ones dominating legislation or national conversation either.

To take a step back, I've lived in both rural areas and major cities (I currently live in one). Rural folks being represented in government is not an issue and I find it kind of odd that people try to make it an issue like this. I'm fine having my agenda compete with theirs.
The Aisle of Shame, at least for Aldi.
Wasn't sure if April fools or not. German companies have launched so many of those "rivals" to AWS by now, all of them require you to call someone/send a letter/FAX to create a VM. I wonder if they understand that the success of cloud, SaaS and generally majority of modern, scalable businesses comes from the fact that it _can_ be self-served.
All-in-one scripts for deploying different software packages on any Linux server.
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> It's possible that it might be deterministic, but there is not currently any basis for certainty other than the fact that so many things we've seen turned out to be deterministic

That's how empirical proof works though - you can't "prove" something conclusively based on evidence, you can only disprove it or continue to add examples of the model matching reality. That's falsifiability.

> Currently the most widely concidered deterministic theory is that there's a deterministic multiverse

None of these are provable either way, because we can't prove theories that rely on hidden information, like alternative hypothetical universes. The only useful thing we can do is to model observable behaviour, and as the other replier stated, we have a functioning deterministic model of QM. so going by the evidence we currently have, the universe appears deterministic and the statistical bridge between QM and classical mechanics is essentially a hack to wire up two different models.

> Einstein famously agreed with your interpretation, but his invoking of god to make his case is quite appropriate.

He didn't literally invoke god - he used god, as we often do, as a metaphor for the laws of reality.
Probably, but part of the point they're probably making is that they can spend the time normally used for the commute to take the walk.
The head of HR at my last job actually took a paid course (I think it's free now) by gitlab based upon a convo I had with her.

The company ignored it all and said "back in the office".

I suspect that it was because of the CEO who was saying throughout the pandemic that he wasn't a fan of remote work. That's how the decision was made, based on one old guys feelings.

They don't care about you as an employee, remember that.
It's an area of the chip suited for operations on low precision/range floating point numbers. Neural networks don't generally require high precision in floating point computations, but require a lot of them. This means your data paths can be smaller (16 bit wide rather than 32 bit wide); the consequence of which is you can do far more computation per mm2 die space.

The second part of the chain is that you also tailor the operations the die area support to those operations necessary in a typical neural network, further optimizing the chip.

The end result is very power-efficient execution of neural networks, which allows you to beat a GPU or CPUs power curve, improving thermals of the core, and in the case of mobile devices, optimizes battery usage.
The followers of QAnon presumably don't see any major contradictions between its claims and their {experience, assumptions about how the world works}. If they did, then they wouldn't be followers.

What's unsettling about QAnon is: substantial numbers of otherwise sane, high-functioning followers, probably a bit less intelligent on average than you or me, but not that much less intelligent, find it to be a compelling theory. And that's a rather pessimistic data point that we should bear in mind when calibrating our own degrees of epistemic certainty.
Isn't this what all firms do to each other, all the time?

Like, isn't this just normal business these days? Isn't this sort of thing a natural eventuality in a capitalist world?

Capitalism crowns the person who wins, regardless of how they won.

And besides, all press is good press because it's all exposure. Why wouldn't you do this sort of thing?

It's only wrong to get caught.

And even then, you can pay for a lawyer to prove that you were either:

- not doing anything wrong,

- not legitimately caught,

- or simply giving your opinion.
Thanks for taking the time to share this.
Is there any evidence for that other than the scandal they had a decade or so ago? Maybe I missed it.
I asked “what time is it?” and the answer was off by an hour.

I’m guessing it’s because my device is in San Jose, Costa Rica and the answer given was for San Jose, California.
>Yes, this is just the beginning of the end. I would even say this is the beginning of the end for cities as we know them. I think 80-90% of all white collar jobs will leave cities and suburbia. This will really change the dynamics.

This is actually a super interesting subject I haven't considered. What is the tenability of cities without fossil fuels? I think we do know, it's really the cities that collapse.

Farmers might emit lots of CO2 and carbon taxes directly attack them, but ultimately they cant go anywhere. The cities need to eat. So those carbon taxes don't harm them at all.

How does public transit work? Generally speaking they are all diesel. Do we have a plan to spend a trillion $ converting this all to electric?

What's even the point of giant office buildings anymore? Downtown cores are dying if not dead as it is. When people stay home, the sharwarma spot downtown wont be able to afford to stay.

It's obvious what will eventually happen. These office buildings convert to high density residential. However, what happens after that?

If I am 100% remote, why even be in the expensive high tax city? I could go buy 10 acres and pay $100/year in nonsense taxes. Do my own utilities. never again worry about nuclear war because nobody will be nuking rural areas.

I really dont think we have quite thought out the consequences of our actions.
My personal theory is that hybrid work is deliberately made to be chaotic and disastrous, so that when management wants people back 5 days a week; there will be much less grumbling.
As far as I know, I currently hold the world record score at knife fairy. The game of knife fairy is very simple. You must sneak into your roommates room late at night and slip a knife under their pillow. My current score is 1, so it should be easy to beat. Good luck!
Yeah, Lidl and Kaufland.. kind of absurd, just like amazon launching computer infrastructure project.
It's just an yields thing I bet; particularly given the relative lack of usage of Neural Engine. If Apple engineers realize that, disabling half the Neural Engines makes no user-visible difference and improves yields by ~1% (hence decreasing silicon costs by ~1%), that's an easy hundreds of millions in saved wafers.
> Lidl has a long history of underpaying and abusing their personnel

So does Amazon?
Yeah I was also a bit confused about that, like few months ago 2 employee had to die during a storm just because Jeff Pesos couldn't afford to keep a fulfillment center closed and people still work at AWS without conscience issues?
Yes, that must be why Amazon works hard to ensure their employees don't unionize.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/technology/amazon-unions-...

Who needs collective bargaining power if the pay is so great.
This is the big thing for me. I have a 40-60 minute commute to drive in. Vs being able to walk downstairs in 30 seconds.

It’s also good for family flexibility where I can take 10 minutes to drop off a forgotten lunch and that would be a 90 minute drive.
Hmm, the general idea seems to be nice, at least for inspiration... Just checked the .net job and am wondering why it doesn't use the official images by Microsoft?

For me it looks more like another source to adapt from :-)
The First Drug-Releasing Contact Lens Is Here
I think calling is a good verification step, but note that if a police officer shows up at your door with a warrant, you're not allowed to verify their authority before letting them in. Without knowing the particulars of these requests, asking "just wait while I verify your details" may not be legally sound.
Strange, I never had to send a single FAX in my life in germany. Especially not for any cloud offerings located in EU/germany. I would LOVE to see proof for that.
Cloud AND colocation? That’s not an AWS competitor, that’s a boring data center with some software on top of it.
Gotcha. It's a very different scenario from what I imagined and my suggestions don't apply. Agreed also your limited control on rewriting is limited and with the comment on clustered indexes.

I do wonder how is it possible to run that query on a billion rows and typically get sub-millisecond response, but however you did it, well done!
No idea what you are talking about. Here in Germany Corporate Lidl is paying fair, retail management on entry level is being paid way above average and even the retail employees are paid above competition (on the same level of Aldi).

Those traditional companies will never be able to compete with absurd FAANG salaries (that are obscene in my opinion anyway, but that is not the topic) due to the nature of the business. If this thing scales, however, then salaries could be higher.

Finally, I am living in Germany, I have worked for German companies. Many of us dont like the US, we dont like those American services, too. If there was a German alternative, even with a premium, we would pay that. It has to be competetive in functionality, but not necassarily in price.
I’d be more convinced by an example of a 10c microprocessor that can run Linux. Obviously it sounds better to support everything, but there also are (and should be) bounds to what Linux should try to support.
Creating change isn’t easy. But it is an option.
obviously spiders are aliens too.
Fair point. I suppose I just assumed you didn't have space to keep a non-functional refrigerator just sitting around, like most people.
Explain Open Source Software Like I'm 5
Oracle's cloud also completes registration and provision by hand. Also, not everyone gets an account.

If they can get a decent traction, they can scale-up step by step. Rome didn't got built in a day.
What influenced you to believe that?
At least in the UK they are well known to pay well above average in the retail industry.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59306232
It allows you to access Secrets via browser extension on those platforms (if I remember correctly)
> I think they'll have a hard time finding people to staff that, Lidl has a long history of underpaying and abusing their personnel

Their store staff yes indeed, but they won't be able to get away with that for IT staff. The situation is similar to Amazon... those who are essentially disposable cogs get treated as such as far as the law allows (and in some cases even worse), the ones who can't be replaced get paid really well.
Thank you! So it's actually something we're still figuring out. The first few characters there is a pre-processor to look for some commands or vertical search (not really fully implemented yet). For question-answering we're looking at a new approach but it's not good enough to deploy yet. If it looks like a web search then after the first few characters, it will generally go to the Bing auto-suggest API currently through an anonymized router. It's a handy convenience but it could be much better, so lots of work to do on this.
I've never had AWS out of nowhere threaten to terminate my account I've had for months unless I send them a photo of my passport and ID next to it.

Looking at you Hetzner.
I bet their "internal customers" is mostly their bottom of the barrel kaufland.de marketplace.
Dulani Web Services
Over here in Romania Lidl pays some of the best salaries in the retail market, the worst are the likes of Carrefour, Cora and I think Auchan, too. They also have an IT division in here, not sure what their relative pay is.

A close friend of mine works for the local Lidl division, she is part of the team that does internal communication and as such she has been directly involved in "marketing" compensation-related stuff and related perks to the company's employees and such. To me it does seem that Lidl, the company, tries to treat its employees as humanly as possible, which is saying something when it comes to the retail market.
Underpayment and abuse might turn out to be the key to success. /s
Possibly just to avoid having programs that rely too much on specific implementation details of the current engine causing issues in the future if they decide to change the hardware design? An obvious comparison is graphics cards where you don't get low level access to the GPU[1], so they can change architecture details across generations.

Using a high level API probably makes it easier to implement a software version for hardware that doesn't have the neural engine, like Intel Macs or older A-cores.

[1] Although this probably starts a long conversation about various GPU and ML core APIs and quite how low level they get.
the memcopies will of course be compiled to unaligned loads & stores. Clang even seems to simplify the multiplications based on the size of the current portion of the argument, so I don't see much that could be improved. Maybe you could squeeze out a dozen or two percent more speed, but not 3.5x faster.
I have a blog which has been running for a long time, and I allow comments on the most recent post, for about ten days, then close them off.

That cuts down on the automated spammers, and allows people who are actively following me (not so many people I expect) to offer feedback.

In the past I'd get five-ten comments on a post, these days maybe 1 at the most. It seems like few people comment, either that means nobody reads, or people have no complaints/updates to offer. It is a bit hard to tell.

I tend to post about debian, golang, parsers, and similar random things https://blog.steve.fi/
GP is being sarcastic.
> What’s wild here is that Schmooey was a really good Guitar Hero player! This wasn’t a case of some kid sitting alone in his room faking his way to the top through video alone.

I think this is a misconception. Being a good player might even make you more likely to cheat, in some ways. After going for a record and failing for long enough, players can start to assume that they're entitled to the record via any means necessary. Furthermore, as a good player you have the skills and knowledge necessary to make a fake video that passes the initial sniff test. You also may have enough clout and social standing that others may be reluctant to even consider the possibility that you cheated, or they may be afraid of the backlash from your fans that would result from any accusation (just look at what happened with Dream, who was undoubtedly a good Minecraft player).