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We help b2b SaaS companies run their finances - most prominently billing but working on real time cash forecasting, budgeting and expenses.

We're a team of 9 with 4 remote devs. We’ve been around for around 3 years and are currently targeting Denmark and Norway and want to expand to the remaining EU.

We are currently only backend devs working on Django backend with a frontend made with React and Tailwind and some legacy views that need to be migrated to React.

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Freedom (very flexible work hours and you can work remotely - you are more than welcome at our office any time as well for short or longer stays)

Small team and no bureaucracy (get shit done instead of discussing how to do it)

Email me at [kristian] at (Fenerum.com). I’m the CEO & Co-founder. I come from a backend dev career plus one former successful startup as CEO. You will work directly with me and the other 4 devs :-)
It's the same reason why your home router runs an ancient version of Linux that can never be updated. The hardware requires a proprietary firmware blob that only links with a specific kernel. You can never update the system independently, you're at the mercy of Qualcomm releasing updated blobs.
> When there's no incentive for the teachers and schools to get kids to grade level, they aren't.

There are already extensive punishments for failure on this front, and it's a huge part of what schools' attention and focus go toward, especially post-NCLB.
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COGS per vehicle is still way more than twice the average selling price. Yes, selling cars costs them money. They have to figure out how to make the manufacturing process use fewer and cheaper parts, less labor, etc. It is a difficult problem because scaling only offers incremental improvements to COGS.
> Useless for road trips, but most people don't need to be taking road trips every day.

One of the primary benefits of owning things, as opposed to being a rentoid, is over-allocation to seamlessly handle peak/long-tail demand scenarios. Yes, a lot of people could save money by only riding bikes or taking taxis or whatever, but the extreme inconvenience associated with getting caught in a demand surge makes ownership worth it a lot more than first-order average-oriented thinking would suggest.

Having to get a rental car every time you want to drive more than 100km sucks.
Whilst handy, it would be good for Sodium battery technology to get the chance to slide down the experience efficiency curve.

A good idea to have other technologies to mature than just lithium; but working lithium is good.
Portland street lights are hilariously dim and its nearly always cloudy and hence extra dark by 5:30pm in the winter, I am terrified of hitting someone here.
Unfortunately it is backed 100% by this paper. Maybe you used Anki in a wrong way (it isn't so obvious and simple)
First I'm hearing about nerfed iphones, but if true this sounds like a reasonable decision from a business perspective.

They wouldn't want customers worrying about whether they got the better qualcomm iPhone X or the slower intel iPhone X.

Apple could have chosen to make everything with the faster qualcomm chips, but they prob wanted to derisk their supply chain by diversifying onto two chip manufacturers (and perhaps play them against each other for negotiating power)

Either ways, once you arrive a the result that you need to chip manufacturers making chips for the same phones, you need to make sure your customers have practically the same experience regardless of the underlying hardware they end up with

Consistency is key
The state does not "compensate" for the fact that wealthy city school districts simply fund their schools under the table with massive PTA budgets, and there is not a lot the state can do about that in the short term without significant tax reform.

Three adjacent school districts, in descending order of household income and grade-level performance: Piedmont (90% at-grade-level), Berkeley (67%), Oakland (33%).
to add to this, I think spaced repetition is to learning, the way typing speed is to programming. It's good at solving for the minor frustrations and slowdowns that stand in between you & the complex reasoning to get to a solution.

When I can edit code via vim keybindings quickly, I can move things, sketch ideas, swap entire blocks, and so on, easily. That lets me check and look at things, and allow my whole brain to be spent on higher level things like looking at the control flow, applying aesthetic considerations to simplify, or whatever.

I failed Calc 3 as a college freshman because I had taken high school calc as a junior, leaving a full year between. I understood the ideas of calc 3, but couldn't remember the basic stuff like integrating tan() or whatever. (and I also didn't have any study discipline at the time to actually solve for my situation). So I couldn't answer the questions on a test even though I knew the steps I would need to take past a roadblock. Solvable with study, which would have been effective in the form of spaced repetition flash cards.
An engine block (including transmission) is light compared to batteries. Maybe a small car with a very limited range is lighter, but not for something useful. Electric cars are typically significantly heavier than their ICE counterparts.

100km is not a useful range. Remember that for best battery life you really need to only charge to 80%, and and never let the battery get below 20%. Now cut that entire range in half for cold weather. You are now down to 30km range that you really can use. That is round trip range unless you really have chargers everywhere you might go.

The average US commute is 40 miles or 65km. Though given you are using km you probably have a shorter distance, but even still your 100km car is cutting range too close for comfort for most people. (and you probably have better access to transit, why not get rid of that 100km car completely)

I don't know how to compare manufacture emissions. I do know that metal shaping has been optimized a lot, while I would assume as new technology modern batteries still have a lot of room for improvement (the older batteries probably not), so I wouldn't trust a comparison if you had data.
What a cutie. Love it!
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This. Despite how impressive the results are, there isn't a particular large moat to prevent competitors from entering the space.

Basically just compute $ for training.
I’m not sure how this is obvious when there is a teacher shortage almost everywhere. I’d be willing to bet that more often than not students’ exam proctor is not their everyday teacher.

Also while this is a solution to the symptom of perverse incentives, it is still part of a bandaid approach. Low-performing schools are already spending weeks and weeks teaching to the test, which is fine for achievement but just a step above giving the answers out when it comes to rigorous teaching and learning.
And to add to the general disdain for users, many of the larger company support forum are staffed exclusively by volunteer “experts” that aren’t even associated with the company or have a direct line of communication to it. Heaven forbid someone working on the product actually sees what their users desperately want them to know.
Salesforce was paying Matthew McConaughey $10M/Y to act as a 'Creative Adviser'
>> Not many people in Germany would buy a car that is effectively restricted to Germany

There has to be a joke here about EVs not having the range to leave Germany anyway. Something like "they closed the boarders but nobody noticed as there weren't any charging ports within 100km of them".
It's hard to have an effective debate without level setting.

A basic understanding of how we're influenced. Books that come to mind are:Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow, and The Design of Everyday Things.

After accepting we can be influenced, then we need to understand real world examples of nefarious influence through social media and adtech. The Senate Intelligence Committee report on the 2016 election comes to mind.

So if we can be influenced, and if there's evidence our elections have been influenced; then we need to question if China is a threat, through Tik Tok.
Is there though? It's just a matter of swapping out $BASE_API_URL.
The public schools in Boston are struggling by almost every measure, with only about 34% reading at grade level across the system, for example.
Existential threat is a bit hyperbolic. Worst case scenario, lots of people might lose their jobs, and some will go hungry as we restructure our economy.

War with Russia is literally an existential threat.
Do you have a link to Principal or Director, Product Design? Not seeing it on the career site.
I’d note it’s not the mean but the median here. But the IQ is a good example where 100 is defined as the median but has had to be revised upward over time as test performance improves overall. So, in this case they set a fixed definition of grade level being slightly above the median at the outset of the measurements (presumably to induce HN headlines that attract clicks and ultimately funding for schools because more than half are under “grade level”) then over time the goal is to improve on the initial score. In 2019 and 2018 it’s interesting to note the score breached 50% for the first time, peaking at 51%. It’s slipped but presumably that’s a “large scale event” effect and will mean revert to the 2019 levels and continue advancing with time.

But even with the great results in 2019 you can still say “49% of California students are less than grade level” and it looks really bad and people post about how bad public schooling is and hand wringing ensues. - again ultimately leading to more funding, when in fact it’s a real milestone achievement to have lifted such a huge number of students so far in so short a time.

It’s always fascinating to watch the click bait statistic name induce reliable and predictable behavior every time, even when the actual data tells the exact opposite story. Very clever whoever decided to make “grade level” greater than the median performance.
My tinfoil hat belief is that the design was solely to please their investors, an electric Mercedes S Class. Sad because it really is the best designed EV in the market IMO.
I think the jury is still out on whether rust is good or bad for UI. Once rust UI libraries are more mature we'll get a sense of it. There are some advantages of static typing, even for UI (see SwiftUI for example). I'll grant the pickiness of rust can be a challenge. Anyway give us some time to work on stuff.

Here's my effort: https://github.com/audulus/rui
The one takeaway I’ve gotten from bridge simulators VS normal video games is how hard it is to coordinate people doing different tasks and looking at different interfaces. Even in a game like PUBG that requires quite a bit of communication, you’ve all got the same type of view from different angles. Having a totally different view makes communication much harder.

I can’t imagine how they run a bridge in real life — although as professionals they must have a ton of skills and training at it.
The "shoe on the other foot" expression implies that the two situations are the same, or at the very least comparable

The situation in hungary is the government violating core principles that stand at the heart of the EU with behaviours that, were Hungary applying for membership right now would see them rejected outright

Right now germany is signalling they might vote against a proposed change in ordinary law. That's how laws are made, some actors vote for, some vote against and if there's enough actors in favour the law becomes such and binds all

It'd be remotely comparable if Germany were refusing to comply with an adopted law, and even then comparing rule of law principles with commercial regulations would be distasteful at best
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What is “grade level” to you?
So it is! Thanks for the pointer.
> “One of the most common misconceptions about microservices is that they solve a technology problem,” says Johnston. “But really they solve a business or organization scalability problem.”

I disagree. Service oriented architecture (note I don't say microservices, because I think that often goes too far) does solve technical problems. But they are problems that articles like this often ignore (maybe the authors have some misconceptions about microservices themselves).

For me the main benefit of seperate services isn't about organization of code or teams, it is about isolation.

The technical problems I think service seperation solves are:

How do I ensure that a security vulnerability in X doesn't compromise Y (least privilege)?

How do I minimize the blast radius if an unusual request or traffic patternconsumes an unexpected amount of resources (related to above, but doesn't necessarily need to be malicious)?

How do I deploy a change to X without having to rebuild and retest everything else?

How do I give a group of people access to manage X without giving them permissions for Y.

How do I optimize usage of some resources? (Note: multiple services have overhead, so for this to apply, you need to have enough scale that the benefits of fine-grained scaling and rightsizing of individual services outweighs the costs, but contrary to some comments you don't have to be quite as big as google for it to matter).

For some of these,"microservices" are not the only solution, and depending on your exact situation it may or may not be the best solution.

The important thing is to understand what specific problems you are trying to solve, why, and what the tradeoffs are.
Thanks, chatGPT, great insight
Apple Introduces Peer group benchmarks in App Analytics
Green hydrogen as a road transport fuel probably doesn't make sense at all, nevermind burning it at ~25% efficiency. Fuel cells are a possibility at ~90% efficiency but there are so many industrial used of hydrogen that we'd be better displacing methane derived hydrogen in those places before considering it for transport.
IMO, a much-needed and long overdue improvement to the API. User privacy and security matters.
It’s not misbehavior by Apple if it’s to protect against 3rd party misbehavior.
At the end of public school, the latter; algebra. Calculus is typically optional in US high schools. Although each state has different specific educational requirements.
Ubiquity, and people love TypeScript.
Steel is real!
ProcrastiTracker – A windows time tracking application
from a social development standpoint it makes sense, a lot of "geniuses" had/could develop problems growing up with people emotionally/socially more mature, altough keeping gifted people with underperformers and lowering education level to keep them "afloat" is a disservice to both groups
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That really sounds like a 8-bit mainframe with added steps.
I’d posit given the data presented students and schools being above grade level has more to do with the definition of grade level than literally any other factor. I’m curious what you believe the phrase means in this context?
What security and privacy concerns the app itself sparks (e.g. just last week the EU institutios banned it for staff), it seems the real power is in the manipulation it provides and how intransparent the process behind is. It is fact that the Chinese government exerts control over tiktok content, and can and does limit or amplify certain content (see e.g. Tibet, Tiananmen, Hongkong or Xinjiang beyond basic "we appreciate diverse culture" messaging and you will find nothing critical or factual even on the non-chinese tiktok).

The information wars are on and this leads to many things like anti refugee, Muslim or jew sentiments, or anti vaccine propaganda in Europe and racial and political divisions in the U.S. - all to drive a wedge. Tiktok is a powerful tool used by the most vulnerable and most influential population - teens and young adults.
Looking into and fixing!
> I find it hard to believe that they just got on boats heading east deep into the largest ocean on the planet hoping that they would find an island?

At that point they would have known the island was there. People with boats usually used them for fishing first.
Just reenforces my perseption, after living in California for 40 years, and being a parent of a child going through public education, that education here sucks, and most Californian's are dumb as rocks...
Ohio toxic train disaster leads to more concerns in other states
As far as starting the car on a steep slope, simultaneously gradually take your left foot off the clutch and gas it while also lowering the hand brake (yes, you have do three things at once). After a few times you get the hang of it. All manual transmission car drivers have to learn this trick sooner or later :-)
Very nice. API work is so rife with inefficiencies, standardization/unification to any extent would save so much dev time
works great, I haven't switched to 4 though.
Apple and Qualcomm have been fighting over patents for a decade. I presume Apple is designing their own chip that does not require any licensed tech from Qualcomm, which is what makes it harder.
I can't find the source.

But one reason was that if you take the specification and implement it from scratch you end up with a significantly worse performing solution than simply buying it from Qualcomm.

It could also explain why Apple is putting this first in their iPhone SE4 as their users will already expect not to own the fastest phone.
I definitely tend to agree. So many decisions, not just in product design or strategy, DO happen to take one option above all others. Increasing the overlap and moving all indicators at once is how you get ahead these days. Companies, products and strategies that focus on one thing above all else will probably tend to start not really cutting it when it comes to success.
Fixing the Schools has been a massive political issue for decades. Huge amounts of money have been spent and all kinds of strategies have been tried. When you look at the long-term trends, though, you see only the standard, persistent performance gaps associated with demographic factors. The money and changes in education policy barely show up as blips.

If there were an obvious way to change things, things would have changed by now.

https://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-null-hypothesis-in-educ...
Why don't we get rid of grade levels? It would seem 50% of the students are continuously behind and probably suffering. A more humane approach would be to continue to teach the material at a level they can learn from until they get it, and or find new ways to teach it.

You see a bimodal distribution in technical subjects (reading and math are technical) where if you get behind, you will continue to get further behind. Catching up takes a 150% power output to even get back to parity if the rest of the non-lagging cohort continues to run ahead.