skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never used Facebook so I don't know, but if smoking or drinking are an analogy, just raising the price doesn't make everyone quit.
I live and work in USA but spend time in Europe. I noticed that in Europe SAP is wildly popular and a large percentage of “software engineers” are “SAP/ABAP programmers”. I have some engineer friends in Eastern Europe and they’re taking about how their employers are in the process of, or considering moving to SAP and away from in-house programming. These are not massive enterprises, mind you. Just small to mid size companies. In the US, on the other hand, I’ve never met a SAP engineer and in-house systems are the norm. What’s the deal with this disparity?
Ask HN: Did LinkedIn started selling user emails last month?
I've noticed in the past few weeks, I started getting automated emails from random job platforms and recruiters like "We've noticed your profile on LinkedIn and registered you on our (competing) website etc...".

What makes these odd is that the email is sent straight to my personal email. It's not going through LinkedIn to a random generated email like it used to.

However the personal email is not part of the public profile, they shouldn't have been able to scrape it in the first place.

That leaves only two explanations. Either LinkedIn started selling user personal emails away or company found a way to get private info from profiles?
Tesla will postpone delivery in China due to coronavirus outbreak
Seems to give false positive on Windows 10 as in my Date setting on OS level time zone is selected as something like Helsinki, Sofia, Kyiv, Tallinn, etc. (UTC+02:00) so both Firefox and Chrome reports it as "Europe/Kiev". While I am in a different country so IP address obviously reports differently. I wonder if it was thought about timezones where a lot of small countries can be in the same one.
Well, in this case, "maintaining your own version compiler" concerns a single value change in the code base. At least, as I wrote, it should have been tried to identify the root cause for the observed behavior. If this "fix" significantly improves the behavior, it would have been a good data point to reach out to the Go developers to resolve this issue.

The problem to get down to the core of these issues are test cases. It seems, that neither the Go developers nor many other people have run into this as an issue - I only remember noticing the regular GC some years ago, but it was not an issue for me. As they have a real-life test case exposing this problem, they are possibly the only ones, who could verify a potential fix for the problem.

So, while it is great that they identified the problem and wrote a thorough blog piece about it, the only thing we learn from this is, that in Go 1.9 there was a latency issue every 2 minutes with their style of application/heap usage. Unfortunately, we don't know whether this problem was already addressed in later Go versions, and if not, whether there should be a way to control the automatic gc intervals to address this.
Make a really bad product + make it mission critical = a product that people are literally glued to using
I suspect the only reason for their continued relevance is that they're too big to fail. So many huge enterprises rely on SAP, and its way too integrated into their core business processes to move off it at that point. Management elsewhere follows the larger players, and from what I've heard, SAP consultants are great at luring.

Kind of like lemmings jumping the cliff.
I was talking about evil, not responsibility.
This is a really cool idea, and I like it so far!! -- would you mind sharing what the different ranges are for each type? I see people chatting, but not sure how close they are to me... Within 10 miles radius? 100?

Edit: I'm on mobile, it seems like maybe it shows on desktop. I'd check but I'm laying in bed haha. Regardless, I really like this idea. Seems like a good way to maybe even meet my neighbors since I moved across the country recently
If they work diligently and at great expense, then maybe they are just missing a signal here? I have an idea for an interesting one:

Maybe if they would look at the feedback they got on the ads (yep, people taking the effort to click on that tiny tiny x in the top right corner of the ad) where people said that the ad were irrelevant or even offensive. Maybe if they started with the assumption that these people knew what they were doing and hadn't managed to hit that specific combination by random chance and especially not three times or more in a row. And maybe if they had removed these users from the group that got said ads then that could be a good starting point for further work.

I'm no machine learning expert by any means but taking into account the current situation there should be some room for improvement.

If anyone missed it: I'm sarcastic. I believe ads targeting are either out of control, or Google as a company aren't as smart as they think they are or they have a really deep disregard for users.
Some have argued that taking honey and replacing it with sugared water is bad for the bees immune system and general health. There was a very small scale study if you even can call it that, but I cannot find the article about it anymore.

Since taking honey hasn't been this deadly before, some form of infection seems plausible and the mites would fit here. As far as I know they are primarily feeding on fat reservoirs of bees. Are there any signs of varroa on the dead colonies?
2018 !!!!!
I am wondering if the same was done in ruby, what it would like like
These are all valid points and it shows my lack of understanding (same with the other comments), even though I use C# on a semi-regular basis I have a lot to learn!

I don't envy any newcomers to the language though, there is so much to take in.
Differential privacy provides a lot less protection than you would think (or want to believe). A few months ago I saw a talk by E. Kornaropoulos, about his paper "Attacks on Encrypted Databases Beyond the Uniform Query Distribution"[0].

The main take-away from the talk - an in fact all the talks I saw on the same day - was that while DP is touted as a silver bullet and the new hotness, in reality it can not protect against the battery of information theoretical attacks advertisers have been aware of for couple of decades, and intelligence agencies must have been doing for a lot longer. Hiding information is really hard. Cross-correlating data across different sets, even if each set in itself contains nothing but weak proxies, remains a powerful deanonymisation technique.

After all, if you have huge pool of people and dozens or even hundreds of unique subgroups, the Venn-diagram-like intersection of just a handful will carve out a small and very specific population.

0: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/441
Method overriding and pattern matching actually solve the same problem in precisely opposite ways.

In the functional programming community, this is referred to as "the expression problem".

To understand this problem properly you must first accept the idea that every object (or class of objects) in an OO context is essentially an interpreter defined by how it responds to sequential messages (methods).

The crux of the expression problem is the tension between adding new operations over a type (i.e. new methods on the base class of a hierarchy) which requires implanting that method for every existing subclass... and adding new types (new subclases) over which an existing operation (method from the parent class) applies, which requires implementing every existing for the new type (subclass).

There are some "clever" approaches to "solving" this problem, but they only really make sense for types that look and act like ASTs. Despite many complex programs essentially being interpreters for some internal "language", this isn't as useful as one might hope, and the machinery necessary to "solve" the problem relies on a lot of compiler and language extensions.

If you want an example of (uh) "solving" the expression problem, the canonical starting point is Wouter Swierstra's "Data Types a la Carte" paper.
That depends on your definition of 'good', I guess. I wouldn't say that you have to fight evil to be good.
WU or just a bank transfer to a drop account. They definitely aren't after card info with a scheme requiring this much interaction.
I want to build an electric go-cart. Any good books on that? :)
504 Gateway Time-out

When searching for "Google". I assume the number of mentions is too high.
You don't need WebGL, blitting pixels to a <canvas> does the trick just fine
if anyone is familiar with the chinese electric car scene, then one will know that tesla, america's darling, is not as ahead as people give them credit before. if any of the chinese car manufacturers come to the u.s. and are able to break through stigma, then tesla will be in trouble. neo, byton, weltmeister, byd, and more have serious competitive car offerings. i have ridden in a nio suv, and the quality greatly surpasses that of tesla.
> methanization is part of the project

That does not mean that there is currently any business model for it, for example because it is extremely expensive. Technology will be applied in scale, when there is a need for it, when it is affordable and when it is price competitive with other solutions.
> And the future of cheap-renewables plus mini-nuclear will mean power/energy will be available to everyone...

This is wishful thinking. You would need incredible improvements in technology to maybe hope to start reducing resource consumption. Because so far, resource consumption only got worse as efficiency got better.
I won't wave that question off completely.

It wasn't Amazon's core competency to offer IaaS/PaaS, before they did.
GCP and AWS are closely playing in SAP's enterprise customer base. There is huge addressable market there. They've innovated better than SAP in technology space, on parts other than business software.

If they can succeed developing their own ERP, better than SAP, they could even redeploy the development teams from being cost center to profit center.

If I am SAP, I see them as strategic long term risk.
One of the dumbest and most patently false adages out there.
> uBlock Origin is NOT an "ad blocker"

(Source: Their Github page)

uBO mainly blocks tracking, not ads. If ads were not that privacy-invading, there would be no problem. If uBO was prevalent, ads would still be there but probably less tracking would be involved.
thanks, great to see the data!
But this isn't a contradiction to the statement, that Go is implemented in Go. If you look at the sources of the Go implementation, the source code is 99% Go, with a few assembly functions (most for optimizations not performed by the compiler) and no other programming language used.
There was an interesting HN thread a month ago about the problems the almond industry faced wrt bees. To me - a layman in bee-keeping - the article looked well-written and researched.

I particularly liked the paragraph on Solutions and the story of Glenn:

> Letting nature take its course is nothing new for 81-year old Glenn Anderson. He is the first and still one of the few organic almond growers in California’s San Joaquin Valley. His 40-year-old orchard is small – just 20 acres – and has always been chemical free.

> “We don’t have pests; we have biodiversity,” says Anderson

Apparently other bee keepers bring their hives to his plot of land to recuperate.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22023578
Tldr: basically don't get one
Variational Autoencoder for Lego Faces
I remember Sid Smith saying that we have enough lithium in known reserves to replace every car on earth one time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WPB2u8EzL8&t=35m29s
> Question for HN: What will happen to the web when uBlock Origin becomes prevelent enough?

Entrenched players, like Amazon, will become more entrenched.

Medium and smaller websites will move to more affiliate marketing, "influencer" monetization, and perhaps subscriptions.
I was wondering if you tried to run something like warp stabiliser on it first to avoid the wavy effect?
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Can you name good alternative that supports all SAP features?
You posted your reply while I was writin my own. Do you happen to have pointers to any really good research results and/or papers?

I want to be better equipped to respond to this slowly emerging "DP is a silver bullet" meme and your response implies that you'd have actual research to back the position up.
Don't Let 'Altruism' Kill Your Company
> So, electromagnetic field would actually be mediated by excitons and pi-tons not photons?

No. This discovery doesn't change how electromagnetism works.

This is a discovery a layer above electromagnetism. Quasi particles are a useful model, because you can use them more easily to explain stuff than through the fundamental forces. For example phonons (another quasi particle found in solid stat physics) explain heat transfer more easily than if you tried to solve all the wave equations from scratch.

(I like to think of quasi particles as analogous to chairs, desks and other every-day objects: they don't follow separate laws of physics, so nothing fundamentally new, but talking about them instead of just wave functions of electrons and nuclei has a much greater explanatory power).
> It looks like it is just a repackaged a AdGuard in a way that complies with the GPLv3 license of the original project.

If you replace all copyright notices with your own, it's illegal.

The GPLv3 license, like most OSS licenses, does not give you the right to assert copyright on a piece of work.
I think the idea is to show how much container functionality is actually available out-of-the-box from the operating system. It raises questions about Docker's billion dollar valuation when someone can come along and reproduce a bunch of it with a short shell script. Next someone needs to take on orchestration and show how silly it was for IBM to pay $34 billion for OpenShift. :P
Yes, Its really super strange to adopt Google, Microsoft, Apple processes.. Yes?
No it's not that bad, it has auto-complete, it has search functionalities for both commands and data, and there has been a help button to chat with a bloomberg support person for as long as I have been in this industry.
While I share your general notion that companies better adjust to the process of SAP, I still want to comment on the "impossible to upgrade" part, as that is simply not true.

First off, in SAP speech, "customization" is the act of simply adjusting the vast configuration options. This does not affect your upgrade possibilities at all. Even if you go so far as to add custom programming, as long as you (lowest complexity) just have programmed additional "transactions"/reports, you will usually not run into a problem.

The system also provides various mechanisms to extend standard transactions via hooks or to extend standard tables and still be able to upgrade without additional effort. I was actually astonished how much customization SAP allows in that regard while still staying compatible to the standard codebase - probably one of the reasons everything is so damn resource hungry, because there are multiple layers of indirection at work to allow this. From a development point of view, the major annoyance here is there are so many different options to extend stuff from different decades, so for some use cases you will use BADIs (https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1...), for others "exits" (https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1...) and it is all a pain to lookup and locate.

The one thing which will get you into trouble is if you manually patch standard programs - which you are able to, the whole business logic comes with sourcecode - and which is usually not necessary.
It doesn't happen often but sometimes, when a website doesn't work, I switch to chrome and it works there.
Walter too? AFAIK it was just Andrei.
Yesterday I learned that Sodium batteries might become a contender to Lithium batteries. And they are safer.
Thanks, appreciate it :)
Having been at several companies where management and/or HR actively 'encouraged' people to post 5star Glassdoor reviews I now dismiss every single 5star review (and look at 4stars critically).
ZZ is a modern formally provable dialect of C
It's impossible for someone raised in modern society to not be influenced by its thousands of cultural associations and tropes. That's not much of a leap; being exposed to something (anything) and it having absolutely zero effect on you is not how humans work. It's not a bad thing, since most tropes are positive or neutral. But if some of those tropes are harmful, you can refute them and act counter to them, but that doesn't mean they won't still have some influence on your thought processes.

I'm not religious, but from my understanding, it is kind of like original sin. Humans are flawed; you can't fix that but you can minimize it and you can be forgiven for it. Same goes for the specific flaw that the brain is really prone to stereotypes, as a sort of cognitive shortcut.

Edit: By the way, contrary to a claim in a link in one of my sibling replies, this is not a 'sin' specific to white people. People who are themselves members of minority races are influenced by the same tropes as everyone else.
Or your email address is in another mailing list that was sold by another company.

That or you're still using the same email address that was disclosed in the 2012 data breach that LinkedIn suffered... which is easily obtainable.
I’ve witnessed several SAP implementations, along with the buying process.

In short, it’s seen as a safe option, because it’s what “everyone else” uses, and the decision makers have typically come from businesses where SAP has been used.

Nobody actually likes it - but they don’t see any alternatives as viable.

Similarly, I’ve seen folks migrate to and from the various MS Dynamics platforms, and it’s a universal shitshow, with the exact same reasoning, just a different tribe.

ERP software generally sucks, as it has to be all things to all men, ends up customised to meet needs which are obsolete by the time the customisation is complete, and it usually either gets to the point where nobody understands any of how it got to be the monster that it is, and a long and painful replatforming happens, and the cycle begins again - either with a new supplier or a new version of the same old.
> but to me this sounds like the "proved" something by not being able to disprove Batchelor's law?

Not quite. The statement is more like, if Batchelor's law were to fail, then it has to be in one of the following specific ways. Then you show that these specific ways can't happen and get the result.

This is a common approach and needs a few ingredients:

- How could things go wrong?

- Show that these are all possibilities and that otherwise things work (hard problem).

- Isolate each scenario from the first step and show that things don't go wrong (hard problem again).

A classical example would be something like global existence for the two-dimensional Euler equations. If the solution were to fail after a finite time, then necessarily some quantity has to go to infinity, because otherwise we could find a solution for a small additional time (Beale-Kato-Majda criterion). We then show that this quantity does not go to infinity and we are done.
You don't think there's anything political about removing yourself from society for 30 years and living in the woods?

> I think if someone is disengaged enough that they don't care who will become the next president, and there are no local political issues they will argue with someone about

What this is saying is that they are happy with the status quo, and they see no room for improvement, or they're not bothered if things are improved one way or another. You can be not interested in politics, but I think doing that is just supporting the current politics.

For many people, just existing is pretty political, like when an entire country has a debate and a vote on whether you should be afforded basic human rights.
If that's really what you think and you think it's down to the language, look up Modern::Perl (0) and, if you're object inclinded, Moo (1), Mouse (2) or Moose (3). Then there's always perlcritic (4), too.

In my mind, it's down to it having been popular, attracting many amateurs. You'll find equally unmaintainable bash or PowerShell scripts and definitely as much garbage, WORN JavaScript code. Writing maintainable code requires both knowledge and effort.

[0]: https://metacpan.org/pod/Modern::Perl

[1]: https://metacpan.org/pod/Moo

[2]: https://metacpan.org/pod/Mouse

[3]: https://metacpan.org/pod/Moose

[4]: https://metacpan.org/pod/perlcritic
> then deducting paying the loan rate/interest over the time is more profitable.

What does this have to do with not renting the apartment? Any business will deduct interest payments as a business expense.
This is not a fair comparison. Go 1.9.2 was released over 2 years ago. In that time they have fixed a lot of the GC stutter issues. Comparing rust nightly to a 2 year old compiler is unfair.
> It's really important to point out that that's not usually the case with the internet version.

I don’t believe this at all. Taking over online communities with puritanism and forcing out any non-compliant participants is a very easy pattern to see, and is very obviously a play for power (especially when the new moral authority comes from outside the community to begin with). Throw a patreon/Kickstarter... on top, and you have a play for power and wealth. I have no doubt there are naive participants in all of this, but there are a long list of incredibly successful sociopaths who have built entire careers on top of this, and a much longer list of moderately successful sociopaths who have done the same.
"NSA" keyword gives an interesting result
Sure, but do you think the criticisms she received for her blog were reasonable? They were hardly based on a charitable reading IMO.
Having worked for many multinationals, I've also noticed such a difference. If it's a US company it would often have a group of in house developed systems that are integrated with each other to some degree, and a team that maintains it, that would manage various things like inventory and lifecycle of systems and products and even sales and customer service. European companies, including those in the UK, would often shy away from such efforts and lean more heavily on enterprise vendors and consultants to attempt to deliver this or try operate with nothing at all. I'm generalising, there are exceptions, but I got the impression that there is a certain kind of engineering culture in the US that is willing to take the risk on such in house projects and realise the value of managing it in house and they also have something that makes them able to execute it successfully.