skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SAP is a company (and software system) that exists to buy up other company's software, business, and services and then integrate that all into SAP's "core" systems, and do so in such a poor manner that their name and the system has almost become synonymous with the words and phrases "nasty", "unreliable", "run away now", "if you know what's good for ya" and a host of others.

However, due to their entrenchment in various other markets (and who knows if there is any graft or other under-the-table business going on), they continue to manage to exist, and scary enough sell their products to new victims (ahem - customers).

SAP is the old-is-new-again-we're-IBM type of business; nobody ever got fired for buying SAP (but the golden parachute was nice)?

Ok - hyperbole and I don't really know what I'm talking about, so the above should probably be ignored...

...that said - I don't think I'm too far off, either.
Thanks. Also thanks to the silent majority who kept my post well afloat. It's weird that describing what typical game companies are like is controversial here.
would be neat to see an implementation of the realworld app with Mint. https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
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Here is an open source driver that has been made that supports Wacom and Huion tablets https://github.com/hawku/TabletDriver

These were made to reduce input latency to increase performance in a rhythm game called "osu!"
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Question for those in the know. Do the major Silicon Valley tech giants (i.e. Google, Apple, Amazon) use SAP or even ERP?

I say this as someone who has no experience whatsoever with ERP. But the entire concept seems like an anti-pattern. A kludge that's only necessary when your org lacks basic technical competence.

Why does everything need to be in a single monolithic system? Does HR really need to run on the same database and software as the manufacturing plant? Haven't we learned that small modular, independent systems with well-defined interfaces at the system boundary work. If for some reason manufacturing needs to talk to purchasing, why can't they just do so over JSON/HTTP endpoints or a Kafka message bus or even direct SQL connections? Trying to integrate by just locking everyone together into a single system that tries to be all things to all people sounds like a recipe for disaster.

But, again I don't really have any direct experience with ERP. So that's why I'm really curious what orgs that are actually technically competent do. If Google or Amazon or Netflix was using ERP, despite having the engineering firepower to build alternative systems, then I'd really think that there's something important to the concept that I'm missing.
I'm fine with Wacom collecting this kind of data as long as it doesn't open any security holes. There are certain classes of products where I would not care what they collected as long as it was relevant to improving the product. i.e. Wacom wants to know popular apps I use my tablet on, ok. If they wanted to know my approx location though then I'd be alarmed.
> You know there exist some middle ground between dysfunctional socialism and brutal capitalism?

This is so far from the point of my comment, it really illustrates how people will view and comment based on the their preconceptions and worldviews before any attempt at rational thought.

I am not saying that the social program is bad. What I did try to point out is that there is no real "giving" of anything. That is all. We cool?
I can highly recommend the Privacy, Security & OSINT Show but it really depends on how far you want to go:

https://www.inteltechniques.com/podcast.html
Which is a thing that has already happened with Razer[1]. They back-pedalled (a little) after pressure from customers[2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/8klf7a/razer_synap...

[2] https://www.techradar.com/news/razer-synapse-3-app-delivers-...
Wind turbine blades can’t be recycled, so they’re piling up in landfills
"staff" just means they volunteer around the year. Volunteers help out during the weekend.
I'm still reticent to go with Brave because of their Basic Attention Token system. Do you think Firefox could be a viable alternative with uBlock and other privacy protecting plugins?
It's quite likely a contracted web developer is using a "free" library that had these trackers built into it.

It's also possible this is corruption, as it's a question of where the revenue from that data was going. If it's going to some web developer's account that's a problem.

The RTB aspect of this story makes it clearly disingenuous, but getting interaction data to improve services is something you would expect a progressive public service to do. Crying wolf on this could do a lot more harm than good to the risk averse cultures of public services. I hope they've got the story right.
Your comment was making sense until you started comparing a council website with a marketing product (Brave.com).
> On Linux...this wouldn't be a problem

This, perhaps not, but Linux distros track app usage, too: https://popcon.debian.org/
Yes, and I am indicating that, to the idea that 24/7 childcare indoors to be the optimal case for women as according to one's own lives, I am arguing that may not be the case due to social isolation.
The baby may reject the bottle, or accept it only later or alternate between accepting and rejecting it.

It's not possible to generalize about what will happen, but probably all fathers should at least give it an honest try.
You do have control over it. By default, every app uses the same configuration. You proactively add configs to apps that you want to work differently.

For me, I've used it to make the pen work like a touchpad stylus while normally working, but map to the screen corners when working in photoshop.
that's beautiful! thank you for the link
Ok, so .NET just works on a Mac now, very cool. Feel like Microsoft is heading toward a glow-up moment in the near future. Keep up the good work.
I remember reading about Occam around 1987-89 in an Atari ST World magazine. Atari hade just announced the Transputer and the article introduced Occam as a way to program its parallel processor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation

I was a teenager at that time and I remember that the Occam code made little Sense to me
A lot of the time I'll see recipes call for heating non-stick on a medium- or medium-high flame with so little fat in ("one teaspoon of oil" or some similarly-way-under-enough quantity) them that it only covers like 1/4 or less of the pan surface, so most of the pan is heating dry, which AFAIK is a great way to turn the coating into a gas that's fairly bad for you. Though maybe that's folk-wisdom and it's actually fine to heat a nonstick pan empty? IDK.
Tax law already handles much more complex schemes. Admittedly nowhere near perfectly, but then this scheme being simple frees up resources for policing, and the tax code being much simpler makes it less easy to exploit.
Privacy Badger says that "Yellow" sites where it blocks cookies do appear to be trying to track you, but are necessary for the site to work[1]. That makes 5 trackers PB has identified on Lambeth's website.

[1] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger/faq#What-do-the-red,-yello...
OK but outside of a few legitimate exceptions?

Surely it's reasonable to flag .com.blahblahblah.thing.spamdomain as fishy?

.com.au/ or any other actual country top level domain is ok
Ok, but that doesn't mean that such designs couldn't be made and then standardized, right?
Author here, yeah noted. I should do a better job on selling the language but it's not easy doing this as a single individual.

I can however elaborate on the points raised:

- Recursive components: you can do it, the type-checker allows it and it works, or goes into an infinite loop if you don't exit correctly.

- Data sharing: I don't know what you mean by this. If it's data sharing between components you can do that by creating a store and connect as many components to it as you like.

- Messaging: I don't know what you are referring to? Websockets? Http? between components?

The fact is that there is some many things built in that it is hard to fit it on a single page above the fold, that's why I would say it's advantages is: it's the only thing you should need.

> You must start with Mint and haul in other new tools, or it doesn't work.

Could you elaborate on this?
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The entire article and "report" are so aggressive that it makes it difficult to extract any nuance out of it other than that I should use Brave.

Is the core issue that council websites are using real-time bidding for their ads? Is this specific to the UK?
I like to use SML/NJ for development and experimentation, and MLton for final compilation.

SML/NJ is a really nice development environment, and using a different compiler like MLton or Poly/ML for the final compilation forces you to use the more common, standard subset of ML rather than implementation-specific features.
That's an interesting thesis which I have heard before. Any studies or books which elaborate it?
I really like the simplicity and the easy to use interface. My new way of creating value adding flowcharts.
I worked for a company based in the valley a while back.

They announced their paid parental leave policy one year to much fanfare.

That was handy as we were having my second child.

I filled out the paperwork for the parental leave and .... they told me I didn't qualify because I didn't live in California... so unpaid leave for me it was.

Government policy is the only way to go with this stuff. Otherwise it will be a benefit only available to a few.
Counterpoint: as a Boeing investor, exactly how much foreknowledge of and ability to prevent the 737 MAX disaster would you have had?
Sounds like a fun hack, I encourage you to give it a try and then never EVER use it in real code :P
What's the opt-in censorship story with YaCy? I don't want to accidentally find gore or dark stuff in general.
> Thirdly, the cost is not large. Businesses are already absorbing the lost productivity caused by the fathers being exhausted. This formalizes it.

Exactly! And in both Norway and Sweden you can be part time on leave. For some time I had 25% leave, which meant that I was working, but could go early when tired from a long night of baby cries or stay at home one day when my wife needed to get something else done. And this time I will be on 80–90% leave, which means I am at home, but can pass by the office once a week to catch up with my students.
> The process table is mixed in with your OS process table

Just wanted to point out that this is true for Docker containers as well.

Something that has actually come in handy from time to time trying to diagnose things.

I think from within the container you can only see that container's processes, but outside (as root) you can see all processes, even those inside the container.
Yes, it doesn't apply to Linux. Also on Linux libinput and synaptics drivers support wacom tablets, so you don't necessarily need to even install linuxwacom (in my config I do "xinput set-prop ..." for both cases to setup pressure curve).
Yes. But that's nothing to do with the normal meaning of limited liability.
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It also penalizes non-fathers because employers assume the possibility of you having children, and that has an effect on your pay, even if you never have children.

As a non-father, you have no way to say "I don't want paternity leave" and negotiate a better salary instead.
"or they'd require the corporate entity - again, still a legal person - to indemnify them for any losses beyond the investment"

But if the shareholders are being called on for more money, it's because the corporation has run out. And in that scenario, contractual indemnity from the corporation would be of no use, because it neither (i) provides funds to pay those who are suing, or (ii) protects the shareholders from lawsuits from third parties.
I mean they should flag \*.com.thing where thing is anything other than a valid country top-level domain like au.

It's not perfect but it would make this type of phish a lot harder.
>Is there something I'm missing?

Without expensive marketing campaigns, word of mouth competitors on Amazon can sell the same item for 1/3 of the price, shipped.
I read the article and small/minimal...etc isn't that much different than a toy in some respects, but see your point of intent. I've seen a few implementations and didn't get the feeling of "production worthiness".
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I don't know what it's like in the Nordic countries but here in the US I walk down the street with a 4 year old on my shoulders to work every day to drop her off at school. The women I pass on the street and in the halls beam at her when she greets them and sometimes they exchange a few words. The men? They don't notice her: she's edited out of their minds eye like she doesn't exist, even if she cries "HULLOOO! My name is ___ what's yours?" to them except on rare occasions.

Men who don't have the experience of caring for a child even for a short while cannot make good decisions about what's normative of a civilization. Good policies will not be enacted if men do not "see" children.
FOSDEM does some nice crowd sourcing by having presenters login and review the video of their own talks, identifying the appropriate start/end times and flagging whether any postprocessing/recovery is needed, then self-approving for publishing. Pretty impressive!
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> Right. Ring is usually placed in homes. Where is the well-secured location in your average home?

A DVR can be smaller than a Raspberry Pi. Remove any random electrical outlet in the house, put the DVR in the wall behind it and then replace the outlet. Or put it on the underside of your washing machine etc. Can't remove it if you have to disassemble the whole house to find it.

Or just put it inside a safe which is bolted down. There are safes with interior electrical outlets.
Also sharpen your knife before prepping. Night and day :)
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Does someone know if this is provided by a torrent file?
Lots of good takeaways.
> Ads are what fund the open web.

It wasn't always that way.

Wikipedia, a more useful website than Google (speaking only in terms of my values), gets along just fine without ads. As does Internet Archive, Hacker News, many of the blogs that I read, and all of my personal websites.

> open web

It's funny you call it that. It sounds like a dystopian line directly from Zuckerberg. You don't need to call it "open" as that's what it is (or was) by default. Using this term makes it seem like the web is under attack or at risk of facing a non-open alternative. Maybe it is.

I personally think AMP and Chrome are doing a lot to embrace and extend the web. I don't think it's simply about building a bigger moat around search. If Google had the power to snap their fingers and make all websites have to run on its servers and platform, they would.

I suppose we'll just have to disagree. I'm having a hard time grasping your position.

Thanks for taking the effort to respond. Even though we don't see eye to eye, I appreciate it.
No one in the organisation gets paid. Some work year-round on it, but it doesn't mean full-time.

(I started fosdem, and keeping it a volunteer event was always a priority. I'm not active in the organisation these days, but got the confirmation this week-end that none of the team gets paid)
When my 1st daughter was born, I got exactly 2 days off using my own vacation days. We were a small team at a printing company and each person had a "specialization". If I wasn't there, it was a large part of the company effectively shut down until I returned (it was a lot of pressure and I am glad to not be there anymore).

At a different company (much much larger) I was able to take 2 weeks (out of 3 the company provides) of vacation when my son was born and I am two months away from my third and final child where I expect to do the same. I wish I was able to spend more time with them (and my recovering Wife from the caesarean) but as the primary income for our household we wouldn't be able to survive on things like FMLA. It is very disappointing seeing how modern the rest of the world is in terms of healthcare, maternity/paternity leave, education, etc...
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Limited liability has nothing to do with employees and managers, it applies only to shareholders. Shareholders and corporations would love to push more liability onto their employees, but it is labor law that prevents them from doing so, not the principle of limited liability.
For simplicity's sake. All transactions are taxed equally, no way to evade it by making false or borderline claims about the nature of exchange, and no resource have to be wasted on optimizing or litigating them.
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I suspect the best of those tools will be called Emacs and vim for some more decades.
Now just get rid of the Linux and we're in business!
TabletDriver: Open-source Windows driver for Wacom and other tablets
It doesn't invalidate what I've found though? Also Brave themselves market as being privacy friendly, blocking ads and trackers etc... is it not fair to judge them as well if they are reporting this as egregious?
You put a nice twist on it and I almost agree. I think "all over the place" is more closely related to ideas like disordered, indiscriminate, every which way, unsystematic -- you could intentionally create a work that looks unsystematic, but that's not the case for the people and films we were discussing.
... if you install and configure popularity-contest, which includes an explicit opt-in process [0] and it still doesn't track usage, merely installation.

[0] http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/con...
The concept is fine and makes sense, but it's been allowed to run amok and we're seeing blowback as a result. Insurance would probably be a transformational force, as business structures vulnerable to fraud wouldn't be insurable.

Another obvious problem has been allowing professionals to transform from partnership structures to corporate structures. I would argue that insulating attorneys, accountants, and investment bankers from risk hasn't been a net positive for society.
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"completely ignoring the last few decades"

Well, for fairness, D is quite a bit older than Swift. (It's nearly as much older than Swift as it is younger than C++!) But what do you think pushes Swift out of the "C++ with hindsight" basket?
The thing that always gets me with retries is error handling.

What errors should be considered retryable, vs raise immediately?

Do you log a retryable error? I've had systems mysteriously "hung" before which on closer inspection were infinitely retrying with a retry library that didn't log anything...

And if you do exceed your max retries, which error do you raise? The first one? The last one? There's no guarentee they'll be the same. A completely different "TooManyRetries" error?

These are the concerns I'd like to see addressed in a high level overview of a library like this one.
Wouldn't it be likely for another more rational landlord to exploit that opportunity then? Or are there some barriers?
I care about all of those things and parental leave.

I doubt you can group all those people together, and remember, you don't know them.

You listed a lot of right issues to imply that the left is the only side fighting for it, which is not true.
Not taking any side here, but something is only as important as the results it provides. If this year's caucus didn't really provide any good results, it's possible that 2016's was very important but 2020's was not.

A less political example: there was a time when E3 was the most important week for the video game industry. It's far less important now.

I don't know much about the Iowa caucus, but it's entirely possible for something to be very important historically and also be irrelevant today.
The marketing for these mattress startups has always put me a bit ill at ease. They're very slick, with attractive couples falling into a deep relaxing slumber. They'll tell you everything about how awesome their mattresses are, but won't actually give you a price.

Are they assuming that the general public are so interested in mattresses that they'll go on the website to check it out, instead of just picking something up at Ikea, or their local discount mattress provider?

They're all identical in how they pitch it too: lots of "science of sleep" factoids and thousands of customer reviews (as if those can't be gamed).

I get the same vibe with them as I do with stuff like Dollar Shave Club; a 'lifestyle brand' that's hoping for an acquisition by an established brand.
This is one of the downsides of using an ad-blocker

It's literally never occurred to me, as a user of these websites, that local government websites would even have adverts on them -- let alone Google AdSense / junk from Google's Display Network.
That seems pretty unlikely for a mid sized, independently operated/capitalized Japanese company tbh.
> Is the core issue that council websites are using real-time bidding for their ads?

Yes. These websites are used to support a variety of public services, e.g. disability, poverty, drugs, or alcoholism services.

Brave believes that sending tracking information about people accessing this information is a breach of privacy.
One of the first things Debian does is ask consent about this, and the FAQs are clearly published: https://popcon.debian.org/FAQ. You can't say the same about most things.
You have been outed for spewing elm-hate just yesterday, and now you're all over this thread as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22236258
I see - thanks for the info. So all relating to Google from what I'm getting on the website request.
You can make implicit inferences... e.g. younger people (below 25) are less likely to be parents anytime soon.

Also, there could be post-hiring pressures, motivating employees to not have kids in order to continue their stellar career trajectory (this probably already happens, and I think it's something that should be addressed by some kind of government-provided incentives... I was thinking something like tax-breaks or even tax-rewards for parents, or possibly public housing).
> ... Lloyds, one of the few remaining places whose investors have unlimited liability because the company dates from 1686...

It’s worth noting that even Lloyd’s has been changing as a result of unlimited liability being, well, a liability. New private individual investors with unlimited liability (called “Names” in Lloyd’s parlance) haven’t been admitted in some years and corporate entities have been admitted to join with limited liability for almost thirty years. As it stands now, something like only 3% of Lloyd’s insurance capacity is provided by unlimited liability Names and that’s expected to hit 0% before 2030.
One problem is determining truth. The person enforcing the rules like this is not objective and does not know everything.

Lets say Politician A implies something without explicitly stating it. If Politician B said that A said what he only implied is B then lying? What happens if A then says B is lying about him saying it.

Is A lying when he said he didn't say it? Is B lying when he said A said something?

I am extremely dubious stuff like this could actually be done objectively. Sometimes A would be accused of lying and sometimes B would be. The rules would not be applied fairly and equally.
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From what I understand, the executive chairman is more of a liaison between the CEO and the company's Board
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oh haha, I thought he was referring to coffeescript for some reason. code => coffee autocomplete makes much more sense