skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was an ABAP developer around 10 years ago, wrote a bunch of Planning & Scheduling apps/"screens" running in SAPGUI R/3 and APO for a (brand new) manufacturing plant with a new SAP implementation.

I learned ABAP in a literally one weekend and was able to make stuff really quickly. For the most part, you could just "loop at <giant_table_name>" extract what you want and show it on a screen using one of their existing ui components. There was not much UI to worry about and you know the user is getting a proper input box (for example) with a working typeahead. Honestly, I thought it was a very decent developer experience. I could focus on what I needed to do and not worry about how pretty the thing looks or if I'm querying the database optimally. I ended up writing a very complex genetic algorithm implementation to calculate optimal schedules and it was a joy.

Yes, the table names were basically in german, and abbreviated, and most things were only 8 chars long for some legacy reasons, but it really wasn't that hard to learn that VBAK was sales_orders and VBAP was sales_order_items and move on.

For the most part, the users were totally fine with SAP. It was hyper-focused for the tasks they needed. It was consistent and easily documentable. It didn't crash, it loaded super fast, it didn't eat up gigs of memory. You just load up the gui application and you don't even need a mouse once you know the shortcuts.

Having spent the last 10 years building web and mobile apps, working with salesforce and others, I miss ABAP very often.
We don’t teach poetry very well.

Students used to memorize poems starting in elementary school. That was a big part of early education- memorizing poems.

Lots of older folks still remember them. How many older Americans can still recite “Ride of Paul Revere?” Lots.

Many modern poems assume familiarity with the poetic “canon.”

Poetry is getting more and more estranged from “common people.”

Think of the role poetry played in the counterculture of the 1960s and 70s: Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Amiri Baracka, etc.

Hard to find any recent poets with the same effect.
"MINT (Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaft und Technik)", Germany's name for STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)
My experience has been the opposite. I saw the person lying and stealing have it backfire significantly. Pushing away the talent to other success and leaving them to sit in the mess they created
This can be generalized to scalar and vector fields in any number of dimensions. These things are everywhere in generative art. The discretization done by the author here is often not necessary, though.

The graphical programming environment vvvv has a pack of nodes ("field trip") for manipulating these in 2D and 3D. Fun to play with, and it's been used to create many beautiful pieces.
Is the "practical" in quotes because practical solution would be Toyota truck?
I don't think they'd ever force anyone to take time off if they don't want to. They'd give you the right to take time off to be with your kids, but if you don't want to take them up on that offer, then that will always be your prerogative.
That’s really cool. It sets strong incentives for men to spend those 6 months with their children, but still leaves the the freedom to not take the leave (and basically forfeit 6 months of free “vacation”).

I’m incredibly grateful for the combined 4 months I got to spend full time with my two children and can only recommend taking the time if you can.
I would. I am keeping an eye on the zig programming language, exactly because of these reasons: https://ziglang.org/
haha yeah, nobody before $my_generation had their own internal world
Also, why did Buttigeg donate $42k to shadow inc? This should be illegal
Thanks for reporting this, will look into it!
Okay, this application of ML is actually cool.
I think it's hard to justify some of this with Christianity in particular. Remember what Jesus said about the poor and related topics. I don't see him as being particularly possessive or hoarding of currency or property. Also, "render unto Caesar".
I'll add that Non-Violent Communication is an area that can help with issues like this.
Did you know this before you got them? I would rather be with my kids than working.
Major parts of the web can and have worked just fine without advertising.

The forums and hobby websites I spend most of my time on don't advertise, and easily survive on voluntary donations. We even have built in hosting for user uploaded pictures and videos, so we're not relying on any external services at all. I've met a lot of close friends through these sites, and have done a lot of collaboration. And even more goofing off ;)

For the non-WWW real time stuff, I also use a lot of IRC, which has always managed to be free for the end user and ad-free. And more recently Discord does the same thing without ads (I pay for Nitro, but regular users don't have to).

I also use Reddit and Facebook a lot, not because I think those sites offer anything particularly valuable to me, but because of network effects. I don't think these offer anything particularly compelling that couldn't be offered by non-ad supported services.

The "big one" in my mind is video sites such as Youtube, I don't know how they could survive if a very high percentage of their users were blocking their ads. I pay for their premium ad-free service, but am among a small minority willing or able to do that. Can their business model work purely on premium subscriptions that offer extra perks? It seems like it only barely balances out right now, and I don't think the cost of hosting all these videos will become dirt cheap anytime soon.
I'm the author and main contributor of the language, let me know if you have any questions, happy to answer :)
JSX is the best part of React. That's the part that seems to be kept.

It does look like a cleaner and more convenient coding experience.
Maybe, but I feel like boring business processes are exactly the area where open source solutions are severely lacking.

Also, how are these businesses supposes to hire developers if there is no one in house already with the knowledge to ensure they are actually building something useful?

They are likely to end up with a barely functioning HR and Accounting system and developers with a load of boxes checked on their CV ready for the next job.
I’m curious what what happen if someone wanted to have ten kids and abused this system, and the mother didn’t work.

At a gut I feel like I’d be less likely to have kids, not more, if I felt like I was burdening other people by accepting benefits like this. I have no worries as an American having as many kids as I want because I make a good salary, can afford them, and won’t take more than a weeks, maybe two weeks time off, as my wife, despite being just as qualified for software engineering as me, wants to stay at home and raise children. Heck, I won’t even be “overburdening” the school system as my wife is home schooling them, despite living in a “good” school district.

Being charitable I’d hazard the point of this is to encourage population growth, but I suspect it’s playing out more like “have two kids and that’s as many as you should have”, and any more would introduce strong social pressure to stop.

Maybe it’ll work out that lots more Finns will be born, I’m curious to see how it goes in twenty years.
Well, they could just not take the days, then.
You’re naive if you think they WONT try to screw Bernie again
> Research has shown this to be optimal.

Hey, you can tell yourself whatever you want.
hehe, yeah .. the Pocket1 is my current favourite handheld, there's just nothing quite like it .. plus, paired with a couple of iControlPad's, its kind of badass.

Been keeping an eye on GPD's other thingies, but I'm just jaded now. I just want a revised version of the Pocket1 that doesn't suck.. totally with you on the track-pointer.
It's paid leave...
Embed a video form on your platform
No, after. I want them to thrive, but they're not at an age yet where I can fully appreciate time with them.
Bias Check: I didn't vote Bernie in 2016, I won't be voting Bernie in 2020, and I can honestly say there's not a single politician running that would actually represent my opinions and values.

"It’s not a conspiracy, it’s a community."

I don't know. I have serious doubts about whether or not we're seeing foul-play here. What we know for sure is that the app in question was partially funded by a(at least one) candidate. Essentially, a candidate gave money to the system that counted their votes. The company behind the app was founded by people tied to the Democratic 'establishment' (specifically, Hillary Clinton). And, as far as I can tell, the Democratic party has done everything in their power to ensure the candidate with the most name recognition and popular support in the race (Bernie Sanders) isn't their nominee.

From what I have seen thus far this cycle, and from what I saw in 2016, I can't help but be suspicious.
A few things to call out:

1) Dark mode is increasingly not exclusively about the user experience. We're seeing phones switch automatically to dark mode when batteries are low.

2) Dark mode, at least for email, has better readability by design. The dark mode algorithm swaps foreground with background and then adjusts the colors to be at least at a ratio of 4.5 to 1 (wcag 2 compliance). This means you can have unreadable white text over white background in light mode and it will actually be readable in dark mode. So having discussions about whether dark mode is more readable is kind of pointless, it was designed to be more accessible.

edit: If there is interest, I can share a desktop app that helps illustrate dark-mode changes (specifically for email). https://imgur.com/NOGT5el
It's a paid leave, so you'd be losing money by paying someone to keep your kids so that you can work and earn the exact same money you'd earn by staying home.
Please consider this.

- In software engineering it is notoriously difficult to distinguish between capable and incapable companies/individuals. You basically need a very capable person to make the evaluation. But who chooses the evaluator ?

- Even a capable company can screw up by no putting the right people in the project.

- Even one person in a capable team can derail a project.

- A project needs time to ramp up, go from alpha testing to beta testing to production. A project that goes from dev to production in one night has 10x the risk of a regular project.

- 60k is very little money for such a risky project.

- Finally, The obligatory don't ever, ever trust voting software https://xkcd.com/2030/
While the idea of '60s' is interesting, in lieu of that I always err on the side of explicitly specifying the time units when the argument provided is just a number. Not doing so has bitten me too many times.
14 months, but it is a little bit more complicated than what OP implies.

The mother gets 14 weeks (6 weeks before due date, 8 after) that is the "proper" leave and is mandatory for the mother.

After that, one or both parents can choose to take a leave where the government pays you 2/3 of your net salary, capped at 2000 EUR. If only one parent takes then it is limited to 12 month and it is extend to 14 months in case both parents decided to take it.
It’s the difference between you making good choices individually or the government forcing “good” choices that might not be best for you as an individual.
I've watched a few movies in what's called ScreenX[0]. It's a cinema experience where they project the movie on the main (front) screen, and project the surroundings on the two side walls. The result is an immersive viewing experience.
Obviously the film is not recorded in the ridiculously wide aspect ratio, so usually the side images are computer generated. For landscape imagery, this is fairly seamless. You can't really tell that the images aren't real. However, during a scene with people, the side walls projected static images that drifted around slightly (as if they were cardboard cutouts). I guess the idea is that most things happening in your peripheral vision are lost anyway, so no need to make them detailed.

[0]: https://www.cineplex.com/Theatres/ScreenX
Wow impressive. In Canada as a Dad I can get, I think, 6 months of paid leave. Although the pay is covered by Employment Insurance and it only covers so much (like 55% of your salary up to $600/wk)

I ended up just taking four weeks vacation for my first kid and it made all the difference. I strongly believe that giving flexible and generous vacation time to all parents/guardians will have a positive impact on society. The challenge is that these impacts are hard to measure with a spreadsheet.
What's stopping you from running your own registry? Or keeping images on a build machine and moving them around with some file sharing mechanism? You don't need a docker account to pull public images from dockerhub, and you don't _have_ to push your images to dockerhub
Windows runs Linux binaries by running Linux in a VM. Something newish is that Windows also implements Windows by running NT and a Windows UI in a VM.

Running on a hypervisor originated at IBM, on its 370, and is very mature technology. Arguably, an OS running on bare metal is practically an embedded system, these days; There are just so many things that make a hypervisor useful or essential.

The key insight IBM had was that the hypervisor runs under the control of one of its VMs. That means the hypervisor doesn't need to provide a full-featured, comfortable work environment; that is the job of guest OSes. Instead, it manages resources according to policies implemented in an "executive" guest OS not used for, or vulnerable to mistakes or malevolence in, regular user programs.

A modern example of such a system is Qubes, security-oriented OS that hosts and orchestrates Linux, BSD, and even Windows VMs.
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1) How will it cost to read the newspaper 5$ in Rwanda? That's the price of a monthly subscription in Germany.

2) If said people can't afford 5$/month how will they afford the stuff ads are targeting them to buy?
The company is not the one paying for that, so it is not as bad for the company as you are saying. Chill.
> Finally, a country that understands that one of the driving forces of gender inequality is the asymmetry of experience caused by maternal leave.

The asymmetry of experience is actually caused by child bearing, which can only be done by women. Maternal leave is downstream from that.
Correction: it will go up given an ignorably small jerk on the line at the lowest point. Not the best example, right... What I was trying to say is that one can trade rotational momentum to linear (and vice versa) as long as the kinetic energy of the system stays the same.
Sorry I didn't sugar-coat the obvious
One of my amazements in healthcare is that you could go to 19 different hospitals with the same issue and get as many variations of treatment.

Same input, but vastly different outputs.

And I don’t think their differing constraints can appropriately justify it.
> What would you say is the final model that "has it"?

For me, at least, probably the combination of the 48GX and 42S. Both represent the end of the line of HP's traditional hardware engineering, which is such a significant part of using these devices. The software gaps between the 48GX and the later 49 can be made up by installing software into a 48, if that turns out to matter for you.

One of the more significant new parts of the 49 software is the "Meta Kernel", which was externally developed by Jean-Yves Avenard as a 48 extension. IIRC, Avenard ultimately wound up working for HP on their calculators, which I believe is how MetaKernal wound up as part of the core 49G ROM. IIRC, this was also a bit of a reconstitution of HP's calculator engineering effort, as the previous team had been disbanded a few years prior. (ie; William Wickes, who was heavily involved in the 41 and 28/48, wound up at some point working on video conferencing systems for HP.)

The reason I'm also including the 42S is that it's a lot more traditional in the way that it operates. If the 28/48/49/50 series feels like a small handheld computer with a custom programming language, the 42 feels more like an actual calculator (with a lot of capabilities).
How Decisions Are Made After the Partner Meeting
My in-laws were with us for 6 months after our little girl was born. My wife and I took over almost everything childcare related to be with her except for things like cooking meals and catch up naps during the day sometimes. Some parents do want to spend time with their children you know!
Ask HN: Any projects to request CCPA data from every qualifying company?
Is there any project or effort to request data from every qualifying company when it goes into law to map what data each company has and how the data is sold?
I honestly cant tell if this is some attempt at a copypasta or if this entire thread is real
Except that plenty of languages with tracing GC have also off GC memory allocation.

Since you mention not knowing such languages, have a look at Eiffel, D, Modula-3, Active Oberon, Nim, C#/F# (specially after the latest improvements).

Also Java will eventually follow the same idea as Eiffel (where inline classes are similar to expanded classes in Eiffel), and ByteBuffers can be off-GC heap.
I think that it's an acceptable use of the term. Even if people consumed it before that, if they weren't aware of it then its existence could still be discovered.

It's along the same line as "Isaac Newton discovered gravity."
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Thank you

For additional reference, it seems to be alternating sections starting below the fold (man I hate that phrase)
Thanks but no thanks.

When I’ll have a baby I‘ll have to breastfeed, after having carried him for nine months, and having him exit through my private parts.

Give me my extended, non trasferrable maternal leave!

Edit: since some people are misunderstanding my point: extending the paternal leave costs money. I would rather prefer those money being spent on more maternal leave.
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Most apps respect your preferences. The tab action to keep you in the app will typically give you a tab of your default web browser if your preferred browser has implemented it.

Gmail and Google search specifically open a powered by chrome tab when you click on links unless you look around deep in the settings to turn off this user hostile feature.
Windows has similar restrictions.
How does anything get done?

If it were a three person company, one person is now gone for 14 months and legally can’t be replaced? A nightmare for the other two employees.
this is paid leave (it's only an allowance, not usually a full salary though). Where I live it's up to a year for a father, but most of them do not take it since we are still entrenched in the "father at work/mother at home" society
Some people have no support such that you describe, and are entirely out of pocket for childcare costs because they have no family to rely on (either due to apathy, or death). If your spouse is a stay at home parent, none of these costs are tax deductible (US centric).
That's impressive. Of course Apple distributes hardware, so it makes the most sense to me. Microsoft, I suppose, had to distribute Windows boxes at some point, so it makes some sense to me.
But I definitely wonder at which point Google started seeing a need for SAP. As soon as they started selling gadgets? Before then, to generally manage finances?
Which is why on GC languages that also support value types and off GC-heap allocations, one makes use of them, instead of throwing out the baby with the water.
Right now all an employer sees is time off. In Finland that means there is no difference to the employer.
Odoo was the worst experience I ever had. Granted, processes at that company could only be described, on a good day with a lot understatement, as st. But still, it felt like half of it was missing and the other half wasn't working properly. That and that the external developers had no idea how to manage inventories.
On Brave browser for Android, I use chrome://flags and enable "Android Web Contents Dark Mode".

Samsung's Internet browser has a Dark Mode toggle built in, which surprised me.
It's also important to note that not all developers have the same constraints.

If your employment prospects don't depend on using the major frameworks that everyone else is using, you're probably going to choose (or even create) a framework that best fits with the way you think and the way you like to work.
I believe at least one of the contributors to Opnieuw is Dutch.
It is just that the days get wasted if you don't take them. So you would be stupid not to do it.

> Not a freak, don't care for the infant stage. Happy to dote when they start to turn into people.

That is kind of a selfish attitude. The early stage is a lot of work, but why should you skip the work while your wife has to do it all?

I remember back in that time. I was quite happy to go back to work the first weeks, because I found it quite exhausting with the first child. Work was super relaxing in comparison.

I think it is only fair and square that one shares the load. I had my parental leave when my kids were 8 months or so. I actually forget exactly the time. But it was quit manageable by then and while a fair amount of work it was also a rewarding experience.

> Would someone like me be held back artificially to promote equality?

What about your wife's career. Isn't she held back if she had to spend all the time taking care of the kids? Why should she not be given similar opportunities as you?
My team has had a similar experience - the gap between 0.19 and 0.19.1 was really frustrating.

I'm curious what your problem is with ports? In my experience it's a nice API for interacting with the outside world. Or are you referring to DOM features that haven't been mirrored in Elm yet?
No, but I speak Afrikaans, which is closely related to Dutch. So "opnieuw" is easily understood. In Afrikaans it would be "weer" (or "weer oor").
I would give out handles and have a Guard Object, that allows you to get smart pointers from handles as long as Guard Object is in scope. Then when Guard Object is out of scope, the smart pointers would get invalidated.
Dark Reader for Firefox seems to work only some of the time. I ended up disabling it.
What libraries are using panics for runtime errors?
Hey, this is actually pretty great! Good work!
I'll be the pedant and argue that if you want to figure out how to sound proper Dutch, there's a difference.

"new" sounds like "neeuuuuu" in US English, and a diphtong "nuuu" in British English.

"nieuw" sounds like "niii" followed by a very short "oooo" as in "do" followed by a slightly more pronounced "w" at the end.

I'm aware that there are proper ways to codify pronunciation, but it's more fun this way and I know nothing of it.
Related, here's an excellent lecture by Sean Carroll on the Arrow of Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hagHHV6RYZ8

As far as I understand, his central (layman-level) proposition, is that time is just an emergent property when you consider that entropy always increases.

Fascinating stuff.
What are the privacy costs to using FF?

Also, what's a good alternative to Google docs/etc? Should I VPN into a home machine using open/libre office?
Why Small PRs Increase Developer Productivity?
Wacom tablets track every app you open
Erlang has dynamic typing, no? Static typing is especially what interests me in SML, and it's a such core thing, I'm kinda honestly confused what's similar between SML and Erlang?? (I don't know either of them well, so I'd be really interested to learn about some deep similarities from experienced people.)
> I’m curious what what happen if someone wanted to have ten kids and abused this system, and the mother didn’t work.

The easy solution would be to have this set up for the desired number of children. 1-3 children: 100% of the benefits, >3: 20% or something similar.