skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a shame. I mean, it's not so much that I'm all hung up on avoiding 'non-christian' themes. It's more that I don't react well to horror stuff and a lot of the best games have a lot of that (Dark Souls, The Last of Us, Doom). I wish I could just not care about the surface-level skinning, but it affects me nonetheless. At least with horror movies I can cover my eyes or part of the screen!
How Billionaire Phil Anschutz Is Preserving Two National Treasures
The difference between an SAP consultant, even on retainer, saying someone else can't do it because it's "too hard for them", and an employee being on the receiving end of that remark, is that the employee is an investment on the part of the company, the consultant is an expense. One is the equivalent of the programmer obfuscating his code to keep himself in a job, the other is an employee learning something new and becoming more valuable to the business.

I work in infrastructure an automation on the AWS/MS platforms and work with just about every level of their technical capabilities. I don't have any certification. I don't even have a university degree. I can work with the documentation, which is more often than not up to date and worthwhile. Though the curve is often steep, this doesn't mean it is beyond people with a careers worth of experience around the subject.

I have also learned a small amount about the sort of work involved in these custom queries from my friend. For the most part it's no more difficult than basic database administration; i.e. it's a query language, akin to SQL. It's difficult enough that I can see why someone would want training in it before touching a production DB. But from what I hear these consultants often work straight on Live and then rack up more billable hours fixing the mistakes they made with the customers' live data.

All of this is anecdotal, but the business model (essential monopoly) makes me squirm at the best of times.
> 2. Fixing some important compiler/library bugs takes years
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> 3. No way to host private package repositories

That's kind of related to the dictatorial community management. Relatedly, you still can't write a generic sort function.
Endless Sky is a well-polished FOSS version of the same thing.

https://endless-sky.github.io
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I have not read the whole article so apologies if this is touched on but is "discovered" really the right word here? The foods and molecules that have this flavor were already being consumed long before the term was coined.
It's also a good practice to keep a massive system as close to the original as possible and tweak it to business needs only when absolutely necessary, otherwise it becomes a beast of its own to support and upgrade later on.

This is a great example of technical debt when adding custom features to an existing commercial platform.
Rather with it's current way of doing business. But yes, in a way you're right.
Hey guys, remember when you could just arbitrarily change the colors of UI elements across your entire OS and pretty much all of its applications without the requirement of bespoke 'dark mode's? Why has the GUI so dramatically regressed from 1995?
Most banks have to make that check because they are still relying on username + password pairs. (I doubt using the Belgian eID triggers an alert.)
This is a common way of thinking about it, but nobody really knows. It's purely a conjecture. There is no data to back it up, and it just appeals to common sense.

Should everybody drop C/C++/whatever and rush into the Rust train because Rust people has conjecture?

I ask the opposite question. What would happen if the only programming language left is C? Wouldn't we become better programmers and raise the bar so high that the bug count drops to 0?
I am an IT Consulting (not with SAP) who has a Computer Science degree. I would not hesitate to hire a liberal arts major for a technical role in my company. Programming and analytical thinking is a tiny fraction of my job; most of it demands public speaking, organizational skills, and business relationship instincts.

If these people work at a firm like Accenture that just outsources the technical challenge, coding skills become completely unnecessary.

Also, a ton of the industry is built around the risk of something unexpected happening after you push the button (as mentioned below) and distributing blame if the end-result isn't precisely what customers anticipated (the old "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM" adage)

It may seem backwards to people outside of giant organizations, but it is a necessary aspect of modern business (and there are tons of industries that make more money while generating less value for society).
I work for an SAP subsidiary and this is the correct answer. You buy SAP software to 1) reduce your chance of getting audited and 2) get through expensive audits quickly.

The everyday end-user of SAP software isn't the one it's designed for. It's designed for lawyers and accountants who need to organize data quickly when the shit hits the fan.
Hmm, a quick search tells me that roughly half of all babies are breastfed after 6 months in the US. Seems acceptable to cater for potential needs of half the population (assuming numbers are the same obviously).

I was home with my kid when he turned 1 until he was 1.5 using this system in Sweden. Being a guy, I didn't breastfeed him. Kid still appear functional.
True, but they are nuclear powered [1] and short burst lasers can use capacitor banks for burst energy. 20MW should charge up large capacitor banks quickly. Not being an expert on laser weapons, I can't say if that is enough to damage an ICBM.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_marine_propulsion
the main antagonism is that private companies have become the infrastructure necessary for defacto free speech expression, i wonder how long it will take untill people recognize the proper function of a public space again
In the 90's I was one of the project leaders on the internal SAP R/3 deployment at Microsoft. It was one of the most successful IT projects I ever participated in, mostly due to the remarkably strong business leadership the project enjoyed.

It was the third time the company tried to implement SAP's products. I think I may have been one of the very few people who worked on all three attempts. The winning recipe was having a business owner who threw up his hands at the failed efforts to get a larger scoped company-wide project underway and "selfishly" declared that the finance dept would do it for its own benefits. And he tooks his best people out of their day jobs, put them on the project team, and made them move offices to sit in the same open plan war-rooms as the IT staff (which took some doing...Microsoft was pretty much all unshared private offices at that time) I think we reduced the time it took to "close the books" each month from something like 3 weeks to under one week.

And we absolutely changed the business to meet the way the software worked, that's one of the key success factors for implementing any ERP software. Your "unique requirements" for fixed assets accounting and accounts payable processes are not what makes your company successful, but they are what will tank your ERP implementation if you let them.

It was a fascinating project. I especially enjoyed some of the travel to implement it in the subsidiaries, where the really big business wins were. Most of the subs didn't even have a "purchase order" process (they just paid invoices, and had no idea of their outstanding commitments) or any automation around things like employee expense reports. And we got to come up with some decent creative solutions to things like Brazil's requirements for hyperinflationary accounting, without breaking the software.

Fun fact, Concur's expense reporting business was borne out of the Microsoft R/3 implementation -- some of the best consultants and developers took what they built for Microsoft's internal expense reporting and turned it into Concur's expense reporting product.
> I don't know if I'd use Elm again instead of trying TypeScript

I'd use PureScript next, or maybe ReasonML.

Elm is stagnant and its dictator seems to be quite insistent on keeping it that way.
Is that really _the_ Lorraine Daston? It doesn't look like her.
What coding taught me about culture
There's also a lot more suffering to be averted. Simple standardized things like following basic protocols to reduce errors (handwashing, surgical instrument inventory) or encouraging better patient compliance (taking meds regularly, for instance) save tons of lives.
It was set in Korea, but the subtext was entirely the Vietnamese conflict, which was happening or recent (ish) for the film (Altman, 1970) and early years of the TV show (1972-1983).
Please note that I am not saying it is easy ! Far from it. I say it is possible to obtain something friendly that actaully help you get the job done.

I discovered that Lidl spent 500 millions $ for nothing (literally) trying to implement SAP.

Give 500 millions euros to a talented group of Stripe - like engineers and, maybe, you will have something sorted out and maintained for a few decades.

Half a billion dollars....

50 engineers well paid (5000$ net after taxes / month) cost 6 millions a year (France)

With 500 millions your system can be build and maintained for a century.
Yeah, looks different.
On the other hand, Sweden has something similar.

Dads get 6 month non-trasferable paid leave.
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Note: I learned about this from a comment here [1] by gdotdesign, who appears to be the main contributor [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22245742

[2] https://github.com/mint-lang/mint/graphs/contributors
Spain is progressively doing this. Starting 2021, men and women will have the paid same parental leave of 16 + 2 weeks (non-transferable).

The main reason is fight against the discrimination from employers who think hiring women is inconvenient because they can go on parental leave for very long.
But both genders can feed the baby. It is not a rare situation where a mother doesn't have enough milk to feed a baby without additional food.

What other things are mother-only things in your opinion?
> - Lack of a roadmap or timeline, there is zero visibility into what is being worked on and when things may happen. This has been a deliberate choice by the core team I think because when they had a roadmap and parts of it didn't fit into the next release people were angry.

this is a bit sad (the fact that mobs are still mobs)

in any case I wonder if they couldn't make some kind of core partner club with people that have been long and deep Elm users
I'm glad this exists. When I had my kids I worked white collar jobs for large wealthy corporations, and I got exactly zero days each time. This attitude change is a step in the right direction. The problem is the people who in my opinion who need this the most (the working classes) are the ones least likely to get it (at least here in America).
Not having much experience with SAP (but having dealt with frustrating enterprise software), I know what people mean by user-hostile UI/UX. It's a symptom of a systemic issue commonly seen in corporations, government, public administration, any large institution.

It's what happens when the users have no choice in the matter, there is no reasonable alternative or competition - therefore no incentive to change or improve.

Whether it's intentionally designed to be user-hostile, I've suspected (and doubted) that myself.. There might be a logical explanation how that's desirable or even profitable, as a kind of moat or gate-keeping.

With its legacy and massive complexity, SAP would require a visionary to re-architect it from the ground up. Unfortunately, that rarely happens in enterprise software.

We can only hope that scrappy startups arise to replace and evolve.
That subreddit isn't really about the same phenomenon. It mostly focuses on the outlets in question publishing op-ed pieces from different authors rather than a partisan or parochial sort of spin attaching to a given outlet (although the sub itself pretty obviously leans pro-Trump).
But will they force Dads to take it? As a Dad who had two kids, I would much rather pay for childcare than take paternity leave. Would someone like me be held back artificially to promote equality?

EDIT: Not a freak, don't care for the infant stage. Happy to dote when they start to turn into people.
I'd avoid it. The community is weird and the language is hobbled in various ways and they insist on keeping it that way.

I'd try PureScript next, or ReasonML. But not Elm. Definitely not in production.
If the loan requires that all units be rented for $x they will do something to check.
Some of the stuff does t fit correctly on an iPhone 6-8 screen.
Holodomor.

I assure you he is considered a monster in Ukraine, too. Because he was.
one thing that confused me, why does incrementing an integer require returning a future?
Looks like a similar idea to Elm
This is an interesting thread as despite working for many many years in IT I know next to nothing about SAP. I have worked with people from all parts of the IT ecosystem over the years but not SAP. It appears to be its own little closed world that some people enter but then never leave.

That observation aside does anyone know who writes or customises the SAP NetWeaver for Windows programs ? Is that the function of a highly paid consultant somewhere ? I have seen a few of these in different places and the common factor is they always look like they were written in Visual Basic circa 1992. The one I use makes the same beeping sound if a transaction fails as it does if it succeeds. If the transaction fails this is signalled by status box text saying so in a green font but if it succeeds then text says that in a red font. It takes a special mind to come up with that !
Heads-up: I submitted it as a separate post and it appears to be making the front page now. You might want to get in there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22246615
Somatic inquiry / therapy;
Gestalt practice with a men’s group;
Noticing where you have an impulse towards dopamine triggers (blame / criticism / drugs / sex / food / work ) and take pause to see what might be beneath it.
A mint dev is on HN; @gdotdesign https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gdotdesign
Meanwhile, it is now legal for the President to rig the election. Great year so far.
14 months or weeks?
Noone is forced. It's just a 'waste' if you don't :).
I believe men have 4 months of parental leave in Spain already, starting 2020.
I’m not sure we can even distinguish the entities involved in this case. The head of the Iowa Democratic Party was partying with the ACRONYM’s CEO just before the election. She is married to a Buttigeig staffer. Her husband’s brother is comms director for Buttigeig and was tweeting out log in PINs during the election. And of course the whole ACRONYM operation is wrapped up with Democratic Party dark money.

https://mobile.twitter.com/taraemcg/status/12239909781277245...

https://mobile.twitter.com/bhalle87/status/12245589259467939...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-dem-dark-money-group-is-...
It's paid leave and no you won't be forced to spend time with your infant children you freak

said with love
I do something like this already.

I still go to the office on Monday and Tuesday, and Wednesday, but I'm tuned out. I'm in Do-Mode. On Thursday, its build and demo and test, so I snap out of it and put things together for a releasable build.

Friday, fix bugs, do a new release for the test user to play with over the weekend.

Now, none of this is firm - break the rule if needed. But, generally, this helps keep a fat chunk of attention all the way up front, weekend->Thursday, that makes the magic happen.

Oddly enough, done right, it means Friday can be a slack day too.
The discussion surrounding parental leave is one of the reasons I like contracting. I get paid hourly and get to set my own working conditions and benefits. If I ever get a baby, I can take as much leave as I want to make sure my wife and baby are taken care of. I don't have to lobby the government or beg my employer in order to get time off.

And to answer the question that is going to be asked: "But then you don't get paid?". Correct, but when I do work my pay is around double to triple, so I can take a whole lot of parental leave before it becomes financially irresponsible.
Breast pump solves that.
Yeah, I'm aware there's a fictional book being referenced. Back in the real world - what does "monopoly on truth" mean?
> After all, there are certain things like breastfeeding

Mother's can and do express milk to be fed to babies in bottles; the fact that a baby is on breastmilk doesn't require the mother to be with them 24/7, and formula is a thing that exists.

What other things are there?
I think the safer option is to buy a solid competitor that will benefit if the overvalued stock corrects. For example, if you think Ford or BMW will attract investors if Tesla deflates, buy that instead.
No, it's not the same as length extension. SHA1 is vulnerable to Chosen Prefix collisions. SHA2 doesn't have any known collision attacks faster than the birthday bounded brute force attack, let alone any chosen prefix collisions, but both do have length extension attacks. Also length extension isn't specific to Merkle–Damgård, though all Merkle–Damgård hashes are vulnerable to it without mitigations (like truncation of the output).
feels like authoritative server with no client side prediction?
You'd rather pay people to be with your kids than be with your kids? Wow

Yeah I'd guess you'd be held back from being a crap dad
> I think the DNC is anything but neutral. They seem to strongly put their thumb on the scale.

And now you see why so many non-Democrats have a fear of them getting elected. If the DNC can't give equal treatment to its own people with whom they disagree, what of the rest of the country for whom they have apparent disdain?
Nothing a shell script wrapper can't setup for you -- arch linux provides an arch-chroot which handles exactly that.
Good job Finland! Fellow Nordic here (Norwegian) and a dad. The father quota here in Norway made a huge social change. It really helped make it socially acceptable for dads to spend more time with their children.

I noticed for my two sons how much of a difference it makes being around your kids when they are young. You cannot cannot substitute short time with "quality time." The amount of time you are there matters a lot to small kids.

I think it is healthy for children to have both a mother and father who is actively present in their lives. You need a gender equality oriented society for that. If women are offered poor pay and opportunities it encourages women to stay home the whole time while men do all the work. That is bad for both parties. Men see little of their kids and kids don't get the experience with dad that they benefit from.

Meanwhile the mother may get a lot more time with the kids but she also suffers from having no career or independence. The relationship also suffers as one does not have a work life experience and child caring experience to share and talk about.
> while fathers are given 2.2 months until the child turns two. However, on average only one in four of them take what they are given. The current plans now talk only of parental leave.

Is it conceivable that fathers actually don't want to spend that much time at home and that the Finland Government is strong-handing them into doing it?

One frustration I have in this topic is that it is seldom mentioned that any parent with any savings and a decent job has the option of taking unpaid leave and take as much as they want with their kids, but choose not to. That is a very strong case for revealed preferences.
Mints take something stinky and make them not so stinky.
There is pretty much exactly one thing that only a mother can do once the baby has been born, and you just named it.

For many reasons, a mother might not be willing or able to breastfeed her child or to do so exclusively, so you'd need additional feeding arrangements in those situations.

Even if the mother is breastfeeding, in practice she might appreciate being able to express some of her milk and have the father feed the baby sometimes.

Things could be much more even with early years childcare than they are in many places at the moment, and in my experience there are a lot of mothers and a lot of fathers who wish it were so.
Can I use backtics for inline CoffeeScript code easily?
No, the point is to offer an incentive. Even the mother may not take any of her leave if she wants. But by providing an incentive, you do change how most men consider normal for raising the kids.
Excellent- maternity leave isn't just about physically recovering, it's about the child and parent as well. It only makes sense that both parents should get the same time with their kid.
For this particular syntax, the motivation here was to make it look like more of a tag than an interpolation.
Unless dad also pumps, it doesn't...
Yep, the DNC planned a whole conspiracy for.... Iowa.
seems to be written in the crystal programming language, which i am discovering here too. looks very much like ruby to me.
I would rather pay for someone else to do what I consider dreck work (changings, feedings, monitoring while they sleep) while still making time each evening to spend with them.

Research has shown this to be optimal (time spent with your children later in life closer to adolescent years matters more than their younger years).

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12170
Because Apple realized that the visual appearance of the OSX desktop is an aspect of their brand, and every person working on a MacBook in a coffee shop is a public billboard which needs to adhere to brand standards.
It's months. Amazing for employees and terrifying for employers. Someone I know took a new job somewhere, only to let them know a week or so after being there that his wife was about to have their child and he was going to be gone for the next 14 months.

They were not going to be able to fire him without repercussions. He was not required to let them know during the interview.
> Neighbouring Sweden has Europe's most generous system of parental leave with 240 days each after a baby's birth

That's working days or what? In Latvia (Estonia neighbour) you may get 12 months (60% of money calculated from amount BEFORE taxes) or 18 months (43,75%). And dad can leave, too.

https://likumi.lv/ta/en/en/id/38051-on-maternity-and-sicknes...
Section 10.6. Amount of Parental Benefit
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Would you prefer paying because they would do a better job? Or because your kids would prefer it? Or because you would make more money?

It's up to you of course, I'm just curious.
My first thought was that the app is going to be used "for real" for a first time at peak volume, but with a known number of users / data points to be gathered. Both of these requirements are unusual.

The first is detrimental - the inability to pilot real use, or "ramp up" gradually before the caucus makes it hard to avoid a "big bang" go-live and consequent issues surfacing at the worst possible time. As happened.

But the second is actually an advantage. Fixed and predictable live load rather than "we hope that it becomes very popular" give you a specific target to use in load tests ahead of time.

A senior engineer should be advocating for that load test at e.g. 150% of the real load.
> Not a freak, don't care for the infant stage.

Oh that's much better. As we all know, infants don't need their parents for adequate cognitive development. /s
> What is so great about the word "Mint"?

It is English slang for something very good, very neat, very clever, very sharp.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2939272/
I'm not understanding what the difficulty is. Always use the pronouns preferred by the person the pronouns are referring to. After that, basic grammar rules apply.
It was 8 weeks on 2019, 12 on 2020 and 16 on 2021. Plus now men can also request "Lactancia" which adds an extra couple weeks.
It sounds minty fresh?
Thanks for elaborating