skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a great read and amazing perspective!

I was born in '94, and by the time I was old enough to really appreciate the arts, analog media was already something you used because it was cheap or because digital hadn't quite caught up yet.

And I never did much of anything creative myself until well into the digital era.

There was definitely still a real mystique to things that were more than ones and zeros, but it's not the same as growing up or having strong early experiences close to analog.

So I didn't really form much of an attachment to physical media. It's just a way to make it so faraway people can see your performance, and digital was the cool new thing that does it with less resources..

But I wasn't quite expecting the art itself to change so much. These days almost all music is very heavy on effects and synthesized sounds.

I wasn't expecting CG to replace practical effects to that degree.

Seeing CGI become more common than Jurassic Part style animatronics, and Autotune become it's own style, was my death of film moment.

There might really be something to be said for the idea that the medium is the message. Maybe film really was an important part of filmmaking after all, and not just "The thing people had to use because they didn't have digital yet".

I don't see any reason why so much should change on an emotional and creative level just because the tech changes, and I don't actually want analog to take over again... but it does seem like digital tech can change anything it touches.

Maybe one day digital will seem like a normal part of life, but for now, adding tech sometimes does change the feel.

It almost makes me sad I never experienced analog film directly, aside from a week long class(Mostly digital).

But I'm also very glad to live in the digital era, where I can share a picture on Facebook and people can see it without burdening their lives with another object. Where we don't have to mine silver for every frame. Where only pros need a camera that doesn't fit in a pocket, and sometimes not even pros do.
What a dark and sad way to respond - so crimes perpetrated against people only matter if the victim is blameless?

People who think like you will support new genocides in the future. I hope, for humanity's sake, that you are out-numbered by those of good conscience.
I have no idea what it is worth, but it is currently valued closer to $105B.
The UI isn’t just terrible, it’s hostile to the user. The rare times I am forced to interact with it I feel like I’m using software that was meant for some other purpose. I’ve worked in the industry for 25 years, I’ve never come across worse UI.
A king who is also secretly

The Duke of Cornwall, The Duke of Somerset, The Duke of Norfolk and The Duke of Richmond

Sign me up..!
What's up with prices in Turkey?
Quite a lot of this has to do with VAT which is always advertised as part of the price. In most of these countries I know they have VAT rates over 20%. In the US, sales tax is between 0 and 7.25 percent and is never advertised as part of the price.

The US pays for this lack of VAT in other ways, either as taxes or in the services the government doesn’t provide.

It’s easy to forget all this while having iPhone sticker shock, but it’s rather brilliant on the part of the governments since everyone is pissed at Apple for overcharging, not thinking about whether VAT is a good idea.
I think your assumption -- that so many 1st to 12th graders in California are doing marijuana to affect the statistics of the state's maths score -- is unbelievably off the mark, that maybe you should see what substances you yourself are being exposed to.
Zalgo text provides a straightforward example of how "reversing a string" is ambiguous and ill-defined: one might conceivably want to transpose "letters" along with their respective piles of combining marks, stacked in the same order, not to move combining marks to adjacent letters in a different order.

And of course what characters are a mark-bearing letter is application-dependent and there might be collateral requirements (e.g. if the reversed text is meant to be displayed swapping closing and opening delimiters such as parentheses: "(note)"
-> ")eton(" or "(eton)" ).
So what's changed since Concorde?

Concorde didn't fail for technical reasons but AA have put down a deposit for 60. This is limited to < Mach 1 over land so it's going to be most useful on the routes that Concorde could have serviced.

Is it just the noise aspect opening more potential routes? But then I would have thought we would be more concerned about noise now than in the 60s making the improvements a wash.
Not just developers, but lawyers, accountants, analysts... I think you grossly underestimate complexity of this thing.

We implemented relatively simple income tax reform a few decade ago in small EU jurisdiction. But law makers were very vague in some important details, and there were about 8 different interpretations. We had to implement, run and support all 8 versions for couple of years, until they decided on final interpretation. Non compliance would be fine of couple of million euro.

And that was tiny country of 5 million people with clean newly written laws. Not babylon with 300 years of baggage like US.
I don't find that surprising, but I'd still be interested to see a survey of what proportion of California's homeless population have used psychedelics extensively _in their past_. Because my experience leads me to believe that someone who does a lot of psychedelics in their younger years is more likely to wind up on a bad track later in life (even if they don't continue with those drugs later on).
I think you don't see the full picture here. The developers working for SAP usually don't need any certifications. They are regular computer scientists/physicists/mathematicians etc. who write code / design systems.

There are of course the certified consultants that work for clients of SAP. I can however understand why they need certifications. It's probably impossible to configure these systems without some kind of special education in them.

And as for the quality of SAP devs.. I work for SAP and I have met many very qualified developers at the company. Far more than I anticipated before joining the company. Quite a few have been poached by Google et al but that is another topic.
Thanks, glad you're enjoying it :) Good suggestions, I will try to make the commenting process clearer, and add a favorite icon to the lists too.
Nope, not at all, because it applies to privately run servers. It's the equivalent of breaking into my house and stealing my Legos, based on somebody's statement that I swore around children who happened to be near Legos.

I bought Minecraft in 2011. Every few years since then, I would get friends back together, host a new server, and catch up while playing. I bought the software, I host the server, I ban people if need be, and how dare Microsoft treat it as their walled garden.
I'm quite surprised a new API like this got merged without a clear (public) indication for why it was needed. Given that Linux commits to never breaking user-space, I'd imagine adding this new feature incurs a substantial and near-permanent cost in terms of maintenance, security, etc.

Is the mental model for this to treat it like a device driver (where it's off by default and can be turned on under specific circumstances), or is this thought of as part of the default-available kernel API that every system will have access to from now on? (I guess FUSE itself is a little fuzzy in this respect)
This. SAP has no restrictions on how much you customise it - you can customise and extend to your heart's content. The problems come during upgrade - SAP has very mature tooling to manage upgrades but a customer who has veered too far from standard will need to rework their customisations to fit the new version.

Many many customers have been burned by this over the years - being too trigger happy and customising/building their own extensions rather than using the out-the-box functionality. Packaged software exists for a reason, don't use it like a PaaS to built your own solutions.

SAP is now pushing customers to "keep the core clean" and stick to standard as much as possible, which is definitely a move in the right direction.
Ah, that's my blog post :)
the best idea looks like a shooting range. I don't know what the gun rights are in Australia, but there aren't many places you can set up targets and then drive around shooting a machine gun.
A rebuttal that it is monetarism is here: https://positivemoney.org/2014/08/sovereign-money-system-mon...
Try Ubuntu Touch (UBports) - it features Libertine with full Linux apps, including Firefox.
Curious: does SAP have modules for illegal activities, both dealing with it e.g, official bribes, internal corruption, employee theft, cyber ransoms etc, and for actual illegal stuff like money laundering, or for "off the books accounting", special operations etc.
Remind me to book a business trip to the US and buy the new Macbook Air M2 and the iPhone.
But it was growing already. The bottleneck is land allocated for trees, not the tree-planting procedure (in fact it's automatic once you have some trees in vicinity).
I have to disagree here strongly. You are just saying, that a company that became big enough, so it can afford SAP, should drop their way of doing business, drop the processes that made it big in the first place and go through a painful and expensive process where it will become just another SAP shop, with zero competitive advantage.

Telling that losing your uniqueness and being like “everyone else” will actually become your competitive advantage is something that only SAP can come up with.

If you already grew big, you won't grow bigger by adopting SAP. You can stagnate at best, as shown a million times in the real world. Companies that still want to grow just don't use SAP. Period.
Fun with your comment:

s/SAP/Debian/g

s/mature/so-so/

s/customer/sucker/
I-am-not-a-lawyer (nor a judge for that matter), but it seems to me that that line of reasoning can be shut down extremely easily.

You're buying a licence. So the "buy" button is not fraudulent.
This seems like an easy way for money and stuff to start going "missing".

One has to remember that many large companies don't have an in-house set of software engineers to kludge things together, or a set of people to audit and make sure problems aren't accumulating silently somewhere because of some bug or some vendor changing their API or whatever. Even if they did, the supposedly "agile" solution proposed here just sounds rather fragile. You even see this in codebases that are built on a "microservices" mindset -- you start getting weird emergent patterns in internal dependencies that start bogging things down.

For a smaller or even medium-sized business, sure, maybe a custom solution works. But it looks like for the scale of organization SAP works on, it seems difficult for an individual to even understand all the components of that organization, let alone build something maintainable for themselves and their eventual replacements.
"people are happy to give up their rights because the people they dont like will be less profitable"

This is the real reason people get so irrationally mad about crypto. There's no difference between the importance of encrypted communication and encrypted transactions, except that there's money involved. There's many people using web3 hype and bullshit as a grift, and many (most) people who see crypto as a speculative bubble they can get in on but neither of these things change the fact that it's the only trustless form of digitial payment we have. Terrorists can kill thousands of people, governments can kill millions, so I'm much more worried about one than the other.
Yeah forgot to add visited link color, it's coming in the next update :)
I mean, the solution is pretty obvious. Observe both trends from each player’s play moving forward.

If Magnus continues to decline while Niemann continues to demonstrate quality, it’s Magnus’ ego.

Otherwise it’s Niemann’s.
Because of the ongoing inflation of the Turkish Lira, there's a huge margin added to imported products
I believe he's referring to talk post-Brexit of annexing Ireland to get rid of the problem, rubbish about Ireland becoming part of the UK again to "fix Brexit", and to top it all off, Priti Patel's threats[1] to starve Ireland.

The post-Brexit discourse in the UK regularly featured threats to Irish sovereignty of various kinds, including from prominent Tories, which makes it sufficiently mainstream to matter. I'd recommend you have a read over what Fintan O'Toole and Tony Connelly have written on Brexit over the past few years.

Do I think such opinions are representative of most Britons? No. But they have been a major part of the mainstream discourse peddled by people with prominent voices and in positions of power. There is some part of the English psyche that sees Ireland as a wayward province and not a real sovereign state: witness the moaning and complaining when the UK became a third country about Irish people using the EU lane in airports that we were being "treated specially" - that kind of thinking assumes that Ireland is not its own sovereign state.

Also, the "solid majority" in NI isn't so solid anymore. Unionism is on the decline, nationalism is gaining more of a foothold, and the broad apathetic middle is growing. There's a reason why Sinn Féin is now the largest party there.

[1] Let's leave out the multiple levels of historical irony in what she said, and just focus on the fact that Ireland can feed itself five times over even though agriculture is now a tiny part of the economy, but the UK doesn't produce enough food to feed itself.
Taxes and more taxes. Those who want to buy iPhone 14 Pro (128 GB) for 39 thousand 999 TL have to pay about 17 thousand 902 TL tax.
Probably a different Felix. The Swedish Felix was started in and is based in Sweden. Although it's currently owned by a Norwegian conglomerate.

edit: Felix Austria is a daughter company of Felix Sweden, founded by the same Mr Felix a couple of decades later.
It's hilarious to me that you have this incredibly long article about all these internecine squabbles designing the CMF. And you know what the conclusion is? Holy shit just spend more money on teaching the kids you idiots. Sure, if you really want to have a fight about whether to offer "Data science" as an option fine (it's called Statistics genius and you should already be teaching it), but it's not going to make anything like the difference that a decent school budget will.
Function coloring is a problem with async/await: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...
One less hole through which water or moisture can creep in.

Also, it will be interesting to see whether there is a void in these devices for the SIM card and SIM card slot. Thinking of the possibly apocryphal story about the Steve, the iPod and the aquarium (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/10/in-pr...) I think Steve would have required it to have a completely different PCB, so that this version could be a bit thinner or have a larger battery.
It should be noted that in stars slightly larger than the Sun, fusion energy production becomes dominated by the CNO cycle, which has a much stronger temperature dependence than the PP cycle.
How to say that you lack experience running a successful business without saying you lack experience running a successful business.
There are two versions, the on-premise landscape and the cloud version. The on-premise version makes sense sometimes. You can even deploy SAP platform to cloud foundry.
My first reaction: gosh, another one. My second reaction: hmm, it's an extension, I'm curious, show me. My third reaction: I absolutely love it.
Yes. The Thatcher era marked the end of a lot of stagnation, and while at the time people might have linked her and the era, plenty of subsequent people don't like Thatcher despite the marked increase in quality of life post her era.
tldr: hard stuff is hard and not fun to work on

Why did AWS, a group probably fairly technical savy and a direct competitor to its vendor, take so long [1] to migrate from Oracle?

Why does Google, as of today, have job openings for SAP in its Rev Rec division [2], and more widely in areas touching [3] “ SAP ERP domains (e.g. Finance, Revenue/Cost Management, Billing, Materials Management, Sourcing, Procurement and/or Inventory Management)”?

Granted you could say, and I believe in one of the many google “corporate biography” books Eric Schmidt allegedly worked through this same problem: hey is an ERP a product for us? A core competency? Should we build it? [Seems HN discussed this in 2021 already, 4]

Conversely, given the wide ranging scope of random things Google has built and how naively simple accounting and something like a fixed asset ledger looks at first glance…why did they never do it? Surely not because building 7 conflicting chat tools was a priority.

My guess (as a non developer) would be it’s crazy hard to build SAP. From personal experience even QB Online has a daunting level of “backwards compatible” complexity [5] in its data scheme even coming from an accounting background. The API keeps versioning up incrementally and you’ll find gems like “XYZ local French Tax” and other accumulated baggage. As an anecdote, using arguably a knowledgeable vendor, as of a year ago it wasn’t possible to populate a full simple profit and loss statement via Fivetrans ETL tool [6], even though they did a phenomenal job in mapping out the ERD compared to anything else that existed imho [7]. CDATA let you run SQL queries, but the complexity of scripting some of the reports was much more fragile. The community even built a DBT layer [8] and given how cumbersome it was to generate even just the “Revenue” line on the P&L out of a simple non-enterprise tool like QBO, SAP seems 1000x harder.

That’s probably why everything in-market, post-sales cycle is garbage. But hey, someone in a dorm room might be working on replacing SAP right now :)

Note: this excludes versioning, which I believe Workday does every six months, which is also a bunch of work twice a year.

1. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-...

2. https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/142858723165905606-r...

3. https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/118792275728704198-s...

4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26706991

5.(imprecise but good starting point) https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/api/acco...

6. https://fivetran.com/docs/applications/quickbooks

7. https://docs.google.com/presentation/u/0/d/1u0dnyq5L_rcEgR2_...

8. https://fivetran.com/docs/transformations/dbt/data-models/qu...
I was a developer on an ERP developed in-house once. In that case you're off.
Honest question since I'm not in the loop: what is the problem with passwords that passkeys are trying to solve?
One possibility to dethrone Chrome would be to release Safari for Windows and Linux as open source.
It sounds like your grandmother was able to connect the dots and understand the big picture in her high age impressively well.
it's a pretty good field to compete in when the rest of your economy is large or middle scale industry. There's no point for Germany to built "great consumer software tm" in an economy that isn't consumer centric (or so small to largely compete in foreign markets from the beginning).

I worked for a software company in Aachen for a while that supplied software for local manufacturing and this is necessarily "meh" and largely consists of doing as your told and building to specification because that's what industry-adjacent work is like. Doesn't mean it's not good software.
> In April 2017, SAP even awarded Lidl a prize for being one of their best customers.

I found this hilarious.
With 100 mildly competent developers on staff (although not with SAP developers) a company can develop in house everything they need to run a business in a period of time that is shorter than what is needed for a typical "SAP adjustment".
Sorry, but that's just not borne out by data: almost all of the Fortune 500 companies use SAP (something like 80-90%; probably the rest use Oracle, which isn't significantly less painful to move to).
The main reason is a third one: You need to have smart and capable business process owners to work with you the right things to build and what to ignore. Most software projects fail because you're giving inadequate or the wrong scope.
That's not what built it. Automation and technology and burning fuel did.
Here's my hot take. I think the author is partly justified in the premise. React when it came out was really a breath of fresh air and solved a class of problems really well. Sure it had its rough edges, but you expect those to smoothen out over time. But what has happened is exactly the opposite, where it has become more unwieldy and confounding to use. If I look back at the journey of springframework in java as an example, it had a graceful evolution, becoming more refined with each version, and springboot finally hitting the sweet spot.

I think the root of the problem with react is actually the community. The web community has not figured out how to maintain software. There is an unhealthy attraction towards new paradigms and tools and an unhealthy willingness to endure paper cuts. So many practices simply wouldn't fly in any other community. Skepticism towards new ideas and a stubbornness to resist change are very important attributes for any community. It ensures that when a change does happen it passes through a very strict filter ensuring only the best of ideas get through. Tools that are built will only be as good as the community. I believe React had a great opportunity to become something cherished, but the community had to take it to that direction.
It's some years ago, did you succeed rewriting CAP in Rust :P Thanks for being a hipster SAP developer, and I mean it :)
>Correct me if I'm wrong, I don't see anything in their process that suggests that a group of adults playing with their friends are at risk of having their chat audited in the absence of a complaint?

There is nothing letting the group of adults easily opt out of the system.

Someone is mischievous and decides to report someone else? Permanently banned.
Someone has a falling out and decides to try to piss off their friend by reporting them? Permanently banned.
Someone thinks they're funny and report as a joke? Permanently banned.

Not to mention that Microsoft has repeatedly failed to actually implement this correctly so far. I wonder if all the people who have gotten banned by this will ever get unbanned.

If you want Minecraft to be a game for kids, why don't you parent your kids? Minecraft is not your daycare. Minecraft is a portal to the internet (the world), if you wouldn't trust your kid to go on an international trip on their own without any supervision then stop letting them get on the internet without supervision.

Want your kids to play with friends? Pester Microsoft for an easy way to set up a server that YOU can control and manage and they can connect to (I believe realms already did this).

I promise you that Microsoft's changes won't keep your kids safe, they won't prevent them from dealing with adults in Minecraft, they won't prevent them from being exposed to ideas which you might see as too adult for them to thoroughly understand.

You have fallen into the PR trap that Microsoft created. They WANT you to feel like your kids are safe and WANT you to feel like they're making responsible decisions. This doesn't actually create a safe environment, and more likely is just a way to stimulate more sales by permanently banning accounts for a game which parents just can't help to buy their kids copies of.
Destroying my own sand castle and enjoying it is fun.

Destroying someone else's castle and enjoying it is called "being a psychopath".
Hundreds of millions is actually the lower end of the spectrum. For most big companies it’s usually above the billion USD mark.