skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jax already has its own tracing compiler which produces optimized code.
It's that dissonance between the "crap" prime minister and the ending of the crap times. Thatcher was after the 70s, lad.
> America is a baby compared to them, the history and memory are very different.

Yes, my house is older than the United States. We found pieces of journals talking about the General Bonaparte. It's pretty common to find stuff from several centuries ago in old buildings.
I think we should sanction using cash, it can be used untraceably and anonymously. Tornado Cash did $7 Billion in transactions. According to the US Treasury $300 Billion was laundered in US dollars last year. I think we are going after the wrong target.
The rent freeze that was retroactively cancelled? No. It didn't help anyone.
I am saying the rights of my sister and brothers, friends and colleagues are far more important to me than clamping down on north korean hackers. I would much rather live in a world where we are free to use tornado cash and maintain our privacy in these networks, than live in a world where code can be overnight made suddenly illegal, everyones accounts historically associated with that code blacklisted, the developers then sit in jail for a month with 0 charges against them.

The large majority users of tornado weren't criminals. Tornado devs had worked on compliance tools to aid governments, doesnt matter they get locked up anyway. The treasury has historically only sanctioned people, doesnt matter apparently they can make themselves new powers and sanction the use of code too.
Oh, man what a perfect opportunity!

Why explain when you can play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati_(game)

www.sjgames.com
Have you never destroyed a sand castle? Toppled a Jenga tower? Destruction is fun.
Some general examples for me would be:

- Watching a board game video, here are ways to buy the game/expansions/similar games
- Listening to a book review, here are ways to buy the book/other books by the author/art related to the book
- Listening to a tech podcast, here are tech related services that may have been discussed

I'm sure it's different for many people and perhaps personalisation helps in many cases, but for me the context of what I'm doing/looking at is most important, causing a context switch/distraction from what I'm trying to do is more likely to be irritating
I don't think Bukowski did find it easy. He's saying he could only write poetry for its own sake and for no other motivation whatsoever and reaching that point is hard and may never come but realizing this essential point saves you a lot of time and crap poetry!
Different set of companies, because I get spammed for .NET, Java and C++ backend positions almost every day, and zero node stuff.
> Notably, we have seen a massive failure in the EU to not only protect itself, 100% dependent on US military defence, even in 2020 - but one of the 'root problems' was the EU powerhouse, Germany, abdicating it's defence responsibilities, and selling out the entirety of the EU to Russian energy dependence which put the EU in an existentially weak position vis-a-vis Russia. If the US did not exist, Putin would be dominating the EU via it's vast tentacles (like it is in Hungary, but much worse, and all over).

There is no 'massive' failure in the EU to protect itself as it has no such objective nor a mandate to protect itself. It's up to individual countries to spend on their armed forces as was up to Britain to spend when it was part of it and the EU didn't stop it, it did so just fine. If the US did not exist that would have been taken into account by the member countries themselves and acted accordingly.

> Instead - UK, Turkey, Ukraine, Finland, Georgia, Switzerland will possibly join the 'expanded' EU (by another name), which will mostly be trade focused. The interesting thing about that however, the other nations, notably Spain, Italy, Greece will definitely start to wonder about 'the grass being greener' in those countries.

Spain, Italy and Greece have all joined the Eurozone (Italy is a founding member btw) for their own good reasons. If they wanted less integration they could have not adopted the Euro just like a number of other countries. People seem to forget what inflation looked like for their national currencies of these countries before getting the Euro and it was not very green.
for anyone wondering, erpnext.com is a good "alternative" and it is very active on github with lots of people working on it each and every day.

they have hosted plans as well as allowing users to selfhost and only pay for "support and customization" for anyone needing which works out pretty well for many....

SAP is well and good but you have good alternatives
One product that for some reason hasn't reached the US yet is Hela Gewürz (spice) ketchup, especially in its popular curry and spicy variants
"People think it's a big deal but it happens all the time. Most of the time the seller is a government, a county, or it is electric recycling. ... And it is a good thing because hackers are a resource to make things safer."

Hackers like him, he said, are not interested in weaponizing the weaknesses they find. "The reason you pop open the machine is to learn the vulnerabilities" of each machine, in order to safeguard democracy, he added.

Right on, Harri.
(That's pretty funny.)

This is the point I was trying to make at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769925 by quoting pg's 15-year-old bit about how empty positive comments aren't so bad (https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html). It's true that they don't contain any more information than empty negative comments, but they don't degrade the threads the way empty negative comments do.

Unfortunately people took that as some sort of pro-monarchist stance!
Thanks for the feedback, glad you like it!

- Will definitely add tooltips and have a think about how to make the reply process clearer.

- I'd like to make the top nav customizable at some point, so when I do I'll add options for the account sections (threads etc). Will add a setting to show karma next to the user icon too.

- Yeah a couple of others have requested that too. The next logical step is a theme editor, which would allow changing border colors etc. It's on the TODO :)

- Yes that should be there, will add it back in the next update.
That's what the article says, but I can't see negation in the 1865 example:

> His bearing towards male acquaintances, of whom he knew little or nothing and could care less, was marked by an affectation of gushing friendliness, which overdid itself.
The issue there was that Lidl did not adapt to SAP.
They tried to adapt the SAP system to Lidl. Everyone tells you that this is a really bad idea. Everyone.
still the case today with salesforce doing the same on the CRM side of things.

the few consultants that I know that work with these two seems to be paid more than generalist consultants.
We remove rights all the time, because bad people do bad things. You have to follow road rules for example, you are not allowed to buy components which could be used to build a nuclear bomb, all countries restrict access to weapons (they just draw the line at different places).

So the argument that we should never use "the terrorists" or "the children" to make policy decisions is overly simplistic. I believe the sort of reasoning is actually counterproductive. Even here on HN many believe a restriction on crypto currencies is justified if it curbs tax evasion, in other words they believe the trade-off between right restriction and societal benefit is worth it. So arguing that we should never use "the terrorists" to argue for restricting rights is very obviously contradicting how we are implementing laws, so it is not convincing. Instead we should argue why the trade-off is such that the argument does not hold in this case.
This still doesn't answer my question of why.
> In fact, I will probably owe them a big chunk of the sign-on bonus (dumb mistake on my end).

Just want to register my surprise that you'd owe a chunk of your signing bonus if they fire you.

You know your situation best, and maybe that's what you're alluding to with the "dumb mistake", but my understanding of typical signing bonuses, they'd only get clawed back in event of employee-initiated resignation, not typically if employer terminates.

Writing it here in the off chance that it's helpful to you (or to someone else negotiating a signing bonus elsewhere).
FIDO authentication, of which webauthn is the successor, works like this: your secret is a signing key for a digital signature cryptosystem. When you authenticate, it signs a message containing various things including the hostname of the site being authenticated to, and because this is under the control of the browser, a phishing site can't fake it easily (also the browser will throw a fit if you're not on https).

The result is that if you are tricked into entering your credentials into google.com.totallynotaphishingsiteipromise.evilsite.com which is doing a man-in-the-middle attack against the real site - maybe with a let's encrypt cert so they can do https on their own domain name - then the authentication token they send to the real google will have the correct signature, but the wrong domain name.
As someone who works in the telco industry and spent a lot of time dealing with SMS and MMS, I actually find RCS to be almost as klunky. But as an European whose family and friends mostly use WhatsApp (and occasionally Signal), I think it’s time is past.

Sure, Google would (assuming they’re finally settling their messaging strategy) very much like to have full parity with iMessage, and they have been feeding carriers the notion that they might even get some extra revenue out of it, but for most Android users, even SMS doesn’t matter anymore.

A note on the carrier angle: if you have an iPhone and a flat data plan, iMessage can’t be billed. But if you have to have an RCS gateway, then you can bill on a per-message basis again, even if SMS pricing (at least en Europe) has gone sub-cent.

That is what Google has been trying to lobby on, regardless of their outspoken stance on interoperability…
I saw a lot of SF projects budgeted and staffed in roughly the same way as you would SAP.

SF started with CRM and has been expanding to ERP, SAP is the other way around. Both are mainly Cloud/Platform-based offerings today, both feature multi-month certifications, high rates for contractors and lots of effort administering/configuring/customizing.

I expect in a couple of years they either turn out exactly the same or swallow each other.
I always wondered, why wouldn't an in-house developed lean, ERP system would not trump a behemoth like SAP. A few reasons seem plausible.

- No one gets fired for hiring SAP
- Getting an in-house software developer team that can develop an easily extensible / modifiable ERP system is neigh impossible

It is one of my dream to build an alternative ERP system. But it looks like sub-ERP functions (payroll, HR, etc) have been tackled by many companies and they are wildly successful.
Where I'm at, we hear a lot more about the British monarchs than any other monarchs.

For instance, I just found out that Norway, for instance, also has a monarch. So does Sweden (?), and several other countries. But they — the Nordic monarchs — are unheard of in my country, and don't seem to have the same level of influence internationally.

Is that your experience as well?

(FWIW, my country was a former British colony but the British royalty is NOT my country's head at all).
I prefer Heinz because it is the least sweet tasing of the large ketchup brands. Taste is weird.
It's worth noting ImgIx is proprietary, and not particularly cheap.

300$ a month for 20 unique users and 10 sources. For business' which are very media focused, ImgIx could solve some headaches, yet those same people are going to be very limited with a billing system like that.
I am an SAP developer since kind of forever, my first job after university (since 2009). First I hated it, but the deeper I am entrenched, the more I see why you choose SAP: Because there really is no alternative. The data model is so complex because it is growing iteratively since the 80s. Hacker News is valuing businesses that adjust to the customer instead of going for some kind of purity. Another complexity especially now is the different paradigm changes in between. ABAP, the programming language of SAP, is quite nice nowadays. CDSViews are a great invention, and so on. There's really a lot of innovation buried in the bad documentation, it's getting better. In summary as bad as it is, I don't see an alternative for all of the backoffice work. SAP is really flexible and supports a lot of different processes. A thing that makes it so costly is a lot of time culture, no small releases, MVP, and so on. But you can be agile with SAP, especially if you move to the cloud.
You can use password manager that is cross platform. You can even use something like KeePassXC and sync the database between devices. All encrypted and secure without even having a phone if you want. You don't need to remember passwords without or with your phone.
That's a niche product.
This is still quite bad, just like omitting the truth is a form of lying.
It's been suggested that the experiments were a part of MKULTRA, but it's not been proven AFAIK.

There was plenty of unethical psychological research going on at the time, so there's no need to assume the CIA was involved at all.
Raku is a really nice language. I especially like the features that improve safety of the code: gradual typing, subsets, PRE and POST conditions, and defined/undefined checks. Junctions and multimethods are also nice. I have an article - not finished, and probably won't ever finish it, unfortunately - showcasing these features: https://klibert.pl/statics/raku/writeup.html

I think Raku deserves way more attention. Its implementation is suboptimal in many ways and it's improving slowly due to very small core team. With more exposure, more people would come, and hopefully some of them would consider contributing, accelerating the pace of development.
Except stuff like Kata Containers exist exactly because containers alone is not enough.

WebAssembly on the cloud is only re-inventing what other bytecode based platforms have been doing for decades, but VC need ideas to invest into apparently.
This is really rule 1 for any core LOB/BIS/ERP system, not just SAP
The product sounds really interesting and I just converted my first article. The narration is not bad but haven’t listened enough yet to be able to say if I’d be using it long term but I’ll be playing around with it a bit more for sure.

Have you considered asking your users why they didn’t use the product more? Might be worth finding out what their issues with the service is, might not be cost.
In effect, SAP is like a franchise system for running certain industries.

SAP sells you a software system that includes ready-made workflows and battle-tested instruction manuals. Plus they can synchronize your purchasing and sales departments with everyone else that also uses their software. So if you want to start a small company working with the big car manufacturers, you buy SAP and suddenly you can send quotes in precisely the format that VW expects, because you and VW now both use the SAP specification. In that regard, signing up for SAP is quite similar to signing up to be a Subways location.
Because you can find SAP data entry employees/specialists everywhere - but full-stack developers nowhere.
I was more worried about attacks where the attacker takes a screenshot of the QR code and sends it to the user while pretending to be a support agent. So the user never even opens any evil site in their browser.
Yes, but I'm British

I imagine the reason is because the Queen is part of the national identity of the UK, much more than the other European countries.

Millions visit London annualy to visit Buckingham Palace - the Queen is a symbol of Britain.
I haven't done much playing around with Svelte so don't have any business injecting myself into this subthread, but your explanation piqued my curiosity.

https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/6730

https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/6732

So basically, reactive blocks are only allowed to run once per tick; if a dependency changes after a block has run, too bad, the block won't run again. That is really shocking to me. (I won't say more due to my inexperience with Svelte...)
I have never heard anybody use "x times faster" in the sense you mean here.

To my ears, "3 times faster" has the same meaning as "3 times as fast".
Hi! I think the Liveblocks demo is quite impressive as well! It looks pretty smooth. One of the main things I'm missing is the ability to nest (indent) blocks similarly to how Notion / BlockNote allows this. This was quite a bit of work to get right in BlockNote.

BlockNote's live collaboration is powered by Yjs, or (y-prosemirror to be exact). Highly recommend checking it out!
A lot of colonial atrocities happened during Elizabeth II's reign, directly under her rule. Afaik, Vietnam War was well over when Barack Obama became president.
I think it's not possible to do ethically or practically, because only some sorts of people will willingly subject themselves to the testing, examination and prodding of of social sciences, even when bribed. And if you tried to force it on them using a government, which would be unethical, you still have the practical problem of the data you get from people under duress being garbage.
Extinct? Amazon lists lots of different ketchups.
What happens if you do want effects to update each other's dependencies, but only conditionally? eg. A certain number of cascading updates?
what I'm saying is, it's not a pointless activity, it's a great activity on its own merits, but it is work that doesn't accomplish the task you set out to do.
Uh, no. They have the account, which wasn't even under debate - they are missing the copy of the game. And no login system works by asking you the registration mail, ever.
Which in case someone has failed to notice, is pretty much how serverless happens to work out from development point of view.

No one cares how the language runtime is actually running.
>> Now, I get it, once you have to deal with taxes and payroll in multiple countries it gets messy, but why wouldn't you consider that a core part of your business worth investing into?

It may work using an open source model. However you don't really want to invest into non-core business(es). It takes away money, talent and energy that you would better put into doing what you do best.

I've experienced this first hand developing an invoice system(not my core business). I still use it but if I were to do it again I would develop only the functionality that I was missing in the commercial offering and try an integration. Time spent on the none core business is time wasted.
I don't disagree but a philosophy that I find practical says that a bug that exists in software and is never encountered in actual use counts as a non-bug. Of course it would be nicer if the bug-in-software didn't exist, but what really counts are actual use cases.
Cool! Do you know, will there be a recording?
Agreed. For things like this I think firing off an email that says what has happened, opening a GitHub issue, or CC’ing in a tweet, are all reasonable approaches that minimise the work on the reporter. I’ve done all of these at some point. From there it’s up to the owner to take it on how they want, and of course not doing anything about it at all is a valid response. Unfortunately Apple have shown that they can’t provide an easy reporting process and don’t take things on so no point in reporting if you’re not personally invested, and no one morally needs to be that invested.
When I worked with smaller ERPs then I've witnessed the same

3rd party were working closely with customers and helped them maintaining the stuff
Yeah you build your business around what SAP allows you to do, or you roll your own. Adapting SAP to existing business is just madness.
Clearly there was someone making part of that $500,000,000 that wasn't telling them this.
> You can try customising SAP to fit your processes

So you are paying hundreds of millions to get a canned, pre-packaged, inflexible solution?

Why is SAP still in business? Is it solely customer misinformation?
Extremely private monetary transactions may be a net negative, and yet it may be the world we must adapt to, if the ability to do so now exists.

There is always room for “good honest police work”, though.

There are many roadblocks governments could use to slow progress, but I’m not sure this is truly preventable any more than PGP or BitTorrent could have been.

If income tax becomes logistically problematic, there are many other types of taxes that may then need to fill the void.
What are some aspects of the "SAP way of doing things"? Do you know any examples?
Odoo comes to mind as well. Nowhere close to the commercial options in terms of ecosystem/features and hiring/consulting availability though.
Brits haven't been subjects since 1982. I am all for people not liking the monarchy, but at least get the facts right.
opened to check if she looks horrifying. yes, "she" does ...
Is older hardware that is performant not secure? I never had the feeling that securing a linux server slowed it down.
Liberal exercise of it, to protect her family's interests: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vette...
Yes, that's my exact point.
Yeah I missed that, first thought was efficient performance!
Back in 2000 we were doing this with HP-UX Vaults, IT keeps going in circles.
Don't take advice from anyone.
Including me.
These replies were hilarious. Not suprisingly, someone caused the HN title to be changed. The original HN title matched the one provided by the Ars editor(s): "Here comes the bendable TVs and monitors that no one asked for."
Yes, I know someone directly that had suicidal tendencies for months after a couple of years of binging on weed, some lsd precursor I'm forgetting and mushrooms. He's fine now thankfully but he went through hell.
What are the fundamentals of "SAP processes"? Can you provide any detail?
> limited resources

haha, oh really?
Yes it immediately changed to God Save the King.
Afaik all ABAP code is stored in the database and run from there as well.
Indeed, to SAP the "partner ecosystem" is a big thing. I think they realised early on that if they were to succeed, their success would be driven by consultants with "business expertise" who were recommending SAP as "best of breed".

Of course, the reality is that many of those consultants who are being charged to customers at eyewatering rates just finished the training course last week and are now "senior".