skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For now the only true path to immortality is through having children.

That's not immortality, though, that's heritage.

In my eyes, immortality (if such a thing could even exist, entropy and unforeseen circumstances aside) would imply the continued existence of one's consciousness/mind.

Being "remembered", or other platitudes about "immortality" does nothing for you, when you no longer exist.

The pursuit of extended life might be seen as an expression of greed in fiction a lot of the time, but surely eating healthily is a good thing to do, right? What about exercise? What about having a good sleep schedule and not using harmful substances? Why would medicine be any different? Why would fixing one's faulty organs or other biological mechanisms be any different? In my eyes, it's just a scale of things you can do to have a better life, however long it might be.

As for the biological aspects, sure, nature didn't make us to live a thousand years. Then again, it didn't make us to fly through the sky in metal boxes close to the speed of sound.

I feel like people would be more environmentally and politically conscious if they knew that they'd need to live in the world that they create for the following millennia, instead of being able to ruin things for everyone with their greedy and megalomaniacal goals and then die.
> But you can be agile with SAP, especially if you move to the cloud.

Does SAP even have ERP in the „real“ cloud?
My only concern is the battery degradation and longevity. Spending $200 on a disposable earbuds seems too much.
What does the passkey database contain? Only the master private key? Or does a private key or token gets generated for every new account I sign up to?
The main is to hire hordes of extremely expensive sap consultants
I love absolutely love flexbox. This is super opinionated and based on the types of software I'm typically exposed to.

I think most people just don't understand how to get the most out of it in terms of creating user interfaces, and use "table" oriented thinking like percentage widths and media size queries to control overall layout.

I think you should use it the way that something like QT's BoxLayout and GridLayout containers work. Strictly using flex-grow and min-width, max-width and justify-content to control layout. I can design just about any interface with just these CSS classes, with very occasional use of the three properties above:

.VBox { display: flex; flex-flow: column nowrap; }
.HBox { display: flex; flex-flow: row nowrap; }
.VGrid { display: flex; flex-flow: column wrap; align-items: flex-start; }
.HGrid { display: flex; flex-flow: row wrap; align-items: flex-start; }
.Grow { flex-grow: 2; }
To be honest, I had so many SAP implementations in my career, and it was most likely not that one. Everybody adapts the software to the real existing business processes. Especially in Germany we are not yet there yet, that tech people can tell business people how to work. I think that Lidl most likely did the upfront design approach instead of building a reliable MVP, and moving forward from that. You have to integrate then a lot more with the old system, but more space to move forward and agile. Funny because it mimics a German military concept of Führen mit Auftrag ("mission type tactics").
He said that writing poetry is easy, "it just pours out of him", but writing prose is hard work, essentially "like working in a factory". He didn't like that very much, but eventually wrote more prose when he got older - perhaps eventually took a liking to longer projects which don't produce immediate gratification.
I think a lot of the motivation to keep shoving those frogs down comes from religion, particularly christianity. Christianity teaches that we are born flawed (original sin) and must work for our redemption. The protestant wing of christianity seems the worst for this (I'm not sure why). Just look what happened when the puritans took over England after the English civil war. What a joyless bunch they were.

It is a great article. Insightful and funny.
Isn't it the most rational thing to assume that a company that is extremely experienced and successful at analyzing business processes and digitalising them will know better than any newcomer with less resources and less experience who operates mainly on "we're disrupting for the sake of it" swagger?

Telling SAP that you want them to change their ways to accommodate your brilliant idea is akin to a layman telling a brain surgeon how he wants his surgery done.
You are going into meta-metaphysics. The analogue of paranoia in philosophy. You gain zero knowledge by exploring a problem that way.

"Table" exists, universally, within the agent's conception of a table symbol. A particular table exists within the agent's reflexive awareness of a table-like symbol. And a singular, physical table, exists while the agent's sensorial perception of the physical object is recursivelly reiterating its existence through the agent's own accusative judgment of the experience as being sourced, mediated, or targeted as a table-like event.

Now. With this baloney out of the way. What is your point?
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015967 - Nov 2020 (4576 comments)

Not a very interesting answer, but there you have it.
A problem with some cars currently.
Think of it as a jobs program for PM types. The chance of getting useful feedback, and then caring about it, is approaching zero.
I recall that Tesla built own ERP in-house
> I very much doubt Elizabeth had any such skeletons lurking in her closets.

Her son and heir has literally been accepting suitcases full of cash from middle east despots (nominally for his charity), and her other son was up to his neck in Epstein's dealings. I wouldn't be so sure.
Again, as I noted elsewhere in the thread, I worked in R&D at SAP for 4 years (16 years ago), but I have no deep love for it. But I do have some understanding of where it fits in the landscape.

What you've said is absolutely true, but it's mostly a feature, not a bug. Once you get big enough to need SAP, it's actually useful to put your business processes on a standardized platform. It's painful, always mind bendingly expensive and often fails. But few companies want to be innovative in their business processes. It's actually better to move to "the standard" since it makes processes more understandable across different ginormacorps, which is useful for the upper management sorts that tend to move between them. There's virtually no competitive advantage to having unique business processes. There are many folks that even will say that that's the advantage of moving to SAP is it makes the internal mechanics of the company work a lot like every other giant company.
[in the USA]

Here in Sweden, the most popular brand isn't Heinz, but Felix.

https://www.felix.se/app/uploads/sites/33/2022/03/220209_Fel...
Yes, sure https://www.sap.com/products/erp/s4hana.html It's quite nice, even though they do some crazy (also cool) stuff with it https://blogs.sap.com/2021/09/30/steampunk-is-going-all-in/
> However you don't really want to invest into non-core business(es)

The problem is who gets to decide what is "core" to your business?

Look at airlines, once the McKinsey types were let loose it turned out none of the stuff we think is core is needed at an airline; no need for in-house staff, catering, baggage handling, check-in, maintenance or even [owning] any actual aircraft. So much easier to operate without all that stuff to look after!

Taken to the extreme presuambly one would end up with nothing but an airline's name and trademarks, a handful of overpaid management types, and maybe a bunch of lawyers to look after all the outsourcing/subcontracting and licencing deals.
This is a genuine question, I don't mean to rip on you: Why is everything SAP I've used terrible? From payroll, employee/student management to industrial control systems - the UX is horrible and it seems so brittle that you're happy if you're out of there as quickly as possible. I've had to reach out to my school's IT multiple times over the years since random parts of the SAP tool they used break.
Thatcher became prime minister in 1979 which isn't after the 70s. Old fogie.

The 70s were crap because of high inflation and fuel costs. Winter of discontent etc.

The 80s were crap because Thatcher basically dismantled the working class.

Is it dissonance about Germans complaining about interwar issues and complaining about the leader they ended up with?
You probably have a point about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769585. I've unflagged it.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32764409
I'm not generally a fan of US foreign policy, but this one is actually mostly to their credit, and not the late queen's.

Where it was up to the queen and her government, it wasn't all that peaceful.
Sadly I know, I've read Alex De Britto talk about it and his editions should be more faithful to the original. Anyway there are manuscripts at https://bukowski.net/
Where I'm from it's the opposite. Althought ketchup is a type of tomato sauce, tomato sauce usually refers to something with higher tomato content and more tomato taste where as ketchup is more vinegery and sweet.
Right until the 90s in the UK you could get ox tongue in the deli of nearly all major supermarkets here (nicely sliced) - I loved it long before I realised what it was.

I grew up on a very small farm, but I'm sure many non farm folk were eating it back then too.
All the comments about the monarchy in this thread miss the point that she is seen as a mother figure of the nation.

The maternal figure head for the UK, a commentator on twitter put it well saying "It felt like we all lost our Grandmother"
I have been pretty impressed with with what erpnext has achieved till date.
Underdog IMHO.
I think that its founder should consider scaling installed base more.
You should read the Mythical Man-Month.

You can't just add unlimited developers to a project and expect it to be productive or sustainable.

No different at Meta, Spotify, Netflix etc.
In a forest full of large trees, the carbon in the non-tree biomass is a rounding error. If you can pack the trees slightly closer and almost everything else now finds the environment too hostile to survive, it's probably a net win from a carbon point of view.
> Easy example, we believe mass shootings are far more common and dangerous than they actually are. A child is ~100x more likely to die from a drug overdose than a mass shooting, and ~10x from a car crash. Yet our perception is skewed because of what we see in the news / shared.

And all of those scenarios are less common than this one: The child doesn't die for any reason: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

I think we have a bias for focusing on rare tragedies than the common mundane outcomes.
Even less on Aliexpress if you can handle the wait.
A previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22202769
In French, the initial 'h' is mute. Here is "hospital" in French as an example. See the "Pronunciation" section.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/h%C3%B4pital

So the occurrence is quite possible.
What if I spend Bitcoin on a pizza? Why should that turn me into a sucker?
By that reasoning, the software that ran the Therac-25 wasn't buggy when used for earlier models. Those earlier models had hardware interlocks, so the incorrect requests made by software didn't have the same fatal consequences as it did for the Therac-25.
Movim – A decentralized social platform built on XMPP
Imagine trying to compete with Microsoft Office (Oracle DB, etc) and adopting this approach out of neccesity, only to discover that the original thing has support for all the edge cases in the book, and some of these which weren't even in your book.

Yes, the original product may be bloated / not pretty, but once paying users discover you don't support an obscure edge case they depend on, they'll stop showing up.
The Neurodesk Project[1] uses CVMFS to fetch Singularity container images dynamically on-the-fly from a central repository.

[1] https://neurodesk.org
i have tripped dozens of times and never seen something like this. the visual mechanics are trippy but to see something like that i'd probably have to be in a really bad head space watching horror movies during the peak. never tried that, though. prefer to stick with documentaries and funny movies.
so Hoffman doesn't actually know how he absorbed it

>Possibly a bit of the LSD solution had contacted my fingertips during crystallization, and a trace of the substance was absorbed through the skin.

that's a possibly, I suppose if that possibly exists then possibly some got on object X and then after leaving lab object X came in contact with his mouth or even nose when he touched his face.
You don't need cards to make payments anymore. At least in the UK you can make direct payments from your bank through a standard e-commerce checkout.

Cardless Subscriptions are also here (disclaimer, that's my role at a large open banking company) although some more legislation needs to be done before they can be used for ecommerce
> My little pet theory is that the old "Do as you told" buisness-culture is to blame for germanys inability to produce great software. Software needs developers with agency, who refuse "idiotic" tasks and fight back to improve the product.

This I have experienced first hand where this junior product manager who wrote some ticket whose requirements when got challenged says "it's mentioned here so you have to do it and you don't have to challenge it". I lost it and I said, "everything needs to be challenged, we are not just going to follow it like a machine". I did apologize to him for my tone. But it bothered me so much.
Maybe thats what made him what he was - working in an ephemeral medium forcing his working memory to adapt in ways that are conducive to doing mathematics?

For a comparison on the other end our spatial memory structures in the brain have changed since widespread use of gps/mapping apps, apparently.
And I guess when Apple bans my account with no recourse but to shout at Twitter, I'll loose access to all the accounts.

No thanks, I'll stick to passwords associated with my own email.
I think it's mostly the culture surrounding SAP. SAP developers are a lot of times slow to adapt to new technology. For the UI you can use react components https://sap.github.io/ui5-webcomponents-react/?path=/story/g... or you can just generate OData services from CDS Views that are then integrated into your frontend https://blogs.sap.com/2022/02/24/sap-cds-for-new-and-experie.... The problem is that a lot of people use SAP as a front end, which is wrong in my experience.
Why public chats are better than direct messages
I made a small evaluator in TXR Lisp for what appears to be my understanding "Kamby-like" semantics.

$ txr -i kamby.tl
Syntactic toffee recipe: melt butter over low heat, stir in Lisp macros.
1> (kamby-repl)
kmb> (let dz (/ 10 0))
** error: /: division by zero
kmb> (let a 1)
a
kmb> a
1
kmb> (let foo [(let bar1 42) (let bar2 73)])
foo
kmb> foo
#<kamby-env:(bar2 bar1)>
kmb> foo.bar1
42
kmb> foo.bar2
73
kmb> (set a 4)
4
kmb> a
4
kmb> (set a (* 2 a))
** warning: unbound variable a
** error: unbound variable a

Errors out at the end because unknown forms are evaled as Lisp, and Kamby variables are not Lisp variables.

Mostly this was to play with the "construct environment tree as-you-go, with qualified pathname access" idea.

Code:

(defstruct kamby-env ()
bindings ;; assoc list
next-env ;; kamby-env object or nil

(:method extend (me sym value)
(upd me.bindings (acons sym value)))

(:method lookup (me sym)
(assoc sym me.bindings))

(:method delete (me sym)
(let ((binding (assoc sym me.bindings)))
(upd me.bindings (remq binding))))

(:method print (me stream pretty-p)
(format stream "#<~s:~s>" 'kamby-env [mapcar car me.bindings])))

(defvar *kamby-env* (new kamby-env))

(defun kamby-error (form fmt . args)
(error `~s: ~s: @fmt` 'kamby-eval (if (atom form) form (car form)) . args))

(defun kamby-eval (form)
(let ((e *kamby-env*))
(match-case form
((let @var @expr) e.(extend var (kamby-eval expr))
var)
((set @var @expr) (let ((binding e.(lookup var)))
(if binding
(rplacd binding (kamby-eval expr))
(kamby-error form "no such variable: ~s" var))
(cdr binding)))
((del @var) (unless e.(delete var)
(kamby-error form "no such variable")))
(@(symbolp @var) (let ((binding e.(lookup var)))
(if binding
(cdr binding)
(kamby-error form "no such variable: ~s" var))))
;; TXR Lisp qref syntax a.b.c.d <--> (qref a b c d)
((qref . @vars) (let (value)
(while vars
(let* ((var (pop vars))
(binding e.(lookup var)))
(unless binding
(kamby-error form "no such variable: ~s (when resolving ~s)" var form))
(set value (cdr binding))
(if (and vars (not (typep value 'kamby-env)))
(kamby-error form "~s isn't an environment object; cannot lookup ~s"
value (car vars)))
(set e value)))
value))
;; TXR Lisp dwim brackets syntax [a b c] <--> (dwim a b c)
((dwim . @forms) (let ((*kamby-env* (new kamby-env next-env e)))
[mapdo kamby-eval forms]
*kamby-env*))
(@else (eval else)))))

(defun kamby-repl ()
(whilet ((line (progn (put-string "kmb> ") (get-line))))
(catch
(prinl (kamby-eval (read line)))
(error (x)
(put-line `** error: @x`)))))
Answer from former SAP employee (may have changed in the last 15 years):

Two main reasons:

- It's actually terminal software, that's translated into a GUI from a text interface on the fly.

- The people that buy SAP never have to use SAP. Its interface is not a selling point.
I think you are underestimating the interplay between industry and government.

Government come in and sometimes push forward the technology industry already has, mostly by just given those industries more investment money.

But industry still invests gigantic amount of money to push technology forward and those innovations are constantly and consistently changing the game.

Government invests something in X and then for the next 100 years people in forum can say 'see this only happened because of X'. But that ignores a lot of the work before and after to actually make it game changing.

And what we also need to consider is that very often that huge government investment fails and goes nowhere. And at the same time large private investment can also fail.

To conclude from this no private investment can ever be game-changing doesn't really follow.

Starlink is a recent example that is pretty game-changing. Government didn't invest in it directly. Sure in the last 100s government invest in rocketry and electronics and antennas but so did private industry at a much larger overall rate (outside of rocketry).

So I think, at the end of the day, government will always have its fingers in almost every pie and will always talk about their success and never talk about their failures. If Boom isn't successful, well you can't innovate without the government. If Boom is successful, well Boom profited from government investment in supersonic military technology so they couldn't have done it without government.

So these kinds of arguments all circle in on themselves. At the end of the day, if you invest lots of money in something game-changing most of the time its gone go to shit, no matter who does it.
The CEO of Apple just publicly said something that contradicts your working experience. I'll trust him to clearly explain the strategy over your experience.
Without getting into a snark, that is not a particularly good book to recommend.

https://slate.com/technology/2016/12/kahneman-and-tversky-re...

"Taken all together, the chapters Schimmack looked at earned an average grade of C-minus."
What is FGN?
Speaking of purity, the first thing Hacker News would do is try to run SAP on a Kubernetes cluster, refactor crucial bits in Rust and shard the database into sqlite3.db files on per user basis. We'd also recommend you restructure your office for a more open space, bring down the cubicles and make sure the conference rooms are glasswalled and have funny names. Bringing pets to work is mandatory.
No analogy is perfect - however the Queen has zero influence over those atrocities. She's a puppet.
Crypto can technically implement privacy and anonymity in a way that regulators cannot prevent. Now what do we do about it?

Also, Ethereum could adopt privacy by default some day, via their proposal process.

It's fascinating to watch regulators talk about "bitcoin" and "ethereum" as if they're "gold" and "oil", unchanging commodities that just need to be categorized and dealt with appropriately.

Ethereum is totally publicly visible today, but it does not need to be that way tomorrow. These are living projects.
There’s a Roman town near where I live that’s roughly 2000 years old.

The Romans built roads, aqueducts, houses with central heating and massive great walls across the landscape.

They might have been violent but it’s hard to claim they weren’t a civilisation.
Having huge forests full of trees and barren of much else is great if it allows us to protect other more interesting ecosystems.

And perhaps the best way to create a sustainable ecosystem around the trees is to plant them and see what else develops, rather than try and curate a specific balance of organisms.
That's a good question, and I don't know the answer. Presumably it's defined in some law somewhere. Why there exists such a law is a good question in itself.
Media plays a major role but they're not the root cause. Sure, the media exploit our fear for profit and likely make it worse in the process, but how could they do that if the fear didn't exist in us already? Kids in America have a 99% chance of making it to adulthood, but I think every good parent has a least some worry for their child despite that. This worry is probably part of the reason the odds are so good in the first place.
Seeing how as...

1: speech is the primary weapon of the identity-obsessed ideologues who are behind this whole debacle

2: those same ideologues claim that speech is violence, silence is violence

3: a simple refusal to use a made-up term - the can of worms called pronouns is a good example - can lead to loss of employment, imprisonment (now in Canada and Ireland, possibly elsewhere)

4: the 'speech codes' imposed by these ideologues is a constantly moving target with the above named consequences for violations of those codes

...it is clear that the ideologues in control of Oberlin have fallen on their own sword.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Will they learn anything from this debacle? No, probably not, they'll just chalk it up as another instance of systemic racism by the patriarchy or some such nonsense.

The solution would be to take control away from these ideologues but this is up to whatever institutions hold the reins of this college, the donors, alumni etc. If they do not take action the college will sink deeper and deeper into the bottomless pit of ideological strife where the scientific method and reason are abandoned for ideological zeal.
Google Cracks Down on Employee Travel as It Looks to Cut Costs: Report
Yes, its a popular diversionary technique to point to their phaseout of nuclear, which isnt even their worst decision, as proof that they're not serious about climate change, or they're destroying their economy or sacrificing their security because they are serious about insane green concerns.

But they're still a world leader on this stuff, despite their faults, and the people who continually focus on their nuclear phase out seem to be repeating talking points they don't even understand, because they are a world leader on this.
Dynamics developer at my current job now. Can confirm, working with it is just as bad as SAP or Oracle development.
Because it's a good idea to separate the role of head of state from that of head of government as a bulwark against governments taking unconstitutional actions. It also gives you an apolitical chief diplomat and a respected voice outside of party politics that helps moderate discourse and to counterbalance executive power.