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>> Its UX is the most horribly wicked thing I’ve ever come across.

A few years ago, I was working for a small, family owned industrial company. They were in the process of moving all of their ERP stuff over to SAP. Things were slow with some of the UI/UX stuff I was working on and someone asked me if I wanted to learn how to be an ERP developer.

Before I was shown anything, the SAP guy pulled me to the side and told me, "Fates, I know you could probably write a DB program significantly faster than what you're about to learn, but this is just the way the software was written."

Cue several of their SAP people dropping random stuff in my lap and me taking days and sometimes weeks to discern how to do it in their UI. It was the most maddening thing I've ever tried to learn. I just remember this graph paper like grid and having to line everything up perfectly or the program wouldn't run at all. I felt like I was working with something from the 1970's, it felt that out of date.

I finally told my boss I couldn't do it anymore, it was driving me mad.

On the flip side, I play hockey with a guy who is an SAP sales person and makes hella money selling their software and thinks its the greatest thing ever.
By that same logic, businesses can advertise "sale, many items 90% off" but when you show up, nothing is 90% off, and you could argue that the business only claimed that the items existed, they never said they would actually sell it to you.
Oh I wasn’t advocating for free markets. I think it’s a ridiculous “phrase of power” spoken tradition gibberish.

I’m highlighting social hypocrisy.

Google isn’t sustainable without policy concessions; the market value gibberish is added onto something that is propped up by government looking the other way to sell the idea to people who don’t understand finance is an ephemeral con game. IMO “big software products and services” are only big business because it’s also profitable to politicians insider trading schemes. Open source and for hire software workers and ridding ourselves of big corp protectionism provisions in law and policy would be great. Very little of this distributed ledger and accounting nonsense has value to the average worker; their day to day is being a worker. Make the minority of “successes” compete on an open labor market instead of giving Bezos a pass. Having 25 people willing to chuck $50k each at my dreams.

Make him a gig worker too.
This vaccine is special, as we all know.

And it's a possible cause that I offered. The parent was proposing a list. I added to it.

And now I have been censored. Insane.
Extending the Memory Inspector for C/C++ debugging in Chrome
That's true, but it might be mainly a cost issue. You can make up for the resolution loss by using a much larger sensor; since the microlenses are very thin, it won't increase the weight or bulk of the device very much. Just the cost.
Without getting into snark, your very own article bolsters my point:

> The replication crisis in psychology does not extend to every line of inquiry, and just a portion of the work described in Thinking, Fast and Slow has been cast in shadows. Kahneman and Tversky’s own research, for example, turns out to be resilient. Large-scale efforts to recreate their classic findings have so far been successful. One bias they discovered—people’s tendency to overvalue the first piece of information that they get, in what is known as the “anchoring effect”—not only passed a replication test, but turned out to be much stronger than Kahneman and Tversky thought.
The poster wasn't even referring to the last couple of 100 years, only the last 121!
Moreover, `Object.handleEvent()` allows you to handle any events centralised inside an object and in its specific context since the days of Netscape 4.0.

(Which is something many frameworks try to fix, ignoring that it's already in the core language. Admittedly, IE didn't support this before IE6, but by now this is really cargo cult. If there is `addEventListener`, there's also `handleEvent` and no need for extra bindings.)
It’s… just text on a page. Weird.
It seems like borderline harassment. I am thinking a small claims case may get the right people involved to at least permanently be removed and maybe even get them to settle for small amount.
If I ran a store with a 10 digit inventory of tools and advertised that, but refused to offer more than a tiny fraction of them because it was too hard to offer more, what do you call that?
Crypto is relevant because a transaction can not be censored, nor my coins arbitrarily seized.
Zig has very different goals than Rust. The explicit theory of the language is that Rust's approach to memory safety creates costly tradeoffs which are not needed for all use-cases.

It is very much not the consensus that memory safety is a requirement for any modern language. Asserting that it should be a requirement is an extreme position.
Hard to beat the computational power of a lens.
Nevertheless, it's a dark pattern.

They should make it clear to the user how many results are available to them.
It's used by some jazz brass players. It even works with a Tuba! Though that is MUCH more difficult because of the volume of air involved.
I typically see cynical, political, or wrong information downvoted. It would be interesting to see semantic analysis of HN votes.
I'm no fan of Facebook or Lockheed Martin, but that doesn't seem fair to me.
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In case you're confused about the downvote(s):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32730380
I think I saw a comment, perhaps 20 years ago, saying that this is an adaptation of a stand up comedy routine. A quick search has failed to confirm or refute this, and regardless of the origin it is (a) very funny, and (b) instructive.

But I suspect it shouldn't be taken as real, even if the lessons one can learn from it certainly are real, and it is all too plausible.
The article says this is an advance in the speed of processing light field images. Also the bit about seeing around an opaque object, which I'm not sure what that means but could be an interesting first?
The Alice and Bob article... I don't remember the content exactly.
Wasn't this a key puzzle in Space Quest IV?
> and plenty of Texans who moved to California excepting tax shock and were pleasantly surprised when their total tax bills were several thousands lower in CA.

Can you explain to me how is this possible? Like, an realistic example scenario.
> Also with private criticism, any decision tends to gravitate toward the opinion of the highest paid person. If the debate happens in public, everyone has more of an equal chance to be heard.

This. When I get criticized in private on an technical matter by someone more senior than me and disagree with them there isn't much I can do. Maybe I already have a good relationship with them and we can talk it out but if not I just have to suck it up. I can maybe escalate to higher up but that is also very risky and might more harm than good.

There isn't much I can do to defend myself.

In public there is a chance of other people offering their opinion. Senior people might get kept in check if their critic seems too unreasonable to the rest of the team.

I think a good rule is to criticize technical stuff in public and personal stuff in private.
> The rest of the world left SMS because their carriers charged way too much for it. In the US, it's really unusual these days to not have unlimited SMS built into even the most basic pre-paid plans. Apples & Oranges...

They may have left only because of the cost but now the features are more than enough to keep them off SMS/RCS even if it was free.

> Your own personal feelings aside - why would Apple not adopt RCS for non-iDevices?

Why would Apple adopt a Google messaging service (which RCS is)? If the roles were reversed Google wouldn't bake iMessage into their platform, why should it be any different with the roles reversed.

> Because Apple wants you to buy an iPhone. They are not a good actor in this situation... it's really that simple.

And Google wants to own chat, they are not a good actor either. Apple being a bad actor or not wanting to expand iMessage access doesn't mean we should all jump on Google's chat version.
Yeah, especially young people do have it bad. One interesting thing is that as society becomes more and more feminist, it's the young women who fare the worst, and especially the demographics most likely to be intersectional activists.

Maybe not all ideologies are good for us? At a quick glance, a lot of the intersectional feminist/activist modes of thought seem to be the polar opposites of what eg. cognitive behavioral therapy and the stoicism it's inspired by advocate (eg. others are responsible for your emotional reactions/state, so to control your mood you have to control others vs. you are responsible for and in control of your own emotional reactions and mental state and you can improve your mood by honing yourself).

We know CBT is effective for getting rid of dysfunctional thought patterns and lessening mental health symptoms. In that light, these numbers seem unfortunate but entirely predictable.

https://i.imgur.com/uRX0A9u.png
not sure who is downvoting, but this was an actual feature, not a snarky comment.
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Likely because of B2B vs B2C. Individual users can easily switch when a better solution appears on the market. Business use cases tend to involve a little more friction in those decisions.
Yep my thoughts as well. It’s great to use vanilla js for a personal website (I do) but if one is seeking employment knowing a popular framework (both backend and front end) is also critical.

It also seems worthwhile from an Org standpoint because then they can target “react” or “vue” developers in job postings who can presumably hit the ground running productivity wise.

(This is basically just echoing everything parent comment was saying)
I wonder how much of a kickback that general got for insisting on it.
Geez, suggesting democracy has victims sounds an awful like suggesting we might as well return to slavery because free people harm other free people.
Other examples include India had a bounty for snakes, so people started snake farms.

My favorite one though is about the British paying China for dinosaur fossils, but they paid per fragment, so (naturally!) entire fossils were smashed into many small pieces.
If you pre-approve but not fund certain desirable projects, and allow unused funding or surpluses gained through efficiency to spent on those, you get the double-win of maintaining trust and making efficiency organisationally desirable.
Great point. I have a comment below that goes into some of the difficulty with this distinction.

To be fair, many small/mid-sized companies that act as suppliers to larger companies would basically have the larger company doing the carbon accounting for them.

For large companies, I think it would look more like an accounting capability than a climate/energy science one. The carbon credit market might become regulated with some accreditation system after these wild west years.
The author calls out that they aren't a civil engineer, and the bridge example wasn't meant to necessary reflect reality.

> If you were designing a car today, and were willing to have 25% more weight, you probably could design it with a slide rule. You'd get a 1954 Buick Roadmaster, a sedan with a curb weight of 1983 kg.

Being 25% heavier than necessary is likely far too much. You could definitely design a car using analog tools and calculations to within <5% of the minimum requirements.

This is a great example of where too much precision is a bad thing!

A 1954 Buick Roadmaster had a curb weight of 4,430 lbs. Choosing a random modern car, a 2022 Toyota Camry has a curb weight of 3,310 lbs.

Assuming those as a baseline, each 1% of weight due to "overprovisioning" would be 44.3 and 33.1 lbs respectively. Lowering the load capacity of the vehicle by 5% would mean a 221.5 lb reduction in capacity for the Roadmaster and 165.5 lb for the Camry.

You have to account for not only the precision of your design, but also the precision with which it is used. I seriously doubt I could estimate to within 200 lbs how much the combined weight of all occupants and cargo in my vehicle is at any given time. It's therefore fair to say that the use case for a car is not estimated to within 5% of reality - so the car must be overbuilt by some margin of >5% to account for that.

If the precision of the intended use case is that high, spending additional time to reduce vehicle weight to <5% of the target capacity is wasted. It's better to make it a bit heavier than strictly necessary than it is to spend the resources to know precisely how heavy it needs to be to meet an imprecise requirement.
I have a half-serious way to fix symptom here: everyone gets into javascript is required to implement their own `ui=f(state)` framework, maximum size is 10kB minified.

80% of them will be amazed how easy it is. I bet 20% of those implementation each would cover 80% of application use case today.
>My guess is that the people who used slide rules in their professions and were willing to pay over $50 to re-experience the nostalgia of playing with one again are now all dead.

With the exception of the part about willing to pay over $50, I can say we are not quite all dead.
> like cash is, backed by the central bank.

In USA, dollars are not backed by central bank. Dollars are backed by the federal government.
> a highly paid professional rather than that annoying car mechanic who might solve a hard diagnostic problem quickly but takes forever to get around to your oil change.

There are so many of us who can relate. Huge kudos to you for your integrity and for staying humble.
>My guess is that the people who used slide rules in their professions and were willing to pay over $50 to re-experience the nostalgia of playing with one again are now all dead.

The Slide Rule Universe begs to differ!

https://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/sruniverse.html

Plus, the site is GeoCities Pretty :-)

[Edit: Fixed typo]
> There are lighter-weight shadow dom frameworks out there (than Vue/React/Angular) so why would you want to write one yourself?

Mainly because I prefer working with my own code to working with other people's. Another advantage is reducing the amount of new information I have to learn (which with the whole vanilla HTML5 stack is already vast), but maybe I'm hopelessly out of date.

Thanks for the insights though, I wasn't aware they were doing all of that.
If everything is sexual, then the distinction becomes meaningless and only something that is significantly more sexual than the baseline is worth remarking upon.

My argument is that furry isn't inherently any more sexual than anything else. To call it a sex/kink thing is not a meaningful argument.
It's also worth noting that the samples they used were from a totally different age bracket than the astronauts.

Astronauts (aged 37–67) compared to "seven young, healthy individuals."
Very briefly in 1901 mind you - Queen Victoria died 21 days after federation, to be succeeded by her son (Edward).
Smaller cats will catch the baby rabbits, but a larger cat has no trouble catching and eating adult rabbits in my experience. The largest thing I've seen a cat catch was a grouse. Turkeys are too large. Weasel like things seem to be too fierce.
... who cares? Functionally, I have never gone beyond the 3rd search page when looking for a useful website. I can see how the search engine does find the astronomical number of search results, but then just decides for technical reasons to not display them. This seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Try moving internationally, see how well being tied to that US number for SMS/MMS/RCS will work for you. Or move to the US from another country, and see if any carrier will take that foreign number, or if any carrier from your home country will provide an affordable international roaming plan in the US for the longterm.
> If I open a site on cooking, I don't want to see ads for car parts or kitchen faucets, regardless of my history. I would want to see ads for cooking supplies.

Is that not the way it works for you? I mean, I pull up allrecipes.com and see a bunch of food-related stuff like my local supermarket (and one less relevant ad for Iceland Air, no idea). Closer to the subject at hand, the modern "Byte Magazine" might be something like tomshardware.com, where I see lots of tech products being hawked (phones, a tablet, Xfinity service), and ads for the retailers that sell them (lots of Best Buy on the pages I saw).

I mean, sure, there are going to be exceptions. But in general ads on the internet seem at least reasonably relevant.

It really seems sometimes like sites like HN are turning into information bubbles, where concepts like "advertising in the modern world is a dystopian disaster" are... just taken as faith? The experience of regular people doesn't really agree, and it seems like we're becoming more detached as the years go by.
> and if you change providers and phone numbers you have to update all your contacts.

At least in the United States, mobile carriers are legally required to allow you to port your phone number. Your phone number belongs to you forever (unless you choose to discard it).

By contrast, most personal email addresses (which are what most people use to sign up for other services like Whatsapp) belong to for-profit companies, who can and do hold them hostage.
They are "available". Just the way to get there isn't by going through the result pages but by refining your search.
If the emphasis is on the the interaction between the protagonist and the new environment, I've also heard it called a 'fish out of water story'.
Ya. I figured.

This list reminded me of the "contrarians" blathering about the glaciers melting. For the period in question, there was exactly one which grew a little bit. So therefore climate crisis wasn't a big deal. (Meanwhile, all of Greenland and Antarctica are melting faster than projected.)

Repeatedly rebutting the Merchants of Doubt's torrent of poo is exhausting.
nitpick: $100B (now 2022), not $163B

Though the drop is not SAP specific, but broad based (tech stocks carnage, ukraine war effects).
Anchoring effect. Read the section in Thinking Fast and Slow on the anchoring effect.
Stepanov used a lot of APL, Lisp and Smalltalk inspiration to create the STL, originally implemented in Ada 83 generics, and then thanks to Bjarne ported it to C++.

There is a quite interesting session from talk done by him at Adobe, where he mentions his inspirations.
Middle East stability is a long term policygoal. The United States made Saudi Arabia one of the highest priority allies to avoid a repeat of 1973.

On a long term scale, keeping the pumps going is good for the petroleum industry, as sustained high prices justify the capital expense for alternatives. Once you buy an electric car, you don’t really give a hoot about gasoline.
Maybe if the builders stopped building shitty things, we wouldn’t need teams like this.
Yes, the article does mention this.
You do have to put in your SSN at some point to get paid. It's stored with Stripe, but a hacker could prompt people to re-enter it for capture citing some issue. How many people are savvy enough to question that?
Conflating the death and displacement of millions of persons with global eradication in order to say "Well, it's not going to happen!" is preeety shitty.
You're right and wrong. You are right that it is hard if you are poor and easy if you are rich. But you are wrong that HN or people outside of the US do not understand that it is only hard for poor people. It's just that external to the US, people care about the welfare of poor people more. The fact that you felt it necessary to state that caveat illustrates how systemic problems which victimize poor people can be excused and remain unchanged in the US.

For context I've lived for decades in both Australia and the US. Pros and cons in both cultures, and I love both.
That position is not only new, it's also not the consensus. Zig explicitly chooses to make memory safety a non-goal of the language, with the argument that Rust-style memory safety is a costly tradeoff which is not always justified.

Assuming that my argument has "fallen apart", or that you have "dunked" seems quite absurd given that you've taken an extreme position which many serious practitioners and academics would disagree with.
In our mission to continually strengthen services and protect our brand we have employed many protections for our remote monitoring, control and IP...

what do people expect? all the wrong management are attracted to security products for exactly the reasons you suspected all along.. Lock-in is profits!
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nevermind. we won't be able to communicate anyway :)
The word "lie" is kinda hysterical, don't you think?

I joined Google in Nov. 2005, and "The Life of a Query" was one of the classes that everyone took. Even then, we were told that figures like "110,000 results" were an estimate, and if you kept hitting Next, you'd only get about 1,000. Maybe now it's 400, I don't know.

What do you expect -- the engine collects all 2 billion and puts them in a queue somewhere, just so that the one person in 500,000 who actually tries to see them all can?
It might be good to add a respectful comment on the issue on github to emphasize the UX issues it creates.

issue: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/335
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I've been using Bitwarden's clients (browser extension, mobile apps, desktop apps) with a self-hosted vaultwarden [1] server. It's marginally free if you are already self-hosting other stuff. I'm hosting it on a raspberry pi 4b at home and exposing it to public Internet through Cloudflare zero trust (also free). Had no problems so far.

[1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden, note that it's different from Bitwarden's official server (https://bitwarden.com/help/install-on-premise-linux/), uses less CPU/memory, and enables premium features like TOTP for free.
"A ban publicly endorsed by Xi Jinping was instituted on the consumption of almost all wild animals. … There are risks, however, that the economic pressures these actions place on wildlife farmers and traders will drive the lucrative business farther underground, or induce local officials, eager to spur economic recovery or susceptible to bribery, to tolerate it, as occurred in the wake of SARS. … Outside experts, however, question how well the bans are being enforced, and believe they do not go far enough, as demand is still fuelling a transboundary wildlife supply chain in neighbouring countries."

"The Contested Origin of SARS-CoV-2" 26 Nov 2021

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00396338.2021.2...
"Please upload a new W-9 to comply with new IRS requirements."

(Nevermind there are no new IRS requirements.)
Can you explain more about the dedup feature?
Does it require some kind of unique id from the source?
Is it done on ingest or on query?
Is that something included with VictoriaMetrics or a separate addon?
the US is very interested in keeping food cheap and corn subsidies are a big part of it. We also want to make sure we maintain the capacity to produce a LOT of calories very efficiently. This is helpful for national security as well, if imports are disrupted, we will have a food variety issue, not a starvation issue.
Plain old contracts != smart contracts
Spoken like a true cult leader. They want the color of a chat bubble to become associated with status. How long before they advocate for a caste system in America based on whether you own Apple devices.
From time to time I visit websites that my i7 16gb dell xps struggles to process. Bloody hell, 20 years ago that kind of power would have powered a small super computer and now it can't run a news websites.
SBS says remote work companies see $2k extra profit per worker per year
I'm guessing none of his illustrations were in the training set? One can get something along those lines by specifying "... drawn with pencil crayons"