john_minsk

Great. Don’t have problem with that. Why do you?

For this you can make any field non nullable and offer a default value for the field.

Counter example: SAP HANA doesn't support NULLs, and as a result if I see 0 in any column in the database I have to wonder was it 0 that user submitted or 0 that system added as a placeholder. I would need to go back to documentation and see if the field is mandatory etc. Better have it explicitly stored in the data itself.

If you liked the effect of eye-opening I strongly advise to try "The greatest movie ever sold" documentary. It has such a nice setup and product placement will never be the same after you see this one.

Why they wouldn't say that this will be removed after pandemic is over is beyond my understanding.

Very interesting article. 5 cents from post soviet hole I'm in:

[] US/EU moved production to China because it was/is cheaper

[] It was/is cheaper because innovation in production technologies to this date haven't narrowed the gap for US/EU companies to move production back to US/EU.

[] US/EU workers don't want to compete with Chinese workers because they are "too cheap", but can't scale their efficiency proportionally. This is the main challenge of the developed economies - find how to continue growing the efficiency

[] US strategic failure is in putting all the eggs in one basket - China. Why not to have 5 production hubs around the world is not clear (maybe other nations don't want to work as hard as chinese?)

[] Another US strategic failure is to choose offshoring over local production. This could be achieved by lowering minimum wage or if this decision is not politically feasible - import of workforce. For this you could make elaborate laws where people coming to US for work couldn't stay there and had to go back once their work is done. Arab countries are doing this a lot.

[] The conflict of interest became apparent in times of struggle: virus shown that US is not de facto in control of outsourced production overseas

[] It DOESN'T mean that US must bring back production or start wasteful BUILD projects, which no one ever will use. It means that US must start investing even more into bridging the gap between overseas labor costs and automation due to innovation. Or create even more service industries that will be in demand overseas

[] If US succeeds in this mission - it is rightfully the leader of the world, its system is superior and next development revolution will be theirs to benefit from

[] But if US fails to bring the world new development cycle or someone does it before them - US citizens shouldn't expect their living to improve significantly since financial manipulations can bring you only so far

So if robots happen - all of the above resolved. And in times like this it must be quite easy to repurpose robot, which will solve extreme capacity shocks in the system.

BTW US were building high speed trains - it is called airplane! And was winning worldwide competition to date, but decided to outsource critical development to India... So I guess another example of strategic failure.

Because for people flying private jets and who actually can make the difference like the one described in the article, public transportation world is non existent.

The best you can hope for is that they can look at the spreadsheet and subtract costs from revenue.

(I don't think it is wrong)

And what would it solve? If you can enter the market but later on you are judged in the court for doing something wrong - you are better to be forced to think about it before you even start it.

The problem here is growing complexity, which governments doesn't recognize as a problem for some reason. There should be some institution in the government body, which primary goal would be to reduce complexity of governance.

I've seen this. But it is not even close to our(Google/Government/Facebook/"AI") potential.

I was thinking more along the lines: once somewhere in hospital some patient is diagnosed with COVID-19 - I get a notification on my phone: "Hey you potentially contacted confirmed case on {date} for {#} minutes being within {#} meters" Please monitor your condition and try to self-isolate. Probability of you having the virus is x%"

AI here should optimise criteria for people to notify based on probability of getting the virus.

I'm sure there will be a lot of research in current situation and in years to come. But there should be some level of such intelligence available in the system by default. And our default in real world currently is very low, compared to the marketing materials of AI companies.

I'm sure we are doing the best we can BTW, just wish it would be more

UPDATE: I'm not from Google while previous version implied that.

Well, we've heard about all kinds of useful implications of big companies and governments hoarding enormous amounts of data on us and ever more sophisticated methods of analysis of this data (AI).

The technologies and infrastructure in question:

- video/image analysis + nationwide networks of cameras created to "protect us"

- geospatial data and live tracking of GPS coordinates on everyone's phones + on cell towers.

- passport/immigration controls at borders

Would be great if countries could mobilize this infrastructure in times like this, but I don't think this is happening in the West. China/South Korea were more effective in this regard.

And it definitely shows the state of "AI" - it can do what it is trained to do. We still can't throw AI at some arbitrary problem with many moving parts and expect it to come up with best available ideas.

You must be kidding. This never happened to me so far, but if it did, I would be so unhappy with YourCompany that probably would never buy anything from you again

But Italy is a mess... So it is not an actual cure?

Why is that?

How expensive are they? I don't see the price behind your link

0. You can only get 2 TB+

~20% of cases are severe and require advanced medical support. I guess it is a good approximation of death rate without medical support.

I'm more interested in how did he manage to check them in. Where I fly I can't put anything with a battery into my checked in bags...

And you need to pay up every time you data grows by 64 GB. I guess sap is happy

I didn't say that there are no other factors (like for example that CTO won't be fired when SAP/Oracle implementation fails, but will be 100% fired when ERP_X implementation fails)

I only pointed out that the statistics in parent post can be skewed due to the sample of top 500 corporations which can implement SAP for reasons different to running the business.

SAP has a separate product for ITSM: Solution Manager. Everything else is beyond that scope.

What is important to understand is that SAP is standardized way to do business for ALL departments in big corporation. You probably can't be "expert is SAP". You can be expert in SAP treasury system, SAP data warehouse, SAP ITSM, SAP data analysis, SAP call center etc.

I heard that SAP consultants are paid very well and I think it will stay that way. But I guess this thread sums it up perfectly: it is due to the complexity that these implementations bring to organisation and lack of elegant solutions from modern software development world. So in terms of money it is good, but the trade offs are quite big.

TBH SAP is almost required for big corporations as they usually are publicly traded companies, require external audits from BIG4(and these guys know how to get data from standard SAP models, not so much from you self-developed system) and have to report their financials in consistent way.

For example Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google all can use SAP internally. But it would be false to state that all their businesses are run on SAP...

Agreed. But I would like to see more features as of now iCloud requires some "grown up" cloud service for regular document sync. Would be great to migrate completely

Interesting, did you just start doing it or has been on it for some time?

Or we can allow Google to have the same amount of accidents as regular drivers and not penalize them if they don't go out of certain margins. let's say if the vehicle has 1 accident on every 10m km travelled - google can go on. Sure, some people may die, but each accident will contribute to safety of the system. So called "Antifragile" property.

Then you give users of the service a choice: maps where service was very reliable, where some accidents happened or where not enough data was gathered i.e. there can be problems. Let users decide where they want to go and what level of risk they are willing to take.

Maybe we can have a device (smartphone?) that serves as marker for vehicles and helps them identify people/dogs/properties around them. If you ask me this can be done even now.

If only apple watch faces were like apps on iPhone. Can't buy one until they do.

No. And there can't be. There were 0 generations that were able to track their parameters on a constant basis. If over time it is proven that it is useless we can stop doing it, but for now let's at least try to collect such data and make use of it...

There is still a problem with this PR, since everyone is talking about that, but technology is nowhere near to deliver on those promises. Hope the hype won't kill off real work in developing good sensors.

MSFT won't adopt it even in this office alone, not talking about the worldwide offices...nuff said

Then it works as expected. It doesn't track you before you approve it. Which 99% of us do when opening an app.

1) There is no Facebook, Apple and Google on the list of "location data" companies. These guys have records on you for years of tracking and it didn't cause nytimes to create a fancy article on them?

2) Funny how the only big company mentioned in the article is Apple, while iOS is far more difficult to convince to share location data with 3rd parties compared to Android.

This page doesn't work for me and it doesn't show any errors...

Update: Firefox fixes it...

Wow. Really? I would have thought that our artificial vacuum is pretty empty... Any good read on the topic?