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How about Interactive Brokers case then, or AFAIK TD Ameritrade. They don't offer instant settlement (or may be they do, but the same was applied to settled money). They blocked buying GME stock on nonmargin accounts with settled money. What's the risk for them?
I don't know if the same was applied to RH (blocking GME stock on non margin account with settled money) but what I read is RH even removed GME ticker from the search, so you can't buy it.

edit: from the Bloomberg article you posted: "The trouble on Thursday began around 10 a.m., when after days of turbulence, the DTCC demanded significantly more collateral from member brokers, according to two people familiar with the matter.".
So I have my money settled in my broker's account for months, I'm buying without lending any additional money, why can't my broker show that I have all the collateral needed or even transfer my money?
Am I missing something here? Does it work per broker and not per broker's account maybe? So people with settled cash are affected becasuse of other people doesn't have enough collateral? Or may be because showing/transferring collateral to DTCC is not instantenius?
Yep, that's the problem with congress and parliamentary systems. They divide guilt over hundreds of people, so that citizens cannot plausibly vote anyone out.

How naive and stupid are these government people? They've been swindled like this multiple times before, it was on the national news with the Obamacare website.

They're supposed to be the best we have. They won a vote after all.
Illinois mother sues governor after son struggling with lockdown dies by suicide
Well, we saw what "figurative" talk got us at the Capitol Building on the 6th. Calling it figurative is like Alex Jones claiming to be a "performance artist," i.e. a thin attempt to disguise the reality of the statement and to get away with saying inappropriate things.

(Plus, this is Hacker News, where discourse is intended to be civil rather than deliberately inflammatory.)
Remember The first morale of Buddhism is to keep your critics near you who will always help you improve. It’s good if critical media surrounds the government.

This is common around the globe any media which questions the government is considered biased, in India more so.

No need to look for media see UN and research report on India’s development on Human Development Index (HDI) which covers mal-nutrition, infant mortality, education and healthcare it has slipped continuously in last 5 years even before pandemic. Economic development i.e. livelihood is also in downward spiral before pandemic and made much worse. Indian neighbouring countries like Bangladesh did much better. Marginalisation of most minority community is accelerated. So the current ruling party in India use religious sentiments, divisions and false pride as tools to gain majority support.

Blaming Gandhi, Nehru, Pakistan and foreigners for misery of India and its downward spiral and shooting the messenger with accusations of falsehood has become a practice and a weapon of choice in current Indian ruling establishment.
How do you logically reconcile that what you say applies to Web Browsers as well?
I have cared about the problem of light pollution since hearing about it as a teen almost 40 years ago. Despite being a regular advocate for dark skies in casual conversation, politics such as LED street lamp replacement, business decisions such as replacing low pressures sodium vapour floods in the company parking lot I have come to the conclusion that most people just don't care or don't get why it matters. I've heard responses like "so close your curtains" or "it is safer with more light" or "the lights aren't that bright".

You can see the distinctive cool white LED "O" of Apple Park from 20 miles away in a plane. Why? Just vanity? The huge amount of light bleed serves no functional purpose. Lights, lights everywhere lights. Lighting up nothing. You can buy an intensely bright fixture at Home Depot and just mount it up making any location bright as day, but 24 hours a day. LEDs may have actually made things worse because of their low cost per lumen and long operating lives that encourages more and brighter lighting.

I am out of step in wanting a world with less human noise and light. If I complain about how noisy I find the bay area and how I would love to punch the Harley rider who lives a block away in the throat the most common answer I get is 'Wow, India and China are way louder' like that should make me feel better or unjustified in my complaint. In truth all it does is make me want to avoid visiting those places.
Have you looked at django-fsm for managing your state transitions? Overkill for small projects - invaluable for larger ones where state changes can be literally anywhere.
Well, you can make simple functionalities so baroque that you will not be able to work with them without some kind of notes. It is not easy to define in contract what is sane code.
Not exactly. You have to watch your libraries for vulnerabilities no matter what language you use. Link or apt-getting the library will pull in a vulnerability

I am more concerned about pulling in Linux binaries that are full of vulnerabilities.
There's no difference between a 1000MB or 10MB image, aside from how much time it takes to download new versions and how much disk space it uses.
The difference is they aren’t paying the engineers 300k they are paying an endless amount of administrator executives with “industry experience” aka 20yrs emailing spreadsheets between other managers at IBM.

I realized this once when I started attending (Canadian) gov ‘innovation’ events and ‘startup’ funding initiatives.

There was hardly anyone I’d consider an engineer that is benefiting from these systems. It’s a giant well organized grift for washed up “industry” execs and others hangers on with friends in the right places.

And I don’t mean to be ageist saying that. That would be over simplifying, but there is a inherent preference to those with safe names in their resume, regardless of relevancy. But there’s plenty of spaces in between for youthful people who understand how these meat factories work. Especially ones who understand their value, usually the unnamed ones working on the edges.

But by the time it comes to actually making the meat most of the money has already been allocated to the aforementioned people and they rush to find outsource the “real” work to some overpaid consulting company who are also experts at fleecing these gov contracts with endless meetings and perfecting the right checkmarks get checked.

I remember going to a Zuckerberg talk around 2010 at YC school at Stanford and he mentioned how he was hiring engineers even for the typical ‘executive’ jobs and I remember feeling like that’s the difference between startup tech companies and these failed hundred million dollar imitations.

It all comes down to the people and which ones are getting the power. Basically which side of the “iron rule” they come from https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
My experience with 4k has essentially been that it's too small for the display sizes I want to have on my desk - and the fractional scaling support is always quite a bit of work to get right (as evidenced by this post).

I've found that 2k (2560x) displays at 27" give me great real estate without any need to scale.
Thanks for the reminder to not be inflammatory... need more of this here. Cheers.
Somehow this all reminded me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture)

It's the whole - full core on a GPU aspect, which probably isn't a bad idea for a few reasons, could even offload much of the driver onto it and with that, make platform drivers much more manageable...maybe.
Is there any solution to this?
In my limited experience and anecdata, governments have been so trigger happy in getting rid of and/or marginalizing technical staff that there are few qualified individuals in the procurement office who can properly draft RFPs and evaluate proposals to keep bidders accountable. What you're left with is mostly (M)BAs and admin types who can hammer out high-level Word docs of specs but not much else. In that environment, it's not surprising that Deloitte, McKessen, IBM and co (or as I like to call them, the Procurement Vampires) can lowball and BS themselves into these projects. If you don't know anything, better the devil you know, right ?
I've no love for Deloitte, but the one benefit they do have here is the ability to mobilize quickly on something like this. It's simply impossible to "hire 146 engineers" within any reasonable time frame, let alone get them all organized in a way that you can manage them effectively (and don't forget the project managers/scrum masters/etc that would need to be hired too). Deloitte, OTOH, has an entire existing business model based on taking vague business requirements and having huge teams of project managers/developers/consultants/advisors/etc ready to go at nearly a moments notice.

$44 million is an egregious number and I don't know how it's that high, but I'm betting at least part of it has to do with the fact that this was a website with an accelerated timeline, which probably necessitated a premium.
As software goes, it's pretty likely that if you hire 146 engineers to build a website that could be built and supported with a team of 8.. you are almost certain to get a buggy mess that takes 146 engineers to maintain and support. After all, the architecture will need to accommodate 18 8 person teams, provide scope for ~20 Staff engineers along with a full layer of middle management.

I wouldn't be surprised if these proposals take into account headcount as a positive for both quality and job creation purposes.
But that just sounds like regular big company codebases. I see no difference.

At Scottrade, I was horrified to find a 5k or 10k line Date C++ class. They'd copy paste functions to handle each leap year individually. The function names themselves contained the specific year.

They also yelled at me for downloading the source code to `touch`.

It was nice to get to see the crazy side of software. Everyone was deadpan serious about it too.
> It's absolutely not scalable.

And yet, somehow YouTube muddled along through and made it work.
What are you talking about? Didn’t you see the national flag hoisting event in RSS headquarters live on the news like every year?
It’s almost as if there’s some recent literal context that turns that comment - ordinarily just crass and pointless - into something more appalling
How did the protestors shut it down?
If we draw UML diagrams the software will be better, oh wait before we draw the diagrams we can make a project plan and present how long each stage will take and how many resources are needed to draw those diagrams. Ok that comes out to about $44M
It’s a status thing. If you are Jat Sikh you own land or work in military, otherwise unless you have business forget about a rishta
ToruiDev has linked part 1, OP is part 4.
I'm late to this thread, but this is incorrect. Flash loans are used for many things other than arbitrage/attacks. 2 examples include the ability to swap collateral/debt and the ability to migrate assets between defi protocols (migrate from aave v1 to aave v2 etc). Many of Defisavers and Instadapps features are powered by flash loans.
Perhaps for political optics? Hard to say since zero reasoning is provided.

I have to assume malice rather than negligence when it comes to "journalism" nowadays.
And don't forget the State of Oregon paid an additional $240 million for their own version of it [1].

[1] https://www.koin.com/news/oregon-oracle-settle-cover-oregon-...
These contracts are generally bloated, but if you've never seen how a $10M+ contract for things like this works you're probably thinking about it wrong. The actual development piece is a pretty small portion of the overall work. The bulk of it is figuring out all the requirements, wrangling legacy systems and data into some kind of shape that can either be interfaced with or imported, documentation, support (including phone), client hand-holding, etc. Yes it's a lot of overhead, but this isn't a run of the mill green-field SaaS app a few 22 year olds can crank out in a few weeks.
This is not a 'software engineering' thing. If you look at it from a software development POV, then the issue is more of not having 'product managers' whose job it is to - understand the requirements, write the specs, basically champion the POV of the end user (after actually identifying the correct end user). Examples

a) The article talked about the software not working on Internet Explorer (IE). Older people still use IE. Software Engs with fewer years of experience tend to optimize for FF, Chrome and latest version of IE.

b) The article talked about 'wrong' placement of buttons (probably the software is not responsive or not optimized for phones or older phones)

c) Input fields seem to be rigid (older people will make mistakes)

d) Once you're registered, you can't switch from patient to staff. This should have been designed like a 2-sided marketplace with the ability of one person to sometimes play the 2 roles

If you don't have the right spec/requirements, the output of the engineers will still be bad
"It will come a time in US when people will come to understanding that the Internet exists, and one does not take any random thing on the Internet at face value."

I have to ask, have you heard of Qanon? Do you remember what happened in Washington DC on January 6th?

Because I've been on the Internet for quite a while now, and it's not getting better. It's getting worse. Much much worse.
GM says no more tailpipe emissions by 2035, carbon neutrality by 2040
> I previously worked heavily with ruby and I cannot imagine building beyond >1000 LoC in interpreted, dynamically typed languages.

Airbnb, Stripe, WhatsApp and Discord were able to and win in gigantic markets despite fierce competition.
No, their first amendment rights don't end because you want them to. But I suspect we what they were doing could be construed as non peaceful, and thus no longer supported by the first.
Is this Poe’s law in action? Honestly can’t tell if you’re just being sardonic.
> to the point now where it really, actually is true that “mundane” day to day problems for people actually tie in to serious existential problems that have to be collectively dealt with.

The only thing this applies to is global warming. It is not an existential threat for Bob to think there was election fraud during the Trump election anymore than Ted the Bernie supporter to think the election was stolen from him twice.

Spreading the idea that the US government can afford to give $1200/mo UBI to each of its citizens by simply taxing the rich is more dangerous to the stability of the government/economy than some dipshit thinking the earth is flat.

Finally, as for climate change, we have the facts and people don’t care. They didn’t care in 2002, they didn’t care in 2012, and they didn’t care in November. At this point, convincing Bob has not worked, and frankly it doesn’t matter because it’s not a problem that can be solved through individual actions.

The solution is to legislatively fix it with intelligent people from both sides of political spectrum if it needs to have staying power (ala cap and trade). Or, if the Democratic Party is very confident in not losing the majority in the next 8 years or so, just ram a non-market approach down everyone’s throat (ala oil/coal bans) and call it good.

There are way too many people who still take the Bible/Koran /whatever seriously to clutch onto the notion that correcting people with facts is going to actually fix anything.
SIMD instructions were a mistake in CPU instruction set design.

Vector instructions have register size independent code which makes vector programming from CPUs much more approachable and binary compatible.
How would 1,000 a month change this calculus for you?

For the 50% of american paying paying taxes, this means 1,000 less a month.
My favorite part was this quote: “It won’t work on Internet Explorer; it only works in Chrome.” As if that is a serious problem.
This kind of looting is common place and is built into the federal contracting situation. After this 48 million or so they will get more to ix the bugs and maintain it. The maintenance is the most lucrative aspect of the contract.

Unfortunately this corrupt behavior is deeply rooted and condoned and expected and there doesn't seem to be much motivation to come up with a solution.

Wonder why the government doesn't just staff up a tech wing themselves instead of outsourcing. There is so much to do and its much more efficient to just create an tech department that serves all branches of government.
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With these projects, there are Veblen effects. No-one wants the $50k/year consultant who quietly cranks out good work...they want the $300k/year consultants whose work may or may not be good but they can spin, make things easy with your boss, etc.

...stuff like this drives me mad. You see it everywhere. I worked in financial services, and (on my weaker days) it was enraging to see someone pay three or four times the price to get a product that was not only bad, it was literally worthless...life is weird.
I'm sure if you actually looked at their full track record, the vast vast majority of projects probably result in "mediocre but workable" systems, you just don't hear about them because that's a boring headline. Deloitte is a $40 billion company, it's not like every single one of their projects is a complete failure.
And in Canada, I see the YouTube's "this content in not available in your country" quite often.
Agreed. You can also argue that inflated contract cost in a statement of work leads to artificial labor bloat on the project. This benefits the consulting firm while disadvantaging the client. The unnecessary labor can create collaboration friction and lead to technical decisions like adopting microservices despite not being necessary to fulfill the technical requirements of the project. This kind of complexity doesn't guarantee a higher quality product is delivered to the client. Instead, it's used to justify follow-on work, further extracting dollars from the client.

It's possible there's context we don't have that exponentially increases the complexity of their tech requirements and justifies the price here but I'm skeptical. Looks more like misaligned economic incentives commonly at play in engagements between consulting firms and the gov.
There have been multiple reports of cops suffering injuries.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/86-cops-injured-4-cases-file...
There's much less air traffic at night, and what traffic there is, is probably on an IFR flight plan.

But lighting would only really help VFR pilots if it was coming from above and they were looking down. Looking out and up from a small airplane cockpit to avoid traffic is really impractical. You're better off relying on ADS-B.
Google Play Store takedown and appeals process is so embarrisingly bad and so easy to fix.
1) give people notice and the chance to respond in most cases before the takedown or put the app back up if an appeal is filed until the appeal is reviewed.
2) allow attachments on the appeals form. They only allow 1,000 characters, which is just not enough for most cases.
3) staff the team so you can reply within 48 hours. Currently, the average seems to be about 10 days.
4) Have a way to see the takedown reason I'm the developer portal. If you appeal, see the appeal was received and is in process.

None of these things take materially more resources from google. Some junior PM should be able to make this better, and it would save google a lot of antitrust concerns. Something like 1M a year would probably do it.
This is a large part of the truth. Crank out a booking website? Give me a couple weeks. Deal with your byzantine organization, your incoherent standards, your security department coming out of the woodwork with list of requirements, your torturous system for provisioning government services like VMs in secure data centres... and then pile on that integration with a variety of legacy systems across another slew of organizations that bring all their own baggage to the process.

I would blame government, but I'm simultaneously experiencing all these issues with a Fortune 100 company. They're almost indistinguishable in the degree to which their cumulative organizational headwind is a hurricane I'm supposed to fly into. It's simply hard past a certain scale for purely people and procedure reasons.
On the other hand, it shouldn't be so easy to find evidence of the author taking creative liberty with data. If he is willing to change data in one place to fit his narrative, then you ought to take the whole book with a mountain of salt, unless you have the time to investigate every claim yourself.
> people will ... not take any random thing on the Internet at face value

Have you been following US politics lately? A great many people really seem to believe that Trump lost the election only because of massive voter fraud, that his enemies are literally harvesting children's blood for adrenochrome. And we're not talking just about random nobodies here. There's at least one member of the US congress (Marjorie Taylor Greene) who is pretty open about believing this stuff, and two or three more who are less obvious about it. I've been on the internet over a decade longer than you, and the trend has never been toward people being more discerning about what they read.

I've already written in this thread about being targeted, and it wasn't even the first time. The other, on LambdaMOO, got written up in a book. OP mentions not one but several examples. These campaigns do have real-world consequences, not just chuckles and remarks about fame. Maybe your experience does not include anything like that, but please don't act like your own experience must be the norm and anyone else's must be the anomaly. That's the most egregious kind of selection bias.
Did y'all know Ben Shapiro was in a boys band in his previous career ? -> https://my90stv.com/#q3qDESAvzh0
Having helped to clean up a couple of those messes IBM left behind in various parts of the Canadian public sector, the only silver lining I see is that governments are starting to take in-house dev talent and the digital service model seriously because nothing (in the best case scenario) gets done if you rely on IBM. Hopefully this trend continues and governments grow some teeth in contract negotiations because of it.
Arguably the leading newspaper of the country?
50mbit should be enough for streaming games like this. However, it's very latency specific (considering the video encoding and decoding will add a few tens of ms to the latency), so you are probably closer to 100ms overall which definitely feels very laggy. That is considerably more latency than I get on a FTTH connection from London to New York, for example.
The article doesn't write about mixed precision machine learning. Will it be available? I would really love to see a RISC-V laptop using vector extensions beating the Apple M1 core in everything (though I know that it will take a lot of time to get to 5nm process node).
strict medical supervision is sometimes a terrifying experience. Set and setting matter but so does any drugs they are currently on. I would say that your experience is atypical.
If you want to see another ultimate example of this sort of contracting gone awry, google "canada federal payroll phoenix system"

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=canada+fe...

example news URL: https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/phoenix-payroll-system...
This is way the government works and why taxation is the fuel that feeds the fire.

Trust me, this money did not go to waste. Someone got paid, someone has a new yacht.
Well surely there were tests...
>which can be used for profit purposes.

Never underestimate how much money people are willing to spend just to fuck over other people ("hedge funds") or to get rich quick.