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Totally NOT SURPRISED that this was an awful Oracle enterprise app.

These things were put together in haste in the 90's and Oracle keeps pushing them and their corporate customers keep these things going long past when the interface becomes utterly unfamiliar.

The blame has to be shared, however, with the battle-axe personalities of the people that use this stuff. They would like nothing more than to retire while still using the _exact_ same applications and dated interfaces they've used for 20+ years. Literally, these are default "grey-theme" java applications, with all kinds of inconsistent UI quirks and absolutely no shits given for discoverability or even being able to create hyperlinks so that people can share stuff without screenshots.

It's fine if it's the same people keep using these apps forever, but the problems start when new people get on-boarded. If it's like most places, the newbies will be given no training and the only help they will get would be from some dour in-house oracle-application jockey whose been doing the same thing for decades. That's when people make very, very expensive mistakes. We hear about this one because the sum was vast, but people make $10,000 mistakes on shit software from Oracle all the time-- that's partly why Oracle has a very deep bench of retained lawyers, I suppose.

I have to say Citibank deserves it.
Rationalization is a helluva drug.
>> control over whatever open source projects they target.

> but if they rewrite the project in rust, why _shouldn't_ they control that project? If other people choose to switch, then it's not wrong for them to move, and not wrong for to google gain control of those users.

I think the issue is the more critical projects Google controls, the more they can make decisions by fiat. Those decisions will favor Google's interests, and could sacrifice everyone else's interests in some way.

It's sort of like web browsers. My understanding is that Chrome is so dominant that Google can basically dictate HTML standards at this point, or at least effectively push them in directions that are favorable to its ad-based business.
So, they should have made the Challenger completely incapable of launching in cold wx, for example?
The PictureThis AI app has really helped me better understand some plants around me and ones I find in nature. I find it more immediately gratifying than looking things up in books etc. Plus it helps diagnose issues which are not apparent to someone without a green thumb
I'm a little surprised they didn't go for three separate computers and compare them for every operation, or something like that, but I'm sure they have their reasons.
Maybe trump is an outlier, but (at least up until the election) I found Fox News to be completely bananas the last four years. So far they've been better under biden than trump.

But yes, they were bananas under obama too.
It's not too late! Thinkpads still come with a nub.
The Civil Rights Movement was a very woke movement I guess with this line of thinking.
I don't know how it's in this particular system, but I have also seen banking core software which would add these transactions during end of day batch procesing, by which time the original operators wouldn't be looking at them anymore, and anything that should be settled 'today' would also get executed during that batch process.
Same. I tried coding tipsy, especially after colleague farewell meals, and I never did anything good. At most I gave funny code reviews to people.

For most of my life I also cooked sober. But when I started cooking tipsy, I began preparing meals I could have never believed I made myself. My current lasagna recipe is an absolute bomb and it's been perfected over a dozen drunken cooking sessions. Even Italians asked me for the recipe.
Seems like they shouldn't have a billion dollar valuation if that's the case.
Pfizer study deals new blow to South Africa's vaccine hopes
Not sure if this is true wherever you're from, but here in the UK unions are very commonplace all over different industries and have been a recognised part of society for quite some time now. The same with our laws on racial discrimination in the workplace.

Not sure what your (or any) definition of 'woke' is, but I gathered it was a fairly new phenomenon that is often used as an excuse to belittle people who hold different views to your own (see also: 'political correctness') - I hadn't realised that my 60-something union-rep father was so woke! I'll call and let him know!
http://archive.is/3UMRN
What’s next, GitHub commits realized with lego bricks?
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Are we 100% sure it's not an ice cream sales cause shark attacks correlation?
Handheld two-way radios for preppers and other curious folks
I have no nice memories of going outside as a kid. I was a shy kid and was always more comfortable inside. I think I had to learn that being outside on my own terms was actually good and had value.
I used a Unicomp Model M/Spacesaver for a couple years, but once I switched to an ergo keyboard I'll never go back: https://jakeseliger.com/2011/07/17/further-thoughts-on-the-k...
Is Hiring a Digital Marketing Agency Worth It?
The information is already public - why distribute it widely when there are potential negative consequences for the named in doing so?

Are you the judge to rule whether the individual has lost his right of privacy?

Yet you comment here under a pseudonym. What if you made a mistake, would you want to be named?
Bavaria? (Oh I see your profile. I’ve been to NG some years ago - my uncle’s family is from Maribor I think)
The WISP reliability shouldn’t be that bad. (It’s not the radio’s fault.). Either there’s a tree branch or flimsy pole breaking the connection in the wind, or some backend network issue.
How useful should copy_file_range() be?
By that logic, we need to ban cooking shows - the habit reinforcing qualities of food are well known and obesity is a leading cause of health issues. It looks like you got off easy since your "drug" of choice nicotine has entirely negligible negative effects on an organism of the size of a human - it's a neurotoxin that in the quantities we use it for recreationally can't even harm insects (much like caffeine!).
Are you saying that because they are now open, they never closed down?
> It is completely possible to implement [FORTH] in assembly language

I know because I did :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10187248
How can you tell they will definitely cause an accident?
You do realize you could have tried the same argument about cell phones when they first came out. No-one in those poorer countries would buy the same cell phone my dad (real estate agent) had in his car, the cost would run up to $1000 a month, but he made good commission selling factory properties.

Today every where in the poorest parts of the world are connected with cell phones.
I have wondered if with a flight from Silicon Valley/NYC during the pandemic, if there would be an explicit focus on convincing people from blue(democrat)-areas to move to political flippable/purple(competitive) states like Arizona, Georgia, Texas. So when I see "move to Atlanta" it makes me wonder if companies, with their progressive employees, might even make this an explicit strategy. If anything for long term political stability in the US, which helps business...
The sliding interior of Hyundai’s new Ioniq 5
Am I crazy or is Starlink a scam?

An analysis by Cohen found the full 11k cluster could only support 500k-1.5m customers.

https://www.lightreading.com/4g3gwifi/starlinks-network-face...
Report to IRS is not a bug is a feature you have to pay taxes somewhere and there are plenty of non double taxation agreements within the US and Latam.
Right, this exception seems predatory; and I think it should only apply if a loan is delinquent. That seems to be the intention of the law, but it's probably broad thanks to a lobbyist.
Conflict of Interest – What industrial science is worth
Let's talk about the impact of funding bias (1, 2, 3) on scientific research and how to deal with it.

When an industry invests heavily into the safety-research of its own product, there often exists a conflict of interest (COI). This means that a company is not particularly interested in reporting that their product is unhealthy or even dangerous to consumers because that would negatively affect profits. Thus, studies can be designed in a biased way, or results may be reported one-sidedly. An example is the tobacco industry, which since the 1960s invested massive amounts of money into research that surprisingly found that cigarettes are actually safe. Well guess what: they are not.

There is a spot in every paper specifically reserved for mentioning the source of funding as well as possible conflicts of interest. However, despite the industry funding more than 60% of all research, only state funding is required to appear in this section. For all private funding this is optional. To my knowledge there is no system in place to ensure the completeness or correctness of the COI section.

Please imagine the following scenario: you are reading a study on tobacco and cancer, which does not mention any conflict of interest, or it's sources of funding. You don't know if this study may have been ordered by Marlborough. In fact, any study you are reading may have been sponsored by the devil personally as far as you can see.

This causes distrust. It is a risk to the reliability and efficiency of science. It takes away the safeguard that scientific research has given to us, by promising that only unbiased truth is being reported.

How do we solve this?

Sources:

1) https://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/article/67/5/264/1825580?login=true
2) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0162243912456271
3) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_bias
Correct. It's pretty loose and varies from team to team, but the generally-applicable rule is "We have OKRs each quarter. If we're not hitting them, that's a problem." How a team goes about hitting them is left as the responsibility of the team.

One way that process can break down is if you have a manager that's bad at planning or over-promising for your team without testing the wind of how much work their engineers will actually get done. Google makes it pretty easy for demonstrated high-performers to change teams, so if you do that too much you run the risk of hemorrhaging good team members (who can't get promoted if goals aren't met and therefore will seek out a team that knows how to meet goals) and being left trying to get your tasks accomplished with only the people who, for whatever reason, can't transfer.
"In 1900, if everyone was asked to stay home for 3 months, they'd go home for 3 months, and come out not-too-much-worse"

Considering that back then most households spent close to 50% of their income on food and there were basically no social safety nets it's much more likely they would have starved to death by then end of those 3 months...
Near Silicon Valley:

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:-(
Sounds like the software does exactly what the (absurd) specification calls for. Somebody at Citi asked for a "front" knob, and they got one.
I haven't seen much on the 'sky crane' portion. It seems that it will just use whatever fuel it has left after the landing procedure to just get as far away as possible. It seems like the perfect place to stick some experimental imagery gear: film everything you can all the way down and transmit it back to Perseverance. And there's the possibility that it would survive its crash too with all hardware intact.
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Nvidia should partner with Steam. Steam has enough meta-data on user accounts to be able to offer a level of certainty about how accurate and authentic a given account and it's user information is. You could then use a trusted enough Steam account as a one-per-customer method to sell a card to.

You wouldn't have to monkey around with hardware freedom and even if a person decides to re-sell it at least it had the chance of being used by a "real gamer" first.
There's generally no relationship whatsoever between the customer-facing UI and the internal UI used by bank employees as in this article, those tend to be separate systems with minimal, 'arms-length' integration.
Hello HN!

We all have npm installed on our computers and I make a quick command to start small django project with it.

Most Django cookie cutters project templates create thousand of files. This quick starter by default creates minimal project as `django-admin startproject` command. Options available to add a simple boilerplate for Poetry/Celery/Rest/Redis, generate little single-file Ansible script to deploy, and basic rollup config for ECMAScript and Sass build.

I hope you will like it!
Apple Hiring Engineers to Develop 6G Wireless
You make a great point about how the perception and narrative around the exceptional case of the Therac 25 held society back.
What is the industry or academic prevalence or level of optimism for Coq / Lean?
This sounds like one of those situations where devs tasked with programming something that they have little to no understanding of what they are programming does. Yes, the dev programmed button A to perform action B, but doesn't truly understand how/why/what/when/where action B. It's just a check box of the requirements that has now been completed.

However, a dev that does understand action B would be able to anticipate various forms of input from button A and how that could cause undesired results from action B.

This isn't a knock on the dev that is less knowledgable about the full thing. It is a knock on the people upstream that should be more aware of issues. Also, the people most knowledgeable about action B tend to have little to no understanding of programming. While they might understand that providing bogus data to action B can have bad results, they are not aware enough to tell the devs that sometimes valid looking data is just not sane.
These seem unrelated to me. I should be able to post on social media publicly while still wanting privacy in other aspects of my life. A desire to be seen is not in any way fulfilled by security cameras and tracking cookies.
An anesthetic would typically consist of something like a small dose of a short-acting benzo before surgery for anxiety, propofol (very short acting) for induction, an opioid for pain management, an anesthetic gas like sevoflurane to maintain anesthesia, pressors to bring up blood pressure if necessary, and a few other drugs that probably don't merit mention.

Of these drugs, the only ones that might cause withdrawal symptoms would be the benzo or the opioid. The benzo, if it's even given at all, is going to be tiny. Even if we were to hypothesize that a single unusually large dose of an opioid could induce dependency, a surgery where the patient isn't even given opioids to take home wouldn't warrant such a dose in the OR.

In short, your second-hand account makes no sense.
That's true. And I unsubscribe from a lot. And I filter the rest. But I scan and review and like just enough content to stay engaged. But I'm moving closer and closer to unsubscribing from all of them.
I'm not saying we should be stuck with the duopoly. I'm saying that we factually are stuck with the duopoly, and we're more likely to get results from regulating the duopoly than we would from pointing at random video game companies and demanding they make a better phone to break up the duopoly.
There's a French NPP 20 km from Luxembourg and Swiss NPP on a river dividing them from Germany.

Chernobyl was 100km from Kiev (with a population of 2.5m), but Kiev almost did not suffer, as the winds took the fallout in the direction of ... Belarus, where 70% of it landed.

Given that Belarus can reliably claim the title of a country worst affected by nuclear accidents even before they had a NPP of their own, I think they are well positioned to do everything to prevent any such accidents in the future. Holding nation-wide "drills" just for the case looks a bit like demonizing.
I think the way to "protect yourself" is just to admit wrongdoing and to hold yourself accountable in a way that helps things?

To me, most of "cancel culture" is just asking people in positions of power to be held accountable, which isn't a bad thing and also doesn't always require the person to be banished from society.
A Review of Stephanie Kelton’s the Deficit Myth (MMT)
I don't pretend to be an expert, but what 'tech' is there to AirBNB exactly? A SQL database setup and UI CRUD layers for every popular platform?

Why does this company even need a hub? It could use some extra lobbying power I'm sure, given that it's entire business model is dependent upon them remaining a de-facto monopoly.
I think this will quickly be struck down in court... I think this violates federal laws regarding interstate commerce.
Sending gas to Northern Mexico is another question though... but that may also violate a trade agreement or something.
Not surprising that Oracle's promotional video for Flexcube is all corporate-speak and buzz-words, and doesn't actually show the product or even explain what it does. https://videohub.oracle.com/media/t/1_mxpp4dyv

All enterprise software is terrible like this. It's because the people ordering the software are disconnected from the people who will have to use it
We owe each other. A owes B, who owes C, who owes A. Sometimes paying off one debt causes a cascade of several debts being paid off in turn, all with the same money.
Where and When to Use Iota in Go
How does the gold market work?
Global debt is really a measure of the complexity & interconnectedness of the economy. Like you say, all debt is somebody else's asset. When total debt loads rise it just means that there are more links between firms in the economy, where somebody else's financial picture can affect yours.

The downside, like the sibling comment mentions, is that complex systems have complex failure modes. Additional links between firms raises the chance that you could get a cascading solvency crisis.

I'd really like to see who holds the debt. Is it widely dispersed - say lots of individual retirees owning government bonds? Or is it a few big financial firms who own all the assets with lots of little debtors? That has big implications for what inflation incentives are.
This is not strictly a feature of mechanical keyboards, and sure you can often do some limited remapping in sofware, but enthusiast keyboards tend to have a wider variety of layouts as well. IMHO everyone who uses the Ctrl key on a regular basis should try remapping Caps Lock as Ctrl for a day.
I had a group of college friends who started taking heroin in the 90’s who thought like this. It upset me and I told them so. At the time they said I was “being uptight.” We fell out over their heroin use. About a year later, one of these former friends died from an overdose. He was a generous person with a great future ahead of him. He’s been dead 25 years now. When I think about it now, it still saddens me. He missed so much.
Pony isn't that well known, here's their home page, for the curious. [0]

I remember a recent HN comment said that if you create a website for your new programming language, you should always ensure there's a meaningful example right there on the landing page. A pity that Pony's page fails to do this. Here's one of their example programs. [1]

[0] https://www.ponylang.io/

[1] https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/blob/main/examples/timers/...
> But given the thin nature of the atmosphere, a helicopter seems even more difficult to get lift than a winged aircraft.

Easier to speed up a helicopter's wings (rotors) than speeding up an aircraft which would need more and more runway.
>> if someone drinks from 5pm-10pm one can of beer every 30 minutes thats 10 drinks.

The bars are open until at least 2, you know.
That’s my go to for every cancellation, it’s better for the reps because they can log the reason as something unsalvageable.
Heroin is still illegal in Vancouver. Only a handful of addicts get free heroin.

And because it’s illegal most addicts have to pay high prices for heroin of unknown potency, and frequent laced with Fentanyl. That directly leads to overdoses and hundreds of deaths, along with street crime to fund expensive habits.
Nicely done! I have been trying to learn Threejs and WebGL. I was really impressed with the github globe[1] and wanted to do something like that for my company.

[1]https://github.com/home
I truly wonder if this chsnge at least something in the industry. Like, you know, it is loud news, and huge numbers. Will the competitors look into their systems, involve some ux'ers to sleep calm?
Didn’t know it was a book, should be a fun read, thanks!
I swear, a lot. I work in London finance. It very much depends on the company. I used to work for a clandestine hedge fund with a pretty crazy culture, and swearing was the way to communicate efficiently. I loved it, it fit my personality.

Now I get a letter from HR if I type "shit" on the team's slack channel. I also notice that people are "selectively offended"; they'll use profanity when it suits them, but if something genuinely ticks you off, and you happen to swear (not AT a person, but at things/concepts/in general) they try to use it as a bazooka against you. Try to make you lose all credibility because you said "it's fucked".

To me, as a non-british person (well, I'm British now, I guess, got my citizenship pre-brexit..) it's a super strange and touchy subject. However, I try to power through, being the "rude foreign guy" (rude as in rude language, not rude as in mean or vindictive), and that sort of works. Almost all of my colleagues just know that's what and who I am, I don't mean any offence, and really, nobody gets offended (unless it suits their strategic purposes). We all use a shitload of profanity in our day to day language anyway, so why the fuck would it be different in the office?
Imagine working on the complexities of financial software for a major financial institution. I don’t have to imagine this as I work for a much larger financial institution with many more financial products.

Now take that complexity that is in your imagination now and couple it with internal software. Think about the last megacorp you worked at and how awesome the internal tools are.

Now imagine writing the applications and processes that govern and that internal software. The internal end product doesn’t get the product attention it deserves, because well... it’s just internal and not seen by customers. The stuff you write to support that end product gets even less product attention. It’s an act of God to get a few more lines in on top of the millions of redundant lines already present. Now couple that with the inane process of financial management internal to the financial industry.

Shitty enough yet knowing the product management requirements to make this good user facing software? Try imagining then testing it with automation.

The complexities are vast enough that converging, in my area, to git for version control from various other tools was a multi year effort to avoid completely halting the business requirements.
Yep, and I have a diversified portfolio with a big chunk in cash. Most people don’t have cash though, because the market makes them more money.

When the next crash does come, I’m ready to buy.
There's no way to accomplish reasonable cost offsetting. It literally costs more to try to impose fines and collect them than you'll ever get back from people who have a criminal record and no employment prospects.

The costs of processing criminals need to be borne by the society that chose to create criminality as a concept. That cannot be part of the debt because they absolutely cannot pay it.

Except, you know, by engaging in higher-profit criminal activity. The whole idea is moronic on any practical level. It exists only to maintain an underclass.