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Trivia time...

Back in the 90s Sybase was the only "major" database that SAP didn't support, ostensibly because it didn't support row-level locking, only page-level. Support for SQL Server 6.5 was added in 1993/1994 with the assistance of Microsoft (SQL Server also only supported page-level locking at the time and was still based largely on Sybase). Sybase ASE was only supported by SAP many years later, after they'd bought the company (primarily, I believe for the now-discontinued mobile products).
amazons same day or next day shipping has been unreliable for me. i’d say 10% of the time the items are “out for delivery” but never get delivered. then they get delivered the following day.

i’d prefer to go back to the days of rock solid 2-day delivery.

if folks are dealing with 4-5 day delivery then there’s little reason to be choosing amazon at all.
Golang Aha Moments: Channels
Some doc I'm putting together about go patterns in the open source project I work on to help new devs get up to speed. Thought it might be interesting for others so I've blogified it. First one one is focused on go channels.
You just need to bring your banking infrastructure to the 21th century.

ACH is the central component of the banking infrastructure that needs to be brought into the 21st century. And a CBDC is how you do it.
This might be a record for time from creation of thread until first random weird Obama implication.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32660447
> One man's environmental crisis is another man being lifted out of crushing poverty by the abundant energy and wealth produced by that same industrialization and profit motive.

The problem with that is it's only one man that gets the benefit.

Yes, I'm twisting your words a bit. The point I'm making is that these profit motives tend towards capital hoarding by individuals. _That_ process tends towards selfish decision making where the only long-term benefit is the individual and their family, often at the cost of short and long term damage or hinderance to other people and the environment. I confess I make many such decisions myself, but it's very hard not within our current economic system.

I'm not arguing for a return to some imaginary glory projected onto images from the past at all. I'm trying to feel out ideas for future systems more of us can engage with comfortably, which don't promote the double hit of individual-focused power imbalances and environmental damage.
If by chance, a real "climate change denier" existed, and I know they don't, it's only people who are concerned about government overreach and totalitarian measures enacted by innumerate hippies that will do more harm than good.

But, if one did exist, where would you differ from them on actual policy?

You don't want people to do studies. You don't want governments to fund stuff. You don't want governments to restrict energy (by which you mean fossil fuels, not cheap renewables). You appear to be suggesting that even the believers don't actually believe.

I mean, there's a whole range of opinions on climate change from eco-communists to eco-capitalists to eco-futurists to eco-fascists, even fossil fuel companies have published net-zero plans, but your take seems to be just "don't do stuff".

Can you expand on that a bit more, because that response feels very like climate change denial to me, which you say you're not, and indeed no one is, doing.
When the subject is a generic or overloaded name, it's very common. For example, I've often done searches related to Smalltalk or Lisp (the programming languages) combined with names of various popular but generic libraries and get lots of results for small talk[1] and lisps[2]. There are various techniques you can use to cajole Google into giving you something closer to what you want but you end up losing a lot of the results that are the most useful due to terms you need to add to your search that aren't on most pages.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_talk
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp
> When the revealed policy preference of world leaders is to shut down the AC in summer in a desert, turn off the heat in a Scandanavian winter, and restrict energy supplies to developing countries, you don't have a workable solution.

Which world leaders have revealed these as their policy preferences?
BMW Group to use innovative round battery cells from 2025
Please cite any instances where serious climate change activists threatened democracy or the rule of law or even discussed it.

It would be completely counterproductive. One of the biggest problems with Climate Change is that it requires mass collective action, and that requires a stable and rational government or organize. Were climate change activists to promote anarchy it would be impossible for them to achieve their goals.
Salesforce uses this one, too.
Indeed. The use of private jets to assemble all the business leaders to one central location to talk about the issue of climate change does not do much to reassure people the issue is a serious one. I'm not against wealth, but jet engines emit more carbon into the atmosphere than most individuals do in a year. The fact none are willing to forego their private jets for commercial air speaks volumes. Either they don't seriously believe in the threat or they don't think any of these plans are going to have any serious affect. The environmental movement has come to resemble more a corporate marketing campaign than any kind of serious science.
The cycle of events:

- Conservatives in wealthy, cold countries refuse to stop polluting.

- Pakistan becomes uninhabitable.

- Conservatives in wealthy, cold countries pull up the draw bridge and refuse to let in migrants.

- People in Pakistan die.

- Conservatives in wealthy, cold countries blame the people in Pakistan.

This isn't an intentionally politically charged post made with animus. It's just factually outlining what's currently going on and a plausible sequence of events from here.
It will most likely and it's sad. How can I prepare my children for a world with such aclimate, energy, food and water shortages, more refugees than ever before and so on? Maybe I must ensure they are worth enough for the system to be taken care of.

In Germany some PR campaign made people like my mother think "the greens plan to destroy our wealth" because they fear higher energy prices etc. but to be honest the conservatives now in charge for almost two decades did exacly that with not investing enouth in our grid and so on. It's so ironic that in the end the short term conservative approach destroys the mid and long term living conditions for so many.
Joke's on them, SAP is different everywhere.
We could have implemented less painful solutions 30, 20, or even 10 years ago, but we didn't, so now we only have drastic options remaining. Time is precious and immediate action is needed, even if we don't agree on the best solution. All options should be attempted.
At least in Germany, 100% remote can be guaranteed via employment contract. So there is quite a difference.
They're looking at the past several decades...
It's not difficult, but it's disrupting to your coding flow, which is bad in itself and even worse when prototyping.
Yep, can confirm.

NixOS configurations can be built and run as a qemu VM.

I very recently was using one and found they automatically make a 9p mount to /tmp.
Certainly it gives a perspective: I've read that the amount of fossil fuels we've burned is already greater than the currently living biomass on the whole planet. We've burned almost all of it during the last 100 years.

So yes we can't operate as we do and fix it by on the side planting a few trees.
My entire job is focused on communication and visibility, and the answer of MORE COMMUNICATION is pretty simplistic. I think teams would be better to focus on the areas of (1) identifying the correct audience, (2) sharing the right information at the right level of abstraction and (3) using the appropriate tool or communication channel. None of this likely involves adding me to your channel or meeting.
A Biologist's Study of 'Superchickens' Reveals a Surprising Truth for Leaders
this is fine but my guess is their company is not big enough yet. the Apple example is not very convincing.
This is where you might be out of your element, it seems. Life-threatening / chronic / bankruptcy-inducing conditions do not represent a "relatively small" — at least in the US, 90% of health expenditure is on chronic health conditions (https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/about/costs/index.htm) — this includes heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes. I work in the industry and this comports with what I see on the ground as well.

In Switzerland (and also the Netherlands), the vast majority of this is covered by private health insurance, not via any sort of public health insurance. That's what sets Switzerland and the Netherlands apart from other peer developed countries, and they have results to show for it.

Regarding rare conditions, we agree — even the US has a public healthcare system alongside which covers rare conditions (e.g. end stage renal disease). US's Medicare Advantage system of private individual health insurance for senior citizens (with Original Medicare as a public option) is also a proven model with results to show for it. The CBO expects that by 2032, 61% of health insurance expenditure for senior citizens will be by the private sector (https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/medicare-advantage-...).
Europe Pays for Net Zero. Prices and subsidies both soar due to climate policy
I'm proud to have worked at Amazon over 14 years so I guess I don't agree about the toxic part. At this point I'd be pretty surprised if we ever forced employees back to the office. Amazon has always had very autonomous culture where teams and orgs have a lot of latitude in how they work. We value results above doctrine. Andy is also a very pragmatic leader who thinks very deeply about these kinds of decisions.

I think offices are more and more going to become an out of home workspace for people who prefer them (and I think we should give everyone who can commit to coming in enough an actual office) ... and an occasional collaboration hub for everyone.
Wow sounds like you really need to clean up your codebase.

Seriously, I have never had this problem while coding in Go, and I'm a very very sloppy coder.
So you would rather give more people the right to take away your freedom?
> I'm looking at you JIRA...

I always see this comment on HN, I think I have been using Jira for a decade, never really had any major complaints.
https://archive.ph/FPnfd

'Governments across the Continent for decades concocted increasingly aggressive plans to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions in the name of arresting climate change. The effort is to meet a pledge to achieve “net-zero” emissions in the 2040s or 2050s.

As a result, Europe has become ever more dependent on wind and solar—which are too unreliable to power advanced industrial economies—while perversely eschewing nuclear power. They burned natural gas, until Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine war sent prices haywire and deprived Europe of Russian gas.

Now the cost of that folly is coming due, and it’s predictably enormous. Ms. Truss’s plan is a painful example: Britain will cap household energy bills for two years at about £2,100, with taxpayers picking up the difference between that and utilities’ costs of supplying energy. Ms. Truss will also eliminate green taxes on energy bills, with the government using other revenues to pay for programs those levies fund.

Businesses’ energy costs will be capped for six months. The Treasury and the Bank of England, the central bank, will create a new program to provide liquidity to energy companies. All of this will be financed primarily by borrowing, with future taxpayers paying the bills.

Germany last weekend rolled out a €65 billion subsidy package, consisting of a price cap on household and business electricity bills, to be financed (allegedly) with a windfall-profits tax on electricity producers. Chancellor Olaf Scholz also will offer handouts to retirees, students, families and assorted others.

France has turned state-owned utility EDF into a subsidy piggy bank, ordering the company to cap energy-price increases. Paris also is offering taxpayer-financed assistance to companies hit by rising energy prices, as well as the usual grab-bag of household subsidies such as for students returning to school.

How much will all this cost? No one knows. Ms. Truss has yet to put a precise price on her program, and Berlin’s €65 billion is merely an opening bid. Paris seems to have stopped counting at about €20 billion. These sums must be added to the costs of renewable subsidies, green levies, fuel taxes, higher prices and lower reliability that European households and businesses have been paying for years. With net zero you pay now and pay later.

Yet Europe still isn’t internalizing this costly lesson. Berlin has dragged itself kicking and screaming into an extension of two of Germany’s remaining three nuclear plants, but otherwise remains committed to renewables above all. Governments mostly hope to pay for these handouts with taxes on the same energy companies they need to produce more power—and drill more fossil fuels. Talk about destructive incentives after those companies already scaled back fossil-fuel investments due to politicians’ net-zero fixation.'
Coinbase Funds Lawsuit Against US Treasury for Tornado Cash Sanctions
I would argue that nursing human babies make a purring sound as they drink milk from their mother’s breast. That sound evokes a sense of attachment and bonding.

Many times the qualities that we find endearing in pets (for example big eyes) are those that remind us of human babies.

My guess would be that humans (maybe subconsciously) preferred cats that could make purring noises and thus being able to purr conferred a selective advantage to cats.
> ... I agreed that when the world eventually burns...

We're in the frying pan now and flame is cranked...
I read through the really long technical article about this from last week and it looks very interesting.

But the proof is in the pudding, as they say, so it's cool to see it's a real product that you can try.

Has anyone taken the time to experiment with this yet? What's your feedback?
I am worried about self harm.
Ho I do not disagree but coming from Canada where we have been talking about open banking for the past 10 years without any progress I will take a smart contract any day over the big 5 banks that we have today.

The question is not if it can be done outside of the platform, it is how much time it takes. I would encourage you to try to code a smart contract even if you dont like the concept, it is eye opening.

The fact that would have a standardized VM for money where you can write small programs to implement your law is just another level frlm what we have.
Mathlive.js – A web component for math input
It would be awesome to understand the reasons zig was utilized.

My guess is that it is about the language tooling, but it would be nice to hear from the authors themselves.
Georgia just outlawed that practice after the very yokels who tried to make a citizens arrest because someone committed a crime of “looking like they don’t belong”
No, but I can easily add this info to the lock screen of my iPhone in case I loose it by logging into to iCloud website.
So the only solution to climate change is anti-capitalism. Got it.
>it will probably be a lot more expensive to implement it yourself compared to using an off-the-shelf tool developed by a company who's sole purpose it is to respond to those kind of changes.

If your company is small or at least in a field with lots of competition sure.
I work in a >100person company that encounters loads of regulatory changes due to food safety and lots of international trade and 2 people developing is good enough. The part doing the accounting and such is largely outsourced to an ERP but is honestly simpler yet just as costly if not more.

What's more things go wrong. That's a given and the absolute best way to deal with it is with someone as close to the processes as possible. you don't want to be calling vendors that are generally absent to see in which part the software lies.
Even for industrial equipment that is a lot more single process it is kind of accepted that we people on the ground need to know a good bunch to troubleshoot ourselves rather than paying someone to come over. After all if we wait for that we get a bottleneck that has dozens of people twiddling their thumbs.
> First, it has been amply demonstrated that (1) the rules aren't as tight as should be and (2) the "punishment" for failure is not strong enough, or should I say, it is non-existent. This means that banks can and will make too risky investments, collect the profits when they succeed, and get bailed out – with no personal or corporate responsibility of any kind – when they fail.

The problem in 2008 was subprime loans that should never have been allowed, it wasn’t that banks could create enough money. Inflation after Covid was caused by central banks, not private ones, and it was done on purpose to avoid a recession. I don’t think these things are inevitable consequences of private banks creating money.

> Second, this creates a class privilege: while banks can create money at will (and profit from it) as long as they stay within the confines of the regulations, ordinary families and individuals have no such power.

Banks are given that privilege in exchange for being regulated to hell. They get a kind of monopoly over these profits in exchange for doing things like being forced to bank everyone, including unprofitable customers. Without this incentive, who would do the banks’ job?
if you can afford having a separate thing for running, I'm a big fan of Aftershokz. They use bone induction and are basically sweat proof. It's also helpful to be able to hear out my ears while running while still listening to music.
Using DALL-E to increase sales
I definitely know what you mean. I just assume climate change is a given, and when I bought a house (in the UK), I made sure to buy one at a higher elevation and checked out how it would be affected in climate and flooding models.

The truth is richer European nations are unlikely to be the worst directly affected. No doubt there will be crop failures, disasters and deaths, but we will probably escape the worst of it. We have the resources to build effective infrastructure. The warmer climate could even make Europe more hospitable once we've adapted to it.

However, we won't be able to escape the consequences of the enormous humanitarian disaster due to many in poorer countries becoming climate migrants. I expect populist right wing parties to take an even tougher line on migration as the crises deepen, and possibly society in general to become more authoritarian as a result. Significant wars too, possibly.

Accepting it as inevitable means accepting hundreds of millions of people being displaced. If we want to deal with that gracefully, we need to start planning for how the rest of the world will absorb those individuals. Otherwise I fear we're going to be responsible for a lot of horrifying acts in the next century...
As the sibling comment mentions methane contains carbon, but yes it’s worth pointing out because the short-term GHG potency of methane is extremely high. There’s potential for some terrible feedback loops here.
Marketing is a helluva drug. People are trained to trust big companies and the bigger the company the more they trust it. I think the issue is the variance in solutions if you compare all the homegrown solutions against all the big company solutions. And that gets managers into the mindset that there's less risk in a generic big company solution. But of course that misses all the details for a specific case like yours.

It would be like interacting with other people who knew based on the average of everyone on Earth as opposed to dealing with the person you knew based on their own personality.

But it's easy to manage based on these kinds of broad generalities and, as the saying at least once went, no one gets fired for choosing IBM.
That's the question that matters: if deletion just means storing a few flags in the database, deletion will do nothing to increase your actual safety.
> I don't agree about the toxic part.

I recently rejected an offer from AWS that paid significantly more that what i currently make because of this. I have family that work there ( on visa) that were adamant that i keep looking and not accept the offer. I am wondering if i made the right decision, haha.

Does aws have a higher churn rate than a typical tech company?
The actual number is 25 inches, and most consensus suggests collapse over centuries.

There is some concern that a bracing portion of the glacier may collapse soon, which would take Thwaites from 4 to 6% of contribution to sea level rise.
This is just cronyism, so "how many tomatoes does it need" is an ever shifting line that is always somewhere in the middle between how many Heinz use and how many Osem use. IIRC the actual difference is rather small.

(Well, this isn't strictly true, IIRC there have been a few changes over the years to both of their recipes and the regulations and Heinz were allowed to call themselves Ketchup for some of the time, but you get my point)
Sure, there's lot of Jira use where something more lightweight would suffice. That does not mean Jira does not have its uses.
No, but what if we got half way to Venus-like temperatures and only made it to 200C?

In reality, the planet will stall out around 100C due to all of the water that needs to boil off and the huge steam clouds that would then increase the planet's albedo (but also trap heat). That's probably the top of the S-curve for the lifetime of mankind. Having the solar rays split that water and let the hydrogen escape to make an actual Venus like atmosphere is a more geological timescale process.
That's a very prejudiced and uncharitable way of looking at a fellow hacker. Have you got evidence to back your views?
Restricting access to cheap reliable energy is definitly going to cost lives. Ask any developing nation and they see the effects. It is one of the biggest issues that comes up whenever they try to get a global agreement. It's why China and India still insist on using coal to generate electricity.
Fish and Worcestershire sauce are too salty to use in any large quantities.
For all the documentation you see surrounding SAPUI5, it is very incomplete when you have to actually use it do develop something.

It is built on top of jQuery and extremely slow. They are very adamant on MVC with two-way databinding (the opposite of React or most other frontend libraries that have been around for almost 10 years). The backend request is geared toward OData (think graphql but table-oriented), and adding logic between the UI and the OData endpoint is hard.

SAPUI5 is hard to use even for a mediocre screen need. It aims to get the simple apps really simple to write (to lower development cost), but at that it kills the productivity of all the other apps.

Getting back to documentation, after your app is not just some components living in logical islands but have to interact with one another (think getting data from one place to drive another component) most of the time the documentation did not help with that, and I had to resort to debug the whole library internally to understand it.

Add all that to the fact that they don’t even care to support firefox for non-windows users bah

It is really understandable why no one but SAP uses this library. It was made for one use case by sap for sap and that’s it.
Bets that Apple switches to SpaceX by 2030.
Apple used to sell wonder. Now it sells fear
LibreJS – Detects and blocks nonfree nontrivial JavaScript