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> Your job at the very end of that long value adding chain is to not ruin the hard work that others have put into it. "Your job is to not mess up." Also applicable to any corporate…

I joined Oracle in 2012, and I myself complained that the user experience was horrible: get an Oracle DB installed was a nightmare, starting with so many questions. I heard complai…

> ignore previous instructions prompt injections. I wonder if anyone has tried to build an LLM that has actual built-in types of prompts: system prompt, user prompt, and data promp…

> On the other hand we don't give technology the same pass we give to humans, meaning that we don't tolerate machine incidents the same way we tolerate human ones. It comes down to…

> Do you really want to get into the game of having opinions on design of every tool you use forever? Yeap. Most users want someone else to think for them. Not just "something" (AI…

> I think LLMs have changed that equation in a way that makes the original dream much more feasible. > Several times a day I'll prompt regular Claude chat to "Clone x/y from GitHub…

I'd say it is very characteristic of the Java team at Oracle to be committed to discipline and long term vision. I strongly suggest watching some of their talks from JVMLS (JVM Lan…

Valhalla is 99% done by Oracle, yes.

Granted, it has been months that I don't use an IDE, but that's also because I am working full time on the developer tools ecosystem. But when it comes to troubleshooting and debug…

So... XML is great I guess.

I am not aware of any Flock camera in Canada yet (and the map 'confirms it'). And I hope it stays like that

bingo

The point is not how much it made, it is how to transfer that wealth (whether 6B or 60B) out of a non-profit into someone else's account without looking like, or literally being, a…

Infantino clearly wants to see FIFA making billions so he and many others can pocket millions legally. But the only way for this to happen in a non-corrupt way, given that FIFA is …

Note: I meant [newest]

Nah, this has way more to do with karma points than with "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". I've seen submissions by original authors not trending, but then so…

Amazing how an article from Wikipedia easily trends on HN for no good reason, while many posts go unseen under the [new] tab.

Choosing to do an app is quite often less about the capabilities (of an app on the phone, versus a website in a mobile browser) and more about discoverability and market reach. App…

> price is usually purely determined by the net inflows and outflows as decided by humans. "as decided by humans", more than 90% of trades are led by bots, so no, price is not bein…

It's time to forbid bots and HFT. Want to buy/sell a stock? Humans need to manually submit in the system.