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sabre, the company that owns and builds the current version of the system SABRE used by major companies today, uses all of those things the parent and you mentioned

> Google Cloud-native infrastructure that is scalable and secure. Microservice-enabled architecture that supports modularity. API-first approach for an open platform. [0]

> We rebuilt Sabre from the ground up: cloud-native technology, AI baked into the foundation, one goal in mind. Your success. [1]

yeah ... it's 'ai powered' now.

[0]: https://www.sabre.com/resources/viewpoints/offer-order-strat... (skip to the 'different by design' heading)

[1]: https://www.sabre.com/about/

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> Do we really need to stack all these turtles (abstractions) just to get instructions to a CPU?

no. but those abstractions are there for things like scaling, reliability, redundancy, flexibility, ... and a bunch of other things not related to solely getting some instructions to a CPU. the number of turtles has increased because customers have more requirements for software today than they used to have in the 1960s.

sometimes we need the simplest solution with fewest dependencies. sometimes we need lots of turtles... it really depends on the problem in front of us.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

a secondary comment explicitly explaining why this comment’s author downvoted the parent.

although whether humanity dies before the cat is an open question

https://gitlab.com/ot-tools/ot-tools

i’m currently avoiding committing/releasing a bunch of changes i did last week because people are actually using the library already (the curse of writing something useful lol)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684744

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edited slightly ... i really need to turn 10 minute post delay back on.

some personal favourites:

- https://musicforprogramming.net/seventyone

- https://musicforprogramming.net/fiftyseven

- https://musicforprogramming.net/fortysix

i remember this and had no idea that's why it would be doing that. thanks, i learned something today.

I'd frame this another way -- the public are largely responsible, but we put all the blame on politicians/government. we vote for these people while we all know they're all talking complete and utter nonsense just to get past the job interview. it is the game. i wish it wasn't. i wish i could stand in the house of commons during PMQs and point out every BS line every single one of them says. stand up during question time and shout at all the idiots on the panel, disproving every single bullshit line they've fed the audience with stats and analysis and data [0]. but then we'd probably end up everyone in the country showing up to PMQs/question time shouting over each other all at the same time... which wouldn't really work lol.

the system is not perfect, but it's what we've got.

> I only hedge a little because education is in control of the state, so to some degree people don't choose whether to be educated on the relevant matters.

> It may be familiarity breeding contempt but I find members of the British public in particular very myopic in obtaining benefits for 'their group'. There's very little interest in society as a whole.

yeah, like, i'm kind of lucky that i don't have children or any other dependants and i went to posh schools, got a decent academic education [1]. i can afford to sit around, pontificate and moralise about what the large scale right or wrong way of doing things should be. i earn enough and don't have kids. hell, i'd be happy if they increased the rate of tax in the top bands. more money to spend on public services for everyone else who actually needs it. seriously, take my spare disposable income! i'm only gonna spend it on expensive food and cigarettes that's gonna make me overweight and have lung cancer and become a drain on the nhs anyway!

my mate with three kids doesn't have the time for that. she just wants the school to give her daughter the help she needs and has to fight through a bunch of bureaucracy to get there. bureaucracy which exists because the system is under strain because lots of people are asking for the same resources and they've got to figure out some way of apportioning out the resources. same with my mate who is a single parent to a son with pretty hefty ADHD. it's no wonder they fall into the "my group first" attitude and/or rhetoric with, for example, immigration. they're constantly told there's all this money is being spent elsewhere on "some other people" and then they look at their kid's school struggling with one support worker for hundreds of kids and it's like ... well, wtf. same thing with income taxes etc. "we need money for our kids, why on earth is my tax money being spent on X, Y, Z" etc.

to be clear: i don't agree with the political views of my friend, and i don't really care to debate the politics either. i'm responding to the "myopic" comment from my own perspective, having previously noticed the interesting differences between myself and my friends. they're really lovely people! really nice and kind and loving folks. but they have a selfish/fear-based-protectionist side to them, like all humans do.

that last bit is the important bit for me. fear leads selfish behaviour. people are worried, the "system" is unstable and constantly under strain. and that makes them act in their own selfish interests because they're having to jostle for position within the "system" :shrug:

> Politicians simply bend in order not to upset any of the key voting blocs. But you understand that's a selection bias: you wouldn't exist as a successful politician if you didn't do this. All those who go another path are doomed to obscurity.

this has always been the critical problem from where i sit. like, we're forced to vote for people who, ultimately, may only be in the job for a maximum of 5 years total. we don't get to vote on the next 30 years cos the next lot could just undo it all. just look at upcoming negotiations with the EU apparently might involve us moving back towards the single market again, which was the whole "once in a generation" brexit vote thing. turns out it's not quite so "once in a generation" [2]

the trouble for me is that the commonly implemented "long term" model for governance tends to be stuff like authoritarianism, dictatorship etc. ... so...

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i wrote way more for this than i thought i would lol

[0]: yeah! let's properly hold them to account! i can finally use my autistic powers of calling bullshit for the benefit of all! instead of getting into trouble with my boss at work. again. o_o

[1]: the non-academic parts were really damaging though. expensive doesn't always mean good. highly rated academically doesn't always mean good.

[1]: thankfully lol

with an adblocker ... there is one ad on the page just above the graph about "Unlock Macrotrends Premium" which takes up 1.5/2cm of the page, while the graph underneath it takes up like 15cm. Then there's a bunch of other information on the page, none of which are ads. yes, there's a "you only get 5 page visits free" whole page pop-up thing, but there's an easy and well-known way round that for individuals who understand basic internet browser usage.

maybe start using an ad-blocker? pretty much everyone else does these days.

> the data was most likely parsed out of Oracle's earning reports by some janky regexp.

which is probably what the ai would do... or more likely it's just stealing it from the source i linked, since the numbers are exactly the same...

also, probably not because see (1b) below.

> I don’t know why you would trust this more than AI.

because (1a)

> Fundamental data from Zacks Investment Research, Inc.

> Built on Zacks Investment Research — trusted by institutional investors, academics, and financial professionals for over 45 years. [0]

I'd take people who have been doing this stuff for 45 years over some new-fangled toy that's well known to hallucinate and get things wrong in ways that appear authoritative.

also, on that (1b)

> Zacks employs a rigorous quality control process to make sure all data points are recorded accurately. For each company, a trained analyst enters the data from SEC filings, which is then double checked by a senior analyst. Once the data is entered, a senior analyst signs off on final completion after reviewing all the data. In addition, the data is subjected to a battery of automated checks to verify balancing relationships and correct errors. All data items are reviewed by multiple sets of trained eyes as well as automated computer checks. [1]

and (2) because that site provides other contextual information that is helpful, like the fact that Oracle's stock price has been trending downwards, which is possibly a reason why they felt the need to make cuts now. [2]

ai gives you the answer you want -- not the answers you might actually need.

[0]: https://zacksdata.com

[1]: https://zacksdata.com/static/docs/Zacks_Fundamental_Data_Ove...

[2]: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ORCL/oracle/stock-...

edit1: apparently you're not using an adblocker, wtf dude, it's 2026. use an adblocker.

edit2: added (1b)

here's a link to an actual source for people who also don't trust ai generated stuff

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ORCL/oracle/number...

edit: this source also includes data/graphs on stock price and bunch of other metrics, rather than just one number over time.

internalised understanding, attitudes, views etc. are more important that being able to recite things from a book.

(this is probably not my kind of submission xD )

is annoying.

we've had AlphaFold for a while. it's not a novel that we have ML solutions that can find, erm, novel solutions.

however, by and large, most LLMs as typically used by most individuals aren't solving novel problems. and in those scenarios, we often end up with regurgitated/most common/lowest common denominator outputs... it's a probability distribution thing.