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> "It's even simpler than that ... their goal is to extract profits"

According to the article, profit has not been the primary goal for the utilities though, because there is limited scope for extracting profits from uncompetitive essential utility services - the focus instead has been on maximising shareholder returns. So in the case of the water utilities, they "borrowed £53bn in debt while distributing £72bn to shareholders", which of course is what the issue is now interest rates have risen significantly. The article describes this as "the tension between generating strong returns for investors in uncompetitive monopoly conditions and providing high-quality, affordable infrastructure to the public". The end result is still the same though - transfer of wealth in a socially destructive direction.
Well I'm saying that "you just didn't bother to learn it, duh" is not an equally valid argument for different languages; it's much less valid for Perl than it would be for Python. It rewards your efforts much less. Perl is notoriously a language that had desperate criticism among its users even by the mid 90's ($[ and $] stuff comes to mind), quickly led to the creation of Ruby and famously "forked itself" with what is now known as Raku.

Now I have barely spent any time with the oldschool Perl but trust me, I have put a lot of effort into learning Raku, the language that was meant to fix Perl. Whenever something that "seemed like a good idea at first but it's actually harmful" shows up, it's usually Perl's legacy. I'm thinking of things like the conceptual mishmash between a single-element list and a scalar value (or in general, trying hard to break down variables arbitrarily into list-alikes, hash-alikes and the rest of the world), the concept of values that try to implicitly pretend they are strings and numbers at will, or the transparency of all subroutines to loop control statements which is some next level spaghetti design. If you ever actually use something like this, you introduce a brand new level of complexity, somewhere inbetween a "goto" and a "comefrom", so I would really think about if this was worth learning at all.

Oh right... from what I remember, it was also Perl that fostered this idiotic idea that a name of a concrete thing could be overloaded to be a namespace as well, and a concrete Foo::Bar could very well be something that has no logical relation to a concrete Foo. Moreover, I'm quite sure Perl invented this nonsensical distribution-module dichotomy where you are supposed to depend on modules, despite the smallest publishable and installable unit being a distribution. There are three outcomes with that:
- if the distribution contains only one module: what was the point of drawing the distinction?
- if the distribution contains tightly coupled modules: you can pretend to only depend on one of the modules but in fact you are depending on the whole distribution together
- if the distribution is a collection of unrelated modules: why are you trying to encouple the metadata when this will make the versioning meaningless?

I can only hope that it's somehow better than Raku but the whole principle is just an anomaly.

And you know, then these people move around in the world, pretending that all of this is just normal and you just have to learn it. Well guess what, there is a reason people might want to put that effort into something else.
Ask HN: Closed Last Pass Account just charged me
Not sure where else to go, was trying forums. But without an account, tried contacting support at an email I found, but no such luck.

Lastpass just charged me for an account that I closed, and received the account closure email back in December 2022. So there was zero renewal email notice as well
But this is the fundamental problem with the way these privatisation deals are structured. If it relies on a strong regulator to make it work, then as soon as a 'red-tape' cutting government comes in that is being lobbied hard enough the whole thing breaks down.
I've found ext4 to be generally unsuitable to HPC environments due to the 16TB filesize limitation. So it is the wrong tool for the job anyways. xfs all the way!
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Problems 1-3 there are caused by point particles, not by space. They mention ultraviolet catastrophe was caused by continuous space, but it was caused by non-quantum radiation, so there's no classical electrodynamics with discreet space, instead there's quantum electrodynamics with continuous space.
One of the assumptions that may be being made in this statement is funds can be borrowed for free, in a debt or equity setting. Whoever is lending/providing those funds does expect something in return.

Even a government that borrows, needs to pay something back with interest. And an investment by the way of shares the government makes needs something back roughly matching the interest rate too.

I don't really see an argument where a public setting is any more beneficial from what you're saying, if the international investor was the the treasury, it would still want something back by shareholder returns.
> No, the rioters aren't "the people".

I wonder if this is what the bourgeoisie had themselves convinced was the case in the late 1700s before the Bastille was seized. After all, only about 600 people participated. Hardly "the people," not by a long shot...
I just uploaded the list of components, and is ready to be downloaded on page: https://beletronics.wordpress.com/learn-basic-electronics/
Since you mention "per minutes played", not sure it compares with Bandcamp... If you like to buy HQ files instead paying for streaming.

Could be that Bandcamp is ripe to be disrupted by someone more friendly to artists.

Edit: good to know, I'll have to take a look at it.
US rail has been in the news lately, with apocalyptic skies and chemical rain. Safety issues abound. What are you seeing that I don’t?
No, they get paid but would, understandably, like to be paid more. Something which would be even less likely to happen if copyright was abolished so anybody could use their output at zero cost.
Neat project. But I don't see the benefit of using ActivityPub over traditional feed formats like RSS and Atom (which every ActivityPub server seems to support). I was actually considering adding ActivityPub support to my feed reader but didn't any benefits.
This is the story of how I found my answer, and of course, the answer itself.

I started my career with Functional Programming (FP). In 2015 it felt like FP was growing in popularity. At conferences we were excited to start work in a bunch of different languages and share our early experience. They were, however, quite different languages. I could not help but ask what it was we meant by Functional Programming. My search became important in time as I played a modest community role, sought to guide clients, and indeed in my own code.
I went to a VR center with coworkers, all the games felt like tech demos or low effort minigames ported from the Nintendo Wii.
The only thing that feels outdated on a 7 year old work laptop that I'm using is the amount of memory.
> Yet, if I had a million dollars and you had a thousand dollars, I could still buy a thousand times more rice than you.

And?
Either that, or it could be the beginning of a very long and pointless lawsuit.
I think it is a freaking miracle it even works. I understand how it works for say 100 parameter linear regression, but that it would work for billions of parameters (billion dimensional space) by nudging the parameters each a little (based on purely it's impact on the loss, assuming everything stays the same), is not obvious to me. It is a kind of magic.

Regarding randomness, the initialization of the weights is random, and if they use dropouts that is random too, plus the order in which to process the text might be random.
pay is directly correlated with how much money your boss has. ice cream shops don’t pay $100k salaries. you want to double your salary, brand yourself a “consultant” and sell directly to executives, middle management needs 10 approvals to do anything.
Well if your use case is say, off-roading, and you decide all cars are the same and end up with a minivan in a ditch you kind of did that shit to yourself.
Bluntly put, access to affordable housing trumps affordable vacationing. If your problem is where to take your family for holidays, you are already out of touch with people struggling to find homes.
I have definitely had the whole "what is the difference between this class <class with constructor and one method> and this function that receives the same as the class constructor returns a function implementing the method" conversation with my teammates before!
It’s just the userspace, so you are not much closer to actual “free-software”.
Thames Water's CEO has a $1.5 million pay package which is lower than CEOs of corporations of the same size. The funding for public unions in the UK is $233 billion. Great comparison there.
Let me get this straight:

Your attack is "I can spoof an email from address". Is that not true for literally anything that accepts email?

The person who receives your spoofed message gets a link to the original message (message-url) and can download it, right? Can't they download it and validate spf, dkim, sender ip, whatever else?

This really sounds like it's working as intended. You asked to receive email. You receive email. You can perform filtering on the email to get rid of spam if you want.

You said "If that address is handled via an inbound route to a webhook [and they don't do any validation] [then phishing is trivial]"

Is that not identical to "if a company runs an SMTP server, you send a spoofed email, and they don't do any validation then phishing is trivial"?
if they're wrong, they don't work.
That they lack the cognitive ability to add to the conversation.
It sounds like the core issue behind the delay is that they’ve killed two dogs, and sometimes block emergency vehicles and public transit.

Of course, I’m sure that human-driven rideshare vehicles do similar things, and that seems to be Waymo’s PR angle here. I wonder how their safety record per mile driven compares to human drivers overall?
Just like all PE; take on huge debts ostensibly to fund expansion, efficiency, etc, and then ... give the loaned cash to shareholders.
NPM package vm2 is no longer secure
My experience of American railways as a tourist is having to show my passport to book a ticket from Davis to Sacramento (I assume I also did that on other trips like to SFO but don't remember), and it being expensive.

My experience in the UK and Germany is show up, pay, go, and it being cheaper.
The UK is increasingly resembling the rest of the world's rentpig. The UK government has made Britain into one massive investment vehicle for foreign capital -- our utilities, leading firms, football teams, landmarks and property all serve to enrich sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East and Asia. These foreign investors have all received lavish incentives and grants, and in return we have been allowed to live way beyond our means for decades.

It's alarming to note the extent to which our resources have been sold off. The Conservative party, for instance, facilitated the sale of nearly 10% of Thames Water to China, and a further 10% to the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

Effectively, the country is being turned into a dividend machine for foreign capital, while our government debt continues to soar, now standing at over £110 billion and threatening to surpass our entire education budget [0]. This rampant exploitation of our national resources and the escalating debt crisis are alarming indicators of our economic vulnerability.

The country's economic situation is gravely concerning. Our mounting debt issues are additionally exacerbated by the looming crisis in our public services, which are showing signs of failure and are predicted to become significantly more costly. For example, we currently allocate 38p of every pound spent on public services to the NHS. However, projections show the number of Brits aged 85 and older doubling in the next 25 years [1]. Despite these alarming statistics, nobody in government or the media wants to have an honest conversation with the public about what this means.

There are also limits to how much more redistribution can be done. As per 2019/20 data, the top 1% of income taxpayers, earning above £180,000, received 13% of all income but contributed 29% of income tax receipts. The burden is even more evident when considering that the top 10% of income taxpayers were responsible for approximately 60% of all income tax receipts. In contrast, the lower half of income taxpayers, those earning less than £26,000, accounted for only 10% of income tax receipts, suggesting a significant tax skew towards higher-income earners.

It's really not looking good.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/dxK3pUB.png

[1] https://i.imgur.com/SV909oB.jpg
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Hasn't software "engineering" been like that forever?
I've also seen many public places where people are efficient, and also stressed because of the amount of work to do. I feel like your experience is not very applicable to all situations.

What's more, a private company which has monopoly does not really have special incentive to respect deadlines and everything: it is the only choice, so customers won't deal with any competitor and are stuck with this private company.
Note that in this particular case you can still use alternative browsers that come with updated root CAs.
Exactly the same problem with public ownership though - as we've seen. All it takes is one libertarian or corrupt government to sell of whatever it is into the private sector and once it's gone it's practically impossible to ever buy back.
Good ol', "Know the cost of everything, but the value of nothing".
Does that actually use the underlying system or is it just a virtual thing though? It calls itself an emulator after all. Windows can run an emulated Legend of Zelda ROM but that doesn't make it a NES.
It's not like having fewer regulations in tech would be an instant panacea. The bigger reasons for US dominance are the larger capital and consumer market - both still fragmented in the EU. Add on top of that a more flexible labour market in the US (someone from California is more likely to work in New York than someone from Lithuania to work in Portugal). Regulations do matter but there's so many other things that make it harder in Europe.
> If your developer count is in the 10s, you are committing professional negligence chasing a microservices architecture.

Such a strong statement. Might a lack of industry experience be driving such strong convictions of yours?

Here are some reasons, off the top of my head, why a company would want to embrace microservice architecture, with all its benefits and complexities, with a developer count in the 10s:

1. You're building a product that touches multiple deep domains and the business has modelled a very aggressive headcount growth

2. You've outsourced a large portion of your development to a number of agencies

3. You have a team of individuals who know nothing but microservices

4. Your chief compliance officer is intimately familiar with the data protection benefits that microservices bring and is leaning heavily into it in their regulatory submissions as a way to compensate for some other gap in the business

5. You're building anything to do with image processing at scale

6. You are a subsidiary owned by a parent company with tons of experience and tooling for microservices

7. One of your VCs has offered up a dev team they own to speedboat your MVP, who specialize in microservices

8. You've received a buyout offer by a party interested in specific IP within your product, with the condition that the IP is isolated from other parts of the system
Rail lines have inherent competition in form of trucks and boats (for transport of goods) and cars, busses and planes (for transport of people) and rail is often outcompeted by these as they don’t require large station in expensive real estate.

So the example of rail doesn’t really apply to this branch of the discussion.

However, once you’ve bought a house, it is very difficult to to but in new pipes from a different water works.
A few questions if its the same...

- In case of errors, do we get a full backtrace of function calls across service boundaries?

- Is the function call as cheap as passing an argument? What if we're passing 1KB? 1MB? 1GB?

- Can we use a debugger to step in and out of those functions?

- Can we spin up a simple test runner to integration test a few levels of function calls together? Preferably something like Jest that has a watch mode so we can quickly run dozens of tests?

- Can all database modifications run in a single transaction so that we know that either all of them happened or none at all?
You use the search box, just like you find settings in macOS / iOS / etc. No sane person is expected to memorize configuration GUIs these days.
There are 3 million rail cars moved per day that haven't produced apocalyptic skies and chemical rain. You misrepresent the overall safety of private rail lines.
Would a migration path be feasible, the fork getting some "stuff people coming from openSUSE would need" added/ported? Then it might effectively be as much a merge as a fork. Of course if that did happen, I'd expect the "people" in "stuff people need" to be specifically the subset who happen to be paying customers. Not sure if there are many users left outside that subset?
Threads and the social/communications map
By kilogram, there's more ants than humans on the world yet no one says ants dominate the world.

Perception matters :)
$5,000 is pocket change. When it comes to the Air Force, 5 minutes of downtime at the wrong time could cost you a country, or perhaps even a planet.
Divide the number of fatalities (36,096) by the population (331,000,000) and multiply by 100:

(36,096 / 331,000,000) * 100 ≈ 0.0109%

It's easy to mixed up with the percentage conversion. Still it's really high all things considered.
> The practice of loading a company with debt to distribute cash to shareholders and managers

One thing I don't understand here is: who's on point for that debt? Who's willing to lend that money, and why - are they just betting that there will be a bailout at some point?
I wrote this a few months ago explaining why Red Hat makes money:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35588297

(Still amazed that no one understands these basic points)
It’s funny - the test rig in the article shows wraparound LED displays, which are already replacing a lot of green screen applications: the scene is rendered in real-time on those displays, taking the position and angle of the camera as input to get the perspective correct: there’s no masking to do, because the scene just “looks correct” in camera.

The Mandalorian was a high-profile early use of the tech. It’s pretty impressive!
The US business model has established "free" for services on the net, paid for by others using behavioral data for advertising. That has its advantages (access for all, no matter the socioeconomic background!) but no "paid for by others" scheme that is less intrusive has popped up yet and "free" is very hard to compete with.

There's also less of a culture of "pour billions into tons of startups and see what sticks", which is a market distortion of its own. That aspect is drying up in the US though, thankfully.
I’m surprised (and happy) to hear that you target alpine. Is it really in use in those market segments?
US consumer rail way is a quasi public corporation (Amtrak) that has lost money for decades and is still funded to the tune of over $1 billion per year. You are confusing that with private US rails.
> And safely here means non disruptive to established businesses

Why would OpenAI care about that?

No, it means safety, as in not giving out dangerous answers that get people killed.
Everyone should be free to download a copy of the source code, and interpret it in their own heads.
If it's a network RPC style microservices architecture, you've built a distributed monolith; every service in a proper microservices architecture should be developed, maintained and deployed 100% independently from any other service. If two services are closely tied, they should be merged together.

Yes this causes overhead; every microservice will have a public API of sorts that will need to be documented and communicated, and any other service consuming it will need to eventually be updated to keep up with changes. If this overhead is not something your organization can afford, you should not be doing a microservices architecture.
One reason was to increase investment. In water's case the infrastructure had been under-invested in under public ownership for decades, due to it always being a low priority from a political point of view.

The regulatory structure of the privatized industry says the water companies can only make profits if they make capital investments, and so the amount invested in water infrastructure in the UK (particularly England) has duly gone up a lot since privatization and has been comparable or higher to other nations since.

From this point of view, it's less about choice and markets as a way to structure the regulation and ownership so that capital investment actually happens.
Democracy gets harder the more technologically advanced the world is.
In the decades of newspapers and limited information it was much easier to control information, placing the burden of information flow on a limited set of journalists.

Now that burden is put on each and everyone of us with social media and other alternative media. People from the Silent Generation are drowning in todays information age.
One of the services exposes 11,359 endpoints.

Well, one interpretation is that Meta runs predominantly on a monolith but has factored out a few services.
Exactly. It seems pretty obvious, so the real question is, why aren't all privatisation efforts do it like that (keep public control of the infrastrukture, privatise service providers running on it).

I believe it's not done like that, because there is little opportunity to make huge profit on such privatisation. Would you rather own the entire rail network, or buy some trains and have to pay rent for rail access? No one will invest in the latter without financial history of operations in such environment.

To do privatisation properly the state should breaker up the infrastructure from the services. Split the services into separate companies (then do we want them to compete or each will have it's niche? Usually it's the latter). Restructure and run those service companies until they're profitable. Finally sell them, or better yet over the span of the years get the employees to get a sizable ownership share, give local go another sizable share, sell the rest on the stock market.

That IMO is roughly a good way privatisation could work, but it takes more than one electoral cycle to do it right, and which government wants to create gifts for their opponents? So we usually don't see anything like it.
Pretty sure the idea of scaling is under test here, just because it’s relatively straightforward to use larger models doesn’t make it less of an application of the scientific method. Also, process supervision, devops is experimental for a startup like OpenAI, and the mixture of experts really hasn’t been used with MHA models at scale before.

I’d argue it’s pedantic to assume all science has to be completely novel or revolutionary. More neurons good, is a perfectly reasonable reason to experiment. I think you’re being a bit “snooty” in setting such a high bar to gatekeep science…