skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anglo-Persian was majority owned and controlled by the British gov’t at the time, as per the link I posted (and the BBC).

“Shortly before World War I, Anglo-Persian managed to find a new backer - and good customer.

After lengthy negotiations, the oilmen promised Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, secure supplies of oil.

In exchange the British government injected £2m of new capital into the company, acquired a controlling interest and became de-facto the hidden power behind the oil company.”

Anglo-Persian was no more a private company at the time than In-Q-Tel [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel].

So your ‘stealing back my bicycle’ analogy is even more apt than you’re giving it credit for, IMO.
Or.. just switch to a more user friendly operating system like Debian or Pop_OS.

I know I'm not installing Windows again on my machines anytime soon.
Paying people to stop consuming is just an accounting replacement for interruptible power.

The net effect is more power generation available, not less.
Why don't you use AI to provide support? I'm serious actually. This sounds like something AI can do really well.
I dont' get it.

Is there any interactivity?
Would love to know from OP and others why this isn't the most sound advice.

I worked for a very small online retail company recently (I know it's not exactly the same but in the same vein) and raising the price for $18—$40 items by $5 had zero affect on the number of people placing (sales weren't amazing but not bad).

But ya, in the first line you say you made $15k over....... FOUR YEARS? Obviously that's a bunch for some people, but certainly not MOST people in tech?? You could have made much more and had a lot more fun bartending or even being a barista.

Having read the whole post... keep it up! Just raise your prices by... like, a LOT! Like, a lot a lot!
So many bad takes in that article. It will be interesting to look back in 5+ years to see how things play out vs this unlimited optimism.

> "everyone is a programmer now"

I’ve heard this about so many things. Various tool they make everyone a programmer, or everyone a DBA. Nice dreams, that never seem to play out.

Being a programmer isn’t about the syntax, it’s about breaking problems down, so they can logically be built back up in code. I have yet to see anyone without an extensive background in programming write good spec for what they want code to do. How many assumptions are we comfortable having AI make?

On my last project I was given 1 sentence of direction, and the people giving the direction truly thought that’s all they needed to say… or it was the extent of their understanding of the topic. It took thousands of lines of code, backed by a bunch of testing and design decisions, informed by 15+ years with the company and the various personalities involved, to make that 1 sentence a reality in a way that would make sense for the organization. Call me a cynic, but I don’t see AI doing a good job with something like that in a world where “everyone is a programmer.”

I did try putting it in Copilot at the start, just to see what it dumped out. It gave me maybe 40 lines of broken code. It was the blog post version of how to do it, not an enterprise solution.
How open source is steering AI down the high road
Would the service be available on Sunday?
Thanks for that.

Though I was thinking of super intense magnetic fields (like in CERN), however, Ill leave it to my Comic Book Science collection, then :-)
It would be great if that tool existed, but it doesn’t seem to right now. I can appreciate the instinct to improve packaging, but from an occasional Python developer’s perspective things are getting worse. I published a few packages before the pandemic that had compiled extensions. I tried to do the same at my new job and got so lost in the new tools, I eventually just gave up.

One of Python’s great strengths is the belief there should be one, obvious right way to things. This lack of unity in the packing environment is ruining my zen.
Show HN: One click update NextJS project internationalization
I made a multilingual development aid for nextjs using the electron framework: AutoI18n.

Key features:
1. for the new project one-click integration of multi-language (next-intl)
2. Support for incremental translation of new content for new projects or projects that have integrated next-intl.
3. Provide a special editor to quickly change the text content and then automatically translate it to multiple languages.

The tool provides a complete interface and tips, as well as Q&A.
It is internally based on babel to complete the analysis and code processing , based on open source node-trucker to complete the code movement , based on azure translation content .
It is completely free and can bring development experience and efficiency improvements.
Pixie: Blending Just-in-time and Ahead-of-time compilation – SciPy 2024
This is actually good advice, someone who pays a lot of money for a service will have high expectations but they will also be vested in getting things working.

I don't know the original attribution but it's something along the lines of "don't be afraid to fire unprofitable customers." If you have a customer who is drowning you in support tickets, and just not "getting it," politely tell them "sorry it's not working out" give them a refund and cut them off.
I think those are orthogonal. If I wrong you I can be brought up on criminal charges, and independently, you can sue for damages.
If both points are moving through space (and they would be), it would probably be very fast relative motion in an arbitrary non-shared direction.

Wouldn't that also change the dynamics of local time for both parties in the communication? Instant communications doesn't mean much when the time flow isn't the same for both parties. It could create a paradox where an entire conversation has happened for one party before it even began for the other.

Once I considered that, I considered all such communications moot. I don't know how far one has to go before time dilation would be that extreme, but stars are really far apart from each other. The information might be instant, but the concept of "instant" to each party locally won't be in sync anymore.

Even between our Sun and its closest stellar neighbour I don't think it would be possible to sync because of that constantly changing dilation. If we can manage it, we'd have a delay like we do with everything else, but it would be a whole lot shorter. And that is entirely connected to how fast and how far (dilated in time) you are moving.
Spoken like someone whose never been on the receiving end of any such ‘support’.
Perhaps a translation issue?

I've always referred to that set as "algebraic numbers" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_number ). Since they are equipotent with integers, you _can_ call them that, but it's misleading.
I taught myself Python as my first language and now I’m starting feel that there are core coding concepts that Python abstracts away from the user that are probably important to know for good code hygiene.

That being said, for personal projects that don’t really see the light of day, Python is a perfect multi-tool type language
You would have to do comparative and longitudinal studies. Or at least some kind of factor analysis.
This is truly horrifying and also illustrates a massive incentive problem. The hospital probably made money through its negligence (until the inevitable lawsuit)
Most plastic is like 1.5 grams/cm^3; that's like 9 cubic centimeters, or less than 1/4 the volume of a golf ball.

When you're saying "about" and then cubing the number you can have a pretty significant difference.
Gardening leave typically is only salary, and doesn’t include extremely lucrative bonuses (that can exceed salary, sometimes by some multiples) in certain investment industries. So, it’s a pretty big hit to your income.
The terms of art here are money laundering and "Money Mule" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_mule

Basically, the real scammers have a series of people who have bank accounts, but don't know the true identity of the scammer, and those people receive the wire and transfer the money in some other form.

Often, the "Money mules" don't even know they're part of a crime, and are told they're receiving legitimate money to their personal accounts, withdrawing it, and transporting it somewhere.

Sure, you can track down and try to arrest the money mules, but it doesn't feel great to arrest someone who was only an unknowing participant.
Sorry, pfdietz, but I'm not responsible for proving to you that the Holocaust happened, Sirhan Sirhan killed RFK, tobacco is harmful, or diabetes is related to the pancreas. Or that social media is harmful to children.

And "classic crank behavior" describes you.
That's too optimistic to be point of being naive, substances in general only cause damage above certain threshold, so there is high possibility that we are not seeing widespread harm because it hasn't reached that threshold on most people.
I just finished up an Underwear setup last week: https://box.linsomniac.com/underwear.jpg

I didn't go with the cable channels, I instead used cable tie bars, and also some cable clips I had 3D printed a year or more ago but never gotten around to using (there's a black one to the lower left of the power strip).

It's not as clean as Katie's because of the lack of channels, but it I'm happy with it, it keeps the cables up from getting caught in my feet and from normal height it is all clean.

I kept having problems with my docking station falling off (lower right "Dell"), but it was also hard to get at some of the ports because they were close to the cross bar of the desk. I stuck a couple of the underwear adapters on the docking station, so now I can easily pull it off to get access to those ports, then just click it back on.

I also printed a bunch of 3x3 grid in PETG, and mounted it to a couple 4x4 posts I have with hose reels on them. Then I made some hangers that I can put my hose tools on, and I finally am keeping them out of the dirt.

She just posted some photos of installing some of the grid on the cabinets under the kitchen sink, which got me to thinking I might want to do some organizing there. Katie seems to have the grid installed all over.
I have an old Dell Latitude that I tri-boot Windows 7, 10, and 11 for testing with my PortableApps.com stuff as some things are better to test on actual hardware rather than in a virtual machine.
It visually fails to preserve “handedness.”
Initialisms in common speech are the linguistic equivalent of a code smell; people are right to react negatively towards them (and the appropriate degree of negative reaction increases with the length of the initialism in question).
mmm, my favorite! but hold the potassium hydroxide this time, i'm going to need my esophagus later tonight. and go easy on the formalin
They provide a legitimate demand response service i.e. when the grid is generating excess energy that there's no other demand for, Bitcoin miners buy what no one else wants/needs.

Buyers of first and last resort.
In general, won't some algebraic numbers' minimal polynomials have a leading coefficient greater than 1, when written with integer coefficients?
So, in theory, a diet higher in protein and lower in cholesterol ought to be somewhat protective against nanoplastics crossing the blood brain barrier.
110K domains targeted by 'sophisticated' cloud extortionists
Outsourced call centers obsessing over dumb metrics like "dead air" and "hold time". They think you are gratified by obsequious groveling and fawning reassurance. There is always some guy in management who gives pep talks about improving outcomes by avoiding words like "can't" or "impossible". He demands improvement to an already satisfactory situation, and so they scramble to out-customer-service themselves.
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these agreements are barely agreements

They either are contracts with all the requirements of being a contract (agreement, consideration, etc..), or they are nothing.
yes, i agree. what i was trying to express is that rebuilding a motor is generally strictly easier than building one from scratch, because it's building a motor from something more than scratch. i don't think i expressed it very well

(i mean, if all the parts of your engine are trashed, you are going to have to machine replacements for them, and that might actually take you longer. but it's clearly achievable given that people have built internal combustion engines without a working example to take measurements from)
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I think a lot of the frustration comes from people being asked to make an effort for something they know won't reduce the stigmatization.
The documentation suggests that `uv python list` should be able to see my pyenv Python's as well... but it doesn't appear to?
This is not correct. A golf ball is closer to 1.7 inches in diameter, which is nearly three times the size of a 1.2 inch diameter ball in terms of volume.
Being in SCED just means that the resource bid into the real time energy market (which clears every 5 mins), it does not necessarily mean that the resource is cheap to dispatch. The confusion here might be caused by the differences of the ancillary market (PRC) and the energy market (SCED).

Your second paragraph may be answered by this: https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/gridconditions. PRC units are available in real time, immediately on request.
Silicon Valley is full of cancer causing superfund sites due to improper disposal of chemicals used to produce semiconductors back in the 70’s and 80’s.

Solar panels are semiconductor based (the actual power generating parts are diodes, specifically).

If the chemicals are disposed of properly and workers wear the correct PPE, there are no measurable increases in cancer.

It’s a whole grab bag of chemicals, from TCE, Chromic Acid, Crystalline Silica, etc. etc. 130+ common ones with significant carcinogenic potential.

[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209379112...]

It’s similar to Nuclear. If proper precautions are followed? No increased risk.

If not, well - I’m unaware of any of the actinides that are good for anyone to be around. For starters.
And? Where is the threshold? Science is not based on vibes. Starting a movement without evidence is called mass hysteria.
For sure. PB Blaster is my go-to when I find a bolt on my truck that hasn't been touched since it left the factory in '88. Its a quick fix for a stuck bolt, but still not a great solution for a squeaky door hinge.
Run stats on support requests and make canned/auto replies for the common ones?
redis is the easiest-to-host lock server and that's worth the risk in some applications (depending on consequence of errors obv)

inspiring + slightly terrifying that rather than a single server-side implementation, every client is responsible for its own implementation

if postgres provided fast kv cache and a lock primitive it would own
Here is the actual script, if you prefer copy-pasting a one-liner over curl|sh...

echo 'user_pref("dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled", false);' | tee -a $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/$(grep "Default=.*\.default*" "$HOME/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini" | cut -d"=" -f2)/user.js
this will panic:

v := hello.(world)

this never panic:

v, ok := hello.(world)

and yes, its awesome. people rag on Go because BLARG ERRORS BOILERPLATE, but if you can get over that Go is not Python/JavaScript, you're left with a simple powerful language
"if caught" : how would that happen?

You go to sell the house and the buyer demands to see all your permits? The city inspector barges into your house uninvited?

Unless you're in a total buyer's market, you just sell to someone who isn't so nitpicky. Or you get a pro to inspect your work and attest that it's up to code (it would be, wouldn't it?)
Aren't microplastics a much bigger problem in Asia than in the West? I would guess that the negative effects of microplastics would show up in Asia first, rather than the West.
“ Kehle and Unger started with a black hole that doesn’t rotate and has no charge, and modeled what might happen if it was placed in a simplified environment called a scalar field, which assumes a background of uniformly charged particles. They then buffeted the black hole with pulses from the field to add charge to it.”

Just finished the article. Surely this can’t be the basis right? I mean everything in the universe is in motion and spins…

It did say that spinning work would require extra more complicated math but hmm. Did Hawking et al look at spinning or static black holes in 73 when they did their proof?

Imma gonna attempt to read the paper to get more context. I’m sure all the math will go way over my head tho.
Perhaps someone signed a waiver. Based on the rest of the story I don’t think we can assume they are telling the truth without any evidence here.
> The shopkeeper said the t-shirts were purchased in large numbers, and he reported that his buyers were "probably kids who like to do a lot of coke", as well as Charles Addams.

There was a much better way to phrase that.

> "Where is Bum Farto?” It clings to T-shirts sold by Taylor-GIore a Key West novelty shop "I would say we sold 600 of them and we sent them all over the country” said storeowner Rob Glore Purchasers include cartoonist Charles Addams a lawyers’ softball team in Washington and composer Jerome Weidman Glore said the store began selling the white shirts with "El Jefe” on the front in big red letters and "Where Is Bum Farto?” on the back in March and was sold out by August Another 100 shirts are on ' order he said and there’s a waiting list of about 20 “I’ve been out all fall long”

That's far more informative and less of a joke at Charles' expense.
> If my house burns down because of my work and my insurance finds out

A pretty remote If. If you're that worried about doing it wrong, then by all means hire an electrician.
i remember we had similar issues at my 2nd to last job a bit ago. we would often times try to reduce the friction, but it built up and built up until, one day, there was zero chance of reaching anyone worthwhile. i wish we had gone back and really focused on providing as much support as we provide in product!!
> You can say no, but that K-9 unit is going to take four hours to get there from the station

Holding someone for longer than the traffic stop requires to wait for a drug dog is illegal in the USA. That's not to say it never happens, but it's grounds to exclude any evidence found, and for a lawsuit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodriguez_v._United_States
I've personally used Redis locks in my personal projects. The real motivation isn't because it's good or correct but because: Redis is already there in my env.
There’s a larger revision in 2021, but it happens to be in the other direction.

The adjustment was less than 1% on data that is always adjusted as far as I can tell. Pre-Covid the adjustment in this story, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-created-500000-fewer-jo..., was 500k jobs.

Given the history of this type of figure and reporting I don’t buy that argument at all. The correction is everywhere today, on all the news networks just as it has been in the past.
I hear this "it doesn't matter — until it matters" a lot. But it's a limited view that focuses on bad things that will occasionally happen, not placing equal emphasis on all the common benefits of repair. Consider this — 1 in 10 repairs, something will go wrong and the person doing DIY will either break the item or have to call a specialist in to rescue it. This means 9/10 times they will save money/keep the item out of waste if they were about to replace it, or save themselves an expensive servicing call. The benefits far outweigh the risks.

We need to look at the bigger picture, not small hang-ups. Replacing GFCIs may even be prohibited in some scenarios, but that is by far not the only type of DIY handyman work that's going extinct. Phone batteries, electrical sockets, broken low voltage cables, fuses, car parts, painting walls, laying flooring and other such things can absolutely be done by 80% of the population, if they were to read one or two chapters on this type of work in a DIY book (which are plentiful).
They are more likely limiting malpractice suit damages because hospitals and clinics donate to political campaigns, but people hurt by medical malpractice don't.

The end result is that doctors are essentially lawsuit-proof (as the minimum cost of a suit exceeds the maximum possible recovery) in Texas, and you have no recourse if yours was at fault.

It's a beautiful system.
Yeah that's the whole point. Who thought teeth? lol
i think this type of ‘just tacking on’ to projects, since it is so low friction to do so, is part of how we got to where we are today
OpenAI exec says California's AI safety bill might slow progress
In other words, she hadn't seen the new evidence that they are distinct since it wasn't available at the time.
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> They don't even mention "decreasing" until the very final Note box where they say offhand that actually it's an infinite descent (which is a critical part of the proof they've otherwise handwaved).

That isn't actually a critical part of the proof; you can just assume that your initial two integers are relatively prime and then derive a contradiction directly.
I would definitely use this. I recently bought a hammer and I'm so tired having to call people, send emails to ask them if they have any nails that I can use the hammer on. Having a personal AI assistant do these calls and emails for me is going to be a god blessing. I hope I'll find some nails.
> It is an inevitable and, more to the point, healthy process, necessary in view of the eternal gulf between language and opinion.

I don't know if this is a "healthy" process. Inevitable it may well be. But it doesn't change attitudes, it doesn't help the people involved and one issue I don't see talked about is that the quality of the language itself seems to drop through this process. "Crippled" has a certain pithiness and is a distinct word. "Differently abled" has many more syllables and verbal overlap with words like "different" and "able". We're shrinking the ability to describe things in a process that might literally be Orwellian.
Looking at your profile, on the bright side I have heard GCP is still more of a forward looking unit, and Google Cloud Run for example is a pleasure to use, especially for small side projects.
Then I could choose to stop accepting it and take another job.
That's a neat video but I think that usage of euphemism is a little different, based on how they used it in the video. I'd call that more of a "dog-whistle" - you use a term like "war on terror" because your base understands that you means you hate muslims and would like to stick them all in a death camp, while the establishment can still go on CNN and not have to answer questions about "muslim registries". But yeah its kind of hard to relate to previous eras of politics when shit like this mattered to most people.
I think the enterprise stuff is programmers become more tool-assisted, so fewer programmers are needed. A team of two seniors and 6 juniors can just be two seniors. As you said, it's mostly breaking down a problem and knowing what's needed, then telling it what components are needed. 'Make me a function that does this and that' I use it all the time to make things I know I can make but it makes it, if it makes it a weird way I modify the prompt to tell it not to make it that way. Good for frameworks for skeleton code and simple hacking things together at sysadmin level and tinkering with things. Not sure about full fledged program projects though.

Helps devs get 'unstuck' if they get the writers block. It's absolutely changing the game for marketing, bizdev, and programmers now. Intel layoffs ~20,000, IBM ~24,000. Kind of scary.

Smart people with better tools can be a dominant force. So, yeah programmers might be looking for newer skillsets.

Operations and Sysadmins I don't forsee ever changing, especially with AI.

As you said, will be interesting to look back in five years and see.