My world sounds exactly like yours and I love the astral packages - thanks for asking this

Very cool and can tell you keep up with it just with your addition of uv!

Thanks.

Switching to uv ~6-7 months ago was so worth it. It took like 3 seconds to repackage this project thanks to uv, that's building and locking every dependency with Docker too.

You linked the wrong article - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46136901 takes you to a steam article

Yep - my company did the same thing in addition to a few other nasty cuts. The problem is that instead of dumping dead weight employees, we are losing excellent ones.

“Master at manipulating masses” is something you have to tell yourself when people you don’t like are highly successful, I guess.

enron was highly successful and so was bernie maddof

I often get more excited about the commentary and what I’ll learn from interesting experts in the HN comments than the original link itself. Thanks to all who contribute their thoughts here.

I’m in the states and haven’t seen this despite a lot of travel but I’ll be looking out for it now!

Once I saw the use of “FaCiSm” and “capitalist corporate control” I tuned out. I wouldn’t trust this persons opinion on trimming my nails let alone future tech.

My team has all moved slowly from R to Python. There was no pressure to do so. R has a clunky feel with a bunch of modules that can be a challenge to automate. Python’s general purpose use beats whatever superior modules R has all day. If someone wants the same package on Python from R it’s probably out there.

While plotting may be clunky, I just don’t see r as much better. Plus in 2025 I can just provide a sample of data and what plot I want in an LLM and I get zero shot code of the plot I want.

Author sounds very academic to me.

Not unfortunate. They know what people are using and went that route.

Meanwhile, I have "*Never use Python for anything ever*" in my AGENTS.md.

i think you are leaving lots of intelligence on the table by forbidding python to an LLM; trained heavily on python codebases.

I've mostly stopped using Claude because of it, it will still try use Python for the most random tasks. It recently wrote an HTML file with some inline js in it, then started a local python server to open the HTML file, and check the log output.

This is in a node.js project. It is just too obsessed with using Python, and it seems to help it focus and make more sensible choices by removing the option.