skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the difference between developing and developed countries really the lack of tariffs or is it due to poor governance? I feel like the reason why countries are always so pro-tariff is because the benefits of tariffs go towards a small group of people, whereas the cost of tariffs are diffused. But small costs add-up and if you start applying the tariffs to other industries then you start seeing the impacts in the cost of goods.

What are the examples where protecting a country from exports for a few decades then opening it up to competition actually produced a world-class industry? Singapore is an example of a country that has been pro free-trade and has benefited as a result.
I did not make any point with how prevalent Catholicism is in Spain, or any personal observation on it.

I was correcting the original comment, because it is a common misunderstanding. Spain is not officially catholic, and this is explicitly stated in the spanish constitution (Art. 16 section 3.)

https://app.congreso.es/consti/constitucion/indice/titulos/a...
Even as someone who believes people have the freedom to take their own lives and can morally request help to do so to end suffering, a dimension to this is modern treatments for terminal illnesses can keep you alive long enough to suffer so much that someone else has to make the active decision to end it. That is to say, medically assisted dying often merely solves a problem that medicine and treatment itself created.

While I respect the principle of religious objections to assisted dying, if they don't extend to assisted life extension as well, I can't assign them much weight. There should be some serendipity to dying, and the religious objection seems to be about people making a decision that should be left to the sacred.

To compensate for this decision problem and the risks of non-consensual assisted suicide by a variety of legalistic players, a better solution could be to just liberalize rules on opioid pain killers for terminal pain management and improve self administration technology and management of the drugs.
This the same idea behind why I only push my online bill payments to service providers and never allow them to pull from my bank account. I want any mistakes to be my own rather than having to claw back a double payment that drains my account after the fact.

I do allow some services to auto-bill my credit card. That's the bank's money first and credit cards offer more protection in the event of billing errors.
Popular opinion: I don't want to pay the tax bill for your ubiquitous comfort.
Is DC any more different from middle America than any city is from distant rural areas? Take NYC vs Upstate or Chicagoland vs Southern Illinois. Or even Louisville-Frankfort-Lexington vs rural Kentucky.
Actually my point is a tautological fallacy.

You can never know what the author intended when writing. And every reader has a different subjective experience of a piece of literature or a work of art.

So it's actually fucking impossible to even judge a work of art or writing based on the authors or readers perspective or in any thing beyond the aesthetic.

Because what you think about something may not be what someone else thinks about it.

And every persons thinking is influenced by so many different experiences: cultural, personal, moral, etc.

So to attempt to create a concrete narrative about the intentions of a specific work of art or literature is impossible.

This applies to reality as well.

I've never read Mein Kampf, but I assume Hitle has good intentions for his country and wants peace and prosperity for the particular ingroup of people he identifies with. This is the same that everyone wants for their particular ingroup. Hitler did terrible things to accomplish that.

So your perspective on Hitlers work is affected by the genocide that he commited.

However, history is written by the winners and the present reality is merely one narrative, that the winners create.

AMERICANS and every single other country in the world have commited genocide and other horrible atrocities.(see Native Americans during settler times and 400k innocent civilians killed in the middle east during the past decade)

However, they won.

If Hitler had won WW2 I can't help but wonder if the Jewish Holocaust would have been as minimized as the Native American Holocaust, and pushed under the rug.

And Hitler would have gone down in history as a hero based on the news media spinning that narrative and nationalistic exuberance.

Narratives are the most powerful thing in the world but also the most untrue.
I would prefer that any book that has not been in print for 10 years automatically fall into public domain as abandoned.
I programmed a web-based ASCII animator a while ago: https://animasci.com/
> Brew is good, but Linux package managers like pacman and apt are so much better

I used starting fresh on the M1 as an excuse to give MacPorts a go, and I like it much better than Homebrew. There's some smaller packages that aren't on MP, but all the big stuff is there and to me it feels much more like a Linux package manager.
Oh, the trailing remark is because Twitter has long had the habit of "whoops the algorithm did it!" happening as the most convenience of excuses when the timing is suspicious.

I don't know what Twitter does with people's tweets. Frankly, I find the platform almost too chaotic to look at for more than a few seconds. It feels like a roomful of ping-pong balls with text on them, whizzing at your head, only loosely clustered.
Hats off to those who came up with this and convinced their superiors that it's worth trying.

Most pedal demos don't give a very good idea how something will sound with your setup, because well, they're using their own, filtered through speakers and microphones at that.
> As trad(itional) finance morphs into chad finance, it's easy to get sucked up in the excitement.

This made me laugh. Interesting overall, adding it (b/c of what was exploited, not the exploit, kudos to that) to my reason list to not build on the blockchain. Thanks for the share
The tl;dr of it is that she's commented about biological femininity as a real experience distinct from trans-females. That offends the ideological extreme of the trans movement which has labelled her a TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist).
I say this genuinely but what the heck are you on about? I'd be gladly complicit.
Just updated from BitBar and ran into a small issue since xbar doesn't support custom plugin folders the same way BitBar did (as in a way to change it via the GUI). Thankfully you can just symlink the plugin folder to your old BitBar folder and everything works as expected. I opened an issue for it here: https://github.com/matryer/xbar/issues/653
> I don't want my kiddo to think a man needs to save her...

I've also seen frozen more times than I'd like to admit and have to disagree with this conclusion. Anna would've died multiple times if Kristoff wasn't around.
> Presumably everyone thinks their own defaults are 'sensible', otherwise they wouldn't be using them.

Maybe, although I set my caps lock up to be escape when tapped and control when held, I don't think that would be sensible for many people at all unless the knew why they wanted it.

> I think the most sensible defaults are those that come out of the box, rather than spending time tweaking things.

This is probably true, I find it very difficult to use anyone else's system since my config is non-standard.
I minted an NFT, a non fungible token, to learn more about what they are, how they function, and if it's worth the time, effort, and cost(around $100 worth of ethereum) of minting them. It's up for auction on Rarible.com

If this experiment turns a profit, I'll mint some more while simultaneously questioning why anyone would buy ownership of a pixel art heart. If it fails to turn a profit, I'll consider the cost of the experiment a small price to pay to confirm that the market, and therefore the world, still make sense, and that we haven't completely lost the plot, jumped the shark, and/or entered the strangest timeline.

Because that's what heroes do. Science.
There is no instance of irony that won’t be taken literally by some tone-deaf reader.
The Discovery That Transformed Pi
I always have trouble with stuff like this, because my inner teenage hacker is cheering that "information wants to be free!" while at the same time I'm cognizant of the fact that we have to treat information with a certain level of care.

Here's a take I don't necessarily believe, but is about as generous to the new left as I can make it: Ideas can be powerfully virulent, and we're especially susceptible to them when they support something we already suspect (confirmation bias). Under complete deregulation, people seek out information that confirms their biases, and our societal inertia continues unrestricted. The naive solution to me is something like we have now: introduce a friction factor. People are generally lazy, and if they don't have immediate access to something, they won't seek it out. If we make problematic media difficult to find but nevertheless available, we change the general cultural milieu without outright banning difficult texts.

This obviously falls apart when it comes to introducing new texts and ideas into the mainstream - if people are disincentivized to print anything that isn't playing by the rules, it's terrible for innovation and creates a whole new brand of inertia. It's also terrible in that it's an unstable equilibrium: if people care enough to keep their foot on the gas in terms of narrowing access to virulent media, it doesn't take much to convince them to go pedal-to-the-metal and start banning everything.
Clearly the FedEx driver double checked with the system,
and you can’t let people decide whether to give her money or not because you are an elitist.
Maybe you could have some DRMish thing where the camera signs it with a "secret" key, but this would be terrible for various reasons and also likely broken very fast.
Honestly, I decided to go straight to homelessness because I didn't want to strain my personal relationships any further. I tried talking to friends about needing a place to stay. But being in San Francisco, everyone's house was tiny & expensive. They simply didn't have a place for me. I talked with my parents about moving home, and they would have let me stay there, but they also said they weren't thrilled at the idea of having a broke, depressed adult dependent living in their house & asking for money/food/everything. I would have gone home if I REALLY had to, but I managed to get myself to stability before needing to do that.
I do prefer online-first, but I do miss being able to go to the bank. Self-service is great right up until it isn't. If I walk into the bank with a question, there's a near-certain chance I'll walk out with an answer. Instead of clicking around progressively darker corners of the site, I'll just stand at the counter until the answer comes to me.

It sounds "so karen", but it's very difficult to ask for a manager online, and very difficult to refuse in-person.
They went above and beyond :). I was thinking small and talking only about parser.
The problem is that there is no mainstream institution even attempting to be journalistic anymore. There will obviously always be selection bias in the sense that nobody can report on everything, but there is a version of the media which can exist, and has existed, which is far less concerned with its own objectives than what we have today.

What we have today is a nation-destroying level of a lack of cohesive vision. Having a conversation with someone typically begins with the realization that we're operating with a completely different set of facts, in addition to employing entirely incompatible frameworks with which to digest them. The only way to have any idea of what's going on is to consume opposing news sources, which then leads to further digging to sort out where the truth lies in seemingly incompatible claims. The process is exhausting, and most people don't have time for it.

What's worse is that a non-trivial amount of institutional power is so concerned with preserving their anointed vision of our future, that they are actively trying to remove access to any access of information which destabilizes their monopoly on truth. The amount of vitriol directed at podcasts in the last few years by mainstream institutions is more than a little concerning.

https://youtu.be/cu8FHZiAmzM?t=150

Witness the discussion on CNN issuing concern that Facebook and YouTube are hosting conservative news. He then goes on to suggests that ISPs and Cable providers are responsible for not allowing this media on their networks.

Not only are we dealing with a complete siloing of truth through narrative, which is sufficient problem on its own, but there is a significant part of journalist activism which is concerned with making sure that no other set of facts be accessible.
Raspberry Pi CM4 Handheld Project Resembles Pocket C.H.I.P
I've been trying to figure out why this topic in particular triggers exceptionally passionate discussion on HN.

I have some pet theories, but they're really speculative, and I'm not very confident in them.
So? Sorry to be so callus, but I'd wager there are many more people suffering daily in hospice and family members risking jail time to end the suffering of their relatives. I have second hand experience with this. The doctor told a relative of mine "whatever you do, don't turn this knob here, or they will die a painless silent death" and walked out of the room.
come to think of it, Hobbits and dwarfs have also been grossly caricatured. As have goblins and those "swarthy men" from South (or whatever). Tolkien's in big trouble. He is alienating us from the whole of Middle Earth, no doubt.
> why is it considered anti-trans speech, when a villain is "a male serial killer known to have worn a dress"

That's not what OP is referring to. Go read her Twitter feed and blog.
Maybe not 10x but they’re certainly more than a similarly spec’d dev workstation. I guess the idea is that developers are the target market and they have a bit more disposable income on average and are more likely to want to pay extra for something like this.
> The only healthy response our society can possibly have is to try to make supporters understand why it is shameful and unacceptable.

You are free to disagree with me, but I strongly believe that making claims like yours is shameful and unacceptable. Not because of Trump, but because it is the worst kind of demagogy, the one which is so loved by Christianity: to make a sacred moral thing from a topic, and to forbid even talk about it, because it is amoral.

The world is not painted in black and white, it is an important trait of the world. When you paint it in black and white you are making it easier to think about it, but you are provoking your mind to make a categorical mistakes of judgement. The more so in minds of your followers. And even more in their children. You are sacrificing long-term success of a crystal clear mind to a short-term gain. And I'm very doubtful that there is any gain from what you are doing.

> Your response is kind of scary to me because you’re essentially advocating tolerance and diplomacy with extreme racists and fascists (in no sense is that hyperbole).

"Once you know which side you’re on, you must support all arguments of that side, and attack all arguments that appear to favor the enemy side"[1]

Please, notice the word "appear" in a quote. You are fighting an illusion, and therefore your fight will bring you no friends, just push away potential allies.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9weLK2AJ9JEt2Tt8f/politics-i...
I run VcXsrv X-Window on Windows (Multiple windows mode) and then from WSL2 Ubuntu I've run e.g. "terminator" and Jetbrains CLion C++/Rust GUI, Linux Version "~/bin/clion.sh &". It works very well.
That's my favorite aspect of this demo; I really like the music. Like it legit works as a standalone track, I could totally imagine hearing it at a club. There's a lot of very impressive technical demos whose aesthetics are, well, specific to the demoscene. This is something more.
Does it have value if criminals can use it freely? There will need to be the same functional centralized systems of justice, accountable, and enforcement.
This take sounds like Rowling had written Harry Potter to fulfill her dream of one day being famous and crushing transsexuals beneath her expensive heels. "When I am a billionaire author," she cackled, "I will show them all!"

Famous people are still people, and they still have opinions. Opinions you might not even agree with. Are we to exclude the famous from speaking their opinions? I would love to see how that would work, both legally and as kind of a sci-fi premise. Actors interviewed on late night shows offering only the blandest of reactions to what is said. No longer are musicians able to fund charities with their wealth, since donations are speech, as per the Supreme Court. Court battles are waged over how wealthy must be or how many Google hits are found for their name before someone is too famous to have opinions.

It lacks laser-guns and aliens, but as a very dry, Burgess-like exploration of government policy as a near-future sci-fi, it might be workable.
We emphasized the zed out here - so like 'wares', except the z has that vocal fry buzz to it, usually extended out a beat to make it clear.
That would fall into the "illegal" [0] category if people are in fact calling for violence.

[0] https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim...
Neither of those novels was self-published, or “near”ly so.
Rehabilitation works for those handful of cases where a mother had to steal food to feed a baby, and wasn't a career criminal.

I don't have any hope nor interest in try to "rehabilitate" rapists, murderers or child molesters. I don't even want them locked up for life, that's a waste of money and isn't enough punishment. I want the problem solved, I want them to get the death penalty.
Most Rust releases are almost empty. The ones that add something like async are exceedingly rare. Maybe once in a few years?

And what would be the point of sitting on small, well tested, changes for six months or a year? What if it's two or three years before the next major feature is ready for stable? Do we have to hold back all the small improvements too?

For example, making a function const allows it to be used in more places. This can be a big benefit for users. It doesn't help anyone to delay that once it has been decided it is const.
This is genius and makes me wonder why I didn't think of it.

Edit: they already thought of that!
I'm pretty sure, having seen some interviews with Ursula K. LeGuin, that something as transgressive towards our society's assumptions about gender as The Left Hand of Darkness would not have been written or published today, and certainly not by her or anyone who had the same influences and social circles as she did.
MB credits ptb's OS X setup: https://github.com/ptb/mac-setup
An absolute classic.

Other songs that should be familiar to those either into mod music, or into the 90s warez/keygen scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkw7l8IgM4g Captain / Image - Space debris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJXtR0SwZ54 Skaven / Future Crew - Razorback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCl9xYSOVtM Purple Motion / Future Crew - Satellite One
In Estonian, "vares" [v-uh-res] stands for crow (corvus). I first met the w-word as a kid of the early 1990s; however, to this day, that analogy is still the first that pops up to me. A warez is a vares is a vares.
> Literature used to be a place for transgressive ideas, a place to question taboos, and seek naked insights into humanity. It no longer is.

Bullshit. It still is.

It has also always been a place where doing that provoked backlash, and the path of least resistance has been to avoid doing that and follow conventional morality; that, too, has not changed.

What has changed is that particular ideas which until recently have themselves been extremely transgressive have moved their way into conventional morality, at least in substantial sectors of society, so that the backlash once associated with transgressive ideas and approaches is now being experienced with what were fairly recently conventional, safe ideas and manners of expression.
I used to use ACiD Draw for this kind of thing. The blinking parts were my favourite, you could almost make crude animation with it.
> Why do you characterize voluntarily ending ones own life, in particular for people who are incurably sick as utilitarian?

Because most arguments for euthanasia (in this thread and elsewhere) argue for maximizing utility/minimizing suffering.

> We're not talking about turning grandma into soylent because the bills are getting too large, we're talking about two things first and foremost. Human dignity, and human autonomy over one's own body.

Why not turn grandma into soylent? Doesn't cannibalism maximize utility? How can we cremate grandma when people around the world are starving?

What if the reason we don't eat each other is also the reason we shouldn't euthansize people?

> I can agree that euthanasia available for everyone for some sort of social or cost reason devalues life, but very few people are arguing this and it's not what the debate is about right now.

The post I responded to is saying "let's treat humans more like dogs". So, from my perspective, you aren't quite grasping what this debate is about.
>And maybe it's right that stories like that should be written by people who're closer to them?

Both books should be able to exist simultaneously.
This guy is great, I enjoyed his material on ____ ampersands in HTML, https://mothereff.in/ampersands
I mean I’m actually in a camp that this stuff can and has gone too far sometimes, but implicitly this is still almost always an argument about how bad the things said really are, because actually I’m pretty sure most people are fine with some ideas and people being “canceled”. They just think these particular ideas go too far. But the problem is that people then turn around and try to argue that really they’re just arguing for the free flow of ideas or some such
> Critics, writers and publishers are today enforcing a new vision that treats books less as a vehicle for artistic expression than as a product to be inspected for safety and wholesomeness. In the past few years, this has only gained momentum, with much of what is written about literature, old and new, becoming a series of moral pronouncements.

Pay attention, this is how the book-burnings and the witch-hunts start. "Wokism" is the new Right Wing Authoritarianism of this age.
I have found myself in a similar role and lead a team that spends most of our time improving the front-end build tools and front-end testing infrastructure that all teams in the company use and splitting the company's codebase into micro-frontends where it makes sense.

Depending on the company and product, it might make sense to focus on performance or building a shared component library. In our case, the average team's productivity was far below where I believe it should be because of dull tools. Figure out where your company needs improvement the most and make it better.

If you have the leverage, 17 people in daily standups is a good problem to fix.
I've watched some YouTube videos that show the process of disputing a Content ID match. It's a pretty straightforward process and Google explains how it works.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797454?hl=en

But Google can't fix legal illiteracy. They warn:

> Before you dispute: Make sure you understand how fair use and the public domain work. YouTube can’t help you decide whether you should dispute a claim. If you’re not sure what to do, you may want to seek your own legal advice.

I don't think it would really even help if lawyers were provided. All of the information needed to understand the situation is widely available. But most people can't be bothered to RTFM. They just want to upload their stuff any click 'next' without reading anything.