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> Ask HN: Is there a “spend more money” problem in political discourse?

Probably somewhere.

There's more of a tax less, restrain spending problem in political discourse in the US.

> One major problem we have here in the UK is that people will not accept any other solution to our healthcare problems other than spend more money on the NHS.

Clearly not really a problem with policy as much as it may or may not be with the discourse; UK share of GDP spent on the NHS was essentially flat for the decade pre-COVID, starting and ending at 10%, and varying between 9.6%-10% in between.

> The amount of government spends per capita far more a product of the country's GDP per capita than of relative tax rates and government deficits.

That thesis is essentially that government spending is a conatant share of GDP. Pre-COVID, whose effects on spending haven't completely passed, UK government spending as a share of GDP had declined for the preceding decade.

Not only is government spending not a constant function of GDP, there's little evidence that spending more than can be afforded, on the premise that affordability is a constant function of GDP, in the UK, but the opposite seems to be the general case.
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If you're not going to take the time to learn and understand the physics of lenses while attempting to use images from those lenses as proof of a controversial claim, then buckle up buttercup, as the condescending criticism is going to be fierce. Sheer mockery and laughter will be well deserved.
I think there's absolutely a place for imitation meat amongst ethics- or eco-conscious consumers who enjoy the flavor and feel of it.

However, as an omnivore myself, I have no interest in the imitations I've tried— Beyond's fake beef has an oily odor that is extremely off-putting to me. When I want a hamburger, I want beef, and if I don't want beef then I'll have a falafel sandwich or tempe or roasted zucchini or slices of crisped up tofu or whatever other "authentically" vegetarian options.
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There are some ridiculous examples of apps refusing to run on rooted devices or custom ROMs. The Heathrow airport app, for example - why does an app which just shows me flight times and maps care at all?!
Python Swallowed the World
Was it a Trackstar Apple clone on an ISA card maybe?

https://www.diskman.com/presents/trackstar/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhRaTI76S7Q

The CPM card from Microsoft was the Z80 SoftCard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-80_SoftCard
I personally agree with you -- as a vegetarian I'd rather eat a great black bean burger than some highly processed industrial fake meat product -- but I don't think plant based meats are going anywhere. Most people have no problem eating highly processed foods, and a lot even want that texture and flavor. People are out here drinking oat-flavored canola oil, and paying extra for it, after all.
I'm so sick of this.

I don't feel like I own my devices anymore.
I love shooting film, but I also have 30-40 undeveloped rolls, and scanning is another big headache. Film adds a huge overhead to your workflow, and I can’t blame people who don’t want to deal with it.
Does he want to delete his, or you yours?
> That, really, is the core, bitter realization that pushed me to investigate these claims so thoroughly: the only reason these allegations hold any power at all over them is their own broad agreement with progressives. If a progressive and a conservative sling “Nazi/commie” smears at each other, each can rally their own troops and proceed convinced more than ever of their opponents’ wretchedness. If people sling baseless accusations at someone like me, a frustrated centrist who spends most of my time online in “heterodox” spaces, I can laugh at the absurdity of the whole thing with my similarly world-weary friends and fellow travelers, then emerge with all the relationships I care about fully intact.

This touches a nerve for me.

I've taken a lot of shit on reddit in arguments where I was opposed to conservative people. I left angry, but mostly fine. Arguments where I was opposed to progressive people, on the other hand, left me really fucking shaken. People got vicious. One dug up some things I had said five years before which I'm not proud of, which everybody else took as permission to assume I was deeply racist and that was the only possible explanation for anything I said.

That kind of immediate casual contempt in a community you otherwise mostly align with, where you previously felt safe speaking your mind, can be pretty damn startling.
Microfocus has been posting more actively since the pandemic: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=microfocus.com But is this because of the pandemic?
Isn’t it well known in the Android modding community how to replace and make custom APEXs? E.g. XDA has some good documentation. That seems like the right way to solve this problem.

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/android-q-apex-biggest-thing-...
[2] https://www.xda-developers.com/android-10-custom-boot-animat...
To be fair, while I agree with you, integration/e2e tests are much much easier to introduce into a legacy system, and it's really really easy to break things at the edges so they are definitely useful.
Who the hell is trying to work remotely from their shoebox apartment? That's the point of WFH -- you can move out of Tokyo to rural Japan and live in a larger space for cheaper. Or rural France. Plenty of space in rural India.

Not much luck for Singapore tho, but that's the nature of the city-state.

> To make it permanent remote would involve a huge restructuring of those societies and that cost is much greater than maintaining office towers.

bollocks. MS Teams or Slack is cheap, and the cost of moving to a rural locale isn't hard. Smaller towns will develop their own amenities, and 2nd and 3rd tier cities would do well.
>regulations about all the ways a website has to harass you

For the hundredth time, the regulations do NOT tell companies to harass you. They do that to make you angry at the laws that prevent them from data harvesting you to the extent they do in the US. It's that simple. You can comply with GDPR and the cookies law 100% without ever asking the user anything.

If a website is asking you for consent for anything, they're trying to treat you as cattle they can harvest data from for sale. That's the only reason. That or utterly incompetent lawyers.
> but they're best loved at a distance I find

Please, tell us more.
What backups? It's literally impossible to take backup images of an Android phone (as in: the entire thing, not just some Playstore apps and some of the settings).

The last phone I used that supported taking a backup image of the entire phone was a 2013 BlackberryOS 10 device.
If you're open to hosted service, is the best commercial visual + headless CMS I've come across that supports React - https://www.storyblok.com/home.
I think this is exactly the problem. The expectations should be clear on both sides. If I am expecting delivery to my streetfront I will be happy to go down and get it. If I am expecting delivery to my apartment door I will be annoyed if they refuse to do that.

If people want different things there could be an option in the app to decide what you want (with an appropriate price difference).
> Helping juniors do their job is great and all, but you still need experienced people to work on the hard and complex stuff that juniors can't because they don't have the knowledge/experience/people-skills. No amount of pair programming can replace that.

Or, it could be said, you need to refactor your codebase so no job is all that "hard and complex".

Should have had one of those seniors build it in the first place, eh, then juniors could be trusted to modify it. Or, what you say, he did? Then why is he "a senior" in the first place, if stuff is "hard and complex" because of how he built it...?
Is there code-completion/intellisense baked-in as of Emacs 29? I think not.

Why can't something that is built into IDEs like Intellij be built into Emacs even after 30+ years of development?
My dad showed me pictures of "Windows 4.0" in a magazine and told me that when it came out, it wouldn't have a Program Manager, and you could delete DOS. My mind was totally blown.
Many people don't question why we have words for things, and speak as if there's some word-particle or word-god that determined what all words mean, as opposed to words having uses that grow and evolve as humans grow and evolve. There will always be that form of concrete thinking, but I think the sort of rote-style learning in American schools is in part responsible for otherwise intelligent individuals believing that American cheese is a lie because "it's not cultured therefor it's not cheese!"

Perhaps I don't care enough either way. Even if the metaphysics of language different such that words could only ever have one very specific immutable meaning, I can't imaging caring enough that I would object to something being referred to as "oat milk."
The problems with dimensionality certainly show up even with 256 dimensions. PCA-ing down to a few hundred dimensions is still a problem, and then you have to deal with PCA lossiness too!
not OP but: pronounced as as veat, as in vegetable. They were clear to say for English speakers.
I feel like there should be better categorization of these languages. HTML and SQL have their own specific domains: you can't write a backend or a compiler in HTML or SQL, but you can with Python and Java. HTML is more comparable to java on the frontend (android apps vs web apps) and SQL is more comparable to various nosql implementations
> > They seem quite impossible to solve until you try a bunch of things, sometimes for years/decades, throwing stuff at the wall

> Do you see what you did there? That's breaking things down and trying lots of small things.

No it's not, that's my whole point.

If you're trying to find a filament that will work for a commercial light bulb, then testing out 1,000 materials is not breaking anything down to solve the problem. Instead, it's trial and error. They're literally the opposite approaches.

Some problems are solvable through fragmentation. Many others are just fundamentally not, and these obviously tend to be the more difficult ones.

> If anything, LLMs can help make non-linear thinking more efficient by getting you out of small areas of focus

That's literally the opposite of breaking things down into small steps. So now I don't even know what you're arguing anymore. But also, I don't see how LLM's help that in the least. I have not seen any examples of LLM's demonstrating "non-linear thinking". They literally work, well, with linear token prediction -- one token at a time.
I think WASM will win. I've been using JavaScript for 25+ years, and I just wrote a SPA using Rust/WASM using the Leptos framework: https://github.com/leptos-rs/leptos, and now I don't want to go back to JavaScript. Cargo is a superior package manager, with Cargo I might actually be able to let me my project sit for a year or two and go back and build to a working runtime without having to do a lot of dependency updates (good luck doing that with NPM). Rust has a solid type system, and with the borrow checker along with pattern exhaustive matching I can write something that I know is solid and will be difficult to break. There is no need to have multiple stages build pipeline running through Babel and Webpack which need to be properly configured; simply compile Rust to the WASM target and that is it. The WASM bundle is also likely to be smaller than a corresponding JavaScript bundle. Additionally, with Rust it is easier to do low-level stuff in the client efficiently such as feature extraction from image binaries. Also, the application I wrote with WASM is faster than a similar app I wrote in React, although I attribute that mostly to the fact that Leptos does not use a virtual DOM as React does.
Also more permeable to oxygen.

Aluminum in general is great at blocking most gases, but especially oxygen.
I have an X13 with Ubuntu 20.04 and it works flawlessly.

The trackpad is terrible though.
Yes, you're definitely right about what they said, I'm not sure they really believed it ,though.

In the north and even in the Republican party itself immediate abolition without compensation was still certainly a 'fringe' view. However the new administration was pretty explicit about not allowing new slave states to join in the future while simultaneously allowing accept new free states.

Slave states would've been outvoted in Congress, which would've probably led to eventual abolition. However it would've been a slow and gradual process with possible compensation and much closer to a 'death by a thousand cuts' (anything else would've just triggered a secession and most northern politicians certainly preferred allowing the Southern states to maintain slavery for the foreseable future).

So I certainly doubt most reasonable people in the South expected that slavery would be abolished 'within the next administration,' but they still must have seen the writing on the wall and judged that they'll never be in a stronger position than they were at that time. When they actually decided to secede, it made sense to use the strongest/most outlandish language possible in their propaganda (since of course, there were still probably some people who might have believed it)
Personally, I have a few issues with the philosophy of EA that I believe are reflected in the community.

1) I believe the thought leaders behind the philosophy severely downplay the downsides of making money amorally. It’s considered a completely legitimate approach to find the highest paying job you can and donate lots of your salary. High paying jobs that attract EA believers (finance in particular, many areas of tech as well) tend to destabilize the economy, oppress people, and contribute to unreasonable expectations about economic growth that kill our planet.

2) The movement is culturally weak, doesn’t really attempt to branch out of a few men with similar finance/tech backgrounds with huge egos and savior complexes. This, to me, is not how change occurs. Culture is a necessary part of change. Sure, you can provide mosquito nets to malaria-ridden areas of the world, but that doesn’t change a culture of corruption or encourage the next generation to solve the local systemic issues that only they’re capable of fixing. Real movements attempt to change hearts and minds and incorporate different types of people. In other words, movements are inseparable from their community. Any philosophy that doesn’t incorporate community building is not going to be the most effective way of creating positive change.
Hmmm, yeah, I used 2^30 instead of 2^40. Should not comment before caffeinating.
Birmingham City Council declares itself effectively bankrupt
huh, but on iOS you have apps that can ignore your VPN connection... https://restoreprivacy.com/latest-ios-found-to-bypass-vpn-co...
Possibly, but then the library should also "count".

The web equivalent of this kind of extreme minimization is probably https://js1k.com/
Other than the obvious confounding factors, I feel this has to have some cherry picking or selective interpretation of what is a non-violent movement. Almost always there's some non-violent action preceding a violent movement, the question is at which stage they get quashed, fail to become much bigger, and then people have to resort to violence.
An M1 MacBook is your best bet. If that doesn't meet your needs, then you'll want to get an Intel or AMD laptop, for now.

I'm not aware of a non-Apple ARM laptop that works better than an M1 with Asahi.
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My favorite camera + lens in use is a micro 4/3 mirrorless body with a pentax lens adapted with an off brand "speed booster" making my lens an F/1 in principle. Filling in the gap where the mirror was supposed to be is an easy problem, making it fun to repurpose lenses designed for SLRs on mirrorless cameras. There are even passive spacer adapters that just fill the flange distance. It can be an option for Pentax to design these adapters with the autofocus also working.
thank you. this may be true. obviously i can't emphasize what others feel for something that i don't feel. whether that is an anomaly is something i am rather curious about. but i can most certainly say that all my kids were a choice, one that i would make again, regardless of any troubles having them may have caused.

as for offending, i guess i am generally bothered when people make assumptions about other peoples motivations
As you say, TDD can make it "less easy" for a bad design to settle in - if you pay attention. If it's hard to write the test, it may be telling you something about the design. If you listen, that can push you toward fixing the design. If you don't listen, well, you're just going to write the tests that you're told to write, and probably grumble about it, but that doesn't help the design at all.
Where I live I saw a big shift in delivery people in the late aughts. I live in a city in the northeast (not NYC). These days even most of the apps like DoorDash are still using a restaurant's own delivery drivers.

I lived in a high-rise with elevators. From about 2000 until the late aughts it was like clockwork. They'd ring my buzzer, I'd buzz them in, and they'd stop at my door. In the late aughts it started to shift. More and more drivers would call me from downstairs and tell me I could pick up my food.

I can only imagine what it's like these days in a building like that. I live in a single family house now and 9 times out of 10 they won't even walk the 5 feet to my door from their car.
Do you have evidence they are eating into the bottom line? It's my impression that these two classifications of food sell to very different markets. I myself would never buy any vegan "meat" product.
You'd think you could plug a cable into a computer and have it tell you the capabilities instead of needing a dedicated device
Agree. I saw a codebase with extreme tdd and the result is that it could achieve an extreme amount of mocking (and it did). The design was bad, but very testable.
> It's still difficult to achieve for numerous services, particularly location-based utilities (electrical, water, gas, sewerage, data/comms).

That's why in the civilized world utilies cannot just cut off paying customers whenever they feel like it. Perhaps we should extend that to almost-mandatory online services but until prehistoric politicians get replaced by internet natives that is unlikely to happen (and even then people might be too used to the status quo), avoid depending on such services wherever you can.

> For hosting services it's somewhat more tractable, though you're looking at multi-tenancy hosting with distinct providers.

This feels like you are letting perfect be the enemy of good - first make sure that you can switch hosts if needed - reasonable downtime for rare unforseeable events is not the end of the world but if you have to rebuild from scratch because your Discord "server" was deleted and you don't have any other contact info of your users that's a different matter entirely.

For smaller businesses a single hosting provider is absolutely fine as long as all you depend on is basic hosting and not provider-specific APIs and services that are there to trap you. Do have offsite backups though, but you should have that even without fearing that the provider will fuck you over because accidents and less-forseeable disasters do happen.
There are Kaphrao boom in Bangkok for last 10 years or so. Previously it was cheap, fast food dish that is common in central Thailand, but it has since been researched, experimented, and elevated. If you wife aren't from central Thailand and hasn't really been back for the past 10 years she probably doesn't really connect with it.
This looks like an interesting project!

Your phrases made me think the wasm support was an official nvim move, but it looks like this is a third party project. Is that right?
Agreed. However, I also think that help does tend to "materialize" if you end up needing it. I've noticed that couples who make a lot of "wrong" decisions (e.g., financially, timing wise) end up getting help while couples who make the "right" decisions seem to get less help. And both types of couples end up with almost the same outcome.
Video of Bill Gates Meeting
There is an old video of Bill Gates in a meeting, maybe from the 90s, I think there's a camera on the table and he is rocking in the chair and fidgeting with a bottle cap. I can't find it anywhere on YouTube, does anyone have a link by any chance?
https://archive.is/meiDp
It's been a long known issue [0] that cert providers had to account for, but apparently not anymore [1] from Android 14

> Android 14 makes root certificates updatable via Google Play

> Android's root store used to require an OTA update to add or remove root certificates. That won't be the case in Android 14.

TIL there's a workaround though [0]:

> If you use Android 7.0 or earlier, you may need to take action to ensure you can still access websites secured by Let’s Encrypt certificates. We recommend installing and using Firefox Mobile, which uses its own trust store instead of the Android OS trust store, and therefore trusts ISRG Root X1.

[0] https://letsencrypt.org/2023/07/10/cross-sign-expiration.htm...

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/android-14-root-certificates-...
The demos are (a) an extraordinary amount of work and (b) rely on generative systems to produce a large world from small data, so it's usually not possible to fine-tune individual details of the world.
WCAG 2.x was neither peer reviewed nor empirically tested—true. However this is not the case for the candidate for WCAG 3, which is APCA. APCA has been in public beta testing for two and a half years, is the subject of ongoing empirical studies, and does already have journal published peer review, as well as independent peer reviews by PhDs, vision scientists, data scientists, and other technologists.

See a partial listing of reviews:
https://git.apcacontrast.com/documentation/independent-revie...
> If you extrapolate, the earth would be much smaller in these photos.

At that height, the horizon would appear nearly as a perfect straight line. With a pinhole camera, it would be projected as a straight line in the image plane. Thus, the curvature here has to do with the wide-angle geometry of the lens. If the camera was pointing higher, you would see the horizon curved in the other direction (which would look even cooler!).
Top typos of all times.
TIL, they still make these printers!

Due to the price though I'm still looking for a boneheaded hack using a cheap used laser printer with user-supplied custom toner.
Many people refer to the flesh of the fruit vs the skin vs the seed.
Ask HN: How to start a solo web design business?
I want to give running my own shop a try. But I'm struggling with how to position myself. Quite possibly analysis paralysis.

Ideas:

SEO - I have ranked local websites before and have experience with larger sites.
Wordpress sites - Very quick to build and I have the skills to build custom made templates.
Full stack SaaS solutions - Built a few personal projects that vary in complexity. Probably the biggest $$$ but also the hardest.

I don't know which angle to pick. I think if I present myself with all options, there's a chance it will alienate potential customers not to mention spread myself too thin. How do I choose which path to go down?

Does anyone have any advice and especially customer acquisition? I'm not looking to get rich and very willing to put the hard work in.