skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wouldn't be this steep if he wasn't trying as hard as he can to follow through on his promises of "his own brand" of prosperity, the only way he has ever known how, unfortunately that's when massive losses have always proven the most likely outcome.

Anyone else with a proper business background would have been able to negotiate international trade agreements more favorably, including overall increases in tariffs, and if there was going to be unavoidable downward pressure it would certainly be much less than this at this point.

Plus someone with actual useful deal-making experience would have been able to maintain stability on the way to a noticeable if not shocking upturn by now, there was a lot of low-hanging fruit left over after Biden.

Why not do something with that, rather than take it out on the American people? Just because all of them didn't vote for Trump, he can't bring himself to care about the country as a whole, or average citizens hardly at all. Much less legal residents.

If the only way to "sink the liberals" makes almost everyone else go down with the ship, so be it.
The debt goes up during republican governments much more then during democrat ones. If you cared about debt, you would voted democrats.
We don't slaughter animals because we think they don't mind dying, we slaughter them because we've outsourced the mass killings to people who don't mind doing it, and a steak looks enough unlike a cow that we don't think that it used to be alive.

Basically, if we had to slaughter our own cows, I doubt we'd be eating as much meat.
Lustron house
"If Americans were educated and could read they would vote Democrat..."

EXACTLY the thinking that won Trump the election. Reduce legitimate concerns to the deplorable desires of the unwashed masses.

We need another "Why Trump won?" postmortem, as it seems people haven't learned yet.
Reports are that Trump ignored all his advisors and did what he wanted so your point isn't relevant. I haven't heard a single analyst find sense in how tariff levels were set per country - someone did notice that it appeared a very simple formula had been applied, one that has no basis in economic theory.

Go open 10 year chats for the GDP, S&P 500, etc.

There was no problem with "level playing fields."

All of this is just one man who for forty years has been obsessed with how "we" are supposedly being "taken advantage of."

The economy overall was doing fine - intense economic stratification is a problem, but overall the country's economy was productive.

Man steps in, inheriting a growing economy doing just fine...and after months of uncertainty and upheaval, in two days erases a year's worth of economic growth.
Does it still do this? I thought they changed this many years ago?
Most of those are probably indirect. Same here: Stripe doesn’t issue credit cards or even process transactions itself. It partners with a half-dozen or so credit card networks, and each network partners with thousands of banks around the world.
Sometimes I think that the libertarians should be condemned to live in their dream society, without laws, regulations, public service, etc.

It gets tiresome listening to their "taxes are theft" bullshit.
There is no economic argument for tariffs. There are mountains of theory and empirical historical evidence that they make countries poorer.

The motivation for these tariffs are not economic or financial.

They are being used by a narcissist as a tool to force others prostate themselves on front of him. Whether foreign leaders - who will have to "kiss the ring" pleading the case for their country to get relief - or domestic CEOs who will now have join a queue to plead with Trump for exemptions for their particular sector (like the auto business CEOs have).

We've already seen it with social media CEOs who queued up to offer him money and support, we're seeing it with law firms whose very existence he has threatened by EO forcing senior partners to not only bend to his will but to humiliate themselves in doing so and we seen university presidents do similar.

The tariff stuff is a continuation and escalation of that policy.

The cost is to America's reputation, international standing and economic well-being and will be borne for decades. The benefits are ephemeral - an ego massage for DJ Trump.
“ The Stock Market(s) are literally crashing. There was no reason for this, all self inflicted!”

- Trump….

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1084698607876...
From polls, a good half disapproves, while a third approves. The remaining sixth or so is undecided.
For immutable infra, shell scripts are king. You're essentially just installing packages and copying files around, there's really no need to get any more complicated than that.
I asked and got Bas's[1] permission to use C3 as a name when I first started out.

[1] Bas van den Berg, the author of C2.
There's already a Reddit group for this: https://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/
And recent trade data for context.

In 2018, U.S. goods imports from Russia
totaled $20.9 billion, up 22.4 percent ($3.8 billion) from 2017, but down 22.1 percent from ten
years ago.
To (1):

- Tariffs are not a lever, they distort risk tolerance.

- Tariffs are crude, they are like a huge hammer hitting everyone, including allies

- Tariffs cause loss of confidence and loss of credit

To (2):

- Blanket tariffs target allies; they're isolating us and we're creating blocks polarized to us and weaning themselves off our economic output.

- Tariffs only reduce dependency if there is internal capacity, of which there is none. We'll best case shift our dependency via third-party countries

- We're concentrating our risk on fewer countries where tariffs are lower

To (3):

- We're reducing our efficiency and increasing prices, job losses are coming, productivity will stagnate. We're reducing our agility and our headroom

- Historically, autarky has lead to stagnation.

The economic consensus against these tariffs is real. It's exceedingly likely the US will destroy its economy, alienate itself and isolate itself because of them :)
39 USD/month. So 20% cheaper than that in a few weeks for the rest of the world.
Im not sure I would even consider CoD realistic either unless you back to when it was primarily a single player game. It has good graphics that look like reality sure, but the guns don't handle anything like real guns would, the people don't move or operate like real people, and even the environments are cut down to impossibly small engagement areas. I would even say GTA is far more realistic than CoD.
> And if OP has any sense, they’ve unloaded those positions already and made some serious bank.

Absolutely not, I am a coward and only buying options around the $50-range and selling out for +$20 to +$100.
Sqlite started as a tcl extension. That isn't exactly your question, but I thought it was closely related.
I'm also a vegan, but it doesn't seem likely to me that other species have languages similar to ours. I think people have already used ML to interpret cat and dog communications, and they got general emotions more than something like syntax.

It's complicated by the fact that other species' throats and mouths physically can't form many human language phonemes*, but even the use or recognition of human language by other great apes (and parrots) is very controversial, and they probably have cognition and sociality most similar to ours. But it's not clear that they can do much of what human language does.
Oh! I expected it to be cheaper shipping within Europe. I live on completely the other side of the world (antipodes of Spain or Casablanca to be precise)and it was a similar price. I took 18, which doubled the overall cost compared to getting just 1 (shipping was 30.92 EUR).
Are there any serious economists who have explained this plan and what they think is supposed to happen?
Given the 96% price cut, safe to say traction hasn't been great?
So 1 country down, 193 to go? Threatening the entire world with a financial meltdown is not a bluff, or in any way a reasonable thing to do. It's tantamount to a declaration of war, and we'd get what we deserve if the rest of the world treated it that way.

Either way, the stature and role of the US internationally has been forever altered, and not positively.
To contrast this, for anyone that might be interested, a well researched ~1:40h documentary on Yoko's impact on the Beatles and John's life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMOABV_zgrk
Buy from who? If costs would be cheap, who would want to sell assets?
In Starcraft, the Terran Factory structure had the ability to Lift Off, fly around, and land somewhere else.

I think the obvious thing to do is for manufacturing companies to start strapping Space-X Starships to their factories. Then when the administration changes, or tariffs or taxes become more favorable in another country, they can just Lift Off and move them to the new location.

Alternatively, we could pursue a Waterworld future where all the factories float around in international waters.

All this churn is just an opportunity to think outside the box!
Not much written for them being implemented like this, though.
What exactly is the problem with sociology research? Is it not a valid field of study? Or are you just against research grants as a whole?

I think it benefits society to fund academic research.
stuff from plastic/oil-derivated products in dollar stores.

cutlery, toothbrush, sponges, cleaning stuff, garbage bags, pen/glue/notebooks/glue (if you want your kids to go to school), basic self-care things (hairbands, razors etc., if you want a job), bandages and a score of health stuff, screen protectors (gotta make your phone last, that's how you get jobs), batteries. and then some toys for your kids to keep them busy because you will be working a lot...
Solid blue collar people will pay most of it in form of more expensive cloth, food, cars ... everything. The poorer you are, the more you will feel it. If you are rich, prices going up by 20% are nothing. If you are middle class, it is annoying. If you are poor, it is disaster.

Plus, truly rich are getting lower taxes. Tariffs are partially meant to offset those looses.
> What isn't clear to me is where ASCII text with 64 added to every byte occurs in the wild.

maybe it has some general ascii bittwiddling capability for base64 and uuencode that help here too
Theoretically you can use one of these: https://www.tindie.com/products/bobricius/micro-sd-card-to-s...

I haven't tried it so I don't know how well it works
I believe that Opalstack is what you're looking for. I've used their service for a while.
Show HN: Automatic Python shebang lines for venv and conda environment finding
While there are many python environment management solutions, a problem that has vexed me for a while is conveniently making short scripts with portable shebang lines (the "#!/something" at the top of a script) that can find venv or conda environments for directly running them as executables. I created this runvenv program to try to solve this, with lines like "#!/usr/bin/env -S runvenv py313")

The singular purpose of runvenv is to go through a useful ordered search to find a named environment directory, and then run that python executable so that the python script ends up within the environment. Python detects where it is run from, so as long as the right one is executed, the rest of the environment is used properly.

This supports a bunch of approaches. For example, it works for making scripts with a named environment right in the same directory of the script, and then it will find that environment without activating anything, regardless of the current working directory, and even if the script is run from a symlink. It also supports a user level collection of venvs, and a system level collection of venvs. And if it can't find those, it goes through all of the places conda environments are typically found, and looks for a matching conda environment to use.

I've been using it a good bit since I wrote it, and I feel like it's one of those things that "just works". It has been a game changer for me in making little python scripts with a python environment dependency, since I can just drop the name of the environment in the shebang line, and it will "do the right thing", find it, and use it to run the python code.

There are a few other tools like "uv" and "pipx" that can handle shebang lines properly, within their own environment ecosystem. But this one works flexibly for shebangs with standard venvs project-level or shared, or with the conda environments I encounter regularly in data science. I put a bunch of usage examples in the README.

This "should" be cross-platform, as a good attempt was made, but I would appreciate some feedback on this from people trying it out, as platforms can be quite heterogeneous and there are surely some cases to account for.
I own the first edition of this book and it's really good. I've written a few tcl scripts with it, but nothing major. Python just has the better ecosystem now for my needs. I might use tcl if I needed something really small though.
I don't normally get into this type of political debate but ...

>Should Israel be allowed to attack terrorist organizations in Palestine?

yes. I think actual terrorists should be eligible for being attacked anywhere. The real question you didn't ask is who gets to label what is and is not a terrorist? Black Panthers were considered terrorists in the US in the 60s and 70s but heros to the Black community now. In the US, again, our founding fathers were all considered terrorists by Britain.

>If so, is there an "acceptable" level of civilian casualties (collateral damage)?

The "acceptable" level of civilian casualties or collateral damage is zero. With the understanding that accidents happen, but all plans should be for zero.

>Does that level change if the terrorists intentionally use civilians as human shields

No. This routinely happens in the US over the years where criminals or even terrorists take hostages on a plane, bank, school, hospital, or other place with innocent people. We do not drop bombs on the building killing all the innocents to get at the evil-doers. Have you noticed that no country in the Western civilized world would even consider that? Modern military should be able to go in and do surgical strikes or a surrender. Hell, in the US, we have small towns with volunteer SWAT teams that do this routinely with basically 100% success rate.

I think the biggest problem, which is covered in most war-time conventions, is that you should treat civilians and innocent people the same as you would treat your own innocent civilians. This is somehow being argued that it does not apply in the middle East or Ukraine or Russia where people just remotely drop bombs and blame "human shields".

Not too long ago the US would be ashamed to admit it even did something like this, because it seems like incompetence or cowardice, but now we support it somehow?
Destructors and Ownership implies RAII and all the design and architecture that are assumed with such things. This is far from C semantics, and so out of scope for C3.

Any RAII language will be considered a C++ competitor, not a C alternative. None of Zig, Odin, C3 or Hare has RAII.
3. Why was Russia uniquely exempt from tariffs?
yep. I liquidated my TFSA ( tax free savings account in Canada ) 2 weeks ago. 90k. Invested in risk-free 90 days GICs instead. No way I would have watched it lose 10-20% of its value in 2 weeks
I'm not a hardware tinkerer - but if there was a production version of this, I would buy it. But I guess I'm a niche market.
There are different things here that you are glossing over and conflating.

Yes, there is a moral right and necessity for self-determination and self-defense for the Jews after the Holocaust. But there is no necessity or justification for that to happen in Palestine, especially when this means displacing and slaughtering the Palestinians who have lived there for quite a few centuries. And indeed Palestinians do have a moral right of self-determination and self-defense as well. So the essence of Zionism, which is the idea of taking over Palestine for a Jewish state, is deeply immoral because of that. And this immorality doesn't simply disappear because of the wrongs that were done to the Jews by non-Palestinians. And because of that, anti-Zionism is a moral imperative, because it aims to correct an immorality. Whereas antisemitism is something completely different.

> Anti-Zionism is antisemitic because it declares that no, it is preferable for Jews to continue to face the Holocaust and other attempts at their genocide than to concede their right to self defense as a people.

Which means that you think the only possible way to avoid a genocide of Jews and for Jews to defend themselves is to settle in Palestine? Nothing else would have done? Given that there were quite a few wars around the establishment of Israel which could have very well wiped Israel off the map that is quite a bold statement.

I rather think this idea of self-defense and self-determination of the Jewish people being only possible in Israel/Palestine is a religiously derived idea, nothing that has any basis in political and military facts or morals. It was just a "wouldn't it be nice to do this in Gods Promised Land?" kind of thing, current inhabitants be damned...
There is no such thing as sleep
If I were to guess, most (adult) humans could not add two 3 digit numbers together with 100% accuracy. Maybe 99%? Computers can already do 100%, so we should probably be trying to figure out how to use language to extract the numbers from stuff and send them off to computers to do the calculations. Especially because in the real world most numbers that matter are not just two digits addition
See, even the way you explained it is miles above what they said. Claiming the trade balance is unjust but leaving out a major component reeks of dishonesty. How can anyone trust them ?
Has anybody considered selling ad space on their Github READMEs for popular OSS packages?

Contributions are great, but I'd imagine more money would be generated for OSS devs if the contributors got something in return - namely highly targeted web traffic from a link on the README.

Personally, I'd like to buy a few links on READMEs to source more consulting work, but finding contact information and cold emailing repository owners is pretty difficult.

Thoughts?
> The things that dominate middle class budgets: food [...] have become increasingly unaffordable in recent decades

I tried finding some number to corroborate your claims.

The proportion of food in the American budget has decreased from ~17% to ~13% between the 60's and now. In fact, it has decreased a lot for "at home food" and increased slightly for "dining out food"[1]. Food seems cheaper than ever - on average.
The current price of a calorie sufficient diet is now roughly $0.44/day in the US [2] that sounds very
low.
Between the 60's and today; the average daily supply of calories per person has increased from ~3000 kcal to ~3800 kcal [3]. People eat more than ever - on average.

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/chart-d...
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cost-calorie-sufficient-d...
[3] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-per-capita-caloric-...

I really wanna believe you, but aren't you just looking at the past with rose tainted glasses. And if you are young; aren't you making up a past that doesn't even exist ?
This doesn't match the Webster's definition either. If your response to that is "there are no gods anyways" then you've earned yourself a chuckle.
A large fraction of families traveling value the kitchens (leftovers, kid breakfasts, not having to eat restaurant food for every meal, when all the kids want is Kraft Mac&Cheese, etc.) and the common living spaces (kids go to bed early). I hate traveling with my family and being stuck in a hotel room (or two!). When I'm traveling alone or with just adults, I can be out all day and only use my hotel room for sleeping, but with a diverse set of ages traveling, we often hang out in the living room while someone naps, or my kids will be done with touristing by 3pm and we need somewhere to be until dinnertime.

You see this in vacation destinations like Hawaii and Ski towns; there is a significant fraction of accommodations that are Condos, because you need a place to hang. AirBNB brought that to urban areas by sub-letting apartments, when hotel operators only provided maximally-dense sleeping-focused options; multi-bedroom hotel rooms with living rooms and kitchens largely did not exist in major city centers.
Wikipedia and their processes are independent to any language. It means that if Odin or other languages were removed, they were likely judged as not meeting the standard or not popular enough. That the Odin language is so old (around 9 years), and still not on it, is indicative of it not being as popular as various people are hoping.

The use of negative catch phrases and envious put downs by competitors of Vlang has no bearing on the Wikipedia process. They will not care about any competition or politics among programming languages. The language either meets their standard and proves its case, that it should have a page, or not. Just like Zig, Nim, Rust, etc... have done.
> "got defeated"

1.5 hours with Chollet on "LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution" -

Published June 2024, and by December, well...we can all agree there's an ARC AGI 2 now.

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/francois-chollet
Why are they not collected through consent?
I'm surprised to see courseware absent from the list of Markdown uses, but I assume it's not in-scope for iA Writer so that might make sense.
> A country should seek to compete in industries it has the most core competencies in.

While US policymakers were following that advice, China did the opposite. They decided what they wanted to compete in and built the core competencies they needed to do so.
If I could strafe jump as well in person as Quake, well, everyone would know
All that doesn't make them any less terrorist.
Or just show a prompt whether you try the first time you try to boot something with a signature that is not recognized, like what a million slightly-less-consumer-hostile appliances out there do. This _adds_ convenience to the user, and it is hardly a regression in security.
The wealthier you are, the more flexibility you have in your purchasing decisions as well. It’s easier to accelerate or delay a big purchase to save 30% when it’s not something you need to live, or can’t afford to jump on a purchase last minute.
> A listing could look great online and receive a lot of bookings (so high LTV), but ultimately drive users away from the platform.

I am precisely this kind of churned customer. I have personally booked maybe 3 AirBNB stays, and stayed with family in them on other occasions. The units I pick are always well-reviewed.

But in the cities I've stayed in (LA, SF, Rome), the price is really no cheaper than a hotel, and the quality is extremely variable. You have to really carefully read those 5-star guest reviews to read between the lines.

And you feel pressured not to leave a negative review, as that would negatively impact your ability to book in the future, since the hosts (I have heard) can see your average review score.

My impression has been that AirBNB's customers are actually the hosts. You, the guest, are an expendable commodity. You will use AirBNB until you have a severe enough problem, and experience them siding with the host over you. Then you'll be churned permanently, and by force if you do a chargeback.

If I were going to disrupt AirBNB, I'd offer hosts a better percentage with the requirement that the experience is standardized and high-quality. There would be an in-unit noise & vibration sensor, reporting directly in the app. 24 hour check-in and check-out. A minimum set of amenities, minimum WiFi speed. The bedding would be standard. Cleaning fee standard. Every unit subject to a surprise multi-point inspection at least once per year. Essentially, make it no worse than an average hotel, and maybe some units as good or better than high end hotels.