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Tariff: A Python package that imposes tariffs on Python imports

221 points by khaledh 1y ago

Imustaskforhelp 1y ago
oh boy I was thinking of doing something like this for the lolz but I genuinely didn't knew what it meant to put tariff in programming. The author however has it figured out. What an amazing job to create something so mematic I think. A perfect blend of politics and programming.
akkartik 1y ago
What is #mipa?
- khaledh 1y ago
  There's a PR to fix that: https://github.com/hxu296/tariff/pull/11/files https://github.com/hxu296/tariff/pull/11/files
- alexwwang 1y ago
  [dead]
- lawrencejgd 1y ago
  Make Importing Peak Again?
graemep 1y ago
I was hoping this would be a way of penalising developers who add ridiculous numbers of dependencies.
- snvzz 1y ago
  Or automatically funding projects depended on.
hughdbrown 1y ago
Because those packages are cheating us.
3eb7988a1663 1y ago
The issue tracker + pull requests are also worth browsing: https://github.com/hxu296/tariff/issues https://github.com/hxu296/tariff/issues
- adamquek 1y ago
  Oh! Thanks for sharing. #4 is a winner!
  - skylurk 1y ago
    > C++, what a disrespectful language! Nobody can be faster than Python, NOBODY! We should raise the tariff charged to C++ to 145x.
elashri 1y ago
There should be a method to impose base tarrifs of 10% by default on all packages. Even if you are not importing non-existent packages from the penguin Islands.
- jogu 1y ago
  The tariff definition is just a dict so it's pretty straightforward to pass a dict that has a default value instead.
cosmicgadget 1y ago
I am going to be so much more productive now that I'm incentivized to code everything from scratch.
JodieBenitez 1y ago
I don't have a horse in the white house race. I'm not even american, so my voice don't count here. But I wish developers would refrain from using the languages tooling to voice political opinions. At least this package I can ignore... but the last time I used npm my terminal looked like both a blend of a protest march and a craigslist page, completely drowning the relevant informations.
- 12_throw_away 1y ago
  wow, sounds awful, you should probably ask for your money back
- decremental 1y ago
  [dead]
- edent 1y ago
  I'm pretty glad Alan Turing expressed his political opinions in code.
- sabslikesobs 1y ago
  Yeah. I feel there's a kind of eternal serenity to be found in truly apolitical works. For everyone to put their connection to Today aside and share in something timeless---that really feels like genuine connection to others.
  - exe34 1y ago
    I feel it's dehumanising to expect people to provide free work and hide their lived struggles. There are trans people contributing top notch code to the community - I don't want them to feel like they have to hide their existence and the ongoing persecution of their kind and produce apolitical code just because it makes some people uncomfortable to see somebody else suffer.
  - Planktonne 1y ago
    > For everyone to put their connection to Today aside and share in something timeless This is a political position.
moktonar 1y ago
Well.. this might not be as silly as it seems..
norskeld 1y ago
roll-safe.jpg tariff.set({ "numpy": -100 })
Lvl999Noob 1y ago
Feature request! Could this automatically figure out which country the package is from, then impose the at-that-time current tariff? And maybe work out whether the dev is in USA or outside. A best effort is fine! (Actually, mid effort is probably better; more true to the source)
touristtam 1y ago
I feel I need this for node....

221 points by khaledh 1y ago

oh boy I was thinking of doing something like this for the lolz but I genuinely didn't knew what it meant to put tariff in programming. The author however has it figured out. What an amazing job to create something so mematic I think. A perfect blend of politics and programming.

akkartik 1y ago

What is #mipa?

khaledh 1y ago
There's a PR to fix that: https://github.com/hxu296/tariff/pull/11/files https://github.com/hxu296/tariff/pull/11/files
alexwwang 1y ago
[dead]
lawrencejgd 1y ago
Make Importing Peak Again?

graemep 1y ago

I was hoping this would be a way of penalising developers who add ridiculous numbers of dependencies.

snvzz 1y ago
Or automatically funding projects depended on.

hughdbrown 1y ago

Because those packages are cheating us.

3eb7988a1663 1y ago

The issue tracker + pull requests are also worth browsing: https://github.com/hxu296/tariff/issues https://github.com/hxu296/tariff/issues

adamquek 1y ago
Oh! Thanks for sharing. #4 is a winner!
- skylurk 1y ago
  > C++, what a disrespectful language! Nobody can be faster than Python, NOBODY! We should raise the tariff charged to C++ to 145x.

elashri 1y ago

There should be a method to impose base tarrifs of 10% by default on all packages. Even if you are not importing non-existent packages from the penguin Islands.

jogu 1y ago
The tariff definition is just a dict so it's pretty straightforward to pass a dict that has a default value instead.

cosmicgadget 1y ago

I am going to be so much more productive now that I'm incentivized to code everything from scratch.

JodieBenitez 1y ago

I don't have a horse in the white house race. I'm not even american, so my voice don't count here. But I wish developers would refrain from using the languages tooling to voice political opinions. At least this package I can ignore... but the last time I used npm my terminal looked like both a blend of a protest march and a craigslist page, completely drowning the relevant informations.

12_throw_away 1y ago
wow, sounds awful, you should probably ask for your money back
decremental 1y ago
[dead]
edent 1y ago
I'm pretty glad Alan Turing expressed his political opinions in code.
sabslikesobs 1y ago
Yeah. I feel there's a kind of eternal serenity to be found in truly apolitical works. For everyone to put their connection to Today aside and share in something timeless---that really feels like genuine connection to others.
- exe34 1y ago
  I feel it's dehumanising to expect people to provide free work and hide their lived struggles. There are trans people contributing top notch code to the community - I don't want them to feel like they have to hide their existence and the ongoing persecution of their kind and produce apolitical code just because it makes some people uncomfortable to see somebody else suffer.
- Planktonne 1y ago
  > For everyone to put their connection to Today aside and share in something timeless This is a political position.

moktonar 1y ago

Well.. this might not be as silly as it seems..

norskeld 1y ago

roll-safe.jpg tariff.set({ "numpy": -100 })

Lvl999Noob 1y ago

Feature request! Could this automatically figure out which country the package is from, then impose the at-that-time current tariff? And maybe work out whether the dev is in USA or outside. A best effort is fine! (Actually, mid effort is probably better; more true to the source)

touristtam 1y ago

I feel I need this for node....