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So much of this is transparently untrue that I’m surprised to see it upvoted this much on HN.

> Which then makes people believe that treeshaking is not possible with CommonJS modules. Well, it is - Rollup just chose not to support it.

It is possible with CommonJS but it’s enormously brittle and unintuitive. I can write:

module.exports = { blah: 1 }
module.exports.blah = 1
let name = “blah”;
module.exports[name] = 1

And countless other possibilities. Then on the other side:

const { blah } = require(“module”)
const blah = require(“module”).blah;
const mod = require(“blah”);

mod.blah;

let key = value ? “blah” : “something else”;
mod[blah];

Footguns all over the place that could easily ruin your treeshaking and result in unnecessarily large bundles.

> And then people go "well you can statically analyze it better!", apparently not realizing that ESM doesn't actually change any of the JS semantics

Also plainly untrue. Similar to the above, I can do:

let name = “module”;
const mod = require(name);

With even a slight bit of added complication in that logic static analysis becomes enormously difficult. ESM does not let you do any of that.

> loading a full dependency tree over the network would be unreasonably and unavoidably slow

Allow me to introduce you to HTTP2. It’s also fast to load dependencies because ESM is statically analysable in a way CommonJS isn’t, so you don’t actually have to evaluate the JS. No, it won’t be as fast as one request but the ability to just write a file and immediately upload it is tremendously liberating, IMO. For small projects Webpack, Vite or whatever is tremendous overkill.

> There are no actual advantages to it. At all.

Igorance is bliss, I guess.
Since I've gotten an upvote or two, anyone interested in learning more may find this video a good place to start understanding

1) How the market 'truly' operates and
2) how this operation is being abused

https://youtu.be/nLnw2_q5iMk
For deliberately practising programming problems, I keep a spreadsheet and a journal. The spreadsheet tracks the problem, the difficulty level, the time it took me to solve it, the algorithm I used to solve it, and notes. I use the journal to dive in deep by explaining my solutions to someone who has never encountered the problem before. I'll often re-test on problems I've solved before and see if I can get a better time, use a different algorithm, or something else.

I also use flash cards where I put the problem description on the card and the algorithm to solve it on the back. This is to train me to read through lengthy, puffy, problem descriptions and get straight to the point.

... but I usually only do this when I'm preparing for interviews or feel like I need to sharpen up. Deliberate practice is one of those things where you can turn up the heat for a while but you'll need to take a break at some point and let it sink in to your subconscious.
You can have both? Regulated minimum insurance coverage, maximum premiums/deductibles and transparent prices and an option to shop around for non emergency cases. You still want providers competing either on price and service quality (I don't see any issues with that as).

The problem with fully public systems in Europe nowadays is that you end up with two tiers. There is public option with poor service and several month long queues for poor people. People with higher incomes can get reasonably priced private insurance which lets them skip the queue, shop around for "better" doctors/service etc.. In this case it still ends up being subsidized by the public because higher income = better than average health and the government still ends up paying the bill for high cost treatment for serious diseases or emergencies.

A well regulated fully private system with income based subsidies just seems like the more fair and efficient option and it should be better at handling supply issues.

The main issue US seems to have is massive inefficiency and IMHO both regulation and increased competition is the best (and most feasibly) way to solve this.
Mac OS X Tiger was not stripper and far more usbable than flat interfaces.
… and at the same time have you seen what most modern startups spend on cloud?

Price tolerance in this industry is grossly out of whack vs what things actually cost. Certain businesses are permitted to print money and nobody bats an eye (cloud, hosted data analytics, marketing, hipster web shit) while other things are expected to be free or absurdly cheap and people freak out otherwise.

Everyone knows pricing and cost expectations are never rational but they’re particularly ridiculous in software and SaaS.
A model that can create synthetic speech that matches a speaker's lip movements
Relevant... - https://youtu.be/XDO8OYnmkNY
You simply don't understand how logic works, but you're too proud to admit it. At least you've demonstrated it adequately.
I don't think it's hyperbole -- I think the changes are often as large and collectively more significant than 2-to-3, but the ecosystem is better at change. Even with that there are clearly factions and currents in different directions, but things generally work.
I agree with that. I also think, for better and worse, a lot of us that moved around to find a place to live don't value the "reputation" side of things. I hate how hard it is to find services local. So much easier to just hit up Home Depot and such. Medical is, sadly, "what does my insurance/job support?"
I wish I could upvote your comment twice. Based on my observation how a childhood friend of mine was treated for a psychiatric condition I think all of the "science" of using drugs to treat mental issues is at the level of advancement comparable to medieval blacksmiths doing dentistry. It essentially comes down to "hey, try this, are you better or worse, worse? Try something else. Better, have more of it". All the theories about lacks of certain neurotransmitters causing certain problems, all of it is like a bunch of cavemen trying to fix a transistor radio with their stone axes and coming up with ideas to explain various noises they hear when they whack it. Of course many conditions are so debilitating even such random experimentation is better than nothing. I don't blame individual doctors and practicioners, but I think this whole field should be much more humble about what is it they can treat, what kind of long term outcomes one can expect etc. Certainly they shouldn't be giving random drugs that really can f** with a developing human mind to treat imaginary mental illnesses that cause ones grades to be insufficiently good etc.
There's pretty active "ortholinear keyboard" community that has boards for basically any shape you really want. It's not a horrible way to get started with PCB design either. I have... too many keyboards now, most of which ortholinear. The most important thing for me being split, it helps immensely with wrist pain. I might find myself picking up a moonlander at some point here too, they look really nice and the high adjustability is pretty nice
NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen
You have it backwards. The Reddit thing is in the real world and the night club is just in your imagination.
See FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
It’s an expat from and an immigrant to. In the case of the us, these government works hard to keep track of their expats for tax reasons. You can state your point of view with the use of either term.
Intro to Database Systems Fall 2022
Cedric Chin changed my mind on deliberate practice. Or maybe he pointed out the obvious to anyone who has tried to apply it to a mushy domain. DP is premised upon having a teacher and pedological method that you can hit hard.

Otherwise, you have to do something not quite DP. But that's ok, because in a mushy domain just acquiring the tacit knowledge that the experts have will put your far ahead ( because the pedological method and real coaches don't exist yet).

But yeah, it's not deliberate practice and reading books on deliberate practice might not help you much.

https://commoncog.com/tacit-knowledge-is-a-real-thing/

Here is my random programming take on it:

https://earthly.dev/blog/golang-streamers/
Shoutout to vim - select the text then shift+U. Especially nice cause you can use multi select to do it in many places at once. I bet eMacs can’t do that ;)
It's been a really long time since I last used this tool, but I think it always executed asynchronously within a callback function.

So doing stuff like `var foo` wouldn't affect the global scope, since your code was always supposed to be placed inside a function call which receives all dependencies as a parameter.

https://requirejs.org/docs/api.html
Before that happens they will try to lobby governments to "repair" their monopolies. EU is already trying hard to put major road blocks on open source AI, which is probably the biggest threat to most tech mega corps.
No joke much of the US business exceptionalism is from immigration. For whatever reason many a foreign national wants to go to the US to take part in that 50-cent dream of get[ting] rich or d[ying] trying.
Likewise. Leopard/Snow Leopard were the point at which I was happen with everything Apple. It truly was peak (for me at least). I still had a Windows 7 PC and Linux (Fedora, Backtrack) on a laptop for running security tools, but I felt most "right" when on the mac.
Maybe in movies you don't. In reality, prisoner swaps and ransom payments happen every single day.
Concerning, as their lingo would say. According to the below article this will also screw over open-source developers and data scientists:

Open Source LLMs Not Exempt:

Open source foundational models are not exempt from the act. The programmers and distributors of the software have legal liability. For other forms of open source AI software, liability shifts to the group employing the software or bringing it to market.

Source: https://technomancers.ai/eu-ai-act-to-target-us-open-source-...
Password managers adapt to passkeys, enabling a smooth transition to a passwordless future for enhanced security and user experience.
It now has been merged! Nice
Ask HN: Is everyone becoming a Product Manager these days?
I don't know about you guys but over the last 2 years, I saw A LOT of people with classic commerce, marketing or management training and experience switch to a product management position. Either within the companies they work at or by doing a 1-3 month bootcamp and be hired for a new position.
I am the only one to notice this? Is this a good thing?
I deliberately practice a lot of things that I'm not obsessed with, it's really useful when I'm overwhelmed with a new field (e.g. learning a new framework), to isolate a small bit I want to master and try several different ways of doing it, and document my findings.

That allows me to not see what I'm trying to learn as an obstacle to what I'm trying to achieve. It removes a lot of frustration, since that shifts my view of the task from being an obstacle to being the goal itself.

I'm not sure I would say that I focus on deliberately practicing the same few skills as often as the author of the article does, though. Usually, even for the few skills that I have deliberately practiced for a long time, my focus has been on exploring variations or adaptation to new context. That is because I aim for adaptability rather than having muscle memory of a skill.
Yeah, I can use an archive, but why not post the archive link directly to avoid wasting everyone's time and internet?
Show HN: Reminder.FYI – A newsletter for easily-forgotten responsibilities
Hey HN! I tend to have trouble remembering all the adult responsibilities I have to do in my life - things that come along with owning a house, car, and stuff the doctor tells me to do regularly.

I wanted a way to easily sign up to be gently reminded of the things I might want to consider doing - but easily forget, so I built reminder.fyi.

It's a weekly newsletter that you get to your email. You sign up, choose the categories that apply to you, and you'll receive a list of reminders about things you might have forgotten about that are coming due.

It's still a very basic build, with very little features, but depending on interest I'm looking to build it out. Any feedback, suggestions, content, etc. is always appreciated!
I've found Airbnb to be worth it when I need a house for a large family group, like 8 people, when we want a common living and dining area instead of 4 separate hotel rooms. Otherwise, I agree--for 2 people, a hotel room is always a better deal, especially when you tack on Airbnb's fees.
Not surprising. It always seemed likely to me that there is model bias if you train your models on model generated data, like a feedback loop (second order effects?). Similar to how applying a linear system over and over stretches the inputs in the direction of its largest eigenvector.

Now wait till the generated content is indistinguishable from human content (to humans) and it will be hard to figure out what's in your training set.
Nah, they think they understand, and run with an under-informed opinion on something they have no to little real-world experience with until they've replaced the client's original concerns with something that's oversimplified for the sake of shoving into this or that software architecture pattern.

There are of course trans-disciplinary efforts done right but those take orders of magnitude more time than your typical VCs or zealous ladder-climbers allow in development timelines.

Software developers have been bailed out from having to confront this situation up to now because those who ask for software tend to ask for extremely simple workflow-helper type stuff rather than domain-expert-amplifier type stuff (see: pretty much every SaaS webapp ever). But the low-hanging fruit are getting pretty sparse by this point in the bubble.
You are right! I had Write mixed up with Wordpad.
Still one of the best looking OSes of all time.
I'd be happy to pay 250€ a year for an OS that I actually own and control. I'd be happy to also pay that amount to browse without being spied on. I'm actually worth less as a target for advertisement. These products not existing is just a failure of the market and maybe of our education, which is why it is important for governments to step in at that point.
Not all apps have subscriptions. Narwhal for example.
Sure, I've been there.

But even living in North Brooklyn, my travel options there are - 59min drive or 75min trains&walking.

People make these grand statements like we've purposely made it impossible for poor people to get to the beach by bus, but everything in NYC is impossible to get to for everyone, all the time.

Anyway, if you are in Manhattan, the real play is LIRR to Long Beach. Frequent trains, extremely clean, lots of space, long boardwalk, rental bikes, lots of food & restaurants, clean restrooms (amazingly rare at US beaches).. $15/person (kids under 13 free, and I think theres a family pass) to enter beach.
Even if we take only the part of the web which is SPAs, 0.1% are well engineered.
The argument is we'd be better off if ES Modules were never proposed or implemented because the require syntax is better. By splitting the ecosystem, the developer experience has been made worse for no tangible benefit. Like this is not just the pain of transition from an old thing to a new thing, it's a straight up mistake and it should've never happened.
> layer 8

TIL[0]:

> Layer 8 is a term used to refer to user or political layer on top of the 7-layer OSI model of computer networking.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer_8
I find HN to actually be really nice for the things HN knows well. People tend to correct comments from others with at least some respect, and normally the most accurate information floats to the top of the thread.

The thing I generally find the least valuable is the “I’ll be downvoted for this” comments. Don’t prime people to be defensive!
> Yes, being able to read smart contracts and audit transactions on the blockchain is how everyone knew FTX stealing customer funds from years ago.

Yes in fact! Anyone who looked into it knew. Maybe Wall Street and VCs were duped, but the crypto industry itself saw the train wreck coming from a mile away and distanced themselves from the start. That's why when the inevitable happened, the mainstream were pumping out articles about FTX disproportionately to its importance -- they were the ones that got played.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/the-collapse-of-ftx-was...

https://twitter.com/BitcoinIsSaving/status/15396053464692531...

> There are a huge number of ways crypto exchanges pull of scams

There are a huge number of ways Google pulls off scams too. That's what this entire thread is about and the reason for the European Commission's complaint. Hence the comparison.
This is so hilariously pompous. I dont need to give you an example. Im sure you can find one in the first chapter of Child of God.

And grammer matters to the extent that the sentance is able to convey its meaning clearly to the reader. In my opinion, McCarthy does not hit this mark in a lot of case. Maybe im too dense, but his mixture of invented hick language, completely fucked up punctuation, and flowery/poetic language, is often very tough to sus out. What is actually supposed to be happening is often not so clear.
Shape-Shifting Robot Made of Triangles for Future Space Missions
Many people have a sleep problem disguised as a caffeine problem. Also many people have a caffeine problem disguised as a sleep problem.

Taken now and then, sure, probably worth it. The part in which a lot of people's brains are seemingly unable to wake up without taking caffeine? Probably not good.
> Counterpoint: Babel and Webpack are terrible, actually.

- You don't get typescript to the browser without them

- You don't get next-generation language features right now without them

- You can't co-locate non-javascript assets with javascript modules via imports without them (e.g. import css or images from within the script that is using them) without them

- You don't get smart assets management (automatic code splitting, hashing, etc.) without them
> As a programmer, I never really understood why the people who designed keyboards wouldn't have done so in a way that allowed for more common technical uses - why didn't they throw in a row of common mathematical symbols?

Such keyboards were made in the 70/80s:

http://xahlee.info/kbd/lisp_keyboards.html

The current standard keyboards come from a different evolutionary branch with a much more limited view of the possible uses for a computer.
What is the metric you're using to measure how important an industry is?

To some people, Google is more important. To others, LVHM is more important.

There are a ton of people who depend on the luxury goods industry. LVHM itself is a $500 billion company.

I know plenty of people who go crazy for luxury handbags, clothing, jewelry but could careless about which search engine to use.
I kind of liked the “brushed metal” texture that could be found in Tiger (10.4): http://toastytech.com/guis/osx14slideshow.png
I've been pretty happy with mailbox.org, German based and has support for various keys to use with custom domains (SPF/DKIM) including the ability to have the same custom domain used across multiple accounts (nice for extended family domains and the like, safe as you still need to make the DNS changes on that provider).

Pricing is reasonable and the limited support interaction I've had has been good.

The webmail seems to be OX [1].

[1]: https://www.open-xchange.com/
I find it honestly hilarious that “don’t use caps lock for emphasis” is one of the otherwise very-abstract Hacker News Guidelines. A relic from the great flame wars of the past, I think…
That's true—but it doesn't mean that the friends, conversations, and communities people are making on Discord now are any less real.
Exactly. I worked across the street for 2 years and the things I saw there on a weekly basis were interesting to say the last. My wife worked a block away for 4 years, same story.

Was also the first place I saw an extremely locked down Duane Reade where I had to ask for help to get almost any product off the shelf. Understandable, given the above.
What are some of your favorites? I'd love to add them.

So far I've only added whichever bars I've spotted at healthy food stores over the past few months (in Singapore, Australia, and USA).
Depending on project but my default is Laravel. You can make pretty decent non-SPA frontend using mix of html, Blade templates, and some basic javascript (though you can do that with any framework).
I may give it a shot. Heard good things. I liked the movie of no country as well, might have to give that book a shot too.
Coding Standards for the AMD Platform Abstraction Library (PAL)
I think the homeless colony is bad for the tourist industry, certainly many destinations I am fond of in downtown S.F. such as Westfield and the Union Square Hilton are in trouble.

It looks awful on T.V. but my understanding is that the SFPD really cracks heads if homeless people set up camps in residential areas so the polity in San Francisco doesn’t experience as bad “quality of life” as a conventioneer does. One could say malls and office buildings are in decline everywhere.

San Francisco is not in terrible fiscal shape that Detroit is in, it doesn’t have the violence of Baltimore.
I am trying to not take your comment personally. I understand that many medical services are not urgent. Part of the problem in the US at least is that ERs are obligated to stabilize any patient that walks through the door, regardless of ability to pay. So you end up with people misusing the ER for chronic non urgent care.

I have sat in an ER for hours. I’ve also had nurses at an ER clear the floor for my family when my wife was in septic shock due to a botched surgery, or when my son was run over by a car (both are fine now, not looking for sympathy just pointing out I have experienced this before)
What about low ranking Show HN that did survive?
As an immigrant to the US myself, it took me close to 10 years to “Americanize” and get adjusted to the US cultures and norms. And this was while I was living in a diverse city.
Expecting to adjust to a new country in 18 months in a small conservative town is unrealistic at best.
This is why "self help" books are so rarely helpful. They often lack concrete, actionable steps that you can take and simply provide faux-epiphanies.

I do not doubt this author's words, but they did not provide much "concreteness" here.
That's all important, if he were writing documentation or a technical manual.

That the reader is required to make some effort to un-knot the language is a legitimate tool of the poet. Some are too impatient, used to sound-bytes from a tv personality perhaps, and won't open them selves to something novel or evocative. It has to 'make sense' grammatically and semantically. Poetry is often neither of those.
Google groups and Google+ say hi
What is Astro? All about the JavaScript framework of all frameworks
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> Have you heard (intelligent!) non-tech people talking about tech? Why would (intelligent!) tech people fare better talking about non-tech?

Becoming an effective programmer trains one's strict logical and causal reasoning skills, since we're always building or debugging large and complex systems from simpler components. We see all kinds of crazy emergent behaviours all of the time, and learn to understand how such things can happen. There are few other disciplines that exercise such skills so intensely (probably math and physics).

I would love to see a study on how effective various experts are at making predictions about something outside of their domain knowledge. I suspect computer scientists and physicists would fare better than most.
No. If San Francisco is a failed state/city, the US has a lot of even more failed states/cities that are never called that despite having significantly more violence and crime.