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Show HN: npm-daycare, an NPM proxy that filters out recent & small packages

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6 points·by n2d4·il y a 10 mois·2 comments

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n2d4
·il y a 9 jours·discuss
Nominative determinism! The hypothesis that people tend to do things that remind them of their own names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
n2d4
·il y a 22 jours·discuss
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. You are correct, and it is so rampant these days that I wish we just banned the word "after" in headlines.
n2d4
·il y a 22 jours·discuss
What makes you think they've canceled it? Did you read past the headline?

What should they have done here — keep the movie despite the obvious conflict of interest? Be more secretive about the fact they're trying to separate so no one can write articles like these?

If they did the right thing, it would look exactly like this. And I think it's generally a good idea to assume good faith (even with corporations) — you can still get your pitchforks up if they do refuse to give away the rights to movie.
n2d4
·il y a 22 jours·discuss
1. Because Amazon is a bigtech corp making a film about another bigtech corp. Plenty of conflicts of interest here (in either direction).

2. Regardless of whether it is or isn't related, implying they are without any evidence is just speculation. There's a reason they didn't say "months after" in the headline, even though it would be much more informative and much less confusing!

You also seem to conflate "there's evidence for" and "you believe that". Those are very distinct statements. "you don't believe there's evidence for X" doesn't make sense here — I said "there is no evidence for X in the article", that's a fact, not a belief.
n2d4
·il y a 22 jours·discuss
Amazon is actually much more reasonable than the headline makes it seem:

    > “We have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker — not to mention a longstanding relationship that we hope to continue,” a spokesperson for Amazon said to Variety in a statement. “We believe that Artificial will be better served if it were released by a different studio and are working closely with the filmmaking team to find the film a new home.”
Well, yeah, I kind of agree. Amazon probably shouldn't be the one producing the film, and it sounds like they're working to get the rights sold to someone else.

The headline also sucks because "after" means "months after with no evidence that it's related". It's just clickbait all around.
n2d4
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
The conversion would be more accurate if it compared wealth and capital gains taxes, no?

A defining feature of wealth taxes is that they only tax those that make most of their income through capital gains. This is why they're popular among much of the population.

Now the question is, if we lowered capgains tax rate by 20% but instituted a 1% wealth tax, would that be better or worse? My guess would be worse because wealth taxes are nearly unenforcable, but I wonder if there are good arguments for the other position.
n2d4
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
No, because randomly guessing from a list of diagnoses is not 50/50
n2d4
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Cool! I've been using your API for running sandboxed JS. Nice to see you also support VMs now.

    > we mean forking the whole memory of it
How does this work? Are you copying the entire snapshot, or is this something fancy like copy-on-write memory? If it's the former, doesn't the fork time depend on the size of the machine?
n2d4
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
This was interesting to do on my own profile. It got a bunch of personality attributes about me right that I haven't directly mentioned on here, which is impressive.

I then followed it up with "Given my chat history, how do they compare to me?", and it started making comparisons of myself to myself. Very fun experience.
n2d4
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
This looks really useful — occasionally I run into the issue that I'm on an odd machine with minimal packages installed, and want to use AI to do some stuff without setting up a full Node/Python environment. This seems like the perfect solution for that.

Is it possible to download just the binary itself, without needing to run the install script which installs it globally?
n2d4
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
It's easy to address the limitations of AI by simply not using AI for those. No one forces you to use AI for tasks where its capabilities are limited; regardless, there are plenty of tasks where they aren't.

AI is very good at some things and very bad at others. Early on, many thought chess would be one of the last things mastered by computers, but they were wrong. It makes no sense to take the statement "AI is extremely bad at this task compared to humans" and conclude that AI must be useless or a waste of time.

In this case, the AI DJ is bad at picking out classical music. Okay, sure, whatever. But that doesn't automatically mean the AI DJ is bad at everything.

    > Like they created a full blown C compiler that "could compile linux" but in reality didn't pass its own tests?
You are strawmanning hard here. Who is "they"? You are putting all "AI evangelists" into the same blob here, and instead of answering the questions at-hand you ignore them and respond in an ad-hominem style by attacking a project that someone else made, completely unrelated to this entire thread. That is not good faith discourse!
n2d4
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
True, but you can't have complete tests without 100% coverage. It's a necessary, but not a sufficient condition; as long as it doesn't become the sole goal, it's still a useful metric.
n2d4
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
In what sense did CashApp not pan out? $16b revenue. Too early to say whether Afterpay will work out but looking good so far
n2d4
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Does this question really warrant the downvotes? I'm genuinely curious. Why not just answer it instead?
n2d4
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Genuine question, why does Flock get so much bad press in the US compared to other, much more infringing surveillance tech?

Your mobile provider knows your exact location at any point in time, and the NSA probably has access to most big tech data. Those tell you much more than a license plate reader.

In much of Europe, it is quite normal to see cameras everywhere both for traffic enforcement and for crime prevention. They are generally popular with the public, eg. in the UK with a >80% approval rate. In many cities, essentially every corner has CCTV.

Is it because Flock Safety also markets to private businesses, whereas in Europe CCTV and ANPR are state-run? Or is it a cultural thing, eg. because Americans value freedom or prefer driving over the speed limit, and Flock may end that?
n2d4
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Likely it's just a coincidence — there were other Sybil attacks that are not in February too, so the chance that you'd get 3 in Feb isn't all that low.
n2d4
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
He was likely referring to the claim that 70% of the internet flows through Loudon County, Virginia, where AWS us-east-1 is located, although the more accurate number is probably somewhere around 22%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudoun_County,_Virginia#Econo...
n2d4
·il y a 5 mois·discuss


    > why do you think that this is worth sharing with the world yet?
It's worth sharing because it's cool, even if it's not perfect yet!

You'll never make every single person on HN happy. But if you share your stuff early and make one person happy at the very least that means you should keep working on it!

Don't let perfectionism get in the way of good enough :]
n2d4
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
My mum is not gonna use a product named like that
n2d4
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Yes