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Why the same advice doesn't apply to `setup.py` or `build.rs`? Is it because npm is (ab)used for software distribution (eg. see sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45041292) instead of being used only for managing library-dependencies?

eitau_1on Open Banking and Payments Competition

I'd be more than happy with read-only access. Still potentially bad for 'normal users' but not disastrous.

eitau_1on We shouldn't have needed lockfiles

nixpkgs shines especially bright in this exact scenario

eitau_1on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks

I hope the small web will thrive again once the profit incentive for putting content on the web ceases to exist so SEO/dark-pattern heavy players will give up and stop suppressing valuable (altruistic?) stuff.

eitau_1on Curate your shell history

I wish there was a (Jupyter) notebook-like interface in shells so only the final set of commands is saved in the history after a trial-and-error/refinement cycle

eitau_1on How the U.K. broke its own economy

You have a point, I guess.

I'm wildly interested what's your (and hn community's in general) proposed macro policy mix. When accounted for workforce changes (demography+participation), there was absolutely no economic growth in all developed EU economies (+UK) since the GFC. Zero productivity growth.

That's stark difference compared to US. Did Europe over-auster when US massively increased it's debt? But , as above-mentioned example shows, fiscal expansion can be challenging…

eitau_1on How the U.K. broke its own economy

> something the tory party did nothing to address

When PM Liz Truss tried, it ended with disaster.

eitau_1on Mozilla is trying to backtrack on Firefox's controversial data privacy update

Chrome's UI is written in C++/native GUI toolkit. Firefox's UI is written in JavaScript/HTML (thinly wrapped in native toolkit).

eitau_1on Why Barcelona Bought the Building That Symbolizes Its Housing Crisis

Vienna is less populous now than it was 100 years ago.

eitau_1on My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5%

The executables are vendored in the repo [0].

[0] https://github.com/sindresorhus/clipboardy/tree/main/fallbac...

eitau_1on My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5%

It's not even funny:

  $ ll /nix/store/*-insect-5.9.0/lib/node_modules/insect/node_modules/clipboardy/fallbacks/*
  /nix/store/…-insect-5.9.0/lib/node_modules/insect/node_modules/clipboardy/fallbacks/linux:
  .r-xr-xr-x 129k root  1 Jan  1970 xsel

  /nix/store/…-insect-5.9.0/lib/node_modules/insect/node_modules/clipboardy/fallbacks/windows:
  .r-xr-xr-x 444k root  1 Jan  1970 clipboard_i686.exe
  .r-xr-xr-x 331k root  1 Jan  1970 clipboard_x86_64.exe

(clipboardy ships executables and none of them can be run on NixOS btw)

eitau_1on Television: Fast general purpose fuzzy finder TUI

Great work!

From the README:

> is designed to be easily extensible

Can you elaborate a little on that?

eitau_1on Moon

On an unrelated note, on the Sunday we had a major lunar standstill i.e. the full Moon at its highest orbit (as seen from northern hemisphere). It happens every 18.5 years.

eitau_1on The US fiscal mess: Some unpleasant fiscal simulations

to put public finances on sustainable path, keep inflation low and make interest rates lower long term?

eitau_1on Nitter Redirect: Firefox addon to view Twitter link without an account

Unfortunately Libredirect went completely bonkers and is going to stop using public instances and instead will download binaries (or docker containers) (sic) to run frontends on user's device.

[0] https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension/issues/725#...

eitau_1on IPv6-only has become a thing

The main thing is, I was thinking, there's no^W less NAT so you can host those 140 character entries directly from your devices and you can avoid things like DHT. Now we can start solving other problems like masses having to own domains or that interactivity is orders of magnitude less efficient than using a traditional database.

eitau_1on IPv6-only has become a thing

Great. After today's blows against open Internet (Reddit, Twitter, YouTube) I started to consider IPv6 as a necessary enabler of truly decentralized (as in p2p or POSSE) social networks.

eitau_1on Profits are driving inflation. When will politicians and the BoE admit it?

I mean both (profits/water vapor) are indeed powerful but only mere amplifiers of underlying causes in both phenomena.

BTW it's a shame MMT-ers rebranded themselves into greedflation folk and stopped promoting their painful but effective solution to inflation: raising taxes.

eitau_1on Profits are driving inflation. When will politicians and the BoE admit it?

Stating that margins/profits are causing inflation is like stating that water vapor is causing global warming.

eitau_1on Ask HN: Is Moore's Law over, or not?

With little progress in performance, they're gonna compete with secondary market aka used devices.

eitau_1on The electron is so round that it’s ruling out potential new particles

Some argue that metaphor is more fundamental to science than math.

eitau_1on Why didn’t we get the four-hour workday?

Housing costs, which are proportional to average population income, force us to compete in a Red Queen's race - everyone's earnings have to catch up with others'.

eitau_1on Twilio’s toll fraud problem

yea, it's prepaid in Poland. But to be fair, I pay $12 a year for 50GB of data and don't call/text much

eitau_1on Twilio’s toll fraud problem

> premium rate number costs 10 cents

wut, the absolutely most ordinary (in the realm of single telecom) text costs me ~6.5 cents