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The `earthly ls` idea is great. We do have shell autocompletions but that is not quite the same thing. I will add a ticket for that.

Cache misses can be a bit inscrutable. It could be the buildkit GC is running, because disk space is getting scarce, or that some arg or file change caused the cache to be considered invalid.

Caching is an area we will continue to improve. We have a proposal for extended cache mounts here[1].

Thanks for using earthly!

[1] https://github.com/earthly/earthly/issues/1399
But they developed it!
Hi there,

Do you have a Dribble account that I can review by any chance?

Thank you.
I never type it because DDG is my default.

I think Google was a harder name to remember for non-nerds who weren't familiar with the rather obscure word.

There is a short alias: As someone else mentioned, duck.com redirects to duckduckgo.com
Lol. I didn't just pick that example at random. I've been there too.
The wiki mentions one of the plants used to treat diabetes was called asit plant fibers. Does anyone familiar with this have any insight into what experts think asit was?
Visual update in Office for Windows now available
The topic is about windows 11 and Edge and the discussion continued on alternative that are not chromium based ... for Windows, since this is the topic.

Where does Safari fit in here?
I've never heard of this -- I've just tried googling and I can't find anything about automatically deleted, or even created, "Users.old" folder (I realise you might not have got the name exactly right).

Sometimes individual user directories get moved if they are corrupted, but they still aren't in my experience deleted.
Apple warns about diminishing iPhone demand due to delays during chip shortage
https://support.apple.com/downloads/safari
There was an interesting article about this recently. https://lithub.com/on-the-link-between-great-thinking-and-ob...
The majority of literature is written not for money but because people want to write. Most books do not even get bought by publishers. Most books that do make next to no money. Few books even recover the cost of publishing them, much less produce a meaningful income for theirs authors. Many because the books themselves are dreck, of course, but many also simply because it's easy to write. Anyone can write a novel. Not everyone can write a good novel, but enough people do that there isn't a big enough market for most writers to be motivated by money.

It is because people badly want to and enjoy writing that we have vast quantities of books. If people looked at writing as a commercial endeavour, most of us would never, ever consider writing a novel - it's a crazily oversaturated market, to the point that writing a novel to make money is much like playing the lottery: You invest far more time that you could have spent on other things, and the potential payout for the vast majority of authors is below minimum wage most places.

We might lose some great works from that tiny proportion of writers who earn well enough that their income might cause them to make more commercial choices in their writing instead of writing the best they could. Maybe. I'm not convinced.

That said, outside of writing novels, things are different. You can probably earn more writing for a sketchy content farm than most of us will ever earn from writing novels, so the point is not entirely invalid, but it is not a good fit for literature.

EDIT: Changed second to last paragraph for clarity, see response for mangled original.
it's impossible to make a fair censorship rule.

>German law, for example, generally protects people's privacy (i.e. you are not allowed to take a photo of people without permission, even in public).

So everything from the videos showing Kyle Rittenhouse doing nothing illegal, to Chauvin videos providing evidence that he killed George Floyd wouldn't be allowed in Germany. Got it.
> Rustaceans

Completely off topic, but suddenly all of the crab branding makes a ton more sense
What use are releases from 2015 today? Or are you just trolling?
Sure, though I'm planning to write it in Rust so if you're not an engineer it may be a bit rough. Will reply on Linkedin though.
It isn't so straight forward if you aren't in the know on special tooling like O&O ShutUp 10 to accomplish it for you. Even then it'll get reset after updating and you'll have to fix it again. There is no "don't ever update unless I tell you to" checkbox, there is only the option to pause them for a limited time.

Windows is actively user hostile when it comes to updates.
What blows my mind more about anything ancient is that written language was effectively lost for 500 years during the Bronze Age collapse and we nonetheless returned to civilization and language.
Flat text.

I'd lean strongly toward something written using Markdown and converted to HTML, though depending on the specific configuration I wanted, straight raw HTML could very well end up being the format.

This is a case where content is vastly more significant than presentation or tools used, and simpler is better.

Some might also use tools such as Emacs org-mode, Joey Hess's Ikiwiki (https://ikiwiki.info/), VimWiki, or the like for a more structured set of pages rather than a single page.
Ask HN: What's your favorite program that demonstrates emergency?
E.g. Game of Life, flocking
After almost two years of pandemic, there have been essentially no examples of documented spread of the virus outside (there have been a handful of examples in weird situations involving outdoor structures, crowds, etc., but these are the exception, not the norm).

You don't need to wear a mask outside. Not for a virus, anyway.
If you've followed politics for more than the last 5 years, it's very weird having an entire administration constantly running around contradicting whatever comes out of the President's mouth.

"Handlers" is quite the term.

Do we believe the President or not? If we can't believe what they say and other people have to speak and do for them, why don't we elect one of those people? instead?
what good is taking a photo if it can't be published?
"Should I show up any speck of decency? No, the game lets me get away with it anyway, so who cares" - Approximately everyone who uses that saying unironically.

If the only environment where someone will not be an asshole is an environment that punishes assholery, they are an asshole.
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I'm not sure we're seeing the same results -- when I (in the US) search for American inventors the majority of the people they show arek not obviously African American. It seems like "the leftists" haven't got to my results yet.
Taiwan managed to do that as well, so your point is moot. I agree that early Kuomintang was probably as worse as Mao's CCP, but most of that has changed. They now have another party at the helm, unlike Singapore and also a woman as president. How many chairwomen did the CCP have? Zero.
Great post until:

> But F* windows and F* windows people in IT. The whole lot of em

Maybe leave the late 90s.
The implication of your logic is that any mandate that saves even one life is worth it, no matter how onerous. This is what the authoritarians that want to ban smoking, sugar and alcohol are hoping you agree with.
Now would be a great time to sell a ton of mints that just happens to fit an iPhone max with a case inside.

“Security Mints - sweet & secure”.

Maybe a kickstarter?
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I missed where it said he didn't have a lawyer?
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I corrected it to they, sorry for using a gendered pronoun.
It sometimes slips my mind, as I never really thought about "he" being male in this kind of context. I will pay more attention to it.
The DAO model makes more sense when it’s only controlling on-chain cryptocurrency in ways that can be controlled entirely with smart contracts that can be voted on.

However, the most popular version of this DAO appears to be literal Ponzi schemes operating in the open. It seems people are more likely to trust the Ponzi scheme when they feel they have some degree of control over it.

Many of the high profile DAOs fail for exactly the reasons you highlighted: They’re sold as being built to buy or control off-chain assets (like a copy of the constitution or an NBA basketball team) but they lack any of the real-world contractual obligations that would actually link the DAO to the real-world asset. They’re relying entirely on the real-world volunteers to do what they claimed to do in agreement with what the DAO voted. This is why the constitution DAO had to make it clear that contributions were donations and tokens did not constitute actual ownership.

It’s possible that a future DAO will go through the trouble of setting up the appropriate real-world contracts and entities to make this all legally binding and an actual security, but at that point the legal entity is doing all of the heavy lifting and the DAO is just a very expensive donation and voting system where gas fees consume hundreds of dollars of every member’s interactions. Any breach of contract would still have to be handled in the real-world legal system, so the DAO wouldn’t really protect anything other than providing a record of who voted for what.
Looking at my internet history, I hardly even use Google Search anymore compared to before.

Five years ago I would still google pretty much any error message or problem.

Nowadays I typically go to directly to the project's GitHub and search through issues there, go directly to their documentation, or just browse the code from my editor and figure stuff out myself. I have like 15 tabs just corresponding to the stuff I'm working on right now. It is pathetic Google managed to become so awful they managed to undo a decade of conditioning.

Crippling their search intentionally even more won't help.
Is it time to create new platforms that decentralize power? If we agree that some level of social digital connections are important, then why should corporations be in charge? Shouldn’t it be a democratic solution?
GEM came with my first PC-XT, 8086 8MHz (or maybe it was even 8088, not sure), 640KB RAM, 20MB HDD, 5.25" floppy, monochrome display etc. It worked on top of DOS.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEM_(desktop_environment)
Yes, the UI is why I’m not planning on upgrading. I prefer the square windows of 10 to the knock-off MacOS theme that is 11. If I wanted MacOS I would be running it
You could try https://private.sh which decouples the search allowing it to be end to end encrypted without anyone knowing both who you are and what you searched for.
We downplay the impact systems have on human behavior. Let's look at the claim that people have a need to buy oil, and that oil companies merely meet demand.

In America, most people cannot buy groceries without having access to a car. Car ownership is not required de jure, but it required de facto because of a lack of alternatives. America used to have transportation choice. Anywhere where there was transportation diversity, car, tire, oil companies bought out public transit and shut down the operations. On April 1974, San Francisco mayor and antitrust attorney Joseph Alioto testified that "General Motors and the automobile industry generally exhibit a kind of monopoly evil", adding that GM "has carried on a deliberate concerted action with the oil companies and tire companies...for the purpose of destroying a vital form of competition; namely, electric rapid transit [0].

Oil (and other) companies stimulate demand for their products. When consequences occur, the modus operandi of corporations is to shift blame to their customers. The concept of personal carbon footprints are the result of a PR campaign by British Petroleum [1].

I think the reason 100 companies is a meme is because it resonates. It feels right, but the counter arguments are convenient, easy. It resonates because it hints at phenomena that we can't see directly, but have tremendous influence on our lives.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oi...
Ask HN: Why doesn't anyone create a search engine comparable to 2005 Google?
I seem to recall that Google consistently produced relevant results and strictly respected search operators in 2005 (?), unlike the modern Google. And back then, I think search results were the same for everyone, rather than being customized for each user.
If I want to sell a poisonous wine to an adult that understands the risks and still wants it, then it's none of your business.
The same applies to machines!

There is an inverse relationship between resource utilization and queue length, under reasonable assumptions. If you think of low CPU utilization as "wasted" CPU and try to fill it up, you can completely kill your service's ability to quickly respond to requests.

I like to make this analogy when talking to people who feel like they are not working hard enough. If you fill up an engineer's time with high-priority work, you get the same problem as if you fill up a machine's CPU with high-priority tasks... you get a system that cannot respond quickly, a system that spends a lot of time overloaded.

It's a fun exercise to try and calculate the relationship between utilization and expected queue length.

Plus, those batch jobs are still important, they're just not as time-sensitive.
I would rather have a message of “we piped this error to /dev/null and will ignore it until someone important manually brings it to our attention” than whatever this is.

I also don’t think it reflects the dev team tone as it seems so fake fun and probably means the dev team is in terror of saying the wrong thing. I’d rather see the localization resource bundle value than whatever this is.

It’s about as honest as the Costco greeter in Idiocracy saying “Welcome…I love you.”
what's worse is that it always seems, online, that the EU citizenry think it's for their own good. Almost every time.

You see this out of Aussies, often, too.
It sounds like the sales prompt I was forced to use in my telesales job in 2003.
No machine code implementation? I wonder how much faster than assembler it could be.
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I agree. The thing of interest here, I think, is the observation that language popularity is path-specific. JavaScript is just the worst, but everyone who does browser work has to know it because it happened to be the language clapped together to demo some nifty ideas for extending HTML and then those ideas stuck. Alternatives to JavaScript existed but were either privately-owned and therefore not trusted (vbscript) or too complicated to get off the ground (at some point, Mozilla had a fascinating proposal for HTML pages selecting features of the rendering engine and possibly even declaring that the whole page should be interpreted via user-definable code modules; had this won the day, you could write you web page in LaTeX for all anybody cared, but no-one was going to invest the time to write a dozen rendering agents when the HTML one was already expensive to develop and keep stable).

"C people were doers" is probably reductive, but C and C++ had an alchemy of factors that made something like, say, LISP or Erlang not be where they are.

If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say the most dominant factors are the language runtime's portability, the language's features allowing for relatively low-level access to the backing hardware (i.e. the thinness of the abstraction between C memory access and microprocessor read-write instructions means things like memory maps or "magic addresses" that trigger hardware effects on mutation could just be handed to user code), and the compatibility of the runtime with what came to be (for a ton of reasons) a dominant model of computation in the commercial and consumer space: the x86 architecture.
Would you hire senior engineers who don't have much experience directly with your stack but are interested in jumping ship?
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> Google Search itself is now a threat to the open web

I don't believe that. I came from a time when Yahoo and Altavista were used. Google took over that market very fast (personal experience, not data ;)). So I'm sure that also now, people could shift very fast when the results are better somewhere else.

Although I can agree on YouTube, because that's a different beast. They actually host almost all the web video content. So there is no 2nd party to easily switch to.
I agree "defunding the police" is such a vague term and is pure political poison.And that is why almost no one apart from a small vocal minority consider it as a policy worth pursuing.

Vigilantism is not good. Sure, if you are under threat or the ones you care about are under threat, you have every right to protect yourself.But you can read about Ahmaud Arbery's shooting to consider where vigilantism was at play and he was shot to death.

I fear if more people are emboldened by the court's decision to acquit Kyle to take the law into their own hands especially in cases where the self defense angle is not justified, it is a slippery slope to be on. Ahmaud Arbery's case is one such example also.
>> ...but why would I write anything like that (or even imagine it)

Because in the example explaining the steps, it shows you that? I.e., 'The measurements in the first window are marked A (199, 200, 208); their sum is 199 + 200 + 208 = 607. The second window is marked B (200, 208, 210); its sum is 618'; even how the text is aligned on the page, the 200 and 208 are almost directly above/below each other.

Sure, yes, if your goal is just to solve it as quickly as possible for the internet points, by all means do the naive thing. But if you already "had to take a step back and notice a few things to come down to such (a) concise solution", it seems like maybe solving it as quickly as possible wasn't your goal.
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You say that like people doing business in China never self-censor.
such as? Do you have a link?
> Not an official study but just an observation - its very possible to avoid lockdowns so far, by implementing true vaccine passports. Israel did that without any shutdowns during the 4th wave. Basically banning non-vaccinated people from most public areas

You are just pushing the work to be done by low-level employees at this point. Yes, it can work for a while but go talk to anyone who works in public event spaces (theaters, bars, cinemas, etc.) in, for example, Germany and you will see how much fatigue this causes.

And what happens when people get fatigued due to the extra workload created by forcing these measures to be taken by small businesses? People get sloppy, they get tired of a procedure that usually would take 2 minutes taking 15, chipping time away from other duties they are responsible for (and supervised). Over time they stop doing the checks properly and just like with other COVID measures, becomes increasingly ineffective.

I only had this realisation after chatting with some friends of friends in Berlin working in hospitality (hotels, bars, etc.) and events, almost every single one of them were exhausted from having to perform the extra checks on every customer, every shift, every play, every table they sit. They were trying really hard to not get sloppy because they actually care about the people, but it was clear how it was affecting them. It didn't look as a sustainable measure against COVID after 2 years of a pandemic.

That was also the fear I read voiced by experts during the first 6 months of the pandemic: people will get tired of the measures, when they get tired and don't follow them anymore it gets much worse. How to balance that is exactly all this political game going on, there is no simple solution when we talk about population levels of a nation.
This is how Private Search [1] works since it decouples the search from the user. This means nobody knows both who searched and what they searched for. This is a huge leap for privacy in search.

[1] https://private.sh
And how did you get chocolatey on that new install? I'm guessing that the vast majority of users opened IE and downloaded it through that browser.
The fact that some people did not get punished does not imply that what happened wasn't wrong.

You're also mistaken that people don't care. In fact archeologists think carefully about the dignity of human remains: https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/technical-advice/archa... https://apabe.archaeologyuk.org/pdf/APABE_ToHREfCBG_FINAL_WE...
I say this as an Austrian... the fact that Nazi ideology and symbols are forbidden in our country is a godsend. We have a small but persistent problem with militant far-right Nazi sympathisers, and the "Verbotsgesetz" is an invaluable tool in dealing with them.

The law is extremely clear, nobody breaks it accidentally, and it makes sure that dangerous extremists are taken seriously by the police.

A couple of times a year the police discovers illegal weapon and ammo stashes when investigating Neonazis. These guys are dangerous, and pretending it's just about "free speech" is stupid.
The width of the area around microwave doors looks suspiciously close to lambda/4 for 2.4 GHz (~3 cm) on pretty much every microwave I've ever seen - I'd almost be surprised if that construction isn't tuned to reflect 2.4 GHz, which would make it a very leaky container at say 0.9/1.8 GHz.
People who really care about privacy don’t use public blockchains. Leaving a permanent public log of your transactions for analysts is reckless in general.

In this specific case, you’re talking about a service people have to pay to use. That lowers the pool of people using it considerably which makes techniques like timing analysis easier and increases the odds that your transactions will be mixed in with someone else’s criminal activity.
Could this be Electron killer?
I’m waiting for MS to implement an feature where they mirror side-by-side in Edge whatever you are doing in another inferior browser.