skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chartreuse is an incredible liqueur with an incredible story. See NYTimes' "An Elixir From The French Alps, Frozen in Time" [1]. I see chartreuse's story as an inspiration for craftspeople: great workspace, integration with more abstract values, emphasis on quality, reflecting the landscape.

1 - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/business/chartreuse-monks...
It side-steps the problem of git conflicts, I suppose. You'd have to use their tool (`touca diff`? I don't know if that exists) instead of `git diff`.
> First of all: If you have the title of "DevOps" what you're doing is "Operations", you aren't practicing DevOps.

So what title do you need to have to practice DevOps?
Third this, use it every day.
Is it possible to add a label or a watermark on top of your video without re-encoding using ffmpeg?
Why? What does unlimited SMSs have to do with it? (In NL unlimited SMS is pretty common anyway.)
Huh? Coffee shops optimize for people not bumping into each other and having related items close together, and don't pretend to not know what kind of gear they have.. that's not a terrible analogy to the exact opposite argument.
Well, this doesn't matter. It is all about incentives.

CEO class is motivated by KPIs. Focus solely on KPI creates volatility in all the other variables that are not this year's KPIs. Hiring and then firing feels like work, hence needs to be compensated.

Nobody in the corporate america is compensated to explicitly do nothing, even though it might be the most appropriate move in a given quarter.
People who obscure their license plates should have their cars impounded and licenses revoked. If you don't think traffic enforcement applies to you, you're welcome to use transit, walk or bike.
> But the people will, for sure. And the company leadership should be held accountable for that in some way other than to get bigger bonuses.

If leadership is punished for layoffs, are they also rewarded for hiring people?

It might make for an interesting model for society, but I imagine it would end up with similar inefficiencies as the USSR's policy of full employment. For each employee it's nice to have three people man a single cash register, but for an economy's productivity it seems better if each company has no more workers than it needs, because those workers become available to other companies.

The USA's problem is more in how temporary unemployment is seen as a shameful personal failing, rather than a normal occurance in an economy that people have to be supported through (for a reasonable timespan).
Then it's still C++'s syntax, and Circle's syntax is still "ugly".
Every modern languages adopt the "ugliness" style of type after name to solve most vexing parse, yet somehow C/C++ programmers are still confident in their "beautiful" syntax.
When Prophesy Fails
(Sorry for the delay.)

> narrow conception

It is there to place constraints. Like when a job description for a teacher included "The incumbent shall refrain from false statements, and shall be able to produce relevant, important true statements from creatively reasoning over solid ideas and logic". I mention "operational relevance" because "we have already invented cats" (i.e. the need remains that of problem solvers).

> enough to build a model of the world

Sure - and that is very interesting -, but a point of "Intelligence vs acquisition" is that of "Judgement vs prejudice". You get a world model, but if such model is not under active refinement through critical processing (in the sense of criticizing its elements - the ideas), its contents will be "stale" and unreliable. An Intelligent agent verifies its statements upon production (which is part of the refinement process). It is "mission critical".

> understanding consequences of simple physical interactions

That reminds of the definition from the late Prof. Patrick Winston, "Intelligence is to know what would happen if you ran holding a bucket of gravel, even though you never did that".
Little sidenote:

people usually try to explain the appeal of typescript by "static type checking leads to fewer errors, etc."

conversely i think the real reason is that it can show you the shape of the data at every step by simply hovering your mouse over a function/variable.

typescript is great because it enforces documentation
Living in Grenoble (25km away from Voiron where the Chartreuse is made), I welcome this decision.

I'd hate to see Chartreuse (also the name of the local mountain range where the monks' monastery is based) become industrialized to the point where its authenticity is lost, for the sake of global market supremacy.

For an alternative, try Genepi. It's not a brand name, but another type of artisanal liquor made out of a cocktail of mountain plants and herbs. Taste can be lighter than Chartreuse, but it warms you up just as well after a day of skiing.
I studied in Grenoble (near Voiron where the Chartreuse is made) and had a lot of hangover because of it.
The "party-cocktail" over there is TNT (Tip'n'top) : Chartreuse / Vodka / Orangina on shooters.

Good memories.
The world returns to an era of nuclear angst
> ¹except TFA mentions MFA … but the mention of it doesn't really make sense.

I guess there was a loophole in their MFA integration. Maybe they accepted the same TOTP twice - in a multi-region setup I guess this might be a trade-off that somebody might risk. With a keylogger one can theoretically steal a TOTP anyway or do other more sophisticated shenanigans.

> We enabled Microsoft’s conditional access PIN-matching multifactor authentication using an upgrade to the Microsoft Authenticator application which became generally available during the incident.

Maybe switching to push notifications with number matching is their mitigation for that (e.g. without affecting multi-region replication / performance).
I am still using 4.2. Does it make any difference if all I care about is h264 and hevc?
Chuck Norris once opened Windows and no bugs came in.
This is the correct explanation.
Coronavirus origins still a mystery 3 years into pandemic
Crap, good catch… I somehow managed to pretend 2^35 = 35. Oops.

That being said, one chance in 34 billion is only 3 orders of magnitude from typical lotteries, and in settings where multi-key attacks are applicable (not Age), we can definitely achieve lottery levels of success (with 1000 keys we get down to 1 in a 34 million chances for 1 year). 100 bits looks too low: in 1 year chances of success on a single key go up to 0.8%. That's pretty high.

We also need to keep in mind the actual algorithm used. When it's SHA-256 and Chacha20 we can say it's pretty comparable to Bitcoin, though there might be a small factor difference between hashing a full block and trying a key in a file. But if the entire path involves more hardware friendly primitives like AES, dedicated silicon could be quite a bit more efficient than the Bitcoin network currently is, and would drive down the costs (or drive up the chances of success) accordingly.

Now, do I actually believe a state level attacker would construct something as powerful as the entire Bitcoin network just so they have an extremely slim chance of cracking one key among many after years of burning energy over the search? No. 128-bit keys are safe, even in the face of multi-user attacks.

But the reasoning required to arrive to this conclusion is more complex than the one needed to assert that 256-bit keys are safe, because "there's still a chance". It's not plausible at all, but it remains humanly possible. With 256-bit keys we know it's flat out impossible. With 256-bit keys we don't even need to think, and that alone has some value.
Eh banks run securely because it’s very difficult to steal money.

Hard currency theft requires a physical attack and “digital currency” is just essentially a spreadsheet that requires a settlement mechanism such as correspondent banking to work.

Banks transfers are nothing more than messages going between different branches and banks there is nothing being transferred other than orders.

The attack surface on modern banks especially large ones is actually ridiculously small since you don’t only need to defraud or compromise a single bank but also the entire system and all other banks which are using it since once the offended bank notices some inconsistency it can issue a notice to reverse any offending transactions.

Also since bank transfers are often liabilities for most banks e.g. when an account in First Capital transfers $1M to someone in First Direct it means that First Capital now owes First Direct $1M which makes First Direct a creditor which is why it will likely quarantine the funds until the transaction is fully verified and settled and even then there still likely going to be a cooldown period to reduce the risk even further.

Most of the security within banks is designed to deal with internal threats since the entire banking system is essentially based on mutual trust which gives individuals even fairly low ranking branch employees the ability to authorize fairly substantial transactions.
The problem with the contemporary "clean code" concept is that the narrative that performance and efficiency don't matter has been pushed down the throat of all programmers.

Re-usability, OOP concepts or pure functional style, design patterns, TDD or XP methodologies are the only things that matter... And if you use them you will write "clean code". Even worse, the more concepts and abstractions you apply to your code the better programmer you are!

If you look at the history of programming and classic texts like "the art of programming", "sicp", "the elements of programming"... The concept of "beautiful code" appears a lot. This is an idea that has always existed in our culture. The main difference with the "clean code" cult is that "beautiful code" also used to mean fast and efficient code, efficient algorithms, low memory footprint... On top of the "clean code" concepts of easy to test and re-usable code, modularity... etc
The pronunciation of words between English and Dutch make them appear to be quite different. Once you’re used to hearing Dutch, which most British won’t be, the differences are much, much less than one might imagine.
Laws of Thermodynamics (in 2023) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_thermodynamics :

> The zeroth law of thermodynamics defines thermal equilibrium and forms a basis for the definition of temperature: If two systems are each in thermal equilibrium with a third system, then they are in thermal equilibrium with each other.

> The first law of thermodynamics states that, when energy passes into or out of a system (as work, heat, or matter), the system's internal energy changes in accordance with the law of conservation of energy.

> The second law of thermodynamics states that in a natural thermodynamic process, the sum of the entropies of the interacting thermodynamic systems never decreases. A common corollary of the statement is that heat does not spontaneously pass from a colder body to a warmer body.

> The third law of thermodynamics states that a system's entropy approaches a constant value as the temperature approaches absolute zero. With the exception of non-crystalline solids (glasses), the entropy of a system at absolute zero is typically close to zero. [2]

First law of thermodynamics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_law_of_thermodynamics

Quantum thermodynamics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_thermodynamics

Thermal quantum field theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_quantum_field_theory :

> In theoretical physics, thermal quantum field theory (thermal field theory for short) or finite temperature field theory is a set of methods to calculate expectation values of physical observables of a quantum field theory at finite temperature.

From the article:

> [170 years ago] the technology of the time dictated the gases or fluids that people would have studied are in equilibrium at the densities and temperatures that they were using back then.”

"Quantifying Energy Conversion in Higher-Order Phase Space Density Moments in Plasmas" (2023)
https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.085201
There's also a free, open source vim style browser called Qutebrowser which you can control like Vim if that's your thing. It works well, also with complicated web sites.

https://qutebrowser.org/
I think "them" is someone named Robert Cecil Martin, but I'm not sure if this example from the video appears in his book.

What compiler are you using that devirtualizes every class hierarchy? I suspect that Casey is using C++ so he may (unfortunately) have multiple translation units in his program.
Maybe Apple simply has better management who see farther than only one quarter, but it is noteworthy that as a tech company they are also in a more physical business: making and selling boxes of hardware instead of lofty software. They were also supply-chain constraint by Asian manufacturing, which restrained them.
The “conspiracy theory” is that people are going to be constrained to a 15-minute region in order to control them.

In fact, if you live in one of these parts of Oxford you will be able to drive to and from where-ever you like: The only new constraint is that some routes that go through Oxford itself will be blocked - you’re still free to drive via the ring road around Oxford & get to your destination that way if you want to.

“City blocks road to through traffic” is not usually headline news. There’s something about this story that seems to trigger the conspiracy theorist mindset for some reason.
Good on them for keeping focus on what is important to them, not everything has to be scaled out and available everywhere at all times.
> We can have continuous stable development and did have it when the gold standard was still a thing.

The gold standard in the US ran from 1870 to 1932; the Long Depression of 1873-1879, the Depression of 1882-1885, and the and the Great Depression of 1929-1933 all happened during it (overlapping its end, in the last case), as did some smaller recessions.

(Prior to 1870, most of the time the US was on a silver standard, which also had plenty of downturns and some depressions, in case you wished to retreat to “metallic” from “gold”.)
Unless civet's compiled output is hard to read you could always just check in the compiled Typescript source and continue from there if it gets abandoned. Not much of a risk when the migration is built in by the way the tool works in normal use.
X11 became really stable in the late 00s. And since the introduction of DRI3 it is at the same technological level of Wayland concerning the efficient buffer swap mechanism. X11 is however still miles ahead on the architectural level. Parts of the system like window managers or compositors can fail or be replaced at runtime without affecting running clients. Wayland lacks the appropriate standardized interfaces for that and there are not plans if not outright refusal to actually implement them.
The direct action solution to this may be exactly why some people are very interested in avoiding the cameras in the first place.
Reading the subredit, all the Anglish names of some special forces make a great alt-rock band names.

https://www.reddit.com/r/anglish/comments/11dtrqp/special_op...

Gouth Gripper, Fallwardens, Sundry Underrighting, Wyecraftish Loft Sway Band
Might be a common origin from Latin.

It does appear to be more than a coincidence that my dialect and the modern German usage share a word that sounds the same and means the same.
If you're sending untrusted strings to the native messenger, it would be best to escape them with shellescape - https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/blob/f2479c64761358c6...

Otherwise a malicious website targeting Tridactyl users who use the native messenger could gain shell access when you triggered your command on them.
I have to agree to this as I feel likewise.

VCs and investors are perceiving they would want to copy and layoff during this season and try to bring people back to the office.

They are considering a company as healthier if they can layoff extra fat from COVID season.
An aspect of this I don't here mentioned is "back to work" initiatives being used to force people out, are executives this dumb? Your best people will leave and then you will lay off your worst copy-catting and you're stuck with the people that absolutley need the job but can't find a better job?

Wow. The next time I look for a job, this is a huge factor for me.

I avoided <certain big tech co.> and even adviced someone to turned down an offer there before they started this bullshit and I am so glad I did that.

I mean I get the whole "it's a business, not a charity" thing but seeing people lose their jobs because some c-suite asshole hears about a trend and acts on a whim is scary stuff. Job loss affects people wose than divorce and even as much as death of a family member!

What I really want is a list of companies that didn't participate in this. I would want those companies to turn me down first!
Aloia CMS: The flat-file content management system for Laravel
It has the same meaning in German.
Probably a good decision even for the customers. Single-malt Scotch blew up in popularity decades ago, and my favorite brands just weren't the same after about the 1990s. I've stopped even trying.
Great writing. Really enjoyed it. And it is crazy how much extra data some companies put in their HTML even if not even used (seen this before in other industries)
I liked CoffeeScript back in the days. However, it had its problems, the biggest being too terse / too much optional syntax.

I think Civet would success better if it addressed those issues by making the syntax a bit more familiar and consistent.

Keep the python/ruby-like significant indentation and everything-is-expression approach, but add little more verbosity for clarity, for example:

- require and reserve {} for objects
- require () in function calls
- require explicit var/let/const

Also, because CoffeeScript got so controversial reputation, I would not ride on its legacy. Just market Civet as "TypeScript with modern syntax".
London is a pretty notorious money laundering hotspot. One of the tensions between the EU and the UK was that the EU wanted better scrutiny and regulation of British tax havens which the dirty money sector in London is not keen on.
Agreed. English is not the only language deeply influenced by other languages. The other "Germanic" languages aren't necessarily any more "pure" than English. The other day I came across an article (unfortunately I can't find the link) which talked about how the Scandinavian languages were forever changed by the contact with the Hansa trade union, some 40% of Norwegian vocabulary, for example, is from Low Middle German. The article showed example sentences where every single word was from LMG, but at the same time perfectly fine Norwegian.
> That a password was captured by a keylogger on a Dev Ops home computer shows that they don't understand how to secure remote computers

I tend to disagree. The potential for any single employee to do substantial harm to any business is incredible and designing a system to make that not possible is nigh impossible.

It's neither the humans nor the institutions fault. It's just that systems involving humans are incredibly hard stuff. You are constantly weighing rigidity of the system with the potential to do harm within the system. How much way can it give to make it possible for humans to do their job in a complicated world?

If you go down the path of "we need a process for everything" you are going to end up with a lot of processes. The inherent problem with that approach is that (for most businesses that are not exactly amazon) a lot of processes can not not feasibly be systematically enforced and rely on being honoured by a human a juncture points, to an extent that makes you very uncomfortable when you consider what mechanisms you system has, for when they just don't.

As of now, most system simply rely on humans to do the right thing at the right time, for no other reason than it being the right thing and they also knowing that, for the whole world to not go up in flames.
maybe to keep staying the richest? but seriously, I'm fine here for now, for programming Europe currently seems not very appealing. Would rather try to max out my options here, or downshift remote to a low-COL place. Europe seems neither here nor there (although awesome to visit)
Daniel Stenberg and the home of curl in Stockholm, Sweden
Why is your tin foil hat on? You do not believe what you said is the case and are downplaying its likelihood? If you do think this is the explanation, I think you can safely take the tin foil hat off. It’s hardly that unlikely, and many people think this is exactly the reason for the layoffs. Companies have every incentive to do this.
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
“City blocks road to through traffic, drivers have to take ring road instead” is not usually headline news around the world, but here we are.

I’m not sure why this story has resonated so strongly with the conspiracy theorists out there, but I guess it’s some wild cross-pollination between the idea that the world government is out to control everyone & hearing the phrase “15 minute neighbourhood” and jumping straight to the most insane conclusion possible.
> However, how is the general, non-technical layperson supposed to know any better?

Exactly the point made by the former Australian Prime Minister, Tony "speedos" Abbott when he rang the blog author directly to discuss the boarding pass issue and gave permission to post about this.

Or, as Former PM T. Abbott put it:

“You could drop me in the bush and I’d feel perfectly confident navigating my way out, looking at the sun and direction of rivers and figuring out where to go, but this! Hah!”

( Cut to Simpson's Bart gets the Boot in Australia episode scene where "Asking the PM" involves yelling out a window to a guy floating in a tyre in a dam )
What a fantastic read. Thanks for posting this!
Well, weren't they colonized by the Americans for a while, too?
In Slavic languages it's even simpler, it's "slovár" or "slóvnik", meaning something like "worder".
Show HN: Where to surf/snowboard/kitesurf any month of the year
Huh, I never really thought about it, but I guess that's one thing that GPL kinda fails at: if your server does all the work, you can leverage open source technology to do all sorts of stuff for your clients, so long as all the work the code you serve them does is collect and present data to the server.

Like, they get to see the code they run, but there's no insight to the code you run to deliver whatever service you're doing. Maybe this is obvious to other people lol, I just hadn't thought of it till now.
It really isn't, and I don't understand how you can say this so confidently when you clearly don't know.

Even in eastern parts of Europe you will find chargers in even the most remote places. I know, because I've tried it. In Scandinavia you'll be closer to a fast charger than a gas station at any given moment.

You can verify all of this by just looking at websites like PlugShare: https://www.plugshare.com
> I'm a Stanford professor who's studied organizational behavior for decades.

And I've actually been inside an organization or two. It's cost-cutting. Companies are ludicrously bloated because caring about it is too much effort for the value; during a downturn, they care a bit more, so they trim a bit of the fat. Musk was the one that pointed out that the emperor has no clothes, but that doesn't change how long it's been that way for. There's always this blind spot with academic types observing the software industry, where they assume that the dysfunction is rumors and the real issue is something thinky and academic (see e.g. the declining value of a CS degree - couldn't've been always worthless, must be a supply-and-demand issue), because it's just about impossible to fathom how something as dysfunctional as the software industry really is could possibly stand on two feet without falling over, until you've seen it firsthand.