skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several threads here point to difftastic: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic

I know a lot of people who have a lot of hope for diffsitter (or something like it): https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter

Personally, I think the reason most "good" semantic diff tools are proprietary is that they are huge amounts of effort that are mostly "hacks" and "heuristics" bandaged together in ways that people don't want to let out how the sausage was made.

But I also think "general, language agnostic AST-based semantic diff" is a mountain peak we cannot reach (probably ever), and I believe my experiments found an interesting local maxima that people are maybe passing by on the way to that ideal mountain (lexer-based diffs rather than parser-based diffs): https://github.com/WorldMaker/tokdiff
Driver issues can sometimes manifest as kernel exposed API interfaces blocking/using too much CPU in stupid ways/freezing when they should not; killing the "offending" userland program using those APIs will often end up releasing the resources acquired by invoking them.

Linux might be a monolithic kernel, but it's not like the entire kernel with all it's features/modules need to be loaded all at once.
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I'd add that the camera also adds 10 lbs. Meaning that due to the physics of the optics and sensors, faces get flattened out and people look 'fat' as a result.

So, to compensate, actors tend to be a lot skinnier in real life. Like, 'yo, you need a cheeseburger' skinnier. My brother lived in LA for a number of years and would occasionally run into celebs. He said that when running into one he would first always say to himself 'Hey, that person looks a lot like a skinnier and shorter version of ___". And, lo, it would just be that actor, but without all the makeup and lighting and wardrobe.
“Sweeping” seems to be a favorite adjective of those who have moved into the “it’s too late to do anything anyway” stage.

As Doctorow writes, the policy changes didn’t have to be sweeping if we’d started in 1977. But we didn’t. Now all the remaining options will upturn someone’s lives. It’s just a question of balancing the effects to achieve something better than the current path which means sweeping catastrophe for our children.
It was finished filming almost a year before they started shutting down movie theaters for the pandemic and they didn’t release promotional materials back then.

So, that pushes the earliest summer release as 2 to 2.5 years after filming each scene assuming COVID actually delayed things.
> China is also destroying the movie industry as well.

China may be changing the "Summer Blockbuster" segment of the industry but it's quite the stretch to say they are destroying the whole thing. Plenty of great movies still come out every year.

There's plenty of argument that the Academy Awards aren't necessarily the best movies but even if you look at the movies represented this year, there were a lot of good ones and I don't think any of them were influenced by China. Obviously you can't prove it unless the filmmakers confirm it, but certainly there are a lot of movies with themes that would be unacceptable to Chinese censors.

Maybe the plot of "Transformers 7" isn't as good as it could have been without Chinese influence but as long as movies like "The Power of the Dog" (or "Licorice Pizza" or "Belfast" or "Flee" if animation is more up your alley or ... take your pick) are coming out, I'd say the industry is doing ok.
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The profit is more important than revenue.
Eh, it took the mobile web until at least 2014 to get some momentum. As someone who was designing websites in this era, 2011/2012 was still the early days. "Smartphones" were still trickling out to the general population. A mobile-friendly site was considered a "nice-to-have." The screens were so much smaller back then—it was reasonable to assume people would jump to a laptop/desktop to read a longer article like this.

I don't know what's going on with Gruber—at this point it feels like he's made an almost religious choice to never add another line of CSS. LOL
They were "protected". That is, they didn't leak out of the government into private hands. But that still turned out pretty badly.

In fact, information in the government's hands is the most dangerous, because they have more power than anyone else to use it against you.

(On the other hand, as others have said about Denmark and Netherlands, data that was not in government hands became in government hands, and was used against people. So it's not "safer" if it's in private hands, except to the degree that the government has to go through the extra step of getting it.)
You can do the same thing with Cheetos. They're great as kindling for starting campfires.
Silk used in bulletproof vests (1999, Thailand): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/379338.stm
Do HOAs even exist outside the US? I don't know of anything similar in Australia other than body corporate organizations for blocks of units but their scope (and cost) is far more limited.
All the other services seemingly provided by HOAs in the US would all be local government provided here. I assumed it was much the same elsewhere in the (developed) world...
Tao looks super cool, and similar to the kind of language I'd personally make if I decided to create one. Kudos for actually implementing yours!

Some specific questions about the language design: - Does your flavor of algebraic effects allow distinct effects of the same type (e.g. two separate int-valued `State`s)? I haven't seen anyone talk about this, but it seems like a potential problem with effects.

- Do you have plans for making pattern matching extensible? I've thought a lot about how this could be possible with optics (the FP construction), but haven't found a nice solution yet.
> adding entirely new APIs in Android for sideloaded app stores to be able to update already-approved applications without extra permissions or approval

Wow, that sounds great! Does F-Droid make use of those yet? Having to manually install every app update gets tiresome.
Outdoor Tennis Could Be Sports’ First Big Climate Change Casualty
The obvious answer is that there are certain queries that cannot be made fast with normal indices. What index would you suggest for these queries?

SELECT * FROM Foo WHERE Bar != 42;
SELECT * FROM Baz WHERE x > 42 ORDER BY y DESC LIMIT 10

The usual solution is to constrain the query language in some way to prevent users from issuing queries that can't be satisfied efficiently using an index. If you are disciplined enough to do that then you can probably pretty easily suggest (or even automatically generate) indices for your users based on query patterns.
But are those representative of the average 1-2 showrunner outputs? No. They’re not. Most tv sucks. The fact that some shows are not in the top 10 greatest series of all time is irrelevant.

I would say the marvel tv series so far have been pretty solid. Even if you don’t like them because you have an allergic reaction to marvel, their execution has been really good.

If we must talk of THE BEST, then season 1 of American gods on StarZ was the best season of television I’ve ever seen. Mostly all written by Bryan fuller and Michael Greene. Not entirely. How do we weigh this? Hard to say, but man did that show crash and burn when they left.
They were deemed "good enough" when all you were using was basic, simple OSS. Not when you're attempting to use all the capabilities of ALSA.
The irony is that during that same time, FreeBSD somehow offered sound working out of the box, complete with input mixing, and without anything like ALSA.
This is vey much what I had in mind, I think Rebecca Ferguson is like 12 years older than Timothée Chalamet
>malware developers hardly care about the proper way of doing things or race conditions

Yes they do, they absolutely do - especially at this level. An easy way to get caught is to show up in a crashdump that automated software flags.
Switching everyone to a high-deductible would be disastrous for people with expensive chronic conditions like diabetes. It would force people to forgo treatment or select suboptimal treatment even in the absence of chronic conditions, leading to complications that require further treatment down the line. Not a fan of this idea.
Which ad system? Their programmatic ad inventory does not support tracking, as anyone who has access to developer ads can confirm.
I understand the privacy concerns around the location and personal data. I have been working with location data for past 17 years and seen more privacy related issues I can count. The reason for the DLDB is to provide a humane way to analyse location data that alternatively sent to some cloud with UID.
Nuanced is an interesting way to describe what happened - especially with a description like draconian!

The disdain is for ignoring the science, the health of other people, and negative externalities… it is not likely to change, nor are the minds of those who are dug in and feel as though their entitlement to the status quo will outdo entropy.

The anchor is sad about being dragged?
I see "easier" as meaning different things.

1) it's easier in the Scandinavian and German-speaking countries because passive house building materials are easier and cheaper to acquire ("other countries may spend 8% more on constructing Passive Houses than conventional buildings because the Passive House components may not be readily available" - "Examing the Prospective of Implementing Passive House Standards in Providing Sustainable Schools", https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.5031991?casa_tok...)

2) it's easier in cooler areas because there's more experience in how to build for those climates (as Wikipedia points out).

3) it's easier in cooler areas because the energy saved is higher, and so easier to justify economically. "Passive Houses for different climate zones" at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037877881... shows "Energy demands of the Reference Passive Houses in the different locations" in Table 3, with:

Yekaterinburg Tokyo Shanghai Las Vegas Singapore Abu Dhabi
Total saving 96% 90% 87% 86% 79% 77%

Those are all good savings in power use, but clearly better in colder climates.

(Sorry, I can't find TCO.)

4) From my understanding, it's easier to well-insulate and let body heat and appliances provide the heat, using the cool exterior to regulate temperature, than it is to deal with cooling and humidity issues in warmer climates to bring the internal temperature to the "inner comfort range" specified by the Passivhaus Institute, Fig. 8 of the link in 3).
I'd say that guy was honing in on "entertainer" - Springsteen is a much better performer and entertainer than he is a songwriter or musician generally. The man's still performing incredible 3 hour shows at 72 years old.

I'm not aware of him doing any social media influencing - he had earned his reputation long before social media.
There is loads of material to draw from. The Unfinished Tales, the 13 tomes of the History of Middle Earth, some drafts that emerged later. The Lord of the Rings is tiny in comparison. Some of the endings are missing, and some are only roughly sketched, but having the general outline of millennia of history really helps filling the blanks.
Apropos role-playing games: superhero universes are a great example of how you don't want to end up in your storytelling. Mashing everything together (I believe the term is "jamming") just so everyone can have what they want, with no regard to consistency. Here's a Norse god with a mallet, here's a guy who got bitten by a radioactive spider.

Official RPG campaign did it a lot, because of course they wanted to sell the X supplements to the Y players too.
I first played Lemmings on an Amiga 500. Connected to an old monochrome Apple monitor II :)
> sugar cane may be refined

Am I wrong to read that to say that _some_ white sugar is vegan?

EDIT: Oh, I see the confusion. I didn't mean any beet sugar was processed that way. I only meant to dispute the claim further up that white sugar is not vegan.
Miguel de Icaza left Microsoft in March, 2022.
This is only a criticism if you enumerate the deficiencies with the rules you believe are only justified by self-interest.
You could look at the German BSI Federal Office for Information Security's documents, but you can't implement anything just by reading them, and they won't teach you about various attacks or other basic cryptographic principles.
German politicians were discussing banning Telegram. With centralized monopoly App Stores, they easily can. With sideloading, they can't under current frameworks; and they're unlikely to mandate remote-uninstalls of "illegal apps" anytime soon.

Sure, central subscription management and "Login with Apple" are convenient, but I'd much rather governments not have the ability to block apps on my personal devices.
They don't buy on the open market like a normal person would. They buy from Coinbase or other large exchanges off market. Much like how large stock deals are done.
No one chooses phones based on browser engines. Why anyone is upset with Apple improving security by only allowing executable pages in Safari is beyond my comprehension.
My favorite was my 2000-ish Impreza "Outback Sport" which lost all four hubcaps in pretty short order. Looking around, I could see that the problem was common for that model and year. Still, the only serious issues I had in almost 10 years and ~60K miles were one CV joint and one muffler, both relatively cheap to replace. My wife's much later Forester, on the other hand, succumbed to frame rot much sooner than it should have considering its usage and maintenance. I think they do pretty well on TCO for the budget segment, but anything more upscale not so much.
Agreed. We're past the point where culture can shift in time to turn the wheel. Only technology shifts quickly enough to do so.

EVs and wind/solar energies are examples of technologies which are so much better than the alternatives that they're succeeding at reducing emissions faster than consumption can grow to catch up. We don't have the time to get enough people together to mandate that the front row drives a Tesla instead of a Ford, nor to mandate that they produce wind farms instead of coal plants, but they're doing so of their own accord - and demand for them exceeds production capacity by a large margin - because the electric car is better and the wind energy is cheaper. As you say, we now need parachute tech.
At work you may not have that choice, especially since all the most-used (so, best supported) distros are deep into systemd now, or if you have a distro that you otherwise like but that has switched to systemd. It's possible to prefer something over alternatives but still think it's worse than it used to be, or could be better, or to very much dislike one part of it.

Again, much like Windows and other MS products. People effectively had to use them ("well technically they could quit their jobs instead, so they didn't really have to"—LOL), which sets up circumstances for some serious hate. To repeat what I've written elsewhere, no-one is upset with any other init system or audio daemon creators, even if they don't like the software. Something different happened with these projects.
> - The desert is probably the best place to build sprawling metropolises with the lowest ecological impact (overall)

The only problem is then these metropolises are in the desert, and you have to ship all agricultural products to them. That's fine most of the time when times are good and supply chains work, but it's fragile, if anything goes wrong enough in the worldwide food markets. A desert metropolis is like an island nation that must import all its food.

A precarious position if times ever get tough. I believe currently the USA is a net exporter of food products, but if you started building and growing enough desert cities that might stop being the case
Hosting torrents takes minimal bandwidth. Apple can’t offload bandwidth peer to peer to phones when people are on limited cellular plans.
(This is from another commentator on HN). You should know that if childhood trauma were correctly understood the DSM would shrink to the size of a pamphlet. Learn what type of person your child is and nurture him or her.
60 Per cent of Brits on £80k-100k say they’re “about average”
But making huge profit in the tech sector is rejoiced, as seen in the likes of Apple, Amazon, Google.... and the list goes on. But farmers are seen as leeches for wanting to be paid for their labor.
So why's no-one mad at any other init or audio daemon authors? Poettering just had bad luck?
…then translators need to be programmers, or vice versa. That may not scale to many languages/large products.

What would be useful is the ability to interactively see a systematic set of examples of what the templates one is editing evaluate to.
Well, that lack of interest in the project in the beginning was certainly not for a lack of trying, and interest... well let's just say it picked up after a while.

Still, hard to criticize the founder for mining when no one else had interest in it.

That cryptographical proof against premining is quite interesting however. Someone must have thought the mere suspicion would have been enough to void any interest in the project. History suggests that wasn't the case, even if we can't know for sure. It might have been different.

Anyway, for what it's worth, all evidence suggests that (almost) all of that solo mining was likely burnt. That too suggests the primary risk was thought to be people losing interest in the project.
What if the story takes place in a different universe, with no relation with our history?
Good anecdote!

In exchange I offer two relevant quotes from my quote file:

> The empire long united must divide, long divided must unite; this is how it has always been. (Luo Guanzhong)

> When cuffs disappeared from men’s trousers, fashion designers gave interviews explaining that the cuff was archaic and ill-suited to contemporary living. It collected dust, contributed nothing. When the trouser cuff returned, did it collect less dust and begin at last to make a contribution? Probably no fashion designer would argue the point; but the question never came up. Designers got rid of the cuff because there aren’t many options for making trousers different. They restored it for the same reason. (Ralph Caplan)
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> But it seems odd to spend so much and not have a single established creator that has put out great content. And not to involve Jackson seems off because even having him in a consulting role would be a good sign.

Wasn't the estate’s unhappiness with Jackson’s work (either genuine or as part of the long rights war) a big part of that?
> It wasn't like Ready Player One, where I felt ... milked ...

Ready Player One was a deliberately over the top nostalgia fest ... Ready Player Two was where I felt played/milked.
The linked study is about RSA, not elliptical curve cryptography
> PulseAudio has, deservedly or otherwise, been the face of audio issues in desktop Linux for coming on two decades now

It is actually very hard to say in reality whether some other product would have been better.

The more users software has, more issues there will be.
If there is ”de facto” way to play audio, all conversation focues on this ”de facto” way.
It has been also kinda first of its kind in this scale.
PipeWire might work well now, but they had excellent example what to not do or how to do otherwise.
You don't seem to be engaging with the main point here: there were places that DID take COVID seriously--that shut down overnight, paid the price of mass unemployment, homelessness and growing tent cities, increasing substance abuse / overdose, loss of education that will never be recovered and countless other second-order effects.

And those places did not emerge with a significantly better COVID outcome.

Without an answer for addressing the second-order effects of green policy, there will be no consensus.
Or we can skip the toxicity all together:
https://sentiaspirits.com/pages/about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/s_Nutt#Alcarelle_&_GABA_Labs
I'm curious why you didn't get involved as the parent and possibly engage his interest outside of the classroom, or even put him in a different school or situation where he wouldn't be humiliated? I'm sorry for how this is going to sound, but your anecdote reads to me more that you killed his interest in math through your own (in)actions; the school simply serves as a useful copout.
No. Public key cryptography is impossible if P=NP. What we are left with is shared one-time-pads that can be arranged using quantum key distribution.

I am not an expert so I will simply link the Wikipedia article on Computational Complexity Theory as my "source".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_the...
> If the agreements are not executed by the end of 2022, NIST may consider selecting NTRU instead of KYBER.

It is especially interesting that NTRU (nor NTRU Prime, a different proposal) is _not_ advancing to the 4th round. Wouldn't you want to encourage more analysis for your (implied) runner-up?
As far as I know, one guy made this (https://twitter.com/jarredsumner) working 80h-90h on it a week. His twitter has some cool performance insights into JS and JS engines. It's the biggest Zig codebase too I think.

Congrats on the release :)
This is a very good idea. At some point functionality like this should be baked into OSs or at least available as a GPO (short of a USB device whitelist).
I think the counterargument would be that casting people of different races isn't really supposed to be about culture at all. In theory it's meant to provide a sense of inclusion to those who might not look like the characters as they were intentionally written. As in: "LOTR is still for me, even if I don't look like a European."

I don't really want to get into the validity/efficacy of that. I just don't really have an informed opinion. But I do think that's the reasoning.

I think that wanting to have a more diverse cultural backdrop for the stories we tell is something I can definitely get behind, but I don't think it's really that related to having a more racially diverse cast for a story with a decidedly Anglo/Euro origin.
Boost has something called MultiIndex.
Even if you assume that genetics works the same way in Middle-earth (where you know, magic exists) and today’s earth, why would anyone assume it works the same on the magical species as it does with modern humans?

Modern humans are one of the most homogeneous species we know of (apart from the our crops that we have bred into homogeneity) and even humans show very dynamic inheritance patterns. A red hair can pop up after several generations of different hair colors for example.

There is no reason to assume that genetics in different (often magical) species is less dynamic then in modern humans. If anything we should have more variety and more dynamic traits as different races are interbreeding then today. If only for the reason that more diversity opens more possibilities for more creative and fun stories.
The linkedin "leak" was just a scrape of public data.
I think we can revisit OP:

> However the way this standardization worked - and several others before, like AES and SHA-3 - is that NIST made a public competition. They basically asked everyone to submit proposals and then asked everyone to find flaws in theses proposals.

> These competitions have a very good reputation in the cryptographic community.

A very brief google search provided citations to the proposals and counter-attacks for your perusal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST_Post-Quantum_Cryptography...
Overract much? It's not at all like that. First and foremost because using a different distro doesn't come with all sorts of application process to use the new one.