skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for being a great example of what this person wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43385268#43387809
Here https://github.com/DanielJoyce/ls-rs is some-one who applied both techniques to convert `ls` to `rust` via an `ls.objdump`
> which is anomalously high in the US for reasons that even experts in maternal death cannot explain

Doesn’t seem like a mystery that a country who is so “pro-life” they’d rather let women die than properly treat miscarriages has a high maternal death rate.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/27/texas-abortion-death...
> Do VCs really have no standard for due diligence

The Theranos saga should give you the answer you're looking for.
Is it a nonviolent bombing?
I'm focusing on javascript because that's what I love to program in...and i'll say it here. I hate facebook and react

deno/bun/node will suffice. I just rewrote it to use nodegui/qt and nativescript
Never listen to theo.
The tool mise-en-place seems to have this. It is a replacement for asdf that I think can be used as a drop in replacement (compatible CLI interface).
Just C programmer's daily struggle to mimic a fraction of C++.
Government statistics consider "system analyst" to be a third, different thing (https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...). "Computer systems analysts study an organization’s current computer systems and design ways to improve efficiency."
I have. It's worse no doubt. But it's not the smell of rotten eggs. My comment was meant to be tongue-in-cheek to correct the mistake of saying "H2S" in the GP comment.
How to start writing an actual (demoscene) demo in <400 lines
Wow, an actual, purposeful, and quite general return-pointer-smashing gadget, built right into the program itself. Just what any program written in C needs.
Blaming consumers for climate change is a con. Giving regular people a bunch of useless busywork when they are already busy instead of regulating at the manufacturer where the effort would be minimal is a choice.

It will always work. The opportunity to blame your neighbor for climate change for not being as conscientious as you is the archetype of a liberal wedge issue. You can yell at them on social media. But regulate my company? Akshualy you're killing jobs?
I've still never bought a single physical product from Amazon.

Only AWS, which I stopped using when they decided to raise their price I'd already locked in and prepaid for, which should be unlawful. Then I realized every traditional provider is much cheaper.
Leprechauns of Software Engineering
Agree on the click bait title but it did not save me a click. For those wondering more. There is some distinction, which I still do not fully comprehend between "programming" which is grunt work and "developer" which is ingesting requirements and coding on top of working with "programmers" to implement a client needs. If someone has more insight on the distinction I would love to understand because it could be interesting if programmer was the initial stepping stone into developer.
I didn't think of cheeseburgers when I heard Stairway to Heaven. (Past, because I haven't heard it in a while.)
People still smoke, don't use enough sunscreen and drink alcohol. "People" don't care.
Hah! Pretty good way to sniff that particular breeze then, and there's something rotten in the air.

Having said that, the other thread on this topic was bent into what I consider to be a more appropriate shape, so there must be a wide swathe covered.
> under capitalism wealth and income follow a Pareto distribution.

And under the other forms of government thus far tried?

Anyway, Capitalism doesn't explain wealth inequality. The ability to accumulate capital and apply it to industry with limited liability doesn't inherently cause wealth inequality. That's the fault of Greedism, Over-inflated-sense-of-selfism, and Giving Money to Politicians is like giving Whiskey and Car Keys to Teenage Boys-ism.

We're over taxed and over regulated, that's nothing to do with Capitalism.
So all the cops have to do is send one of them undercover to throw a couple of bricks, and then they have casus belli to gas the whole protest.

Ever wondered why protests always turn violent very shortly after the government decides it's time to disperse them?
Three short thoughts on change and leadership
I’m speaking to the composition of people on HN.
>> France and Italy have top-tier universal healthcare

>According to what parameters? For what it's worth both seem to rank lower than the US according to the OECD.[2]

That would be surprising, since the US doesn't have universal health care.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) definitions:

“Computer Programmer”: https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes151251.htm

“Software Developer”: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm
Wow! thats an interesting one
> The point isn't and never has been that it's a flawless tool

It's a contradiction with all the managers and vibe-coding developers that have been saying for months that it can replace 90% of a development team.
Sure it is. The fallacy here is focusing on the messenger: THEY do this, THEY do that, if YOU do this, if YOU do that... But the messenger is not the topic.

Instead, focus on the initial charges and whether they are factually correct. The messenger doesn't matter. They could be a total hypocrite, they could have 0 values, they could eat babies, and still be 100% right on the issue. Not to mention, other messengers say the same thing, and attacking them won't make the claims incorrect, either. This is why the phrase "don't shoot the messenger" exists.

When you use whataboutism, you behave at least as poorly as the person you claim has no values, or who you claim is a hypocrite. This is because you yourself refuse to criticize the behavior present in the initial charges. How does sinking to what you believe to be their level, help resolve the initial charges?

tl;dr: there's a reason why 'no u' is considered a joke and not a serious defense of one's behavior
It is, at least from the visual of different "coding" type jobs there is still a slide for System Analyst. I have no idea what most of the differences are.
>The distinction between programmer and software developer in government definition

To save the click on what this means specifically:

"In the government’s schema, programmers do the grunt work while the much more numerous — and much faster-growing — software developers enjoy a broader remit. They figure out what clients need, design solutions and work with folks such as programmers and hardware engineers to implement them."
Population density

Mississipi: 24.5/km2

UK: 279/km2

Maybe, only maybe, that has an effect on house sizes?
The only US-made software with global reach is Microsoft Windows, and I doubt that thing can be considered "number one".
It is clickbait, assuming you don’t know the distinction between a developer and a programmer. If you do it’s actually a pretty solid title. I’d argue it’s worth a read because the main point is very good.

I think the core distinction is important and gets at what LLMs are and are not good at. LLMs are good at translating clear specifications into common programming languages. That is what a programmer, by the BLS’ definition, does. The hard part of being a software dev never has been writing the code.

They are claiming that the act of programming is in the process of being replaced. That seems somewhat likely. However they aren’t saying that overall tech industry jobs nor even software dev jobs are decreasing.
This sounds interesting. 2 minutes is a great promise
You have a lot more faith in technology than me. There is a strong history of compromising data at rest (such as in phone backups) and getting metadata either directly or through side channels. It's not very hard for me to imagine a system that tells you who is talking with who, when, and with what IPs no matter how anonymized you think you are. That all assumes good opsec too.

My understanding is that Tor was compromised several years ago.

Pegasus alone means that once you become a target, you're done.

It also means these "defenses" are only generally available to the technically savvy.
> Probably.

minimaxir is too polite. I'll repeat it

You need to speak with a lawyer! You need to speak with a lawyer!!!!!! You need to speak with a lawyer!!!!!!!!!

Everything related to health is a minefield. You need to speak with a lawyer to ensure you will not have problems when a moron misinterpret the result of the page. The only sure thing in life is the overabundance of morons. Or if you want to be more polite, the existence of people that are not healthcare or programming experts and will thrust blindly whatever the computer says, or may misread it.

Is the system HIPAA compliant? Are you logging any of the text? For a music service recommendation it may be a small privacy breach. For anything related to health it's a suebait.
I guess you are "the one". This means you won't fail this stuff and this discussion is not for you, it is for the rest of us who would.

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/28/meta/
I cannot wait for sites to provide poison results to known LLM's.
McLaren invented new carbon fiber tape to build even more complex parts
Outrageous, out of the question, and practiced at 99.9% of protests that disagree with the government's foreign policy.
> being allowed to be mad

No one can stop you being mad. No one's saying it's not allowed. It's possible someone is still young enough to misinterpret adult interactions as parental fiat, but it's not the case.
Yes it's extremely dumb and annoying. It's everywhere in Apple products, for example your Health ID cannot get your weight for your latest recorded weight in the app. I mean, it's even the same app, it's like the devs can't be bothered to make a smart product.

I think this is because of the way they silo everything, the way they are paranoid about privacy/security (mostly for their marketing, they don't care that much) and the culture that isn't very competitive anymore.

It finally hurts them because the experience isn't coherent and very frustrating for the user. It's funny because the marketing is all about the "ecosystem" but in reality, the coherence is mostly about how things look.

The rumor of a big redesign isn't surprising; instead of working on how things actually work (they wouldn't need to back off some marketing choice and that seems impossible) they will put a coat of paint and make people focus on good looks.

The last redesign was terrible and it took an awful lot of time to get things back to half-decent.
It's just one more motivation to not renew for an iPhone I guess...
I’d wager that the median European is happier and healthier than the median Mississippian.
Honestly I'm more confused as with that. Seems like 'bureaucrats who grew up without PCs try to explain job' more than anything.

To be fair other engineering disciplines do typically separate the engineers from the technicians in basically that ('design vs do') way.
That may be right. In future, I think we will use a more unasumming watermark.
> Going by any of the major bullet points I would say that the title is wrong, and misleading at best.

And it wouldn't be their first time.

Check https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43217357 by the same author. That post got flagged for being misleading too.

Read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43220639 for same type of criticism.

The OP seems to be on an LLM spree. They ask LLM to produce code. The code is invariable always broken thanks to hallucinations but they go ahead and post it on HN anyway with a misleading title.
Mississippi is perhaps a poor example to use, as its wealth is highly concentrated, as well as segregated along racial lines. It houses some very affluent communities and also some with open sewers or no public utilities at all, and a state house entirely unconcerned about reconciling the two because it's been gerrymandered to hell in order to prevent the ethnic group that makes up nearly 40% of its population from having anywhere near commensurate representation.
We didn't tell the youngsters about chewing gums and Mars/Wrigley/Orbit passed on marketing at least on some markets so luckily I haven't seen chewing gums anywhere around in the recent years. It's a better world in some way. E-cigarettes on the other hand....
I find using LLMs for summaries of news headlines to be quite helpful. Many headlines in my RSS feeds have turned awfully "clickbaity" over the years. Using an LLM at the individual article level, it's usually a pretty great way to produce a new informative headline from the full article body. It makes the information much more relevant, and better allows me to decide whether I want to read the full article or not.

(Just as an example of practically useful functionality, while I agree that the technology still falls short of expectations and dreams in many other domains)
I can generally speak to my iPhone and have it recognize and carry out what I say when it's still in its holster on my hip.

Anything that's set up in HomeKit is directly accessible through Siri, and IME most smart-home devices these days support HomeKit, even if they have their own apps as well.

So I don't need to have any app open, or my phone unlocked or even in my hand, in order to turn on and off the smart outlets I have in my house.

(That said, I also have a HomePod mini, because not everyone in my house keeps their phone on their person at all times—plus it's a nice speaker for the kitchen.)
Clearly it is not true that there are no downsides, because those companies had to change behaviours and offer more data protections as a result. The goal of GDPR is not to bankrupt companies, but to fix behaviours.

I do agree fines take too long to come and are too small.
Correct. You can use it in a simple way to free memory, but we've also used it to create scoped locks[1].

This being C, it's not without its problems. You cannot use it for values that you want to return from the function (as you don't want those to be freed), so any such variables cannot be automatically cleaned up on error paths either. Also there's no automated checking (it's not Rust!)

Note it's {...} scoped, not function scoped, which makes it more useful than Golang's defer.

[1] https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/blob/8b36e5a2ea331eed2a73...
I used to know an accountant that worked for Booking.com. You don't have a clue how much they had to pay to Google every month for ads. Literally a fortune.
The thing is: people want to go somewhere, e.g. to Rome. Next thing they do is, type 'hotel in Rome' in Google. Google serves them a couple of paid links, and they check only the first couple of them.
FRED enables combining (and tweaking/scaling/etc) charts pretty easily on their site. Check out the 'edit graph' button. You can use the ID's of the individual charts (like IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE) when searching for a table to add.

Here are those 4 tables combined: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1EDHP
when technological advancements that actually would allow for BETTER privacy and security, and MORE local-only features are misappropriated for constructing bogus and dishonest justifications to rather erode the least-effort user-minded safeguards that already had been present, it's become plain obvious that the claim to create a product that serves the user has always been a lie. It's about capturing data and influence, and always has been
.NET (C#) is getting there with Vector<T>.
I agree, although is the domain system really the best way to do that?
It's not that "representation of the spin group" is undefined, but that there are too many of them for it to pin things down uniquely. (In this case, fortunately, it's not hard to say which representation it is (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43388052), but just saying "a representation" isn't enough.)
(using C++ and DirectX because "face it: you're never going to compile for Mac or Linux", so not only is the content of no interest to me, the author seems to be the kind of asshole whose notion of argument is to claim that people who disagree with him are simply refusing to face reality)
FWIW there was some nice MILsurp LRAD kit on eBay a few years back. Looked like there was some corrosion but repairable, possibly functional in its current state. Wasn’t the truck sized one, but big enough (about 1m emitter) to do what is seen in the video. Sold for around 3000 iirc lol. I don’t think anyone knew what it was or it would have sold for a lot more. The seller had no idea, or at least wasn’t letting on if he did.

So, it’s not like LRAD is controlled like SAMs or something. Also, pretty trivial to build. Idk what the IP looks like on it , but back of the napkin you can build a 1kw unit for around $7000 buying the parts at retail. The expensive bits are the transducers. Everything else is a few mosfets and MCU/software.
oh you did?
I think you are vastly underestimating how many of us choose to play the game, whilst simultaneously being aware of how shitty it is.
Yes you can sync versions python versions bidirectionally with uv and mise. I intend to make further deeper integrations with uv where possible directly into mise core in order to offload python complexity out of mise and into uv where possible.
> How does one formally define a spinor? I've seen the definition of a spinor field as "things that transform like a spinor", and a spinor as a "representation of the spin group" (which representation), but I would like to know a canonical mathsy definition of what the heck a "spinor" is! May I please have one? :)

For Spin(8), three of the four fundamental representations are conjugate, and so we can use any one of them to define spinors.
Interesting. I guess that sort of qualifies, even though a pharmacy owner can technically choose to not enter into any agreements.

The government is at the root cause of wanting to squeeze all players in the healthcare business, since public rancor reached a tipping point in the late 2000s and ACA was passed. Pharmacists just got shafted first because they were the easiest to squeeze due to supply and demand. Doctors were next with the insertion of physician assistances and nurse practitioners.
If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.

https://blog.simplejustice.us/2017/04/11/filipovics-dilemma-...
Youth definitely plays a big part in this feeling but I think the dotcom era was also somewhat historically unusual because two huge external events happened around the same time: anyone old enough to grow up during the Cold War had lived with this constant feeling that their life could suddenly be destroyed (as a kid in the 80s we still had air raid drills), and then suddenly people were having rock concerts on both sides of the Berlin Wall while the victorious United States and European allies stopped worrying about the Fulda Gap and started welcoming new NATO members.

The second big change around that time was the internet tearing down cultural borders. Anyone could participate, even people who’d been trapped behind the iron curtain just a decade before, and many people were predicting that the free flow of communication would strengthen democracy and ensure the fall of Chinese authoritarianism.

(Far fewer people correctly predicted that the second would imperil the first)
Meanwhile, "Chaos Monkeys" is still in publication and is a pretty open talk on the early days of Facebook.

I can't escape the notion that either they didn't have their earlier employees sign quite so binding agreements or the company had some incentive not to sue that man.
Hope. Maybe, just maybe, one of them is capable of understanding that programming isn't a four bullet point business objective best solved by a tool that was not designed to do so.

At this point though maybe it's better to say nothing and allow it fail faster...
https://teamhood.com, a Kanban-first project tracker.
I'm curious, do you work at NASA?
> According to what parameters?

That it’s actually usable? Great healthcare is pointless if you cannot afford to go to the doctor.

> 88% of the adult population (age over 18) in Missisipi has attained at least a High School degree. [3]

Sure, but what standard of high school degree?
> aren't you supposed to be able to capture in reverse direction ?

Only after promotion.
Maybe... :-) Where is he wrong?
indeed, thanks! it does so much for a tool that's like a year old, crazy stuff.
I was brought up in the UK and not all of it is a city centre. My schools were miles away. We lived in the suburbs.
This headline is scary
Thanks for publishing this.

Can you also share your opinion if you compare the "code to spec" vs "spec to code" phases?

I'm wondering if the LLM considers "code" and "spec" as two separate programming languages, or one as a programming, and the other as a human language? Not sure if it makes a difference or not for its internal translation logic though, if that makes sense.

PS: I learned BASIC on a friend's ZX Spectrum, and your post made me remember some forgotten childhood memories :) Extra thanks.
Bingo. Authors are easier to bully into submission.
This "project" is a toy application that exists for no other reason than vibe coding evangelism.

> You can. I can't.

> I can easily tell if it's correct and I can make the LLM fix incorrectness (in this simple case, anyway).

Pick one.
I think it’s the whole American continent (north and south) that’s way behind Europe/Asia regarding safety in the streets.
This sounds like someone saying that C++ can't replace C on a given project because it has too many features and nobody can agree on which ones should be used.

You do realize that any given organization using the tool can just... write a standards document specifying how the tool is (and more importantly, isn't) expected to be used within the org?
I read OP as in "they just don't care about privacy [enough to change their behavior]", and in that sense I fully agree.

Same can be said about climate change. Sure they worry and complain, but when pointing out concrete measures they can take, basically nobody does.

Complaining is easy.
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You don't need an expensive lawyer to point out that the publisher is not covered by the arbitration agreement, a cheap one will do.
I really like it, congrats!
Abortion has nothing to do with it. Abortion laws vary state to state from very restrictive to very permissive, and even states with much more permissive abortion laws than the majority of Europe, maternal mortality remains higher.

Wisconsin's abortion law is from before the Civil War and its maternal mortality is lower than Massachusetts.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/maternal-mortality/mmr-2018-2022-st...

Personally I think it has more to do with access to healthcare and the general physical fitness of your average American compared to your average European but I have no data to back that up.
Nice tip. Thanks.
> Richard II

You quote someone famously deposed by rebellion and died in prison as an example of uniquely British repression preventing revolution?

It's absurd and toxic to claim the sentiments of Richard II are uniquely British. European monarchies are better understood as an interconnected transnational class. Richard II aka Richard of Bordeaux, born in the presence of the kings of Castile, Navarre and Portugal, married the sister of the Holy Roman Emperor and then the daughter of King of France...

> Here in Sweden though, when we have attacked the government we have generally been successful

Oh? Möre uprising, Västbo peasant uprising, Värmland rebellion, Böda Uprising, Morning Star rebellion... etc. all suppressed and leaders executed.
But wouldn't a DAPP solution would solve even more problems.. faster?
What am I missing?
Those might be called "software architect" now. At least, it's somewhat close.