skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “I think it ultimately does fall within the line of being ethical, but it isn’t a slam-dunk case”

I concede that I haven’t thought as deeply about this as ethicists, but I strongly suspect that the cost/benefit calculation here is way over-cautious if you think the theoretical induced harm is remotely close to the benefits of publishing.

The history of science is already full of self-experimenters, so at the margin publishing is unlikely to move the needle.

Furthermore, patients with cancer diagnoses are already extremely motivated to try whatever experimental treatments the FDA will permit; self-experimentation is already supply-constrained (of experiment opportunities) and there is excess demand. Again fuzzy concerns about population-level harms overrule individuals’ rights to seek treatments for their fatal diagnoses.
Show HN: AI Customer Support for SaaS Companies
Hi everyone - we launched Zupport, an AI Customer Support product for SaaS companies.

The reason is that we've worked for multiple SaaS products and noticed a few common patterns that they're struggling with.

We need help with ideas to get the first 10 users, which seems extremely hard to do, and would really appreciate any feedback from anyone with similar experience.

At the moment, we're trying things that don't scale:
- Cold outreach (email, LinkedIn)
- Customized demos
- Reaching out to our network
- PH Launch
- Launches on other websites

Thanks!
Title might need to include "Show HN".

Very cool and interesting project! How are build times? And how big are the artifacts?

I'll for sure keep an eye on this, and add it to my ever expanding list of tech to explore.

Thank you for sharing!
If something dies surely it was alive once?
This may or may not be on your radar, but crypto is desperate for a product like this. Smart contracts are often forks or rewrites (obfuscated or otherwise) of others and an easy interface for end users to be able to see changes between two forks would probably provide a lot of value.
I suspect this will be the future for many devs who develop boring CRUD apps, like ERP. No point having developers who only convert requirements crafted by others to code if LLM's can speed up that part enough. Such basic developer role will largely merge with business person / product owner / project manager role.

Ultimately, I think it's easier to teach business skills to a developer than to teach a business person enough code fluency to produce and deploy working code with help of LLM's.
Which is why it is important to eat right and listen to the body.
Memories can be activated without awareness, anywhere in the head, modulating the deliberate cognitive processing as well as whatever happens "in the back of the head".
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B with coding abilities matching those of GPT-4o
A 32B version of Qwen2.5-Coder is coming soon as you can check out in the README of their repository.

In HuggingFace: "Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has become the current state-of-the-art open-source coderLLM, with its coding abilities matching those of GPT-4o." - https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B
An important point here is that for certain languages, using the original grammar is pretty much impossible. In particular, for C, you want to do diffing and merging on the un-preprocessed source, but the language's grammar very much assumes the source has gone through the preprocessor.

Of course, the existence of the preprocessor means there are situations where it's completely impossible to know what the correct parse is; it will necessarily be heuristic in some cases.
What’s the best alternatives? Which are also preferably in common libraries, like Python’s?
wrote my first programs, accessed my first bbs and setup my first networks (midi and null modem) on the atari st.

the best part was that an open box 520st that plugged into the tv with a single sided 320k floppy disk drive was just barely cheap enough for my blue collar parents to afford to get me started.

it changed the course of my life forever.
I think that “just” might be doing some heavy lifting in that assertion.
Structure Tensor Decoding
> You're missing some other critical components: the developers, and the costs.

No, I'm not.

> If you come up with processes and tooling that is difficult to use widely,

That's an unfounded assumption. The tooling and processes I have developed are no more difficult to use than unit testing.

> How many times more effort would it be...

I'd say compared to the 10% or so overhead of model checking, it would be approximately 8X as difficult, given that this requires learning a new language, using it correctly, and rebuilding the semantics in a way that is safe in that language. But, first, you need to learn new frameworks, rebuild all of the testing and quality assurance that went into the first development process, and rebuild the same level of trust as the original. Writing software is the easy part. It's all of the other stuff, like analysis, testing, confidence building, and engineering that costs money, and this would have to be redone from scratch, as the artifact from that original effort is being thrown away for a rewrite. Remember: the cost of rewriting software isn't just the cost of sitting down and banging out code.

> And how do the resulting turnaround times (say, compile/verification/etc. times) compare?

Model checking is actually pretty fast if you use proper shadowing. Compiling with C is lightning fast. I'd say that using a model checker is a little slower than compiling with Rust.

Also, you are mistaken that using a memory-safe language gives equivalent guarantees. It does not. A model checker allows you to write safer code. There are more errors than memory errors. Memory safety fixes many of the problems, but not nearly enough. So, after that rewrite, you'll also need to add a model checker or some other kind of formal methods to be as safe as just using the model checker to begin with. For Rust, that's Kani. It's not an apples to apples comparison.
EffectTextureMaker
Sure, but a lifetime is also a long time.
https://learn.adacore.com

A collection of less random and more up to date walks through Ada if this piqued your interest. It's been kept up to date with the latest language features and more tutorials. Also, helpfully, has comparative tutorials to see some features side-by-side in Ada, Java, C++, and C.
You're right, just vectors and trig are fine for rendering a few spheres or whatever. Doing transforms on 3D model coordinates was where it came in.
If Meta then sued to block the tool, he'd be glad to have a paper trail showing that was predictable and that his claim was not "baseless," as Meta successfully argued.

I find it to be a smart move
Related to this, I bought an oven thermometer a while ago - turns out my oven claims it's done pre-heating about 15 minutes before it actually reaches the target temperature. And it's a pretty new oven so this isn't an age thing. Food has come out more consistent since I've started giving it more pre-heating time.
If you really believe that national security threats are “at best hypothetical” then we don’t share enough common ground to constructively discuss the subject.
> These services retain historical records of interactions.

Thats not universally true, for example AWS hosts their own version of Claude specifically for non-retention and guarantee that your data and requests are not used for training. This is legally backed up and governments and banks use this version to guarantee that submitted queries are not retained.

I’m a developer with about the same amount of experience as you (22 years) and LLMs are incredibly useful to me, but only really as an advanced tab completion (I use paid version of cursor with the latest Claude model) and it easily 5x’s my productivity. The most benefit comes from refactoring code where I change one line, the llm detects what I’m doing and then updates all the other lines in the file. Could I do this manually? Yes absolutely, but it just turned a 2 minute activity into (literally) a 2 second activity.

These micro speed ups have a benefit of time for sure, but there’s a WAY, WAAAY larger benefit: my momentum stays up because I’m not getting cognitively fatigued doing trivialities.

Do I read and check what the llm writes? Of course.

Does it make mistakes? Sometimes, but until I have access to the all-knowing perfect god machine I’m doing cost benefit on the imperfect one, and it’s still worth it A LOT.

And no, I don’t write SPA TODO apps, I am the founder of a quantum chemistry startup, LLMs write a lot of our helpers, deployment code, review our scientific experiments and help us brainstorm, write our documentation, tests and much more. The whole company uses them and they are all more productive by doing so.

How do we know it works? We just hit experimental parity and labs have verified that our simulations match predictions with a negligible margin of error. Could we have built this without LLMs? Yes sure, but we did it in 4.5 months, I estimate it would have taken at least 12 without them -

Again - do they make mistakes? Yes, but who doesn’t? The benefits FAR outweigh the negatives.
You are not wrong. In 2021, I did bootstrap everything on my own – dataset, segmentation algorithm, neural net, UI, math engine, etc. And in the end, it worked properly only for me. But that was my aim – own complete stack to be able to try out everything that might be interesting without being burdened by 3rd party solutions. It was a prototype that I could show to people – spread the idea. Doing product of that magnitude on my own would never fly.

I don't think Apple did a "cool tech demo". In my view, they published first version of a very ambitious project. They worked on it for years with top talent. And they felt this is the minimum lovable product on which they will iterate.

And if you would like to build product-ready solution similar to Math Notes, you can leverage existing stuff. MyScript.com have really good handwriting recognition system with bells and whistles. You can take a lot of shortcuts.
Climate change wasn't always such a political topic. Both sides would agree on climate changing over a period of time. Getting hotter, getting cooler. We knew we were in a time of it getting hotter. It's when scientists started pointing out that we were getting hotter faster than what is reflected in the historical record and the studies were showing that it was caused by man. This wasn't news that was taken well by the right. First, you have the religious people, which make up a huge portion of conservatives. They state that only a higher being can affect climate, man can't. Then you had the capitalists, as what was being said is that industry is causing a majority of the CO2 emissions, and we should do something about that with regulations. If there's one thing the right will not tolerate it's policing business. You see the same thing with illegal immigration. The right want to combat it, but if you say we should penalize and fine/jail the owners of businesses that use all the illegal immigrants for cheap labor, they'll say no. Instead we should build walls and have people patrolling the border, can't mess with business. So, we went from both sides knowing it was an issue to one side trying to do stuff about it, and the other side telling people it's a lie and spreading misinformation.
But there is a connection between the X and Y in this case.

One is a subset of the other. We're talking about the same thing man, I'm just making the point that I feel that there should be greater emphasis on the subset.

Look at the top thread in this post, people are doing a very similar thing.

I truly think that the pop-sci interest in mitochondria stems from the nickname and for no other reason and to me that's a very interesting thing.
I was wondering why Figure 1 showed a HumanEval score of 61.6 for Qwen2.5-Coder-7B, but Table 1 shows a score of 88.4, i. e. better than this new model with a score of 66.5.

The reason is that those are actually two different models (Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Base with 61.6, Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct with 88.4).
The previous comment is very likely talking about RFK Jr. Trump promised him "a major health role" in his administration, and Kennedy already announced on Twitter that he plans to push Trump to make aggressive changes. Based on his views, it's not difficult to predict what they might mean for vaccines.
No typescript either, but it does support JS.
As per the title.

You can post this as an Ask HN but you can't just make up a title for an existing page as a way to comment, that's in the site guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just the problem with ordering of state in a database not matching the other database after you ran migrations.
Information schema being the authoritative schema for all the information about the meta state in most database systems (or at least the cross platform one) means you can write a query against these views and (if I am not mistaken) re-assemble state that's identical by ordering the application of the objects in the order they were created originally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_repair
I recall hearing about newborn birdsongs being learned "in utero" (not sure if quite the right term but lets go with that). In that case the channel for transmission was sound. It was apparently used as a shibboleth against brood parasite egg replacement. If the baby didn't sing the song that was being sung to it then the baby got abandoned by presumably disappointed parents. I suppose it could also be a 'health test' of sorts since sufficiently deformed or disabled offspring would also fail.

Parental teaching and learning is a spectrum and not a binary. We've found with relocating deer (to similar but not identical environments) doing worse until learning occurs over a few generations and they catch up. Animals may not be as intelligent as us but their ability to learn and adapt should not be underestimated.
Everything wrong with Mozilla in one title.
Think they have the sqwits?
Plot twist: STDs are endemic in the space station. Turns out low earth orbit is a powerful aphrodisiac, and space agencies have hid this from the general public for years. Now we know more about why billionaires are racing so urgently to get to Mars.
Newsletter signup form uses LiveView https://veloplanner.com/newsletter/new
I was testing LiveView with page transitions and it was working quite nicely with maps as well (maps were handled by JS of course). You can play with it here https://travelermap.net/ - you can check search (cmd + k) which is powered by LV.

EDIT: As for plans for veloplanner, I'll be adding some of the interactive features (comments etc) as LiveView.
Nearly all plastic bottles under 10 metric liter are PET (many 10 liters produced from Poly(methyl methacrylate)).

PETG is modified PET, so it depend on point of view - (glass semi-full or semi-empty). Any way, in Ukraine people recycle plastic bottles into filament, which is considered by printer software as PETG.
Think the may have the sqwits?
Isn't year 1 or 2 of medicine just about knowing general facts about the body? Like the names of muscle and bones. Actually treating diseases coming much later, and practical knowledge is mostly learned as an intern.

All that to say that doing 1 year of med-school may not be that useful unless you intend to do 10 more and become an actual doctor. Maybe nursing would be a better bet: shorter studies, and more practical.
This works if enough people act the same way, but not a small minority.
With DNA, Pompeii Narratives Take a Twist
If identity politics was a losing plan then it wouldn’t have worked. Clearly it works, just the Republicans are willing to spend more money on it.
bun?
Nothing elusive. The reason is major vendors are not cooperating for even a common baseline standard. Its not impossible. They do it with Whatwg, but when it comes to native apps everyone and his dog head off in their own NIH incompatible direction. Just goes to show that social & economic problems are harder than flying cars and the singularity.
I started with Mosaic, which I think became Internet Explorer, but paid for a copy of Netscape when that came out. Drifted back to IE for reasons I don't remember (probably just what was on work machines), then Firefox, then Chrome.

To be honest I don't really care so much any more.
I use 24 sticks of ddr5-4800, which gets me up to 9t/s on deepseek 2.5 at q8. 48 threads was optimal in llama.cpp. I would like to move to epyc 9005 chips and ddr5-6000, but it is cost prohibitive with CPUs still over $10k each on eBay.

I followed the guide at https://rentry.co/miqumaxx/
So compassionate people should clean up after selfish people? So why
should a selfish person even care, when they know that a compassionate
people will clean up after them?

This is a road for compassionate people to become slaves of selfish
people.

I think that the only way for "persuading" selfish people to clean up
after themselves is to somehow force them to do it.
Is this resolved now? How well is the SQLite + Django stack working for you?
compare https://xkcd.com/1988/
To see the issue, replace "R&D Corp" with "Mystical Crystal LLC" or "Mr. Henry's Miraculous Snake Oil Elixir Ltd."

Fraudsters and scam artists are happy to rip off people trying to avoid death.
Drone Relative Positioning
also https://docs.docker.com/desktop/features/wasm/
> If you defiantly refuse to say who you are, it can make people angry that you’re upsetting social reciprocity. You know who they are, but they don’t know who you are. It feels rude. An obsessive personality might make it their damn mission to figure out who you are!

To be frank, fuck them. I’m not inventing an entire persona and stuff just to make some weirdos happy.
What’s the memory?
Has some similarity to Tipler's "omega point" hypothesis iin his 1994 book "The Physics of Immortality" [1]. I read this years ago but have recently bought it again to have another look at. It seems to be a PDF on the Internet Archive as well. It was a very wild idea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_J._Tipler
"In the US, almost anyone under 45 can get vaccinated."

Can you expand on this ?

Why can't people over the age of 45 be vaccinated ?

Is that restriction "on label" ?
Vance: US could drop support for NATO if Europe tries to regulate Musk platforms
Pretty sure it’s just scheduled CPU time / wall clock time. If you have multiple cores then scheduled CPU time can be greater than wall clock time.

Also scheduled CPU time doesn’t take in to account frequency scaling or core type as explained in the article. Just how much time the OS scheduler has allocated to the core to run tasks.
I've spent a fair amount of time in the Mozilla sphere, but that first question seems alien to me... it's so dense with initiatives or phrases that seem self explanatory to them, that I am questioning if it is real or not.

> How can we apply The Feminist Principles of the Internet and "Perma-Computing" principles to advance climate justice in the African-centric AI space?

I'm not able to make the leap from feminism, to climate justice, to AI. I'd appreciate an explanation if someone is actually closer to this.
Show HN: Akas: A Micropodcasting App
App store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/akas-a-micropodcasting-app/id6...
Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bigyankark...
Site link: https://akashq.com
Invitation code: BVN55L
It may well be considered a security flaw for any country to allow foreign nationals to purchase any real estate.

Incidentally, the practice also drives up prices for citizens, leading to housing crises.

But a policy that allows anyone with a foreign allegiance to set up shop next to a military base is courting disaster.
I am British born, with Trinidadian and Guyanese parents. I've had a very similar experience, not just in tech but throughout all areas of my life. I look Indian, but culturally it's very different.

Everyone always (perhaps South Asians more commonly) asks where I'm from. I say I'm British. They ask "no, really". I say Trinidadian and Guyanese heritage. They say "you look like you are from India, your family must be from India". It does get a bit tiresome.

The only time it actually _really_ annoys me is when I have to fill out forms with ethnicity. There is never Asian-Caribbean, but always Black-Caribbean, so I always feel that I am never being represented.
Bun is a runtime.. If you're referring to the fact it can produce a single binary, Node.js can do that too.
South Korea Says North Is Disrupting GPS for Planes, Boats
Just wait until your kid borrows your phone,one time, to go watch Minecraft videos. You will never escape.
In this book, old people on earth can volunteer for military service in space. Those that volunteer end up getting their consciousness transferred to a new body, and effectively start a new life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man%27s_War
Herbicide-resistant weed management with robots: An ecological–economic model
Why AI water use? It looks like Zambia's problem is mostly having water that isn't potable. If it's too dirty for heat exchangers, wouldn't they use closed-loop heat pumps, maybe some exotic working fluid? I even see a few mentions elsewhere of distillation using waste heat (but you probably get sludge to scrub out and dump).
> Obviously you have to be careful what you install

How?
30 year fixes seem so alien to me, 2 or 5 years are the most common in the U.K.

Are there shorter interval fixes? Is it just a cultural thing where lifetime fix is the norm?
The Republican party — and I cannot stress this enough — made a hateful rapist, felon, and Hitler-praising insurrectionist their president. There has to be a baseline of decency in society. This level of degeneracy simply cannot be shrugged off with a smile and a handshake.
The binaries are a few KBs at the moment. I haven't measured the build times, cause it's too early for it to mean much. The amount of supported types and functions is very limited, so it will change a lot over time as I add more stuff.

One interesting thing is that `eval()` support will require custom WebAssembly host functions, cause you can't do custom code generation in WASM. Thus by default the project will assume "no eval" compilation. In this mode it will be possible to do a lot of optimizations, like for example remove unused parts of the language/types, do certain optimiztions knowing exactly what types the script is dealing with etc. So a simple script that doesn't use a lot of the builtins should eventually result in a fairly small binary.
Wind the Clock
It's weird to hear ST enthusiasts call the ST a 16 bit machine. Enthusiasts called it a 32 bit machine and detractors a 16 bit machine.
Yeah, bun will still include V8 in the generated binary
Yes, the first version is already usable for everyday simple stuff. In the future, it will definitely gain more features. But you are wrong in one thing – it will become much-much more than graphing calculator.
> I can move between different providers for a 2nd opinion

Do you see big differences in general or is it more a product of different system prompts?
I've been at least partly convinced that "medical ethics" very frequently looks nothing at all like what most people consider to be ethical. As far as I can tell, it exists mostly to prevent anyone from getting in trouble in the case that something goes wrong (which often means "do nothing"), rather than actually consider what is or is not ethical. It seems to be completely infected by the Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics [0]

So, while they aren't always wrong, my default opinion is that, until given compelling evidence to the contrary, I shouldn't worry too much about what medical ethicists think on a particular topic. Even when they are right, they are usually right in a way that most normal people can easily see that it is correct.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230302022931/https://blog.jaib...