skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your claims are demonstrably false, there are many instances of authoritative organizations that explicitly and literally assert that vaccines do not cause autism.

Out of curiosity, can you realize I am arguing from a much more advantageous position, in that I only have to find one exception to your popular "scientific organizations don't claim" meme (which I (and also you) can directly query on Google, and find numerous instances from numerous organizations), whereas you would have had to undertaken a massive review of all communications (and many forms of phrasing) from these groups, something we both know you have not done?

A (portion of) the (I doubt intentional or malicious) behavior is described here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

I believe the flaw in scientists (and their fan base) behavior is mainly (but not entirely) a manifestation of a defect in our culture, which is encoded within our minds, which drives our behavior. Is this controversial from an abstract perspective?

It is possible to dig even deeper in our analysis here to make it even more inescapable (though not undeniable) what is going on here, with a simple series of binary questions ("Is it possible that...") that expand the context. I'd be surprised if you don't regularly utilize this form of thinking when it comes to debugging computers systems.

Heck, I'm not even saying this is necessarily bad policy, sometimes deceit is literally beneficial, and this seems like a prime scenario for it. If I was in power, I wouldn't be surprised if I too would take the easy way out, at least in the short term.
Except for the tiny question of "who pays?". And the proven economic impact that this surplus gets slurped up by higher prices and inflation. And the idea that you can take $100 from your citizens, run it through a bureaucratic government machine and turn it into $110.

But other than that, perfect.
If you knew what would be able to be commercialized it wouldn't be called research.
Yea but TSMC produces good stuff.
> I'm pretty sure effective altruists have the same question, crunched the numbers, and figured out it was something like malaria nets or similar interventions in developing countries.

I wonder how much real world experience goes into these calculations. For instance the theory of malaria nets can be quite different from reality. From Wikipedia [1]:

> Where mosquito nets are freely or cheaply distributed, local residents sometimes opportunistically use them inappropriately, for example as fishing nets. When used for fishing, mosquito nets have harmful ecological consequences because the fine mesh of a mosquito net retains almost all fish, including bycatch such as immature or small fish and fish species that are not suitable for consumption. In addition, insecticides with which the mesh has been treated, such as permethrin, may be harmful to the fish and other aquatic fauna.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_net#Usage
> "Just" does a lot of heavy lifting here

No, it does not.

Might I invite you to consider the context of what I am saying ?

The OP here was boasting about "all you need" is a funding.json and none of the 20 pages of forms of the other organisations the OP chose to name and shame.

What I am saying is you're not going to escape those 20 pages. Do it now or do it later, you're still going to have to put in more effort than "just" a funding.json.

That is why I took issue with the OP naming and shaming the other organisations. It is both misleading and unfair on the other funders.
For me, because of the hardware.
Show HN: Salad Transcription API ($0.10/hour)
We just launched our Transcription API, powered by Whisper large v3 and SaladCloud (a distributed cloud). Priced at $0.10/hour and with an accuracy of 91.13%, this is the lowest priced API in the market.
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1⃣ What problem does it solve?
Today's transcription APIs are massively overpriced due to custom models and expensive GPUs powering them on hyperscalers.

2⃣ How is our price so low?
Our API is powered by open-source Whisper large v3 running on consumer GPUs on SaladCloud, the world's largest distributed cloud. Our distributed model ensures we can power the API with the lowest-priced GPUs in the market.
It's not that it's expensive, it's that they've gone about it in such an incompetent way that they're losing money on it hand over fist.
This is also not factored into France utilizing ~10 GW of neighboring flexible fossil fueled flexibility to not have to turn down their nuclear reactors as much during the night.

The French grid would be even more uneconomical without the interconnections.

https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/cross-border-electrici...
> In an emergency you can make use of anything, including a radio without an amateur radio license.

Just to clarify: the law in the US (47 CFR § 97.403) says that you can use amateur radio frequencies without a license, or unlicensed frequencies, for: "essential communication needs in connection with the immediate safety of human life and immediate protection of property when normal communication systems are not available". That's much narrower than just "in an emergency".

And if you try to use ham radio equipment without knowing what you're doing, there's a risk that you'll interfere with other amateur or non-amateur users who are coordinating their own emergency response.
We had a freak earthquake in the northeast some months back. Guess what immediately went down when you needed it most? Cell towers. My guess is they’re not designed for the capacity they’d need in an emergency where almost everyone is trying to call simultaneously. That’s reason enough to have an alternate comm link.
Why Cloudflare for Domains?
This looks awesome! It looks like a decent Illustrator alternative with its own identity. Even the basics are more competent than Inkscape.
Wasting money (as it would requite running the AC more) to show you have money.
"It created a $100 million revolving fund to dramatically ramp up construction."

I don't see zoning reform mentioned anywhere in the article. Presumably the city's projects are still subject to the same zoning restrictions and regulations as a developer would on their own, but without the difficulty of trying to secure a loan.

This seems nice as an additive but doesn't represent a large fraction of the market. It helps in the first place because they're building more. If cities adopt reforms to help small developers, these projects would be redundant. We have examples of some cities improving in real time.
Great point. My take is that most inexperienced people know make only as a bundle of shell scripts with semi-nice unification (not really nice because you just don't have an easy way to pass arguments to your scripts and no automatic help etc.).
Housing is pretty much a prerequisite for fixing the other problems. I would guess that's it's almost impossible to kick something like a drug problem while sleeping on the streets.
Because Linux is soo hard to use. You have to use supported hardware (like with any other OS), and once a year paste a few commands into terminal.
Artwork can be more true to reality than a photograph.
Taxes.

It's obvious that most people won't actually see a direct increase in resources (because that won't work).
A fist class function is just an interface. Just ask the venerable master Qc Na.
The Rise of Software Delivered Services
Something can be UB according to the standard, but defined (and safe) according to a particular implementation. Lots of stuff is UB according to the C or C++ standard but does something sensible in gcc and/or clang.
Everybody's solution is relax zoning and parking requirements, until it gets done and then a predatory developer applies to build one of these monstrosities beside your house.
Running Untrusted Code
Is that really that much worse than full copilot, though? When we tried it this past spring, it was really cool but not quite useful enough to actually stick with.
A/C systems, especially central ones, also require maintenance, albeit of a much different kind. Purely from a cost perspective, awnings are probably cheaper in the long run but the demand for comfort is more compelling than the cost of maintaining an A/C system.
Right but merely what time two events occurred doesn’t seem like enough to “justify” a belief. It can be a suspicion but that’s about it.
Australia is HUGE and mostly empty. You need some mechanism for getting that energy from source to sink.

Transmission lines are relatively few and far between. The eastern states have an interconnected grid. Western Australia is not only isolated, but its internal grid doesn't even reach the northern part of the state.

There was a ~GW scale geothermal development in the Cooper Basin in the late '10s. The (pilot) plant was in and operating demonstrating the feasibility of (so-called) Engineered Geothermal Systems. The entire operation died on the vine because the geothermal site was 600 line-km from the nearest transmission line, and the company that developed the geothermal field was counting on the government to fund that connection. It didn't.
My solar-powered and self-hosted website
Show HN: A Tool for Non-Artists to Enjoy the Joy of Creation
I'm not good at art or drawing, so whenever I want to describe the scenes I imagine, I always feel frustrated. That's why I used my programming skills to create this tool. To be honest, when I first saw my words turn into such vivid images, I was both shocked and moved. Maybe you should give it a try too. I hope everyone can experience the joy of creation.

So, go ahead and try it out (https://getaipic.com/image-generator).

If you have any feedback or suggestions for improvement, feel free to leave a comment.
The article has today's date on it, but I could swear I read this exact same article a month ago...
True - but at the same time, about half¹ of it is mipsel, i.e. in little-endian mode :). It's also in decline, AFAICS there is very little new silicon development.

¹ on the OpenWRT table of hardware
Tried approaching any of the adjacent private landowners, and seen if some of them are either sympathetic to your cause and/or the type who'd love a chance to stick a finger to the relevant authorities?
Gaming may increase hippocampal volume in male patients with combat-related PTSD
Mostly replacing old inefficient plants with modern plants with better load following capacity. Essentially, ensuring the energy security while banking on renewables.

The latest news is that China is likely to enter structural decline on their emissions since the renewable buildout exceeds the electrical demand growth.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-emissions-set-to...
I went from $27 to $3K as a solopreneur still in a 9-5
PART 1

My journey started back in November 2023.

I was scrolling through Twitter and YouTube and saw a word that I had never come across before. Solopreneur.

The word caught my eye. Mainly because I was pretty sure I knew what it meant even though it's not a word you'll find in the dictionary. I liked what it was describing. A solo entrepreneur. A one man business.

It completely resonated with me. As a software engineer by trade I'm used to working alone, especially since the pandemic hit and we were forced to work remotely.

See, I always wanted to ditch the 9-5 thing but thought that was too big and too scary for a single person to do. Surely you would need a lot of money to get started, right? Surely you would need investors? The whole concept seemed impossible to me.

That was until I found all the success stories. I became obsessed with the concept of solopreneurship. As I went further down the rabbit hole I found people like Justin Welsh, Kieran Drew and Marc Louvion to name a few. All of whom have one person businesses making huge money every year. So I thought, if they can do it, why can't I?

People like this have cleared the pathway for those looking to escape the 9-5 grind.

I decided 2024 would be the year I try this out. My main goal for the year? Build a one man business, earn my first $ online and learn a sh*t ton along the way. My main goal in general? Build my business to $100K per year, quit my 9-5 and live with freedom.

From December 2023 to February 2024 I began brainstorming ideas. I was like a lost puppy looking for his ball. How on earth did people find good ideas? I began writing everything and anything that came to mind down in my notes app on my phone.

By February I would have approximately 70 ideas. Each as weird and whacky as the other.

I was skeptical though. If I went through all the trouble of building a product for one of these ideas how would I know if anyone would even be interested in using it?

I got scared and took a break for a week. All these ideas seemed too big and the chance that they would take off into the atmosphere was slim (in my mind anyways).

I was learning more and more about solopreneurship as the weeks went on so I decided to build a product centered around everything I was learning about. The idea was simple. Enter a business idea and use AI to give the user details about how to market it, who their target customers were, what to write on their landing page, etc. All for a measly $27 per use.

I quickly built it and launched on March 3rd 2024.

I posted about it on Indie Hackers, Reddit and Hacker News. I was so excited about the prospect of earning my first internet $! Surely everyone wanted to use my product! Nope...all I got was crickets.

I was quickly brought back down to earth.

PART 2 BELOW
I can't speak for OP, but I didn't seek funding for my company because I knew that it would eventually force me to sacrifice the things I value about it in favor of growth. I'd rather run a small company that sustainably does good, honest business than a giant one that hollows itself out for maximum growth.

Founders are just as tired of "ugh, why can't they just stop ruining good things!" as you are. Or some of us are, anyway.
Ask HN: High income salaried employees – How do you reduce your taxes?
If you are a W2 wage earner who earn a lot of money through salary, RSUs, etc, could you please share your favorite tax saving strategies? What are some legal ways to save on tax and build wealth? Any references to articles, videos, podcasts?
> To join, people have to exhibit useful skills, such as having a business that would benefit Praxis

What a strange notion of "heroic".
Pitchfork Alumni Launch New Music Publication, Hearing Things
One of the very popular water proofing chemicals was 3M ScotchGard which most definitely was forever chemicals. To just write it off as fearmongering is just head in the sand level of "this is fine" mentality. "Lead paint is fine as long as you don't eat it" type of not caring or thinking the process through very far
I'm absolutely dying for every piece of feedback from our early users!
How would that help? The old functionality would still be around.

What would help is deprecating and, over time, removing features that, if needed, are better implemented on top of newer, better APIs. Providing source code for such an implementation would make it easy for old code to be changed to compile with the new version; all that would be needed would be changing #include <foo> by #include "foo" and changing references to the std namespace to that of the new library (there may be thorny edge cases here, but I can’t think of one)

For example, iostreams can be moved outside of the standard if an implementation of its API on top of std::format were provided.

I think they wouldn’t have to support such a library forever. A decade or two should IMO be enough. If code needs it after that, they can take on the burden of maintaining it.
I wish I could find the source, but I am struggling to, so I will have to paraphrase. It was an interview with someone who lost their job, became homeless for a while, somehow managed to claw their way back to having a home and stable employment.

The gist of the interview was, don't judge the homeless for drugs and alcohol. It's often the only comfort they have. What would really help is a home, but the cost of housing is so high that saving all of your booze money would never be enough to rent an apartment anyway. Might as well spend it on something that will make you feel a little better.
> yes I have the “resume” setting off

I'm not sure what this setting does. The amount of times mac will jsut reopen everything anyway is frustration. I go look up how to stop it and the answer is always "Turn off this setting you already have off".
Procedural node-based raster editing can become insane. Do things vectors cannot, but with infinite resolution. There are already fractal examples on the website which would murder any vector renderer.
Similar to how hearsay evidence is thrown out, despite it potentially having substantial value. Court is exactly the place you want to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
> Quadruple tax on me there.

We have a problem with that, too.
Indeed, if it meant "currently widespread" there'd be a stronger argument for Big Endian with a lot of MIPS and PPC chugging away silently. But interpreting "modern" as recent development, BE is close to gone.
Kids definitely eat toothpaste when they're young. My source is having children.
> I have GERD and reflux. I was given PPI after many many tests. How does taking PPI extend my lifespan. Whatever has gone wrong with my body is still there.

It can potentially extend your life by reducing your probability of developing esophageal cancers, improve your quality of life in the meantime, and there are other complications from untreated GERD I can't recall but would negatively impact your life.
> Most parents don’t want meritocracy. They want their children to have an advantage over the children of others.

Thing is, "meritocracy" doesn't exist on its own either. Even if a poor person's child is among the more intellectually gifted in school, it's hard to compete against the children of those who are blessed in money. And that extends to adult life as well: those born to academic parents are much more likely to go into higher education themselves and have an easier time there (both due to connections as well as the simple opportunity of having parents to ask how to best format a paper or to proofread one), those born to rich parents can simply afford to "try themselves out" - for someone with millions to burn, they can easily afford to seed-fund whatever scheme their kid comes up while most other potential founders depend on sheer luck meeting someone in a random elevator.

And the importance of children being "advantaged" ruthlessly is a recent trend too. Up until 30, 40 years ago, most kids worked in farms or the trades and they were happy with it. But ever since employers demanded higher education and everything else became decried as "something for immigrants" aka low economic lifetime perspective, that shifted... funny, cities would drown in garbage in a matter of weeks when there would be no garbage haulers, but they would continue to be livable if Wall Street went up in flames.
I need to move my Google Chrome saved passwords to Firefox, but I don't trust Firefox, so I need to host my own credentials storage.

Firefox isn't all flowers and sunshine either, but at least it's not Chrome, where I can't run an ad blocker anymore.

Absolutely unacceptable Alphabet
Some suggestions:
I was doing something and then suddently I got a red error message, "The document cannot be rendered in it current state", instructing me to click the Node Graph button.

1. I couldn't find that button. Perhaps show a picture of it or just embed it in the error message.

2. Make the error text selectable.

3. Let me report the bug straight from the app?
> something that looks like HTML

This is surprisingly easy. Because the "this is HTML" is both vague and limited. HTML5 is remarkably vague and permissive.

Also, HTML has nothing to do with CSS nor with JS, nor with any DOM apis and not even with how stuff has to be rendered or if it has to be rendered at all.

There are numerous libraries and projects that can parse the WHATWG version of HTML. I'm not saying these are trivial or simple. But far simpler than a full rendering engine will ever be.
When I sold my modest house in a great location to a generational market of buyers who all grew up with decades of zero-interest financed lifestyles, it was very eye opening. Presented with the choice of location, price and product they demanded all three. I assume they are still trying to buy a home.
I don't think TSMC use their own lasers anymore (not since 2016), so even then I'm not sure.
Funny responses, but I’d say my hands are big.
> the burden of proof works in the opposite way

How can I prove or disprove something if you don't give me a starting point? An interesting perspective.

> if your target is people who can be tricked into thinking that your OS is faster because it's artificially snappier, maybe your priorities are misplaced IMO

I mean, if an OS can wake faster than the competition because it uses high-end semi independent radios, a custom processor and power manager, and can run their own custom firmware on these devices just because they can, that OS is actually snappier when it comes to that feature, innit?

Again, to reiterate, macOS my secondary OS of choice, but we should be fair when discussing things and our judgements shouldn't be colored by our emotions towards anything.

If a Linux + ThinkPad would have provided the same experience as a MacBook pro, I'd be running a top end ThinkPad instead of MacBooks for my portable computer needs, but alas, for me the best choice is Linux Desktops and macOS laptops.
I am curious, out of ignorance, if business many expenses are deductible anyway, what would be the fundamental difference between calling it a Marketing/Advertising expense to buy community good will compared with a charitable deduction?
The thesis makes sense. Humans drive with a 20 watt brain, two cameras (eyes), two microphones (ears). Tesla has 9 cameras surrounding the car, I assume some microphones (not sure). Two big fat neural processors that can fails over incase one fails.

If they crack the human perception algorithm, they'd have the cheapest robotaxis on the road and have multi trillion valuation.

However cracking human perception seems much more complex than what was estimated and foretold.

I'm grateful we have multiple US companies trying different approaches. Competition is a wonderful gift.
I don't think it would work were it to represent most of the market, but this is a drop in the bucket. Historically the US had more social housing. I would be concerned if this spiraled into a call for expansion without so much as addressing the need for zoning reform.
Canada was going to ban Flipper Zero but rolled it back earlier this year. https://www.pcmag.com/news/canada-walks-back-ban-of-flipper-...

HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778185
New Cambridge cell therapy lab aims to boost cancer treatment
Eh, a bit of a straw man there. SMBC did it better.
Cryptocurrencies implies that people would pay / get paid for it... just pay the directly IA then, or your own servers. Cryptocurrencies imply someone's skimming off a lot for their own pockets.
Once I have a good amount of users yes I will an app as well! If you any cool ideas or wanna collab reach me out in Telegram, @plumyuzbor
> clearly never make it to a real commercial product (except maybe a DoD toy), but are quite content to have Intel pay for it for literal decades.

OP posted that context?

Surely there is, especially within the constraints of a commercial company, a reasonable a) direction and b) limit to research.

Research for the sake of it is called academia.