skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my short review after playing around with Firebase Studio for ~30 minutes. First of all, I had to turn off Firefox Enhanced Tracking Protection because otherwise projects wouldn't load.

I gave it the following initial prompt:

> An app where you input a question, then flip some coins to generate an I Ching prediction, and it generates a prediction / fortune for you. Then this combination of results can be fed to Gemini AI to produce a more detailed prediction text.

It generated something that looked fine. When I input a question and press the button nothing happened. After asking it to fix the problem multiple times and having it fail, I looked at the browser console to figure out the errors it was getting. Then I copied those errors and told it to fix them. After a few iterations, it solved every error and would generate a result. It completely forgot the part where you are supposed to flip coins before getting a hexagram to generate a fortune. After a bit of prompting, I was able to get it to display the hexagram and input question. However, sometimes it becomes confused about which hexagram was generated.

Overall, my impression is that these tools are still in the toy novelty stage rather than something you'd want to use for anything important.

Here is a screenshot of the app output for the question: Will Hacker News like my vibe coded oracle? [0] As you can see, it says that the generated hexagram is 24 or 41, but in the fortune text below it says 11.

[0] https://files.catbox.moe/i8t7rw.png
Nestle has a profit margin of ~15%.

If they raise prices by 10%, consumers will buy significantly less. There's a sweetspot somewhere for max profit, it's not 10% and probably not 0% either.

Coffee and tea are very cheap when you buy from a retailer and make it yourself, 10% is nothing anyway. Stuff like starbucks have crazy profit margings. Chocolate is a delicacy that shouldn't be consumed in large quantities anyway. That shit should have a 200% tax.
That's funny, MAGA says the same about the "democracts"/"left"
A single Warhammer plastic miniature around the size of a child's toy car, unassembled and unpainted, can cost around $30.
Aqua is in another league when it comes to accuracy. I just ran them side by side on a simple q to ChatGPT and here were the results...

Aqua Voice

What is the first recorded eclipse in human history? I'm not asking when the first one occurred, but the first written record we have of an eclipse.

Windows Voice Typing (v11 24H2, Dell XPS 13 9340)

What is the first recorded eclipse in human history i'm not asking 1 like the first occurred but the first ridden record we have of an eclipse

Windows mistakes were:

-"1" should be "when"

-"ridden" should be "written"

-No punctuation
But what if the rate at which things change increases to the point that humans can't adapt in time? This has happened to other animals (coral has existed for millions of years and is now threatened by ocean acidification, any number of native species have been crowded out by the introduction of non-native ones, etc.).

Even humans have gotten shocks like this. Things like the Black Death created social and economic upheavals that lasted generations.

Now, these are all biological examples. They don't map cleanly to technogical advances, because human brains adapt much faster than immune systems that are constrained by their DNA. But the point is that complex systems can adapt and can seem to handle "anything," up until they can't.

I don't know enough about AI or LLM's to say if we're reaching an inflection point. But most major crises happen when enough people say that something can't happen, and then it happens. I also don't think that discouraging innovation is the solution. But I don't also want to pretend like "humans always adapt" is a rule and not a 300,000 year old blip on the timeline of life's existence.
> This reminds me that we are all losing our unique and diverse cultures and humanity through the incessant drive of globalist world domination to force everyone to do and be the same

We're actually creating new unique and diverse cultures by adopting and remixing parts of the various cultures we encounter. Just looking at photos from other cultures (as you have done today) is a part of that process. This is a good thing. Some of my favorite things are different takes on a thing that came from another culture. Diversity really does make us stronger and it makes our lives richer. While it might be neat to see what results from cultures being totally isolated, I think it'd be much more interesting to see what results from bringing those cultures together.

The truth is that none of those "unique and diverse cultures" you're mourning the loss of came from anything different. Even japan's culture, although it was one of the more isolationist nations, was still massively influenced by other people/places. Technology accelerates the process, but the process itself is unchanged. It made 19th century japan what it was then, just like it made japan what it is now. It's just what humans do and always have done. There's no reason to feel sad about it.
OpenAI countersues Elon Musk to stop his attacks and 'fake takeover bid'
2A plugs and sockets are just cute.
Wait, why do you need a shop to cash a cheque? Isnt that one of the last few things you go to a bank for?

Also, how do you cash a cheque without validating signature (from whichever bank)?

Here in India atleast, cheques are cashed only at banks, and often are a/c payee only (no cash disbursed, only account transfer). They get truncated at the bank (basically scanned), and cleared overnight as a part of the CTS (a NPCI product).

However DDs (Demand Drafts) are your equivalent of cashiers cheques, and can be redeemed at par instantly, anywhere (or paid into an account).
I'm from Europe. You should be focusing those questions on EU, we have much bigger problems. Mass immigration has decimated Europe.
Yeah, it talks about how the author was progressive for his era and pulled a quote about how Presidents have a tradition of serving only two terms. If this article isn’t pulled for being a gross example of DEI, I’ll eat my hat.

Good article though, well worth saving.
In the UK we use both 240V and 110V (nominal). Our supply is at 240V. Our appliances are pretty safe out of the box - several standards.

We also utilise 110V devices but that requires a step down transformer. I have one. My big hammer drill runs on 110V.

Fire is not caused by electric current. Fire requires a source of ignition and that's not EMF.

More details please.
Matt Blaze Testimony on Typhoon Cyberattack [pdf]
North/Central America is kind of the outlier running on 100-ish volts. Most of the rest of the world runs on 200-ish[0]. Electricity-related deaths aren't exactly common worldwide. And yes, I can see 100ish causing more fires — given dissipated power scales with current squared, my 2kW tea kettle can't possibly be safe in the US.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country
Yet strangely a similarly simple explanation is not forthcoming. Curious.

The idea I expressed is also quite straightforward. That the act of copying something around in RAM is a basic component of using a computer to do pretty much anything and thus cannot possibly be a legitimate argument against something in and of itself.

The audience on HN generally leans quite heavily into reasoned debate as opposed to emotionally charged ideological signalling. That is presumably sufficient reason for someone to try to convince me, at least if anyone truly believes that there's a sound argument to be made here.

> This is lazy and obnoxious.

How is a clarification that I'm not blind to the existence of arguments regarding ethical issues lazy? Objecting to a lazy and baseless claim does not obligate me to spend the time to articulate a substantial one on the other party's behalf.

That said, the only ethical arguments that immediately come to mind pertain to collective benefit similar to those made to justify the existence of IP law. I think there's a reasonable case to be made to levy fractional royalties against the paid usage of ML models on the basis that their existence upends the market. It's obviously protectionist in nature but that doesn't inherently invalidate it. IP law itself is justified on the basis that it incentivizes innovation; this isn't much different.
> Maybe it was the deficit outlook, maybe the global response to tariffs

Maybe it was the idea of 4 more years of shenanigans like this that freaked everyone out.
Is that's what's happening here? The bit about suing her "even if the statements she is making are true" makes me think they're not trying to sue her via defamation, but through non-disparagement agreements. If that's the case, I'd hesitate to characterize this as SLAPP. If you voluntarily entered into a non-disparagement agreement and got something in exchange (eg. in exchange for severance or whatever), then at the very least it's slightly different than a journalist or whatever trying to expose some scandal.
Yep, I was one of the people who originally started using Nix on that particular team at Target back in 2016. I wasn't the only person interested in Nix but, if I'm recalling correctly, I was the person who first set it up and supported our Nix environment on Linux and macOS for the first year or two. After we scaled up a bit we hired some more Nix-focused people and some consultants (for stuff like lorri), so I stopped having to do much Nix stuff day-to-day.

That was a really special team. Nobody "let" me use Nix, we just did it because it made sense to us, and I went out of my way to support it internally not because I felt pressured to do it, but because I was enthusiastic about making it work. The culture there reminded me of this story[1] about getting Python into production at Goldman—and it turns out that the VP who built the supply chain team at Target started his career in strats at Goldman and was heavily inspired by the same Armen from that story :)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29104401

After leaving Target, I also used Nix for my own work setup at CX Score. That was a seed-stage startup and I didn't want to push Nix on anybody else, but it made my own work setup much nicer.

Most recently I moved to Mercury where we use Nix at a pretty big scale (several hundred developers). We have a team that handles most of it so I haven't had to do much myself, but I've helped a few people work through Nix issues just because I could :) I'm also one of the weirdos who uses NixOS on my work laptop instead of getting a macbook.

And, in parallel, I've been using NixOS on all my personal machines ever since I first discovered it. That was relatively shortly before joining Target, so, if I had to guess, late 2015 or early 2016. Coming up on 10 years shortly, even though it really does not feel like it...
Historical record does not bode well for UK defending anyone when not directly threatened.

It took serious damage to imports and an invasion for them to move during the last World War.
> On the other hand I read a long time ago 120 V causes way more home fires because of higher currents.

[citation needed]

All domestic mains plugs found in typical residential circuits all over the planet are ≤20A:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets#Com...

The vast majority of 120V plugs are 15A; if you want 20A it's actually a special case:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector#Nomenclature

So there are no "higher currents" used. If you need more power then a higher-voltage NEMA 6 plug, or a two-phase NEMA 14, socket is typically used.
Corporations are probably low down the list of drivers of cultural homogenization. Merely exporting (via social media, entertainment, cosmopolitan norms, etc) the Western conception of diversity as virtue, as well as the particular definition(s) du jour of diversity, is no less a form of cultural homogenization (or "colonization" using the parlance of some circles).
It's certainly an interesting experiment. Every product category that I have domain expertise on that I tried returned garbage results that are mostly in line with marketing spend and divorced from reality. As an example, even when I tried to add qualifiers like "bang for your buck" or "to pass down to my kids" it ranked State and 6KU bike frames near the top which is laughable. The Kilo TT didn't even make the list!
> I give you this fake money in exchange for actual real things. And then you loan me money back. That is how the trade deficit works.

You’re presenting this analogy as if it’s describing a situation that is good rather than a four alarm fire, and you’re calling other people stupid?
I still don’t understand what’s the goal of this shitstorm alienating allies and destroying the economy with crazy uncertainty.

But fake money will not save the country from ww3.
A superpower needs to have an independent manufacturing base to be taken seriously, nukes deterrent is eroding.
Average IQ is probably the most bullshit metric to compare two countries. Literally anything else would be better.
I'm not surprised by that at all. It just seems that we disagree about the ethics of the matter at hand.

I'd like to suggest that you might be better received on HN if you were a bit more direct about making an argument of substance regarding the ethics.
My take is that’s probably for plausible deniability. “The prophet told all true believers, how could there have been insider trading.” The volume on the markets picked up twenty minutes before not hours.
> No discussion, no parliament, no opposition taken into account. Crazy.

Is it that much different from EU? Where was the discussion before mass immigration? Where was the opposition taken into account there?
I thought the same as you. But I think not developing those skills will come back and bite you at some point.

For instance your point about:
> reading a map to get around (GPS)

https://www.statnews.com/2024/12/16/alzheimers-disease-resea...

After reading the above it dawned on me that the human brain needs to develop spatial awareness and not using that capability of the brain very slowly shuts it off. So I purposefully turn off the gps when I can.

I think not fully developing each of those abilities might have some negative effects that will be hard to diagnose.
Yes

Paul Feyerabend, a philosopher of science, argued that true freedom and liberty arise when individuals actively and democratically shape their societies, free from the dominance of any single ideology, including science. He contended that science, often regarded as the ultimate path to knowledge, is merely one of many traditions and should not hold a privileged position in society. Feyerabend advocated for a “democratic relativism,” emphasizing equal rights for all traditions and proposing a separation between the state and any specific ideology, akin to the separation of church and state. He believed that this approach would allow individuals to live according to their own values and beliefs, fostering a more inclusive and liberated society.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0020174800860189...

Feyerabend, P. (1980). Democracy, Elitism, and Scientific Method. Inquiry, 23(1), 3–18.

https://doi.org/10.1080/00201748008601890
Those last two are not actually related.

This review was about testing supplementation of vitamin D, what you posted is mostly about correlation between serum levels and health outcomes, and those levels are largely about non-supplemented “natural” vitamin d.

The distinction is important because science has been trying to figure out whether vitamin d itself has the benefits, or if it is a marker for a larger salubrious process.
XXY was not on his card. It was YXX. Some idiot on a rumor mill website speculated it was due to this that he must have the disease.

It’s debunked. Further he would be an incredible case study given his stature and appearance. For calling MAGA people dummies, it appears you can’t even read.
I've been in this endeavor with Surface Book 2. While the results where good, the CPU usage for software DSP killed the entire effort. Microsoft is using intel's DSP accelerator to do this. While linux technically can use intel's audio DSP I never had enough time to dig into it
Hey, the Hunger Games are actually really good. I derided it for years until one time I was in the hospital for a few weeks, I got immensely bored and decided to try it out. I was hooked.
Science is a methodology. Science is applied equally in both disciplines. That one field has more uncontrolled variables does not make it less scientific.
> Fire is not caused by electric current. Fire requires a source of ignition and that's not EMF.

All electrical cable/wire is rated for so many amps and a certain temperature: if you mismatch the breaker and the cable ratings then you could allow too much current through, and because of I^2 resistance, a fire could happen.

Do a search for "Ampacity Chart".

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampacity
I built a complete working application (errortexts.com) using an AI tool, so I have a little insight on this.

At first, the product I was using (lovable.dev) seemed to me exactly as you described. I gave it a basic app outline and hit run, and it produced something that superficially looked right but did nothing.

So I asked some other people for advice, and they said you have to hold its hand and go step by step. So I did.

I told it, give me a landing page that matches [product description], but implement nothing else. Then, ok, let's set up auth - add a sign in and sign up dialog. Then, ok, let's create a user account page. Bit by bit.

It succeeded wildly. I was able to build the whole thing in 3 days. I'm not capable of that on my own, it would have taken me 3 weeks. Sometimes the AI got stuck and I had to manually go in and accomplish what I wanted. It took over 100 steps to complete the product, and probably around 10-20 times I had to revert its changes and give it more specific instructions. I had to check its work at every iteration, just like with a junior developer.

But it worked. And it's going to get better. Would I use this for "something important"? Depends how you define that. I used it to build a working product. Would I start letting it modify an existing mature codebase willy-nilly? No, probably not. Would I let it write cryptographic logic or trust that it wrote bulletproof code from a security standpoint in a sensitive context? No.

But for a simple application, it was an incredibly powerful tool. Especially for something that didn't even exist just 2 years ago. Give this a decade and it's going to change all our careers even more than it already has.
Oh, I was actually wrong. It's not coming next week, it's coming this week:

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-trump-tariffs-...

I would say it's even more brazen than Russia in the 90s. It's all done in the open, in the face of the institutions that were supposed to limit his power.
The shutter prevents someone (including children) shoving something metal into the live/hot. I have never heard of it failing. Newer US outlets (TR/tamper resistant) are way more finicky because of the optional ground pin. Sticking the little plastic covers over the outlet is a workaround.

The reason for a fuse is because of the high current capacity of ring circuits vs branch/radial. The fuse protects the power cable of appliances catching fire as they can’t handle the current available on the circuit .

Ring circuits are a thing due to minimizing copper usage when rebuilding after ww2.
There's a Australian study tracker, and I think things got way closer now...

https://www.aspi.org.au/report/aspis-two-decade-critical-tec...
This is one of those sentences whose meaning subtly changes depending on which word you put the emphasis on :-)
> Sure. But somebody has to know these things. For many jobs, knowing these things isn’t beneficial, but for others it is.

I think you're missing the point of my comment. I'm not saying that human knowledge is useless. I'm specifically arguing against the case that:

> The irreducible answer to "why should I" is that it makes you ever-more-increasingly reliant on a teetering tower of fragile and interdependent supply chains furnished by for-profit companies who are all too eager to rake you over the coals to fulfill basic cognitive functions.

My logic being that we are already irreversibly dependent on supply chains.
“Making the most money” isn’t the same as building a society people want to live in
"Treading on the upturned plug also isn't the nicest"

No Brit ever used your turn of phrase or trod on an upturned plug. I've managed 54 years without doing it.

US plugs have a habit of working loose ...
Obligatory Tom Scott video on the topic:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q

Bonus: "Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfHgUu_8KgA
This is the way.

Close all avenues, then only open what you exactly need.
Pricing is based on competitors more than demand.
Anecdotally, 230V is safer than 120. 120V will put you into fibrillation, whereas 230V will stop it.

Fires are generally caused by loose connections with higher resistance getting hot and catching something nearby on fire. The British connection in OP is much less likely to have a loose connection.
I’m not sure there is much risk in vendor lock in. Look at Temporal. If you use the SDK you are probably locked in for life.
Honestly, some references are very confusing. Sometimes they "say everything," but don't give enough context to really understand.

That's why examples are also critical.
The gods strip off interesting bits of URLs when you submit it
The problem with investment dollars is that they're typically "spent" (invested) only when they can extract more wealth than they create. You invest $10,000 now so you can have $15,000 later. Where did that $5,000 come from? Well, someone gave it to you in exchange for that $10,000.

In other words, they're effectively rent-seeking dollars. The whole hope of investment is that you get more money without doing any labor yourself.

And if you invest and they're lost? Well, now it's not even rent-seeking. It's just burning money.

This isn't to say that there's no benefit from that money being available. The issue is that the real value that investment creates isn't really the money going back to the investor. It's the value of the labor and products generated by whatever the money fronted costs for. The actual value is still generated by the labor. The investor does help start the ball rolling, but is still a leech.

Once we get to shareholders, things don't really improve. Shareholders are also only interested in dividends. They want dividends at the cost of the company. At the cost of the product. At the cost of the customer. There's no responsibility to society or to the customer in the face of a shareholder.

Shareholders are like employees that don't do any work but still want a paycheck. "Oh, but they're owners," is kind of a poor excuse when these owners do no work. Stock is like buying a box of Crackerjack and letting your brother take the whistle and sticker.

> Also, as for JK Rowling specifically, she had donated a significant amount of her wealth to charity.

Which she does because donations offset the taxes she owes. She's no Dolly Parton.
Speak for yourself. Some of us see the difficulty in sustaining and maintaining this fragile technology stack and have decided to do something about it. I may not be able to do all those things but it is worth learning, since there really is no downside for someone who enjoys learning. I am tackling farming and cpu design at the moment and it is tremendously fun.
Business Gato
MCP Server
Sure, this is a common sentiment, and one that works for some courses. But for others (introductory programming, say) I have a really hard time imagining an assignment that could not be one-shot by an LLM. What can someone with 2 weeks of Python experience do that an LLM couldn't? The other issue is that LLMs are, for now, periodically increasing in their capabilities, so it's anyone's guess whether this is actually a sustainable attitude on the scale of years.