MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by panick21_ | 2025-04-05 12:22:26+00:00
During a massive global downturn many did austerity. Partly because not every country can just infinity take on more debt. You also have to understand that in that time, debt was used as a political weapon, France didn't want to take on debt, because its debt was used by the US against France diplomatically both in 1919 and 1923, France wanted to prevent that from happening again.

You could stay on the gold standard and do austerity or not. Or you could leave it and do austerity or not. All these four are options and different country picked differently for various reasons.

The US under Hoover and FDR first practiced limit stimulus under gold and then left, and continued stimulus even more so. Actually they always did both as tariffs can be seen as type of tax, but that's debatable. And FDR was of the 'throw spaghetti at the wall and hopefully something works' type.

Germany stayed and did austerity. They couldn't leave the gold standard as it would make it even hard to pay back debt. Adam Tooze pointed this out on his commentary on "Golden Fetters". If somebody would have lent them a lot more money if they had wanted to do a massive stimulus program is questionable, the terms would have been harsh. So its understandable they didn't want even more high interest debt.

Its also the case that those that left the gold standard instantly saw the situation get better and therefore saw less need for austerity. So that plays into it as well. The US had its fast historical growth in industrial out put ever the few month after it left gold (that then collapsed the NRA was adopted). So Britain who left gold early recovered better and didn't have to be as extreme.

That said, in the minds of many at the time the gold standard and prudent physical policy were linked. In Japan for example, balanced books and gold were seen 'womanly' a true warrior didn't give a shit, just go and steal that shit. So you tended to have liberal and centrist being pro austerity and pro gold standard. While right wingers hated gold standard (its internationalism) and wanted massive military spending. They didn't care about debt because they would simply take over and steal everything.

But this is just historical coincidence. Being pro fiscal spending and pro gold is a perfectly reasonable position that some at the time held. It just not how politics happened to break down in most of the world.

I actually am on the 4th side where I think (depending on country) leaving gold and doing some amount of austerity or at least re-appropriate spending and taxes is reasonable (remember raising taxes on the rich is austerity as well).
by gls2ro | 2025-04-05 12:22:38+00:00
Asking just for me to learn:

Does it really need someone on the other side to buy or can it be like other markets (consumer goods lets say) where you can set the price lower and not necessary have a buyer. You just announce it that you are willing to sell 10k of this type of share at 200 or lower up to 190. Then someone else seeing this says we are also willing to sell 20k at 190 or 180 ? And so even if no one bought these shares now their “average” price is not 200 but 190ish?

Sorry if the scenario sounds stupid and it is far away how the shares market works.
by sbuttgereit | 2025-04-05 12:22:50+00:00
So, am I missing something? Is this just a tool allowing job candidates to commit fraud?

I'm no lawyer, so I'm not sure this would rise to the level of actual legal fraud, but moral fraud at the very least is what I think I'm seeing.

EDIT:

Now I see it at the bottom of the page... "Interview Coder is a desktop app designed to help job seekers ace technical interviews by providing real-time assistance with coding questions."

So yes, it's exactly what it looks like.
by mathfailure | 2025-04-05 12:25:09+00:00
I think it's the opposite: with US remaining in NATO, Europe will feel cocky enough to get dragged in a war, Russia will of course retaliate and further escalation (especially if Russia starts losing) highly likely will lead to the nukes.

Now look at the news: Germany sends troops (for permanent stationing) to Eastern Europe. GB, France and Germany discuss deployment of their troops to Ukraine.

Seems like I'm rather right, than wrong.
by raffael_de | 2025-04-05 12:25:55+00:00
Since you were so kind to change "shouting" to "spouting" I'll compliment you a reply.

> That's delusional. 70% of the world has China as their main trading partner. The world definitely can thrive without Coke, Facebook, Nike and McDonalds.

How about Amazon, AWS, Microsoft, Azure, Google, Nvidia, 3M, Pfizer etc.?
by visarga | 2025-04-05 12:26:19+00:00
Yeah I think the math+code reasoning models, like o1 and r1, are doing what can be done with just pure compute without real world validation. But the real world is complex, we can't simulate it. Why do we make particle accelerators, fusion reactor prototypes, space telescopes, year long vaccine trials? It's because we need to validate ideas in the real world that cannot be done theoretically or computationally.
by alexei_led | 2025-04-05 12:27:20+00:00
Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) is one of Kubernetes’ most promising tools for optimizing resource usage, but its adoption remains surprisingly low—less than 1%! Why? Because while it’s great on paper, in practice, it comes with a host of limitations: disruptive pod restarts, conflicts with HPA, and a lack of control over when updates are applied.

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by zozbot234 | 2025-04-05 12:27:25+00:00
On the flip side, my understanding is that AArch64 does not support anything like RISC-V's 16-bit compressed instructions, which are trivial to implement in hardware and allow RISC-V code density to match and even beat x86-64 for real-world binaries. I think RISC-V's design criteria make plenty of sense on their own, they're just not the ones you might prefer.
by walterbell | 2025-04-05 12:27:35+00:00
Trump tariffs are based on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977, overriding USMCA and other trade agreements. Any renegotiation of USMCA wouldn't stop the potential use of IEEPA to selectively override parts of USMCA v2.

It's more likely that USMCA violations referenced by Carney and Freeland were done by Mexico/China, at the economic expense of both Canada and USA.
by bogwog | 2025-04-05 12:27:56+00:00
I've had this plugin for like 2 years I think (possibly more), and never had any issue with this. Neither Cloudflare's nor Google's non-interactive captchas have ever labeled me as a bot, and I've never been blocked from any site.

That could be because I've been so thoroughly tracked throughout my life already that they can detect me from mouse movements/keystrokes alone, or that adnauseam's behavior isn't obviously bot-like, or that the trackers already account for it's behavior patterns and filter it out as noise.

In any case, if it has the potential to cause advertisers grief, then I'm going to continue to use it.
by littlestymaar | 2025-04-05 12:28:19+00:00
Tariffs are a tool and they have their use. There's no reason to reject them entirely for ideological reasons (especially when the arguments against them are based on theories designed by David Ricardo more than two centuries ago, before the industrial revolution was even a thing).

But like all tools it must be used with care in order to have the desired effect. What we've seen with Trump so far is akin to smashing everything at reach with a hammer, it's not how hammers are supposed to be used…
by monooso | 2025-04-05 12:28:42+00:00
That's a lot of assumptions about what the EU would do. It's also a bit rich to hold the US up as a model of free speech at a time when liberal views are being actively censured.

As for the "most interesting Europeans are Americans" thing, that's such a strange statement that I'm not sure how to respond, other than that has not been my experience.
by yorwba | 2025-04-05 12:29:44+00:00
Note that the article says the opposite: "The average monthly income three years after getting an undergraduate degree was 10,168 yuan in 2023, a third higher than vocational school grads"

Even if a university graduate spends a year unemployed mooching off their parents before finally landing a cushy office job, three years later they're caught up with people who spent that entire year toiling in a factory.

It's the government that's trying to herd people into vocational schools to keep the manufacturing sector supplied with workers even though services are more profitable.
by safety1st | 2025-04-05 12:30:07+00:00
I fully expect this opinion to be unpopular, but for me it's all buy buy buy American stocks right now.

* If America is one of your largest export markets, you were just put on notice that all of that business is about to disappear - along with everyone else in the world. Everyone's going to react differently but there really isn't a replacement for the American consumer out there, China is not going to magically step in, the EU is not going to magically step in and buy all your exports, etc.

* Trump has been super loud for many years about his desire to get everyone to buy American. He's now gone as far as to put the largest tariffs on the countries that buy the least. This is all a blaringly loud signal that when the deals start getting cut if you agree to buy more American goods your tariffs will get lowered.

* Ergo we will at some point this year see those deals start to get cut and as things start to inch back in the direction of normalcy, American firms will find themselves benefiting from a ton of new demand from overseas.

* None of this upside is priced into the market today, because the tariffs look like more volatility than anyone wants to deal with - they are obviously amazingly disruptive to many American businesses if they stick around, fear is overwhelmingly the emotion of the day, as opposed to greed. Hatred for Donald Trump is absolutely crushing every other sentiment. This is what I sometimes see referred to as an artificially induced bear market, it's not linked to any clear forecast of future earnings.

But presuming that negotiated trade deals materialize, and I don't see why they wouldn't sooner or later, then things will normalize over time, and the new status quo will almost certainly be better for American earnings. So I'm all in, Buy Buy Buy.
by dilurim | 2025-04-05 12:30:25+00:00
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by ahartmetz | 2025-04-05 12:31:08+00:00
Hacker News is available in Europe, it doesn't even have (or need) a cookie banner. There is nothing here that would raise any eyebrows. Americans seem to misunderstand how "non-free" speech is in Europe. It is mostly calls for violence, libel, and some historical oddities (holocaust denial in Germany) that are not allowed in public.
by smileysteve | 2025-04-05 12:31:45+00:00
Fine grained policy, coordinated efforts could go a long way in making tariffs effective.

If high level broad tariffs (or sales tax) are implemented as a replacement for the progressive income tax (or regressive payroll taxes), and with a universal basic income program, then the shift would be more tolerable.

What you would really not want to do is, prior to raising tariffs, significantly reduce GDP efficient government spending, reduce welfare programs, and decrease public sector jobs.

For success, you would also want to avoid headline tariffs - people, business, and countries can make changes if you announce you are permanently changing your taxation system 1% at a time over the course of a year - and you definitely would want to avoid chastising trading partners that could reduce the control you have.
by rvz | 2025-04-05 12:31:49+00:00
Good. This destroys a system that is already broken and renders Leetcode and others useless for evaluating candidates in the AI era.

The most ironic thing is that this qualifies for "hacking a system to your advantage" for Y Combinator.

Those that are upset by Interview Coder as 'cheating' are themselves bounded by an outdated system waiting to be disrupted and Interview Coder is the result of that.

The only way to stop this and is to return to onsite interviews. Which reduces cheaters to >98%.

This spells the definitive end of Leetcode and the rest of the online assessment tools.
by jlcases | 2025-04-05 12:31:56+00:00
Interesting approach. The effectiveness of any AI, especially in nuanced scenarios like interviews, hinges on how well its underlying knowledge is structured. For an 'invisible AI interviewer' to ask relevant, probing questions, it needs more than just data—it requires a structured understanding of the domain.

I've found that applying MECE principles (Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive) to knowledge domains dramatically improves AI performance in complex tasks. It ensures comprehensive coverage without redundancy, allowing the AI to navigate concepts more effectively. This seems particularly relevant for assessing candidate depth versus breadth.
by codedokode | 2025-04-05 12:32:05+00:00
Yes but technically you are not making an entry in someone's database; you merely send a request and it is not your problem that the remote computer misinterpreted this as displaying an interest in an ad. Remote server doesn't use any password, SMS confirmation or similar measure to restrict the users that are authorized to send requests so sending it sould be 100% legal.

But as a proverb says, "the law is like a drawbar, you can bend it as you like".
by visarga | 2025-04-05 12:32:13+00:00
I have considered this too. I frame it as problem solving. We are solving problems across all fields, from investing, to designing, construction, sales, entertainment, science, medicine, repair. What do you need when you are solving problems? You need to know the best action you can take in a situation. How is AI going to know all that? Some things are only tacicly known by key people, some things are guarded secrets (how do you make cutting edge chips, or innovative drugs?), some rely on experience that is not written down. Many of those problems have not even been fully explored, they are open field of trial and error.

AI progress depends not just on ideation speed, but on validation speed. And validation in some fields needs to pass through the physical world, which makes it expensive, slow, and rate limited. Hence I don't think AI can reach singularity. That would only be possible if validation was as easy to scale as ideation.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-04-05 12:32:17+00:00
I'm also feeling done with traveling. I pre-pandemic traveled a lot for work and they were mostly (not all, but mostly) good experiences that I looked for forward too. After the pandemic the work travel never really re-asserted itself to the same level. On the rarer occasions I do travel now I find the process of it more hassle: fewer or no airline perks, longer lineups and more waiting at airports, entry lineups, and just so much more hassle at every step. The experiences are less enjoyable too as many places just feel more the same as every other place. Yes you can get some amazing food, but you can also pick wrong and getting mediocre or crappy food. Meeting new people when traveling is only getting harder, this is part of the global phone attention problem.

I've also done the resort thing, and its not for me. The luxury and pampering many seem to love just makes me feel awkward and uncomfortable. I also don't like the planned outings and such. Even if the thing we're brought to see/experience is objectively amazing, I'm always made to feel like an object being processed by a machine: line up here, get your pass, line up there, look at thing / do thing, move along, NEXT!

I'm finding more contentment just being where I'm at and taking advantage of the things that are close by.
by MoreQARespect | 2025-04-05 12:32:19+00:00
This ("the rule of least power") is a rule I abide by religiously:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power

I build lots of DSLs/configuration languages but Im pretty militant about killing them if requirements dictate a need for anything resembling loops or conditionals. Those are the the klaxon warning bells telling you that you should just be writing code/a library.
by gcp123 | 2025-04-05 12:33:33+00:00
I've spent the last decade watching this arms race between interviewers and candidates. Last month I hired a senior dev who couldn't implement a basic database migration when we brought him on but aced our interview problems. Turned out he'd been using tools like this.

The problem isn't the tools - they're inevitable. The problem is that our industry clings to this bizarre ritual where we test for skills that are completely orthogonal to the actual job.

My current team scrapped the algorithmic questions entirely. We now do pair programming on a small feature in our actual codebase, with full access to Google/docs/AI. The only restriction is we watch how they work. This approach has dramatically improved our hit rate on good hires.

What I care about is: Can they reason through a problem? Do they ask good clarifying questions? Can they navigate unfamiliar code? Do they know when to use tools vs when to think?

These "invisible AI" tools aren't destroying technical interviews - they're just exposing how broken they already were.
by rglullis | 2025-04-05 12:33:37+00:00
Once again, I urge people to read Taleb before giving in to apathy:

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict....

It would take only one high-profile European institution to drop Twitter and set up their own server on the Fediverse - e.g, The Spanish "La Liga" running their own server for all the clubs and players eligible to play in UEFA - to get a good amount of people rushing to find out how to set up their own account.
by jlcases | 2025-04-05 12:33:44+00:00
This is a valuable contribution. The quality of ML models heavily depends on the quality of training data, and extracting structured information from unstructured documents (like PDFs) is a critical bottleneck.

A key challenge after OCR is organizing the extracted data into a coherent knowledge structure. We've seen significant improvements in downstream ML tasks when the extracted data is organized using a hierarchical, MECE (Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive) framework. This ensures that relationships between entities (tables, diagrams, text) are explicitly captured.

Does your pipeline include capabilities for semantic structuring of the extracted content beyond basic layout analysis? That seems like the next frontier for maximizing the value of OCR data in ML training.
by docdeek | 2025-04-05 12:34:43+00:00
Even if EVs are a smaller proportion of the vehciles on CA roads, this makes sense to me. A gas nozzle is used for a minute or two before a vehicle is refuled, while a charging station is likely at least 10 times longer per vehicle. If cars are spending longer to top up their batteries, you’ll need far more stations than gas pumps.
by williamdclt | 2025-04-05 12:34:53+00:00
> The highly talented people will do this for fun

No?

People who have time AND enjoy doing this sort of thing in their free time will do this for fun. That’s the self-selection, then from this pool talent hopefully gets translated into results.

Why reduce your pool to “free time and enjoy doing bounties in free time”? That’s excluding many talented people. I’ll also point out that it’s discriminatory: single childless wealthy men tend to have a whole lot more free time (for example women do most of the unpaid care work in all countries, leaving a whole lot less time for this sort of thing).

I also have a suspicion (not based on any data) that people who enjoy doing bounties in their free time certainly tend to be technically talented, but also tend to have non-technical weaknesses around communication and other soft skills. So you’d self select for this weakness too.
by dilurim | 2025-04-05 12:34:53+00:00
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by psychoslave | 2025-04-05 12:35:06+00:00
Hmm, well I don't know. Not everyone like the same kind of shiny stuff. And even if you like some kind of shiny, sometime a huge load of it is just too much of it. Even the most bling bling people will die if you really put them under a metal mountain of gold.

You might think smart people will better well balance than not the poison in their drug to keep their junky customer base just afloat so business have a perennial flow of serfs. But even smart people are humans and make errors. And even if they plan with error rate in mind, they can be overthrown by one of their many far more stupid rivals. The number of mindless wannabe will always largely exceeds the anticipation power of the sharpest minds.
by jellyfishbeaver | 2025-04-05 12:35:17+00:00
Seems like a whole new market is opening for people looking to game the hiring process. In my short few years being involved in interviewing, I've seen 1) obvious AI use off screen/a second person feeding answers 2) Person A showing up for the interview process and Person B showing up after being hired 3) candidates covering their lips moving with a large headset mic and someone else speaking for them.

Wild
by macNchz | 2025-04-05 12:35:38+00:00
I think if I were hiring remotely right now I’d look to create exercises that could be done “open book” using AI, but that I’d validated against current models as something they don’t do very well on their own. There are still tons of areas where the training data is thinner or very outdated, and there’s plenty of signal in seeing whether someone can work through that on their own and fix the things the LLM does wrong, or if they’ve entirely outsourced their problem solving ability.
by codedokode | 2025-04-05 12:36:08+00:00
I use tor and see captchas everywhere, some sites give me 403 and Youtube reguraly blocks the video and tells me to prove that I am not a bot by signing in (which I assume will block the Google Account as well). And in some cases any page on Youtube gives me 403 (and I don't even use an adblocker).
by jader201 | 2025-04-05 12:36:46+00:00
> In 2024, California boasted 178,500 total EV ports compared to around 120,000 estimated gas nozzles

If 2024 was when they crossed that threshold, that feels like a huge jump in EV chargers (almost 50%) in a single year.

I feel like they maybe crossed that threshold prior to 2024?

EDIT: it addresses this:

> Part of the dramatic increase in the statewide tally is due to new data sources that track operational chargers, though there has also been a large increase in new chargers installed, the agency said. Roughly 73,500 chargers were incorporated into the state’s data in 2024, but only approximately 38,000 of those were newly installed chargers.

So it did, indeed, cross the threshold prior to 2024, they just didn’t have the data.